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Day 5 of Creation's Deeper Meaning: Loving the Interconnectivity of Life Brings Abundance
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Day 5 of Creation's Deeper Meaning: Loving the Interconnectivity of Life Brings Abundance

God continues to seek to shine more and more in our spirits so that we may receive the love, peace, and life that we all are meant to have. The parable of the creation story uplifts and seeks to empower this, using imagery found throughout the Bible and other scriptures to describe spiritual truths while inviting us toward greater love and faith. In this we’re told that God’s love, which like the sun shines on and illuminates everyone, should take root at the heart of our spirits, allowing our ideas and faith to become a guide even in the darkest of times and allowing us to find a life of abundance, diversity, and peace.

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Day 3 of Creation: God Grounds Us to Allow our Divinity to Grow
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Day 3 of Creation: God Grounds Us to Allow our Divinity to Grow

Today we are being called by the depth of Divine Love to uplift each other with justice and compassion. Often, this starts with ourselves - being patient with our progress while focusing on living virtuously, with humility, and living up to all the higher ideas that should come into our daily lives. Day 3 of the creation story symbolizes this in a way: starting to ground the roots of Divine enlightenment and nourishment into our earthly thinking and embodiment.

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