Miracles News

July-September, 2004

Seeing Wholeness from Wholeness

by Rev. Barbara Kraetsch, O.M.C.

Rev. Barbara KraetschRecently I have had the opportunity to sit in gatherings at Pathways and hear messages from two wonderfully gifted teachers, Gary Renard and David Hoffmeister. Both gentlemen have been blessed in their willingness to serve God with a great opening into the understanding of the One Mind, and the ability to communicate their wisdom to others in gentleness and true joy. They are both delightful and filled with Light. I learned so much from both listening to them and experiencing their level of God-mindfulness.

I also learned much about levels of my ego mind that were still in need of healing. I found myself in the ego game of comparisons, marveling at levels of enlightenment, and wondering where mine was in comparison to others. I noticed that thoughts of inferiority and unworthiness were present. I watched these thoughts with Holy Spirit, trying to do so without judgment, and gave them over to Him for a higher perspective. As strange as it sounds, I discovered a fear of scarcity of “enlightenment experiences,” as if there were not enough of them to go around, not enough for all of us. There was also some anger at God that others seemed to have been gifted with greater enlightenment than me, even though I, too, am willing to serve Holy Spirit as best I can.

As I continued observing my thoughts and giving them to Holy Spirit for meaning, I moved into a focus on the present moment, right where I was, driving home from Pathways in the rain. I came to a great state of peacefulness and the remembering that there are enlightenment experiences for everyone. No one is left out. God loves everyone and we are all one in the Atonement. I remembered that it’s my choice when to see and experience enlightenment because I already have it. We are all already restored through the Atonement. We are already enlightened because we all never left God’s Mind. We just remember all this with Holy Spirit’s help. Holy Spirit helped Jesus remember he was already God’s Son, and Holy Spirit will help us remember as well. Enlightenment is just remembering we are already one in the Sonship of Christ because we never left it.

Holy Spirit helped me remember that we see enlightenment in others because we already have it within ourselves. I can see remembering in my brother because I already have remembrance in me. We couldn’t see it in another if we didn’t have it. And we won’t find this remembrance in thoughts of measuring anyone’s state of enlightenment for this is of the past and future, the ego’s illusion of time. We will only find remembering in the now moment in which we allow Holy Spirit to show us our eternal Self.

I felt so comforted by this healing awareness. I let go in that moment of comparisons in the illusion. I recognized that I could see wholeness because I am already whole. I recognized that I can see love and joy because I am love and joy, and this is why I can see it. I can see Christ in my brother because Christ is in me already. In my willingness in that moment, I allowed Holy Spirit to help me remember who I am. I felt God’s presence so strongly. I remembered that I am whole with God as well as you, my brother. We are all one in this wholeness. There is enough Light for everyone. The Light is unlimited and shines the same in all seemingly different minds but which are in reality all the same mind. If enlightenment seems to present itself in seemingly different ways of expression in the world, it is only because we are looking at it through the filters of ego.

There is only one Light, one Enlightenment, one Atonement. Everyone received equally when God blessed us with instant healing in our temptation to think separation real. Today let us accept that we are one in the Sonship of Christ no matter how it looks to ego perception. You are whole, I can see that because I am whole as well. I affirm wholeness for you and for myself. How blessed we are to see that we are all filled with the Light of God’s Beloved Child right now. No one has more Light than another. We are filled with gratitude that God created us whole in Love and this cannot change in any way.

Today I remember I am only Light along with you. And you, my beloved brother, please remember with me that we are only this, right now, in this instant. There is no one more special than another in the Light, and no matter what our ego mind tells us to the contrary, it just isn’t true. We are all whole, all healed, and all restored to the awareness of our One Self. All we do is just remember this.

Rev. Barbara Kraetsch is a Pathways of Light minister living in Hartford, Wisconsin.

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