Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

Words of Healing

Q Here I am again in need, Oh God.  Here I am.  I turn to you, Father, for help and assistance.  Hear me.  I want to hear you.

A Be not afraid, My daughter, for there is nothing to fear, not really.  I do what is best for you always.  I give to you.  I love you.  I protect you.  I comfort you.  I encourage you.  Yet, you must do these things for yourself.  I ask only that you go forward, willingly and joyfully.  Yes, joyful even in your fear.  The messages are here for you always.  They are not held back from you.  There is no punishment for fear.  There is only salvation and love here for you.  There are no instructions per se - do this, do that, do something.  There are only words of wisdom and love.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Heed them.  Don’t heed them.  The choice is yours to make.  You will learn from the choice eaither way.  You may find yourself more comfortable if you heed them.  They are simple, very simple.  There is no mystery.  Just this.  Be love - be loving - to yourself - to everyone.

Q I don’t know what this means.

A   What this means is simple.  Trust Me to do the best for everyone.  Trust everyone to My care.  Trust yourself to My care.  All else will follow.  Place yourself in the presence of love.  Let all else go.

Q Sometimes when I do this, I get so intense I don’t wind up feeling loving.  I want the bliss of love.  When I don’t have that, I don’t feel loved or loving.

A Forget intensity.  Forget bliss.  Forget not love.

Q I don’t understand.

A Let go.  Let Love work.  Do not work yourself.  Stand aside.  You are learning to stand aside even now.  Your ego does not like standing aside.  Yet, that is not important.  What is important is trusting in the Love that is everywhere present.

Q I hear the words to a song.  “Come back to me with all your heart.  Don’t let fear keep us apart.”

A Trust that Love is present, for It is.  Begin there.  Even though you don’t feel It or see It, Love is there, always.  It must be there for I am there.  Where I am, Love is present.  You may not recognize It, but It is there.  Rest with this.  All else will follow.  Be calm in this.  Be open to this.  This will be enough for now.  Listen.  Listen more, then listen some more.  Spend as much time as you can listening.  You will recognize that Love is present and it will be easier to be in It.

Accept the Christ presence in your life, in everyone’s life.  It is there.  It must be there for I have placed It there.  Where I have placed It, It must be.  It cannot be otherwise.  Don’t make yourself sick with fretting and worry.  Accept the healing present for you this day.  Accept the healing of the Light.  It may seem small, but it is not.  It may seem fleeting, but it is not.  It is My promise to you.  Healing is present.  It is always yours.

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Forgiveness

Forgiveness.  May I live in it forever, free of judgment and guilt.  May I share its bounty with others.  May I always look on the face of love and peace and truth, free of chains that bind my mind to the slavery of ego.  I forgive myself for making fear real and present.  I forgive myself for making a world of danger and pain, death and sorrow, all to convince myself that it is real and I can be separate from God, from Oneness.

So much suffering, so much guilt.  It surrounds me.  Figures in the world lash out at one another in almost constant strife.  Inflicting pain from pain.  Seeing pain from pain with body eyes and body minds.  Where does it end?  It ends only with me.  I end it by turning to Holy Spirit for the truth of forgiveness for the world.  This is my job, my function and purpose, to turn to Holy Spirit and bring an end to the world of pain and guilt.  I take responsibility for making this world I see.  I take respsonsibility for forgiving with Holy Spirit and letting it go.  I let it all go back to where it came from, an idea in my mind that I thought in my fear was real.  I speculated such things could be and was tempted to think my speculation real.  But it never was.  Only I can see this for myself.  Only I can see it never was.  Only I can see this with Holy Spirit.  Only I can let it go and rejoin my Oneness awareness, my reality, my true life.

My true life is not fear or suffering, looking upon or experiencing it, or attempting to think it separates me from others in the world.  When I think I see terrorism, death, torture, disease, starvation, war, attrocities, and the list goes on, I see the speculation from my own mind that this can be.  This cannot be for this is not of God.  This is only illusion and delusion of what can be.  Where does it end?  It ends with me.  As I take my part in asking to see forgiveness as it is, and believing in truth instead of falsity, I bring it to an end.  I start and end with my Self.

