Sacred Practices

God and Love, Tuesday May 15 at 1 PM Pacific time on AcimGatherRadio.org Broadcast. Go to www.AcimGatherRadio.org and follow the links to Paltalk and the radio. We are looking forward to having you join us for an hour of love and community.

It is not possible to find God or consciousness, the very nature of love is not findable. Love is not findable because it is not hiding. It is not something that is outside of your being.

You can only experience what is in your consciousness. That which is outside of your consciousness has no existence to you. Just as 2+2=4 has no knowledge of 2+2=5. 2+2=5 is outside of the realm of mathematical principle and has no existence in math.

To know that love exist means that it is within your consciousness. Love is the cohesive force within your consciousness. Just as the creator force is within your consciousness. That which has existence cannot be lost. Consciousness does not hide and neither can love. The experience of love is always with you. You are always standing in love. Every act is an act of love. You have to but open your eyes for it to be revealed to you. Consciousness has no existence outside of love. Love is the illumination of consciousness. It is the cohesive force that gives us purpose, and destiny. In love we are immortal.

“Whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.” [1 John 4:16].  God is not outside of your being. You are creating your universe your life and for this to happen you must allow your self to be open to love. NOTHING is outside of your consciousness.

The most common definition of “God” is creator. That is the creator of all life. When we speak of consciousness we are speaking of the creating force within our experiences. Our consciousness is the progenitor, begets all of our experiences. The thoughts, beliefs, and sensory data come together to form our conscious experience. Consciousness and God are the same idea. God is not a force outside an extra entity and neither is consciousness.

© Suzanne Deakins

Intentional Consciousness

Stop Hiding From Love, Tuesday May 8 at 1 PM Pacific Time on AcimGatherRadio.org. Join us for an hour of community and sharing. Go to www.acimgatherradio.org and follow the links. More text on love at www.sacredpractices.com

We all hide. We hide in our roles, fake identity, and ultimately pretend we are authentic because we have a name.  Our ego actions can be boiled down to a simple statement, we are hiding from God/Truth, and consciousness. It is common for humanity to look at its religious works to hide our egos in our actions. When we look into the Bible or other books such as ACIM and try to find passages and text to support our egos we are hiding from our very nature.

For centuries, humanity has used Holy Scriptures trying to validate our ego driven persecution of others. Somehow, we have come to believe that Holy Scriptures and works of God are our personal,  get out of jail card that validates our desire to control and manipulate others.

When we search and read Holy Scriptures of any kind our goal should be to seek enlightenment and guidance in our personal life, not to use it to hide our egos or to validate inhuman acts such as taking away others freedoms

Love absolute love can’t be known if we hide from God/Truth. We can only know what we long for when we allow our self to be authentic, allow our ego to diminish so we understand we are the creation of the creator creating. We are Truth knowing ourselves as Truth.

Just as the concept of God/Truth is always present, available to use every moment of our life so is absolute love. Absolute love satisfies every human longing. It stops greed, wars, and persecution of others. It is, as Peggy Lee, and Elton John say when the sing the Love Song… why we came to be. All the rest is just nonsense. Love is why we are here, why we came to be.

Stop hiding and accept the absolute love that you are.

© Suzanne Deakins

Seeking Love and Forgiveness, Tuesday May 1^st at 1 PM Pacific Time on AcimGatherRadio.org. Go to www.acimgatherradio.org and follow the instructions to Paltalk or the Radio. Please join us for an hour of love and community.

This is forgiveness week. All Authentic Forgiveness is linked to love. Without love, we don’t forgive. What follows below is more on our on going series on love. The new book Authentic Forgiveness is a free ebook download. Simply write to me at suzannedeakins@gmail.com and I will send you a copy. It will be available on our website in the next week. You will be able to order a printed copy from amazon.com

Seeking love is as natural as breathing.  Our first cries are to our mother, our progenitor… arms stretch out saying take me, love and know me. We seek to have this chrysalis, this shell we call body penetrated and known. We seek to be accepted as we are. In this seeking we search for our beloved.  At first we think we need another being to find our beloved. We look for the perfect partner that will know us to the core and accept all of us the good, bad, and what we create. More text on love at www.sacredpractices.com

What we seek is not in another being.  The answers we seek about our aloneness aren’t found in the arms of another human being but rather in our consciousness. Acceptance and love we want begins with awareness of our self.  Our beloved is our I AM …it is the higher consciousness. The blind leap of faith in love is simply taking the plunge over the edge of the chasm of insanity into the arms of the beloved, which is higher consciousness.

