April 27, 2010

Purpose is what unifies, brings together.  The purpose we unify in tells us where we are placing our trust and our awareness.  The purpose of God and our purpose are shared, they unite, and they are One.  They cannot be separated.  Yet, we strive so hard to join a purpose other than God’s that we block our awareness of our shared purpose with God.  Since the purpose we share with God is the only true purpose, all other purposes must be illusion, unreal.  They go nowhere and serve no real function.  They serve only to block our awareness of our true purpose and the awareness of the Heaven God created for us.

When we know our purpose and know that it is one with God’s, there is no sorrow; it is inconceivable.  The light of love is in our awareness, and nothing can block it.  And love fills our whole being.  Nothing can diminish it.  All that is of any purpose other than God’s fades away.  It disappears into nothingness.  In this state of mind we rise above the battlefield of our mind.  Whether we think the battle is raging or that there is a lull in the battle, we see that the battlefield is all about the thoughts in our mind about what is happening in the world around us.

We allow ourselves to be lifted to a place where we can see.  We see through all the mistaken ideas we have clung to.  We see that they have given us a false perception of everything.  We see the holiness of ourselves, each other, and all of creation as we let Spirit show us our Vision.  Vision sees through the false purposes and lets them fall away.  It shows us the true purpose we share with God.  We rejoice at the peace and happiness that fills us as we join in Holy purpose.  All is forgiven, let go of.  We float, we soar, and we love unconditionally.  Heaven is upon us.  It welcomes us to our awareness of its presence then, now, and to come.  For Heaven, unlike any other state of mind is timeless.  It never changes. It is always welcoming us with open loving arms.

When will we let ourselves see it?  With the strength of God in our awareness, we can never even think of the battlefield.  All the attack and defensiveness of that state of mind is unthinkable.  We realize there is nothing to fear.  We have transcended into the awareness of who we really are, the One Child of God, inseparable from God and each other.  Our relationships transform into loving holy relationships.  We are joined, never to be lost again.  Say yes, let go, and soar!

April 20, 2010

We often feel like we are in the middle of a battlefield.  Sometimes the battle is raging around us, and sometimes the battlefield is quiet around us.  Even in its seeming peacefulness, we are waiting for the next attack, remaining alert for that attack, being ever-vigilant in watching for the next inevitable attack.  That’s certainly not peaceful.  In fact, it is usually quite disturbing.  Our mind is tuned in to attack.  Since attack and peace are not the same, we cannot experience peace when we choose to experience attack.

Heaven is the mindset God created for us to live in while we see ourselves as separated.  Heaven is a state of being, a state of consciousness, a state of awareness.  Heaven is truth, it is reality.  Nothing untrue can exist in Heaven.  No illusion can exist in Heaven.  Attack cannot exist in Heaven.  So if we are experiencing attack, or anything else untrue or unreal, we are not aware of the Heaven we are in.  It is a paradox that we can be somewhere such as Heaven and not be aware of it.  But that is exactly what we are doing.  We have chosen to believe in attack and so do not see the peace of Heaven within and surrounding us.  We have chosen to be aware of the battlefield within our mind.  We are totally into the attack thoughts, the unloving thoughts in our mind.

Spirit asks us to allow ourselves to be lifted above the battlefield of our mind.  From that vantage point our perspective is different.  We become the observer of our thoughts and our mind.  We see through the many forms we have given the idea of attack.  We can see they are all untrue, unreal.  We see the seeming devastation they seem to bring, but as we look, the battlefield is transformed into the loving consciousness of Heaven.  As we allow our relationships with each other to be lifted above the battlefield, we see their true loving nature deep within.  In the transcendence of our relationships above their seeming form, they are healed.  They find forgiveness.  They become what they have always been though weren’t aware of, unconditional love.

What a beautiful gift this is.  What a beautiful way to see clearly.  God always provides for us what is right, good, true, and abundant.  Are we ready and willing to allow ourselves to be lifted above the battlefield of our mind, change our perspective and see the state of Heaven God has placed us in?  Allow all God has to come into your awareness.  Whatever is not of God will fade away.  Let go and let it be.

April 13, 2010

Our gift to each other must be genuine.  If it is not, it is nothing.  No matter how beautifully it is wrapped or how graciously it is presented, if it isn’t genuine, it is nothing, just an empty box.  Such is the gift of forgiveness.  Is the forgiveness we offer each other genuine?  Is it sincere?  If we withhold any forgiveness from each other our gift becomes an empty shell.  It becomes ingenuine.  And what we offer each other we receive ourselves.

