Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

Sharing Peace and Joy

When I offer peace and love to others, I am not giving from ego.  My ego personality offers criticism, judgment, bossiness, control, conditional “love” and acceptance only with stringent requirements.  When I am lost in ego forgetfulness, I offer some projection of my own level of self unacceptance.  I see only snappish sparring of ego temperaments over trivial matters such as household maintenance, when and what to eat, whose chore this is and its timely completion, or endless other unimportant details.  The ego wants to keep me caught in a web of pressures to accomplish according to some unobtainable standard and then forcing these pressures onto others.  This is not sharing.  This is demanding, and being demanding is divisive.

When I offer peace and love, I share from my abundance of Self awareness.  There are no demands, no requirements, and no standards.  My Self awareness just gives of itself.  I need to be in Self awareness to be this giving and sharing because peace and love certainly don’t flow from my ego awareness.  I am learning to flow more from Self awareness because I am willing to practice it.

As I practice connecting with the Source of Peace and Joy within, I become more aware of this presence and how I relate to others from this awareness.  I am beginning to notice, right when I am acting rather than later, where my thoughts are originating.  As I practice awareness I can see clearly that when I act from ego thoughts, I am not at peace and I project not being at peace to others.  I am not always sure how I’m projecting this, but I know that I am because of reactions in those around me.  When I act from thoughts of peace and joy, I see that people react to that in a different way than when I am not filled with inner peace.  Circumstances just seem to go more smoothly when I am peaceful, probably because I don’t make mountains out of dust specks and I lay down my prickly cactus exterior.

I no longer criticize myself so harshly for times when I am not at peace.  I see my thoughts and want to correct them because they are, after all, just mistakes in thinking.  At these times, I am thinking the ego/body life is real and its me versus the other person or me versus the world.  I feel separate and can’t see the connection we all share.  When I realize this state of mind, I want to release it and return to peace because this is where I can find and share my joy.  There is no other way to offer peace and love except to connect with the One Source within.  After a while it does become habit to observe my level of peace and to gently reconnect with it on an ongoing basis, instead of getting caught in the ego game of self-condemnation.  This is simply a happy way to live.  I am peaceful and the people around me share in that in some way.  The degree of their acceptance of my peace offering is not up to me, but I know my offering always makes a difference.

Life is made up of these little differences, peaceful responses to peace or unpeaceful responses to unpeace.  It is our choice which awareness we live in.  We thrive in peace but we don’t always choose it.  We instead choose chaos in that crazy ego way - the ego just doing “that thing” that it does.  It makes no sense because it has no meaning.  The ego is just trying to survive in the mad, topsy-turvy world it made up.  The truth is, we don’t have to live in this world.  We can choose differently.  We can offer peace and joy when we accept they are ours and they are given to everyone.  And because they are given to all, we cannot be without them.  It’s just not possible to be lacking them.  When we share peace and joy, we know this is true.

I ask Holy Spirit to help me know peace and joy and how to share these gifts of God.  The more I ask, the more answers I receive, and the less I am confused about what being loving and peaceful means.  I offer peace and joy as Holy Spirit shows me, and He always shows me in ways that I can understand and use.  As I grow in Self awareness, this comes about more quickly and easily than it once did.  I used to ponder for long stretches about what it meant to be truly peaceful and loving.  Now I see that I have no true answers on my own and so I no longer ask ego mind for any.  Now I ask for truth and truth is given me.  In this there is peace and joy enough for me and to share with my brother.  There is enough for all.

© 2004-2011, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Mindful Prayer

Today, I give to God, myself.  I let go of all expectations of what God’s Will must be, should be, or will be.  I give these expectations to God, offering them in open hands, open to letting go and receiving anew.  I give to God all my fear of what His Will is in reality.  I offer it as well in open hands, open to giving it up and receiving anew God’s Love and Confidence, God’s Joy and Peace. 

I have no other prayer than this.  I ask only for God’s Will in my mind and in my life.  I lay down ego demands and expectations for this moment because I see they are not real.  I may feel some ego pressure or ego resistance, but I can step back and say that this does not concern me because the ego voice is not real.  I don’t have to listen to it.  My mind is open to God.  Let the Voice for God fill my mind with certainty and peace.  Let God’s Will be done to me.  I am God’s Will.  Let me see and accept it with joy, knowing this is my only existence, my only happiness.  There is no joy beyond God.  It is my true life to be in joy.

Mindful prayer is my truest joy in life.  This is when I feel closest to God.  It is generally a quiet time, solitary, and almost always seated.  I want to remember more and more that prayer is my life.  I am always praying because there are always thoughts present.  But are these prayers, these thoughts, about ego concerns or about Truth?  I want to feel close to God as I go about my life every day life, working, being with others.  It is a challenge to be doing and always remembering God; it takes much practice to be mindful of God, especially when life is busy.  I want always to be in my truest joy and to feel the joy.  This is what I ask, to be in mindful prayer more and more.  This is the intent I set for myself.

In mindful prayer, I stay open to God’s Will.  I feel God’s Presence with me.  I listen to Holy Spirit and ask for help to stay mindful and open.  My life’s activities at present call me to this state of awareness more and more.  As I do my ACIM work, facilitating POL courses, facilitating workshops, planning services, and especially writing for this web site, I see that my time is spent more and more in mindful listening.  I feel a level of certainty that I am coming to my life’s work - closer and closer all the time.  What once was frightening and full of doubt, my issues about self worth and trust in the Voice for God have all smoothed down.  My feathers are not ruffled as I swim about on the pond of Light.

