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Dear Ones,
Spring is in the air and everywhere you look you see a rebirthing of
Spirit. You see it in our baby birds snuggled in their nests. You see
it in our seedlings pushing up through the soil, reaching for the warm
sun and in the lengthening of our days. It is the time of year when we
are reminded that the nature of God is one of continuous change, growth
and resurrection, a breathing of new life, into our world
This month we also celebrate Easter where we honor the Presence of God
awakening within us the Christ Consciousness. ‘Christ is God in the
soul of man. The resurrection is the death of the belief that we are
separated from God.’ So in the awakening we also are growing, changing,
experiencing the rebirth of the Divine Urge within to spread our wings
and soar to new heights of expressing God at Its highest.
Ernest Holmes says: ‘Nature will not let us stay in any one place too
long. She will let us stay
just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding
and advancement of the soul. This is wise, for if we stay here too
long, we would become too set, too right, too inflexible.
‘So change many times brings the promise of newness. But, some times,
when ‘shift’ occurs, it comes in like the lion, not the lamb,
especially when we refuse to let go of all our excess baggage and open
up to let God lighten our load, and show up at Its highest in our
lives.
A Course in Miracles says the closer you are to the Light, the ego
becomes ‘suspicious at best, and vicious at its worst’, in its effort
to keep us stuck, where we are comforted by the familiar. Many times
as long as we are only mildly miserable in our lives, it takes a ‘heaven quake’
so great, like an earthquake, flood, hurricane or
illness, loss of a love, to shake up our world before we ‘Let go and
Let God’.
I believe it’s in these ‘heaven quake’ moments, that real growth
begins. Because its in these moments we humble ourselves in the
Presence of God, throw up our hands, as someone said in one of our
classes, and say, ‘God, I am powerless in this situation. I need a
miracle, right here and right now!’
Many times, problems are misleading, because we judge a person on
their problems instead of how they deal with them. So when we ask,
“God, why me?” the truth is that God knows in these fearful moments
you have a strength within you, greater than you are, to deal with any
problem. All problems are a manifestation in each of us of a place that
is not in alignment with the mind of God. And each problem is a mere
reflection of the greater problems our planet is going through, right
now. So, each time we are brave enough to allow a resurrection of the
Christ Consciousness to awakening the God within us, we are allowing
God to pour Itself onto the planet. So each challenge brings with it
the opportunity to become co-creators with God responsible for lifting
the consciousness of the human race.
So, in this Easter season, I invite you to open up to the rebirthing
and resurrection of pure Spirit that is at the center of everything,
always responding to our thought. As Ernest Holmes says, ‘nature
demands change so that we may advance, and when the change comes, we
should welcome it with a smile on our lips and a song in heart.’
Happy Spring! Happy Easter!
I love each and every one of you!
Rev. Pam.
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