April 2025
April, a springtime month in the northern hemisphere, it is also meant to be a month of peace. This will not stop the problems or issues that are coming up for you, but hopefully you will heal them and regain your peace.
Since April is meant to be a month for peace, the ego will bring up old and even chronic issues that haven’t been fully healed. This is so that if you are starting to become peaceful, the ego can keep its stranglehold on you.
For those in despair about the state of the world in a time that seems to be heading for greater darkness, you are being asked to see the opportunity in what is occurring today. No matter what the ego throws at you, Heaven has a better offer. Everything happens for the best, except in the ego’s estimation (which is stated in A Course in Miracles, and in many of other spiritual paths as well). How can this be, when things seem to be going so badly in some places?
For spiritual adepts in India, it is widely recognized that in epochs of grace and divine blessings, not much progress is possible; but in times of great problems and stress, great spiritual strides can be made. The Kali Yuga, the darkest of the ages, can be a time of great efficacy in the journey toward Heaven, if that is your goal. It seems to me that the world is a giant laboratory, where we are meant to learn our lessons and become more peaceful and whole. Where we end this life is where we will start off in the next one (Yogananda). The greater the peace, the closer we are to Heaven.
When the Buddha awakened He declared that the world was a dream, and it was the mind that made the dream. This means we are responsible for our world, and the chaos it reflects is the chaos in our mind. The world, especially at a personal, societal and global level, is showing us personal, as well as global issues we suffered through in times past, but haven’t resolved. Now we are facing them again, disguised as the present, where many of our ancient issues have become trials. Let us ask Heaven’s help and join together to learn these lessons now. Those who don’t lose faith, and remain peaceful in trying times, become the rock everyone depends on, even though they are facing their own issues.
There are many ways to help the world as you heal yourself. Peace brings wholeness to you, and this radiates out to the world. You can’t save the world if you are not peaceful yourself. Your peace brings peace to the world. Forgiveness brings peace. Grace brings peace. Letting go and trusting brings peace.
It is your attachment that makes you settle for a dream world where you think you can be happy by depending on fantasies and attachments. Whatever you are attached to will eventually bring you pain and disillusionment. Attachment is a form of secret taking, and this sooner or later will end badly. If you are attached to someone, you put them and the relationship at risk. Let go of your attachments. Your attachment to love makes love an attachment and a form of trying to get something. Now is the time to learn your lessons and press forward in your soul’s evolution, as it is an evolution of both peace and empowerment.
Power does not come from the ego, which only wants to dominate, be above everyone, win the competition, be right and have its way. The ego’s power is weakness whereas True power seeks to empower others. From helping others comes greater peace and happiness. All the rest is for ego aggrandizement and inflation, which sooner or later brings deflation.
When you were heartbroken, you were trying to have another person meet your needs and fulfill your attachments. Your disillusionment showed that you depended on an illusion that couldn’t sustain you. While disillusionment is never pleasant, it is helpful, as it removes an illusion in your life. Your meaninglessness shows that some of the ego’s meaning has fallen away.
Heaven’s meaning never falls away. You can always ask Heaven, “What is my meaning?” The words it provides will restore your meaning with the words you hear. Attachment begs for loss and then depression, but if you are unattached there is so much more room to receive and to give love.
Attachment is a form of entitlement, which, even if it works for awhile, will keep you stuck thinking your version of the world is correct, and that your way is the right one. Your cynicism and bitterness about anything shows old wounds that have crusted over and are now holding you back. It was fear all along that led to the heartbreak. You were afraid of the next step and decided to end it when you did.
All of your present problems are from the past, which you use to delay yourself in the present. These problems began in the womb and were compounded in your childhood. These are misunderstandings and misperceptions that can be corrected to open the door to love once again. These are mistakes from past lives and from ancestral patterns that are revealing themselves, and can now be healed and made whole.
Your ego attempts to wound you where you have major soul gifts. These gifts are to help you accomplish your purpose, as a way of helping others. This brings peace and greater wholeness to many. You can retrieve your gifts that were lost, and are hidden under your wounds. They will make you happy now, while freeing others.
There is so much more you can learn, and so much more you can unlearn during this time. The angels are your cheerleaders. Feel their confidence in you. Richard Bach wrote that the way you know that you still have some purpose in this world is if you are still breathing.
This is a month that you can dedicate to peace for yourselves and for the whole world. There is no need to attack, for love has forgiven you (Liz Cronkite). If you achieve peace now you can stop the slide, as the world slips into further darkness. Know that darkness is not Heaven’s Will for you, because Heaven is light. This is a time to let go of indulgence, which only sets up a vicious circle with sacrifice. See the pointlessness and waste of time that indulgence is. The intimacy that comes of letting go brings you forward, and love is the result. This is the month for truth and greater integrity. Springtime brings new inspiration.
For peace, you can ask to be brought back to Heaven’s path. You can ask for Holy Family Bonding. You can ask the Tao, whose function it is to heal the fear at the root of every problem, to release it for you. The Tao is in charge of the flow. The Tao is the flow. Be in alignment with the Tao, and it will flow through you.
As you are only beginning to find your way to peace, you can ask to be taken back to your center. After a while, ask to be carried back to a deeper center. Notice the peace as it grows. Then ask to be carried to a higher center. Peace brings love and joy. After a while, ask to be carried to a higher and deeper center. Peace brings health and abundance. Then ask to be carried to a place of peace that you achieved in your past. Enjoy that for a while. Then ask to be carried to a place in the future where you have become a Sanctuary of Peace, a place of enlightenment. Focus on the peace and its effects in this place. Finally, ask to be carried to your place of peace in the Mind of God. This is the peace of Divine Love, as it was, and still is, in creation.
This is eternity. Rest here. It is your original identity. It is what everyone is evolving toward. In the face of what seems like insurmountable odds, don’t give up. Ask for Heaven’s help. Recognize there is both your ego mind, and the part of your mind that is the Tao. From time to time throw your ego, and its infernal cleverness that doesn’t work, into the Tao. A hundred times a day, invite the Tao into your mind. “God goes with me wherever I go” (A Course in Miracles) is one of my favorite declarations of peace.
Let yourself be loved. If you have a painful life, it is because you bought into the ego deception that there is something in the world that will make you happy. The happiness that comes from outside you will last for awhile. But the happiness that comes from inside can last forever.
The more time you spend with God, the more your self-love grows. It is the restoration of atonement (when we know that we are One with God) that saves the world. You are totally loved, but only your peace lets you know this. The only way you could have it all Great Good Fortune is through peace. Be the treasure house that you are seeking.
Have an incredible month. Yippee!
Chuck Spezzano
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