November 24, 2009

This week we come to a time we call Thanksgiving.  It is a perfect tie to reflect on the gratitude I feel for all of you who have joined me on this journey back to the awareness of who we really are.  We have crossed paths and chosen to journey together for a time, whatever length that time may be.  You have taught me much, and I hope I have taught you something truly helpful on your journey.

Our relationship is holy.  We have chosen to see the Christ within each other and join as the One we really are.  We have birthed a new relationship that remembers the ancient relationship that we have always had, but forgot. We release our judgment, our hurt, our blame, and our separateness.  We rejoin as the One Child of God we truly are.  The strains of the ancient melodies so hauntingly familiar come wafting back to us, reminding us of our true nature, our true being.  We remember our innocence.  We remember the peace and joy that is deep within us.  And we rejoice and give thanks.

As we continue our journey together, let us remember the boundless love that flows through all of creation.  Let us remember to celebrate each moment we have together, knowing that it has no end.  Let us be still and listen for the Voice for God within us and joyfully celebrate our Oneness.  We are truly One and the Light of Christ shines brightly from each one’s face we encounter.  I am eternally grateful for your presence in my life, seemingly separate, but truly joined as One.  May everyone we meet be the face of Christ shining brightly for all to see.  We are all truly blessed.  I look forward to every joyful step we take together as we journey on in Oneness. Happy Thanksgiving!

November 17, 2009

From the Manual for Teachers:  “There is no need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left.”  We try so hard to achieve something we already have.  And we expend so much effort trying to become someone we already are.  But we have forgotten who, what, and where we are so we strive and strive and sometimes despair.  We are so busy trying that we miss what is already there, what is already within us.  We miss the peace, joy and love that is radiating from us and flowing through us.  We are happy and we don’t know it!

Remember the song and dance we did as children?  “If you’re happy and you know it clap you hands.”  And we clapped our hands and were happy.  Oh, if we could just return to our childhood.  We hadn’t a care in the world.  What happened to that innocence?  Nothing happened to it at all.  It is still who we are.  We just got distracted and involved in “more serious” ideas.  And thus forgot about our innocence and our happiness and fun. But, we never left Heaven.

But now we embark on our journey.  We begin the trek to the awareness of what is real.  God has provided help for us along this journey.  The Holy Spirit is there for us.  Vision is there for us.  The Voice for God is there for us.  And we are there for each other, for we are truly all One.  God pulls out all the stops, for our success is guaranteed!  Let go.  Let go of everything.  Let all that God has given us sort it all out and show us the way.  We are the One creation of God that is pure, holy, and at home in the Heaven we never left.  Clap you hands and know you are happy.

November 10, 2009

Truth, the understanding of what is real comes to us directly from God.  There is no interpreter; there is no need of any explanation.  The God within us, of which we are wholly part of, understands implicitly what is of God.  It is all one and the same.

But since we have separated ourselves from our awareness of God within, we are given the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Voice for God, the holder of the remembrance of who we are.  This presence within us is the guide we can rely on to direct our journey back to God, the awareness of who we really are and the God within.  Each step of our joinery teaches us something more that is already within us.  Each step gradually awakens the memory of who we are that we left forgotten behind us.  Though it has always been with us, being the One we have always been.

It is our choice whether to even allow ourselves to see this guide.  But it never leaves us and is always waiting for us to let go of all we have made up and let it show us who we really are.  As we open ourselves to each other and see who they really are, they reflect back to us who we really are.  Every thing and every one who we encounter in our path is an encounter waiting to experience the love, peace, and joy of God.  Each experience is an opportunity for us to choose between seeing as we have always done, or making the choice to see anew with the vision that comes from God. Our choices in life are our measuring stick of our awareness of who we really are.  Are we ready to let go?  Are we ready to step into the full awareness of who we really are?  Nothing stands in the way but our own willingness to allow ourselves to be who we really are.  God has always seen us as whole.  Are we ready to join God in the celebration of our wholeness?  Say yes and take the hand of Spirit held our so gently, waiting to take us on that holy journey that only takes an instant back to the awareness of our true Self.  Now is the time to understand.

November 3, 2009

What God gives us is always clear and understandable.  It is so because God gives us everything we need.  And everything God gave us is an innate part of us that has always been within us and can never be separated from us by ourselves or anyone else.  God’s understanding is always within us.  And it needs no interpretation.  We understand as we let ourselves see with vision, God’s sight, and hear with God’s ears, recognizing our innate Oneness with God and all of creation.

We have spent a lifetime learning to look outward for understanding and for God’s presence in the world.  But we have been looking to something that is founded in illusion that is separate from who we really are and who and what God is.  This effort is always to try to make sense of all we see and experience.  Once we realize that we are not separate, not of the world of illusion, but One with God, we can begin to learn to see correctly with the vision that is already ours.

The relationships we have developed along our way are usually characterized as dependant, perhaps dysfunctional, and fraught with unreasonable expectations.  We place our worth, our sense of self, and our happiness in another person we are in relationship with.  In doing so we remove ourselves even more from the awareness of all God has provided.  When we look to someone else for all this we can’t see that we have all we need within us.  We have been looking outward to another we see as separate from ourselves instead of looking within for what is already there. As we begin to see each other as One with ourselves and God, we open ourselves to the idea of the Truth that we are all One and lack nothing.  We open ourselves to the idea that our true identity is pure, whole and awash in blessing.  We find that we are less confused as we let Spirit direct us.  We begin to understand the presence of divinity within all of us that cannot be interpreted but can only be understood from the place of the God within us.  The message of the holy or healed relationship then shows us our wholeness and reveals the understanding deep within us of who we really are.  Let go of all we don’t understand and let our divine understanding be revealed.  It becomes possible when we release it all and surrender to Spirit.