Who Are You?

How do you identify yourself --- as a human being, child of God? Or do you identify yourself as an American, lawyer, homemaker, Republican/Democrat, etc? Many say both the former and the latter, but with the latter we need to examine the roles we serve and the groups we identify with. What needs to be examined is how closely you become this role or identify with this group. Because when you are an American or a Democrat, you are also not something else --- you are not a Mexican or a Republican. Unity does not exclude. God is All. so when we identify ourselves as a child of God or a human being, we are reinforcing unity. We are living in the highest perspective. Now, you are always going to be from a certain country or fill a certain role, but these can simply be designations, not something that you believe in to separate yourself from others. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Should Be

Do you realize that a great deal of your internal conflict and angst comes from expectations that aren't being met. You live in a "should be" paradigm. I should be in a relationship. I should be more spiritual. I should have accumulated more abundance by now. I should have done something better to help the world. All of these "should be's" can only lead to self judgment as you don't meet your own expectations. Comparison and judgment are not part of God because they do not exist in Oneness. Drop your "should be's" and your comparisons and your self judgment will fall away. When self judgment falls away, only God remains. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Are You Your Beliefs?

What has more power? You or your beliefs? Think about the difference. Are you your beliefs or something else? Can anything that changes, like your beliefs, be of God, who is Changeless? If you are not your beliefs, who are you? Why do you hold so strongly to your beliefs --- do you fear something if you let them go? Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Where Does Direction Come From?

The body itself is neutral. It is only used as a means of communication. What the body is directed to do is a demonstration of who is giving directions, your ego or your Self. You can be God's hands, feet, and mouth, and this can create great blessings for yourself, others, and the world, or you can use the same vehicle to create a greater illusion of separation, hatred, victimhood, etc. You make the choice. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

What Is Your Balance?

Where do you fall on the line between feeling sorry for yourself and being grateful? For we all fall somewhere on this line, and this determines our life experiences. There will always be things for which we can feel sorry for ourselves, and it is normal to fall into this space at times, but we cannot stay there. Looking at yourself and the world through a prism of victimhood will bring you more of the same as your thoughts create your reality. There will always be something you can find that you are grateful for, even if it is "minor." Being grateful brings more blessings into your life, which creates more gratitude, more blessings, etc. It is a matter of where you put your focus and how strong your Will is which determines how you look at yourself and the world. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Timing

God's timing is always perfect. You may not like the timing, but it is likely you do not know what is best for you. God always has your highest good. If something has not happened yet, there is a very good reason that you are not seeing. Maybe you or others are not ready for it. If you try to eat fruit before it is ripe, it will make you sick. If you don't have all of the pieces that fit in around you, you can't create the puzzle. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

What Is Right?

Your path back to God is "right" for you. The next person's path is different but "right" for them. We can't be on the wrong path, and everyone is on a path. Does this broaden your definition of "right"? Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Are You Really Split?

You are not split, but you see yourself in that way.You can only transform something you don't like, something you judge yourself for, like a thought or a feeling, by fully accepting that it is a part of you NOW. That does not mean it will be a part in the next moment, but you cannot transform anything by pushing it off, trying to run from it, or pretending it is not there. How do you accept it? While you have these thoughts or feelings that you don't like, feel His Presence. When we do that, we acknowledge our unity and wholeness. When you try to push something off, which is impossible, you are believing that you are not whole. Anytime you self judge, you believe that you are not whole and that you are separate from God. Bringing God in transforms that which you don't like, because it helps you see from unity instead of self judgment and separation. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Who Are The Real Heroes?

Those who forgive are the real heroes of the world. It is easy to stay in anger, but it takes courage to forgive those who have hurt you or worse. What about those who have forgiven the murderer of their child. They talk about a lifting of a dark veil, a place that comes over them that is not of this world. This is G.I.A. --- God in action. Why would you not forgive someone --- the only reason is the belief that somehow this continues to punish that person. But at what cost --- your peace and joy. If Jesus was able to forgive those who crucified him, surely you can forgive. Be a warrior, not a victim, for when you forgive, you take your power back instead of being a victim of your circumstances. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

What Is Changeless?

