INNER LIGHT MInistries Journal
Journey Home
Volume 22 Number 1
April, 2010
by Jim Gordon, President of ILM
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(from Experiencing The Divine Meditative Retreat, 4/19/07)
here does God dwell? God dwells at the Spiritual Eye Center at the seat of the soul. There’s no place for us to go to find God. We don’t have to look to heaven and hope that somehow we are getting God’s attention. We don’t have to try to do and be the right thing so that God will look at us, and say, “Okay, job well done.” All we have to do is realize that we are God. We are Divine. We are God’s creation and God’s children. God created us out of the divine, living, loving Essence that is God. All we have to do is find out how to begin that journey back to the seat of the soul. All we have to do is to begin to wake up in meditation and to know who we truly are – not the mind, not the emotions, not the imagination or body … but soul. Our direction in life, up until now, has been focused downward and out into creation. But now, at this point in time on our journey, God is saying, “Now is the time to come Home.” And just when as we first came into creation, the Holy Spirit came forward and stood with us in that action to support us, to hold us, to assist us on our journey, the Holy Spirit is again with us to assist us on our inner and upward journey back Home. Up until now, the soul didn’t need to be focused on waking up, because our journey was to go into creation and to experience God’s creation, and in that way, understand more fully God and His manifestation. Now that we have fulfilled that which God has given us to do, God wants us to come Home. It is time for each of us to wake up now and to know that we are soul. For many of us, we have felt the ‘longing for Home’ since we were children. There was something inside of us that said, “This isn’t my home. I long for God.” The meditation Path of Sound and Light that we share in ILM is an answer to this inner longing. If we would
put the simple action of focusing inward and upward to where the soul resides in a daily practice of meditation, we would begin to experience, to hear the inner sounds, see the inner light, and know the inner truth in a way that we will never be able to experience with our eyes open and going out into the world. The Path of Sound and Light truly is a dynamic movement of the Holy Spirit. It is the Grace that we all call out for, that we long for and hope is available to us. But many of us have felt unworthy of God’s grace. “I’ve done so many bad things in this lifetime,” we may say. “Just tell me what I have to do to make it right, God.” Well, guess what? There’s nothing we have to do because we’ve done nothing wrong. God loves us just the way we are, right now, because we were perfect at the moment of creation and that perfection has never changed. The Divine in us is perfect. And the Spirit of us, the soul, is perfect and that’s all God knows, that’s all God sees in us. God doesn’t look at our mind or our emotions or our body and identify that with who we are. God knows us as that which God created, and that is our soul. God looks at all of us as one light, as one creation, as one manifestation – as His child. That’s the amazing thing that people discover on this pathway. As they go inside and begin to meditate, and they begin to let go of all those things that stand between them and the Lord that dwells at the spiritual center – all their beliefs, all their emotional trauma, all their imaginations, all their body stuff – that pathway clears up inside, and they begin to come closer and closer to their own Divinity within and realize the loving that they are – it truly is an amazing time of transformation. So, if we can begin to remember that we, as soul, are perfect right now, and that there’s nothing we have to do other than to wake up and know our own soul, know we are a child of God, and know that we are the living, loving essence of the Lord, we will have begun traveling the journey Home.