XI. THE PEACE OF HEAVEN, P 8
8 The communication link that God Himself placed within you, joining your mind with His, cannot be broken. You may believe you want it broken, and this belief does interfere with the deep peace in which the sweet and constant communication God would share with you is known. Yet His channels of reaching out cannot be wholly closed and separated from Him. Peace will be yours because His peace still flows to you from Him Whose Will is peace. You have it now. The Holy Spirit will teach you how to use it, and by extending it, to learn that it is in you. God willed you Heaven, and will always will you nothing else. The Holy Spirit knows only of His Will. There is no chance that Heaven will not be yours, for God is sure, and what He wills is as sure as He is.
Journal
What I understand from reading this paragraph is that God is communicating with us and that communication never ends. He placed a communication link within us, joining our mind to His and it cannot be broken. I am not aware of this constant communication, primarily because I choose not to listen. Not listening does not in anyway affect the communication, but it does cost me dearly.
Jesus says that it is God’s Will that His peace flow from Him to us. This reminds me that communication is not about words. In fact, words limit communication. It is not about explaining things or convincing us of something. I think the communication we get from God is the flow of love, the flow of peace and joy. I think that is the only form of communication with meaning.
My life has been a real roller coaster ride lately. I have experienced situations that leave me feeling angry and depressed and very discouraged. Then I have experienced that flow of love and joy and a peace that is beyond expression. Right now I feel the flow of love in me and through me. I would love to tell you what I did to make that shift, but the only thing I had any part in was my persistent desire to see differently. Anything that happened after that had nothing to do with Myron.
I think this joy and peace that I feel right now is at least a trickle if not a flow of the love that God communicates to us all the time. It makes me cry to think of it, to think of the love that God has for me, and to think of my continued refusal to fully open to it. I was explaining someone’s bad behavior to a mutual friend the other day. I talked about how hard it is for that person to receive our love because he doesn’t feel worthy of it. Getting something he thinks he does not deserve scares him and he fights against it.
Maybe I am doing the same thing. Maybe accepting the unconditional, unfailing love that flows to me from God feels like a theft, taking something I don’t deserve, and shouldn’t have. Maybe I can one day disregard this ego assessment, and trust that I belong to God and He knows me, and loves me, so I must be worthy. Maybe I will stop resisting and blocking the peace of God and simply accept my inheritance as His Creation. What I am doing with that love and that peace that I have accepted is to extend it to my brothers and sisters as best as I can, and that I do extend it further convinces me that I do have it.
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