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April-June, 2020

Listening to the Still Small Voice

by Rev. Gina Lucia, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

In this world of opposites, the ego will always speak first and speak the loudest. The first step is to identify whose “voice” you’re hearing, the ego or Holy Spirit’s.

A question I recently asked while facilitating a training course is, “Do you know how to identify if you’re hearing ego or Spirit?” I received beautiful answers: “I feel peace, calm, receptive, at ease, … I hear a still, small voice, when I hear Spirit.”

Some replies for hearing ego were, “I feel anxious, confusion, uncertain, loss, fear.” I myself have paused and asked myself while ping-ponging on the horizontal plane, “What am I thinking right now?” Usually if I find myself there, I most likely was either in the past or the future, a telltale sign. “I’m not thinking with the mind of God right now (pause). Phew, I get to choose again.”

Moment to moment thinking with God is where we find the miracle, simply a change in perception. In the moment is where we find peace, a place where ego would rather keep us from being, for there is where we find God, in the present moment. There is a swinging back and forth between letting go and holding on when we become aware of the two thought systems, Love and fear. Holy Spirit is always here to assist. We need just ask, but we must be willing to receive.

Lesson 49 in A Course In Miracles, “God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.”

While we are identifying with the ego, we are constantly searching, usually seeking within the perimeters of the five senses (the material world). The Course teaches that the ego seeks but does not find. We never have enough in this material world, an endless mirror of lack, when in fact what we are truly seeking in our hearts and souls is our deepest connection to Source, God, Which is Love. We are searching for our deepest innate LOVE, something we can only achieve through a true communion with God. This is an experience one has.Prayer is the medium for this, proven to take us into a theta state quicker than even meditation. Holy Spirit is always just right there, patiently waiting for the slightest invite to escort us; we must ask… and again be willing to receive.

“The Holy Spirit will respond fully to your slightest invitation.” (T-5.VII.6)

It has been said the lowest form of love to experience in the human condition is romantic love, the highest form to experience being compassion. We were created by Love as Love. We do not need to seek for what we already have. The Course teaches us we do not need to seek for Love but to seek for the barriers we hold in our mind that deny Love’s presence.

“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” (T-16.5:6)

What we perceive in the world through the body’s eyes is not seen full spectrum, because ego denies the truth that only the oneness of Love is real. This is where the dualistic thought system comes in, fear or Love. We can only inhabit one thought system at a time, we are either in one or the other, moment by moment. Only one is “real.” I find that the only way to get me into “reality” is with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, not just to see with the eyes of Christ, but to listen for that still, small Voice.

Join with me this moment in a song of prayer: “Be still an instant. Underneath the sounds of harsh and bitter striving and defeat there is a Voice that speaks to you of Me. Hear this an instant and you will be healed. Hear this an instant and you will be saved.” (S-3.lV.7:4-7)

A spiritual life is not a mental, intellectual experience through the body’s eyes. It is a prayerful, contemplative, mystical, reflective journey that will bring question to your ever changing mental world. Your mind is the last place you want to be as you contemplate the mystical nature of what is real in your life and what is of value. Take with you this: “Nothing Real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exits. Herein lies the peace of God.” (T-in.2:1-4)

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