THE PRESENCE IS THE GIFT OF CHRISTMAS

Love's/God's presence can be experienced in many ways. What you focus on, you have an experience of. So when you pray or meditate with God in mind you can often experience that Presence within. To me it feels like love feels - warm, welcoming, accepting, flawless, restful, and joyful. There is a sense of knowing that all is well, all is right regardless of what is happening to rock your world. During this state all disharmonic thoughts cannot enter nor influence. This is your personal time with your true Self within, the Christ within. At that moment you are that and not separate from that. You are aware that there is not you and that. You are One as God is One. With practice and belief that this is so, you can do it outside of your prayer or meditation time.

Another way we experience God/Love in the world is through, with, and in each other. God's presence is made manifest through us when we surrender all the stuff that gets in the way of that flow and when we connect consciously with one another.

God has no way of holding you unless it is done through the arms of another. God has no way of giving gifts unless we allow our minds, bodies and souls to be instruments. God rocks the cradles, cooks the meals, sweeps the sidewalk, holds the hand of the sick, creates new bodies/lives, invents new things, enjoys the sunrises and sunsets, and in fact does and experiences all things through, with, and in us. What an awesome responsibility we have.

Each time we block the Presence with our stubbornness, our false sense of self, our very ignorance, we have not fully demonstrated our true nature and so there is just that much less joy, love, peace, and rightness in the world.

You don’t have to be aware of or buy into this idea I am presenting for it to work but awareness and belief and cooperation with the Christ within expedites the process and will expand within you the Self that you truly are. More and more you can get your arms around all that is rather than a selective few things. When you are selective you limit yourself and God in this world. You choose to only embrace what your limited human beliefs will allow or accept. God/Love is so much bigger than that.

So, if you have an inclination to do so, if you are up to the challenge, allow that which you are to expand. Allow that which you are to experience the full potential within you. Allow God’s/Love’s Presence to be demonstrated through, with, and in you. Bring forth as Mary did, the Christ into the world. It can be Christmas every day, every moment if you will but allow it.