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Who’s peace?

“There is no such thing as peace on earth and goodwill to man by any human means ever discovered because peace on earth and goodwill to man has been the aim of the human race since long before 2000 BC.
The Christ peace doesn’t mean overcoming your enemies except for the enemies that are within yourself…
The enemy is always of your own household, and that means within your own being. And your enemy is always a belief in two powers, a belief in two presences, a belief in two lives, a belief in duality, ignorance—ignorance, that’s our enemy.”
~Joel Goldsmith, The Government of Eden

So, take a moment to just let all this sink in. Take a breath. Do whatever you must to just allow these words to settle into your consciousness, our consciousness, my consciousness, God’s consciousness.

From that consciousness of oneness, know there is nothing that appears in this world that needs to be overcome. There is no thing that needs to be done or undone, only that we go within and recognize there is that in you, in me, in every living soul, which is held in perfection and held in grace.

And know, that everyone and everything is unfolding as this Godself in their own time, their own place, at their own speed and on their own path.

Further recognize that the only peace we have is within our own self individually. When the peace in every individual Godhead is realized, so shall world peace be recognized. Until I get that, I find myself in and at the effect of appearances.

So, as I return to center and reunify with Spirit and being in this world, but not of it, I know that I as one individualized expression of God, of the Divine, am at peace. Right here and right now.

I am grateful in this knowing and accepting of all paths, and I release this unto the innocence within me, and I am at peace.

Thank you Spirit, Thank you, thank you!

And so it is.

from Love, In Peace,  rev jim starke

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You Can Heal Your Life

As the title suggests, Spirit Education through Rev. Dr. Michelle (RevJerseyGirl) Wadleigh, is offering a newly designed course based on the book of the same name by Louise Hay. 

You Can Heal Your Life is a wonder-filled study of consciousness and its relationship to our health. If you would like to know more about the course or sign up and learn how to heal yourself of ongoing issues, go to https://spirit-edu.com/healyourlife/ where you can get more information and sign up!

The class begins March 7, 2022.

We offer scholarships for those in need and discounts for those outside the USA based on currency exchange rates.

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Dancing with the Shadow

0921-DWTS-sm-memeOn September 11th, Rev. Michelle Wadleigh and Spirit Education are again offering “Dancing with the Shadow,” a 5-hour workshop with 4-90-min. follow-ups in which we delve into our shadow nature and work with those things we may be struggling with and need to release in order to create a new and uplifting path for ourselves. If you know anyone who might benefit from a deep dive in a loving and safe environment, please let them know of this offering. Thank you.
Join us. www.spirit-edu.com/dwts/

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No Mud, No Lotus

600X-no-mud-MemeIf you’re looking to attract greater abundance in your life and you have unresolved issues from your past, this course can help you to recognize these past mistakes and move beyond them, making that abundance more readily available and permanent in your life.
Join us at www.spirit-edu.com/no-mud-no-lotus/

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A monthly prayer for August 2021

I haven’t previously shared my prayers beyond the CSL minister’s group. I don’t know why. I am part of a group that shares a prayer on a specific day monthly throughout the year, and I’ve done so for many years. Take it in, if it works for you. –rev jim

 

The mind which was in Christ Jesus is your mind and my mind, and when we have broken through this human exterior of mind and, through meditation, have contacted the Source, we are then one with the spiritual mind of the universe, which is the mind of the Buddha, of Jesus, of Lao-tse, and the mind of every spiritual saint and seer.
~Joel Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity

Everything, that ever has been, is, or has the potential to come forth in future times, exists in the ethers right now. While we see time as linear, that is only the human experience. All the great minds have tapped into that every=flowing knowledge which is within each of us waiting to be tapped just as a maple tree is tapped to bring forth maple syrup.

And, as I move into the space of Love, God’s space, I know that Love flows through us into our experience as we, as I am willing to allow that love to touch me and to become my experience.

I open the door to my heart to beat, to feel, to break wide open that Spirit may allow me to experience the ecstasy of Its presence moving in, through, and as me.

I loose from within me any feelings that may come up that would keep me from allowing the wellspring of Spirit to burst forth and render what has been me to dissolve into the nothingness and bring forth a rebirth a feeling that God, in me, as me and through me, truly is me.

In this place, I am peace. I am love. I am compassion. I am the diverse nature of the universe. I am free. And, I am grateful.

With all this, I am at peace in knowing that All Power Resides in God, and I rest in this thought, knowing it is true.

And so it is. Amen.

Somewhere in consciousness there lies a land undiscovered, a land not yet revealed by religion, philosophy, or science. I know that it exists for it continually pushes itself into my awareness. I know that when it discloses itself, it will change the nature of mankind: wars will be no more, and the lamb will lie down with the lion.
~Joel Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity

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The light always shines…

light-shinesAs I sit here, having just completed God knows how many Sunday Meditations as Spirit Education, I continue to be immersed in Rev’s Christies Snow and Jack Fowler’s album, Melt into Nothingness. It seems to keep time to my heart and ground me to earth and spirit at the same time. It is in these melodic sounds of the Native American flute that I lose myself in the Divine. How could it be otherwise?

So, join me now, as we move deeper into the full expression of Spirit as the light seems to have left us in the East and moved ever westward as it encircles this big, blue marble suspended so divinely in the heavens.

