Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

By Rev. Barbara Kraetsch

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Journey to Joy

The following is a message that I received in meditation.

Joy is the journey and the journey is joy. There is nothing else. This is what I say to you today. Heed my words for they are truth to be shared with all minds.

There is nothing but joy for this is all the Father ever wanted to share with His Children. He wants only joy for them always for He loves them so. He loves them for what are for they are His Own.

Live in joy. Joy is found in your connectedness to God, your connectedness to Father, to Christ Son, to Holy Spirit, for this is all there is. There is nothing more. When you are connected to the Source, however you wish to call It, your mind is unified. In union do you find your joy. Joy is union. Joy is not solitary.

Have I not said, love God above all and love your neighbor as yourself. There is no first or last of order to accomplish this. This love is united. Love God, love Self, love Children of God - this is all the same. When you see this as the same Love, your mind is united.

It is the joint will to Love that heals. Ask Me to unite with you. Ask Holy Spirit to unite with you. Ask your neighbor to unite with you. In this joint will to Love, there is the united mind, there is the healing. There is the Joy that surpasses all joy and happiness. There is the true Joy of Oneness.

This is who and what you are. If there is any confusion or doubt, simply unite your will with Mine for I will be your strength. I will dispel any weakness. I will show you the way. I am always ready to unite with you for we are undivided. This choice is yours to accept this or not. Acceptance leads to Joy. Would you not always choose Joy?

Sometimes there is wonder at a seeming choice of loving self or loving neighbor first, that a choice must be made because there are competing interests. There are no competing interests. Love cannot be recognized or realized when this choice seems real for this is a choice of separation. Our mind is not united.

We must join to be healed. This is why I am always joined with you. There is no healing without union. Join with Me and unite your mind with Mine. Through our joint decision to Love are all things made possible and your healing made real to you. Join with Holy Spirit in your willingness to experience Truth and Truth will be shown to you. Union unites your mind. You cannot unite alone.

There is no solitary oneness found in the shadows of your own little mind, your own little kingdom. Leave your little kingdom of self with its boundaries erected for safety. There is no safety there, only aloneness and fear. Open the gate of willingness to see beyond the self made fence. Ask Holy Spirit for help. Uniting with Him will be the first step in uniting your mind. In Holy Spirit you will find the perfect partner for union, for opening your mind to the reality of Joy for He will show you My Face wherever you go in everyone you meet. Then you will see we are One and we are not separate. Then you will see that Love does not begin with one self and end with another or begin with another and end with self. There is no beginning and ending to Love. It is unified. It simply is. When you see this there will be only Joy on your journey for Joy is all there is and the journey is only to Joy.

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A Healing Journey

One mindedness can only mean one thing and that is to focus on our connection to God and His creation. It is that simple. No more and no less. Of course, the ego tries to keep us distsracted from this meaning and purpose, and often does a good job of it. Sometimes, when we go to unfamiliar surroundings, everyday distractions fall away and we can see more clearly.

Last week, my husband, Mike, had to travel overseas for business reasons. When this assignment first came up, I was given the opportunity to go along. For awhile, I was undecided about whether I would tag along. I was truly of split mind about whether to go or not, which quite surprised me. There was a part of me that thought the trip would be quite interesting, and another part that just wanted quiet comfortable time at home. At last, I felt compelled to make the journey, but with the idea of giving myself permission to have as much quiet time on the trip as I needed.

The trip was unlike any other I have ever had. I did spend much time with others, but I also took a lot of time to quietly study ACIM. I wanted to journal and took several with me so that I would have plenty of paper to write my thoughts and inspirations. Well, during the eight days I was gone, I wrote only one page. There just didn’t seem to be any concrete words to write, just nebulous feelings that I couldn’t put into words. I just couldn’t understand what was happening. But as I was in different surroundings, I couldn’t distract myself with the everyday as I would have done at home. I just sat and asked for guidance, feeling so tired of being alone. I wanted the Teacher to appear and never leave, knowing this would bring me the greatest joy. I felt flat, uninspired, cut off, but saying to myself that, of course, this feeling was all ego and its not real but it is showing me a place in my mind that needs healing. I sat with the somewhat disconnected feeling, telling myself that it was only illusion and that I didn’t have to feel differently. I didn’t have to cover it up, fight it or resist it, because that would make it more “real.” It just lay like a heavy lump. I gave it all to Holy Spirit.

By the time we were to leave for home, I became aware that I felt abandoned by Holy Spirit. I felt that I was truly aware of the ultimate ego projection story, that I am separate from God. That God is not powerful enough or does not care enough to stop me from separating or to try to get me back, to save me from being lost. That God just doesn’t love me as much. This is all ego, ego, ego. I know it is all illusion, but the fear and anxiety seemed so real. The ego makes itself seem so strong, so big and powerful, but there are no answers there. I chose to remain with Holy Spirit, even though I couldn’t hear His Voice clearly because the ego voice was so loud.

Sometimes in our lives, ego resistance runs high. It reared its ugly head in a major way for me and really showed me where I am out of sync with Truth. I consoled myself with the thought that if the ego is screaming this loudly, maybe it is because I am making progress. At least I hope this is so, because I felt like I was at the essence of ego projection uncovered of layers of less threatening dramas. I felt like I was at the heart of my fear, and that it all came down to trust. Jesus says that Holy Spirit shines the fears away, that they are dissolved not conquered.

