By Rev. Angelika Schafer
However to “get” what we think will make us happy we use a conditioned, programmed mind that was taught all the opposites of true love and wholeness: mistrust, suffering, desiring, striving, fear, limitation, fighting with life. A sense of self, a sense of I-dentity developed and we started to give that programmed mind a job it cannot do: to make us fulfilled, happy and complete. I found out (and maybe you have too) that this approach creates an endless and dissatisfying search. You never get “there”. Otherwise, why could people that have all the fame, wealth, success, and everything else they ever desired be so unhappy and even terminate their own lives?
By wearing myself out and by amazing Grace I now experience life from a very different vantage point: RELAXATION, TRUST, and getting out of the way. The mind gave up this struggle to “get” happy. I am already what I was searching for. I find each moment rich with Divine Essence, even the painful ones. I no longer make up stories or meanings about the ups and downs of life. This being, called Angelika allowed the heart to break open, to face the scary things in the inner darkness, and eventually gave up trying to make herself happy.
THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR by Angelika Schafer, Dec 28, 2022 (c) (p) Angelika Schafer
Walk with me through the open door
Something now is calling us home, stronger than ever before
Walk with me through the open door
Now we can walk each other home and follow the music of our soul
Were we ever really lost or was that just a dream
perhaps it’s up to us, what we decide is real
Are we ready to let go of all we think we know
of everything we thought and ways that we were taught
It takes just what it takes for hearts and minds to change
We got a little lost to find our way again
And anyone who wants can now be really free
Opportunity is here, it’s speaking loud and clear
It is time now, it is time to come home right now
it is time now, it is time to BE home right here right here right here