The Presents of Christmas Presence        By Sandy Jones

When things get confusing or cause you to worry or fear and put you in a state of turmoil there is 'place' you can go that always provides the perfect remedy, the best answers, the sweetest salves. It's sort of a magical place, a holy place. It's hidden in plain view. It is The Meadow.

The Meadow is a place of Healing Light. The Light Here cannot be touched or harmed or darkened. Here nothing is ever lost. Like heaven, our dearest loved ones and dreams of happiness are all here. Its very Reality is what makes it Holy Ground. Its very Fact of Being is Its Healing Power.

Awareness-Consciousness-Knowing-Mind leads to the Meadow.

The Meadow is a holy place because It belongs to God and only to God. And yet this Cosmic Meadow of Light and Peace, where all things lost are found again… this place is forever yours. It exists before time and will exist after time ends… Yet It is available, Always: It is Here Now.

In these rough and tumble days of the world scenario, many long for the peace and security The Meadow brings

Sometimes it is enough to know that It is silently present, quietly unobtrusively here.
Sometimes if we shift our view just a little, we can 'tap into' Its Light of Peace.

It's a bit like taking your awareness off the words here and looking through them and seeing the page behind them.

We shift our sights slightly away from the images within Awareness and look up and out to God's Infinite all-encompassing Awareness which is being all the images.

Awareness is our True Identity and It leads straight way to The Meadow. The Meadow is within you, but it is also here like a photon-Everywhere at once. Since 'we are the world we walk through' then The Meadow discovered within you will be seen-felt-sensed as an added new dimension right here in the tangible world.

William Samuel said that the quantum physicists are very soon going to discover an actual new dimension. He says that at first they won't have any idea what it is, but they will come to see that it something akin to "heaven." The best name for this 'new dimension' is The Meadow. William Samuel says that science is about to stumble upon it and I believe him. I have found that Mr. Samuel has been right about everything else he has shared with us. I have no doubt about this one either.

I recently heard that the quantum scientists who study the 'String Theory' are proposing that there are 11 dimensions (imagine that!) and they are on a mission to prove it.

All this just makes me more conscious of the depth of God's Beingness and just how very Infinite the Infinite possibilities really are. It all tells me that we live and breathe this Mystical, Magical Universe made of Light and Wonder. The Truth of 'who we are' is quite beyond anything we can even imagine.

A little shift in perceptions will lift you up from the 'scene' at hand to the Peace of God's Unseen Light that is permeating all things.

"I will lift up my eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth." Ps. 121:1.

We lift our 'inner eyes' from the passing, ever-changing images going on in our 'little world' and take note that our Real Identity is Unbound, Limitless, Infinite Awareness. You are this Awareness and Its infinite possibilities. You are the Knowing, you are the Light that lights this page, you are the Consciouness that reads these words. You are the knowing that looks around the room, hears the tea kettle whistling and Christmas music playing in the other room. There is Only One and This One is The All Encompassing Love that is Being all that is.

Sometimes a little change of heart makes all the difference in the world.

Healing or Peace (and they are same) comes to us as we readjust our sights to notice this most remarkable and mysterious Ever Present Silent Awareness that is never absent from the scene.

Healing sometimes comes in ways we may not have anticipated nor hoped for but they are perfect in their own way and just right for what we need.

It's a matter of Trust that there truley is Only God Being All That Is and Love for the Fact that God is All in all. And a matter of letting go our own personal version of 'healing.' This is why William tells us to find The Child. The Child knows the Real Healing.

Awareness and The Meadow is Living Presence and This is The Holy Ground wherein all things exist... where we look again, and realize 'everything really is all right.'

This Awareness-I-Am is God's and God's alone. If you see or feel 'otherness' don't worry-it is God's 'otherness.' It can't be other than That.

This Meadow is like a third place between Heaven and Earth. Here we understand the reasons for the 'seeming' and we love our world greatly because of this New Light being shed on the 'old view.'

We do not need to know nor to have studied anything about metaphysics, or the Absolute, or non-duality or Advaita or to have any particular religion in order to find The Child (the Genuine Self of Us) or to live in The Meadow (the more heavenly world view).

It is enough to know that Life Itself is the Immortal; Life Itself is The Infinite Grace and Wonder. And it is enough to know This is the very Self of Who We Are.

When you acknowledge that all is God's Perfect Presence (even when things do not seem to reflect this fact), the very Trusting in This will bring the healing peace, serenity, confidence and wisdom you need in this world.

Yes, I know my words are not 'Absolute' nor do they sound very intellectual. I know they are full of 'dualism,' but it is from my Heart that I say what I need to say. I am humbled in Love and I am given Grace, so it is easy to use the words of The Child I Am. I know what "doeth the Good work" here.

Real understanding is all much more a matter of the Heart-the Child Heart which is the True Nature of us. The Child is the Spirit of us that lives before time and goes on after time passes away. The Child is Already in The Meadow. It is your Authentic Selfhood.

The Child Heart allows me to say this in simple words: all things, places, loved ones, children, pets, all that is cherished by you, everything that is Good and Right and Wonderful (that ever was or will be yours) is Still Here Within This Light of Awareness-You-Are. And furthermore, these are just as tangible and real as ever they are or were. They are Here!

And although 'we' are not the form or the thoughts or the images that parade and dance, flicker, and seemingly come and go upon/within God's Awareness-I-Am, we do not and cannot lose any one of them. Perhaps we won't see this 'wonder of Truth' occur today or even in this life time, but I know it is true… The Child knows this is so.

You will find the Peace, the Meadow, the Living One and it will happen in time, precept upon precept, here a little there a little. And the understanding will be yours and it will be very personal and real for you; you will know and know you know. This genuine knowing, the deep understanding, the true experience of It will be yours and all yours, genuinely yours. As William Samuel said, "Hasn't this always been the case? Even the student who is learning the multiplication tables only seems to be going outside to books and teachers, but when the tables are learned it is an inside job, a very personal and intimate action within. You know when this happens! The heart knows and says, 'Now I understand.'"

Trust your intuition, Trust your Heart. Trust yourself. Live by Faith and Love. You will find The Child Within holding the hand of God. This Child of The Meadow Knows Everything is All Right. Trust It.

A Very Merry Christmas to all, with Love Light, Sandy

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