THE DAILY GUIDE

Within each one of us there is a presence, a something more real than anything we can identify with our thinking minds. Until that something becomes a conscious experience we depend on only a fraction of the wisdom that is available to guide us. Once, miraculously, as it did with me, a break through takes place after which we are able to listen to our own profoundly wise inner voice on a daily basis. From then on, we are no longer helpless victims of whatever life throws at us and the limit of our accomplishment becomes infinite.

On New Year’s morning one January first, I was facing what from all appearances promised to be a disastrous New Year and the apparent possibility of my losing all that I had saved and worked for. As I sat in meditation contemplating the likelihood of what the year would bring, my intuition began to speak to me in a different voice than it had before.

On the table beside me, where I keep my Bible and inspirational writings, there happened to be a leather-bound appointment book that had been given to me as a Christmas present, one of those books that has a couple of inches of blank space for each day of the year. As I listened, I was told to pick up my pen and write down what I heard, and that if I would tune into this inner teacher, this inner guide, it would give me a message for each day of the coming year, and, most importantly, that by the end of the year the gap would be closed between my divinity and my humanity and I would find myself able to listen to, live by, and act out of the guidance offered to me by my own divine higher consciousness. Because I was willing to make space for and take time for those daily visits, what had promised to be a disastrous year turned out to be a miracle in every way. Certain failure turned into undeniable success, lack into abundance, anxiety into peace and joy, but, more importantly, by following their instructions, these messages put an end to the religious contradictions that had kept me from fully experiencing my divine humanity.

When I recorded the first message that morning, it was not so much a matter of my thinking my thoughts as my listening to them. They were like any other thoughts except that they seemed to be coming from a different place within me, not from my head but from a deep source at the center of my existential being, a place that has no gender or personality, a divine level of my own consciousness.
Over the years I have identified that source as "the Christ," "God," "It," "my higher mind," the “I AM,” and also in Eastern terms as “Braham,” the “Dow” or the “Buddha mind”. Most often, because I come from the Western tradition, this inner messenger identifies itself to me as “the Christ,” “I AM” or its physical personification as the Rabbi “Jesus” – an example of divinity when it is individualized and expressed at the level of personality.

Whenever anyone anywhere in any religion touches his or her divine presence that person is experiencing Christ consciousness no matter what spiritual path that person has been following or what that experience is called in the vernacular of his or her religious background. In any language it is a presence and power that can only be discerned through a spiritual sensing or a listening that is felt or experienced rather than thought.

I am sharing my year of daily guide experiences with you not only because of the inspiration, healing, and abundance that I received from following the messages I heard, but also mainly because by the end of the year they led me away from an habitual way of thinking that had kept me from closing the gap between my humanity and my divinity so that I could actually experience myself as an individualized presence of God.

Due to the way I had been conditioned to interpret certain key words, I, similar to most people that I know, had unconsciously perpetuated the belief that God was something separate from my own being and presence. The teachers I admired, the books I valued, and the Scriptures I loved had continuously referred to the presence of that Divine something as “God,” “Father,” “Him,” “Lord,” and even “It,” and because those words objectify and localize the Divine as an entity, when ever I read or heard them I couldn’t help but think of God as a something outside of and other than my own being.

By the time my year of receiving these daily messages was over I no longer fell into the trap of unintentionally creating the sense of duality between myself and God that I had before. Today I continue to hear and sometimes use those familiar words, “Father,” “Lord,” “Him,” or “God,” by which we commonly identify Divinity, but now when I hear or use them I automatically and instantly translate them into what they symbolize – My own higher consciousness! Though I am not always able to live out from that divine state of consciousness, I no longer think of those familiar words as something other than the One that I AM.

These daily messages that my inner guide spoke to me are presented to you in the sequence just as I heard them singly, day by day. As they became more profound during the year my consciousness changed and went deeper. Therefore, I suggest that you contemplate each separate message singularly on its particular day and give it time to register in your consciousness for the rest of that day, as I did, rather than your reading a number of them all at once. If during the day you need to stay in the consciousness, repeat that day’s message. In doing so, also be aware that you will be tuning into the power of the collective spiritual energy made up of all those around the world who are simultaneously reading the same message you are on that same day as well – “Where two or more are gathered together in my name.”

These daily prayers also reveal a pattern. They outline the step-by-step evolutionary transition and the necessary repetitions that were needed to bring me personally to this new level of consciousness, a heightened and more continuous God/Self awareness. For this I am eternally grateful.
What happened to me can happen to you, and due to our current leap into greater spiritual awareness, receiving direct daily guidance from your own higher consciousness is possible for you, not just for a fortunate few as in the past. Your guidance may or may not come to you in the same words that mine did for me, but, perhaps, after experiencing my example you, too, can listen to your own unique intuitive inner voice and receive the inspiration and healing that you need each day just as I did that fantastic year, and continue to do.

By listening to the still small voice that comes from your own higher consciousness you can tap into the source of all knowledge, all power and all presence. When you acknowledge, dialogue with, and accept that possibility for yourself, as a divine/human you will be a co-creator with yourself and, literally, be aware that you are the presence of God in action. At least, that is how my listening brought about a profound transition in my own life. If my shoe fits your foot, I am delighted in our sharing together. If my experience does no more than open the possibility for you to go and do likewise, I am overjoyed.

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Thank you so much for the Daily Voice! It is a wonderful way to start my meditations. Just want you to know that I so appreciate your teaching, and have for many, many years. Pam Bigelow

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