Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

Peace Begins With Me

When I read the newspaper or see the news on television, so many questions come to mind.  I see people who believe in the idea of rapture, where only a few are saved and all the rest of humanity is doomed to everlasting hell.  I see people at war over religious, political, boundary, and economic beliefs.  I see fear and violence manifested in every form imaginable.  I take full responsibility for what I think I see, knowing it is all projected from the one ego mind.  The ego mind projects fear onto simple things and make them complex. 

When I take all of this to Holy Spirit with the question of what one person can do to make a difference, or even if one person can do anything, I hear this phrase over and over, “Peace begins with me.”  It is enough to see through the ego fear as the nothingness it is.  It is enough to place myself open to the mindset of seeing love and forgiveness all around me.  It is enough to be at peace with what is, trusting that all is well despite what it seems to look like to body eyes.  It is enough to feel compassion and to wait to act only as directed by Holy Spirit.

To my ego mind, this is never enough.  Surely, it says, some action is needed in the face of poverty, violence, ignorance, and all the other seeming evils of the world.  Yes, it is projected by the unconscious mind, but something needs to be done to fix it, and soon, or the world will be out of control.  My ego mind always thinks that situations and events need fixing, and especially fixed in the way my ego thinks best.  I have long ago given up confidence in my ego to fix anything.  The unhealed cannot heal the unhealed.  No, I must let go of sadness and confusion about what the world needs, and listen only to the Voice for God.

Peace in the world all begins with me.  It is my responsibility to choose to listen to the Voice for God, the Voice for Peace, instead of the voices for fear, hatred, and separation.  The only way to find peace is through peace, and the only way I can achieve that is to connect with my True Self.  When I can connect with the Peace that I was created to be with God, I can then extend that to everyone and everything I think I see.  Holy Spirit says this is enough to manage.  I can only take responsibility for where I find myself.  I can only let go of the fear that I seem to project.  I cannot make everyone else do the same in this day.  I need not find myself in guilt for wanting to choose peace when others envision achieving peace through violence.  I know that I cannot find Peace by making fear “real” in this way.

And so, Peace begins with me.  I can choose to see the call for love all around me and respond with love, and only love.  Even if that love is from a worldly distance, love is still responding.  I trust that Holy Spirit is steadily guiding the extension of love to the world for its healing in some fashion.  I certainly know that the answers of Holy Spirit are much better than any solutions I could come up with in my ego mind.  When I am accepting the peace that I am and the peace that others are, and my mind is quiet and open, then I can listen to Holy Spirit’s voice in my ear about whether any further action might be needed.  When I align myself with Peace, I can be a voice for peace in the world.  But perhaps even more important, when I align myself with Peace, I can be a part of the healing of the unconscious split-mind which projects fear.  When I try to remember to acknowledge that we, none of us, are separate from God,  I can perhaps be doing more for the healing of worldly concerns than I ever thought possible, because love has the power to heal every seeming separation from love.  When I acknowledge that there is nothing other than love, I can trust that love is the sure end because it was the sure beginning.

When I am at peace with myself, I can be at peace with others, no matter what their beliefs are or what actions they are taking.  When I am at peace with myself, I can listen to Holy Spirit.  When I am in judgment or fear, I cannot hear Holy Spirit’s voice because I am choosing to focus on seeming chaos and confusion.  When I choose to see with the eyes of peace, Holy Spirit always helps me find that inner core of strength where I can know that all is well for it cannot be anything else.  Sometimes I must ask over and over for help to get to inner peace, but it is always there.  When I get to that place of inner peace, simple answers come and there is no confusion.  There is no confusion in love, love is always sure. 

Today I find myself focusing on what it means to be peaceful in the world where I find myself.  It is a walk of trust with Holy Spirit.  It is accepting a voice that guides me to simple thoughts and simple choices.  It is a voice that guides me to be gentle and loving to myself and others whom I meet.  Perhaps another day I may be guided from peace to be more and do more, but today I am guided to be loving and accepting of where I am and whoever crosses my path.  This seems so easily do-able that I cannot complain.  I need not rush anywhere to “do” something to “fix” the world.  I can cheerfully leave this in the capable hands of Holy Spirit.  Today I can trust Holy Spirit to do His work as I do mine, which is only love and forgiveness.

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