Since we recently celebrated Mother’s Day and Father’s Day I thought I would talk about honoring our parents. Father’s day was this past Sunday and it was a wonderful day for me, thanks to my family. However, it was also a sad day for me because it was the first time I wasn’t able to pick up the phone and call my dad to wish him a happy Father’s Day. You see, he passed away this past fall. I miss him.

It got me thinking about parents and children and the many diverse relationships they have with each other – from very strong and close to none at all. I think about my dear mother. She lives just a half mile from my home now. It’s not much of an effort for me to go over there to see her yet I always feel I don’t do it enough. When I do see her I tend to want to apologize to her for not visiting her enough. She always tells me to stop it and then proceeds to go on and on about what a wonderful and thoughtful son I am, which, in reality, I know I’m not. I could and should be a much better son.

How is your relationship with your parents? Is it what you’d like it to be? Is it what it should be? What should your relationship be like? The Ten Commandments seem to have gone out of fashion in our modern world, which I think is very sad. The seventh commandment reads:

“Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” (Exodus 20:12)

I believe that commandment is still in effect today. I’m reminded of a couple of stories I heard years ago. I don’t know their sources. I think they each teach poignant lessons. Here is the first one:

“Just next door lives a wonderful old man. He is still very alert and active. That special morning he awakened earlier than usual, bathed, shaved and put on his best clothes. Surely, he thought, they would come today.

“He didn’t take his daily walk to the gas station to visit with the old-timers of the community, because he wanted to be right there when they came.

“He sat on the porch with a clear view of the road so he could see them coming. Surely they would come today.

“He decided to skip his noon nap because he wanted to be up when they came.

“He had six children. Two of his daughters and their married children lived within four miles. They hadn’t been to see him for such a long time. But today was a special day. Surely they would come today.

“At suppertime he refused to cut the cake and asked that the ice cream be left in the freezer. He wanted to wait and have dessert with them when they came.

“About 9 o’clock he went to his room and got ready for bed. His last words before turning out the lights were: ‘Promise to wake me when they come.’

“You see, it was his birthday, and he was 91.”

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This is part 6 of my 6-part series of articles on the Law of Attraction. Previously we talked about there being a law. We called it the Law of Attraction, we called it faith, we called it the law of Like Begets Like, or Like Attracts Like. Just as a seed will reproduce itself, your thoughts will reproduce themselves and attract the things you think about.

Where do you begin?

So what does that mean? Let’s say a person is fairly miserable because their life isn’t going so good. They might say to themselves, “Well, that’s all fine and dandy but what does that mean to me? What am I supposed to do? How do I make that happen in my life?” Read the rest of this entry »

This is part 5 of my 6-part series of articles on the Law of Attraction. Today I want to explore the Law of Attraction within the realm of science. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no scientist. But I think we can explore the Law of Attraction using reason and logic and come to understand the possibilities of how it works within the world of science. Read the rest of this entry »

This is part 4 in my 6-part series of articles on the Law of Attraction. Today I want to show how the Law of Attraction involves two creations – a mental creation and a physical creation.

When you read the Bible and you read about God creating the universe, it talks about how the word was spoken and it came about. When you speak a word you have to think about it first. It exists in your mind first. Therefore the universe and this world were first created in the mind of God before the elements were ever brought together to create this world physically. Read the rest of this entry »

This is part 3 in my 6-part series on the Law of Attraction. Today I want to discuss examples of the Law of Attraction working in different people’s lives. I’m sure as I give these examples you can think of real people you know that fit these descriptions. Now, I can’t read minds and neither can you. But when you think of people in your life, people that you are intimately acquainted with, you generally know what these people think about on a regular basis by what they say and do. I think we can agree on that. So here are my examples: Read the rest of this entry »

I began this series of articles on the Law of Attraction by explaining the law in terms of my belief in God and how the Law of Attraction works through Him. You can read about it here: The Law of Attraction Part 1 – My Take.

Today I want to take on the idea that the Law of Attraction has been some big secret throughout the ages and only known by a few select people. I knew that wasn’t so. To prove it I did a simple thing and went to my own personal library at home. I examined a number of my books looking for references to the Law of Attraction. I was amazed at what I found. If the Law of Attraction was a secret it certainly was one of the poorest kept secrets I have encountered. Read the rest of this entry »

I must confess that I got sucked into the whole “Law of Attraction” hype when The Secret DVD first came out. I was very intrigued when I watched it the first time. It all seemed so new yet so familiar. I knew I had heard things like that before but never presented in that way. Most of it sounded and felt right but some of it just didn’t harmonize with what I knew to be true. So I set out on a small quest to study and understand the Law of Attraction and try to make some sense of it.

Most of my concerns had to do with reconciling the things taught about the Law of Attraction and my Christian belief in God. My first thought was that the things they talked about in the video were true. However, I felt some of their explanations of how or why it worked to be in error.

What I want to attempt over the next several articles is to offer my own, personal, explanation of why and how the Law of Attraction works in terms of my belief in God. I don’t know that my ideas and theories are completely correct but I offer them as possibilities of what it is that makes the Law of Attraction work. Read the rest of this entry »