I am sitting in Maine outside on a golf cart near an electrical outlet, so I can get internet service. Where there’s a Will, there’s a way!
It’s a beautiful morning. It’s been great for me to “unplug” and not use my computer or cellphone 24/7. I like it a lot, just to get out into nature and back to simplicity.
“I loose the world from all I thought it was!” – A Course in Miracles
I’m at my mom’s camp for 10 days, all by myself, and it’s marvelous. I am doing a whole lot of nothing – sitting near the ocean, reading a lot, sleeping in, eating simply – things that were grown locally here, and relaxing like I’ve never relaxed before.
For a week now I’ve lived in my bathing suit and short shorts and haven’t driven my car once. The ocean is a half a mile away, so I bike. Suddenly there’s no need or necessity to do anything.
There is supposed to be a hurricane today or tomorrow, but it doesn’t look like it from where I sit. It’s blue skies and sunshine and massive amounts of gratitude. The waves are gigantic so maybe something is coming. Whatever happens, it’s all good in the hood.
A couple of days ago I realized there is no more “rising up”, no more ascension, no more “higher,” no more “above the battleground” and no more journey. There’s no levels. There’s no differences. It’s all just one thing – God.
I’m home. I made it. WE MADE IT. All is well. All is accomplished. This is the place I spent my life searching for – here with God, living the message of Jesus in my daily life – love, joy, happiness and freedom. That’s it! There’s nothing more! That’s it
I was searching for something that was inside me the whole time!!! HAHAHA. It’s so funny to me. I’ve traveled the world, studied, and read a million books only to come to the final realization that everything I always wanted and needed was inside me the whole time.
And the excitement for me is that life keeps getting better and better and easier now that I know I have everything and I have no needs. Everything I need is given by God, and was given by God, and is here and now.
My only need IS God, and He’s here. What other need is there?
The search is over.
Can this be taught and learned and accomplished by anyone? I suppose it can because I learned it. I was at the point of total despair with nothing.
SO.
There you have it. If I was led out of the depths of darkness and addiction, then it’s possible for anyone and everyone.
As I try to think back to what I “did” – how it happened for me – how I went from darkness to light – how did it happen? It started with a desire for something new to occur and a willingness to let the past go and my whole story with it.
And to allow every day to be a brand new beginning.
And that was it. The Holy Spirit – the Lover of Life – did the rest.
I did a little. He did a lot.
When I think back, all I did was ask for something new to happen. I ASKED FOR A NEW EXPERIENCE. I asked for happiness because I really wanted it. I really really really wanted it. I wanted to feel happy. I wanted to feel peace. I wanted to have an active happy creative life, doing things I love, and to bring joy to others. I asked for that. And He took care of the details.
So that was my “formula” for success – I found out what I really wanted and I asked for it and He gave it.
I love you a lot. There’s no need to struggle nor be afraid because everything you have ever needed, wanted, wished for, hoped for is within you.
Here’s from Joel Goldsmith:
“We must begin to relax from seeking our happiness in the outside world, seeking it through persons, circumstances, or conditions, and acknowledge, ‘There is a kingdom of God within me, a kingdom I have not yet come to know or experience. There is a capacity of spiritual awareness, spiritual discernment, within me that would let me see this world as it is.’ Then, as we learn to live in this withinness only a few periods a day of a a few minutes each, it expands of itself into more minutes and more periods. But give this inner capacity, this inner power of spiritual discernment, an opportunity to come out. ‘Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.’ That is the message of the Master: to stop being concerned about the outer affairs of life.”
Facebook comments:
Lisa, You truly do sound content with life. Your faith in goodness and God-ness is key to realizing there is nothing outside yourself. It’s all God. We just need to “keep the faith” and realize we are perfect just the way we are.
Enjoy Maine.