Wednesday, 11 September 2013

One of my favourite spiritual Love channelings, or transcripts, is called "Heavenletters", God's message for you for each and every day.  I don't know how many times I have had an issue before me, a source of anxiety, which has been instantly either answered, or allayed the moment I begin reading that day's Heavenletter. 

With that, I know you will enjoy these messages just as I have.  Here is today's, which focuses on the One-ness of all, from God's perspective.  Since this is precisely what is the underlying message of THIS blog is about, I am pleased to present this for your enjoyment and healing as well.  Please go and visit the site, the link for which is posted at the bottom of the message. 

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Heavenletters™, bringing Earth closer to Heaven.
HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *
God is always bringing us closer to Him.
Heavenletter #4664 Your Very Self , September 1, 2013

God said:
What you want of Me is what you want of yourself. What did I just say? What did I mean? I mean for you to be self-sufficient. All answers are within you. If the Kingdom of God is within, it is within. The worshipper and the worshipped are the same. That which you seek is within you. You are your own answers to your prayers. You are the solver and the solution. Find Me within you then. There is a tendency to think power lies outside you.

Greater than the individual you is the glory and power that shines in the hearts of all. Yes, I say all. Not just a chosen few.

Let’s look at it this way. All are chosen. I chose, and you chose. We could call it a team effort, yet it was no effort at all.

What do you think it means when I say We are One, and there is no We, there is only I and the Oneness of I AM? Who is talking, and Who is listening? Who is speaking, and Who is hearing? Who is writing, and Who is written? If I exist within one human being, I exist within all. The many is a fractured picture of One. Optical illusion, shall We say? Here is that word We again. Well, it is better than the words you and I as though separation were real.

Can there be Oneness and multitudes? I suppose there can be that concept, and you do have that concept. The all that you see is a pictograph of Oneness. A clear photo isn’t taken. It has so many pixels when only Oneness is. Another name for Oneness is Wholeness, only, in Truth, there are no separate parts to make whole. Wholeness is the same as Oneness. One and One and One and One add up to One.

Why is this important to realize? Because this is Our One Self I speak of. I speak to Whom? Why, to Myself, of course. My Self is none other than that which you refer to as your Self. This Self is not a selfish self nor is it propelled by ego. Ego does not flourish in Oneness. Naturally Oneness leaves the imagined ego behind. Ego cannot preside in Oneness. Ego is done in in Oneness. Ego stays out. It has no choice. Just as a hippopotamus cannot fit through a door, nor can ego enter the portal of Oneness. Ego wears a big hat and cannot walk in, sneak in, or even exist in Oneness. If ego tried to sneak in, ego would be neutralized. So say I.

When you hear Me, when you read between the lines, you and I are consistently the One that ever was. And, yet, despite your disavowal of life on Earth, you love it. You can grumble and shout, and yet you like it so much that you dwell in it, not only physically, but in every other way. You certainly think about world life a lot. You are immersed in it, as if world life is all there is.

The Earth is your dance floor. Let’s face it, you love the multiplicity of life. Where else is there so much to wonder at and be amazed at? Nevertheless, life on Earth is not the extent of your existence, My existence.

I am going to tell you that, despite all your complaints and shenanigans, there is more to life than what “Now you see and now you don’t.” There is a Presence, and that Presence is within you. The Presence is the Vastness of Oneness Itself. You are never without the God within the so-called you Who art your very Self, and, therefore, Mine.

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

My dear friend Scott Snider is one of the most loving people that I know.  He truly "gets" this whole thing with life, and I am honoured to have his own personal perspective gracing this blog.  Please enjoy his wonderful insights.  Visit his Facebook page at http://facebook.com/receptiveincome

from Scott:

Get comfortable with not knowing - anything! Simple but not easy to do. Just experiencing whatever wants to show up. And be OK with that. You just won the lotto or you owe a $3000 tax bill. Treat each event the same.

"Impossible", you say! But nothing is impossible. In every moment new possibilities exist. You may be thinking in one way one moment and the opposite the next. Such is how our dualistic mind perceives.

