A River of Peace Within

The other day a series of thoughts and emotions collided and I found myself teetering into a state of emotional panic. My fears all assailed me at once! In the avalanche I stepped into a prayer quickly to catch myself. "God please help me!" (It is amazing how unsophisticated, how completely honest, how childlike, how crude our prayers can be when we are desperate, and yet I have found that Spirit finds nothing more earnest or irresistible!)

Soon after I sensed that "still, small voice," so easily drowned out or ignored, breathe a message into me: "Reach down, reach down slowly...Reach your fingers down into that cool, peaceful, gentle water that is always flowing at the center of your being. There you will find your peace. There you will find your truth." So I did, and gradually my consciousness began to calm and finally settle into that place of stillness. In effect, that moment, that choice changed the whole course of my evening.

What a profound message! I embrace it with exhilaration!!! There is a stream, dare I say a river, of cool, peaceful, gentle water flowing at the center of our beings that we can reach into and find peace. In that river, we and God are one. That part of us knows more than what any other part of our being knows. What a comforting liberating message!

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"Humankinds's last frontier is also it's first. It's the kingdom within us. All of our explorations: mountains, seas, space and even the exploration of our bodies are preparation for the time when we will venture within ourselves. The discoveries we make when we explore the last frontier will be the greatest and most far reaching discoveries we have ever made.

Undoubtedly, there will be great explorers to be acknowledged but the truth is that the last frontier is something that each person must explore. In this way, every discovery we make about ourselves and the kingdom within us enhances the human family and contributes to the greater breakthroughs that await us."

-Jim Rosemergy