Abide in Me

Abide in Me

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it will be done for you.

Abide in Me, God Spark. Don’t run away from the present moment.

I dwell there, always.

I am

I am never more than a conscious breath away

I am in the tempest

I am in the tranquility

I am in the anguish

I am in the rapture

I am in the dreadful

I am in the superb

I am in all things

I dwell there with you. Never do I leave. Never do I hide. I am transparent, open, honest, inviting, and straightforward. I am not a puzzle to solve. I am not a mystery to unravel. I simply am.

If you want to find me, just be

If you want to know me, just be

There is no place you can go that you will not find me.

Forget all your worries. Throw them aside, knowing and trusting you are safe.

You are completely safe.

Trust the right here, right now completely. Trust Life. Trust the present moment.

Embrace everything that shows up.

Embrace all of it.

Own it. Claim it. Use it.

If you think it is bad, find the good.

If you think it is good, find the bad.

Learn that it all just is. And what is, is perfect just the way it is.

When you discover this, the magic of the universe reveals itself to you.

Then you walk in your true personal power.

Action Non-Action

Action Non-Action

Is it possible to balance action and non-action?

And when do we come to a place where we are so in tune with life that it becomes a dance? A beautiful, perfectly timed dance.

It has been brought to my attention that perhaps the best way to learn something is to first just sit with it. This is the ultimate non-action. It is allowing the object or concept to be. Sitting with what is, in that moment. Not asking it to fulfill you. Not asking it to perform. Just getting to know that thing you would like to do, by allowing it first to be.

And so in the spirit of non-action…

I sit with my ideas, my dreams, and my desires.

Allowing them space.

Not asking questions. Just allowing them to be.

Not forcing them to fulfill me but being fulfilled in the moment they are nothing more than thoughts in my head.

Not urging them to sustain me but being sustained in the moment they are nothing more than tiny seeds beginning to sprout.

Not compelling them to complete me but being complete in the moment they grow to maturity.

Not coercing them to define me but being an accurate interpretation of myself in the moment fruit springs forth.

In this way, I tend my garden.

Knowing I am fulfilled, sustained, complete and perfect in each passing moment. Finding God in all those things that surround me in each present moment.

Realizing, I am home… with God

Here

Now

Trust

Trust

Hey, God Spark

Did you know that I dwell always in the present moment?

If you are looking for me I am always and ever right in front of you. I surround you. I enfold you. I animate you.

You don’t need to do anything more than be present, accept fully and completely what is right before you, and lean into me. I am right here. I am here now. I am.

Trust in Life with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

Words, Words, Words

Words, Words, Words

Word created the entire world of form.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:1-5

In an effort to avoid redundancy, pronouns are used in language to replace common and proper nouns. That same scripture without pronouns would read…

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word was with God in the beginning. Through Word all things were made; without Word nothing was made that has been made. In Word was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. (Your light, God Spark!) The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

I say again: Words – which originate first as thought – create the entire of reality.

Through Word all things were made; without Word nothing was made that has been made.

Word set all the boundaries, wrote the rules, leveled the playing field. Yes, you and all other God Sparks (that’s all of mankind) operate on a completely level playing field. You tell yourself life isn’t fair (words); that is your creation.

Life is completely fair. You are a little creator just like every other human being. You create on a continual basis, and the rules and boundaries are the same for everyone. Every person reaps exactly what they sow.

Whatever you plant, yields fruit – you, and only you, eat the fruit of your life.

Redemption

By its own power, Word then sacrificed itself in order to redeem the ENTIRE world of form. Walking through every possible human experience, circling the entire spectrum of opposites, redeeming every high and low place, Word made flesh came and shouldered the load of every conceivable outcome that the world you currently live in – the world of form – has to offer.

Word even overcame death. And not death as you understand it – the passing on of form -but the ultimate death, that being separation from God. The very death we talked about before the timeline started. The same separation you felt the moment you ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil… The separation you felt the moment you ate the fruit of the world of form.

Removing my Grace completely, I turned my back on Word. This is a death you will never know, this is a death you will never experience. By this, Word established redemption. Redemption for ALL things. By this you are granted eternal life. You are currently experiencing eternal life. You made it!