Holy Spirit helps me see with new eyes what is real.  They are new to me and yet are already part of me.  When I see through Holy Spirit’s eyes, I see through my own true eyes the truth of what is.  Truth requires true eyes - the eyes of the One Self.  Holy Spirit shows me this perception.  I end all seeming strife when I see there is no strife.  There is no war, no struggle, no pain.  We are all guiltless, all innocent.  We seeming bodies, projections of fear, are all caught in the ego web of delusion and nothing else - we are not sinners and not evil.  Where does it all end?  It ends with me.

I end it all with my willingness to be released, to see differently, to let it go.  I give all body vision and perception to Holy Spirit.  I am willing to affirm in my mind the unreality of the world and the reality of Oneness with God as Holy Spirit guides me.  It is only Holy Spirit’s help that allows me to see the world as nothing, not existing.  The strife ends because it never was.  I live in this, the truth of what is, for an instant.  The dream ends for an instant and I see the truth in a way I haven’t before.  The ego mind is constantly tempting me to see otherwise.  Sometimes, mostly, I succomb, sometimes I don’t.  I can forgive myself for succombing and forgetting truth.  I ask again and again for help to see the truth because it is my responsibility to ask.  I ask as often as I need and remember to do so.  And in this am I healing from the delusion surely and completely. 

I heal in the way directed by Holy Spirit for the highest good, for God’s Will, of which I am part.  The dream ends with my willingness to ask that it end and trust the ending to God and the healing authority of the Holy Spirit, who acts only for God’s Will.  In my forgiveness of all the dream of separation lies my safety and my rest.  The ending of the dream of strife allows deep and peaceful rest in the arms of God.  Free of all dreams of strugggle, we rest in peace and love.  Free of all dreams of burdens, we rest without care.  The dream journey has ended and we rest in the joy of truth.

We experience moments of this rest as we give ourselves over to Holy Spirit.  This encourages us to continue for the end is in sight.  We find the energy and willingness to ask anew when we succomb to the burden of temptation.  We ask and receive guidance and healing again and again until this is our only joy, our only reality.  In this we see we are not alone, but we are one, one with all God’s creation.  We share with God’s creation our joy in laying down the burden of illusion we thought we carried.  We share the joy of our rest in God’s Will where we are one.  We see we share all that is with God.  We see we are one for we are one.  We see forgiveness was our tool to see this truth, but forgiveness never was because there was no need for it except in the dream.  There was no need, but we didn’t see that.  We saw falsely with body eyes what wasn’t was, but we forgave and moved on.  We ended the dream that we thought served us.

We thank the one who ended the dream, the one who saw the truth.  We thank the one who asked for the dream to end and who listened to the answer.  We thank the one for this gift.

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Releasing Ego Mind

Sometimes when I meditate, I hear conversations in other languages or see pictures of unusual sights, like old sailing ships crossing the oceans or far away planets.  Sometimes a series of rapidly passing, but fleeting instants pass through my mind.  Often I can hardly remember these when I am finished, other times they are so vivid they seem “real.”  Years ago I would have been astounded, even impressed.  Today, I see these are just scenes from the one ego mind that I have tapped into.  Just because the visions look exotic or sound interesting doesn’t mean they are any more real than my own study where I work at home.

When I was younger I used to get caught up in psychic phenomenon and endless curiosity about past lives.  I thought these were spiritual pursuits.  That was before I became a serious ACIM student.  Now these pursuits are not terribly helpful to me.  I see them as just other expressions of the ego mind.  And I want to be done with learning more about the ego mind and the serial adventures of the body, as the Course describes our various physical lives.  If they have any importance at all, it is only of self-forgiveness for thinking that they have any importance.

