We have come to the final chapter of Joel Goldsmith’s book, Practicing the Presence where the teachings are summarized in a few but powerful realizations. God, the kingdom of heaven, is within each one of us. It is up to each individual to seek and discover this truth. God has never separated Itself from us. We have always been living in the garden of Eden but by believing in a separate power apart and separate from Love, have we experienced anguish and all the woes of the world.
What does it take to live in the garden and kingdom? We must turn within. The Master told us time and again it is our responsibility: “Ye shall know the truth…Ye shall love the Lord thy God…Ye shall love thy neighbor as thyself…Ye shall pray for the enemy…Ye shall forgive seventy times seven…Ye shall bring the tithes into the storehouse.”
Through inner contemplation and recognition, the Father and I become one, a demonstrable relationship, visible in its fruits. As we purposefully unite with the Love beating our hearts and breathing our breath, we become the servant to Its calling and simply love all, without reserve, without judgment. We are to get our “bloated nothingness out of the way of the divine circuits” and allow Love to flow and be expressed out from us.
Goldsmith tells us: “There is one universal Father within us, and united with Him, we are united with every spiritual child of God throughout the world. We no longer hate; we no longer fear. We need not punish; we need not seek vengeance; we need only withdraw into ourselves and contemplate our oneness with God and with one another.”
Say with me: “The Christ within me will never leave or forsake me as long as I realize and recognize It and live the life It tells me to live. I am blessed and am a blessing to the world. And it is so.”
— Rev. Gay Beauregard, Alpine Church of Spiritual Living
