Yesterday afternoon my best girlfriend and I of nearly 40 years had something of an “altercation” in which I responded out of my humanity and immediately regretted having said anything. I knew there was but one thing for me to do: get quiet inside and listen. I have long since learned (and written) that the Christ inside (which is my true identity) has a solution to any so-called “problem” that I can experience in my humanity. I understand that I in my humanity cannot rectify any condition that I have attracted to myself as a result of my fears, insecurities and false beliefs. I cannot blame another for what I myself create by living out of my human consciousness rather than out of my God consciousness (the “mind of Christ” that we all have (1Corinthians 2:16) but are often unaware of).
Listening from Within
My husband and I are visiting Bowling Green, Ohio, where we lived for over 30 years before moving away. Waldemar had expressed the desire to visit Amish country and buy some garlic knocks
to take home with us. He wanted to go home via our son’s house and have him make a bonfire to roast the knocks
as we had so often done when he was a child and we were camping. We had decided some days ago that we would go yesterday. But night before last we looked at weather.com and saw that the high temperature for the day was to be 56 degrees and that it was to be mostly cloudy
and 17mph winds. Since our reason for choosing this time of year for our visit was to see the autumn colors, it didn’t seem like a very good choice to go yesterday. We saw that Monday was supposed to be sunny
and 64 degrees; so we went to bed believing that we would go Monday.
Peace Multiplied
I awakened this morning enjoying the peace of God, which passeth all understanding
and with the phrase peace multiplied
being spoken by the still small voice inside. Night before last my husband and I arrived at the home of a dear friend with whom we’ve been in fellowship for over 35 years. She’s one of the very few people with whom I’ve felt I could be totally transparent as I’ve been on this spiritual journey. Though we lived in the same area for decades, I moved hundreds of miles away 15 years ago. Of course modern technology has enabled us to continue our relationship mostly from a distance, though we do see each other at least once or twice a year, sometimes for as long as three weeks. Yesterday a mutual friend, with whom we’ve both been transparent, called, and I had a very long and satisfying conversation with her where we were able to share the things that really mattered to us, not just engage in small talk.