Midweek Faith Lift
May 6, 2026
How to Let God Help You- Myrtle Fillmore
Rev. Deb Hill-Davis
Spiritual Passages
April 26, 2026
May the Fourth be With You'
Star Wars Day is celebrated each year on May 4th - this date for the pun on the iconic line, “May the Force be with you.” Fitting perfectly, then, that “May the Fourth be with you” rises up on this day. The phrase first appeared publicly in 1979, when a British newspaper congratulated Margaret Thatcher on becoming Prime Minister with the line, “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie!” The "holiday" itself developed organically among fans in the 2000s, and is now widely recognized.
"When Ben Kenobi says to Skywalker in the climactic moment of the last fight, 'Turn off your computer, turn off your machine and do it yourself, follow your feelings, trust your feelings.' And when he did, he achieved success. The film asks, 'Are you going to be a person of heart and humanity - because that's where the life is - or are you going to do whatever seems to be required of you by intentional power?' When Ben Kenobi says, 'May the Force be with you,' he's speaking of the power and energy of life, not of programmed political intentions. Ben Kenobi says, 'The Force is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.'"
- Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Faith is the force of the soul. It is the power by which we lay hold of the invisible.” - Emma Curtis Hopkins, High Mysticism, p. 18
“There is a great unseen force in nature which is the source of all power.”
- Prentice Mulford, Thoughts Are Things, p. 9
And lest we take ourselves too seriously, a little humor:
I was meditating recently and went to the depths of my being. But I hit a reef of self-doubt, got tangled in some ego seaweed, and had to be rescued by a passing mantra.
Affirmative Prayer for today is Myrtle Fillmore’s 1897 statement of faith:
My Faith
I do not believe in evil, I believe in Good
I do not believe in sin, I believe in Truth
I do not believe in want, I believe in Abundance.
I do not believe in death, I believe in Life.
I do not believe in ignorance, I believe in Intelligence
There are no discords in my being. Being is peace.
My faith, understanding, and love are becoming one.
“What therefore God hath joined together,
let not man put asunder.”
Amen.
And with that, we are launched! Our new exploration for the next several months is How to Let God Help You, a seminal work in Unity, by Myrtle Fillmore. And what is so precious is that she begins the first chapter by saying, “I just want to come in and have a visit with you.” That’s all! How refreshing to not have an agenda for you, or suggestions….just a visit. And then, her statement is to not “go too far into the metaphysics of this wonderful thing. Instead, we are here together, to just rest happily and quietly in reality. As we do this, a real transformation will be worked in and for us.” May the Force be with us! Go Myrtle….you were a Star Wars fan before there even WAS Star Wars!
In her statement of Faith, Myrtle affirms her belief in Goodness, Truth, Abundance and Life and Intelligence. It is her “Credo” so to speak, what she gives her heart to as she lives her life in faith. Therefore, when she encounters what is not this, not Good, not Truth, not Abundant, not Life and not Intelligent, she meets it with her faith, in the wholeness of her very being without discord. The net result is that faith, understanding and love are as one. And then, what God hath joined together in her, no human can break, disrupt or disturb! The Force is with you for sure, and there is true spiritual Power in that Union or Oneness of mind, body and Spirit.
Whew, Myrtle, that is wonderful, a tall order and I wish I were there, for sure, but I am not yet that awakened, not yet. Sometimes, I am, and wow, that really feels good! In recent weeks, I have learned, however, that if someone questions what I am doing and why I am doing it, repeatedly, even simple things, I can get flummoxed, frustrated, irritated and forgetful. Yikes! Now, it is also important to pause and appreciate how I now respond rather than react. It is important to appreciate that I can do that. I am able to pause, pray, breathe and respond/ not react.
I am able to pause and consider what might be going on for the one doing all the challenging and questioning. I may not especially enjoy it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not valuable. For sure, it has helped me discern whether some issue or question is a ditch I want to die in and then make an intelligent choice that affirms my own goodness and wisdom, abundance, truth and Life!
One of her major themes in the beginning of this book is that we are, as humans, in the process of waking up to our true nature and that our life can be so much more than it is, that God wants it to be more than it is. We can actually wake up to the point where we have truly shed our old response patterns. When something happens that was formerly a “trigger” for us, for whatever reason, the Truth, spiritual Truth, is that we are no longer hooked or bothered by that person or that situation. That is the true freedom that faith gives to us, that willingness to embark on the path of spiritual growth offers us. We can watch and not get hooked!
Myrtle also tells us not to be concerned or attached to the outcomes of our spiritual growth process. We can’t and don’t often know how Spirit, God or Goodness is at work in any given situation. She says it this way on p. 16:
Do not be concerned if you do not always get from your study and your prayers the results that your senses take cognizance of. Your spiritual awakening is the important thing. It will increase your consciousness of your unity with God, Mind and the various centers of consciousness in your body.
The Truth is that the Force is always with us, no matter what, where and who is providing the present opportunity for growth and awakening. Chapter 3 is titled: LIFE IS A SCHOOL, which means we are here to learn lessons. The issue isn’t the outcomes, it is the learning.
Last week, we were holding our knots, imagining how it might be that we could hold them with love, peace and acceptance, and even joy. Well, friends, the knots you have are your current curriculum in this school of Life. And Myrtle’s observation is that the “Great Schoolmaster knows just what problems we need to keep us alert and bring out the wonderful qualities that the Father has measured out for us to come up to.”
In all my reading of the first three chapters, I didn’t once encounter the words control, manage, anticipate or refuse when it comes to the lessons in our individual curriculum. Prayer is not to bypass the lesson; prayer is to strengthen and sustain us as we lean into the lesson. Myrtle is teaching us how to just be with what is, allowing Spirit, love, Goodness to have it’s perfect way in us and with us. Just a side note, she never says it is easy, she just continually affirms that it is worth it and challenges us to prove that for ourselves.
Myrtle also asserts quite clearly that when we come to the place in our lives when we are truly ready for God’s help, we can be assured that it will be there. That is a place of true humility. That is the power of Faith, the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not yet seen. We all have within us everything we need to make a shift in consciousness and embrace spiritual growth. It is like going from a room that is constricted and not quite sufficient into a bigger, brighter and more spacious room that we have just now come to realize is possible. It is at many moments a journey through doubt and fear, a journey of learning to just be with not knowing, and our human self just does not like that very much.
Jesus, our mentor in the life journey, repeatedly told his followers, “Do not be afraid.” From Fr. Richard Rohr’s April 27, 2026 blog, “Calming Our Fears” we read:
Jesus went to the deepest source of life. He gazed long and hard into God’s eyes; there, somehow, but most assuredly, he overcame fear. He did not find assurance that he would “win,” because humanly speaking, he didn’t. And I don’t believe that he found assurance that he was right, either, although we tend to think he knew it all.
His only assurance was knowing he spoke only what he had first heard (see John 8:28). He handed over the vision that he had seen in God’s eyes: a love that overcomes fear, and offers a terrible, wonderful courage, allowing us to release our life, to let it fall and go where it might. Jesus’s trust was not in himself but in who he knew he was before God.
So we hold our doubts because certainty is not possible, and we hold our fears and like Jesus, we cultivate a love that offers a terrible, wonderful courage, allowing us to lean into all that life has to teach us! We don’t need to be right, we don’t need to win, we just need to be willing to surrender to love, no matter what. And that is a powerful lesson of freedom and peace: a holy trinity of faith, understanding and love.
May the Force Be with You!
Happy Star Wars Day….
Blessings on the Path,
Rev. Deb