I woke up with God on my mind.  Conscious of much of Eric Butterworth's recent words in the background and the sense that God is not a force out there to be reached.  God is present everywhere already.  Right here.  Right here.

I sink inside to feel what is here.  In me.  Surrounding me.  Accessible always.  I am open to this incredible space. 

There is a softness.  A fullness.  Tenderness.  There is nothing out there that I am not.

I began to think of a recent invitation to be a delivering Master on one of the next Avatar courses.  I felt open to exploring being there.  Over the last two days, I asked for some clear sign about whether or not I should go.

Yesterday, I had the realisation, that I did not want to go anywhere.  I did not want to travel to Minneapolis.  I did not want to leave my family.  I did not want to leave home.  My new puppy!  I also had the strong feeling that if this was the best step for my Higher Self, then I was willing to go.  If the best thing for me and for those I may encounter, was that I show up, then I wanted to do so.

Throughout the day, I was feeling no, I don't particularly want to go, but I will.

This morning as I woke, it felt like I have been waiting for and wanting an outside force to come along and inspire me.  To give me the juice.

The dawning realisation, that I am that force and that inspiration.  I want to show up and be in service to others.  That's why, in spite of feeling content to stay home, I keep looking for the inspiration to come.  I want to be inspired.  I am the one to provide my inspiration.  From an internal space.  From the clear space of Source, I decide.

There is a feeling of peace, calm and fullness that surrounds me.  Yes, I want to be there in service.  To join in with a loving network of Masters from around the globe.  To inspire others to their awakening.  To fuel my desire to serve the whole.

The next step is to align with my husband.

Inside feels incredibly settled.

From Eric Butterworth's "The Universe is Calling:  Opening to the Divine Through Prayer,"

"You may talk about getting into the presence.  But you can never get out of the presence, for the "presence" is present, all-present, omnipresent.  You may say you are "practicing the presence of God."  But if your thought embraces a belief in separation (God and you), you are actually practicing the "absence of God."  To practice the presence is to practice oneness.  Not God and me, but God, the universal creative process, expressing itself as me.  So you can only know God as you know yourself.  Without self-realization, the contemplation of God is simply an intellectual abstraction.  And any prayer effort that deals only with the abstraction is an intellectual cul-de-sac, a dead-end street to nowhere.  When Jesus says, "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:  6, KJV), he is saying that you can't reach God in shrines or cathedrals "out there" unless you first become aware of God within.  "By me" means through the I AM of your nature."

I close my eyes and go within...

I serve the whole.
I am the wisdom that I seek.
I am one with all of creation.
I am the fullness, the width and depth that I seek.

Today I build time into my day for what I consider priority.  To live fully, flowering continuously in expansion.  To be open-hearted.  Prayer and contemplation.  Going within, dipping into the Divine pool that I AM.

Another jewel that I uncovered today as I am re-reading a beautiful book by Eric Butterworth called "The Universe is Calling:  Opening to the Divine Through Prayer."  This excerpt is on prosperity ( a little lengthy, but well worth the read, in my humble opinion!) Too cool for me not to include in my blog!  From what I learned in twelve-step programmes, take what you like and leave the rest!

"For a prosperity need:  First, we need to get out of the pie-in-the-sky concept of prayer that suggests a Brink's truck rolling up to your door bringing bags of currency and coins.  There is no magic and certainly no miracle involved in the demonstration of abundance in our lives.  Prayer deals in consciousness.  When you have a lack of consciousness, you inhibit the natural flow of the universe in your life.  This consciousness frustrates jobs and salaries and general income, as a beaver's dam effectively blocks the flow of a stream.  And when you have a prosperity consciousness, you are consciously in the flow of the abundance of the universe that rushes and streams and pours into you from all sides.

There is no lack in the universe.  Lack is simply a state of mind that separates us from the divine flow.  Don't let lack become a part of your prayer.  Know the truth of omnipresent supply.  Don't pray for lack, unemployment, or failure, for this serves to emphasize them and treats them as if they were real.  Let your prayer be to establish you in the awareness that you live and move and have your being in a sea of infinite substance, as a fish lives in water.

There is a divine mind counterpart for every human need.  There is an answer for every problem, substance for every financial requirement, and a job for every willing worker.  The economic indicators may not tell you this.  You need to tell it to yourself, for economics is a spiritual process.  As far as your experience in the marketplace is concerned, you make the difference.

Take time, occasionally, to visualize yourself settling comfortably in the universal flow of substance cascading into you and through you.  Then you might want to speak the word of truth:  "I am prospered and successful."  Not to make it true, but to identify with that which is true."

How cool is that! 

Love,

Nicola