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Words of Healing

Q Here I am again in need, Oh God.  Here I am.  I turn to you, Father, for help and assistance.  Hear me.  I want to hear you.

A Be not afraid, My daughter, for there is nothing to fear, not really.  I do what is best for you always.  I give to you.  I love you.  I protect you.  I comfort you.  I encourage you.  Yet, you must do these things for yourself.  I ask only that you go forward, willingly and joyfully.  Yes, joyful even in your fear.  The messages are here for you always.  They are not held back from you.  There is no punishment for fear.  There is only salvation and love here for you.  There are no instructions per se - do this, do that, do something.  There are only words of wisdom and love.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Heed them.  Don’t heed them.  The choice is yours to make.  You will learn from the choice eaither way.  You may find yourself more comfortable if you heed them.  They are simple, very simple.  There is no mystery.  Just this.  Be love - be loving - to yourself - to everyone.

Q I don’t know what this means.

A   What this means is simple.  Trust Me to do the best for everyone.  Trust everyone to My care.  Trust yourself to My care.  All else will follow.  Place yourself in the presence of love.  Let all else go.

Q Sometimes when I do this, I get so intense I don’t wind up feeling loving.  I want the bliss of love.  When I don’t have that, I don’t feel loved or loving.

A Forget intensity.  Forget bliss.  Forget not love.

Q I don’t understand.

A Let go.  Let Love work.  Do not work yourself.  Stand aside.  You are learning to stand aside even now.  Your ego does not like standing aside.  Yet, that is not important.  What is important is trusting in the Love that is everywhere present.

Q I hear the words to a song.  “Come back to me with all your heart.  Don’t let fear keep us apart.”

A Trust that Love is present, for It is.  Begin there.  Even though you don’t feel It or see It, Love is there, always.  It must be there for I am there.  Where I am, Love is present.  You may not recognize It, but It is there.  Rest with this.  All else will follow.  Be calm in this.  Be open to this.  This will be enough for now.  Listen.  Listen more, then listen some more.  Spend as much time as you can listening.  You will recognize that Love is present and it will be easier to be in It.

Accept the Christ presence in your life, in everyone’s life.  It is there.  It must be there for I have placed It there.  Where I have placed It, It must be.  It cannot be otherwise.  Don’t make yourself sick with fretting and worry.  Accept the healing present for you this day.  Accept the healing of the Light.  It may seem small, but it is not.  It may seem fleeting, but it is not.  It is My promise to you.  Healing is present.  It is always yours.

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Forgiveness

Forgiveness.  May I live in it forever, free of judgment and guilt.  May I share its bounty with others.  May I always look on the face of love and peace and truth, free of chains that bind my mind to the slavery of ego.  I forgive myself for making fear real and present.  I forgive myself for making a world of danger and pain, death and sorrow, all to convince myself that it is real and I can be separate from God, from Oneness.

So much suffering, so much guilt.  It surrounds me.  Figures in the world lash out at one another in almost constant strife.  Inflicting pain from pain.  Seeing pain from pain with body eyes and body minds.  Where does it end?  It ends only with me.  I end it by turning to Holy Spirit for the truth of forgiveness for the world.  This is my job, my function and purpose, to turn to Holy Spirit and bring an end to the world of pain and guilt.  I take responsibility for making this world I see.  I take respsonsibility for forgiving with Holy Spirit and letting it go.  I let it all go back to where it came from, an idea in my mind that I thought in my fear was real.  I speculated such things could be and was tempted to think my speculation real.  But it never was.  Only I can see this for myself.  Only I can see it never was.  Only I can see this with Holy Spirit.  Only I can let it go and rejoin my Oneness awareness, my reality, my true life.

My true life is not fear or suffering, looking upon or experiencing it, or attempting to think it separates me from others in the world.  When I think I see terrorism, death, torture, disease, starvation, war, attrocities, and the list goes on, I see the speculation from my own mind that this can be.  This cannot be for this is not of God.  This is only illusion and delusion of what can be.  Where does it end?  It ends with me.  As I take my part in asking to see forgiveness as it is, and believing in truth instead of falsity, I bring it to an end.  I start and end with my Self.

Holy Spirit helps me see with new eyes what is real.  They are new to me and yet are already part of me.  When I see through Holy Spirit’s eyes, I see through my own true eyes the truth of what is.  Truth requires true eyes - the eyes of the One Self.  Holy Spirit shows me this perception.  I end all seeming strife when I see there is no strife.  There is no war, no struggle, no pain.  We are all guiltless, all innocent.  We seeming bodies, projections of fear, are all caught in the ego web of delusion and nothing else - we are not sinners and not evil.  Where does it all end?  It ends with me.

I end it all with my willingness to be released, to see differently, to let it go.  I give all body vision and perception to Holy Spirit.  I am willing to affirm in my mind the unreality of the world and the reality of Oneness with God as Holy Spirit guides me.  It is only Holy Spirit’s help that allows me to see the world as nothing, not existing.  The strife ends because it never was.  I live in this, the truth of what is, for an instant.  The dream ends for an instant and I see the truth in a way I haven’t before.  The ego mind is constantly tempting me to see otherwise.  Sometimes, mostly, I succomb, sometimes I don’t.  I can forgive myself for succombing and forgetting truth.  I ask again and again for help to see the truth because it is my responsibility to ask.  I ask as often as I need and remember to do so.  And in this am I healing from the delusion surely and completely. 

