By Jeff Miller
Yogi Berra’s aphorism wasn’t meant to be taken seriously. Or was it? Think about some similar thoughts, for example: “Bring it on, everything new, everything different, everything true.” We could give ol’ Yogi more credit and assume that he and Daniel Nahmod are just telling us that there is good down all the roads we take.
I wasn’t sure where to start when I began formulating my first spiritual mind treatment last spring. There were so many things I wanted: to stay sharp as I aged, to learn to listen more carefully, to lose weight, wholeness, a country united, to grow in grace and wisdom, to own a shiny red car, and on and on. Did it matter where I began? Could I have it all? Would what I wanted most one day be the same the next? Were my desires unrealistic? Were they contradictory? How could I know if the Spirit was guiding me to express my “true” desires? I knew that I wouldn’t find a carrot in my garden if I planted a potato seed.
Ernest Holmes has helped me to understand that any thoughtful affirmation/spiritual mind treatment has value, even if the carrot seed I plant doesn’t grow, or if the carrot doesn’t taste quite as sweet as I thought it might. He said: “Treatment is not willing things to happen, it is to provide within ourselves an avenue through which they may happen. Treatment opens up the avenues of thought, expands the consciousness, and lets reality through; it clarifies the mentality, and lets in the light…..”
So I’m taking that fork in the Road.