Exciting Times

One of the things I have noticed lately is the proliferation of articles about the changing energies in our universe. Some are attributing it to the coming of 2012, to Armageddon, to alien visitation, and to the environmental changes. Some have even gone so far as to write: “make sure you have food and water, your will made up, etc.”

I agree that the energy is building – and that big changes are coming. How could they not!! With the way things have been going on the surface level, it looks like everything is falling apart – yet, what if everything is really falling into its right and perfect places?

What if all the individual prayers for peace, harmony, prosperity, right-work, health, and love are coming into fruition right now? Things certainly are showing up more quickly in my life! I just have to think a thing and there it is!

And because what I am experiencing is just a microcosm of the macrocosm – what if all the prayers we’ve been doing for world peace, health, prosperity and food and water for all, are coming into fruition right now?

Have you noticed that in your own experience, things seem to look the worst just before they get better??? The old paradigms are in their death throes, battling to stay alive. The new paradigms, that I believe we set up more publically in the ‘60’s, are taking their places.

We are living in exciting times!! And each of us is going to experience these times by what we focus on. It is more important than ever to keep the High Watch. It is more important than ever to keep claiming Good for all. Here’s a spiritual practice for you: At least four times today, let yourself stop what ever you are doing, take a few deep breaths and say “I live in a wonderful world.”


SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

I am so grateful to remember Who I Am – God in form, having an experience of being human through and as me. I am grateful to know I am Love and using Law in every moment.

I refuse to participate in a conversation of doom and gloom. I am living in world of my making that is peaceful and filled with happiness, health, wealth and creativity. I am living in a world that works for everyone. I declare I am ready to ride the wave of good for all.

As I speak these words, I let them sink deep into my subjective mind and become fully embodied there. Nothing can move me off Center because this is where I am rooted in faith. I trust God, the Good and my All–Sufficiency, with my whole being.

Gratefully I release these words into the Law of Mind, knowing they are already so, and so it is.

Today is Good Friday … I’ve always wondered why the day Jesus was crucified was called “good”. In my research I found that some say it used to be called “God Friday” and became Good Friday just like “God be with you” became “Good bye.”

For me, the method of Jesus’ death made his teaching more powerful. Would we have gotten the message that “God is Love and this is who you are”, if he had lived to a ripe old age or would he have faded away like so many other great teachers – even some in our own tradition?

What would our world be like without Christianity? Some might say it would be more peaceful – some say more chaotic. And is the Jesus story even true? Is it a particular person’s story – or a conglomeration of many stories? So many questions. Jean Houston wrote: “A myth is something that might have never been but that is always happening. It is the DNA code of the human psyche. It is available for one generation, and again, in a different twist, for another. It has multiple, myriad facets. It drops into a culture like a crystal seed in a supersaturated solution, and then it blooms and blossoms."

The Jesus story is our story. Each of us must come to our own understanding of it. As we review why Easter is celebrated, we must ask ourselves how it affects our lives and decide how we want it to.

For me, I will honour the man’s life and death. I can take comfort in his strength of faith, his absolute knowingness that he and the Father were One. I value his teaching and appreciate these words “All these things I do, you can do, and even greater.”

It seems that "Good Friday" is like so many of the great spiritual truths. It is a paradox. Like "You shall find yourself by losing yourself." Or "Less is more." These paradoxes are difficult to totally understand, yet sometimes they take hold of us. And when they do, nothing is the same ever again.

Easter Blessings, Rev. Angelica

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

There is That Within me that is my Christ nature. It is Unconditional Love. It is an absolute knowingness. It is of great value to me and my world.

I choose to honour this today and everyday by the way I live my life. I am Love made manifest and Love is the greatest healing agent in the universe. I am the Beloved in whom God is well pleased and I let this Love flow forth from me nurturing and blessing all I come in contact with.

As Love flows from within me, it aligns everything in my life - my health, my wealth, my relationships and my use of my talents – with that Divine Christ Pattern.

For this I am eternally grateful. I celebrate my conscious awareness of the Christ. And so It is.