Regina Dawn Akers

The world is filled with distraction. It is filled with things to do, issues to think about, and things to say. The world is filled with distraction, because it is programmed by the idea of independence. The idea fuels the world, and the world fuels the idea.

This, again, explains the reason for obedience. The world is caught in the loop for independence, which is also the loop of conflict, which is pain. When you react to the world with your thinking and your doing and your saying, you continue to feed this loop. Yet that is your habit today.

To break a habit takes obedience. And it is your Heart’s desire to break this habit. Breaking this habit is your contribution to peace.

To break the habit of independence, conflict and pain, one must learn not to listen to himself or his thinking, because it is a part of the world…a part of this loop.

One must instead choose to listen to a Voice that is not part of this world…not part of the loop…and take all direction from it.

The mind will resist the suggestion to take “all direction” from a Voice that is not of this world, but that resistance comes from the desire for independence, which is also the cause of conflict and pain.

Obedience is a temporary measure, because the purpose of obedience is to retrain the mind to listen. Once listening becomes your natural joy…your pleasure…there will no longer be a need for the thought of obedience.

However, be wary of the idea that says you are independent and therefore no longer in need of obedience. Any thought that says you are independent is not the love of listening…the joy of connection…and so it isn’t the Voice of your Love.

I have asked for obedience, and this frightens you, but obedience is nothing to fear. In fact, if you look at this rationally you will see that you are always being obedient. It is just that you are being obedient to one voice or the other, but the choice not to be obedient is an illusion. In that, it is a choice in itself. It is a choice to believe illusion.

Obedience, which you cannot avoid, is sharing. It is the sharing of thought. And therefore, it is the creation of experience.

By being obedient to the thought that seems to be independent thought (or thinking), you create the illusion of independence. Yet because this idea is shared, it is an illusion. In the creation of this illusion, you also find the creation of all pain.

By being obedient to the Voice of true authority, you choose to listen to your own Voice of Love, which knows it is sharing and unbroken, and so it communicates the truer aspects of the flow.

I say that to listen is to love, because to listen is to know your own Heart. In knowing your own Heart, you know love, and so you are love, because your knowing isn’t hidden by illusion.