Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

By Rev. Barbara Kraetsch

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Healing in The Mind of Truth

When I rest in my mind, I always come to the truth. At one time, I was uneasy with the inward journey. When I looked into my mind, I saw and felt guilt for past actions I deemed unloving and unkind. I saw and felt regret for not being braver in the face of fear. I saw and felt my fears, and in a sense relived them all again. I no longer do this because now I always walk the awarenesses of my mind with Holy Spirit.

Today I am unafraid to take the inward journey. This healing has come to me because I have practiced looking inward. A big help to me in this has been the 900 series courses that Pathways of Light offers. I find them to be a most rewarding spiritual practice. As I have worked through them, I find the result is always the same. As I go deep within my mind, I always come to the truth.

I have sorted through layers of ego thought, and continue to do so on a regular basis. I now see, no matter how significant or insignificant they appear, they are all part of the same dream story. When I surrender to Holy Spirit and “sink” to a deeper level of the mind, the illusion of ego fades away and the truth becomes evident. This has happened so many times that I have come to trust the process totally.

This level of trust in the power of Holy Spirit to melt away ego issues and show me the truth of innocence about myself and others just keeps growing. It is a wonderful way to live, never being afraid to look and see what is in the mind. Yes, we think there is a vast subconscious beneath the conscious mind, but it holds nothing frightening, nothing unforgivable, nothing other than a dream of separate parts of the mind. Taking the hand of Holy Spirit and venturing into the still mind regularly shows us that there really are no separate parts of the mind holding thoughts apart from God that are fearful. The key to coming to this awareness is regularly going to the still mind with Holy Spirit. The more regular the better.

When we come to understand that each and every time we give our minds to Holy Spirit that we come to some greater awareness of truth, the fear of looking within the mind begins to melt away. We see there simply is no cause for fear. The level of trust grows every day until we find ourselves completely trusting. All fear of what is in the mind has melted away because we know that when we look deeply into the stillness with Holy Spirit, we see and experience only love, peace and joy. As we accept in gratitude our awareness of truth, our mind opens even more to the awareness of love. Gratitude forms a healing circle of light and love in our mind.

If you are allowing some circumstance in your life to prevent you from taking regular time to go within the mind with Holy Spirit, I encourage you to rethink your priorities. The rewards of answering His call to love are so great that they are worth any seeming effort to reorder time. Just being willing to have your schedule reordered to accomodate Holy Spirit would be a grand start. Ask yourself, would a little time each day be worth being unafraid of yourself or others? What would it take for you to see the value of walking in love and peace because of the truth you see in your mind? How much time is worth seeing that you are guiltless? And knowing others are as well, and so there is nothing to fear.

If you are not living unafraid of the past, or comfortable in the present, I know that spending time in the mind of Holy Spirit would help. It has helped me so much. On a regular and consistent basis I walk fearlessly through layers of ego junk holding the hand of Holy Spirit. Everywhere I look He shows me innocence. As I express my gratitude, He opens my mind to see even more of the love and peace of God that is always present. Slowly my eyes are being opened to the whole truth. I used to live overwhelmed by fear. Now I live overwhelmed by love. I much prefer this life to the one I had of old. I know you will, too.

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The Purpose of Meditation

When we meditate, sitting in silence, it seems we first go to an awareness of different “parts” of our mind. We do not know if these parts are the whole. We surrender the meaning of anything in the mind, any experience or sensation or thought to Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit knows the way to begin experiencing more of the mind.

We often know when we come to a “part” of the mind we haven’t experienced before. We just recognize this. And yet the mind is not in parts; there is only the one mind which is not divided. We only think it is divided, and while we are still in this thinking, we see the mind as divided into parts that we can come to know.

All these “parts” form the whole. When we surrender to Holy Spirit, we are surrendering to the Inner Teacher who can show us the way to experience our whole mind. He is of the whole mind and only He knows the way for us to begin assembling “parts” of the mind into one undivided experience. This is the way in which Holy Spirit is healing the mind. He is showing us there are not any divisions; He is healing seeming divisions by slowly showing us oneness.

At first we don’t recognize, perhaps, the subtle changes taking place. We may recognize that new areas of our mind are coming into awareness or focus, but we may not see how this totally integrates with what we already have experienced. Yet Holy Spirit is expanding awareness in a methodical way that is just right for us. There is a healing plan for the mind that we are not aware of, but it works. As we surrender it all to Holy Spirit, trusting in His healing plan, we surrender the healing of our mind to Him.

Each experience, sensation and awareness we should surrender in silence to Him, without comment or judgment. He takes us through the maze with complete care and gentleness, and opens the awareness of the whole mind to us. We have no way to judge this journey for we do not know the way.

Any fear about surrendering is the ego judgment and comment that its part would be lost. The ego fears that its part would no longer be special, divided and the major focus of our awareness. This fear is false, an illusion only. It’s just a voice of the part of the mind that we have become most accustomed to listening to. That is all. There is no harm or danger in not listening to this ridiculous voice. The mind can no more be divided than God can be divided. There can be no harm in wholeness. One can simply hear the voice of fear, but not listen, for it has no meaning.

