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Rest in God

by Rev. Joanne Schneider, PhD, O.M.C.

For five minutes every hour, lesson 109 instructs us to rest in the peace and stillness of God. Staying vigilant to the hourly practice is a feat for many of us, but a question that comes to my mind is how do I continue that rest throughout the other 55 minutes of the hour? After five minutes of resting in the peace and stillness of God, then what? When those five minutes pass, I find myself going back to the business of the world.

Really though, can I consciously set that peace and stillness in the background of my mind and use it to focus on the thing in front of me in this world? As Ram Dass once said in an interview, the past and the future are just thoughts, what is right here in the moment is the step to God. My understanding of this is that I can use this moment to serve the ego as a response to my attachments in the world or I can use this moment as a step to God by using it to extend love. I can look at what is in front of me, pause to rest in God, and let love flow through me to my worldly activity. Thus, God’s Love is extended into the world. I pray: Dear God, as I rest in you, how do I experience the task before me as a step to You? Show me how.

Rev. Joanne Kraenzle Schneider is a Pathways of Light minister living in Festus, Missouri.

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