Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

By Rev. Barbara Kraetsch

Most recent entries

(Drag to scroll down.)

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.

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this notice is included.

Tell a friend about this post.

Printable Page

Posted by Rev. Barbara Kraetsch.

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.

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this notice is included.

Tell a friend about this post.

Printable Page

Posted by Rev. Barbara Kraetsch.

In Defenselessness Is Safety

If I defend myself against sickness, I am attacked. If I defend myself against terrorists, I am attacked. If I defend myself against fire, flood, insults, any potential supposed tragedy large or small, I am attacked. I make my fear real in my defenses. This does not mean acting foolishly by ignoring the conditions ego has made in the world. This does not mean recklessly courting danger or harm in rebellion. Thinking the body is invincible is the same as thinking it vunerable, because they both make the body a center of focus, important, real. The body is none of these things.

In defenselessness my safety lies. I can walk in the body life while being at peace, feeling safe, not anticipating harm in fear. And if harm comes, what matter does it make in truth. In truth there is no body to be harmed or injured. There is nothing to protect. My true life is only of Spirit. In Spirit I walk only in wholeness and peace. I can choose this awareness and live from this perspective. This means I live in healing no matter what physical conditions surround me or appear in the body.

From my subconscious I may be projecting attack onto the body, but I do not need to defend my body against it. Fear attacking the body is as nothing attacking nothing. I can observe it, acknowledge the ego mind at work, and give it all to Holy Spirit for healing. I do not need to feel guilty that I caused the attack from fear, especially when my conscious giving symptoms over to Holy Spirit does not make for immediate change in a body condition. The place where I live in my mind is being healed and that is all that is important. There is much fear and guilt in the subconscious mind, and if I defend myself against its manifestation, I am attacked.

With Holy Spirit’s help, I can see that the subconscious fear is not real, it is nothing to concern myself with. I merely give all I see with body eyes over to Holy Spirit for healing. I let Him guide me to the truth, the healing perspective, that I am in reality healed, whole, peace and nothing else. In this I find the strength to walk unafraid of all I experience in the body life. I accept the ego thought as false, that is all. It is as simple at that. I remember that I am peace and perfection as God created me and nothing can change that. The rememberance alone brings the awareness of peace and wholeness. There is no other way to achieve peace than to remember its presence and live in that awareness. There is nothing I can do or say to get peace in the world. All I can do is remember it is already mine and already there for everyone. My remembering helps others to remember.

As I read of government defense bunkers of information gathering, defense bunkers against bombs and chemicals, defensive economic strategies, weapons of mass destruction, I see the madness of the ego at work generating more layers of fear. Fear spinning farther reaching webs of fear to catch us and roll us in a paralyzed ball of confused thought. All to defend the body which doesn’t exist except in illusion. We do not have to fly into this web. We can affirm the truth for ourselves and our brother. My remembering that I am peace and only peace, safe and only safe, helps my brother to remember as well that this is his truth.

I may not see a physical change in circumstances or events immediately, but this does not mean that healing is not occuring. I leave to Holy Spirit the fulfillment of God’s plan of Atonement. I am willing to do my part by remembering who I am and who my brother is. We don’t need to defend ourselves because we are not attacked. We remain one in God. We live in peace. We only love all we are. We share our experience of God and we know Him in perfect confidence of our safety always. This is our true reality and when we dwell in this thought, this reality is ours. It will live for us.

© 2004, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this notice is included.

Tell a friend about this post.

Printable Page

Posted by Rev. Barbara Kraetsch.

Page 13 of 21 pages ‹ First < 11 12 13 14 15 > Last ›

<< Back to main page of Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

Has this page been helpful to you?
Make a tax deductible donation. Your support for this site is greatly appreciated.

Featured Store Items

Spiritual Counselor Training — based on principles of A Course in Miracles, including ordination. More….

24 ACIM Practitioner courses including 50-page study guide, CD's or MP3s, with facilitator. More….

Healing Inner Child Program Healing Inner Child 8-week program will help you nurture your inner child, connect with your Higher Self and heal relationships.

Listen & Receive 30-Day Home Study Learn to receive insight for your life in a form that is perfect for you …heal fears, find joy & peace. Learn more.

Hey, Holy Spirit, It's Me Again by Rev. Myron Jones. An indispensible guide for anyone on the path of ACIM with insights on the 1st 90 lessons. More…

True Forgiveness by Rev. Jennifer McSween. The Proven Path from Pain to Power and personal happiness in 5 Simple Steps. Learn more.

From the Christ Mind Book II scribed by Darrell Morley Price. A great supporting supplement to A Course in Miracles. We highly recommend it. More….

Forgiving Kevin Audio book by Rev. Larry Glenz. A moving and inspiring true story of a father/son relationship that withstood seven years of addiction, recovery, and relapse. More….

Healing Family Relationships Applying the Principles of A Course in Miracles audio book by Rev. Myron Jones. Learn how family relationships offer fertile grounds for forgiveness and healing your judgments of the world. More.