Our purpose in this world is to offer each other Salvation.  We recognize in each other the holy One that is God’s creation.  And we release all other thoughts about who we are.  There is no compromise in salvation.  We either see each other as we really are or we do not.  It doesn’t matter how we wrap our thoughts.  It doesn’t matter how gentle and loving we present our thoughts.  If they are not in line with the Sight of God they are compromised and therefore not truth.  They could even be called an attack since they see another as less than or unequal.  An attack is always an attack no matter how beautifully it is wrapped or presented.

We allow ourselves to move to the place of no compromise when we let go of all we have thought.  We needn’t judge our thoughts and figure out which are holy and which aren’t.  When we turn them all over to Spirit, what is holy remains and what is not fades away.  Salvation is complete when we recognize each other as who we really are.  We see God in each other.  We see the love and light of God radiating from within each One we encounter.  We know without a doubt that God dwells within each One without exception.  What a blessing this is.  What a relief this is.  Once we are willing to really let go and let Spirit guide our thoughts, we experience a freedom we have longed for.  We recognize it as what we wanted, but had never seen within us for we were looking outside ourselves.

Love without compromise.  Live in peace without compromise.  Let the light of God shine from within you without compromise.  Let go of all you ever thought without compromise.  This is God’s will for us.  It is the freedom of living the spirit filled life within that shines its offer to all we encounter.  Give it freely and you will discover it in abundance within.

April 6, 2010

All life exists in the awareness of Heaven.  What God created and creates is; and there is nothing else.  But as we wind our way on the journey of our so called life, this certainly doesn’t seem to be true.  What we experience on our journey seems to be real to us.  In fact, it is very real to us.  We can’t see anywhere except where we are at!  We want the peace and joy of Heaven, but we certainly don’t see that Heaven is all there is.

We have developed such a strong belief in the “laws” of chaos that we really believe they govern the world and the universe.  We even believe they govern God!  We believe we see clearly, so it all we see must be true.  We’ve spent a lifetime cultivating all we believe.  We’ve worked so hard to rationalize everything we have experienced and have fit it into our little order of things.  It doesn’t matter that no one else has the same order of things.  They must be wrong more or less to some degree because we are right.  Or more cooectly, “I am right.”  Yet how many times have we found we made a mistake, the wrong assumption, and so had to change our version of the way things are?

And God smile on us all, seeing us in the paradise of Heaven, knowing we are safe and cared for.  Knowing that we have all of Heaven at our disposal.  All the little things that seem to go wrong are nothing.  They are illusions, made by our mind’s best effort at the time.  We didn’t get the big picture then.  At the time we didn’t understand who and what God is.  We didn’t even understand who we are.  So we made the mistaken ideas we made up “true.”  We believed them to be the way it is.  We believed it was God’s plan for us, even though we made it up.

Are we ready to let go of the mistaken ideas we made up?  We don’t even need to figure out which ones are made up or come from God.  If we let go of them all the Holy Spirit will show us which are of Truth and all the others will fade into nothingness.  Nothing unreal exists in the Heaven on earth God created.  Everything unreal gently slips away and disappears.  We are left with all that God provides for us.  Life outside of Heaven is not life at all, it’s impossible.  God gives us life, so we might as well live where it is and where we are, in the Realm of Heaven. Are you ready?  Then surrender all your thoughts to Spirit and let Spirit show you where you already are; Heaven.

March 30, 2010

We have chosen to live by the “laws of chaos” in this world.  We certainly don’t believe we chose them because we have believed that they are real.  A lifetime of learning and rationale has gone into the development of these laws.  All that our parents, teachers, and religious leaders have taught us went into supporting and strengthening our belief in these laws.  We have explained all of our life experiences with these laws, doing our best to explain each experience using these laws, even when they don’t quite fit.

To believe in these laws and explain our life experiences by them, we have had to look away from the truth about us and God.  To try to fit the Oneness of Creation and the unconditional love of God into the laws of chaos is impossible.  So we have made up ideas about God that reinforce what we have learned and made up.  We made up the idea of a wrathful God.  We made up the idea that we could fall short of God’s plan for us.  We made up the idea that there is such a thing as hate, attack, and separation.  The whole premise we built the laws of chaos on is untrue, an illusion.  And so it is chaotic.  It always seems to be a mess. That is because we never think to look to God, to Spirit, to Truth when we are looking for any kind of explanation.

We forget that we carry within the depths of our being God’s Divine nature, that we are created and sustained by God’s love.  Divine order is within us.  We can look at all we experience differently.  We can let go of our belief in the laws of chaos.  We can release our need to control and let Spirit show us the laws of Love and Truth.  What a different picture we see when we see with the eyes of Spirit.  We see the mistaken ideas that keep us locked in the unawareness of who we really are.  We understand that all that is real is holy and all that is not falls away when we begin to let go of our belief in it, our attachment to the idea.