Seek first your Beloved and ask your Beloved to come to you. The Beloved is consciousness aware of consciousness. I am I that dwells in each of us, it is our talents, our gifts our destiny.  It is what we seek and know is there, our inner self that pushes us to new heights of accomplishment. You cannot predict what your Beloved will have you do, you cannot predict the hidden talents it will bring forth or the awareness and the paths that it will lead you to, but the Beloved is all encompassing compassionate consciousness that dwells within.  No amount of study, no amount of ritual will bring it forth.  Only when you become consciousness aware of consciousness and leap into the arms of your beloved will you know its face.

Beloved one, you are always on my mind. I touch you and love you and want you near.  I do not fear.  Your presence makes me strong.  For in a state of grace I have found your habitation.   My eyes see you everywhere and my ears hear the sound of your joy.  Your light once blinding reveals the glorious universe, your light brings me into a realm of seeing the beauty you have created. Every word, every deed is filled with your presence.  My soul no longer cries, but rejoices in the union.  I love you.

(c) Suzanne Deakins

Intentional Consciousness

Love, The Ultimate Healer, Tuesday April 24 at 1 PM Pacific time on ACIMgather Broadcast.  Please go to acimgather.org and follow the links to Paltalk or the Radio. We are looking forward to you  joining us for an hour of love and communion.

Love, The Ultimate Healer

All creation is an act of love.  Love is more than an emotion it is a movement in consciousness. As a flow of energy and grace it moves from in to out.  Loves movement is powerful, so powerful it can heal a physical wound, emotional injustice, and bring life into being. That which is created in consciousness, in an act of love is forever and eternal in nature.

For life to thrive it must be loved. As consciousness we are always creating love and standing in love.  It is impossible to be conscious without love. Love is an act of acceptance and giving.  To want to be loved is as natural as breathing.  A simple act of love can change the very chemistry of our body.  A plant that is loved thrives, as do children and all life. The very act of living is an act of love.

Once an act of conscious love is committed it is never undone. It may change form, unfold and become something new, but conscious love can never be over. Once you have loved, no matter whom you have loved or what has been done to your love, love is forever. Our consciousness changes, unfolds we rediscover our true being when we give love and accept love.

There is only one cure for the world and what ails it. And that is love, an unconditional acceptance of all being as consciousness created in an act of love.  The only path to healing of any sort is the path of love. All Life is Love.

(c) Suzanne Deakins

Intentional Consciousness

Love Without Expectation, Tuesday April 17 at 1 PM Pacific time on ACIMgather Broadcast. Please go to www.acimgather.org and follow the links to Paltalk and/or the Radio. Please join us for an hour of love and communion of spirit.

Love Without Expectation.

While absolute love always exists, we are often not aware of it. There are many states of love and consciousness about love. There is a need within us to define, outline, and give reason to all things and ideas. This need leads us to place conditions on our love. The love we often experience is filled with conditions. We love friends because of shared experiences, interests, support, and communication. These become the conditions of the love. When we have conditions on love, it isn’t unconditional.

The test of unconditional love is to see if the love remains once the conditions have been removed. Love is often blocked by expectations on relationships and circumstances. To have intentional consciousness about love we must remove our expectations and allow the love to flow. By allowing love to flow without conditions you free yourself and relationships from limitations from the conditions that keep you from fully experiencing the power, healing, and experience of love.

Absolute love is not just heart-centered love, it is the very core of the universe, the cohesive force we experience as consciousness. As an aspect of consciousness, it takes practice to live in a state of unconditional love. To love without expectations of behavior or relationship is to accept the beingness, the existence of all life.

Love without expectations, unconditional love is not personal. It is an acceptance total, complete, and perfect of all life. It does not come and go, waiver, or grow weak …it just is.

Love, absolute love just is.

© Suzanne Deakins

Intentional Consciousness

For God So Loved The World, Tuesday April 10^th at 1 pm Pacific time on ACIMgather Broadcast. Please join us for an hour love and discovery. Go to www.acimgather.org and follow the links to Paltalk and/or the radio.

The creator source, God, so loved the creation of all life, that he/she endowed this very live with the ability to know, experience and be the very love.

All creation is an act of love. Love is more than an emotion it is a movement in consciousness. As a flow of energy and grace, it moves from in to out.  Loves movement is powerful, so powerful it can heal a physical wound, emotional injustice, and bring life into being. That which is created in consciousness, in an act of love is forever and eternal in nature.

For life to thrive it must be loved. As consciousness, we are always creating love and standing in love.  It is impossible to be conscious without love. Love is an act of acceptance and giving. To want to be loved is as natural as breathing.  A simple act of love can change the very chemistry of our body.  A plant that is loved thrives, as do children and all life. The very act of living is an act of love.

Once an act of conscious love is committed, it is never undone. It may change form, unfold, and become something new, but conscious love can never be over. Once you have loved, no matter whom you have loved or what has been done to your love, love is forever. Our consciousness changes, unfolds we rediscover our true being when we give love and accept love.

There is only one cure for the world and what ails it. And that is love, an absolute acceptance of all being as consciousness created in an act of love. The only path to freedom of any sort is the path of love.