I heal in the way directed by Holy Spirit for the highest good, for God’s Will, of which I am part.  The dream ends with my willingness to ask that it end and trust the ending to God and the healing authority of the Holy Spirit, who acts only for God’s Will.  In my forgiveness of all the dream of separation lies my safety and my rest.  The ending of the dream of strife allows deep and peaceful rest in the arms of God.  Free of all dreams of strugggle, we rest in peace and love.  Free of all dreams of burdens, we rest without care.  The dream journey has ended and we rest in the joy of truth.

We experience moments of this rest as we give ourselves over to Holy Spirit.  This encourages us to continue for the end is in sight.  We find the energy and willingness to ask anew when we succomb to the burden of temptation.  We ask and receive guidance and healing again and again until this is our only joy, our only reality.  In this we see we are not alone, but we are one, one with all God’s creation.  We share with God’s creation our joy in laying down the burden of illusion we thought we carried.  We share the joy of our rest in God’s Will where we are one.  We see we share all that is with God.  We see we are one for we are one.  We see forgiveness was our tool to see this truth, but forgiveness never was because there was no need for it except in the dream.  There was no need, but we didn’t see that.  We saw falsely with body eyes what wasn’t was, but we forgave and moved on.  We ended the dream that we thought served us.

We thank the one who ended the dream, the one who saw the truth.  We thank the one who asked for the dream to end and who listened to the answer.  We thank the one for this gift.

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Releasing Ego Mind

Sometimes when I meditate, I hear conversations in other languages or see pictures of unusual sights, like old sailing ships crossing the oceans or far away planets.  Sometimes a series of rapidly passing, but fleeting instants pass through my mind.  Often I can hardly remember these when I am finished, other times they are so vivid they seem “real.”  Years ago I would have been astounded, even impressed.  Today, I see these are just scenes from the one ego mind that I have tapped into.  Just because the visions look exotic or sound interesting doesn’t mean they are any more real than my own study where I work at home.

When I was younger I used to get caught up in psychic phenomenon and endless curiosity about past lives.  I thought these were spiritual pursuits.  That was before I became a serious ACIM student.  Now these pursuits are not terribly helpful to me.  I see them as just other expressions of the ego mind.  And I want to be done with learning more about the ego mind and the serial adventures of the body, as the Course describes our various physical lives.  If they have any importance at all, it is only of self-forgiveness for thinking that they have any importance.

Today, I care not for placing importance on looking at past, present and future and how these measurements can possibly affect me.  What difference?  All of time is of the ego mind.  When I sit in meditation, I sometimes have that period when the ego mind lays itself before me, like a great temptation of its power and importance.  It calls for recognition of its value, to see and hear beyond my own seeming personal space.  Its lure is a belief that knowing future or wider events and circumstances positively affects my life in some way.  I used to believe this was true and engaged in many “what if’s?”  I felt I needed to know outcomes in advance so that I could feel secure.  I needed to feel that I was in control.  What folly!  I turned from my seemingly separate ego mind to the equally unreal one ego mind for answers, no matter whether that answer came from myself or others.  There are no answers there in the one ego mind, just greater numbers of illusions.  I see now that it all means nothing.

Now when I see these “visions,” I let them go by.  I place no importance on them other than opening my mind to other levels of consciousness to release them to Holy Spirit.  These images are not of God.  The experience of God goes beyond them.  Yes, Holy Spirit uses them as He uses all we have made, but in a different way.  Holy Spirit helps us see the unimportance of the world rather than its importance.  Only Holy Spirit can show us the spiritual mind, the One Mind we share with God.  Only Holy Spirit can show us the difference between the ego mind visions and the visions of the Mind of God.  Holy Spirit teaches us discernment as we listen to His Voice for God.  He shows us truth and we recognize it and its importance.  What is of time we give to Him for healing, we do not try to use it for our advantage because there is no advantage in it.  Why trade one illusion for another?  Is another really better?  No, advantage does not come in modifying behavior to gain a seemingly better outcome of another illlusion.  Advantage comes in giving up illusions altogether. 

We cannot live with one foot in each world, unreal and real.  It is not possible.  I have tried and I know it doesn’t work.  We cannot serve two masters.  The Course is uncompromising on this point.  We serve the ego mind or the Mind of God with our choices.  Of course, the ego mind is unreal but our thoughts and actions belie this truth.  We often value the unreal and believe in its separate existence.  We seek answers and comfort for the body and the body life even though we know at another level that none exist.  We can only release the ego mind with the help of Holy Spirit.

Today, I choose to focus on the truth of the One Mind we share with God.  I let Holy Spirit show me its truth because I cannot find it with my ego mind.  I let go of attachments to past, present and future outcomes and let Him guide my way.  Only this brings me true security as I let go of the false security of trying to retain control over circumstances and events of my life.  Only Holy Spirit can take me past the ego mind temptations to recognizing The Thoughts of God where my true existence rests in perfect peace.  Today, I am grateful for the awareness of Holy Spirit at work in my mind for my highest good and for the highest good of all, which is the same.  I trust in Him in all matters and as I let go of the burden of control, I find true peace and true rest in all things important, that of God.

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