Grace may touch your life in subtle ways: You have a serious car accident, but walk away unharmed. You get the job you want and meet your life partner. You find the right doctor who saves your life. Everyday there is evidence of grace touching people’s lives. When you acknowledge it and express gratitude, it becomes your companion.
Grace is available to you in times of challenge: You hesitate to make an important decision; your money is running out, or your cancer is spreading. As you hit the inner wall, you decide to ask for help because you have gone as far as you can go. When you give the situation over to grace, you create the opening through which Love enters. You may receive insights, assistance or healing.
As you allow grace to lift you beyond ignorance, lack and suffering, you are helping the ego relinquish its perceived control of outcomes. Each time grace takes you through another barrier, the ego learns that the process works. Someone or something greater than itself is in charge. The ego learns that it can breathe under water; it can trust and be guided. It begins to participate in the co-creative process with the Self.
You may get discouraged because you cannot control when grace touches your life. At times it may lift you, and at other times it appears that you are on your own. The ego begins to doubt. But, if you continue to believe and work with this divine resource, you doubt less and trust more.
Grace is not only here to rescue you, but to reunite you with the Self—your Higher Power. In alignment with your true divine nature, you become a beacon of light and truth to others—an instrument of grace.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Blog 32 – Grace: Divine Love in Action
Grace is essential for human beings to complete the process of personal transformation. The ego is limited in how much it can love, how much it can release, and how much it can trust the unknown. It has difficulty surviving the void and patiently waiting for reinforcements to arrive. Grace lifts the ego out of human struggle and resistance long enough for it to witness the miracle of acceptance, wholeness and freedom.
Grace smashes through the barriers that keep you separate, alone and afraid. It is a powerful awareness that unites and reconciles you with yourself, others, life and God. It is the thunderbolt that pierces your heart, clears your mind and reconnects you with true power. It restores peace and harmony to your entire being--body, mind and soul. All is right when you are immersed in moments of grace.
After being touched in this profound way by Love, you can never be the same. Although you may retreat to your old ways, you are different. You may even doubt that a stroke of grace ever happened. But once grace has touched you, the awareness of this possibility is within you. You may not be able to control when grace uplifts and energizes you. But, you can trust that grace will visit you again when the time is right.
Grace enters by invoking it through prayer or receiving it spontaneously. Right now grace is a possibility for you and your life. Be open and claim this divine gift even though you do not know how or when you will be blessed. As you learn to cultivate this connection and turn grace into a valuable spiritual resource, you will be guided and protected through challenging times. Eventually, divine Love will take up residence in your heart, and grace will become your constant companion.
Grace smashes through the barriers that keep you separate, alone and afraid. It is a powerful awareness that unites and reconciles you with yourself, others, life and God. It is the thunderbolt that pierces your heart, clears your mind and reconnects you with true power. It restores peace and harmony to your entire being--body, mind and soul. All is right when you are immersed in moments of grace.
After being touched in this profound way by Love, you can never be the same. Although you may retreat to your old ways, you are different. You may even doubt that a stroke of grace ever happened. But once grace has touched you, the awareness of this possibility is within you. You may not be able to control when grace uplifts and energizes you. But, you can trust that grace will visit you again when the time is right.
Grace enters by invoking it through prayer or receiving it spontaneously. Right now grace is a possibility for you and your life. Be open and claim this divine gift even though you do not know how or when you will be blessed. As you learn to cultivate this connection and turn grace into a valuable spiritual resource, you will be guided and protected through challenging times. Eventually, divine Love will take up residence in your heart, and grace will become your constant companion.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Blog 31 – Absolute Awareness
Absolute awareness fills the still empty mind—a mind free of thoughts and judgments. In this state of awareness no thought limits you. Conscious and aware you tap into a dimension of your being which is eternal and unlimited. This nonlocal presence descends and fills your body and mind as you let go of attachment to the world of form. In those moments of transcendence, you know you are in the world, but you are also a part of the formless Creative Source.
Encountering the Absolute you find no separation between yourself and the Creative Source. This reunion dissolves the boundaries of the ego as well as the Higher Self. As long as you are a “self” you are in form. The way back to the Creator is ultimately through the formless. Taking your focus off the world of form, you will discover the peace and potential from which you and the world were created. This Source of all creation is pure awareness and energy.
As you relinquish mental and emotional patterns that keep you separated from Source, you begin to live this stillness. Peace replaces the inner turmoil and striving that comes from controlling outcomes and making judgments. As you develop the ability to be aware, you will be more present and accept what is. You will not resist but know when to take charge and when to allow. You will remain connected to the formless while doing your best to accomplish your intentions in the world of form. You will live in both worlds and reap the benefits of both.
This journey to the Absolute is traveled by the curious, adventuresome and persistent. It is for those who are willing to look beyond the world of form for truth. When you enter the formless dimension of Source, you dissolve into the bliss of nothing that is something.
Encountering the Absolute you find no separation between yourself and the Creative Source. This reunion dissolves the boundaries of the ego as well as the Higher Self. As long as you are a “self” you are in form. The way back to the Creator is ultimately through the formless. Taking your focus off the world of form, you will discover the peace and potential from which you and the world were created. This Source of all creation is pure awareness and energy.
As you relinquish mental and emotional patterns that keep you separated from Source, you begin to live this stillness. Peace replaces the inner turmoil and striving that comes from controlling outcomes and making judgments. As you develop the ability to be aware, you will be more present and accept what is. You will not resist but know when to take charge and when to allow. You will remain connected to the formless while doing your best to accomplish your intentions in the world of form. You will live in both worlds and reap the benefits of both.
This journey to the Absolute is traveled by the curious, adventuresome and persistent. It is for those who are willing to look beyond the world of form for truth. When you enter the formless dimension of Source, you dissolve into the bliss of nothing that is something.
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