Knowing When to Speak & When to Be Silent

Dear God,

I’ve been reticent to try to comment on choosing You above all else, because a couple of years ago, I read that we need to depend just on the Holy Spirit. But at the conclusion of “The Way of Knowing,” the final section of The Way of Mastery, we are all told that it is time to let our light shine, not to continue to hide it under a bushel. The familiar biblical words used by Jesus again.

We do need to depend on our union with our eternal Teacher, the Holy Spirit, a part of us even as we seek to be in union with God. But I am reminded of what I was taught in Sunday school, that Jesus sometimes needs our hands and feet (and yes, our minds and hearts as well). A Course of Love affirmed that the era of the Holy Spirit has ended, but I think that this really means that any attempt to see any separation in the universes is misguided. And we used to see the Holy Spirit has a separate aspect of All That Is.

So: Turn to our internal Guide, which I will continue to call the Holy Spirit. And as union with God becomes apparent to us, even our very thoughts are guidance, when union with God is complete and full of love.

Be with us as we walk the pathway home. And help us to see, as You do, the joy of it.

Amen.

Don’t Resist God!

Dear God,

I had a lovely morning while preparing breakfast, and our direct relationship brought much guidance to me. Now, mid-afternoon, I find that the ego, so reluctant to stay banished, is encouraging me to resist the guidance that is coming now.

Bad idea–to resist guidance! Wrap me up in a cocoon of Your love, and encourage me to, once again, patiently banish the ego from my mind. The heart always knows better.

Thank You!

Amen.

Treat the Body Kindly

Dear God,

I am doing a lot of walking, circling around inside the house, to benefit good health. I certainly do feel better! I ask for the dedication to this increased exercise to continue; don’t let me let up.

Jesus says in some of his channeled writing that the habits we have acquired that are less than stellar will simply fall away as we walk further along the path to the God within. This does include habits of the body, though many of us are ambivalent about our bodies. Ambivalence about the body is a mistake. We are both human in body and divine in spirit, a unique combination that is part of our Maker’s design.

Thank You.

Amen.

Sleep

Dear God,

Thank You for the good night’s sleep! Jesus has said in channeled writings that getting up at 3 to pray and meditate may happen as we progress along the right road. And I have been waking up for a long time at 3 or a little later, leaving me to make up the sleep deficit in naps.

I hope that my nine hours last night was a sign that Your Son is satisfied that I AM on the right road. When anything changes in our lives, we can look for a new direction, and this new direction of sound sleep seems providential to me.

Thank You.

Amen.

Joy

Dear God,

I would like to feel joy more and more! Sometimes all of us have bad days, but with the best attitude, we can rise above. And we do have the option of choice in our everyday life, and this choice can and does lead to a more optimistic stance about life.

“We will rise above” became a refrain in college by my suitemate. She said it whenever some challenging happening in college was threatening to take her happiness down a peg or two.

Dear God, with You in my corner, I can rise above any misfortune, any at all. And joy will become a constant state of mind/heart. Thank You for directing my life in the way that You do when I am not being tempted to walk awry.

Amen.

Non – Dualism

Dear God,

Let us accept our humanity as well as our spirituality. There is a purpose to human existence, though the full import is veiled from our eyes. May we never, ever, forget that there is an unseen world that impacts all that we do. And some even say that we visit this unseen world in our deepest sleep every night.

I would like to think that this speculative thought is true. The merger between spirit and body is very, very close; we do well when we rest in thankfulness for the fact that You live through us. The days of separation from God and a dualism in the cosmos are over.

And thank you that we have moved far enough along to be told this, and for it to bring no fear to us–only greater Love for You.

Thank You.

Amen.

Love Embodied and Lived

Dear God,

Help us today. And everyday. I find that when Love is strong in me, I certainly find that the day goes better.

And isn’t this what we have been preached to for years?

Take the advice as the Truth. And live in a loving space.

Thank You, dear God.

Amen.

Be Grateful for Guidance

Dear God,

I listen for guidance on an almost constant basis, trying to remember to ask. My life is much smoother now, and for that I am very grateful. Our common religious upbringing taught us that we are never alone in the universe, but all too often we forgot, believing that we had to make things happen on our own. I’m glad that You have taught me anew that this independent streak in me is misplaced. And I hope that all of us discover this anew, and sooner rather than later.

Be with us day by day. Let us remember to say “thank You,” knowing that You hear, because You are living through us.

Amen.

Twin Qualities: Love / Forgiveness

Dear God,

When we love and when we forgive, we are on the right track. Jesus preached these twin qualities when he walked the Earth. And now we still revere them.

Why is it so hard to follow this teaching consistently? I think it is because we seem to find it so hard to live in the Now. If one moment of love and forgiveness is experienced, it becomes easier to pile another on top of the first.

May we seek today to live each moment fully, living as Your children. And remembering that we are never alone; help surrounds us as we seek to follow the path back to You.

Amen.

Allowance – the Most Important Requirement for Awakening

Dear God,

A couple of days ago I felt, finally, ready to release the last limitation that I had been holding close to my chest. A fear that has hounded me for a few years.

I know that in channeled writings Jesus stresses how “allowance” is the most important item on a short list that gets us ready for Awakening. (The others are desire, intention, and then, surrender.) I interpret that this means that we simply have to become willing to allow anything and everything that might lie on our pathway now or might occur in the unknown future.

A tall order Jesus makes of us! But the only way I can even attempt to follow his urging is to remember that we are never alone. God and the Holy Spirit, in my opinion, dwell in essence within us (and all else), Jesus is able to come to anybody and everybody upon “one unequivocal call” (from A Course in Miracles), we have friends we know not by name on the Other Side, and our brothers and sisters share the Earth with us.

We must not be so cemented to independence. Let help arrive. It is there for the taking.

Thank You, dear God, for guiding me to relinquish a familiar fear that has previously disturbed my days and even my nights.

Amen.