I used to feel a real need for people to understand me.
Well, I didn’t understand myself. I was looking for self-understanding, and I thought I was looking for other people to understand me. That was not a holy encounter.
But when I started looking to understand my brother and my sister, when I started looking to love and respect and honor them, and cherish them, to look at life through their eyes, then I began to have holy encounters.
The Shift from Taking to Giving
A Course in Miracles teaches: “Giving of yourself is the function God gave you. Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you have of God, and by this you will remember also what you are in God.”
I used to be focused on what I could get from encounters—validation, understanding, approval. Now I see that my function is giving of myself. This is how we get to be made in the spiritual image and likeness of our Creator and act that way.
Learning Through My Brothers and Sisters
As a spiritual counselor, I’ve learned so much about people. I’ve had so much personal healing through my experience of being a spiritual counselor. I cannot say enough how grateful I am that I saw this as a pathway for me to learn and grow.
People have taught me about pushing others away—I’ve seen it in so many, and I’ve been that person too. Pushing, pushing, pushing people away with all kinds of behavior because I was afraid.
What I’ve learned is that those who work hardest to convince us they’re not worth anything are offering us the greatest gift.
They’re showing us where we still believe we’re not worth anything.
The Details Don’t Matter
These days, when people ask “What’s going on with you?” I don’t need to talk about the details because they don’t matter. What is going on with me is I am rising up in my awareness. I am feeling lifted up. I am following the inspiration I get.
The details just aren’t that important. They don’t really matter. Sometimes it makes for a good story, and if I can share a story that’s helpful, I’m so happy to do that. But things do change. Now, my opinion isn’t of much interest to me. I’d much rather view the world with neutrality and stay where the Peace is.
See This Glory Everywhere
“You cannot be powerless to do this because this is your power. Glory is God’s gift to you, because that is what God is. See this glory everywhere to remember what you are.
Isn’t that beautiful? See this glory everywhere to remember what you are.
This is how we invite holy relationships. When I see someone I would normally have judged or dismissed, I remember: I have it in my heart to love and embrace my brother and sister, to accept them fully, and to be the mirror to them that they are the Beloved of the Beloved, as am I.
Your Holy Spiritual Practice.
Let me share and shine this glory everywhere to remember what I am, that I AM that I AM. This is my holy spiritual practice—inviting holy encounters and giving the Holy Spirit free passage in my awareness to cleanse my mind of all appearances.
“God gives whatever belongs to God because he gives of himself, and everything belongs to God.”
In Masterful Living, we practice this shift from needing to be understood to being the one who understands. In our Free Forgiveness Workshops, we release the old patterns of seeking validation and step into our true function of giving.
Because when you stop needing others to understand you and start seeing the glory in them, you remember what you are. You remember that you ARE the glory you’ve been seeking all along.
The holy encounter is waiting in our next conversation. Will we show up as the one who needs, or as the one who gives? The choice is ours, and in that choice lies our freedom.
TODAY: Sundays with Spirit – please come and join us! I’m speaking and my dear friend, Tedd Swartz is bringing his inspiring music. Let’s rise up together!