Today, I care not for placing importance on looking at past, present and future and how these measurements can possibly affect me.  What difference?  All of time is of the ego mind.  When I sit in meditation, I sometimes have that period when the ego mind lays itself before me, like a great temptation of its power and importance.  It calls for recognition of its value, to see and hear beyond my own seeming personal space.  Its lure is a belief that knowing future or wider events and circumstances positively affects my life in some way.  I used to believe this was true and engaged in many “what if’s?”  I felt I needed to know outcomes in advance so that I could feel secure.  I needed to feel that I was in control.  What folly!  I turned from my seemingly separate ego mind to the equally unreal one ego mind for answers, no matter whether that answer came from myself or others.  There are no answers there in the one ego mind, just greater numbers of illusions.  I see now that it all means nothing.

Now when I see these “visions,” I let them go by.  I place no importance on them other than opening my mind to other levels of consciousness to release them to Holy Spirit.  These images are not of God.  The experience of God goes beyond them.  Yes, Holy Spirit uses them as He uses all we have made, but in a different way.  Holy Spirit helps us see the unimportance of the world rather than its importance.  Only Holy Spirit can show us the spiritual mind, the One Mind we share with God.  Only Holy Spirit can show us the difference between the ego mind visions and the visions of the Mind of God.  Holy Spirit teaches us discernment as we listen to His Voice for God.  He shows us truth and we recognize it and its importance.  What is of time we give to Him for healing, we do not try to use it for our advantage because there is no advantage in it.  Why trade one illusion for another?  Is another really better?  No, advantage does not come in modifying behavior to gain a seemingly better outcome of another illlusion.  Advantage comes in giving up illusions altogether. 

We cannot live with one foot in each world, unreal and real.  It is not possible.  I have tried and I know it doesn’t work.  We cannot serve two masters.  The Course is uncompromising on this point.  We serve the ego mind or the Mind of God with our choices.  Of course, the ego mind is unreal but our thoughts and actions belie this truth.  We often value the unreal and believe in its separate existence.  We seek answers and comfort for the body and the body life even though we know at another level that none exist.  We can only release the ego mind with the help of Holy Spirit.

Today, I choose to focus on the truth of the One Mind we share with God.  I let Holy Spirit show me its truth because I cannot find it with my ego mind.  I let go of attachments to past, present and future outcomes and let Him guide my way.  Only this brings me true security as I let go of the false security of trying to retain control over circumstances and events of my life.  Only Holy Spirit can take me past the ego mind temptations to recognizing The Thoughts of God where my true existence rests in perfect peace.  Today, I am grateful for the awareness of Holy Spirit at work in my mind for my highest good and for the highest good of all, which is the same.  I trust in Him in all matters and as I let go of the burden of control, I find true peace and true rest in all things important, that of God.

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Peace First

Last week I was summoned to jury duty in the county where I live.  I had some misgivings about being called to this service.  Yes, one must do their duty as a citizen, but all the issues of sitting in judgment of another person disturbed my mind.  Years ago, when I was in the practice of law, I wanted to be called for jury duty because I was curious about how the process operates from inside the jury room.  At this point in my life, I was not sure how I felt about having to listen to evidence in the court room and then make a formal legal decision about guilt.  For you see, I was called to a criminal case.  As I sat in the jury assembly room at the beginning of the first day, I told Holy Spirit that I left it entirely in His hands as to whether I should be chosen.  Of course, I was chosen because this opportunity for practicing peace in the ego world was mine.

Serving on the jury brought to mind years of challenging experiences in deciding to study law, law school, clerking, practicing law, clients, cases, colleagues, political ventures, and the list goes on and on.  My life flashed before me.  While I did not know any of the lawyers, I had attended law school with the judge on the case.  I guess Holy Spirit wanted to make sure the practice opportunity would not include just strangers!

I listened intently the first day of the trial, to the lawyers and witnesses.  I tried to keep an open mind and not let my knowledge of the process influence my thoughts.  This was very difficult.  By the time I drove home that evening, I felt disturbed and sorry I hadn’t said that I could not do this, that I could not sit in judgment of another’s guilt.  I am not so sure, anyway, that the court would have accepted my line that I made up the whole story to keep myself in illusion.