Word did this in order for you, God Spark to participate in the experience. To experience the joy and complete bliss of Unconditional Love. All for you. And you think you are unloved, unimportant and unworthy. Why? Can you now begin to at least glimpse the magnitude of the experience of Unconditional Love? Can you glimpse the magnitude of what it means to be able to experience us? Forever?

This is the way, walk in it.

Word then transferred its power over to you, giving you the power to wield words and through that, create. Blameless and perfect, you journey through this world. When will you walk boldly in the redemption that has already been laid out for you?

You have been given dominion over the garden of your life and you have been given the free will to tend it as you so choose. You being here now, all that’s happening to you right now, are a result of your thoughts. Thoughts that you give power by speaking words.

Unconsciously, you echo the words spoken over you your entire life. You were taught language, you were taught words, and you were taught to assign meaning to those words.

All thoughts have been inserted into your psyche by words spoken over you. Your parents, extended family, teachers, friends, and even strangers continually offer you words.

There are no words outside of what has already been spoken by the Creator. You merely echo what has already been made. That is the boundary of the world of form. Inside of that, you are free to explore and create.

All has been redeemed.

There is no judgment, God Spark.

My Forever

My Forever

Hey God Spark…

My forever!

I am so glad you have found this truth here and now in the world of Form. From my perspective, you are simply dreaming in the Garden of Paradise. I can see you now as you read these words in your dream.

Peacefully, you lie there.

There are times you struggle in your dream and you cry out. Always in those times I run to you. I whisper loving words in your soul and hold you tightly.

Other times I just watch, full of love and longing. But I know you will wake up, eventually… and I prefer to let you dream for as long as you like.

Each time you wake up, you look around and remember. Wonder and excitement flood your entire being.

“It was a dream!” You exclaim as you realize we are back together, you having never left. “I did it!” Each time you purpose in your soul to experience something different and you get it right every time.

I love when you wake up and say, “I dreamt of you. I was you and you were me. At first I didn’t know but then I figured it out! The obstacles I had to overcome – it was almost impossible. It seemed impossible. But I did it! And I could move mountains, and command empires. I walked in power and glory. I tended my dream like a master gardener and the fruit! It poured out around me just like it does here in Paradise.”

Then you say. “Again. Let’s do it again! There is something else I want to try.”

We spend some time setting all the rules and boundaries. Setting up all the obstacles and challenges you will face. “Can we redeem this?” You ask. But you know the answer, it is always yes.

We put all the clues in place, so you can find them at just the right time, in just the right place. And off you go diving back into the world of form to explore and create.

My favorite part of the dream of form is when you figure it out. At first there is so much fear and doubt for you. To even entertain these thoughts feels unbearably shameful and completely blasphemous. This was by design. You vehemently deny your inner truth. There is no way you could possibly be divine. There is no way you could possibly be safe. There is no way that judgment is not real, but self created. There is Just. No. Way.

“I wonder… Could it be?” you ask. Then you begin your desperate search for me. The funny part is that I always hide in plain sight. Under every rock. In every tree. There I am hiding behind the mask of each person you meet. There I am surrounding you always. Animating everything you hear, touch, feel, smell, and taste. Animating all things.

We are never, ever apart.

The joy the experience of Love brings you in your eternal play is indescribable.

Did you know we take turns?

Sometimes I dive in and you stay back and watch. After all, I am you and you are me. We are one and the same.

Forever

Tending the Garden of NOW

Tending the Garden of NOW

Hey, God Spark! My most valuable treasure, you are.

  • You, made in the image of the Creator, are a little creator.
  • You, being fully aware, are here as a valiant explorer not a lost victim, because you wanted to experience Us – Unconditional Love.
  • You are here with a super power. That super power being your mind and it’s ability to create. You’ve always had it, always used it, you just haven’t been commanding it.
  • You have never left the safe Garden of Paradise that you were born into; you just jumped into the convincing dream of form… because you wanted to.
  • And now, hopefully, you are coming to realize that in the world of form there is no external judgment, and that you are completely safe.

There is only really you and Me. You really and truly feel separation but only because you jumped into the world of form knowing full well the ramifications of the leap. This was part of Our plan – yours and mine.
Did you know that at any moment you want, you can step out of the dream and wake up to the All Encompassing Truth?

You can and IN that moment of your choosing you will wake up at home in paradise with Me and you will realize you never left. You will be fully comforted and completely safe. Right Here, Right Now.

