Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

By Rev. Barbara Kraetsch

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Ode to Holy Spirit

I rely on You, Holy Spirit. You are my strength and my light. I totally trust in You. I see the illusion but I do not trust it. I trust only in You to be my guiding strength. You lead me into peace. You lead me to the still waters of my mind where I can see reflected the truth of what is. I can give my life to you. I do not know the way or the meaning of the illusion and so I give it all to you.

I want to be healed. It is my only desire. I rely on You to be there for me in every step. You support my mind with strength and light. I surrender to You. I am most willling for You to lead me, to be my only guide and my only support. I lean on You, giving You the total weight of my burden, knowing that You will take it from me and give me healing in return.

I give You every thing I see and feel and You give me Everything Eternal in return. I give You anxiety and You give me peace. I give You worry and You give me joy. I give You dissatisfaction and judgment and You give me love. You take all I have and give me salvation in return. I give you weariness of the world and You show me Heaven in return. In my gratitude I follow You.

You take my hands and lead me gently away from the oppressive burden of illusion I have made. You comfort me and heal me. You take my cares and woes and transform them into glad opportunities to see the power of Your love. I rely on You. I rely on Your vision of truth to support me. In the vastness, there You are with me most gently and caringly.

There, underneath the illusion, lies the truth fully supporting me. I know I cannot falter or stumble as You are there to place me firmly on the path to God again. You right my feet and my mind, point me into the direction I am to go and then walk with me holding my hand until I can walk again sure-footed listening only to Your Voice.

When I seem afraid, there You are appearing to me as God’s Saving Grace. When I am calmed again, there You are as the part of me You always were, not separate but with me still. How miraculous is this love You bear for me. You bring miracles of love from Oneness to where I am. You love me always. I know I can rely on this. You show me love and I follow love. Love can see only itself and so I know again that I am only love. In my following You am I healed from all illusion.

Holy Spirit, I give you gratitude for Your healing presence, for Your perfect willingness to show me love, for Your role in bringing me to remembering that I can only follow love for love is all there is. I can be at peace because You help me remember I am one with peace. This is all there is, just peace. In my gratitude, in my willingness, I can let illusion slide away and return in this instant to the awareness of what I am in truth because of You, Holy Spirit. Trust turns to gratitude in the miracle of Your love.

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Meditation on Willingness to Listen with Holy Spirit

Today I will hear God’s Voice in the quiet of my mind. I will listen attentively to His Voice of Love. He whispers to me of sweetness and light, of my joy in being with Him, and His love for me. The gentle whispers sing in my mind’s ear, the melody ever calling me to peace, calming me with its presence. The melody is familiar. I know the tune well but I have forgotten some of the notes. As I listen I hear again its beauty. It haunts me. It reverberates in my being state.

God loves me and I love God. God knows I love Him for He created me to be one with Him in love. I can’t be apart from His love. I am guiltless. The song of love sings of my innocence. Today I hear the song that I am pure and holy with God and never was anything else. No matter how the dream appears, I am guiltless, and so is my brother and sister. The song sings of their innocence as well.

When I am quiet today I will hear the melody clearly. It will rise up in me and fill me with its sound. I will listen. I will be glad. No matter how large the dream appears, it is a tiny insignificant wisp of nothingness - a speck of dust visible only in the light so that it can be healed. As floating dust is only visible in the light, so my dream can be seen for what it is only with Holy Spirit in true vision. In my mind is the strength of God. Only this is important. Only this is real. Only in quiet do I hear what the strength of God is communicating to me, the love it shares.

Today in all my activities I will be quiet of mind. Help me in my willingness, Holy Spirit, to be ever listening for your Voice. Help me to be truly awake today to listen. As I go about in body with other bodies, help me to see what is real - Love, Innocence, Honesty, Willingness to be Son of God. Let me awake to the awareness of love’s presence, truly awake. Help me to be mindful of God’s Voice which is always speaking to me, singing to me, comforting me, guiding me, filling me, nourishing me. My hunger for the Voice for God is great. The hunger is filled by you, only you, Holy Spirit.

I give my life to you today in the light. Look at my speck of dust and help me to see it rightly, as only a help to me to see where my mind yet needs healing. Give me healing new perspectives on which to base my life, my existence. For this is all I truly desire, all I truly want. Only this - to walk in step with the Divine Melody that is my oneness in God, my part of the whole. Today I listen for its refrain to be made known to me.

