TO BRING PEACE, BE AT PEACE

As I walked Ruckus this morning, I had a blinding flash of the obvious: If it is true as it is said, that as we lie dying, every second of our life flashes before our eyes, then life really is a picture show.

I had that BFO and toyed with it in thought for the rest of my walk:  What if that is true, that this life is just a picture show? Then we all are just acting out the part we personally chose to play, and once one frame passes, it is gone with no more force or effect than we choose to give it by recalling it to mind (ruefully or pridefully, neither of which has aught to do with God's reality). This would prove Now as all we have. Life in this very instant...infinity on the point of a pin. Now.

However, since we are born into this material world, we must needs learn to live here and now in this world. The trick is learning to live by spiritual principles. We start by learning to be at peace as we play our part, as we pass on through. And if we are to know peace...if we are to bring peace, the pearl beyond price...we come to understand that peace comes not from out there inward, but from within us outward. 

Peace comes not from our head, the hidey hole of our ego, but from our heart, the mansion of our Father/Mother/Spirit.

I guess that means we learn to be in this world but not of it.

Thank you.