First entry for April, but not on its first day! No fooling:-)!
Yesterday I visited my physio man, who is very efficient and perceptive. He does a lot more work for the money than most chiropractors ever did. A couple more treatments should do it.

I also talked to both of my sisters yesterday on account of the passing of a mutual youth friend. I left that circle of friends long ago and was no longer in contact, but still the passing of some one your own age who was your friend in adolescence is moving all the same. May my youth friend Paul, rest in peace.

I also did the monthly grocery shopping yesterday and managed for about eighty five (85) dollars. I bought less meat this time, because I eat less of it these days. I have slowly switched to about two veggie days a week and one egg day. I still have ground beef from March in the freezer! I also eat fish about twice a month and yogurt - natural with fruit - almost every day. A healthy diet keeps the pills at the druggist.

I am running out of candles and will have to make a trip to Ikea, maybe even today. I’ll also look for some slippers, since the no-shoes venues are on the increase, but do not have the courtesy to provide slippers for the visitors.

How does one make a commitment to a newly defined conviction? That is my challenge at the moment and relates to my upcoming talk on the ‘Spirituality of Tolerance’. I know that all major non-ethnic religions have a formula through which one commits to become a member of such belief frame work. I am referring to Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, others such as Hinduism and Judaism base membership on birth, but allow for exceptions.

While I contemplated this, I realised that New Thought does not have the requirement to make such a commitment. It is a bit like the swearing of allegiance and that appears to missing in New Thought. I feel that this is a lack; you must make a commitment to the belief that you hold, even if you just do that for yourself to yourself. I think such an act is a precondition for the energy of inspiration to begin flowing, to be activated, analogous to the Holy Sprit event of Pentecost in Christianity.

I commit and dedicate myself to the exploring and discovery of my connectedness within Existence Divine, bringing this to conscious expression in a spirit of tolerance and attitude of mutual respect and validation, informed by the traditions of humanity in a wholeness of diversity.

So, I’m searching for such a formulation of commitment that applies to my talk on ‘Spirituality of Tolerance‘ and the belief for our time which I am weaving in as well, reaching back to my talk ‘In Search of the Sacred‘ of April 2006.

The formulation I composed this morning goes like this:
“I commit and dedicate myself to the exploring and discovery of my connectedness within Existence Divine, bringing this to conscious expression in a spirit of tolerance and attitude of mutual respect and validation, informed by the traditions of humanity in a wholeness of diversity.”
“To this I now commit.”

Maybe this should be repeated three times, like the Buddhists do, but for now this will have to do.
9:05am~