Move within and connect your heartstrings to the murmurs of the Divine in the music. Allow, just allow the Spirit of the Christ Consciousness to be the lightness with which you are carried through the dark of night, and know that the light never dwindles or wanes, it only moves slowly, imperceptibly through the heavens, and peeks its head around the globe, even in the darkness by its pure and unrelenting, loving relationship with the moon, sharing that even in the darkest moments there is hope. Just as Jesus said, “I AM the light of the world,” so are we, each of us, a light unto the world.

As I begin to embrace this and dive into the depth of this statement, I know that I Am a blessing to the world. We are a blessing to the world. You are a blessing to the world.

Thank you Spirit for feeling I AM THAT I AM, and by the grace of God I am fulfilled and complete always.

Amen. And so it is.

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Self-Love

Know that you are the most important person in your life. Love yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Treat yourself better than you would your best friend. because that’s who you are. Love yourself passionately. Give to yourself first of all good things.

Then, whatever you’ve given yourself of Love, work earnestly to give that
same self to others.

Know the Peace you are and that’s what others will see in you, and as you.
Know that beauty which lies within always. You have an aura of grace about you.

Allow that to show through always. It is in your voice and your eyes that your love comes through. I know that this is the truth for you.

~ revjim

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from the heart . . . from you

Prayer is the one thing that can make a change in your life. If you will go direct to God in simple, affirmative prayer, you can heal your body, bring peace and harmony into your life, and make well-being a reality.Paint splatter heart
– Emmet Fox, Around the Year, January 10

O God, give me light in my heart and light in my tongue
and light in my hearing and light in my seeing and light
in my feelings and light in every part of my body and light
before me and light behind me. Give me, I beg you,
light on my right hand and light on my left hand and light
above me and light beneath me. O Lord, make light grow
within me and give me light and illuminate me.
-The Prophet Muhammad, from Light the Flame- 365 days of Prayer Andrew Harvey- January 11

“It is not so important how we pray, but from where we pray. Thank you can be enough. I Love You, says it all, and in the silence is the recognition of the infinitude of divine source.”1

From wherever we are -I am- in this moment, I say Thank you! I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of God, except in nature, which is always forgiving, always moving forward, in spite of my errors or successes. Nature is the perfect, unfolding instrument, nay, example of the divine, Mankind, its social experiment.

So, I turn within, and with outstretched hands, I surrender to the will of the divine with faith that Its presence in each of us, the divine within, percolates to the surface as a loving expression of that divinity, offering up new possibility, new direction, and greater transparency in all our institutions and leaders everywhere.

I sit in the silence with only my breath and the beat of my heart and am grateful first and foremost for just that. From that place of gratitude, I know this same breath and beat is repeated 7 billion times a second, maintaining humanity as each of us tries to figure it all out.

I complete my prayer knowing love, compassion, joy and equanimity flows through each emanation of God in Its own time.

In gratitude for this knowing, I move into the flow of life, allowing God to do Its work, and know that it is so.

And so it is.

 

1 Jim Starke

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Our Liberty and Freedom are Found Within

“No powers external to us can operate in our consciousness or upon our lives except by our ignorance of spiritual truth, spiritual identity, and the fact that freedom isn’t a physical thing; it’s a spiritual entity.”
”Freedom is not a condition of mind or body. Freedom is a condition of the Soul. If we do not find our freedom in Soul, we will find only limitation and bondage in our experience.”
~ Joel Goldsmith, The Government of Eden

 

In our humanity, eyes open wide, we see ourselves as separate, individual, trying our best to move through our day, trying to make sense of all that is going on around us.

But as we turn within, as we move into our Godness, everything begins to come together as One. One thought, Love. One body, I AM. One mind, God. As we allow ourselves to journey into the soul of us, into the soul of life, we begin to vanish and all that is not God falls away.

Pure Love at the Center of Soul takes us, has Its way with us, envelops us. It is in this Love that the chaos outside us cannot enter. This calm, this Love fills us, each of us with the Word of God, IAM. In I AM there is no other, only One, all life known and unknown, all things join together as One, God.

In this place is our essence, our being, our compassion and our passion, consumed in Love, held in Love, always.

I allow It to consume me, to absorb me consciously into Itself. I give up my life to God. I sit in nothingness, helpless, Loving It.

In this moment I am reborn, whole, complete and perfect, recognizing there is no separation, and there never was. I am free now, filled anew and liberated. As I return to my body and this plane, I know I am governed only by my inner thoughts. As I sit in this Love I am made anew, filled in the Word, and freed of the worry, the fear and knowing God is my constant companion and my Beloved.

Saying I Am grateful seems shallow. I am freed. I am Loved. Thank you, God. Thank you.

And so it is in my world. . . and can be in yours.

Thank you, Joel!

 

~revjim

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No Mud, No Lotus for All Coming in June

If you haven’t heard already, Rev. Michelle’s amazing course No Mud, No Lotus: A Journey into Forgiveness, is starting again and has been redesigned for everyone.

It is no longer just for practitioners and ministers, but is now for everyone who desires to be liberated from their old S-T-O-R-E-Y so they can begin a new life freed from that pain in the past. So, don’t hesitate to click the link and learn more and join us!

Again, even if you’re new to New Thought, or just a seeker of truth, this course can make a huge difference in your life.

Click on the image or go to: https://spirit-edu.com/nmnlforall/

~rev jim