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Practicing the Presence of God, Part 3

The following blogpost is excerpted from my Sunday morning lecture at the Church of the Living Spirit on 5-17-09. See Part 1 & Part 2.

Part Three: Practicing

Robert Browning wrote in his poem “Paracelsus” :

Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate’er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness . . . and, to know,
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.

After much contemplation over the question --- Do we need to pretend to lose God in order to find God? ---- I believe we are practicing the Presence of God.

When we interact with other souls, we are practicing the Presence of God. After struggle, each moment we give ourselves over to unconditional love we know the Presence of God in full and wonderful ways. When we fall in love and stay loving, we feel an amazing unbreakable link with another soul. When we become a parent, we feel that we have become co-creators with the Universe.

We are all vibrationally linked---your light and my light unite. Reunion with another person’s higher self feels so sweet because it is a reunion with the Source of All.

Most days, I now know it is not a task, but an exciting experience to practice the Presence of God. As my soul reaches out its awareness of God, it feels so much how my baby son searches for his Mommy, “God, where are you? I need you. I am part of you and you are part of me. Come back into my sight and hold my soul to yours.”

That is why I find our church’s meditation time so wonderful. To take us into meditation we use the words:

GOD’S LOVE IS DEEP WITHIN ME
GOD’S LIFE IS DEEP WITHIN ME
GOD’S LIGHT IS DEEP WITHIN ME
EVER SATISFYING MY SOUL.

This is a powerful affirmation of the Presence of God. Then, we are given an opportunity to go into the silence.

So …. Talk to God and LET GOD TALK TO YOU! When you are through with your praying, take time to be still --- really very still --- and let God talk to you. Sometimes we are in such a hurry that we do not give the answer a chance to come through!

Believe me, as a new mom, I know about being in a hurry and not having time to be still. So remember that even in the flowing river of your thoughts and days, you can still feel the Presence of God. As The Science of Mind philosopher Ernest Holmes once said, “The whole of God is present at any time and every point within God.”

The healing, the peace and comfort await your practicing the Presence of God. As you open your inmost chambers of your Soul with prayer, you will be restored, revived, and enlightened every time.

If you are using a stale prayer, form a new one. Stale prayers and stale thinking aren’t any good for you. Get hold of something vitalizing, energizing, and powerful.

You can say:
I AM GOD ORDAINED
GOD SUSTAINED
GOD MAINTAINED
HERE AND NOW . . .
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PRESENCE
I LISTEN! I LET GOD TALK TO ME!


Enjoy your conversation with God. Bless you All.

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