Spiritual progression is a continual process of leaving behind the old, familiar patterns and venturing into the new. When you're working with a spiritual teacher, you'll feel that it's like taking a trip with a good friend whom you trust and who knows the road. Then the whole trip can become an adventure because you know where you're going and how to get there. There is no dilemma except as you create it. When you work with the Mystical Traveler, you might ask yourself if you place your dilemma between you and the Mystical Traveler and the love that is present. Once you tune to the Mystical Traveler and his love, all dilemmas disappear and strength is present.

We manifest not by trying to attract the things of the world to us but by giving. When we share our essence, good things come to us automatically. We don't have to manipulate, play games, con people, or lie to them. We can just be our naturally loving self.

Your goodness is reborn with each breath. So just keep it up as best you can. All the rest is taken care of with the finesse that is the grace of God, with a little help from some friends near and dear, and when far, still as close as your next breath.

When you become involved in spiritual teachings coming from the high, positive realms of God-awareness and you open yourself to that transcendent consciousness we call the Mystical Traveler, Spirit often comes forward by means of what orthodox religions call "grace." Jesus said it this way: "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20)

When you practice those things that awaken you to Spirit, you are actively involved in creating that point of convergence between the invisible and the physical - and your awareness of it. Perhaps, you feel the Spirit touch to your physical being; you might feel tingling or a rush of energy. Perhaps you leave your body during spiritual exercises or in a dream and you touch the Spirit in that non-physical state. Either way, you are experiencing that point of convergence. Grace resides there. Participating in the convergence is a way to bring grace into your life.

When you work with the Light, you walk within the most absolute protection that exists. It's so perfect and so absolute that you may not even know you are being guided out of areas potentially disastrous for you. Perhaps you get tied up in traffic or delayed in some other way, and later find out you might have been involved in a tremendous wreck on your route, had you been on time. You've heard stories of people missing a plane for all sorts of strange reasons, and that plane crashes, killing all aboard. The Light in action. When you get delayed or caught up in some unexpected happenstance, you may never be aware when it is the means to protect you from disaster. So don't be too quick to judge your experience. What you see as an irritation may be your greatest protection, the greatest manifestation of Spirit working in your life.

A way to move from expressions of the law to an expression of grace is to throw away your swords of righteousness. That means throwing away your judgments and your sense that you know what is best for other people. It means allowing others (and yourself) to make mistakes in this world and loving them, (and yourself) anyway.

As you explore your inner space more and more, you come to have a clearer understanding of who you are. In that understanding is compassion and acceptance and loving; judgments fade. Harshness is replaced by gentleness. Rule by the sword is replaced by an inner discipline that consistently chooses positive expression. Law is replaced by grace.

When you more consciously participate in the actions that align with your Soul's expression then you will know the grace that is always present in your life, regardless of circumstances that manifest in the world. And the worldly circumstances will change and come to pass. But you will endure.

Bless this day, wherever we go forward and whatever is coming to us, so everything takes place with ease and grace. If there are challenges and difficulties, we know immediately that You are with us and that You comfort us in our pain.