God always sees our true essence.  God always sees us One in Spirit.  God always sees our holiness and our innocence.  God always showers us with love and blessing.  It is our choice to live from the awareness of God’s plan, or from a belief in the laws of chaos.  What choice do you make today?  Will you live in the Love of God or the laws of chaos?  It is your choice.  Choose Love today, and every day thereafter.

March 23, 2010

We have talked about the first three laws of chaos:  1. The belief that each of us has our own truth and they are different.  2. The belief that each of us must sin, and therefore is deserving of attack and death.  3. The belief that if God cannot be mistaken, God must accept Our belief in what we are, and hate ourselves for it.  This week we look at the fourth law of chaos which, if the others are accepted, must be true; the belief you have what you have taken.  By this, we believe another’s loss becomes our gain, and thus it fails to recognize that we can never take away save from ourselves.  We believe that we and God are limited.

This fourth belief, built on the previous three beliefs, is the belief that colors all our thinking.  It is a way of thinking we have grown attached to, have made habitual by forcing all our thoughts about our experiences into its form, and has caused us to see ourselves as lacking, limited, and little.  It keeps us distracted from our awareness of who we really are, bubbling under the surface of our consciousness, waiting for us to let it spring up within us.  So what we believe we lack, someone else must have.  And because we believe there is a limited amount of what we lack and want, we must take it from someone or somewhere else.  And if we believe someone else is keeping it from us, it must be worth having, so we must find a way to take all or part of it away from them.  Oh how this belief perpetuates and reinforces itself, strengthening our attachment to it.

For thousands of years, humankind has built and refined these seeming laws; our way of thinking.  We take them for granted and believe them wholeheartedly, yet blindly.  God’s abundance has always been ours, freely given to all unconditionally by God.  The only lack we could possibly encounter is a mistaken idea made up in the mind that forgot about God’s abundance.  What could we want that we think is so lacking?  Have we taken a good look at what we are looking for?  Will we ever find what we are looking for anywhere outside ourselves?

We miss God’s abundance when we look outside ourselves.  We look at others and say “I want what they have, how can I get it from them?”  Yet, all the while, we have all we are looking for within us.  A well of plenty supplied by God is there deep within us.  It is flowing with all the peace, love, and joy we could ever want with enough left over to supply all of Creation, too.  It is true.  God created us with that wellspring.  And God never will cap it or dry it up.  We are the Presence of God in this world.  We are the hands of God in this world.  God has provided all we need and could ever want.  And we let the Light of God shine by letting go of all our thoughts that keep it hidden.  Let the shower of blessing flow.  It will wash all over you and you will feel its abundance.

March 16, 2009

We have talked about the first two laws of chaos; the belief that each of us has our own truth and they are different; and the belief that each of us must sin, and therefore is deserving of attack and death.  This week we look at the third law of chaos, the preposterous belief that seems to make chaos eternal; the belief that if God cannot be mistaken, God must accept Our belief in what we are, and hate ourselves for it.  And so we have instilled ourselves with the mistaken idea that we must fear God.

We have projected our mistaken beliefs about ourselves on God and so it has become impossible for us to be as God sees us.  How preposterous is the idea that our little idea of ourselves be different from God’s knowledge of who we really are!  We refuse to see any idea other than our own little separated ideas as true and so wallow in our misery always seeing ourselves at odds with God and, as a result, ourselves and each other.  There is no release and no escape from our self imposed purgatory because we think God is so displeased with us.

Nothing could be further from the truth.  The illusory thoughts of the ego, the separated mind, keep us distracted form the knowledge of who we really are that is deep within our own being.  God has given us the Holy Spirit, many times in the form of each other, to remind us of our true Self.  In letting go of our attachment to our mistaken ideas, we allow our true nature to be revealed to us.  We see the Light of God within us shine from within.  We feel the presence of our brothers and sisters joining with us as the One Child of God.

And so we begin to see our innocence.  We begin to see our Divine Nature come forward and guide us with certainty and confidence.  We see the pillar of God before us, guiding our every thought and step.  What a joy it is to feel the Love of God wash over us.  What a comfort it is to feel the peace of God well up within us and surround us.  We recognize who we really are and so recognize who each of us really is and always has been.  Let go.  Let everything go.  And be who you really are, One with God.

March 9, 2010

Last week we talked about the first law of chaos; the belief that each of us has our own truth and they are different.  Now we look at the second law of chaos; the belief that each of us must sin, and therefore is deserving of attack and death.  Can this really be so?  If we take a good look within our thoughts we will find something like this.  We may even be willing to forgive those around us, but we often are the most unforgiving toward ourselves.  We believe that we fall hopelessly short of God’s will for us.  We also believe we can never get close to making it up to God or ourselves.

