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January-March, 2021

Our Power Is in Our Willingness

by Rev. Maria Kingsley, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

When we are willing, we are in the Now.

Through our willingness, we can remember that what we are experiencing is our choice. Does it feel good or bad? When we don’t like it, we have the power of choice to change it.

Of course, sometimes we don’t want to change. We want to be right, be angry, feel justified and want others to feel the pain we are feeling. That is the moment when it is really important to ask for help.

In all the Pathways of Light courses, we begin with the Dedication Statement. It begins with “I am willing to …”

If we are not willing, nothing will happen. Even the bad things have to be willed by us. Yet we are usually not aware that we have chosen what we experience. We allow the little self to will for us, but there is no guarantee that the outcome will be a happy one.

I am willing to be mindful. I am willing to ask the Holy Spirit for help. An open mind is needed: Trusting that it will actually change what we experience. This world is not what it seems, and we have given all that we see the meaning it has for us.

I am always amazed what we can do when we want to accomplish something. Our mind is very powerful, but we have to believe in it.

There is one more ingredient that really helps, and that is Love.

When we use love, things run so much smoother. Love is not an emotion, and we don’t have to be ‘in love’ with something. Love is a power and an intelligence. We are asked to command with Love. We command our world to be what we co-create with the Divine. We will not do this alone, because we are all One. But we are here to extend love in whatever way is best, and guided for the greater good of all. Since we don’t really know what that is, we need the Guidance from the higher perspective.

Guidance is such a wonderful thing. It is gentle and yet clear. It is so helpful, and I have experienced often what happens when I don’t follow the gentle Voice within. It does seem a little tricky at times, because the guidance sometimes comes immediately before we act, and so there is no time to reconsider. Yet we will, at times, just go ahead with the wrong choice, and so we hurt ourselves, or we spill something, or we say the wrong thing.

I ordered a computer the other day, and I got Guidance that I should not go ahead with it. But I wanted that computer. Well, it was very messy, and I tried to correct some of the aspects of the purchase, but no matter what I did, it didn’t work out.

I got very angry and upset, and I tried to get the customer support with a foreign accent to do what I wanted, but he could not or would not. I finally decided to cancel the whole deal. It took my sleep that night, and I felt unsettled and unhappy for the rest of the day. When I finally canceled the order, it again took me a few hours to let the whole story go. But I felt better, and I realized I should have listened in the first place.

Fortunately, I realized right away I should not have made the purchase, and immediately after I did what I was not supposed to, I felt a twinge, almost like a pain, within. It was a recognition that I acted alone, I did not listen. It was a good lesson.

Why don’t we listen? Don’t we know that the gentle Voice within can see just a bit further than we can? We act out of habit, thinking we know best. Yet we do know that we don’t always know best.

It’s an inner Awareness that we need to practice and pay attention to. Ideally, we want to consistently ask ourselves, “Am I feeling good, or is there something in the background that I need to first pay attention to so that I am clear on what is happening in my life?” It is my life that I want to be clear about. It is this life within me that I am in charge of. I can steer it down a clear path and stay out of the bushes, or I can take what seems to be a shortcut and get stuck in no man’s land. Our little self will try to move us onto paths that follow our dreams or selfish wishes, but it does not get us to peace and joyful experiences.

And so, for myself, I choose to be willing.

Jesus tells us in ACIM to ask: “What do you want to come of it?”

And the answer is usually, “I want to feel good, be peaceful, have things work out for me and others.” But, in order to get there, or be there, we have to be guided and allow all things to be as they are, trusting that there is a way to get there. But we need help.

And so I need to be willing to let go of tension, to soften and imagine my true Self leading me into peace. Everything else will fall into place.

For the power to turn it over, I am thankful!

Rev. Maria Kingsley is a Pathways of Light minister living in Tucson, Arizona. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  520-780-0170

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