These are dark times that we live in and they are getting worse by the minute. What can we do, as students of the Way, that will bring us through all of these crises?

The answer is “Nothing!”

Vernon Howard made it very clear that good and evil are always opposites. We must rise above the opposites if we are to ever know peace.

We do this by putting truth first in our daily life. We perform our duties and we also work on ourselves.

When bad news comes, we must acknowledge our fear and then keep on working.

For me, working means that I put silence as a priority in my life. Small bits of the day are given over to sitting, often with a book open on my lap for inspiration.

It may seem that we are living dull and unimportant lives, but this is our salvation. We must not get all worked up over world events, for they are ever with us.

All we do is simplify our lives so as to have room for the spirit to move in us. The spirit doesn’t move in those with warring thoughts, only in those that make a place for it.

That place is silence. Find it and use it. Let it heal you over and over and over again.

Vicki Woodyard