What we don’t see or believe is what God sees and knows; we are perfect just as we are and no mistake can ever change us from the holy One we are with God.  When we believe the mistaken ideas we have about ourselves and continue to reinforce those ideas in our minds, we create and strengthen the illusion that we are separate from God and our true Oneness with God.  We don’t believe it could be possible for God to love us as we “see” ourselves.  Think what this mistaken belief seems to do to our relationship with God!

So now we fear God and each other, an idea made sensible by our mistaken beliefs.  So sensible that it appears real to us.  We now project our own irrational thoughts on God, thinking God must see us as we have mistakenly believed ourselves.  What a winding path this way of thinking takes us down.  So chaotic is this path that we fail to see God’s presence dwelling deep within us.  We fail to see God’s light and love radiating from our true being, somthing that can never be lost or changed.

God never fails to see our true essence.  Our innocence, purity, light, and love is what God sees and celebrates each moment.  God has given us the tools and the assistance of the Holy Spirit to help us see differently, to help us see the truth about ourselves and each other.  We are asked simply to let go of our thoughts, whatever they may be, and let Spirit teach us.  Let Spirit show us the light that wells up from within us and shines brightly for all to see.  As we let ourselves see and feel that light within us we find the truth of who we really are, One with God, each other, and all of Creation.  Celebrate with God and know who you really are.

March 2, 2010

The laws of chaos are anything buts laws.  Laws come from and create order.  But chaos is anything but order.  We have mistakenly thought that chaos is reality.  So in an effort to understand the chaos we take for reality, we make up laws to try and make sense of it all.  However, no matter how hard we try to understand the way chaos works; the only consistency is that there is no consistency in the laws of chaos.

The first law of chaos is that each of us has our own truth and they are different.  This thought that is essential in this idea is that we are all separate.  We think we have complete control over our life and everything about it.  The essential belief in this idea is that one thought us better than another, or one person’s way of thinking is more correct than another’s.  So someone has to be more right in any situation.  In thinking this way and believing it, we think we must attack the one who has the “less right” way of thinking and prove that our way is right.  Is it obvious that this creates chaos?

This way of establishing degrees of truth is directly opposite of the first principle of the Course which states there are no degrees of difficulty in miracles.  Miracles are the correction of mistaken thoughts.  And there is no thought more difficult to correct than another.  So how could one thought be more correct than another?  If we understand that all untrue thoughts are equally untrue, we begin to understand that all chaotic thoughts are easily changed if we let go of our attachment to them.

Any thought resulting from an idea of separation can be brought to light.  We needn’t understand it, for it cannot be understood.  But bringing it calmly into the light of truth lets the reason of God shine on it.  What is true will remain, and what is illusion or chaos will fade away and disappear into the gentleness of God’s radiant light and love.  We recognize God within us and feel the peace and joy of God flow through us and extend to each an every one of us who are all One in God.  Be at peace and let the laws of chaos we cling to fall away into nothingness, leaving only peace in our heart.

February 23, 2010

Over the years we have developed many beliefs about ourselves, others, and God.  How many of these beliefs are true?  And how many of these beliefs are colored by our perception of all of our past experiences?  More than likely, most of our beliefs are based on our perception of our experiences and not rooted in Truth.  And so many of our beliefs don’t work together, or are even irreconcilable with each other.  Our first tendency is to try to reconcile our beliefs with each other and then, when that doesn’t work, we ignore the inconsistencies and slog on through the mire, avoiding the differences we cannot reconcile.

So we go through life embroiled in a war against ourselves.  Each mistaken belief we have is fighting for its rightness.  If any belief is not rooted in truth it will never be reconciled with any other mistaken belief.  And so the war with ourselves goes on and on in our minds.  Any belief based on illusion is a belief in nothing, for illusion is just illusion.  And when illusion fights with illusion, there is nothing that can be reconciled. We end up spinning in circles and going nowhere.  There is no winning or losing in illusion, just ongoing confusion and conflict.

Truth is our true nature.  It always dwells deep within us.  There is nothing that can threaten it, for there is nothing else.  All else is illusion.  Truth has no need to fight our illusory beliefs because they are no more than illusion.  Why would anyone fight nothing?  We would call that madness.  And so God sees that there is nothing to fight.

As we allow ourselves to see that we are One with God, we can begin to let go of our beliefs that we have become so attached to.  We may need to let go of those beliefs many times as we learn to trust the awareness of our Oneness with God.  As we learn to trust what we already know, we will experience the peace of God, and the assurance that we are who we really are will grow within us.  We will find ourselves allowing the love, peace, and joy of God to radiate from us which will return to us from all those we encounter.  Let the war with yourself be over and be the peace of God in this world.