Peace, The Devine & Jesus

                                    Peace is always there,
                               just waiting for you to drop in !

                                                                                                   Karen Goldman

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Melanie Calitri Holden

Lola Jones

Neale Donald Walsch

MELANIE CALITI HOLDEN

PEACE

ARE YOU READY TO SWIM IN PEACEFUL WATERS ?
THEN DIVE IN, WITH THIS SIMPLE EXERCISE.

Set aside a few minutes in the morning, in the afternoon, and then before sleep to experience the peace that is already inside you. Whatever amount of time works for you - five, ten, twenty minutes. Even ten breaths will help you to experience this peace!
Then close your eyes, and place your awareness in your heart. Imagine that there is a tiny sphere of God's white light resting in the very center of your chest. See it with your mind's eye, and feel it - bright, clear, open. A space of perfect freedom and love.

It may only be a speck but it is there. Simply ask God to show it to you and trust that it's there, then proceed with the exercise.

With your awareness on this sphere of light, however you perceive it, take a nice deep and easy breath. With each breath, the light inside your chest grows a little bit bigger and brighter, it begins to fill your chest with God's white light and a feeling of open space, of freedom from tension or worry or sadness.

This light is pure unconditional love, pure peace and anything that is not of love or peace, can exist in its presence.

With each breath, feel the sphere of light growing larger and larger, filling you up and emptying you out at the same time. Gradually, ever so gently, the sphere fills your entire body, relaxing even your thoughts, expanding your mind so that you become acutely aware of the peace that you now feel everywhere in your body and being.

As you continue to breathe, the light gets so strong and powerful that it shines out through your skin, at once filling you and surrounding you in peace and unconditional love.

You can continue this exercise and experience yourself as the radiant being of peace and love and light that you are.

This is how to BE peace. As you walk around in this state, you affect all others with whom you come into contact. If you choose to act from this state, you have the power to change the world !

AS YOU DROP INTO PEACE,
THE RIPPLES YOU CREATE WILL SAVE THE WORLD.

Quest for Peace

                       I pleaded with God one day, "Show me the way !
There are so many paths to follow, so many wonderful adventures laid before me.
             Which do I choose ? How do I know which is Your path for me ?"
                And God said, "Trust Me. Take one step, as if into thin air,
                    and I will bring a stepping stone up to meet your foot.
                   You and I, together, will create a new path, as we go.
                   There is no rush.You do not need to know the ending.
                                      Enjoy the walk with Me."
                            Today, step out into a new beginning.
                                              Have Faith !
Remember that God will always provide the support you need to walk your own way,
                        in full and glorious expression of God in you.

                                                                                         Melanie Calitri Holden

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We have a dream inside ourselves,
A gift to us at birth,
To guide us and protect us
On our journey on this earth.
We all have something special,
Each one of us unique
You have to find the courage
To find the peace you seek.
So dream your dream and live your dream
Don’t be afraid to try.
Just take your soul by the hand
And let your spirit fly.

Maureen Weider.

LOLA JONES

DEVINE OPENINGS

                              As you awaken more, your genius flowers.
                  Negativity melts away, and is replaced by what you choose.
             Life gets easier and sweeter, and it keeps unfolding automatically.

Today's message is "When you're taking score of how you're doing -- cheat."

I never take score unless the score is in my favor. It makes me a very unpopular Scrabble partner, but it's great for living a happy life.

If something goes well, I take score. "Point counted!" I rave about it, pump it up, celebrate it, talk about it, and make it a big, big, BIG deal.

If something goes south, you'll probably never hear me mention it. If the "point" is not in my favour, I don't count it.

Some say I'm denying reality. And their point is? I don't think they realize that talking about it is not just DESCRIBING reality, it's CREATING reality.

So why would I want to create more stuff that's not in my favor? That person who gives you a hard time for ignoring "hard facts" may not realize that they often delete facts too.... but it's often the good stuff they're discounting and deleting!

The game of life does have rules, but the more you receive Divine Openings, the more you realize you're making up the rules.... you're even creating your own game.

My rules say I don't have to count it if I don't like it. I get unlimited "do-overs." Remember those from your childhood ? I've extended my childhood indefinitely.

Michael occasionally poses as my "Ambassador To Reality" .... but you know, my reality works really well !

So next time something happens that you don't like, just don't take score. If something hasn't arrived yet that you want, don't take score yet. Delay taking score, and you speed up its arrival (by staying out of the way and not reversing its progress.)

Say, "It's on its way. The Divine is doing the heavy lifting." If something you didn't want happens, don't take score. Say "I don't have to count it. I'll give it as little attention as possible."

If you're still alive, the game's obviously not over yet. How do ya like those rules?

Teacher, Healer, Artist, Author, Renaissance Woman
"Do what you love today."

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Neale Donald Walsch

ABOUT JESUS

So I'd like to look at a question that people all over the world, people of all faiths and traditions, have been asking for a very long time. For over 2,000 years, in fact...Who was this man called Jesus?

Yesterday I was listening to a Christmas Carol sung by Bing Crosby and I found myself turning to my wife and saying, "Imagine the kind of person you must have been to have people still singing about you a couple of millennia later."

"Yes," she agreed. "Pretty special."

We all know, of course, that Jesus was the Son of God; that he was Divinity made into Humanity. Yet so, too, are we all. Every human being is Divine; we are all the Daughters and Sons of God. We are all God's Offspring; God's Issue. We have all proceeded from The Most High, we are all made up of the Same Stuff, and we are all Singularizations of The Singularity.