© Suzanne Deakins

The Process of Forgiveness, Tuesday March 27 at 1 PM Pacific time on ACIMgather broadcast. Go to www.acimgather.org and follow the links to Paltalk and the radio. Please join us for an hour of community and absolute love. You will find us a welcoming and loving group.

Collecting Bad Debts

Forgiving is a sacred act.  We go through life reacting, feeling, thinking and being in our 7 year-old minds.  We collect wounds, hurts, and emotional scaring because we have not learned to think and react as consciousness. We believe that we are a physical being whose identity and well being can be damaged by the actions and in-actions of another. Through the years we acquire collections of hurts and bad debts. Like most collections we value these hurts holding on to them giving them value and worth.

 It seems almost impossible to let them go and forgive the trespasser upon our life. The pain is deep. The transgression has become a part of our identifying story. We tell our stories over and over recanting the hurts and betrayals in our lives. Living in a state of pain we separate ourselves from Truth/God.  And the deepest of spiritual pain appears in our lives, sometimes in small doses, many times overwhelming us.

Caught in the pain we refuse to let go and forgive. We battle our memories holding on the strands of pain that run our life. When the pain becomes intolerable we reach for understanding. Like a small light in the night our consciousness peaks through and lets us know there is a different way.

Forgiveness is a necessary element in accepting ourselves as a spiritual being. Only by letting go, giving up our old ways of thinking and seeing our life as consciousness can we forgive, or give for, giving up the darkness of pain for, light/Truth/God. As long as we hold on to those whom we feel owe us, or hold on to our collection of bad debts we continue to hit our heads against the same wall over and over repeating acts of insanity.

Truth/God resides in our life as all there is. That which is whole, complete and perfect knows nothing of our transgressions or those we feel have transgressed against us. God/Truth has no reason to forgive. This non act of forgiveness is because like all spiritual law Truth/God knows nothing, recognizes nothing other than the light and state of God/Truth, spiritual law and principle. That which is so, does not recognize that which has no existence in reality. It is our misperception our lack of acceptance of our self as Truth as a son or a manifestation of the God energy that keeps us in the state of pain and darkness. Truth/God dwells in the house of perfection and wholeness… It knows and experiences nothing else.

Take a deep breath…inhaling consciousness of being. Feel the collection of bad debts in your consciousness… Exhale allowing the collection of bad debts flow from you. The truth of you has never been hurt. The God of you is whole, complete, and perfect. You are a spiritual being experiencing life as a human.

(c) Suzanne Deakins

Please join us Tuesday March 20th at 1 PM Pacific Time for Destiny and Truth.  You can find us by going to www.acimgather.org/instructions.htm this will lead you to the Paltalk room and the radio broadcast. You will find our group open and welcoming to all that come.

Fortitude, determination, tenacity, diligence, and persistence are words that apply to those who achieve a relationship with Truth/God.  On our quest we learn that there is always a solution to the puzzle to the problem before us. And we know by being tenacious and persistent we will solve the problem.

Persistence goes beyond just solving problems. We need to be persistent and diligent about focusing in on our purpose and meaning in life. The destiny we have chosen is not assigned nor is it random. It is formed out of our experiences and choices we make consciously and unconsciously.  Our sojourn on this planet is about the relationships we build within our consciousness. The relationship to Truth/God is of prime importance. Our purpose of being is to understand this relationship and yet our focus and how we achieve this is infinite in its manifestation.

The totality of Truth/God is eternal without beginning or end and infinite in its expression.  To think that there is only one path through this world is folly. The infinite manifestation of life is abundant with “the right way.”  Each of us according to our individuations walks the path we choose through our actions, beliefs, and focus. God/Truth is not limited to one destination for it is all destinations… Truth/God is not limited to one path for all paths lead to the same destination…a return to the house (consciousness) of the Father. For in Truth the Father and I are one. We are of the Creator source… we are of the same creation.

Giving an idea one try is not enough. It often it takes many tries before we begin to understand the destiny we desire. The repeated focus and your tenaciousness will pay off. Any performer knows that through practice something extraordinary can happen… and so it is with us all. As we practice our meditations and Translations we set the stage for an extraordinary experience. None of us hold an ordinary purpose or destiny in life. None of us are born knowing all there is to know… We are an extraordinary example of absolute love.

Like the story of the tortoise and the hare the persistence of the tortoise won him the race. Your persistence will bring you to the doorway of a most astonishing experience. You will be led to the threshold of an eternal state of absolute love in the relationship with God/Truth.

