Wednesday, July 4, 2012

In meditation we unite with God.


“Most people don’t realize they can drop anything at all out of their life, addiction, sickness, depression, fear, anything at all.”
“If a sufficient number of people become truly miracle-minded quickly, the shortening process can be almost immeasurable. But it is essential that these individuals free themselves from fear sooner than would ordinarily be the case, because they MUST emerge from basic conflict if they are to bring peace to the minds of others.” -A Course in Miracles

Goldsmith
Joel Goldsmith envisioned groups of people all around the world who would dedicate themselves to specific periods of the day for the realization of the Christ in connection with world problems. There was a strong urge within him to introduce this idea on a wider scale to more persons, and on several different occasions he felt that he was ready to begin this work.
Joel was an unrelenting adversary of the Roosevelt administration. When the bill to increase the size of the Supreme Court came before Congress, which in the eyes of its opponents meant “packing” the Court, his response was immediate action. Only this time it was a different kind of action. The night before the bill was to come up for a vote, the Voice that was always there to impart Itself to him told him not to go to bed but to stay up and pray.
Throughout the hours of the night he meditated, read, meditated and read, not praying for the defeat of the bill, spending hours waiting for something to come through, and at four o’clock in the morning the answer came that the work had been done and he could go to bed. The following morning, newspapers came out with the headline that if the bill passed if would mean the end of freedom in the United States. The bill did not pass, and years later the editor of a chain of newspapers told he had been awakened at four o’clock on that particular morning by a voice in his ear, saying that the bill must be stopped. He sent out word to all his newspapers to enlist public opinion against the bill, with the result that the nation was so aroused that the bill was defeated.
This is the secret of meditation. In meditation we unite with God, and in uniting with God, we find ourselves united with all mankind receptive and responsive to the spiritual urge.
The truly helpful are God’s miracle-workers, whom I direct until we are all united in the joy of the kingdom. I will direct you to wherever you can be truly helpful, and to whoever can follow my guidance through you. - ACIM


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