The only way out of this mindset is not to have a mindset at all. I often wonder why I write anything, period. Other than the self gratification I receive by doing so. There I go again. Bringing it back to myself again when there is no self.

Boy this gets tricky. Whether I engage or not has no effect on the outcome. Wow! That sounds pretty boring. "I know"! In my mind I'll pretend it really does have an effect when in my heart I know through my own direct experience that it doesn't - I think. And the dream continues...

your brother, Scott


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Come walk with Me into MY secret garden. Freely eat of the delicacies I have for YOU. For All that is Mine is thine. The joy that you experience is what is emanating from your own heart. You are exchanging the ashes of your life into the beauty of your divine nature.

your brother, Scott


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My Current Powerful Intentions:

My intention is to share with others our true oneness as we individually express our lives through the gifts and talents endowed by our creator. I plan to accomplish this by being God's love to all those I have attracted into my life. Beginning with myself and then extending to my family, my friends, and each new relationship.

My Life Purpose:

To be a Spiritual Peacemaker. An Emissary of Light. To let my life be a pointer to those who are seeking inner peace and well-being. There are many paths that lead to truth. I have chosen the one that I believe will lead me to truth the quickest.

My Values:

Relationships are very important to me. The people in my life are the people who have shaped my life, and the people I love in my life. I rely and depend on the Holy Spirit to guide me into all truth.

My Story:

I was raised in a very loving home. I grew up in Southern California, until I was 12 years old. I have lived in Northern California, ever since and am now 59 years old. Today I am living in the beautiful Napa Valley in the heart of the wine country.

There have been a few defining moments that have influenced my life. The first 18 years of my life I lived as an agnostic. I pretty much did as I pleased and made several decisions that did not serve me well at all. Finally at the height of desperation I discovered God's love for me through faith in Jesus Christ. It was not long after I married and settled into a time of personal growth and raising a family.

In 2004 I began a spiritual journey I called God Quest. I had begun to question the evangelical teachings of my Christian experience. In 1972 I knew I had a spiritual and metaphysical encounter with Christ but some of the doctrine and dogma of the church appeared contradictory to the loving Being I had encountered. So with an open mind and a open heart I began my quest.

Nothing was off limits. My faith in God never wavered, but my understanding of who and what God is went through a major internal makeover. This has all lead me to where I am today.

Never in a million years could I have predicted that this is where I would arrive. I am so grateful to God and my only desire is to point others towards their own discovery of truth. Your journey may follow a similar path I have taken, and it may not. It matters not, and I honor and respect all for the decisions they have made about their own lives.

Ultimately we will all arrive at our final destination and take our rightful place as God's most holy Son.

My Vision:

To be an active participant in the planetary shift towards peace and well-being. To live my life in this present moment and in stillness experience God's love, joy, peace, and abundance at all times.

God loves his Son and we are him. It is your decision to set out on your own spiritual journey. I have provided some pointers to start you on your quest. Use them if you wish. Know you can't get it wrong for your life is safely hid with God in Christ. Enjoy the journey!

Scott Snider


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The highs and lows we experience in life are simply the judgments we make about our currently situation. Remove the judgments and you remove the highs and lows. In it's place is only peace. Don't worry, we're all headed there.

Your brother, Scott


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Life can be boring and lonely leading to depression, anger, and stress. Life can also be laughter and fun and we can experience thrills, chills, and excitement.

Neither one is real. Just temporary emotions leading us on a wild goose chase.

Yet it seems so real. Hence all the various addictions only to wake up to the same nightmare. And the world turns...

But there is an escape. I can point you in the direction. The rest is up to you. I don't even have a map on how to get there. I just know it's a place that exists inside of me. Therefore it's a place that exists inside of you.

Let's go there together...

Your brother, Scott


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I love who I am in the world. Some appreciate the contribution I make. Some think I'm full of shit. But whatever I am to others really doesn't amount to a hill of beans. The only thing that matters is what I think of me in the final analysis.

