The World and YOU

I remember when I first started studying the spiritual psycology of A Course in Miracles and seeing  that Jesus referred to the world as a slaughterhouse.  I didn't want to see it, I still didn't understand that everyone walking the world didn't sign up for the pain and disappointment that we all experience.
We were not created by God to be abandoned, have our hearts broken, financial affairs go up and down like a roller coaster and to lose our faith with the atrocities of the world.  How could this mess that is the world possibly be God's will for us all?
We gaze upon a lovely garden, open a newspaper and are brought to our emotional knees in tears.  This is duality.  This is good/bad, happy/sad, light/dark, it is the condition of the world.
Within us there are two states of mind seeking our attention.  One is selfish and is only interested in self-satisfaction, that is the dark side.  The other wants only to love and will reach down in it's pockets and only seek to give until there is nothing left but lint.
Our power really only is in Love.  Yes, darkness can offer an energy surge of power, but it is not lasing and will never bring peace.  Quite the opposite, to give into a surge of anger brings only anxiety and sadness.  Now are you beginning to see what is making the world go round?
Choose again, choose again to be the one who listens to the Voice for Love.  Lose your way, find it again and choose.  YOU are given the assignment to bring love and sanity into the world.  Who's job do you think it is?

xo

Only be where you are wanted and treated WELL.. per Jesus ;)

“Whatever town or village you enter, search for some worthy person there and stay at his house until you leave. As you enter the home, give it your greeting. If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. I tell you the truth; it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the Day of Judgment than for this town. I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. (Matthew 10:11-16, NIV)”

In recent days this passage has made a big impression on me.  I did not believe that people could be jealous and wish one another harm or to take from one another.  Jesus says some pretty pointed words to his apostles “be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”  Don’t be stupid and don’t get angry.

A Course in Miracles - An Individualized Curriculum

Years ago I was in a Course group and the facilitator told me that I was "copping out" because I insisted that A Course in Miracles was and individualized curriculum and as such it's application could not be taught.  Sure we can all share our beautiful parables of forgiveness, but as far as daily application goes it's between us and God.
There is no standard answer to how we should or might behave in this world.  We are taught in ACIM to become silent, if even for a moment, with each encounter and to ask within what is truly helpful in this situation.  We are not seeking to be helpful to our brother alone, helpfulness that comes from inspiration will be helpful to us BOTH.
Anything word, deed or action that is inspired by the Love of God is a miracle.  As stated in ACIM... miracles join brothers (me and you) together.  To pause and remember God in each moment is not a burden...it brings only happiness to the one who is listening to the Love of the Father who's care and kindness is for all.  The Love of the Father moves through the Son and is shared equally with all who "have eyes to see."
What is your curriculum today?  Facebook, phone calls, coffee shop, the mall, family, friends, a pet, a neighbor?

"All together or not at all." ~ ACIM

Key to Happiness

How often do we move about the world oblivious to those around us?  Giving ourselves away in kindness sounds like such simple thing to do, but it is one of the easiest things to forget.  We may work really heard to set up a comfy corner in this world for ourselves, but it will never bring lasting happiness.  We close the door, pull the shades we feel com pulsed to abuse ourselves with various substances, we are lonely, angry and isolated.
Jesus lays out a master plan for happiness that is pretty simple "all together or not at all."  We don't need to perfect this or get it straight overnight, but at least we know what to do when we are not feeling right and things are not working emotionally.  We are to look at the entire world as our family at hand.  Some are shut down and afraid of kindness and others look as though your smile is a sight for their sore eyes.
In our appreciation and love for others something begins to occur...we feel it internally ourselves.  This is the interlocking chain of miracles that will usher in 1000 years of peace on earth.  Everyone of us plays our part eventually, it's a just a question of how long will we choose our own suffering?

Love xo

As You Give So Shall You Receive

I love this such a little statement with a HUGE message.  First of all what is it that I have to give?  What am I supposed to be giving?  Well, I am supposed to be getting out of my own way and giving EVERYTHING within me away.  Hope, kindness, peace, etc.
In yesterday's blog we spoke of seeking the kingdom first and all things being added to us the things that are added to us are abundance of peace, happiness, gentleness and all of the attributes of heaven.
Don't EVER be thinking you have nothing to give, answering the door for the postman with a great smile and gratitude IS your function.  Looking at your family members when they walk into a room as if they were a beautiful sight for sore eyes is giving!
We have HUGE stores of magnificent gifts of love to give away.  In the message above we are told that as we give we shall be in the experience of everything that we give.  To be understood, understand, To be heard, listen...
Give yourself away.  Remember to always be quiet for just a moment and ask where and how your giving is most helpful.

Amen.

xo

Love and "Needs"

"Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. [Mathew] "

Seeking the kingdom of heaven does not mean trying to get our made up needs from someone else.  Seeking the kingdom first means to recognize that you already have everything that you need.  When we trip into believing that someone else needs to meet our perceived needs we have lost our way.
This does not mean that we go around and hook up with everyone's dysfunction at hand.  We are asked to see the kingdom of heaven, heaven's attributes are peace, happiness, contentment, love...  In any relationships when we are with someone who is stressed out in relation to our kindness, we have to become quiet and ask "is this truly helpful for me to be here?"
This world is guilt-ridden, that is why we are asked to see the kingdom of heaven and to become very gentle with others.  We will find along the way that kindness can stir things up and make another feel very uncomfortable.

Whatever town or village you enter, search for some worthy person there and stay at his house until you leave. As you enter the home, give it your greeting. If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgement than for this town. I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. (Matthew 10:11-16, NIV)

The above passage also instructs us not to hang around where our blessing of peace is not wanted.  Jesus tells us to shake the dust from our feet, to let go of all thought of that situation and move on.  He referrs to the people of the world as "wolves" this is because a fearful person who cannot welcome the greating of peace then becomes a suspicious wolf. 
When Jesus is referring to a "worthy" person in the above passage, he is referring to some who knows that they are worthy of love and peace and therefore are gentle and welcoming.
We become tired and weary when we are not seeking first the kingdom of heaven and have moved way beyond the point where it would have been the most helpful to shake the dust and move on.

Amen

Bags of Light (unexpressed miracles)

"I was talking to a woman, who has three daughters who are completely estranged from each other, who was distraught and depressed.  The woman told of the tragic relationships between the three daughters and and her broken family.  They are in the midst of wedding stuff, hurt feelings, betrayal and snubbing going on everywhere.

At the end of the conversation she told me that one daughter dropped off a WHITE bag of clothes for the other daughter in her mom’s care to pass on.  The bag is sitting on the mother’s porch undelivered and she “forgot” to tell the daughter the clothes are intended for about the extension of love from her sister.

My mind jumped!  Holy crap!  What a metaphor!  There is a bag of light (miracle inspired by Love) waiting on this woman’s back porch unopened!  How many bags of light are sitting in MY back porch!!!!????" ~ Excerpt from Breaking Spells and Leaving Miracles in Their Place.

A Miracle is an expression of Love between brothers.