This afternoon I watched a blue heron fishing in the creek behind my home. It was an awesome and interesting experience for me. Awesome because being able to observe nature at work is … well … awesome. Interesting, because I also observed myself while watching.

You see, a heron spends a lot of time just standing still. Then suddenly, there’s a quick dart and a couple of swallows, and that part of the meal is over. When it moves, it moves very slowly, and then again there is the stillness.

I had a hard time watching the stillness. I even got out my binoculars to see if its eyes were moving during that stillness, but they weren’t. I knew something was going to happen soon and didn’t want to look away, but the stillness seemed like it stretched into agonizing hours! My mind was racing with the things that I “should” be doing. I had to argue with it to make it ok to just stand and watch - after all, how often does one get to see a heron fishing?

I liken this experience to my learning how to meditate. At first, even five minutes seemed like hours, and I was in constant conflict with trying to quiet my mind. Then a wonderful meditation teacher, Eicho Michi, told me to think of those thoughts as clouds passing in the sky above. Not to get attached to them, and if I did, release them and gently return to the stillness.

Eckhart Tolle writes in “Stillness Speaks:” Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. We’ve allowed ourselves to become so mesmerized with the need to DO that stillness is foreign. Yet stillness is our Truth. That heron taught me that in the stillness all needs are met. What you want is attracted to you.

Stillness is where all creation begins. Stillness is God.

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

God is infinite Self awareness, infinite Love. It is the centrepoint for everything that ever was, is now or will be. I live in the centrepoint and Divine Life radiates from me.

No longer am I mesmerized by the ways of the world. I choose today to spend more time in the stillness. I choose to stand at the point of creation. The whole world might be wobbling around me, yet my stillness lets me live my life in grace. This grace is reflected in the people and experiences around me, and it is good, very good.

Gratefully I celebrate the Law that honours my choices with ease. I celebrate the Truth that sets me free. I release these words knowing they are done now. And so It is.

This morning I woke up with swollen hands and stomach. I knew I shouldn’t have eaten that pasta last night! You see, I believe I have a wheat allergy. As I was sharing my problem with friends, I remembered an experience with Rev. Helen Street:

We used to go to Ryan’s in Honolulu for dessert after class each week and one night a classmate was telling us all the horrible things she had discovered about sugar. One by one we chimed in, adding our sugar stories. Rev. Helen sat quietly the whole time and when we were finished, reached out and moved the sugar bowl in front of her, wrapping her hands around it. Patting it softly, she whispered “It’s ok, sugar, we still love you. We know who you are.” There was silence for a moment as we contemplated what she had said, and then a rousing discussion followed about It’s all God.

What would our lives be like if we really believed this was the Truth?

So many yummy things are made with wheat that sometimes I choose to ignore my belief in having a wheat allergy and eat them anyway. However, since that belief is so ingrained that it became a Law of my Being, I get to experience the effects of it. I have named wheat bad and therefore it must be that for me.

How do I get past this belief? Walter Starke, author of “It’s All God” and many other great books said in an interview in the Science of Mind Magazine: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” means to seek first the subjective aspect (or reality) of life, and then the objective (appearance).

That’s what Rev. Helen did – she went to the Truth – the subjective side of the sugar. So, I could remember wheat is an expression of God; the chemicals I’ve believed wheat is grown with that are affecting me, are also an expression of God. I am an expression of God. It’s all God!! It’s all good. Since everything is God, how could It harm Itself?

I’m going to love wheat as an expression of God this week and see how it affects my body. It can only do good. I believe this is true healing. Knowing the Truth in the subjective will naturally affect the objective!

Perhaps there’s a place in your life where you’d like to remember IT’S ALL GOD.

Blessings, Rev. Angelica

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

I celebrate my conscious awareness of the eternal Presence of The Divine. It is not only present everywhere and in every thing, It is the Source of all that is. It is the Source and the expression of my life. Indeed, there is only One Life, and that is Divine Life. How grateful I am to know this.

Today I choose to examine the Laws I have set up to live my life by. I release those that no longer serve me. I replace them with more positive, Self-affirming ones. I know everything is God/Good.

As I do this, the whole Universe rushes in to serve me. I celebrate perfect health in every area of my life. I see and experience the subjective Reality of The Divine made manifest in the objective world. I claim all this is good, very good.

Gratefully I release my word, knowing it is already so. And so It is.