Grace and Clarity

As we move toward the blessing of another year, we hear people everywhere talking about New Year’s Resolutions and goals.  The intimation is that if we just focus on something really hard it can come to pass, that if we just want it enough it can be our reality.  But the Guides remind us that there is another component that determines our reality.

Contrary to what we may have been taught, the Guides tell us that this component is not the higher will of a judging God or the whim of a deity whose favor can be bought.  The often-overlooked component that determines our reality is the inner condition of our own hearts and minds.  The Angels tell us:

“Your mental state influences choice and choice determines action and action is what influences your reality.  Action, if you trace it back, begins not with thought but before that–with the state of the heart and mind.  Your reality begins with the belief that you are unworthy, that you are separate from others or the Divine, that you are lacking and someone needs to save you from lack, that you are a victim and that reparations must to be made.  As long as these inner conditions exist, the thoughts based on them will continue to thrive and the actions based on those thoughts will continue to form a certain kind of reality, regardless of what you think you may want to the contrary.”

These words remind us that if we wish to be a kinder person, for example, our work starts not with simply saying kind things to others, but with reconciling our own self-condemnation.  If we want to lose weight our work begins not with the counting of calories, but at the moment when we first wake in the morning and tell ourselves we are powerless or flawed.

Whatever it is you wish to achieve this year, you absolutely have the ability to make it your reality.  But make no mistake: The creation of our future lies not in the actions, or even the thoughts, we harbor within.  Our future lies within the private recesses of our beliefs about who we are and whether or not we are worthy of creating, possessing and enjoying the life of our dreams.

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It’s not news to you, I am sure, that we are living in an uprecedented time of change in human consciousness.  Talk of “12/12/12” and “12/21/12” is everywhere and even the media at large is getting its share of the action.

But what does that mean for those of us who have been on the spiritual many years before these special dates came center-stage?  For us, the Journey is not just beginning because of some interesting date on a mysterious calendar; for us, December this year may feel like business as usual.  And some of you are wondering, “Is that OK?”

I had a student the other day mention how she has felt led to hold a higher spiritual awareness–not just on the publicized and celebrated days of December, but every day.  It seems, she said, the world has been awakening across the last few years, not just the last few days of December; and I told her I could not agree more.

A few years ago, I asked the Guides about how to proceed at this important time of consciousness-raising in human history.  “What should I pray for?”  I asked.  Always faithful to answer my call They told me clearly, and I have been praying this way ever since.  Perhaps you will find this simple directive from the Angels to be a helpful template for you, too.

At this time in human evolution, pray:

“May Light manifest one thousand fold.

May MANY hear the Truth.

May the world know Peace and heal the Mother (Earth).

May civilizations rise up and honor Her (Mother Earth).

May hollow religions fall and true spirituality arise.”

Perhaps you will find this a helpful prayer when you are at a stoplight or in the check-out lane at the store.  Maybe you can use it as a way to jump-start your own daily prayer practice.  I wrote it on a post-it note and put it in my medicine cabinet to say while I brush my teeth.  Sacrilege?  Not if you believe the words of the great disciple of Christ who implored his followers, “Pray without ceasing.”

I have found I often wish to connect to the Divine, but don’t always have much to say.  This prayer gives me a way to come to center, add to the Light of Consciousness and feel the Presence of the Divine without taking much time or creativity on my part.  I  can simply affirm what I have been told to affirm and know that in doing so I am a part of the solution, not a part of the fear.  On every ordinary–or extraordinary–day on the calendar we can use prayers like this to grow the Light of Truth and make a difference…no matter how small.

To read more of the Angels’ Words of Wisdom, please peruse other selections from our Wisdom category or visit www.hopeofthenewage.com/Wisdom