I choose every day to be open to this process of having my fear shined away. The ego illusion is unhappiness and I choose love and peace, even though I don’t always know how to get there. I trust that Holy Spirit does and that I can be healed. I trust that He loves me enough to heal me and that I am worthy of being healed. Everyday I am focusing on trust. I trust in God’s presence, His love, His power, His creation. I am willing to walk though ego resistance. I am willing to be viligant for God and His Kingdom in my mind today.

I believe in the power of peace and love.
I believe there is a place in my mind of total peace and joy.
I believe that I can achieve awareness of this.
I trust Holy Spirit to help me for I cannot do it alone.
I believe and trust that I can come to this today, that Holy Spirit can overcome ego today.

The trip turned out to be a remarkable one because it really put me in touch with my core abandonment issues, which gives me the opportunity to allow greater healing to take place. Its not what I imagined the trip would be all about, but it seems that Holy Spirit had a greater plan in mind for me. The ultimate fear can be so layered with every day matters that we cannot see and feel it for what it truly is. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to slip out of the everyday and begin to truly face and heal the separation story closer to its source. The ending of the overseas trip is the beginning of a new healing journey for me. I couldn’t be more grateful for all this is now.

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Peace Begins With Me

When I read the newspaper or see the news on television, so many questions come to mind. I see people who believe in the idea of rapture, where only a few are saved and all the rest of humanity is doomed to everlasting hell. I see people at war over religious, political, boundary, and economic beliefs. I see fear and violence manifested in every form imaginable. I take full responsibility for what I think I see, knowing it is all projected from the one ego mind. The ego mind projects fear onto simple things and make them complex.

When I take all of this to Holy Spirit with the question of what one person can do to make a difference, or even if one person can do anything, I hear this phrase over and over, “Peace begins with me.” It is enough to see through the ego fear as the nothingness it is. It is enough to place myself open to the mindset of seeing love and forgiveness all around me. It is enough to be at peace with what is, trusting that all is well despite what it seems to look like to body eyes. It is enough to feel compassion and to wait to act only as directed by Holy Spirit.

To my ego mind, this is never enough. Surely, it says, some action is needed in the face of poverty, violence, ignorance, and all the other seeming evils of the world. Yes, it is projected by the unconscious mind, but something needs to be done to fix it, and soon, or the world will be out of control. My ego mind always thinks that situations and events need fixing, and especially fixed in the way my ego thinks best. I have long ago given up confidence in my ego to fix anything. The unhealed cannot heal the unhealed. No, I must let go of sadness and confusion about what the world needs, and listen only to the Voice for God.

Peace in the world all begins with me. It is my responsibility to choose to listen to the Voice for God, the Voice for Peace, instead of the voices for fear, hatred, and separation. The only way to find peace is through peace, and the only way I can achieve that is to connect with my True Self. When I can connect with the Peace that I was created to be with God, I can then extend that to everyone and everything I think I see. Holy Spirit says this is enough to manage. I can only take responsibility for where I find myself. I can only let go of the fear that I seem to project. I cannot make everyone else do the same in this day. I need not find myself in guilt for wanting to choose peace when others envision achieving peace through violence. I know that I cannot find Peace by making fear “real” in this way.

And so, Peace begins with me. I can choose to see the call for love all around me and respond with love, and only love. Even if that love is from a worldly distance, love is still responding. I trust that Holy Spirit is steadily guiding the extension of love to the world for its healing in some fashion. I certainly know that the answers of Holy Spirit are much better than any solutions I could come up with in my ego mind. When I am accepting the peace that I am and the peace that others are, and my mind is quiet and open, then I can listen to Holy Spirit’s voice in my ear about whether any further action might be needed. When I align myself with Peace, I can be a voice for peace in the world. But perhaps even more important, when I align myself with Peace, I can be a part of the healing of the unconscious split-mind which projects fear. When I try to remember to acknowledge that we, none of us, are separate from God, I can perhaps be doing more for the healing of worldly concerns than I ever thought possible, because love has the power to heal every seeming separation from love. When I acknowledge that there is nothing other than love, I can trust that love is the sure end because it was the sure beginning.

When I am at peace with myself, I can be at peace with others, no matter what their beliefs are or what actions they are taking. When I am at peace with myself, I can listen to Holy Spirit. When I am in judgment or fear, I cannot hear Holy Spirit’s voice because I am choosing to focus on seeming chaos and confusion. When I choose to see with the eyes of peace, Holy Spirit always helps me find that inner core of strength where I can know that all is well for it cannot be anything else. Sometimes I must ask over and over for help to get to inner peace, but it is always there. When I get to that place of inner peace, simple answers come and there is no confusion. There is no confusion in love, love is always sure.

Today I find myself focusing on what it means to be peaceful in the world where I find myself. It is a walk of trust with Holy Spirit. It is accepting a voice that guides me to simple thoughts and simple choices. It is a voice that guides me to be gentle and loving to myself and others whom I meet. Perhaps another day I may be guided from peace to be more and do more, but today I am guided to be loving and accepting of where I am and whoever crosses my path. This seems so easily do-able that I cannot complain. I need not rush anywhere to “do” something to “fix” the world. I can cheerfully leave this in the capable hands of Holy Spirit. Today I can trust Holy Spirit to do His work as I do mine, which is only love and forgiveness.

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