Bill Tonnis Ministries

Abundant Life

Posted on August 19, 2021 by billtonnis

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“When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously.” – Eckhart Tolle

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Psalm 40:9

“I delight to do your will, my God; your law is in my inner being!”

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For years I searched all over for the truth.

Who am I and what is my purpose?

I read a myriad of books.

I had conversations with all kinds of wise people.

I delved deeply into religion.

But the most amazing thing happened when I was at my lowest place, when I had tried all that was humanly possible to find who I was and could not find a satisfactory answer.

It happened when I was lying flat in a hospital bed following surgery for a ruptured appendix.

I was very sick and feeling helpless.

It was then that I experienced the most incredible communication in my inner being.

The instantaneous download said: “You are loved eternally just as you are.”

I experienced Love from the Source of Love.

There is no rational explanation for this and I’m sure many roll their eyes and take no notice of my experience.

And I understand that because it wasn’t their experience, but mine.

From that moment (or moments), I know that I know that I know I am loved infinitely.

When I live from this place of Love, which happens fleetingly from time to time, I am completely in the Flow of the moment.

My ego’s desires dissolve.

As Jesus put it, “Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 16:25).

In other words: Whoever lets go of their ego-generated-false self for the path of self-emptying presence will find their real life.

Only then can I be a channel of Love with no expectations of outcomes.

Only then do I experience the delight of doing God’s will.

Only then do I know my true self as simply a child of God.

Gratitude comes to life.

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Generosity

Posted on August 18, 2021 by billtonnis

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“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.” – Thomas Merton

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Matthew 20:14-16

“‘Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? Or am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?’ Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

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This comes from Jesus’ parable about a landowner hiring men to work in his vineyard for a day.

The landowner goes out to hire more men at nine o’clock, more at noon, then more at three o’clock and again at five o’clock.

All were just hanging out doing nothing until being hired.

So when the workers come back from the vineyard in the evening to be paid, the landowner gives all of them the same usual daily wage.

The men who worked all day are outraged that the men who worked just a fraction of the time got the same amount.

This is when the landowner responds with the scripture quoted above.

I think the key statement is: “Are you envious because I am generous?”

Many people think the landowner is not being fair, but that’s because they are thinking as humans and not as God.

The landowner is God in Jesus’ story.

God is total, unconditional love.

God is eternally generous.

It has nothing to do with quid pro quo.

You can’t earn more of what you already get in an infinite amount.

In the economy of grace, there is no first or last.

That idea doesn’t make any sense in the kingdom of God where all receive all of God’s love simply for being who they are: a child of God.

When you are loved like this, you can’t help but share it with everyone.

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Breathe

Posted on August 17, 2021 by billtonnis

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“Attachment is the state of clinging that comes from the false belief that something or someone is necessary for your happiness.” – Anthony De Mello

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Listen to my song “Breathe On Me” on YouTube by clicking HERE.

Support my ministry by purchasing my songs and books (Mercy Reigns & Listen to Your Heart). Thank you!

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Matthew 19:23-24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

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How shocking this was for Jesus’ followers to hear this!

But it’s really quite simple.

Jesus is not talking about a final reward, although what’s true now is always true…even when your physical death occurs.

It will still be now at that time.

God’s love for the rich person is just as complete and unconditional as it is for the poor person, both now and always.

But while God is always pouring Love (God’s very self) out to us, we are many times too preoccupied to notice.

The more we have to be preoccupied with, the more closed we are to God’s grace.

Jesus uses both the terms “kingdom of heaven” and “kingdom of God” in today’s scripture (at least in the English translation).

Jesus was talking about now, the present moment, as the entry point into this kingdom.

As I have pointed out before, in today’s world, a better understanding of kingdom of heaven would be the loving realm of spaciousness and freedom.

This is not a place but a state-of-being.

It is when you are consciously present and awake to God’s presence, Love itself.

For this to happen, you must let go of all attachments, all the allures that addictively draw our thoughts.

When a person is rich, there are many bright and shiny attractions.

Such a person is hard-pressed to let go of these things in order to pay attention to the present moment, not to mention the needs of the poor.

(Of course, some rich people are quite generous and not so attached to their riches, but I’m thinking they are in the minority.)

You have to chuckle at the funny example Jesus gives about a camel passing through the eye of a needle.

His words were meant to shock his listeners awake then, as they are now.

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Listen to the song of the day “Breathe On Me” on the Listen to Your Heart album by clicking HERE.

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Eternal Now

Posted on August 16, 2021 by billtonnis

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“Grace is ever present. The only thing necessary is that you surrender to it.” – Ramana Maharshi

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Listen to my song “Make Your Way” on YouTube by clicking HERE.

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Matthew 19:16

Now someone approached Jesus and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?”

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This scripture is from a passage titled “The Rich Young Man,” so the inference is that this “someone” asking Jesus for advice is a young wealthy man.

I’m no expert on what the original Aramaic words were that Jesus used, but in the translation we have into English, Jesus tells the man, “If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matthew 19:17).

