“Can any hide himself in secret places that I
shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.” (Jeremiah 23:24; (New King James Bible Version (NKJV). “Your ears shall hear
a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand Or
whenever you turn to the left.” says the Lord.” (Isaiah 30:21; (NKJV). "Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are
there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning. And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there Your hand shall
lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me. If
I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,” Even the
night shall be light about me; Indeed, the darkness
shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the
day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You.” (Psalm 139:7-12; (NKJV). News
channels around the world often report stories of someone’s disappearance. Sadly, these lost ones may have decided to
run away from their family or friends, or they may have been kidnapped, against
their will. Some may have been babies,
some older children, or even the elderly.
It really doesn’t matter. What
matters is finding them as quickly as possible, in order to know that they are
safe and sound. Friends
and neighbors often work with families, for several years, to find these
missing loved ones. But, as material individuals,
we don’t have the infinite sight it takes to know where, in the vastness
of our world, to find them quickly. But,
I discovered one way that does work, quite dramatically, (at least it did in one
instance that I experienced). Many
years ago, a friend of my mother called me to see if I could help find her
missing son. He had been missing for
several months. At the time, I was
engaged in part-time spiritual healing work, (Christian Science) and, even
though she didn’t understand what kind of ‘healing’ I was engaged in, it came
to her thought to contact me. So, I told
her that I did prayer healing of a metaphysical nature, and I would certainly
pray about the situation immediately, if she wanted. I’m sure she was just trying whatever she
could to find her son (who had a wife and children) because the whole family
was fearful of what may have happened to their dad and husband. Now,
without going too far into the depth of things, I immediately went into
meditation. I shut off the telephone,
TV, and locked my doors. I knew I needed
to shut out the distractions of the outside world, in order to mentally
perceive the spiritual truth of all things, rather than the material, or
physical sense of things. So,
I claimed the presence of the Christ Consciousness (the universal, innate
consciousness that is within every one of us).
I knew that the Christ Consciousness is the term used in describing the spiritual
consciousness that Christ Jesus was trying to show humanity. It is our real,
innate spiritual consciousness of all things in God’s creation. I
did not beg God to do anything. I knew
that the infinite Spirit we call God is everywhere present in Its own creation,
and didn’t need my help in maintaining eternal harmony. I remembered that although people can seem
lost to our human perception, the
perception of the divine Mind is never separated from a single child, or
off-spring, in Its divine creation. As I
dwelled on this thought, a warm feeling of relief began to wash over me. I suddenly realized, as never before, that
God already knew exactly where the woman’s son was. So, I mentally asked that infinite Mind, God,
(to whom we’re all connected) to please let those of us still in this finite,
material sense of things know where the woman’s son was. Within
just about five minutes, these words came to my thought: “He’s where the action is”. And then I suddenly knew what this meant! He liked to gamble, I’d been told, and if he
went away of his own accord, he might possibly be somewhere gambling. Yet,
where? And then I ‘saw’ him (in my
mind’s eye) moving north, up the coast of California, going possibly to Oregon
or Washington State. Still,
I didn’t get the ‘gambling’ thing. So, I
asked the Christ Consciousness within to show me the way, more
precisely, to find him, or bring him back home to his family. I felt more peaceful, then, and waited. Soon,
I felt that I should call the woman to tell her that her son was moving up the
north coast of California, but I thought he’d come home, soon. But before I could tell her, she said
that she had just had a call from a clergyman in the northwest telling her that
her son had showed up at their mission and wanted to come home, now. The clergyman also said that her son was in a
slightly confused state of mind. So,
in a couple of days he was put on a plane and came home. But here’s the incredible thing: he had been
doing the gambling circuit from Los Vegas, to Tahoe, and one other gambling
location ‘where the action is’.
Now,
I had no intelligence of my own to find him; but the Christ Consciousness is
the God-Mind that we all share. And once
I realized that no one could be lost to God’s infinite Sight, then all I
had to do was trust that truth. It isn’t blind truth that I’m talking
about. There is a reason to trust the
infinite Mind of the Almighty. The
reason is that God isn’t blind to anything, or anyone, in creation. We are.
With
our limited physical senses, we can see or hear only a short distance
from our eyes and ears. In our finite
material forms, we just don’t have the scope of spiritual perception, so
people and things can seem out of our perception range. Yet, when we reconnect with the God-Mind,
(where St. Paul said we all ‘live, and move, and have our being,’ (See Acts 17:28; NKJV) we have
endless sight and endless hearing from within our own, true being. So,
whenever we seem to have ‘lost’ the presence of someone, it helps to realize
that God, the Creator, has never lost sight of anything, or anyone, throughout
eternity. We exist in that spiritual
realm of God, despite the appearances of materiality, ‘out there’ in the outer
universe of finite form. And when called
upon, the Creator will never allow his materially lost children to experience
harm. But that’s a whole, other article. |
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