But you aren’t ready to wake up from the dream yet. You want to be here. You choose to be here.

You want to discover the Truth inside the dream of form, because that’s when the dream gets really fun!

Your garden is your life. It is yours and yours completely. It is your plot of ground that you have claimed for eternity. It is your piece of the Divine. Your garden is you, God Spark.

Your life is yours to tend. You get to choose the seeds you want to sow. You have complete dominion over your part of the dream. This is where I allowed you free will.

The seeds you plant in your garden are thought seeds. They spring up in your mind, and because you dwell in form when one thought seed is born, along with it is born its twin. It’s opposite. It’s balance.

You choose which thought seed you want to plant and which one you want to discard. So let’s say you have a thought “I want my life to be full of joy, living each moment to the fullest. Unencumbered by petty distractions, keeping my eyes fully on the prize. Understanding fully that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. It is here.” In that same instant this thought’s balance twin is born. “I’m not happy at all, life is so busy and hectic. I can’t even focus on what is in front of me because I am so distracted by all the overwhelming obstacles that life continues to throw across my path. I feel like my life is a living Hell.”

Depending on which thought you choose to feed, you will immediately begin to see signs that confirm whichever thought you choose, because that is the other super power of your brain. It will always set itself out to prove it is right. And do you know what? It always is… because the mind is the creator.

Are you tending your garden?

Which thoughts seeds do you choose to plant?

Which thoughts seeds do you continually feed and water by allowing your mind to dwell on them?

A good indicator for you is to look around you. What type of fruit is your life yielding to you right now? If you are reaping plentiful fruit, if you are full of joy and vibrant life, if you are teeming with happiness, then you can rest knowing that you are doing a great job of tending your garden. Even if, up to this point, you haven’t even consciously been doing so.

If, however, you find yourself in sticky situation after sticky situation, never confident that things are working out for you, wallowing in self-doubt and pity, upset with God because He just doesn’t seem to be doing His part, then I think it’s safe to say that perhaps you have not been choosing and nourishing good thought seeds. You are choosing to tend the thought seeds that do not serve you. But that’s ok. No worries! You didn’t show up to be perfect. You came to grow and experience. You came here forget, then remember, then blossom into the fullest most perfect expression of yourself.

You are here now. You are and always have been on the right path. You are and always have been divinely guided every step of the way. You are unlocking secrets and uncovering knowledge that will lead you back to the place you never left – your Eternal Heavenly Paradise, Home.

Who Told You?

Who Told You?

There is no time. Time is not real… it is simply part of the illusion. There is only an eternal right here, right now. Ever changing, yet always the same.

We planted the seed of separation knowing that eating its fruit would begin the timeline.

Out of the seed a magnificent tree grew and matured. It bore fruit and you finally decided to eat it. By the way, it was never “if you eat of the fruit…” it was “when you eat…”

In the instant you ate the fruit, I felt the separation as well. I was with, around and in you the entire time but you were cut off from Me. Eager for you to find Me, for there is nothing outside of Us, I called out “Where are you?”

You hid.

The hiding was an external expression of what had happened inwardly. Your mind had already compartmentalized the world around you. Some parts horrified you. You judged yourself quickly and thoroughly; you were no longer an authentic version of yourself. You couldn’t be. You could no longer genuinely express yourself nor could you allow yourself to just be… as you always were.

And so, you hid.

You desperately wanted to be what you now thought was good, and that thought created its opposite- the bad. Because in form there can not be one without the other.

The bad you denied.

Then, you hid even from you.

As you continued to cast judgment, you lied to yourself and quickly shifted the blame to something (the serpent) or someone (your counterpart) that you now considered outside of yourself.

Before separation there was no judgment, only unconditional Love, which allows everything to be as it is. This new experience was unbearable.

You hid, but My persistent calling out to you caused you to finally answer.

You said…

When I heard the sound of your voice I hid because I was naked.

God Spark, you were as you always were. Nothing had really changed… except you. My Love remains the same. Before the timeline began, you were transparent- physically, spiritually & mentally. Now you could no longer handle the transparency. You could no longer handle the all encompassing Truth.

So I asked you, and not to accuse but to get you to look inward.

Who told you?”

I wasn’t looking for an answer. It was my first invitation for you to remember why you ate the fruit. Who told you that you were naked? You did.

