GOING TO GOD SOLELY FOR GOD

In my nightmare, a madman was burying me alive which only happens to be my own worst fear. I still get claustrophobic over the memory of little Kathy Fiscus who, back in the late '40s or early '50s, fell down an abandoned well and suffocated.

In the midst of the nightmare, with my heart pounding in fear, I realized that I could be lifted into God consciousness. I remembered that myself in the material world is my false self...that "necessary suffering is needed to find 'the pearl of great price' that is always hidden inside this lovely but passing shell."

In God consciousness I would know naught but peace even while I died physically through actual suffocation, and that could not touch me...my consciousness would be in another realm.

I awoke...still a little clammy, a tish shaky, but wonderfully relieved. And I knew again, when all we choose to depend on is our own mind-power, we are ever caught in that mind's inability to lift us out of self. To be lifted into God consciousness is not an as-wanted thing. It requires the daily discipline of meditation, giving of self for another, and going to God solely for God...among other things I haven't even heard of yet.

Thank you.