WINGS OF LIGHT

By V. F. Angelday

"OH, GOD GIVE ME PEACE!" Do you know, dear friend, what those few words represent? They represent the prayer most often prayed by the humanity of this earth in every clime, by every race, in every language. So very often these words are not even spoken aloud, but go up as the silent heart cry of the individual in the midst of his distress. 

Does it not seem strange that a quality and condition of Life so MUCH desired should seem to be so difficult to obtain and sustain by the individual and the masses too? Why is this? Perhaps because we are not looking in the right place for it. In our everyday experiences of Life, when we need or want something, whenever possible we go to where we KNOW or, at least, THINK it, may be found. Someone has said "If the outlook is bad, try the UPLOOK" and this gives us a guide to the Place where we may find peace. Why is it, when pain and distress become almost too much to bear, the suffering individual invariably looks UP? Because the heart instinctively knows that above us there is peace, Divine Law and Order and singleness of purpose, to do the Divine Will and bless all Life with peace. 

Regardless of the thought, feeling or religious belief of anyone on earth, who is there who can think of PEACE and not simultaneously identify it with the Beloved Jesus who, in actual daily living, outpictured that quality to the point where he became the very embodiment of it and is called the "Prince of Peace." He attained that Perfection, right here in a physical body in the physical appearance world and he said, "The things that I have done shall ye do also." Therefore, if Beloved Jesus attained that state of consciousness here on earth, so can anyone and everyone else who desires to do so. How? By doing as he did. Remember the words of the old hymn "He the great Example is, and pattern for me." A pattern correctly followed will give every one who uses it the same result and so what better pattern could we follow than that of one who has become the quality itself, which we desire? 

Our blessed Master gave constant recognition to the Father first, before he attempted anything else and spent definite time during the day in which he placed his undivided ATTENTION on the "Father" as he called his own God Self. That word "Attention “is the secret of it all, for what can you have or KNOW in your Life without your ATTENTION upon it. Your ATTENTION is your consciousness that stream of energy flowing in and through your body, mind and world, which animates your physical form, enables you to live, think, feel and in general, have your BEING. In short, IT IS YOU. Whatever your ATTENTION connects with that instant begins to flow into your world and outpicture there even stamps itself upon the actual flesh of your body with sufficient concentration. 

Perhaps this is a crude illustration, but your attention is like a hose, which, connected to a water outlet, will carry the new life within the water to a parched and drying lawn, some distance away revivifying it by the gift of its own life. Without the connection of the water and the lawn by the hose, no good could be accomplished. So, it is with the attention by giving definite time each day to the contemplation of the Prince of Peace, it connects us definitely and at once with his consciousness WHICH IS PEACE and so it flows in through and around us and give us peace also. Very few people will have the TIME for this because the world in which we live today will not LET you have it. YOU MUST TAKE TIME to do this "Take time to be holy" and as you establish the habit in your feelings you will not want to discontinue it for it will be the happiest time of your day. When you have drawn ENOUGH of His FEELING OF PEACE into yourself, it will do for you exactly what it did for him, RAISE YOU out of EVERYTHING human into ALL THAT IS DIVINE into all the Mastery you were intended to express from the beginning. There are legions of Angels of Cosmic Christ Peace and these I earnestly call to surround you RIGHT NOW and abide with you, holding and expanding your Peace all ways.