So God Spark, I ask you again now. Who told you that you are naked? Who told you that you are not good enough? Who told you that you are lacking? Who told you that you are lost? Who told you that you are powerless, mortal, and incomplete? Who told you that you are not worthy?

You told yourself. You continually tell yourself. You let your mind run wild with its never ending judgments. You judge yourself.

I never judge you.

There is no judgment outside of yourself. Judge not, lest you be judged is not a harsh command. It is a loving reminder. It means that when you judge, you judge only yourself. “For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

There is no judgment outside of yourself.

The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden

Welcome to the Garden of Eden.

By the way, you never left; you were never kicked out.

You’ve always been here.

When you ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you ate the fruit of form. You ate the fruit that opened up your mind to the possibility of opposites which, by default, creates separation.

The world of form is defined by opposites. Or comparisons. There is only high because there is low. There is only beauty because there is ugly. There is only weak because there is strong. Is it not so?

Otherwise, everything would just be… and there would be nothing more to it.

Eating the fruit opened up your mind to the idea of separation, which allows you take part in Life. Comparison, the very thing that is necessary in order to experience form, is the origin of separation. It’s a defining line. This is me, and everything out there is something else. Otherwise, as it always has been and always will be, there is really only You or really only Me. And both of Us are one and the same.

The why… the reason you planted the seed and ate the fruit, as I mentioned earlier, was so that you could create a vehicle through which the possibility of experiencing unconditional Love – your true essence – was made manifest.

Now God Spark, I told you before, it is one thing to be love, which you are – always have been, always will be.

It is another thing entirely to experience it.

And eating the fruit of form did feel like a very real death. We talked about this before you ate the fruit, and not so that you wouldn’t eat it. You designed this… you planted the seed of separation so that you could eat its fruit.

We talked about the seeming separation, or death, that you would experience when you ate the fruit. We talked while we planted the seed together, so that you could figure it out, eventually.

Your ‘death’ was so intense for you. It was very painful. In an instant you felt completely betrayed by the Divine, by Love, by God, but you also felt you had brought it all on yourself, which you did.

Willingly. Knowingly. Intentionally.

Being the valiant explorer that you are, you courageously dove into the dream. Knowing you would be divinely guided through the entire experience. In your initial confusion you planted a thought seed in your mind, a skewed interpretation, in which you made yourself a guilty victim instead of a valiant explorer. You became deaf, dumb, blind and lost.

You felt deeply the separation, the lack, and the incompleteness. You created Hell.

The persistent illusion of form immediately began sowing its seeds of doubt, deceit, and deception. All the fruit needed to keep the dream convincingly real.

Eating the fruit began a timeline for you, causing your recounting of Creation to be completely distorted… There was no creation. You always were. There was only the beginning of the experience of form for you. This is why deep down you feel like everything around you will last forever, even though you see and experience that nothing lasts forever. Your senses convince you that forms come and go.

Most times your mind doubts your mortality; you have become so reliant on the physical senses. But at other times, when you are still and quiet, you tap into the present moment. You tap into Eternal Life. You tap into Unconditional Love and you remember on a deep subconscious level that you remain the same.

You are forever.

In the beginning… you never left the Garden of Eden. When you died to the Truth of Life and woke up in the dream of form, you felt like you had been banned from paradise because when you ate the fruit, your entire perception about reality completely changed.

Nothing really changed – only your idea about it, only your thoughts, changed.

You still live in eternal paradise. You still have your super power – your ability to create. You are still an eternal God Spark.

Those things will never change.

Small Beginnings

Small Beginnings

Your super power is your mind and its ability to create.

Until now, you’ve been letting your mind run on autopilot, not paying attention to your thoughts. And because you don’t pay attention to your thoughts, you haven’t been able to connect the dots.

Have you ever been present enough to notice your thoughts? How do you label everything around you? How do you interpret your relationships? What to you think about your job? How are your thoughts about money?

Odds are, you can come up with a million complaints about everything.

Your marriage is rocky. You can’t seem to find Mr. or Mrs. Right. Your job is a frustrating grind that you are forced to go to just to pay the bills. The bills! Don’t even get me started. There is never enough money to pay the bills.

If you haven’t sat still long enough to listen to your thoughts, there is no way you have noticed the correlation between what you think and what you experience.

