Prayer

The only true purpose for our times of prayer…..and I am speaking here not so much about the constant communion with and as Presence that our hearts “should” be in as we walk around our worlds every day….but I am addressing the times where we consciously withdraw from everything and everyone to have that delicious undisturbed Silence and Solitude “with” God….the only true purpose at this time….is that we may have a deeper Realization, a fuller Experience and Awareness….. of the very Presence of God, of the very palpable Spirit of Love….. that is expressing and Be-ing…. It Self….. as infinite individual us and as all that exists.

When we know that this sweet Presence is the only Thing we are ever actually seeking, ever truly asking for, ever really wanting and desiring….then when we turn within….. our minds settle down, the straining stops, our hearts relax…..the knots untie for a while….and everything about us, in us and as us….. opens up to receive or accept the Living Experience of That which will not only satisfy us…. but will appear tangibly in whatever ways are most appropriate for us at our current individual level of awakening.  No matter what you may think you desire and need…..accept the truth that beneath that seeming desire is your true Need…which, once again, is to Know, Remember, Experience, Realize more clearly ……all that God Is and all that God is Being as your very Presence and the Presence of everything that Is.

When you sit to pray…and your heart opens wider in Love to beautiful Truth….. ask for what is Real. Ask to feel more awareness of what you already are as the beloved Self of God. Ask for this deeper Experience in any way that is real to you, there is no formality here….you are the absolute Beloved One of Source….and it is Love’s greatest pleasure to have you CONSCIOUSLY accept greater and greater Awareness of this Truth….. until you…and I….. are fully awakened to It.  Ask with confidence and the certainty of heart….. that awakening to the CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE AND EVIDENCING of Who and What you are as the Presence of the Divine…..is God’s Will and Desire for ItSelf as you.

New Name for this Blog

I love the name The Still Point. It is deeply meaningful and rich within my heart and experience. But what I realized a few days ago is that The Still Point is a part of my mind’s awakening to its Reality, an aspect of the totality of this inner movement from unawareness of what is Real…. to true Awareness. During a conversation the other day…when the words…..”we can awaken fully  through Love”….came out of my mouth…..everything stopped….you know those moments…..everything stopped and I knew something had happened. It was then that I realized that Awakening through truly loving God, beautiful Spirit Omnipresent…..as all that is actually Present and Real and Be-ing and Happening……as me, as you, as the everywhere, of the everything, always and forever…..is more truly the Umbrella of my own experience of waking up and Being what I actually am.

It is really to this Divine Fact… that Spirit, that Beautiful Presence, that Love ItSelf…is the Fullness and Allness and Onliness of Who, What and Where we actually are (regardless of what we currently believe is real and true)…..it is to this changeless Truth….and my own discovery and experience of this Truth (that I may truly share)…..  that of all my energy, interest, joy, love, fidelity and commitment is given. This is the wider base for me….the foundational stone out of which all the rest comes. 

And so because the name….Awakening through Love…..encompasses the whole Field of what I am and what I love and what I am about….I decided to change the name here.  :-)

1 Jn 5:14

A friend of mine is ever ever so lovingly transcribing some of my journals (they are like an autobiography of spiritual awakening) and she sent me a couple of entries from them on prayer. Though they are taken from two different journals and written at different times….they give the same theme and message about our attitude as we move into the prayer experience. And although these words were given to me as helpful instructions for my own prayer experience….I am reminded, once again, that Her messages of Love are not just personal but are meant to be shared. So I share these simple, sweet and intimate instructions here with you….knowing that Her Love sweeps through them to embrace all that can hear Her through this way of expression.

There are two I will post today. They very much remind me of 1 John 5:14 ( I paraphrase a bit)
   
  “Now this is the confidence that we have in Her – if we ask anything according to Her Will She hears us….and we trust that since She does hear us… we have and are what we have asked of Her.”

An essential word there is HER WILL. And what is God’s Will? That we each wake up and remember and consciously Be again….Who, What and Where we already are as  the distinct, unique and direct expressions of Her Presence, Her Spirit, Her Life, Substance, Nature and Love. That we each allow the false sense of God AND us (this is the fantasy of separation)…..to be replaced with the Truth and Its experience….. of God AS us and all that IS. Therefore, true asking, desire, opening to.... is of this Essence.

1)   “Pray not with an attitude of hunger and unrequited longing but instead pray with the certainty and lightness of joy that accompanies this truth….a Child of Love has only to Ask and truly Desire….. to receive and accept what is being asked for.
      
