CHAPTER
TWENTY THREE
THE TREASURE WITHIN
We took a quick trip to California with Cindy and her girls
to help our granddaughter, Hannah in the Miss Fountain Valley Pageant. Hannah was a shining star on stage, modest, feminine
and beautiful! She won a $2000
scholarship as the second runner up even though she is only 17 years old.
Hannah, 2nd runner up to Miss Fountain Valley.
We are amazed by our beautiful granddaughters,
all pageant princesses, and all shining examples of purity, modesty and
femininity. They are happy, loving and delightful
young women! Their energy is bright and
full of light. Unlike my generation they
know who they are; they are the children of light! They are here to lead us to the light and
help us see our true identity.
Kami and Bethany, Miss Lehi Outstanding Teen.
A wise healer said,
“Go within or go without” We are divine within. The divine presence is the treasure within! It
is the perfect love inside and the divine nature. Our true self is the child of God. The fearful self is the imposter and the mask
we wear. Life is a journey of
self-discovery; we spend our life trying to be someone else while our true self
waits patiently for us to come to it. When God reveals to us our true self
there is much more of us to find. When
we awaken the divine presence within we become God’s light bearers, then everyone
is touched by his light that shines through us.
The peace and presence of God
fills our mind, giving us spiritual vision to see everything as he created it. Children
get it right away and live every day with delight, but we adults have forgotten
that we are divine, we are joyful and we are creators!
Our joyful grand children!
What greater prison is there than the darkness of fear and
self doubt. Most of my life I feared I would never be good
enough, but I didn’t need to prove my worth to anyone. Our true self doesn’t need fame, recognition
or approval. Recently I had surgery on
my face to remove cancer. The scar is
much bigger than I thought it would be and one more blow to my disappearing
ego. It’s another reminder that it’s not
the outward appearance that counts but what’s on the inside. Why do I still seek the approval of
others? My search for approval leads to
frustration and disappointment and makes my tremors worse. If I were to reclaim my little child what
would I find? Perhaps I’d find a beautiful,
happy and delightful little girl full of love, like my granddaughters. That little girl is my true self and she is
already perfect.
Mylee, happy and delightful little girl.
We are divine within and we were sent here to find that
divinity. We don’t have to worry about
what people think, and we don’t have to be all things to all people. I can love and accept myself in spite of my looks,
fears and weaknesses. If we are confused
about whether we are lovable, strong and valuable we will never find out by
trying to prove it to our self. Earning
love by acting nice or looking good always ends in failure because we always
come back to self doubt, where we began in the first place. The search for love ends when we look inward and
find our true self. After all the layers
of the onion are peeled off we find that we are love, and we are divine. Life is a beautiful journey when we conquer
our fears and find our true divinity.
It’s there waiting to be uncovered, but often
we are so busy trying to avoid pain and disappointment that we cannot find the
peaceful divine child within or see the love all around us. Within
us there is a sanctuary we can retreat to at any time and be our self. It’s a simple awareness of comfort and love which
cannot be violated by the turmoil, drama or pain around us. It is the mental
space we find in quiet meditation and surrender.
“Fill the chalice of the soul with
the living waters of the Spirit and step into the Light. Before the chalice can be filled, it must
first be emptied of all the littleness of anger and hurt, all the rubbish we
carry around inside us. Many prefer
their limited self which contains very little compared to the great ocean of
the Spirit, which contains everything.
If we are unwilling to give up the little self, we cannot enter the
eternal joy of the Spirit.”
John-Rogers
All of our difficulties, our pains and troubles must be loved
and embraced, for these are the lessons we have chosen to learn. We must surrender our old ways of thinking
and walk on in trust, accepting all that happens to us – even if we don’t
understand it – as a gift from God. “Let
go and let God” take care of everything.
Prayer is the most powerful force for change:
“Please God, help me find the divine
presence within, living in wholeness, joy and love. Bring the radiance of your light into my
heart and mind so I can manifest your will upon the Earth. Wherever my thoughts
have strayed from love, please help me see differently, and please open my
heart to the perfect love inside.”
