Pathways to Being Willing

I recently ran across  a  20/20 segment where a group of people were spreading the word that God hates…almost everything. Although life can sometimes make this statement appear as though it may be true, this is not so.

To this group that expresses extreme views, and to anyone who believes in these views, although not expressing them as loudly, I send to you the eternal love and peace of God.

Many of the things I have written are focused around helping to see a clearer and more realistic view of who God is. Some have determined that God is the angry and murdering God as often depicted within the Bible, even though his reported actions totally disagree with how Jesus taught us to behave. This viewpoint is fine, because, since this is a temporary error in how we see God,  it will fade as truth is eventually invited in. At some point in time, we all saw God this way and that was why Jesus came and expressed a different way of being.

Jesus talked about being forgiving, loving, peaceful, caring and considerate, because these are the true attributes of our Father. Anything that disagrees with these points of view, does not originate from the peace and love of God and can only originate from our own fear, confusion and anger.

When you become louder and more forceful, you will find that many will disagree with you and will fight against you, and this you might use to vindicate that your mission is valid, since the world appears to oppose you, but this is not so. Using force to express any idea, will result in force being returned. Forcing your ideas simply proves that you are not trusting God to heal the problem and that you are not at peace, and therefore, your thoughts and actions are not inspired by God.

God is our creator and is not so weak that he needs us to force people to change. When Jesus taught, his love and genuine desire to be helpful, drew people to him… and we are still drawn to his words of forgiveness and love. Nothing that truly originated from Jesus was forced upon anyone, but was freely shared…to be accepted or not, with the only repercussion being how long you chose to distance yourself from God.

God has no timescale since time does not exist in eternity, so it does not matter how long you take to fully open your mind to accepting God as being truly loving of all. If it does not happen in this lifetime, you will go on to whatever the next existence may be, but you are not lost and are never rejected by God. Everyone eventually makes it home.

There is nothing to fear and no need to worry about what anyone has done, is doing or will do. In time, they will see these things differently and will make better choices and step closer to God.

We all make it home, so when you see someone who appears to be taking the ‘long way’, you can help them by being kind, being loving, being forgiving and knowing they are loved and not lost. Simply seeing them as being unconditionally loved by God, helps them in ways we can not yet fathom. Trust in God’s love for them and know that the perfect circumstances will come into their lives, that will help them make other choices. Know they will make it home.

The origin of peace is in knowing there is nothing to fear. If we all make it home, but it’s just a matter of how long we choose to take to get there, there is nothing to fear. If you wish to be a part of shortening the time of our journey back to our Father, motivate yourself through compassion and forgiveness of all those around you and share what you feel is true, but never require or demand any specific response. Know that God is working with them, and often, you are simply planting seeds.

You teach by being. Be peaceful and be loving and you will be teaching others about our loving and peaceful Father, without having to say a single word. 

Upon reading ‘A Course In Miracles’ the first time, it was difficult to image how I could ever apply all its concepts and live as though I am totally forgiving and totally loving…which pretty much concludes that i did not really understand the spirit of what I had read, but it was a beginning.

 I view much of the course as ‘data’, meaning, there is a lot of information that basically tells us how it really is, or could be, but I simply view this as useful information that I can refer to so that I am open to adapt my thinking today. In other words, I do not try to get to the end of my journey but instead I use that ‘data’ to help me work through what I now perceive as real and as today.

Viewing many of the teachings and concepts as ‘data’ allowed me to keep an open mind on what I could learn to be open to instead of seeing the Course as a series of dictates that must be totally embraced and applied today.

The Holy Spirit knows we perceive and knows we have ’special’ relationships and knows we judge and knows we often forget we are better to be loving and forgiving. He knows and works within the limits we have set. As we become more and more open for Him to provide guidance, we relax our limits and he can work with us more consistantly and help open our minds to seeing more clearly and seeing differently.

When thinking if I am living the Course or if others are living the Course, those questions often also infer if the Course is even being understood well enough to genuinely apply it, but this is not a judgemnet you need to make. The Course is a personal journey for you until you finally see all others as being totally forgiven and see all  their problems and perceived attacks as call for love. Until this happens, we live as though separate, while learning that somehow, we are not separate.