Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

By Rev. Barbara Kraetsch

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God is The Holy One, The Savior

God is the Holy One. He is the Savior because everything is for our salvation. We are redeemed. We were always redeemed. All thoughts to the contrary are thoughts of fear. God created us from His Holy Self. We are His, part of the Holy One. How could we not be redeemed, although we sometimes question it from fear.

In my mind everything merges together for my salvation. Everything is part of the holy plan for salvation, for helping us see that we are still part of the Holy One. Everything in my life is for my healing, my accepting God as the Holy One. I am surrounded by healing opportunities. I can see God in everything if I but look with an open and receptive heart, a fearless heart. God has called me by name because I am His. He has not abandoned me in the wretched world. And it is only me who sometimes thinks this world is wretched, for it is not that. The world is an opportunity to see God in a better light, not worse. I am in the world to see that the Holy One is always with me and I am never apart.

It really strikes me today that I was redeemed long before Jesus. Jesus was part of the divine plan to make the idea of redemption come alive for us. Life is a gift, however I may thinking. Regardless of how I see life at any given moment because I might be feeling sorry for myself, life is a great gift. God in His infinite wisdom and love gave a plan of salvation or healing from fear of separation, and it has always been ours. God loves us so.

This fills me with hope, and a great desire to be part of God’s plan and God’s plan for me. I believe there is a plan for me because I am called by name, as is everyone. I do fit into the plan. I am not excepted. No one is excepted. All are included. All people are chosen for salvation, not just some. My mind wraps around this idea and the idea wraps around my mind. There is the feeling of being enveloped by this, and it is a feeling of great comfort to me. The message of “Fear not in any way for you are part of salvation,” is a softness on my mind, something I can feel with conviction. Conviction is what I am longing for these days, the certainty of conviction that I am part of the plan, that the plan exists and I am in it. I do not know the plan, but it would seem that I can find it because it is promised in everything in my life.

Why then do I feel so disconnected, so unsettled, and so in need of answers? It is hard to sit without answers. Or are there answers forthcoming and I just don’t want to hear them? Are the answers that tough to hear? I don’t know why they would be. There is the promise that God knows me by name and wants only what is best for me. I have to trust that whatever I am experiencing now is best for me. My mind is a jumble. I need to quiet my mind even more and let the Holy Spirit take the lead. I remember this is always my way to find any answer I need.

As I give my mind to Holy Spirit and open my heart, I see that the core of my being is light. There is no conflict over how to be or what to be as this flows naturally from me. It is the fog of illusion around me that I focus on when I feel confused, because I am not focusing on the truth of the one light and my connection to the Holy One. When I focus on the Holy One, I feel that I am not alone. I may have no answers but this, however I do not feel lost. All answers are with the Holy One and I am part of that. Today I accept that God calls me His own and put my fear aside. I step out of the fog in my mind and see the light in me. I am saved again and again each time I ask for help to accept the Holy One in me. Amen.

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Everyone Who Asks Receives

I sit with confidence that in asking for the Will of God to be made known to me for me, that it will be given. I am confident that in asking for God’s love to be a greater awareness in my mind, that it will be given. I am confident that I will find what truly nourishes me and satisfies me on a profoundly deep level because it is given. For in asking for this would my Father give me a rock or stone instead? I don’t think so. I do think of all I would give my children should they ask. It is promised that my Father would give me even more than this.

I feel a great void in my life, a great void of meaning and purpose. I know in truth I cannot be apart from the Will of God, yet in my conscious awareness there is a need so vast and so great. I wonder what can fill it. I have tried to fill it with things of the world, but they have failed me. I am wondering if I stopped filling it with worldly things that I would feel in a panic because the feeling of need is so great. My mind seems like a vast space to be filled. What would nourish and fulfill me to such a degree that I would feel totally complete and whole? Across my mind there is anticipation and hope, and yes, even a confidence that this will be given me to know.

I place myself in an attitude of listening. How does one know the answer? What certainty comes? My mind’s thoughts come forth - children, potential activities, creative ideas, abstract visions without meaning. What is my Spirit’s pleasure as it appears to walk the earth? What is my greatest fulfillment here that would dwarf all earthly pleasures? I long for that deep, deep nourishment that completely satisfies me. This can only be of God, but what is it? I have no answers. I wish I did.

I do believe that such awareness can come to me. I do believe that I can recognize it when the answers comes. It is promised and I believe God does not promise falsely. It is a matter of patience, though, as to when the awareness is granted. Which now moment? For it can only come in the now moment.

As thoughts come to the surface of my mind and fade away, I allow deeper awareness to come forth. I let worldly thoughts drift away, not hanging onto them, yet there can be a message in these. For in these I can notice what I am valuing in the world that is causing me pain. What lies deeper? What is underneath? This is what I ask; I seek and knock for the door to be opened. Let this come forth, the awareness of love’s presence. I know only this will satisfy me. It is the great desire to know myself as one with God. This is my will, to be one with God’s Will. How can this be denied? It is not possible for it to be denied. This is my salvation. This is my great anticipation.

