If you can

If you can, yet today:

Forget the tribulations and show a bigger smile to those who share life with you;

Give one more touch of happiness and beauty to your home;

Go visit, even for a short time, the sick person you wish to encourage;

Write, even if it’s a simple note, transmitting hope and tranquility, on somebody’s benefit;

Enhance your knowledge on the work area you’re currently employing your time on;

Extend some more optimism and joy to the ones you live with;

Try to forget – but really forget – everything that means a reason for sadness or exasperation;

Read some enlightening page and listen to music that sets peace to your heart;

Dedicate some minutes to meditate and pray;

Practice, at least, one good deed without telling it to anyone.

These indications of spiritual support, if respected, will do a great good to others, but will be good especially to you.

André Luiz (spirit) / Chico Xavier (medium)

Spiritism

5. Spiritism is the new science which has come to reveal to mankind, by means of
irrefutable proofs, the existence and nature of the spiritual world and its relationship with the
physical world. It appears not as something supernatural, but on the contrary, as one of the living
and active forces of Nature, source of an immense number of phenomena which still today are not
fully understood, and because of this they are relegated to the world of fantasy and miracles. Christ
alluded to this situation on several occasions and it is the reason why much of what He said
remained unintelligible or has been wrongly interpreted. Spiritism offers the key by which all can
easily be explained.
6. The law of the Old Testament was personified in Moses: that of the New Testament in
Christ. Spiritism is then the third revelation of God's Law. But it is personified by no one because it
represents leaching given, not by Man but by the Spirits who are the voices of Heaven, to all parts
of the world through the co-operation of innumerable intermediaries. In a manner of speaking, it is
the collective work formed by all the Spirits who bring enlightenment to all mankind by offering
the means of understanding their world and the destiny that awaits each individual on their return to
the spiritual world.
7. Just as Christ said: 'I am not come to destroy the Law but to fulfill it,' so Spiritism says:
We have not come to destroy the Christian Law but to carry it out. It leaches nothing contrary to
what was taught by Christ. Rather it develops it, explains it in a manner that can be understood by
all and completes that which had previously been known only in its allegoric form. Spiritism has
come at the predicted time to fulfill what Christ announced and to prepare for the achievement of
future things. It is then, the work of Christ Who, as He also announced, presides over the
regeneration which is now taking place and which will prepare the reign of the Kingdom of God
here on Earth.

(The Gospel According Spiritism)