Good Being Still, Being Loving
Rev. Peggy Ann "Serena"
Psalm 46: 10 reminds us to Be Still, to ”Be Still and Know that I AM God.
And who or what is God? God is LOVE and that is all there really is.
God is LOVE and I AM of God, God’s presence is within me. Like the wave in the ocean , God and I are ONE. So I am Love. Love is the truth of my being. Love is the truth of your being.
In the book written by Mari Perron, “A Course in Love”, love is described “as essential to your being as the heart is to your body”.
When we truly know that we are LOVE, what is the next step? To simply sit and contemplate on this truth, I am Love, I am Love, I Am Love? Wouldn’t that feel great?
Be still and know that I am Love.
And what is love? Love, like all things, is ENERGY. It is a pure energy that vibrates at a very high level.
In his book, Power vs. Force, David Hawkins says Love is: “unconditional, unchanging and permanent”.
And, Marianne Williamson, in “A Return to Love” describes love as “not something we can perceive with our physical senses, perhaps, but people can usually tell you when they feel it and when they don’t.”.
It is a wondrous and glorious time for all of us, and Mother Earth, too. Many shifts are occurring!
It is a time when our human race and our planet are beginning to return to love, to return to the energy of the Creator, to return to Light and Love.
Many of us already know that know our Soul purpose is to be-loving. We know we are here with the purpose to assist in the transformation from societies and lives based on fear and harm to societies and lives of compassion, caring and of be-ing loving.
How do we begin this? We begin by being still. By going within ourselves and letting go of fear, hurt, resentment, and anger that we may still be holding onto, or that may still be laying dormant within us from the past, knowing that the experiences that may have led to these feelings were actually chosen by us, not to harm us, but to teach us.
We do this by releasing anxiety about the future. We are told by Jesus in Matthew 6:34 in The Message, “Don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”
It is essential to heal these things within ourselves.
We do this through the power of Love.
When we courageously look at these things in ourselves and bring them into the Light, lovingly, we are able to see them with our spiritual eyes and feel them with our spiritual hearts. We are able to lovingly let go of them. We are able to know that the universal truth about creating the healing is not just thinking positively, though this is important, but that healing is founded in Love.
Through the letting go, Light and Love can once again fill those spaces so that we can be the BE-ings of light and love that the Creator so desires us to be.
Here is a simple prayer by Socrates, “I pray thee, oh God, that I may be beautiful within.”
Healing these areas within ourselves, makes us beautiful inside, so only beauty radiates out from us.
The Christ consciousness is love, it is also LOVING. Christ was an example of loving, of be-ing loving, of allowing love to flow through him to create miracles. And Christ said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me, (whoever believes in LOVE) will also do the works that I do” and…he said, that we will do even greater works! (John 14:12).
The Power of Loving is immeasurable! Love is eternal and everlasting. Being loving is being forgiving, nurturing, and supportive.
Love heals all things, casts out all fear, and brings peace, harmony, joy, balance and unity!
Remembering that I Am that I Am, and I am of God and God is love, so I AM Love, is connecting, healing, powerful!
Sit with that, be still with that, let that knowing sink deep, deep within you. Feel yourself becoming the love-being that you already are.
Each new day on awakening spend a moment remembering - I am that I am, and I am of God and God is Love and I AM love.
Some mornings don’t you just feel so peaceful and cozy that you want to stay lying in bed in comfort? Or, have you ever been in meditation and wanted to just stay there forever?
We, though, do live in this world and have certain responsibilities and obligations to fulfill while we are here for this time, especially in this time of significant change on our planet.
So as we rise, as we move forward as the love-beings and the light and love-workers that we are, we can rise and move lovingly.
We can be loving in all ways, in all moments, to all beings and things that we encounter and that are coexisting with us.
Loving-kindness is one of the Four Immeasurables taught by the Buddha. The other three are sympathetic joy, equanimity and compassion.
Loving-kindness means we want all beings to be well and happy. Not just people we know and like, but all beings - including strangers, people we let annoy us, the animals and plants, the wind and rain, the sky and the sea, …all things.
Opening up to knowing that we are Love, and setting the intention of be-ing loving and allowing love to flow through us, is our only real assignment.
What is the key to being loving? For each thought, we can ask, “is this loving?” For every action, we can ask, “is this loving?” We can ask ourselves, “is this leading me to be of service?” Each moment is an opportunity to make a shift to being loving.
We can be loving in our work, be loving in our play, be loving in our touch and we can speak lovingly.
We already know that the law of the Universe states that we attract what we focus on. If we are focused on being loving, that is what will manifest.
If there is anything that we need now in our world, it is an even greater manifestation of love. Being loving will bring about our own healing, and then, the healing, of others, of our world, our universe and beyond.
