The Vibrant Heart

A Landscape Of Kindness

My prayer of the heart for some time now has been to have only loving and kind thoughts appear in my consciousness. Only the loving thoughts of God. A non-judgmental atmosphere that is our natural inheritance.

With the wearing down of the ego that the Beloved has masterfully taken charge of, the landscape of this mind and spirit has certainly softened in the direction of kindness. And I am very aware of those moments where the old, mechanical ways of separating still look for a foothold. Out of nowhere, perhaps in a conversation with a friend or alone in thought, I notice how the mind wants to think, say, hang onto something negative about somebody. A rising thought with an accompanying unpleasant energetic and yet enticing and seductive.

Sometimes it wins out and I find myself making that negative remark. And this is alright. But my learning curve is to notice the potential comment arising and to hold steady in not giving in to it. These are ways and thoughts I no longer want to have cloud up and embitter my consciousness. This is all I need to proclaim. I don't want them anymore. And I can gratefully hand these thoughts back to the Holy Spirit where their dissolution is a given.

The rewards are big. A peaceful heart, a landscape of kindness that can extend out and out without meeting one morsel of conflict. The 'peace that passeth understanding' is our natural Home and our Holy Self is steering us there unerringly. We need but listen and choose again how we would be: the ego's dutiful servant in all things negative, separating and miserable or the benign child of Kindness whose place at the table of Goodness is already set. It has always been set, always patiently waiting for its children to come home and partake of the sacred feast.

" Surely goodness and kindness shall follow me
All the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.
Psalm 23:6

Let us join together in a life given over to goodness, kindness and innocence - what we undeniably are.

I Light You

Anything dark in your life that you're trying to push away, be done with - any pattern of mind that you're not too proud of. Bodily pain and discomfort. Any form of separation at all, anything less than the beautiful unity that is all that is real.....there are many ways we've learned to deal with them.

One way that has come to me recently is to repeatedly address the object of mind and say , I Light you. I Light you. I Light you.

It's strange languaging I know but it can have a very effective response in your being.

I Light you.

I notice when I say it to a negative pattern of mind, it seems to lift it up a bit, isolate it out from the general heaviness and density of mind. It gives it buoyancy and then with tears in my eyes I notice that it seems to break it apart, like sunlight gently and brightly dispersing the clouds.

I am Light. We are all pure, perfect Light, placed in us by God. There is nothing in us that cannot be touched and neutralized and lit up by this Light. Where we have made darkness we now bring the light of the Heavens to it.

I Light you, each and every one of you. You Light me and I thank you.

"The Great Light always surrounds you and shines out from you. How can you see the dark companions in a light such as this." Jesus in A Course in Miracles.

The Great Prodding

What a strong tendency there is to believe that if we could change something about ourselves, our circumstances, all would be so much better. That we would move out of 'stuckness' and into greater freedom and ease.

What we don't realize is that the 'stuckness' is already inside. The energetics of it, the belief in it is here in our unconscious minds and the present circumstances are just the inevitable outward picturing.

We use up an incredible amount of mental energy in trying to figure out what to do about our situation. We talk about it to others, seeking counsel, a way out. We wallow in it at times, playing the victim habit and that can even feel weirdly good at moments - at least it's not our fault.

All of these ways is how the ego keeps us stuck even more in our predicament.

And all the while there is a great prodding from Spirit happening. A tremendous prodding from the Beloved saying "Wake up , sweetheart. Wake up. It's a dream. Who you are has nothing to do with this mess."

'Stuckness' is the green light for the Vertical. Whenever we feel hopelessness, despair, something unresolvable, we must go High. We go High and we abandon the horizontal with its endless enticements, loops and cul-de-sacs.

High. Vertical. Light. A stand for Truth, a pillar of Truth.

We are perfect as we are. The stodge of the dream has no effect on us. We remember we are Perfect Light and we let that illuminate us and determine how we feel. Uplifted, strong, out of denial of our own incredible holiness. Letting the stagnation of the dream fall back into the recesses of our minds and suddenly just be gone.

A sense of wholeness takes over, a certainty that all is well. What felt so paralyzing a few moments ago has no meaning now at all as the truth beams into our minds, eclipsing all the imagined phenomena we have played with so diligently.

We are Perfect, Pure Light - the Home we go to, the Home that will never cease to prod us and do whatever it takes until we make it our one, true, shining Identity.

( The ability to go vertical and sense the Light is determined a lot by how much purification of mind has already happened - how much of the ego has already been thinned out. In the earlier stages of our spiritual work, heavy conditioned energies are not easy to rise out of and will need to be purged and allowed to run their course. Gradually, everything gets lighter and the ability to rise out of the dream over and over again becomes easier. )