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.

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