For Jesus, the question is about entering into eternal life now.

It can only ever be now.

When physical death comes, it will also be now.

Jesus knows that keeping the commandments will train you to let go of attachments and thus enter more fully into the present moment.

The now is where you can be aware of what’s actually real.

It’s the state of existence where you can enter into relationship with others and all that is.

But the young man wants to earn some future reward.

He’s trying to score points with God.

He’s trying to be perfect.

He tells Jesus he has observed the commandments, and then asks, “What do I still lack?”

Jesus, realizing the man is rich and likely attached to his possessions, then tells him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me” (Matthew 19:21).

The scripture says with that, the man “went away sad, for he had many possessions” (Matthew 19:22).

We do not know what becomes of this man.

The point is, each of us needs to ask ourselves what we are attached to as far as power, prestige and possessions go?

The game-changer, however, is that God is love (1 John 4:8) and loves us unconditionally no matter what we do!

Eternal life is a gift — not a prize to be earned.

Power, prestige and possessions are not bad in and of themselves.

They can actually be used for great good.

But the crux is not-to-be-attached-to-them.

When you let go of striving for personal perfection or what Thomas Merton called your “personal salvation project,” then you are free to enter into life and experience the peace of God that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7).

That happens now, in the letting go of attachments, in being present.

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Listen to the song of the day “Make Your Way” on the Mercy Reigns album by clicking HERE.

Stream and/or purchase my songs on Amazon Music by clicking HERE.

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Give Thanks

Posted on August 13, 2021 by billtonnis

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“A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.” – Brennan Manning

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Psalm 136:1

Praise the LORD, for he is good; for his mercy endures forever.

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Just reading today’s scripture verse brings me peace.

Read it again and slowly savor it.

God, the Source of all, is good.

God is not a tyrant.

God is not cruel.

Jesus showed us the face of God.

He said if you knew him, then you will also know God (John 14:7).

Did you ever see Jesus smite anyone?

No.

The only people Jesus vehemently criticized were the Pharisees when they were self-righteous and lacking in compassion.

In this earthly realm, there are troubles.

Bad things do happen to good people.

It’s in these times when compassion is most needed.

It seems as though it’s the only way compassion can be enacted in us.

When we encounter someone in desperate need, something happens inside us.

Something deep within awakens to the pain of the other.

It draws us into this pain so that we can share the burden and lighten the load.

This is the mercy of God that nothing can defeat, not even death.

Praise God!

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Be Free

Posted on August 12, 2021 by billtonnis

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“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson

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Matthew 18:21-22

Then Peter approaching asked Jesus, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.”

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Peter thought he was being magnanimous in his suggestion that perhaps he should forgive up to seven times.

But Jesus then tells Peter in a figurative way that there is no cap on the number of times you forgive someone.

Basically, he wants Peter to forgive as many times as it takes to change the other person’s heart.

And the thing about forgiveness is that it transforms the heart of the one who’s offering it as well!

Keep in mind that Jesus was constantly coming into communion with people who were known sinners and far from perfect.

He was seeing beyond their personal failures to their inner core beauty.

Jesus saw each person as an unconditionally loved child of God.

When a person is recognized for his or her God-given infinite worth, that person’s deepest and truest self awakens.

Forgiveness is the key that opens the lock on the chains that separate us.

Since we are one body in Christ, beyond religion, withholding forgiveness keeps us in the delusion of separateness.

As I pointed out yesterday, Jesus prayed to God that all those who heard him may be one as God “is in me and I in you, that they also may be in us” (John 17:21).

I know that sometimes someone can do great harm to another and that the person harmed is not expected to simply remain in harm’s way.

But the person who has been hurt can and must be able to extend forgiveness to the perpetrator, or the hurt person will forever be plagued by a chain around their heart.

As Maya Angelou said, “Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.”

Forgive and allow the Spirit of God to do the rest.

Follow Jesus’ example of forgiving his killers from the cross (Luke 23:34) – and be free.

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Diverse Yet One

Posted on August 11, 2021 by billtonnis

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To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perceptions of reality.” – Thich Naht Hanh

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Matthew 18:20

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

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For Jesus, it was all about the community.

It was not about individualism.

It was about sharing and relationship.

Jesus told his followers that when two or three got together in his name, that he was present.

His real presence was right there.

Jesus sent his followers out in pairs (Mark 6:7).

This two or three or more were actually the body of Christ.

St. Paul knew this.

He said, “As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ” (1 Corinthians 12:12).

Paul went on to say, “Now you are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it” (1 Corinthians 12:27).

We are all connected in Christ, meaning, in the Life-Sustaining-Creative-Energy-of-Existence.

When we live in conscious awareness of this, we are literally in-the-Flow.

We are, in religious lingo, doing God’s will.

Unfortunately, many are living in the delusion of dualism.

They are dividing people and everything else into what’s in and what’s out.

This is opposed to what Jesus taught.