We find wholeness in listening instead to the Voice for God, the Holy Spirit. He asks for willingness to surrender to His Voice. His Voice is true. As we surrender to Him and let Him guide the way, He will show that there is no harm in a united mind. As we become more aware of the united mind, we see the ridiculous idea of parts and any “voice” that parts are indeed better and desired. There is no such voice in reality. One “part” of our mind made up this idea to make its ‘‘territory” supreme, special, separated from the rest. This cannot be, and in fact isn’t.

In meditation, in silence, the whole mind asserts itself again. That is why one meditates. There is no other way to come to recognize the whole mind at work. One must give over to the Holy Spirit to accomplish this awareness. We do not recognize how we came to think we separated the mind into parts and so we cannot recognize the way back to whole awareness alone. We need the help of Holy Spirit and He gives it freely as we listen in silence to what He offers.

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A Better Answer For The World

There is a certain simplicity in life that comes from following the guidance of Holy Spirit in all things, and not worrying about anything. It is a letting go of struggling to find solutions to any worldly problems. It is letting go of analyzing data and brainstorming for creative solutions, ideas that are talked about in numerous books on the market today, such as looking at habits of successful people. There is only one habit that leads to a successful life and that is listening to inner guidance without fail.

When I was in the practice of law, I had to research endlessly cases and precedents, and how issues were resolved in the past. Then I had to build arguments for resolving the matter at hand in accordance with past judgments. Of course, there are many judgments with many complicating factors and sorting through all these complications for just the right data to support my case was an ongoing job for each client matter. Creative arguments then had to be invented to stretch the law to fit the circumstances at hand, so that past resolutions could be used to resolve this case in line with them. We could be inventive, but rarely does a judge want to go out on a limb deciding a case. The judge wants precedent to rely on, a way to apply the past to the present. This does make for a sense of contuinity in the law, a sense of predictibility that we all take comfort in at times. But is predictibililty a value to hang onto at all cost?

This scenario of analyzing the past to determine the future couldn’t be more unlike how I use my time today. In my ministry work, and in my daily living, I turn to just the one answer that is fresh in every moment. I practice mindfulness in which I give every circumstance, event and issue over to the Holy Spirit for His guidance. As I go to Him for solutions of what would be truly helpful in every moment, I let go of defining issues, researching, analyzing, and trying to find solutions from the past to guide my present decision. I let Holy Spirit set my course of action as I remember that He has the answers that work best. These answers have nothing to do with my past judgments. These answers have everything to do with my present peace and joy.

When I let go of applying the past onto the present and future, I let go perpetuating bad dreams of fear and anxiety about outcomes because I am worrying about what appears to be best from ego worldly standards. I have no way of knowing what the best outcome is, but Holy Spirit does. I am aware that this means that I trust Holy Spirit more than I trust man-made laws that keep the status quo in place. I am aware that not everyone can say this with conviction because they feel uncertain what the worldly outcome might be if Holy Spirit is in charge. They might feel such guidance is good for spiritual matters, but what about the “real world” of law, business, medicine, education, government, and the list goes on. What about these areas of life? Could we trust Holy Spirit to guide us even in these? Whose guidance would we listen to anyway, if they conflict?

These questions are just of the ego mind which would perpetuate the status quo of chaos, confusion, and a seemingly endless array of problems for which there appear to be no good solutions. Of course, Holy Spirit is there to guide us in all matters as to where we are to go and what we are to do to be truly helpful. It does take a certain amount of courage and conviction to admit that, just maybe, one doesn’t have the answer and doesn’t know where to find it in the ego world, and then ask for guidance and follow it with trust that the answer is helpful not only to the person asking, but also to the world. There are many people who quietly live this way but don’t mention it out loud for fear that they will be ridiculed by strident ego voices around them. If more people could have the courage to ask others to join with them in peacefully asking for answers, the world would be a more peaceful place.

This doesn’t mean that people have to leave their jobs and take up ministry or some other spiritual career. Everyone who asks with willingness to hear will receive answers right where they are to be truly helpful, in whatever line of work they find themselves. It is recognizing that answers will not always repeat in some way the past, but will go beyond the past to a new dynamic in which there are no winners and losers, but only winners. It is recognizing that the only way to be peaceful is to be peaceful, the only way to be trusting is to trust, and the only way to be listening to a better way is to listen. Sometimes the best answers are not that complicated. Holy Spirit always simplifies and makes things clear. It is a matter of trust. Do we trust the past because we have always done things a certain way and we value that way? Or do we trust Holy Spirit to show us a fresh picture of reality that glows with newness as we see holy and eternal values for the first time in a different way? Do we trust that we are given this picture to share with the world so that all may come to see differently?

We live in times that remind us that the ego voice knows only mistrust, condemnation, confusion and attack as the way to resolve problems. Many are stuck in old ways of believing and relating to each other as camps of thinking divided and never to unite. Some of us know there is a better way, and furthermore, we ask to see and hear this better way. When we get the answer, and we always get the answer, let us share it for the betterment of the world. Let us share unafraid that we felt inspired by a power greater than our worldly selves that there is a better way to live. Let us share peacefully from the place of peace within ourselves that the future can be joyful because there are better answers and we can know these answers. The only answer is acknowledging the everyone is a child of God and every child of God is worthy and deserving of peace. I trust that if we ask, Holy Spirit will answer in a way we can understand and share. This is what I practice now. Won’t you practice this with me? Together we can open the world to let go of past judgments and simply be at peace.

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