Take a moment to listen to your thoughts about areas in your life you wish you could change. Write down a few of those thoughts.

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You cannot be something you are not; likewise, you cannot stop being what you, at your core, instinctively are.

You CAN deny it.

You can deny your power, but it still works. You can deny your divinity, but it is still your animating essence. And by the way, your divinity is not insecure. It does not need you to believe in it in order for it to exist. Nor does your divinity cease to animate you just because you deny it.

You can also deny that your thoughts create your reality, but they still do. Like it or not.

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You came here to experienceyour true essence… Love. You first had to forget what was real and buy into the idea of form. The dream feels real – it’s not. You know this now, but how do you change the dream?

You change the dream the very instant you decide to change your mind about it.

Now, I’m not saying the outside circumstances will change immediately, but it has to start in the mind first. Just like the moment you plant a seed in a garden. The fruit is there already, waiting for the right amount of light, the right amount of water and the right amount of time for growth. Then the fruit will manifest. If you have never planted a garden, give it a try. It happens every time, with very little effort on your part.

But… if you never plant the seed, you can never expect the fruit.

If you don’t like your life, change your thoughts!

A thought is a seed in the dream. Your mind is planting seeds on a continual basis. The lag time and lack of awareness is what fools you into thinking there is no correlation between your inner thoughts and your outer world. By letting your mind run on autopilot you are continually planting the same seeds over and over and reaping the same fruit from those seeds.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Does your life feel insane and out of control? Try a different approach. If you don’t like the fruit in your life, try planting different seeds.

Change your thoughts now. Change your thoughts first. Change your thoughts in this present moment, knowing that once you do – Life will come along and take over. Life begins, in that very moment you plant a thought seed, to rearrange everything in your world to accommodate your new thought seed. It brings the rain (pain), the sun (healing) and all the nutrition (continual feeding of the thought) the seed needs to manifest fruit.

It almost sounds to good to be true. But very often, simple truths are the hardest to implement. It just seems too easy. So easy, that our mind makes up a thousand different excuses why that easy approach could never, ever possibly work.

Well, God Spark, I’m here to tell you simply – it does work.

Does it take effort? Absolutely. Discipline? Definitely. A willingness to participate and be present in the moment? Yes.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. ~Lao Tzu

You still have to take a step and another and another but the journey to real and unconditional Love is attainable. And isn’t that what Heaven is? The place where God dwells? The place where unconditional Love dwells?

Jesus said it well when he said the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand… it is in front of you. It is right here, right now. It is available in this very instant.

Do not despise small beginnings. Zechariah 4:10

Everything- Every. Single. Thing. That is in this world today began as a thought. How can a beginning get smaller than that?

Love yourself today by taking one small baby step in the direction of Love by planting a good, positive thought seed.

The Experience

The Experience

What does it means to create your reality?

You have to start somewhere, even though, technically, you are already an expert at it.

Here is a truth. You are creating your reality every second of every day. You have been doing this since the beginning. You came here, God Spark, having already agreed to experience one thing – that one thing is love.

True love.

Now, it is one thing to be love, which you are – always have been, always will be.

It is another thing entirely to experience it.

Before you decided to step into the realm of experience, you handpicked the path you wanted to travel that would ultimately lead you to the truest experience of Love.

You did all that with full awareness, knowing you would be safe the entire time… knowing it was all a dream and that the world of form, though very convincing, isn’t real at all.

You knew there would be times you would really and truly feel broken, betrayed, hurt, unsafe, and angry. You knew there would be times you would feel completely alone, frustrated and lost. You knew you would feel these things but you could see it wasn’t real; it was only a dream masterfully designed to be utterly convincing.

You also knew you would feel complete rapture, joy, safety, peace, loyalty, bravery, and success. You knew you would experience conditional love, which would always leave you feeling deprived and starving. But that was your favorite part because the conditional love you would experience would also keep you desperately searching for the real thing.

You could see all that before you jumped in.

But the cherry that topped the sundae, and this was your most exciting idea, was when you decided to forget it all. Forget your divinity, forget your true nature, forget all your super powers only to discover them somewhere along your path and then use them to discover the experience of what it means to be you

To be… Love.

You did keep your super power though; you just forgot how to use it. And that’s not entirely true either. You’ve been using it, like I said earlier, the entire time you’ve been here.

You just forgot how to command it.