Today I walk in willingness to hear, and confidence that I shall hear God’s Word. It is promised and so shall it be accordingly. Chords of sweet songs, love songs, shall fill my ears and my mind. I will sing them. I will walk joyfully. I will smile on the sweetness and love in my brother as I listen. I will listen to the symphony of love in each moment. I will open my heart to it and let it sweep me away to the world of pure joy which is my home, my true home. My true home is here right now and I open to it with your help, Holy Spirit.

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Ending the Sickness of Specialness

The ego is all about special relationships. The ego makes a body and has the body form attachments so that the body has special relationships with almost everything, places, things, music, titles, buildings, countries and the list goes on and on. The most important special relationships are reserved for other bodies. The ego even forms them with dead bodies for we have memorials to the dead of wars, accidents, terrorists and even sunken ships like the Titantic, all carrying an emotional charge for the “special” dead.

These special relationships of the ego often are so subtle we don’t think anything of them. One politician gets our goat while another seems a hero. The ego especially loves heroes and saviors, so some bodies play that role, like doctors and firefighters. The ego body likes certain drugs and medicines that it feels it can’t live without. The body likes substances and experiences that induce euphoria. There are certain special places to pray that make the prayers exceptional. There are certain special people that we feel must be part of our lives in order to be happy.

What does all of this get us, this quagmire of specialness? Certainly not happiness because the ego does not see the world as a happy place. For the ego, the world is a place of constant struggle and strife to make sure that specialness in some form is present, and then there is the tremendous fear of its loss and the accompanying depression. It is perhaps the most challenging obstacle to overcome for the ego tries to keep specialness hidden from us by calling it other names. And there is the world we seem to live in with its constant ego chatter and distraction pulling us in different directions. There seems to be many choices to be made and that must be made. Where does the bewildering quest to be and acquire the extraordinary all end?

It all ends with one choice, the only choice that means anything at all. And that choice is to take all meaning to the Holy Spirit. It is the choice to ask Him for truth in all things, all circumstances and events, and all relationships. It doesn’t matter if its brand new or long standing, seems simple and easy or confusing, seems good or bad, important or inconsequential. It’s the choice to see all relationships in the world as the same - all based on ego. It is the choice to acknowledge that there is only one relationship and that is with God. All the rest are to distract us from seeing this truth. There is only Oneness. This is the only true choice.

Holy Spirit uses all specialness we have made to help us awaken to the truth, but only if we are willing to give it up in all the forms we have made. We cannot give Him some special relationships and keep others because they seem harmless enough. Surely these small desires can’t make any difference, the ego says in its best cajoling voice. Sometimes the smallest specialness seems the hardest to give up just because it seems so innocuous, just so convenient that we don’t recognize we are choosing the ego’s interest. But all specialness is the same, it separates, it singles out, and it sets apart one from another in importance. We need to come to recognize that it’s all unimportant and all the same in unimportance.

Only Holy Spirit can help us see the importance we have given to the unimportant. In the measure of our willingness can He begin to do this. Holy Spirit never forces us to look at our special relationships, never forces us to sacrifice them while we are still believing in the ego drama of sacrifice. When we are willing to look at specialness, Holy Spirit will respond. After all, He has been quietly calling us to do this in every instant. When we begin to listen to this call, and give Him our willingness, He will do the rest.

He will show us our attachments and help us to see clearly that instead of making us happy, they are robbing us of our joy and peace. We then willingly let go of attachments as gently as letting go of dried rose petals, remains of a flower we once treasured for its beauty but now is dead, its color and fragrance gone. It is easy to let the dead petals slip from our hand. Just this easy will be the letting go of special attachments after we truly see they are of death, not life. Special attachments do not serve us, they serve only the ego. We did not see the rose was poison for our mind.

Opening the mind to the possibility of looking at specialness in all its forms is all that is asked of us. Just this little willingness. Holy Spirit’s willingness is perfect and He will help us see truly in the way that is perfect for us. Let us leave the worldly flowers of poison and join with the Holy Spirit in the spiritual garden where the One Flower is pure and sweet and never dies, but lives in its eternal beauty. We cannot breathe in the beauty, joy and peace of the One Flower until we let go of the poisonous bouquet we clutch in our hand. Holy Spirit will heal us of the sickness of specialness if we allow Him to gently take this bouquet from us.

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