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April-June, 2009

New Blog — The Clarity of Peace

Revs. Robert & Mary Stoelting

Mary:  This morning I had an image of taking all my thoughts that I recognized were ego and putting them on God’s altar. As I was mentally doing that, I heard, “Put your image of yourself on that altar also.” I did that and jumped onto the altar, along with all the ego thoughts. What happened was, everything disappeared. The self I had identified with was gone. This left only my true Self, which was abstract truth and Love.

This experience went on for a while. But then I found that I jumped right back into the ego’s thought system again, worrying about some circumstance in my life. When I recognized this, I thought, “Wow, that attraction to thinking in terms of being an individual self seems so strong. How do I get past this?”

In answer to this question, a picture came into my mind: I see myself as a little child reaching out my hand and asking my Father for help. I realize that I know nothing and that all the opinions I have within the framework of being a ‘separate person’ are really meaningless. I allow my mind to still and be quiet. I begin feeling a faint feeling of trust. I allow the feeling of trust to grow. I breathe deeply and rest in this growing feeling of trust.

Images or scenes from my dream world float by in front of me. As I watch them from the detached state of mind, I see that they are merely images. I understand that I do not need to real-ize them or make them real. I can recognize images of separation for what they are — just false ideas that are coming from my mind. I can allow my mind to still and see the world differently with Holy Spirit. I now feel great peace with this. I feel an inner strength. I feel like I am standing on solid ground. I allow myself to recognize or re-know that I am the peace that now fills my awareness.

As I continue to look at the images from this place of being peace, I see how unimportant these images are. I have been caught up in them so many times. And yet now, it seems so much easier to see them from this detached perspective and just smile at the meaninglessness of it all. I have gotten caught up in it so many times, and yet now that doesn’t matter either.

From this state of peace, I see that I am innocent, no matter what false ideas I have believed in. I am peace and I remain peace, even though I have forgotten that this is my Identity. I feel great gratitude for this remembering and see that everyone is the peace that I am now experiencing. I feel their innocence as we rest in truth together.

When I get caught up in the ego thought system, my one choice now is to remember that I know nothing and to choose peace. Remembering that I am the little child who knows nothing, I then reach out my hand to my Father. Once again, I am brought to the truth. Once again, I am brought to a place of quiet where I can see the ego thoughts from a detached perspective. Then I can laugh at the silly ideas that I once so passionately believed in. The way out of the insanity is now clear. But it takes my willingness to remember that I know nothing. It takes willingness to allow the Holy Spirit to return me again to the clarity of peace.

Robert:  Peace is not possible while believing in this world because the world is the idea of opposites and conflict. The appearance of differences is made through judgment based on the idea that separation is possible. This could never be in truth.

To find peace we must step back from this thought system. But we cannot do this alone. The thought system of separation cannot teach us how to let it go. We must reach out to the Thought that remains united with our Source and does not believe in the false idea of separation. So if we want to choose peace, we must first recognize when we are not in peace and acknowledge that we have been mistaken about what we thought was true.

With an open mind, willing to be corrected, we must then ask for help to return to peace and to have our mistaken thought lovingly corrected. This correction is not to be feared, but welcomed with joy. This correction asks no sacrifice but offers Heaven in exchange for hell. Today, I rededicate my attention to bringing all my unloving and fearful thoughts, my thoughts of separation of any kind, to Love for its gentle correction.

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