Being loving is what brings forth the kingdom of heaven within and what will manifest the kingdom of Love on this planet we call earth.
Are you thinking, “Oh, this is easy to say…”. Or, “ What planet is she from? Doesn’t she know there are unloving experiences and things occurring all the time?”
Yes, Of course, I do! Everyday I work with children who have been abused and neglected – many of them by their own family members.
Yes, of course I do, I know of crime and suffering, of wars, and environmental phenomena, increases in earthquakes and hurricanes and the disappearances of our rain forests.
This is why being still and being loving is so very, very important!
In his book “Living Love from the Spiritual Heart”, John Roger, Founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, said, “A lot of people look at their lives and say, "There has to be something better, something more than this."
He said, “There is a lot more than this, but not necessarily on the physical level.” John-Roger continues, “Wherever you are, no matter what you are doing or what you have with you, you can have the greatest experience possible: (in the) awareness that you are a child of God and are divine.”
Too simplistic and perhaps unrealistic, you say? Hmmm? Is it? Really? Does there need to be a struggle? Does it need to difficult? Does there really need to be a duality?
A dear friend of mine overheard a study CD I had made for myself when I was studying for my social work licensure exam. Included on it were the symptoms associated with mental health dis-orders. He made an interesting comment. He said, "All I am hearing on that CD is about the dis-orders, the illnesses. I wonder what the world would do if we eliminated the ‘dis” and focused on ‘LOVE-orders!”
Think about that! Removing the “dis-es”! There would only be satisfaction, there would only be ease, there would only be respect, enchantment, and so on!
We can begin the inner journey now. Be still and know that I am God. Be still and know. Be still. Be. BE loving in each new moment, moment by moment.
Bless your hearts,
Rev. Peggy Ann "Serena"
Manifesting Health
Rev. Peggy Ann "Serena"
1 Corinthians 6:19 tell asks us, Do you not realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you and whom
you received from God?
In the Jewish temple there were three courts: the outer court, the inner court, and the Holy of Holies.
Metaphorically we could say that our outer court is our external lives, our relationships with others, our careers, our finances.
And we might describe the inner court as our body, mind, emotions, feelings, and will. And then there is the Holy of holies, hmmmm? We’ll come back to that…
We have known that changing our thoughts can change our emotions and so then, our behavior.
We have either been told or known that to make a change toward healthier, more prosperous lives, to move into harmony and balance, we need to do so with both the realities of decisions brought about by our mind, the Creator, metaphysically, Father God, and the transformation put in motion by Spirit, as Spirit is the Energy of the Creator in Action in response to the energy created through the Logos – the word, which is who the Bible says Jesus, the Son, is – The Word made Flesh. The Word made flesh.
Let me see if I can say that again! Change = Created thought, spoken and put in motion. The word made Flesh.
And here it is another way – Father, mind/thought + Son, word and or physicality + Spirit/action/motion/movement = change.
You know that the body and the Spirit only recognizes the positive. Meaning, if any of us say we don’t want to be sick, or poor or tired – the body and the Spirit only hears –--- well, I’m not even going to finish that! But you get it, right?
Now, initially I was perfectly content with centering this talk around this equation. But as I pondered this – I kept hearing – wait – you don’t have it quite yet – something seemed to be left out of that equation that I and I know most of you are already aware of.
How many of us have tried to think ourselves to health, wellness, financial freedom, etc., etc., etc. and so on and so forth? And, often we have experienced health, prosperity, balance and harmony – for a time, some of us longer periods than others of us.
But what might be missing? We have thought, word, action….
Where is the LOVE in that equation? That equation is missing the LOVE!
John Roger of the Movement of Inner Spiritual Awareness adds to the equation by saying, “When we are actively loving, caring, and sharing, it leads to … health.
And, he adds, "Health is loving who we are. It's caring for who we are. It's sharing with others who we are, and as we do that, health comes to us.” So, Health, in all facets of our be-ing-ness and aspects of our lives is all of that, loving, caring and sharing.
In the book Love Without End, Jesus Speaks by Glenda Green, Jesus reminds us of WHO We Truly Are. And that is Love.
He tells us “there are countless improvements we can make in our everyday lives simply using LOVE to command” the changes we want in our lives.
Transformations we want to experience in ourselves and our lives come about by knowing the love we are and by trusting what love is. There are certainly many, many scriptures that describe the importance of faith in bringing about health and healing, just read through the Book of Matthew!
When we create from a place of love first, we magnetically attract that which we want to create. And we will manifest health when we allow love to ignite our thoughts and the energy that makes up all that is.