      Ask not with a heart of unrequited longing; but with a heart that totally trusts she will be answered. You will be answered. Your Source always, always responds to you. You ARE her created Beloved.
        
     Pray, ask…..knowing you are the Beloved; cherished, adored and already Answered. You receive an Answer that always reveals to you in some way….what your Source, Spirit…. Is….and therefore what you really are and what the world really is.
            
     You receive an Answer that absolutely reveals (or evidences) your present Wholeness to you….in whatever ways and forms you can currently understand and be blessed by; in and as whatever brings the Joy and Abundance of Self to your remembrance and your immediate experience.
              
     A Child that knows she is loved approaches her Source, her Mother, with certainty, confidence and joyous expectancy; never with hesitation, doubt, un-fulfillment and longing.”

2)    “ Begin every prayer…..AS…. the Christ. (the direct, specific and unique expression of the One Divine Presence). Approach your Source with absolute confidence that you ARE Her Christ….Her Self expression and that She answers you….always….joyfully. That no request, no call is ignored….unanswered….not ever….never.
        
     Have unwavering confidence that as Her Beloved Christ….you not only have the right to ask – but that She delights beyond any joy you can presently understand – when you are open to feel Her Spirit within and as you…..thus accepting Her Answer and messages of Love.”

I AM praying in you

Yesterday, Debbie (my housemate and a spiritual partner)….who expresses a great deal of wisdom and love through being a Life Purpose Hand Analysis….was headed out to take part in a  large Community Celebration day…where she would be doing a number of readings for the participants. As there was some low grade anxiety rumbling around in her psyche about this…I went into my room to pray and this is the message I received for her. (all of us really). Such tenderness! 

“At the very same time that you are praying…..”beautiful Spirit, sweet tender Free One….enable me, help me….to witness to and experience….the truth that You ARE Be-ing….happening AS…..my presence now”

at the very same time you are praying this…..I am praying within you….”Oh…..My beautiful Self…..let Me……enable Me….to show you……that I AM ALWAYS…..EVERWHERE…..HAPPENING AS YOU…..as the ALLNESS and ONLINESS of what you are….as ALL you are Being and Doing and Seeing.

 Help Me….to reveal to you….that My Presence is Being your ONLY Presence, your ONLY Love and Understanding, your ONLY Words and Experience….as well as the very Presence and Experience of ALL within your awareness…. always.

How…..how can you LET ME….how can  you ENABLE ME to do this?

By keeping your thoughts and the attention of your awareness and mind and love on this Truth…..on this precious Fact of all existence…..that I already and forever AM happening as you…..as the very presence you are Being (and there is NO other you happening) and TRUSTING this to be TRUE every moment of this day. It is your fidelity to this Truth that brings forth the conscious awareness and experience of “Our” Oneness.

I AM BEING YOU IN ALL WAYS…..RELAX…..TRUST THIS TRUTH….BECAUSE IT IS REAL AND TRUE….LET ME SHOW YOU.” 

Use of Language, Scriptures and Specific Teachings

I find sometimes that I feel inspired to write something here but then get bogged down because of my use of language, my love for scriptures, and certain teachings that I feel a deep resonating oneness with and for. So I want to share briefly about these three things and then they will not be on my mind anymore.

In 1997….I had a very beautiful spiritual Awakening to the experience of the Divine, of God….through and as….. the Divine Mother. It was quite startling for me, as I had never thought about God…. in terms of the Feminine aspect and had felt very content with the symbol and experience of God as Father. However, this being a direct Revelation, a spiritual Impartation from Source…. to and for my Consciousness and Heart…. it was very powerful and took root…. deep deep deep in, as and through my Soul. In that instant, the Feminine Face of the Godhead entered into me fully and has been been with me ever since.

It is not that I believe God has any gender (and this is NOT a gender issue) or is actually a mother or father as we know such to be humanly….no, its nothing like that.  All I can say is that that particular experience opened my consciousness to a new level of intimacy, awareness, experience and love…. with and for the beautiful Omnipresent Spirit that I had devoted my life to Knowing and Being consciously One with and As. I recognized that this was given to me as a gift of Love to help me awaken to my current Reality as Her created Beloved….. for the Divine Energy of the Feminine Nature ignited my Being at a level that had been untouched up to that point.