Being in this work of opening to the Will of God is my greatest joy and apart from any earthly reward.  The reward and the joy is in simply doing it, and this is closer to living a life of constant true prayer.  I now believe that opening to the Will of God is my real job because salvation is my only function here.  I am accepting this at last.  I can be in my greatest joy without fear, guilt or doubt.  I don’t need approval or praise.  I only need God, and with God all doing is joyful.

Years ago when I was in the legal profession, I could not say these thoughts I say today.  I was in a world of prayer that genuflected at the altar of ego illusions.  There was no joy in the prayer or the doing.  There was only fear and a mind troubled by the consequences of ego thought structures.  Work was a game of wins and losses in which no lasting satisfaction was ever present.  I was mindful mainly of voices around me shouting and arguing that appearances are everything and I must conform.  I now realize that I projected these voices for ego from my own ego mind which is part of the ego mind we share.  When I asked for God’s Will then, the answer for me eventually was to leave the illusive game of ego justice.  This perhaps would not be another’s answer, but I am not another.  I am me, and this was my answer.  I leave others to their answer found in mindful prayer about the thoughts and doing they are guided to for their greatest joy.

Today, I let Holy spirit go before me.  I put my hand on His shoulders and let Him lead me.  I am like the blind being led by One who sees only Light, only true Justice, God’s Justice.  I see Him stand before me and feel His presence in a deep and profound way.  I feel relaxed and peaceful.  I am open to Him and open to the way I am.  Today, I let my heart sing with true prayer, seeing the Christ Self in everyone. I let healing be present as I am open to letting the Light shine through me.  I am thankful I feel peace.  I am thankful I love the people I see and feel connected to them.  I am content to let Holy Spirit lead for I would only follow.  I am thankful to be mindful of all of this.  Today, this is my mindful prayer and I share its truth with you in joy.

© 2004-2011, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Avenues Of Communication To God Thought

I am an avenue of communication.  Regardless of ego, I am open to the message of God.  That message is love and acceptance of what is.  Ego concerns cannot stop this communication from taking place.  God is always communicating with me.  Holy Spirit helps me see and hear this.  Holy Spirit translates for me what God is communicating into words, pictures, and feelings that I can understand right where I am.

All I need do to recognize what is being communicated by God is to spend some quiet time each day when I consciously intend to lay aside ego concerns.  I sit quietly, looking at my ego thoughts and letting them softly drift away.  I listen.  When ego doubts what I am seeing or hearing, I let that go as well.  I hang onto nothing.  I merely sit in trust that Holy Spirit is at work translating for me what God is communicating.

Sometimes people tell me it is hard for them to meditate because their minds are so busy and they cannot clear them of endless thoughts about everyday matters.  They don’t feel like their minds are quieting.  That is OK, I tell them.  Just listen and let the thought go.  The mind does not quiet quickly without practice.  All efforts to distance from ego thoughts are helpful.  To sit quietly and begin distancing from ego is meditation.  There is nothing mysterious or magical about it.

To sit in meditation and to recognize for even an instant that there is some thing, some one greater at work than our little selves makes all the difference.  As we open little by little, more and more, to God’s communication with us, our lives begin to change.  Our lives change because our mind changes from one of generating endless ego thought to one that listens to God Thought.  God Thought is only love and joy.  Perhaps we see this on the first day, perhaps we don’t.  That is not important.

What is important is trying.  What is important is recognizing than an effort to listen to God Thought leads us to healing in a most profound way.  How and when this takes place during our listening time, or even after, is in Holy Spirit’s capable hands.  He translates for us in a way and time that is just perfect for us.  We never hear a minute before we are really ready to listen.  How often has a friend shared something with you that you conveniently dismissed and it remained unheard, until at last it dawned on you what they were saying.  You finally heard it because you listened in a new way.  You were ready to hear.

God is always patient.  Friends are not always patient, but God is.  Holy Spirit gently and patiently helps us to listen and connect to the place in our mind where we receive God Thought.  We are an avenue of communication.  Holy Spirit takes us down the avenue at just the right speed.  We always reach the destination, sometimes slower, sometimes faster.  Whatever works for us. 

That place in our mind where light and peace and joy abide never changes.  It is always reachable.  In meditation we open ourselves to the avenue of communication that takes us there.  All we need do is try to listen and trust.  Holy Spirit will take care of everything else.  Its that simple.  Holy Spirit is the driver, we just agree to be the passenger in the vehicle of transportation and transformation.  We would not lead or direct, we would merely follow and listen.

And so, sit quietly today with me in listening to Holy Spirit communicate to us God Thought.  We are one in this journey and one in the destination.  I share with you my experience and you share with me yours, and in this we both gain and benefit.  We speed each other on as we passage together.  Our bodies need not be in contact for they are unimportant and unecessary, but perhaps they becomes avenues for sharing.  I am certain that the place in our mind where we connect with God is one and I will see you there with love.  We will meet there in love, and we will be joyful in this meeting.  Join me won’t you, for I am thinking of you with love and looking forward to our joyous reunion in God Thought.

© 2004-2011, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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