Again, in “Love Without End, Jesus Speaks, Jesus said, "When you seek healing, place no thought on the illness (for you would not wish to multiply that), but love that which is well until it multiplies and overtakes that which was lacking in health. This is the miracle of gratitude: it multiplies whatever you appreciate. This is why it is so important when giving, that you give with love. In that way, you multiply the gift. You can multiply and expand anything. With enough love, one thing becomes the many."
This is how Jesus performed the multitude of miracles that he did, think of the Loaves and Fishes - By being Love. And this is truly what His life was about. By Being LOVE Jesus demonstrated and taught us how to reconnect with our true selves, Love, how to reconnect with others who are also Love, and with all things, that are Love, and with God, who is Love on all levels. And didn’t Jesus tell us in John chapter 14 verse 12, (New American Standard Bible) "he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do"?
Yesterday morning, a friend of mine was telling me about a time in her life when she knew she had to leave her marriage and a lucrative and secure job in order to follow what she felt clear was her life’s purpose and move into her work as a healer. By knowing she was worthy of being loved, and by loving and honoring herself during her communion with Creator Source, she “commanded” what she wanted to bring into her life. She told me that she said, OK, I’m grateful to be called for this work and I’ll fulfill this purpose and be in service the way you have asked me to, but I’ll do this knowing that I will be abundantly provided for, because I am “not going to live in a cardboard box”! And let me tell you, she does not live in a cardboard box, she lives in a beautiful custom built home on a gorgeous, treed, peaceful lot. She went on to say that she was only working one day a week in her new role and bought her own condo even only working one day a week – but the money she needed and more was always available to her. She manifested abundant financial health by loving herself enough to lovingly commanding abundance.
Pope John Paul II said health occurs when we are in “total harmony with God, with self and with humanity”. So health comes from the integration of all aspects of being WHO we are.
Which, I believe, takes us back to the Holy of Holies. Where or what is the Holy of Holies? The Holy of Holies is WHEN we are harmoniously integrated with the Love that God is, WE are and all things are.
You don't have to guess if and when that occurs for you. There is no guessing. You will know by the experience. When you are in harmony, you will experience side effects. You will experience joy and peace.
So now what? Now that we know who were truly are – Love – what’s next? How do we express this in our everyday lives? How will this help us to be healthy in all aspects?
Jesus’ prescription for health again from In Love Without End, is to “strengthen our positive emotions through daily gratitude and admiration…to dis-empower our negative emotions through daily forgiveness” of that which we did “not understand or were not able to control” and, “to practice beholding with innocent perception, through the eyes of the child within. Behold, Be Grateful and Forgive. Behold, Be Grateful and Forgive.
Just by being in a state of gratitude, rather than fear of lack, we change the way our life energy vibrates, add in forgiveness rather than anger and resentment, and beholding life in innocent perception – as an observer, not in judgment
Spend time each day sitting still and doing something. Yes, sit still and do something. Go within and Experience the Love that you are, forgiving, and being in gratitude; appreciating all that your body is and the ways it has served you, appreciating all that you have and all that is coming to you now, but mostly appreciating all that you ARE.
To magnetize, manifest and multiply peace, harmony and health, as you move through your day as a temple of Spirit, observe without preconception, in innocent perception through the eyes of the child within, and honor all that is, recognize Life is divine and in perfect order for the highest good, recall the Love that you are.
Power to these statements--
And So it is. Sealed in trust, faith and LOVE. Go in peace as you are – Love manifested in health, prosperity, balance, peace and joy. Bless your hearts. Ah-men.
Meditation on Peace, Balance and Harmony
Now let’s take the next few moments to relax into an experience of your oneness with the Creator of all that is.
Gently close your eyes and allow the breath to fill your whole self, releasing as you gently exhale. Feel yourself expanding to allow the infilling of Love, peace, balance and harmony.
Trusting in the divine order of the universe to bring peace, balance, harmony, and rhythm in my physical and subtle bodies, mind counsiousness, spirit, sould essence, and All That I am, I now invite the Holy and Divine Loving Spirit within to guide me in every thought, feeling, word and action.
From the realization of The presence of the Spirit of God I acknowledge that through the Love and the Wisdom of Spirit I am guided to perfect decisions regarding my health, finances, relationships and well being at all times.
I open my heart to the conscious presence of the Spirit and I am filled with peace and harmony.
I open my heart to the conscious presence of the spirit and I am filled with peace, balance and harmony in all aspects of my being and in my life.
I open my heart to the conscious presence of the spirit and I am filled with peace, balance and harmony in all aspects of my being and in my life.
I am at peace, balance and harmony in myphysical and subtle bodies, mind counsiousness, spirit, sould essence, and All That I am. And so it is now, and I am grateful!
And taking a breath and when you are ready gently open your eyes and be here now.
Bless your hearts,
Rev. Peggy Ann "Serena"