(I wrote this on someone's blog. I hadn't any idea what I was going to write...I never ventured really into the ongoing conflict that was created in our society about homosexuality and Gay Marriage. I asked the Holy Spirit to lead, and He did. the Spirit spoke through me crystal clear...I was so humbled and so moved).
Hi there ~
Thanks so much again by the way for reading my essays. I wanted to let you know that it's probably more accurate to say that although I write them, and they could not be written without my experiences in the nightmare of the world, I am the channel for them. When I sit down to write, already I start to get in my own way, I sit down to write about The Holy Spirit, about relationships, about the Ego, ect. ect....and all of a sudden I'll feel tense and blocked...what is this ? I accuse myself saying. You know about the Holy Spirit, you know about suffering, about the illusion of pain...why are you so blocked?
"Ahh" says a small, still voice. "You're controlling again, you're working on your own power. You are not allowing the very power that led you to the spiritual awakening to to help you write. You can't be taught, you're mind is full. You sat down already knowing...in your intellectualized state, you've blocked out yourself, the Divine Love inside you."
What that means is that I've asked too little of God. I've "sauntered out into the world without checking in with love first " (Marianne Williamson). That is what the Holy Spirit is there for; it's there to throw open the window to the eternal love inside of us, which is the constant chain of love communication between Created and Creator. Human, and Divine.
I am being very gently urged by the Spirit write you this: In our search for clarity and understanding in any situation, our only motive must be that "Our minds be healed, that We Return to Love." (A Course in Miracles). Jesus said, "Bless those who act against you." He was trying to open up our communication to a Higher Integrity,the Source of Pure Love. I came to the realization when I prayed every morning to let my only intention in the complexity of my life situations, that myself, and those involved be healed, may we return to love. In the limited logic of my mind, I haven't the slightest idea how to do that. But in opening my trust to God, in giving my day, my life, every moment to the capable hand of the Creator and source of the One powerful reality, love, I am then finally co-creating the environment of love that I and all of us seek. More petitions, blogs, websites, books, degrees, money, talk, etc. etc. won't, in and of themselves bring this about. God, the Creator of the Universe, Master of Science, Math, Anatomy, metaphysics, you name it. Don't you think he knows how to make this tiny issue in the big spectrum of things, of whether homosexuals should or should not have a right to marry, right?
Perfect love is the source of genius, and creativity. Plug into it, ask that the monkey of pain, frustration, hate anxiety and hopelessness on your back be removed to experience the peace, oneness, and harmony of perfect love.
Ghandi said that "Changing the world lies not in changing the world, but in the power to change ourselves. "
There are so many spiritual people, but how many powerful people are there? Powerful people depend on the real source of power; love/God. When you step back and allow the power of the universe to lead, your very presents changes people. You send out blessings to to others, you automatically bless yourself. You ask the Higher Integrity of your being to show you, to help you, to lead the way, you do not lose your power; you gain it for the first time.
It's so hard to believe sometimes, but really, truly, the answer to our neverending questions about peace resides within the individual. For me, when I finally broke through, and expereinced Divine Love for the first time in my life, it was truly amazing and changed the course of my life forever, but when I met The Holy Spirit, it was like I found the messenger, and angel, the spirit to which I could communicate, and have the shroud of darkness that continues to try to send me into confusion, sorted out, and eliminated at any moment, at any time, in order that I may experience the Divine Love of myself and the Creator. In A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson says "the future is programmed in the present." The present, is the complete state of peaceful harmony between man and God. It is love. The spiritual teaching of The Divine Principle states that angels were to be the servants of man. Angels, or Holy Spirits are here to assist us. They are here to open our eyes to the magnifient world of unending love behind our fear and confusion, they are here to show us who we are. All that we must do is ask. Ask God for help, ask The Holy Spirit to show you, to help you get out of your own face, and He will. We are the children of God, we are made in His image; of perfect love and perfect oneness. Since we are taught by our surroundings that we are not essentially perfect, whole, and one as we are, we are constantly trying to stick many different pieces on ourselves to embellish something we think is horrible. This is why we hang on so desperately to what means the most to us. Our dreams become like delicate birds in which we hold to tightly, and before we know it, it's dying in our hands. At this point we become so desperate we reach out and tear down whatever is in our way to get what we think we want. The key to achieving one's dreams is to let them go, release them into the capable hands of the Universe, every day, every moment. Because, in our minds we might think that it is the dream itself we want - to give us peace, to make us happy, but in fact it's to finally be at peace, to finally come home, to finally rest in the loving arms of the Father. We are so desperate to create because creating is part of our essential nature. But creating out of desperation is to deny who you really are for the sake of something that has no essential value in itself. Things have value because you created them out of who you are, and that is love. One would have no attachment to the creation, because within the essence of one's being that creation resides, and there is no darkness on earth that could sway that knowing. We have such a hard time being at peace, with anything; a relationship, our bodies, our job, our hobbies, our sleep, our eating, our WORK FOR PEACE!...absolutely everything. This is why The Holy Spirit exists, this is why angels exist. We re-learn the beauty, the dance, the passionate love-making, creative state of being that already exists within us to our Divine Self, when we simply ask for help. The Holy Spirit is always there to free the Son of God from his self bondage whenever the Son of God gives him permission to do so. The Holy Spirit is the Sam Wise Gamgee of the soul. He is your teacher and your best man. The only way to accomplish you mission, your goal; to start again in the ever-present, one reality of love, is to trust in him. The Holy Spirit stands at the thresh-hold between our Ego's hallucinations and our reality of love.. He heals the illusion of the gap between ourselves and God.
When we can't trust, we ask the Holy Spirit to help us trust. He actually takes away nothing that is real. As A Course in Miracles states only love is real. All he does, with our permission, is to heal our mind of it's reactiveness to the fearful hallucination. It is not in our essential nature to not trust in The Universe/God or Love. God provides for us, and we know this. We know that God gave us our life, so he is ultimately responsible for it...he knows that! He's never failed on his end. It's when we hide from love or God that we feel out of control. "We take the ultimate responsibility for our lives by asking for help (Marianne Williamson). Only in the realm of True Love, our true selves do we finally know how to take responsibility for ourselves and for the world.