GEM Ministry
Here's your word of the day:
Spurious [spyoo
r-ee-uhs] - –adjective
| 1. | not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit. |
spurious. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1). Retrieved December 05, 2006, from Dictionary.com.
Now you may wonder why you need to be familiar with this word. This word is used extensively in a new book being reviewed at The Green Earth Ministries The book is called How To Live Quietly by Annie Payson Call. She is also the Author of Power Through Repose, The Freedom of Life, Nerves and Common Sense, etc. There are many truths in this book regarding how to have real, genuine peace in your life (not the spurious kind).
Here at The Green Earth Ministries, we strive to achieve a balance of love, harmony, health, and happiness. Peace has always been thought to naturally follow these achievements with little thought to how to achieve peace as a goal in itself.
This book focuses on achieving peace as its own reward, with chapters on:
- What is peace?
- Family peace
- Peace with the children
- Peace among friends
- Peace in social life
- Peace in one's work
- Peace in religion
- Peace within one's self
With this in mind, we proudly present excerpts from Call's book How To Live Quietly:
What is Peace?
PEACE is the health of the spirit.
When the body is healthy, every organ, every function in it, is obeying orders. Every part of the body is attending to its own business and doing its own work as well as it can be done.
To keep the body healthy, a person must obey steadily all the laws of health; enough fresh air, enough and the right kind of nourishment, enough rest and no strain. When all the conditions are fulfilled, a body stays strong and well. We are able to forget it altogether. It does its own work faithfully day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, and we need not think anything about it.
The Creator keeps our bodies healthy if we fulfill the conditions of health. If we do not fulfill the conditions, He cannot keep us healthy, for even He cannot interfere with the working of His laws.
People, if they are uncomfortable in their bodies, are very glad to find the cause and to do their part to fulfill the conditions of health until their bodies are comfortable again. Not only that, but when the cause of the discomfort is really in their spirits, they will insist that the trouble is with their bodies and go to the doctor and do this and that and the other for the health of their bodies, and then wonder why they do not get well.
It is my purpose and my hope in this book to point out, in so far as I am able, the road to real peace, with here and there a guide-post marked " Spurious " that will be only a healthy warning to prevent unnecessary digression. I do not pretend to have found uninterrupted real peace myself. If I thought I had, that would, I am sure, prove that I had nothing to teach any one. But I do believe I have found the road to it, and that I am working my way, with many others, towards the Peace that lasts.