Only Truth is changeless. Anything that changes --- your beliefs, your perceptions, your experiences --- is transitory and false. How are opinionated are you? How judgmental are you? Your views or perceptions have no "absolute" meaning because they are about something that is false --- this world. It doesn't mean you don't use discernment if making decisions about people or the way you are supposed to go in a certain situation, but you do it with the higher perspective that this world is transitory. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Do You Get What You Deserve?

You don't get what you deserve because God is not a punishing God. What you get is what you create based on your beliefs. If you believe He is a punishing God who will withhold abundance, that is what you will get. If you believe He is Love and that the Kingdom is available to you, this is what you will get. In order to believe the latter, you only need to believe that you are worthy and without sin. There is nothing you need to do except drop the beliefs you hold about yourself that are false and not of God. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse"

Getting Out Of Hell

When you begin to give up all the ego games and strategies and defenses, all of the ways you try to control situations or people, you look back and see how you have imprisoned yourself and cut off your peace and joy. You lived in hell, but you don't know it is that until you have stepped out of it, at least temporarily, and looked back. For His peace and joy can only come from being free, and you are only free when you have released that which is false and which blocks your recognition of your Oneness with Him. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Like Little Children

You come to know God through the heart, not the mind. Judgment comes from the mind. If you are judging others, you can't know God. That is not to say that you have to be totally non judgmental before you know God. It is a process, but you do know what your ultimate goal is. This is why Jesus said you have to become like little children to enter Heaven. Children live from the heart and are non judgmental because they have come from God recently. It is only when they are indoctrinated in the views of their parents and the world that they begin to lose this. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

No Difference

You can have the same experience of God as Jesus. In fact, that is why he led the way. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Get Out Of The Cycle

Continual negative thought brings negative experiences to you as well as negative health. If you then allow these negative experiences and your negative health to create a belief in you that the world is negative or bad or out to get you, and you see yourself as sickly, you are reinforcing something false through the power of your belief. This creates a vicious downward cycle. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Allow Forgiveness To Come

Forgiveness comes naturally when you no longer want to be a victim. It is as if the sun breaks through the clouds and illuminates you and everything you see. You have simply moved to a higher perspective and you see the actions or words of the other person in a completely different way, because you see we are all connected. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Addictions

Addictions are an unsuccessful attempt to fill the hole of Longing for His Love. The unconscious false belief around addictions is that if we increase the intensity of something enough, we can blot the pain out so we don't have to feel it. Some people go from one addiction to another without ever seeing this pattern. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Let Go

Let go of your expectations, and everything becomes a surprise, a gift, and a blessing for you. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Everything Has A Purpose

There are no minor or random encounters. Every encounter is the One awakening to Itself. Every encounter is holy. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

In The Right Time

God can only awaken you at the pace you can handle. It may seem slow to you, but He can only fill the void left as the ego is gradually released. Patience gives you a strong appreciation and gratitude for the sweetness of His Love and is an important part of learning to be still. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Fixing The World

You are not going to change the world by seeing it as real and trying to fix it. Because when you see it as real, you cannot help but come from fear in your actions. And as the world and its systems crumble, as the poverty, famine, wars, blame, control, and greed worsen, it is certain that your fear will also increase. You can only change the world by seeing it through new eyes. And you can only do this by seeing yourself through new eyes. Work on yourself. Work to clear and release the blocks and false beliefs which prevent you from knowing your divinity and Unity with all that is. When you see the world with new eyes, fear will no longer be your filter, and His kingdom will be revealed. Then you will know best how to help the world through your words or actions. Remember though that a smile or kind word to someone in need may be more powerful than a large donation to a charity. God is revealed in the simplest of gestures from the heart. In all things be led by Him in each moment and be without judgment as to the words or actions He directs you in. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Why Would God Punish Himself?

