Learn to Hear the Small Voice

Sadeqa Johnson

             
I must admit to being incredibly happy these days.  I'm sure it has a lot to do with the weather finally changing over affording us with mounds of sunlight, and fragranced wild life blossoming at every turn.  The energy from both meditation classes has been incredible for the last two weeks, and it’s an honor to lead such a wonderful group.  Right now I'm replenishing my soul by listening to a Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson and I feel her message changing and effecting me in a profound way.   She explains that, "five minutes spent with the Holy Spirit guarantees that He will be in charge of our thoughts formed throughout the day.  When we meditate we receive information at a deeper level than we do during normal waken consciousness."  Meditation is time spent with God in silence and quiet listening.  It's the time where the Holy Spirit has a chance to enter our mind and perform divine alchemy.  Mediation not only changes what we think, but it changes how we think it.  The glass is no longer half empty, it is always half full.

This morning I was driving my children to school.  I forgot my Ez Pass so I decided to maneuver the streets instead of the highway.  I hit a detour and it took nearly ten minutes to get off of one city street.  Usually I am very uptight when it comes to time and being late throws me into a tizzy but this morning instead of focusing on being late; I focused on having extra time to assure my little people went to school in a jubilant state.  We joked about me putting the car in turbo and busting through traffic with my pretend sirens.  I made each kid a superhero and told them we were on an adventure.  The experience had us laughing harder than I could have imagined.  Even though we arrived ten minutes late for school (please don't tell Honey), we were so full of joy that it didn't matter.  The glass was half full.  The Present is the only time there is.  Marianne says, "Little children are brilliant, if we could be as little children then the world would finally grow up."

I know that you may think that there isn't enough time to meditate, but the truth of the matter is the more you meditate the more time you have.  "Meditation is a profound relaxation where the vain imagination of the ego is burned away.  We all have within us a direct radio line to the voice of God.  The problem is the radio is full of static.  In our quiet times that we spend with God the static melts away.  We learn to hear the small still voice for God," says Marianne.  The more you mediate the closer you are to the person who God has intended you to be.  You might not want to hear what's said (remember I did not want to publish my own book but wanted a big name brand house to pluck me out of the sea of writers and tell me that I was good enough, that I had arrived), but I realized through my daily mediation and listening that I'm good enough now.  I'm a writer now, I'm already important because I am made in His image.  My life path is much brighter than I can imagine, and so is yours.  Trust in yourself.   Sing out and don't worry about singing well.

Mother's Day is on Sunday, and whether you are a mother, a sister, a daughter, a Girl Scout troop leader, piano teacher, wife, friend, celebrate Sunday as a new beginning for yourself.  Start your meditation practice by sitting quietly for five minutes.  Let this be the moment that you start putting yourself first.  You deserve it Beautiful!

While you are at it put A Return to Love on your summer reading, and I hope that it will touch you the way it is me.

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Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!

The Light inside of you wants to get out, let it!