Interfaith Center of Columbia Missouri

This seems to be a time when everyone wants instant gratification with microwaves, fast food, drive through windows, quick shops and pay at the pump gas stations. People also want instant pain relief, without taking personal responsibility for the root cause or even questioning, "Why do I have this headache?.... maybe I ate too much sugar...." ( Or need some good exercise.) Where are we out of sync in our own mind. We are Spiritual Beings, with a mind and a body.

With all this instant stuff people think if they meditate for a month or two or do affirmations for a short time it will fix everything and that will make them happy. It’s like after Thanksgiving dinner, we think we will never need to eat again. However, we do get hungry again.

Meditations and spiritual practices work the very best when we discipline our self to practice every day. From regular discipline over a period of time, we will change our life and our self.

The beliefs and patterns in our life that are creating confusion, emotional stress and pain in our thoughts, feelings and emotions are our attitudes, that have taken a lifetime to develop and take hold and often take time and effort to change. The Course In Miracles says that we only need to be willing for the Holy Spirit to help us change our perception and our mind from separation to joining with Love and the Peace of God.

We need to only let go of our narrow mindedness and surrender to our higher inner guidance. As we embrace Love and allow God to reveal a higher way to us, then an inter strength of peace can wash over us and our whole being will shift out of fear from the past into this NOW moment and we are free. We can recover, from our own Ego’s perception traps which has been performing for years to keep us "safe" according to the ego’s terms. Our ego personality keeps us distracted and continuing to seek and never find.

"In this depressing state the Holy Spirit reminds you that you are sad because you are not fulfilling your function as a co-creator with God/ and are therefore, depriving yourself of joy. This is not God’s choice but yours."

T 117

Remember, always, the purpose of the Holy Spirit in us is to seek and find. However, we must be very clear about what we are seeking, for if we choose to be right, rather than happy, we can have that. And if we are seeking in confusion, we will find confusion. If we continue to say we do not understand, understanding will continue to evade us. We can complain and argue for our limitations and we shall continue to have them. Our very core beliefs must be looked at , and evaluated to see if they are beliefs that are continuing to serve us.

We are powerful Spiritual beings and we can create all things in our life from Love or we can create out of our frustration, fear, or anger all the things we dread or hate. It all depends on the predominate thoughts and energy that pours into our thought patterns.