Embrace your destiny and purpose, be persistent, and stay tenacious.  Find delight with each new piece of your puzzle you find and encounter. Every moment of every day is the only moment in time and your persistent focusing in that moment will bring you closer to fulfilling the destiny you have chosen. If you feel you lack tenaciousness or persistence… assume the attribute… mimic someone who has the attribute.  Your future is yours to take… make this the day you begin the journey. All you need, will be presented to you along the path you choose. Stay alert to opportunity, stay aware of movement around you… and have fortitude for what you seek lies on the path you walk.

Truth is that which is so… that which is not so has no existence and thus Truth is all there is… in its allness it is total. Everyday, everything thing is Truth/God besides which there is none other. Call it God, Father or any other name you choose there is nothing outside of this… And this is the destiny, the path we all walk… embracing the joyous experience of being accepted as absolute love. We are love manifesting.

© 2012 Suzanne Deakins

Please join us Tuesday March 13^th  at 1 PM Pacific Time for Compassionate  , You can find us by going to www.acimgather.org/instructions.htm this will lead you to the Paltalk room and the radio broadcast. You will find our group open and welcoming to all that come.

Truth, as I speak of, isn’t relative, but axiomatic in nature. When we say Truth/God is all there is, we are saying that it is all (all life and everything that appears to us) an expression of God/Truth unfolding or existing in infinite variety. Every aspect of the creator exist in life, the very core of our being is made in this image.

Truth/God is never ending, in common vernacular, without beginning or end. Like a math problem its existence can never be destroyed. This understanding of Truth/God in life has led to a denial of sorts. All life is an expression of spiritual law. In our ego thoughts we separate that which we see or experience from Truth/God. We deny the spiritual law that is present and deposit everything into a common pot. Our ego doesn’t take the time to see the simple yet integral patterns that play out in our consciousness. We deny the cycle of life and death. Somehow we think if we pray enough, meditate, and use Translation we will escape the spiritual law of cycles. We deny our mortality, afraid of an unknown experience. This very denial of our own mortality and its relationship to Truth/God and consciousness keeps us isolated and separated from the nature of reality, Truth/God.

This denial pervades our society. The denial and lack of  understanding of spiritual law produces a kind of callous, non feeling aspect of our egos.  We stand without emotion looking at the personal disasters of others without real compassion. Many say painful hurtful things to others tagging their tirades with “You are responsible for your own feelings.” And of course this is true to a point. We watch as governments deny basic survival to those who are in pain and have little ability to gain the necessities important for life. We watch as our nations are stripped of their future health and well being by groups of individuals who have little compassion or understanding of spiritual law.

Without an understanding of spiritual law and cycles our egos continue to rape and plunder the very nature of being. To be of one creator means just that. We are one in the nature of our being with all life. To step back and say oh death and birth are not Truth… there is NO death indicates a misunderstanding of the spiritual law. Our body is as much God/Truth as is our consciousness. This doesn’t say that the totality of our being is stuck with a body. Nor does this say that our true identity is a physical body. Our essence of being is of the Creator our progenitor Truth/God. And because this is all there is, we are in that sense everything and NO thing at the same time. Death no matter what we think it is or isn’t, it is a painful experience of separation for those left behind. It shatters the identity of the individual and the relatedness to the one who has passed. It is compassionate to stand by the one in grief and hold the space of absolute love and Truth.

It is my experience that the more we accept our humanity as an opportunity to understand Truth/God the spiritual law…the closer we come to releasing ourselves from the egos beliefs and misunderstanding of our connections.  The essence of all creation is absolute love. In this state of absolute love is the verb acceptance. Our acceptance of all life being a manifestation of God/Truth takes an understanding of absolute love as the common denominator in all we perceive and experience.

Compassion is a component of absolute love. The ability to emphasize and sympathize with another in whatever state of consciousness they reside is the very cornerstone of how a loving community is built. All philosophy and humanism is based on the concepts of being able to relate to the other. Our humanity is based on our ability to be compassionate and care for others. Our humanity (our personhood) is lost if we cannot find compassion and caring in our words, actions and interactions of all aspects of life.

Truth/God and our understanding of spiritual law have little meaning without passion and vigor. Our passion, compassion is a necessary component if we are to have an epiphany experience. Compassion gives rise to turning absolute love from a noun to an active verb.  When we are compassionate and caring in our humanity we activate a natural sense of ethics, which guide us in our interactions. We no longer need revenge or greed or lack the ability to understand another’s state of consciousness and pain or joy. When we understand the connection between compassion and Truth/God, the words we use can be loving and caring and yet speak Truth.

To be compassionate you don’t have to buy into another’s story or lack of perception. Understanding that someone is in pain… emotional or physical, is an important aspect of humanity and building a loving community. Truth and compassion are not separate ideas opposing each other. There is a little we can do to stop emotional pain in another… we can reach out and stand in unity giving our strength and insight. We can think through our words and not lash out in our own confusion and pain, reacting from the survival dynamic. Compassion speaks of Truth from a place of self actualization.

© 2012 Suzanne Deakins

When God Whispers