Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

By Rev. Barbara Kraetsch

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God Gives Truly

Lesson 42 P. 4:5-6 “Vision must be possible. God gives truly.”

I have in my mind’s eye a vision of God. It comes from God Himself. It is always with me because it is a part of me. Because God gave it to me when I was created, I will always have it. God does give truly and completely so it is possible to reclaim what is mine.

There is no need to struggle for this vision, no need for formulas to follow. In fact, there is letting go of struggle, letting go of ego formulas, and coming to the Silence where the Voice for God can be heard. The Holy Spirit shows us how to reclaim our vision of God. In each moment, Holy Spirit points the way. All we need to do is follow. There is no other way to the vision of God.

Today, I come in Silence to listen to The Teacher. I allow ego concerns to rest awhile as unimportant and unnecessary. I step back from them and listen. I listen to the calming voice of Holy Spirit telling me that I am of God. I feel peaceful in listening to His comforting reassurances that I could never be anything other than this. It fills me with peace. I feel confident that vision must be possible because it is mine.

As I listen more and more, I open my mind to seeing more and seeing more clearly. This vision is not of body forms or even physical forms of any type. I see a promise fulfilled - the promise of Love. I see it fulfilled in me. It is not a seeing with body eyes any images that symbolize this promise. It is a seeing of something grander than a symbol. It is a seeing of the Truth that God promises Love for He is Love. God always keeps His promise for how could He do anything else. God gives Love truly. And with it, the ability to see it truly.

Only Holy Spirit can help us to see God’s promise of Love truly. Only He can bring us to the vision of being a Son of God and able to see the Creator. We cannot find the way to do this ourselves. There is no thought or action we can conceive of on our own to make the way to the vision of Love. Holy Spirit promises to help us and He does in every instant. All we must do is listen to and accept the help. We give our ego concerns to Holy Spirit and He gives us the way to true vision. As we give over, we receive the promise fulfilled. How simple! How grand!

Today I spend time listening to Holy Spirit for I trust the promise that God gives truly. I trust the promise of seeing with the eyes of Love, that it is possible because it is mine already. And if it is mine, then it is yours also. Listen with confidence today that Holy Spirit makes good His promise of helping us see Love. For Love is all there is to really see.

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We Are One In The Thought of Love

There is really only One Thought, and that is God. This One Thought extends Itself endlessly. It is the Thought that says, “I AM” forever and ever.

There is nothing other than this. There is only God proclaiming Himself, extending Himself. There is only Love proclaiming Itself, extending Itself. Love says, “I AM.” There is nothing else. It is inconceivable to Love that anything else could be.

We are part of this extending Love. It is really all we need to know. If we merely sit with this idea - rest in this idea - all else will be made known to us. It sounds so simple and it really is.

When I sit and get in touch with the Thought of Love, feel my connection to It, and just rest in It, I feel certain of existence. I feel certain that I am. Is there anything else I need to know in any given moment? If so, I know it will be made known for I am what there is to know.

This sense of certainty rises up in me, filling me. It feels complete. There is only Love and thats all I need to know. Everything extends from that, I am certain.

I don’t know exactly how Love works. I don’t quite grasp that. But, it is not a concern for Love minds Itself. The Thought of Love minds all there is. All I need do is be aware that I am connected to It, that I can’t be anything else but connected to It. This is all. I can do this for I can be my Self. I can be the Thought of Love extending Itself everywhere through my Self.

How simple an idea, yet how far reaching, nowhere and everywhere at once. For there is nowhere Love is not. And Love is everywhere. Love encompasses me and sets my boundary of eternity, the placeless place where I can only be.

Today, I am Love. And today, I recognize that there is only Love. Everyone and everything that seems to be other than Love cannot be. For there is only Love and I am surrounded by It. There is no other way than to fulfill Love’s presence. Let us together be Love’s presence today, for you are only Love as well as me. And in our joining in the Thought of Love are we made One with It.

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No Meaning, No Judgment

No meaning, no judgment. I see a meaningless world. I see myself sitting on my futon meditating in my study, surrounded by my life like so many little symbols. What does it mean? I have no answer. One of the ACIM lessons says this engenders fear for me because I think I am in competition with God. I see clearly in this moment that I have given everything the meaning it has for me so that I may judge it good or bad. Without any meaning, I cannot judge it.

I am a person who has always been obsessed with meaning and purpose. It drives me. And, of course, the purpose must be “meaningful,” of some importance, making a difference, “good.” All as my ego would define it. If something has no meaning and purpose, then why bother with it was my attitude. Its not worth my time and effort. This has led me on endless journeys of seeking more and better. When I don’t immediately or easily find it, there is great anxiety. I feel as if I am wasting my time, and worse yet, God’s time.

If I see the world as meaningless, there is fear, but there is also relief. Relief that I don’t have the responsibility for finding and doing the “best.” I am relieved of trying to understand the way the world works. If it is truly meaningless, what’s to understand?

But, it is not truly meaningless is it, asks the ego. Surely this can’t be right. What am I doing here then? Surely my life is important. Surely it makes a difference. Surely I must be me! How can I survive and continue on without any meaning?

That is the point entirely. The ego cannot continue without meaning; it cannot survive. And so it imposes meaning on everything. If I step back from ego and see the snapshot of myself sitting in the midst of my life and seeing the arbitrary meaning that ego imposes as all meaningless, I feel free. I feel loosened from ego judgments and expectations. I feel release of pressure to be and do in certain ways at certain times. I feel freer of the need for approval. I feel freer of good and bad, right and wrong designations for these terms have no real meaning.

For this moment I am free and enjoy my freedom. And yet, this too is a judgment, isn’t it? But, there is still a moment of fredom from ego concerns, recognizing they are merely made up from imposing meaning on the world I see. I made it all up from ego. I gave the meaningless meaning - I made the meaningless important and real for me. I can choose differently. I can let go of imposing meaning in every instant. I can lay down ego for a moment and just let everything be as it is, without importance, without meaning, without reality. It makes no difference because it is not real. Unreality can have no meaning.

My ego has no meaning. There is no way to judge it for we cannot judge the meaningless. What standdards would we use? There are none. Wandering through life without standards of judgments would seem like a nightmare to the ego and so, of course, it imposes some. But if we wandered more without imposing meaning and standards, what would we see?

If we saw with the eyes of True Self, we would see only freedom, joy, peace and wonder. We would see with the eyes of unconditional love. We would see with the eyes of tolerance and acceptance. We would be in the constant state of asking Holy Spirit to interpret for us what we are seeing and hearing. We would be asking for the healing, higher perspective to be given to us in each moment. We would no longer trust our ego eyes and ears as showing us reality. We would be constantly open to the Voice for God to lead our way.

And, we would walk in trust and gratitude for the joy we experience as we walk in the world of meaninglessness. We would walk with Jesus at our side, brother and brother walking together, sharing our asking to see with the eyes of God a meaningless world. We would see each other only as light beings walking in a world of meaningless symbols we made to confuse ourselves, but that we gave it up to be in love. We gave up fear together to share the reality of Love.

I can walk with my brother this way. I can see that in reality my brother walks this way as well, but sometimes his ego seems to block his way. For this I have no meaning and so cannot judge it and I let it go. I focus on reality, not the meaningless. Yes, the meaningless engenders fear, but I can lay down the fear as meaningless. I can walk in the joy of freedom. It is my right and I claim it in gratitude that the way can be shown. The Holy Spirit shines away all other paths than this one. One path with my brother to Oneness with Holy Spirit.

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