Because of this…..often I use feminine language in speaking about spiritual matters and experiences. Not always…. but often. Other then the beautiful and Absolute Name of I/I AM for God….it seems like there is only….He, She or It, to choose from….and so, as I said… most often I use the feminine words.

For me, and others I know (and many more I am sure)this way of expression is more truly imbued with the Energy of the Divine that I increasingly feel and know….the nurturing, soft, gentle, open, all embracing, all inclusive intimacy of Oneness….which points the mind and heart to its  real Experience....of, with and as... this Divine Presence... that of Oneness,Sameness and Infinite Love.

As far as Scriptures and specific teachings. I love scripture and am often inspired by them and inwardly taught through their presence coming to my awareness. It is not just from Bible scriptures but other sources as well. I have been graced with the company and the writings of many mystics of “old” and  have also been deeply inspired and blessed…. in particular… with the modern day writings of Joel S. Goldsmith through his “Infinite Way”, Jesus….through his “A Course in Miracles”, the writings of Lillian Dewaters, Marie Watts, and my mentor and Friend of this present moment, Paul Gorman. When I share from any of these writings…it is because I experience the Truth so clearly through that sentence, scripture or paragraph, rather then because I am wanting to draw attention to any particular teacher or teaching.

So…that said……it’s time for a walk! deepest Love and gratitude for your gift of Presence.

 

Bike Riding

Yesterday I went for a bike ride. Another beautiful bike path was just completed in the community I live in here in Florida. Not only is the trail wonderful but it is completely flat…..something I have come to cherish. .

As I was riding, I started to get very still inside….bringing the attention of my awareness back to the Still Point…away from thoughts of and about the world ….to this inner Space…. where True Presence….as divine Love, Understanding and Experience was already happening as me…as my specific and distinct awareness and experience. I rode quietly, becoming more absorbed in this gentle Place within my consciousness and yet wholly aware of everything of the trail that surrounded me.

And then…once again….as a witness to all this sweet, pure Presence knows, experiences and is….my own conscious awareness and everything within it….was permeated and bathed with this Light.

I was the Larger Self,  and absolutely every aspect of my Field of Consciousness, the trees, birds, air, breeze, sun, sounds, bike, movement, body, people…..were an expression, of this same Self. Every single Thing…. was this One Life…..being, looking at and knowing ItSelf…. as me, through me and with me. It was like being a Cell of conscious awareness in and as the one Infinite Universal Self. No separation….just One….loving, serving and being its Self. Such gratitude and joy were washing over me and through me.

It is so true…..when the attention of our awareness is with and on Presence… on the one Life expressing Herself as Us, on the Still Point…this inner Place where She is already Happening, Being Herself as us…..our whole field of conscious awareness….is filled with Light and a living experience of Love and Happiness…..born of a true sense of deep, profound and intimate connection with all aspects of our current experience is ours.

“Coming to” the Still Point

The Still Point……is where pure, undivided God Awareness… is already BEING – is already HAPPENING as…. the specific and distinct awareness you are aware with and as.

It is the Place in ones consciousness where the human sense of mind, the personal and false sense of self, life and experience comes to.... with its focus of attention and love ….that it may lay down and release…. all it thinks it knows….. all its personal awareness, thinking, judging, analyzing, fretting, planning…..to become still and quiet……attentive and expectant.

Let us gather together – all fragments of our scattered energy, our rambling attention – and bring it – as one focus – to this Still Point…this pure, pristine, undivided, Spiritual Light within our awareness -
and with rapt….yet  still, quiet, loving, wordless attention…..look at this Light, listen to the all encompassing Sound of It's Silence…. breath into It…..or with It….or inside of It.....keeping the attention of our awareness and heart completely present, open and receptive....

and through our undivided attention to It, and our Love and Interest for Her that is in the midst of this  Light and Silence…. the Truth of our Spiritual Life, Identity, Experience and  World…will reveal ItSelf…. impart ItSelf….. to… and as…. and through…. our very “own” conscious awareness and experience.

Let Her…that is within the Still Point….show you your Self as you are Seen.

Experience your Self …. your Identity, Body, and World…through Her Eyes and with Her Heart.

And then, as a natural extension of this gift of TRUE Self-Awareness and the Self-Love that this blossoms as….we will Know and Experience ALL included within our specific field of consciousness with the same Vision, Love and Understanding. This brings Joy to ‘all’ awakening minds.