What, then, made Jesus so incredibly different that he stands out among human beings, all of whom are Individuations of the Divine? Could it be that he knew Who He Was?

Yes, I believe that's it, and more. He not only knew Who He Was, he acted like it. He embraced it. He reflected it. He demonstrated it. He, quite literally, embodied it.

Jesus Christ brought into his body, mind, and soul the Divinity that is the natural inheritance of all of us. It wasn't this way with him all the days of his life. We know, for instance, that he spent 40 days and 40 nights in the desert, searching, looking, delving deeply into his inner yearning, his inner knowing. Some say it was much longer than 40 days. We have heard of "the lost years of Christ." We have heard that he spent much time with the Essenses, an esoteric sect seeking the experience of a Higher Way of Being.

Whatever is true about his journey, it is clear that Jesus challenged himself to step into another version of Who He Was and Who He Intended to Be. He dared to explore the outer limits of what it means to be Human and what it means to be Divine --- at the same time. He dared to examine what was "real" and what was not about his day-to-day experience; he dared to drop his "story" --- all the stuff he was "making up" in his head --- about himself and about others, about why things happen and how things happen and whether things should have happened.

Jesus dared to drop his Story and to adopt his True Identity.

Why did Jesus do this? Well, I hypothesize that, like all of us, Jesus felt a natural impulse toward the Divine. Like all of us, Jesus experienced, at the heart of his being, an unexplained sense of Oneness, of Unity, with all things; an undefined but very real inner Awareness that he was more --- much more --- than he was allowing himself to be...and that there was more to life than he was experiencing --- having nothing to do with what was going on outside, and everything to do with what was going on inside, of his Being.

The result of all this is that Jesus saw the events and occurrences of his life as serving him, rather than viewing himself as serving life. He saw every thought, word, and deed as an act of Self-Definition. He used life as an opportunity to experience himself in a particular way. He chose how he wanted to experience himself in every moment, ahead of time. Then he stepped into the moments of his life, seeing them all as perfectly coordinated outer opportunities to embrace the inner opportunity that awaited him.

Yet the true miracle of Jesus, in the end, had as much, if not more, to do with his outer world than with his inner world. For when Jesus came from his deep inner sense of Self Within, he placed into his outer world such a demonstration of that, that the world never forgot what it saw.

In short, Jesus modeled for us what it means to Be Who We Really Are.

Now, let's look at how he did so. He began by loving without condition. First, himself. Then, everyone...and everything...else. He saw it all as Perfect. And therefore he saw that nothing needed forgiving, and everything merely yearned to be blessed. Blessing, Jesus came to understand, meant covering everyone and everything with the Energy of Pure Essence --- and, by overlaying it, submerging it, in this Energy (which, by the way, he understood emanated from him), transforming everything he encountered, and all those whose lives he touched.

In this way, Jesus gave people back to themselves. Others, in his presence, had the experience of awakening from a deep sleep; even of being roused from the dead.

Which brings me to "us." I experience that many, many human beings are among the Walking Dead. They are dead to Who They Are, dead to what Life is truly about, dead to the miracle that IS Life Itself.

They are "dead to the world," having no idea who they are, where they are, why they are where they are, or what they intend to do about any of that. They are sleep-walking, imagining that life is happening TO them, not THROUGH them.

Many, many human beings do not experience life as a series of decisions, but as a series of dilemmas; not as a series of choices, but as a series of chances. You take your chances, you don't make your choices.

Yet I experience that all of the dilemmas I face today are the result of all of the choices I made yesterday. The question is not whether I made those choices, but whether I made them consciously or unconsciously.

But how can I make my choices consciously if I have no idea who I am, where I am, why I am where I am, and what I am doing here? I can't. Therefore, I need someone to remind me.

That's where you come in. And that's where Jesus came in.

Jesus said to everyone, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." He said, "I and the Father are one, and ye are brothers." He said, "Why are you so amazed? These things, and more, shall you do also." He remembered his own Divinity --- and he spent his life seeking to help us remember ours.

And that is why we remember him to this day with songs of celebration and words of praise. We remember him because he remembered us. He loved us as if we were Divine --- precisely because we are.

He forgave quickly and easily, because he knew that there was really nothing TO forgive, save our forgetfulness. And he was aware that once WE became aware of how wonderful we all truly are, we would see how wonderful everyone else is, and on that day we would resolve never to do anything unforgiveable again.

So let us celebrate, in word and song, the life of this extraordinary being named Jesus. And --- as he, himself, would have us do --- let us celebrate, as well, the Christ that dwells within us. The part of us that is Buddha, understanding and thus ending suffering. The part of us that us Moses, leading those we love out of the wilderness. The part of us that is Muhammad, the prophet who shares great wisdom about life and how to live it fruitfully and with blessings.

Let us celebrate the part of us that is Krishna, the part of us that is Baha'u'llah, the part of us that is and remains Forever One with all the saints and sages of all religions and of every belief. Let us, this day, be Jewish and Janist, Buddhist and Brahmin, Muslim and Mormon, Confucian and Christian. Let us, today, be all of it. For that is what it means to be HUMAN.

And when we are fully human, we will become fully Divine...and THEN, at last, we will create peace of earth, and goodwill to all, everywhere.

Blessèd be to everyone.

Love and Hugs,
Neale.

© 2009 ReCreation Foundation - http://www.cwg.org - Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. His With God series of books has been translated into 27 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.

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