God comes to know Himself, to know Herself, through you. He does not judge nor condemn. Why would God want to punish Himself? He only wants joy, abundance, peace, and Love for you, because these are the gifts of the Kingdom. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Where Our Joy Comes From

When you watch a hummingbird, you are watching pure joy. You know that this is what it is meant to be and do. It is said that if you try to cage a hummingbird, it will die. Our joy comes from loving. This is what we are and what we are meant to do. When we don't do this, we do not experience His joy, and we literally kill ourselves spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically. It may take a lot longer than it does with a hummingbird, but we are putting ourselves in a cage and closing the door. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Nothing You Have To Do

You have to release that which is false before what is true reveals itself. There is nothing you have to do, say, or think to fully know God. You simply have to release your false beliefs and then God is there. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Where Do You Exist?

Do you notice that as many people grow into their older years, they are less joyful and look as if they are just going through the motions, almost as if they are waiting to die? Young people live more in the moment and they also have something to look forward to --- a career, relationships, etc. --- as the future "holds promise." For many middle aged and elderly people, the future is quickly dwindling. Looking to the future and/or wishing you were still in the past, wanting the excitement and adventures of youth, prevents someone from knwoing the joy of the present moment, the Now. This is where the richness of Life is. This is where God resides. When you are in the Now with Him, the age of your physical body is irrelevant, because you exist in the eternal with Him. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

When We Pray

When we pray, we pray from a state of perception. You pray for something that you perceive you lack. When we fully remember our Oneness, the need for prayer disappears, because there is nothing you lack or nothing "outside" of you. Communion with God, not prayer, is present in the Oneness. And in that Oneness the gifts of the Kingdom are fully available to you and fulfill every need you could ever have. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Does Your Past Bind You?

You make the mistake of believing that you are the way you are because of what happened to you in the past. It is as if there can be no change in you because the cause is past, and you are the effect in the present. But time is not fixed. When you make a change in the present, in the Now, you are creating the only cause and effect that exists. There is no "past" that binds you. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

His Grace

When you come to know God and His gentleness and Love, you understand that His Grace is upon you. When you release false beliefs, you know that you are deserving of that Grace, and you know that His Grace can redeem and heal you of remaining beliefs and afflictions. Then it is just a matter of asking Him to use His Grace to do this. Ultimately, you know that without Him and His Grace, nothing is possible. For of yourself, you are nothing. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Communing

Money, power, greed, materialism, advancement --- they have all replaced community. Through communing --- communing with God, communing with others --- we find peace and joy, not in the things of the world. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Judgment

Judgment brings you nothing but misery. You think it keeps you safe, as if knocking someone else down puts you in a superior (safer) position. Actually, you are only choosing what color you want your prison cell to be. We only judge when we believe in separation. Judgment becomes irrelevant when everything is seen through eyes of Unity, because everything is you. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Planting A Seed

When we want something to happen, we must ask for it, intend it, and encourage as well as vision it. And we must be grateful as if it has already happened. We are planting a seed, but we don't always know in what location the seed was planted in our garden. For instance, if we need money to open up a new business, there are probably potential sources that immediately come to mind. There are also other sources we are not aware of which God will bring to us, assuming we continue to believe that God will provide a source. Some explorations may lead nowhere, but these are not wasted opportunities. By believing that God will provide this, and by exploring all options, even those that seem unlikely, we are creating the energy to make this happen. It is not our exploration of individual options that will create this. It is our continued energy, our intent, and our gratitude which fertilizes the seed to where it can pop its head above ground. You see we do not know which option God will make it happen through --- we do not know where the seed that will manifest is planted in our garden. But by fertilizing all options, we end up fertilizing the one seed that will poke its head above ground. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."