What form would this take here on earth? Maybe it does not have to take form, but earth itself is full of form. It is a matter of not being attached to any particular form, but letting it be drawn to me from the highest good. I cannot say what shape or texture or type the Bread of Life shall be. It shall come to me as is perfect for me and for the world around me. This is perfect prayer - let it be done according to my Father’s Will, for the Father’s Will is only love. Whatever form this takes shall fulfill me.

I open to this. I know not what it is, but I am open to it nonetheless, confident it will arrive. Jesus taught us to pray this way, and so I am. I am tired of trying to complete myself in the world. I realize my spiritual wholeness leads to activity in the world, but the source of the activity is different, as well as the purpose. Activity sourced from wholeness, from the awareness of God’s love, is nourishing, is satisfying to the Spirit, and so to the body as well as mind. This is powerfully purposeful. From this there is no void to fill, for the activity springs from abundance. Trying to fill the void from things of the world is without purpose and without any satisfaction past the fleeting moment. The world is as empty as its promises of happiness.

I know my only happiness is in the love of God, and the awareness of the love of God. Perhaps this is a great deal to know, afterall. I may act differently at times because my human ego mind is uppermost, and I have forgotten. But soon the dissatisfaction with worldly things returns and I am reminded that the world is not my true home and a mind filled with worldly things feels lonely and without purpose.

Oh to know my true purpose here! Oh such a gift as this do I ask and seek! Such fulfillment would be mine to have this answer uppermost in my mind. To be love’s presence is great purpose. I am grateful to know that only this will satisfy me, only this is my true delight. God is pleased to grant me this, I know. I am so grateful for the teaching that we can be confident that when we ask for this, we shall be answered for the door will open and we shall receive. I am grateful to be confident in this. I must practice patience, but patience is easier to practice when the answer is certain to arrive. Oh that this would be in this moment, this moment that I knock!

Even should the answer come in the tiniest increments that I can hardly recognize, I am grateful. For these increments will amass into a greater awareness over time. Perhaps one day will dawn soon with their accumulation and I shall see clearly God’s love in a magnificent way. I ask for the brilliance all at once, but I am grateful that it comes, and that it comes however it would come. I accept God’s divine plan for me as best. I can practice confidence in prayer. I can know all is well, however it is. I ask for fulfillment and let go of timetables, forms attitudes, and trust in God’s abundant love. I forgive myself for feeling that I have lack or a void to fill because this thought is false. God’s love sees no void to fill because there is only love. Yet, in God’s grace there is a healing plan at work for me and I accept in confidence it is there and comes to me as I ask. I ask only God’s Will be done. Amen.

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The Voice of My Supplication To God

We are promised that God hears our voice of supplication to better know His love, and so I ask with confidence for awareness of God’s love. My mind goes often to the administrator and the care center and ideas for them. I try to let go of these thoughts of shuffling form about to make it more “pleasing,” but I am also mindful of the love behind the desire to make the building attractive for those who live and work there. There is great love for the administrator, my sister, in my awareness. I am aware that only this part of the dream story is true, not the form of and in her office, or the building. There is an awareness of a love for the residents and staff. I am aware of my love for my children. I am aware of this feeling of affection so deep, and a desire to make them happy. Is this the feeling of God’s love, or is this special love? Sometimes it’s hard to determine. I practice transferring this feeling to everyone - to generalize, universalize in the abstract. Is this God’s love?

I ask for direction. If I try to purge my mind of all thought, is this listening? Perhaps not. Perhaps it is in letting thoughts of the everyday come with imaginative new ideas and awareness of a deeper reality that is listening. There is listening in thought and listening in no thought. I leave to Holy Spirit my most helpful listening for today. I ask only that the voice of my supplication for the greater awareness of love’s presence be heard and answered.

Perhaps in the doing for others, and ideas to do for others, there is shown to me more awareness of love’s presence. It is such fun to surprise others in ways that hopefully will delight them. Yes this is in one way of perception just re-arranging form, but in another way of perception it is showing love and giving a message that I care in ways that are important to others. Is this not what I desire from my Father, to show me that I am loved in ways that are important to me. As I give to others so am I given. As I give, let it be done unto me.

As we are one, as I give to others, I give to myself. As I give a message to others of love, so I trust I am given one from our Father. This is the only truth - there is only love, and only the love experienced in any circumstance or event is real. This is in my awareness and I am grateful. My God, my Father, is the Father of all. To love God’s creation is to love God. To give to the least of these is to give to Him, Jesus said. To give to one is to give to all in some measure. I am at the care center helping because I love my sister. I am grateful to be in the world, interacting with others creatively. Practicing being with others after being much alone working at home is bringing greater awareness of love’s presence to me. I am profoundly grateful for this practice and this awareness. I desire to see the face of Christ everywhere, the God in everything, only the love that is present. This is what I ask, the voice of my supplication, that I recognize love’s presence more and more, to be a loving presence as Jesus was, and to act with love.

I am grateful for all help given to experience more love. May my heart open to the light today, feeling gratitude, sharing gratitude, practicing gratitude in all things. I open to the shower of blessings in delight and thankfulness, trusting in God in all things. In gentleness and laughter may I allow God’s divine plan to flow through me today. Let love abound, recognizing itself. Let love heal all today. May we all be blessed at the care center today. May a great blessing of love fall on all there for the glory of God. Let the very presence of God’s love be there in a most personal way for all - a way that is important to them. Amen.

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