After the trial finished, we began jury deliberations.  The other eleven persons insisted that I be the jury foreperson as I had been a lawyer.  I told them I didn’t fancy myself any super-juror and perhaps one of them might be better suited, but I felt guided to go with the request and lead the group using my facilitator training.  We deliberated almost 6 hours on the three counts and found the defendant guilty on all three.  That night I had to attend the funeral for a 20 year old suicide, my sister-in-law’s nephew, but that is another story.

By Saturday morning, my level of peace was greatly disturbed.  I was in touch with the idea that I had made up this ego drama to convince myself of the reality of illusion - all concocted to rob me of my peace.  I was called to judge guilt for charged crimes in the ego world and I did.  And yet the defendant’s reality is that of Son of God, and how can I judge him.  He was not acting peaceful, he was acting in the ego delusion of drunken rage, aggression, threats, weapons.  I kept thinking that as I joined in this story with him, seeing it as real and with consequences, I am in the sickness of illusion with him.  And now, my ego wants to join in the illusion of guilt, having played the ego game for several days.  Now I am guilty for having seen guilt in him.  But what to do?  Now we are both Son of God believing we live in an ego world along with all the other players.

How to reconcile acting in the ego world and yet see innocence in my mind became imperative.  On Saturday I was not able to function well because I was so disconnected from peace.  I participated in the Saturday morning teleconference of the Pathways Joining with Holy Spirit Service and that helped me.  I then took Saturday afternoon to meditate, read from ACIM, reviewed Course 910, Living in the World While Waking Up (one I had taken several years ago, and an excellent course), and wrote extensively in my journal with guidance from Holy Spirit.  I followed the advice written on a course worksheet entitled “Peace First” that is included with many of the Pathways ministerial courses.  I put reconnecting with peace first and uppermost in my mind.

Over the course of the afternoon, I came to the awareness that Holy Spirit had great purpose in the circumstances and events that truly showed me places in my mind that needed healing.  I came to see that I want no other gods before me - gods of pain, guilt, rage, despair, grief, judgments, legal definitions - ego gods that ego adores.  I came to realize my great need for healing because I was cowering before false gods.  I practiced refocusing on truth.  I asked for higher perspective, for healing, for return to peace.  Over and over I asked, and I was answered with the promise that if I refuse to worship false gods, they will disappear out of the nothingness from which they came, no matter how the form appears to me.  I must overlook the gods of chaos and focus on the One God and His Voice which constantly tell us the truth.

By the end of the day I recognized that God gives us the strength to walk past our little gods in peace.  We have no strength on our own to do this for the ego world falls in worship at the gods it has made, crying out in fear and anguish and appeasement, calling endlessly for love and never receiving what it longs for because it has genuflected at the altar of false gods.  Ego will cry in the wilderness of falsity and delusion until its tears are spent, and still there is no peace.  Only when the mind calls on the strength of the One God can it leave the desert thirst for love and drink at the fountain of eternal love which never runs dry.

It may take hours in coming to this point, hours of willingness and practice, hours of giving over and opening to truth, hours of listening and writing, but I can come here to feel God is with me and that is all that counts.  It is only when I get here that I see my brother is here with me, holy, pure, loved, innocent unharmed, unhurt in any way.  He is here with God as well, free to be himself, his True Self.  I affirm this truth for us, for him and for me.  We are one in God and with God in truth and that is all that counts.  That is all that is important.  There is nothing else that means anything.

I still have much to say about this, and I will take the opportunity to do so in time.  I wanted to share with my readers this particular essence of my experience.  Peace is ours.  It my seem lost at times but it really isn’t.  We can reconnect with our peace if we are willing.  It may take some time and effort but we can emerge once again from the nightmare of suffering into another dawn of peace.  We can come once again to the awareness of our existence as Beloved Child of God, of God, with God, feeling loved, happy and knowing all is truly well.  But we must make peace a priority and refuse to try to function without it.  I learned that peace is always possible and that it is truly my choice.  I made it my choice.  I share the blessings of that choice with you.

 

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