He prayed that all may be one as God is in him and he is in God (John 17:21).

Then Jesus said to God, “I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one” (John 17:22).

We are clearly called to unity, to be both diverse and one.

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Meaning of Life

Posted on August 10, 2021 by billtonnis

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“There is only one problem which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend; to discover myself in discovering God.” – Thomas Merton

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Listen to my song “Breathe On Me” on YouTube by clicking HERE.

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John 12:24

“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.”

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This is one of Jesus’ key teachings which many Christians have completely overlooked.

We like to say, “Let go and let God,” but saying it is nothing like living it.

Jesus calls his followers to die to themselves.

In other words: Let your ego’s concoction of who you are dissolve.

It’s a delusion.

Allow your inner voice to tell you who you are.

That voice will tell you exactly what God told Jesus: You are my beloved child with whom I am well pleased (Mark 1:11).

You are loved unconditionally.

At your core, you are very good (Genesis 1:31) and eternally loved.

Allow all the masks that your false self crafted to fall to the ground.

Breathe in deeply.

Exhale slowly.

Repeat.

With each breath, know you are loved by the Love that created you.

Now, as Mary Oliver asks in her wonderful poem The Summer Day,

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

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Called to Compassion

Posted on August 9, 2021 by billtonnis

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“If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.” – Buddha

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Deuteronomy 10:17-19

For the LORD, your God, is the God of gods, the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who has no favorites, accepts no bribes, who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving them food and clothing. So you too should love the resident alien, for that is what you were in the land of Egypt.

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Human beings haven’t changed much over thousands of years when it comes to casting-out the “other.”

It seems to be the pathology of dualism, when we set up a system of who’s in and who’s out.

Of course, the person setting up the system is always deemed “in” while the person who is different in some way is “out.”

People who are being run by their egos love to define themselves by who they are against.

Perhaps God gave us so many differences in ethnicities, skin colors, and religions, not to mention areas of gender and sexual orientation, just so we can all be tested as to seeing our common humanity beyond the differences.

St. Paul touched on this when he said, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28).

Today’s Old Testament text shows that God has no favorites and loves the alien, the foreigner if you will.

And God’s command is that we should as well.

Jesus made this teaching quite clear when he said: “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me” (Matthew 25:35-36).

Jesus placed no conditions on this instruction, such as, “Feed the hungry only if they deserve it.”

Jesus then made it very personal when he said, “Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me” (Matthew 25:40).

I recently saw a commercial for a local politician in which he talks about the importance of his faith and then ends with, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.”

This is a completely warped view of a Christian life!

Jesus did not exult winning but taught that we should reach out to and even join the apparent losers, the least of these.

I’m convinced that many Christians today have bought-in to a “churchianity,” a comfortable religion that they have fashioned to fit their lifestyle and ideologies.

Jesus continues to be thrown-out and executed today.

And the ones doing it are many times self-proclaimed Christians!

No wonder there are so many atheists and agnostics!

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Take the Next Step

Posted on August 6, 2021 by billtonnis

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“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption

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Listen to my song “You’ll Lead Me” on YouTube by clicking HERE

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Mark 9:4-5

Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

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Have you ever been in the middle of such a beautiful experience that you wished that time would just stop?

You wished you could preserve it and live in that experience forever.

But, alas, that’s not how life works.

In today’s scripture, Jesus goes up on the mountain and is transfigured into dazzling white.

Then Elijah and Moses show up to speak with Jesus.

Both of them had been dead for hundreds of years and had lived at different historical times (if they were even factually real people or part of folklore).

The point is, when Peter saw this incredible, supernatural event unfolding in front of him, he wanted to preserve it.

The appearance of Elijah and Moses together with Jesus would demonstrate that there is existence outside of time.

There is more than this earthly plain.

While our physical bodies die, our consciousness, our spirit-self or soul, does not die but is transformed.

We are meant to move forward, to learn, to grow, to love and be love.

We cannot go backwards.

We cannot stand still and refuse to budge.

That would violate reality.

Enjoy what is.

Immerse yourself in the moment.

If you are present to what is, you will experience magical things.

But do not cling to anything.

Allow Life to lead you forward.

Go with the Flow – and live!

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Listen to the song of the day “You’ll Lead Me” on the Listen to Your Heart album by clicking HERE.

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Purchase my new book “Listen to Your Heart: A Daily Devotional of Calling, Purpose and New Life” on Amazon by clicking HERE.

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Remember: God loves you!

“When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously.” – Eckhart Tolle

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“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.” – Thomas Merton

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“Attachment is the state of clinging that comes from the false belief that something or someone is necessary for your happiness.” – Anthony De Mello

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“Grace is ever present. The only thing necessary is that you surrender to it.” – Ramana Maharshi

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“A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.” – Brennan Manning

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“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson

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To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perceptions of reality.” – Thich Naht Hanh

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“There is only one problem which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend; to discover myself in discovering God.” – Thomas Merton

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“If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.” – Buddha

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“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption

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