Motivated By Spirit

I sit inside the cathedral of myself, and the sacred peace of a holy universe streams in on my consciousness as warmth. I approach the holy inner sanctuary were eternal peace dwells and behold the eyes of my brother, my sister and myself. We embrace in a merging of oneness, expanding beyond every known confine into the great peace held within our love. My sister, my brother and I stretch beyond ourselves into a glorious song of peace. This song is echoed by angels, given to humming birds to whisper softly to daffodils, thrilling the wings of bees with honey. The meadows and the dales of the wide earth take up the lingering strain of peace, bouncing it against the hills and mountains forever. The sweet murmuring of peace is heard by the stars above my head, and with each twinkle they make an increasing anthem that is then added to make a crescendo of peace and joy for the ages to inhabit. New metaphors for the presence of peace arise within each moment to enhance my awareness o...

For the first time in this new season of faith, I’m feeling the creeping fingers of doubt. This doubt has been hidden within my consciousness, fed by external events. Now it seeks to blossom into fear which I cannot allow. I breathe and the reminder comes with the breath. There is only God. With every breath the presence of God becomes stronger and stronger within my awareness. I relax. My faith is strengthened. God’ love for me, and the bounteous provision held within that love, takes center stage within my awareness. I choose peace, not as the world gives peace, but the peace which passes the world’s understanding. The love which lives within me has already overcome the world’s oppressing conditions. Therefore, that love holds a plan for my existence. That plan transcends my opinion of the how things ought to be and places my feet on the higher ground of harmony and grace. Now, there is no place within my consciousness for the fretful or the disturbing. I am within the mi...

I seek within the realms of Peace for he who is called the Prince of Peace. He answers my search with the voice of loving assurance saying; ‘I am with you always, even in the midst of anger and fright.’ He wraps me with the gentle carefulness within the bright garments of his heart light and speaks words of Peace to anxious soul. He said: “this moment I give you the Peace you knew in the beginning, when your only consciousness was that of oneness and light.” Sheltered within the love of my brother and friend, I experience anew the boundless love of my Creator God. The cresting anger, which loomed so large as to almost overwhelm my world, begins its transformation before my opened mind. It reveals for my knowing the seat of the frustration which started its onslaught. The idea of oneness became distorted into a need for conformity. The warmth from Peace teaches me that to be joined it is not necessary to be alike. Being joined is to honor the bonds of love and give respect ...

The presence of Peace within my life has many faces. There are concerns waiting for my attention; yet it is almost impossible for me to give my attention to them. This moment feels so potent, that the facts of existence can find no entrance within it. The thoughts, held within these concerns, float towards my mind and melt in the awesome light of the Peace which has been given to me. Before now it would have been quite easy to take any one of these thoughts and chew it over within my mind, seeking its solution. There is a knowing within me that forbids such an action. This knowing, which is a gift from Peace, says: ‘it is well with my soul, my body, my mind and my affairs. Spinning situations over and around my mind often hide form my knowing the very solutions I would seek, and Peace gives. There are times when I willfully inhabit the energy of anger.  At those times, the anger clothes me to the exclusion of reason and Peace. I ask of this anger, why are you here? I...