Life is not a problem to be solved, it’s a journey of
awakening. Albert Einstein said, “The significant problems in our lives cannot
be solved at the same level of understanding we were at when we created
them.” Addictive cravings are actually a craving for
divine love, but love is already within us; we don’t need a substance or
another person in order to feel loved. We know we are living in our true self
when we are more loving and caring toward our self and others. The divine nature brings calmness and peace,
it inspires others to greatness, and it creates health instead of
sickness.
Grandchildren bring love and great joy!
When we visualize the very best of our self and feel the joy
and love flowing within, we are experiencing our divine nature, our real
self! Instead of seeing yourself as a
stressed out human being seeking for a spiritual experience, see your true
self, a spiritual being having a human experience. On some level I know I came to earth to be a
healer, not a medical nurse like my sister, but a nurse to heal wounds of the
soul. As I help others find the path to
healing, I will heal as well. The truth
of one’s real self can be discovered by living each day with love, caring and
kindness to yourself and all that lives. This is true charity, the most
powerful transformation force of all!
“If ye have not charity, ye are
nothing, for charity never faileth,
charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso
is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him….pray unto
the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this
love.” Moroni 7: 46-48
Louise L. Hay said “In order to permanently eliminate a
condition, we must first work to dissolve the mental cause.” Negative emotions such as fear, anger, and
grief must be uncovered and released.
Failing to let go of these emotions can cause self-sabotaging behaviors,
destructive beliefs, phobias and many chronic illnesses, making it much easier
to get into the drug cycle. Our frequency adjusts according to our
thoughts and emotions. Those who worry,
fret, and obsess have low frequencies while those who pray, meditate, give
service and express love have higher frequencies. This is a process of “ascension” and the journey
of discovering and uniting with God. Marianne
Williamson said:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we
are powerful beyond measure. It is our
light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, or
fabulous? Actually who are you not to
be? You are a child of God. Your playing
small does not serve the world. There is
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around
you. We are all meant to shine, as
children do. We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us. It’s
not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same. As we are
liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
It’s safe to be powerful.
When I’m powerful in a loving way, it benefits others as well as
myself! I can learn to nurture without
draining my energy. I came to be a
witness for truth, not a rescuer who takes others burdens on their own back. The rescued often learn to give their
problems away and never change. I can
help others see truth, but it’s up to them whether they want to change. Each
one of us has the responsibility to find our own pathway to God. Some choose to move away from the light and
become sons of darkness, but this is only for a moment in the eternity of God.
These sons of darkness will turn again to the light and fulfill their destiny.
“Everything that lives sings in
harmony with this song of nature’s symphony, except thoughts we think and then
we weave, into theories of truth which we believe. And these stubborn beliefs have made us blind
to the sacred wonders within our minds, for that’s the place where magic
dwells, and the music flows from boundless wells.”
Believe in your self!
Finding the true divine nature within will change your life
in many ways. It opens you to new
possibilities, miraculous interventions, and healings. Changes are inevitable
when you open your mind, heart, and life to the divine spirit. These changes can be wonderful if you allow
yourself to trust the process. This is
a divinely ordered universe. Instead of
worrying about how things will work out, we need to put our time and energy
into holding positive thoughts about what we desire. Through the law of attraction we will draw
those situations and experiences into our lives. “Oh God, make me an instrument
of thy peace until I awaken the divine in me.”
The age of discovery.
Ancient Bones by Valerieann J. Skinner
Found lying deep within the ruins,
the ancient bones---appearing to be dead, the indestructible soul--spirit, the
true Self---waiting to be fleshed out again. Here lie our truths and longings, waiting
for creation. Find the seed within, the
perfect record of who you are. Breathe
into it the breath of life! Discover for
yourself, the Universe, as an ancient tree- growing, waiting to shoot forth new
growth - the creation of your Divine Self, The Creator!
The divine child is within.
If we can undo the source of pain, suffering and dis-ease in
this life, we will rise to the level of joy that we came to experience. “Man is that he might have joy,” but many of
us see life as a struggle. Few people
know what it’s like to live without fear, but beyond fear is joy. When life becomes effortless the source of
suffering is gone. A door in my mind is
opening, “please let pure love, light and truth enter in and fill my soul, my
mind, and my heart, and help me awaken the divine presence within me.” Then I’ll see the richness of my soul and feel
the presence of God in my heart – truly the treasure within!
Sarah, grandchild of light.
