Nancy Bowers, RScP

Loving Awareness

Loving Awareness
by Nancy Bowers, RScP

Nancy Bowers, RScP

“I do not know what anything is for.” Lesson 25, A Course in Miracles (ACIM, W-25)

“It is necessary for the teacher of God to realize, not that he should not judge, but that he cannot. ²In giving up judgment, he is merely giving up what he did not have. ³He gives up an illusion; or better, he has an illusion of giving up. ⁴He has actually merely become more honest.” (ACIM, M-10.2:1-4)

In this moment, I breathe into the awareness of the power and presence of God.  I recognize the truth of this Presence – that it is in every moment and in every form of life.  The truth of that Presence is complete and total Love.  The truth of that Presence is unwavering Support.  It is Goodness.  It is Ease.  It is Kind and It is Giving.

And I know that this Essence, which I call God, is what I am made of.  I am God-stuff, and therefore I am steeped in Love and eternally supported.  I am not a body.  I am not my mind.  I am Loving Awareness; I express as human, true enough, but at my core, I am still only Loving Awareness.  And I know what is true of me, is true of everyone; it is true of you. Do you recognize it? YOU are the Divine Expressing.  Beneath this illusion of form, each of us is Loving Awareness: not a body, not a mind, but Perfect Loving Awareness. We are the Loving Awareness that is experiencing this life.  We are the ones observing.  Are we remembering to enjoy it?  Have we stopped to savor it in all its myriad forms?

And so, I pause.  I allow myself to remember this truth. I stop thinking I know what anything is for.  I stop judging. I sink into Loving Awareness and allow Divine Purpose to rise to the surface and guide me in each and every moment.  I allow that awareness to lift me to a higher perspective where I am not knocked off balance by experience.  As I stop taking things personally, I become compassion.  As I stop identifying so completely with as this personality, as I allow Loving Awareness to rise to the forefront, I notice how peace replaces rancor, how judgment slips away.  I stop thinking I know anything and allow the Holy Spirit to guide me.  I luxuriate in the peace of this allowing.  

I know that you, too, are divinely guided and so I affirm for you that all perception of body-identification fades into the background as you claim for yourself your rightful inheritance.  As a Child of God, I affirm that you remember you are not a body, you are Loving Awareness.  I affirm for you that any tendency to identify as a body in pain falls away easily and effortlessly. Ego may squawk its fears, but you calmly put them aside as you allow the Holy Spirit to guide you back to the truth of your being.  Any unforgiveness that you have been holding onto falls away easily and effortless as you recall, at last, that nothing ever happened.  It was mind.  It was all fear.  It was not YOU, for YOU are Loving Awareness.  You are rooted in the Truth of God, and as you allow this identification to rise to the surface, the beauty of being rushes in to soothe you and whispers that all is well.  I affirm that you let go of trying to figure out what you should be doing and allow the answers to come to you in their own time.  In that allowing, the Knowingness of the Holy Spirit fills your heart.  You are calm.  You are peaceful.  You are sure-footed and filled with the joy of the Divine.  

How grateful I am that we need suffer no longer.  How grateful I am that the Ease of God has wrapped Its arms around us and ushered in Peace.  How good it feels to let go and allow the Holy Spirit to take the reins.  How life-affirming to just let go of figuring out and hand it all over to God.  I am grateful to release the pain.  I am grateful that all unforgiveness has slipped away into the nothingness from which it came.  How good it feels to be so serene! 

I let this prayer go, knowing that as I’ve spoken, it is done.  No more trying, just allowing.  Hallelujah!   And so, it is.  Amen.