You see, in the end I don't really need you and you don't really need me. If I were to die tomorrow the world would continue. It may affect a few for a day or two or a moment, then life goes on.

This may sound selfish or egotistical to some. If so, have a nice life. Your presence in mine is not warranted or needed. For those who choose to journey with me you are always welcome. Everyone is chosen by me.

It's the lack of need that sets us free...

Your brother, Scott


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“Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”

- M. Scott Peck -
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Do not mistake love for need, as love does not need or require validation for its existence. Therefore love does not have attachments or agendas. Most have not yet fallen in love; they have only fallen in need – need to be heard, need to be validated, need to feel secure and need to feel loved.

My dear, True love can only be experienced when you no longer need to be loved because you have completed yourself with your inner love that you have become one with. Only then can you experience being in True love. Because you no long need the other person and that is when you can truly love and respect the other person for who they are, not for what you need them to be so you may feel loved. I truly love you .


- The UNIVERSE -

Your brother, Scott


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Are you exhausted yet? Join the crowd - humanity is it's name. You either live in a state of exasperation or exhilaration. Sometimes both. Your longing for that day when you can finally rest. Welcome to the Human Game.

But you are also divine. 100% Human and 100% Divine. I believe that's what they say about our brother, Jesus. He is the living demonstration of who and what each of us truly are. Are you wondering when your going to reach that holy destination.

If you think it's after you die, guess again? The answer is never. You are already seated in heavenly places. Your divinity is the spark that is already within you. You were born with it. It's been with you from the beginning and has traveled with you over the eons of time you have been trapped inside this dream.

When the Son finally awakens you will awaken with Him to discover you never left home. You have always been safe and protected in the Father's/Mother's loving arms.

So are you you going to wait until you die? You don't have to. You can experience the love, peace, and joy, that is already yours in every moment. Eternity is already here and resides within your heart.

Embrace it...
Your brother, Scott

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“In the present, the future is the thing of the past.”

- Amir Zoghi -
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The importance the future plays is a thing of the past . There is no greater moment in time than the present moment. The future is only a moment created from how you’re experiencing the present moment. Are you present to the moment that is, or are you living a moment that was or the moment that is to be? Live in the now, live for the now and you will find presence, a clearing energy and power that will heal all parts of your life and manifest all that you feel love for. Isn’t that why the future is important to you anyway ? So you may live the life you love in loving environments. Well that can only happen from this present moment, here and now.


- The UNIVERSE -

Scott




The world we live in these days is a divided one. 

Some would say that it is splintered into so many ugly pieces that it is beyond repair.  Some would use that perspective to justify not caring about any other human being except themselves.  Some would go beyond that and use it to create even more division on a grand and sometimes global scale.

First of all, let's go back to that word, "perspective".  EVERYthing about life is a personal perspective, and as the saying goes, we each create our own reality.  There is no all-encompassing "reality" for ALL people - just try to get two people to agree exactly on anything and you will have to concede that point.  They will each have at least, a slightly different take on most any topic.  Then take that concept to a global level, and try to get 7-plus BILLION people to agree on anything.  I rest my case on that one. 

So many human issues....poverty, hunger, bullying, sexual assault, addiction...the list is endless.  And these issues are NOT specific to any geological location on this planet, they exist to some degree in all parts of the world.  For many centuries these same issues repeated themselves over and over, and it just seems at times that these became permanent fixtures in the human experience.  It seemed we would NEVER pull ourselves out of it, and that this would be an endless cycle, until....who knows.  There are many theories on what humans are becoming and what we are facing in our collective future.  Everything from complete extinction, to a new and Golden Age of peace, joy and prosperity for all.

I do much prefer to imagine our world as the latter.  Let's face it, at the fundamental level, this is what ALL of us truly desire.  Forget about the warmongers, the greedy politicians, Big Business lobbying governments to back their nefarious schemes to control the world through the entire world's monetary system, food supply, pharmaceuticals that are not properly studied, etc....these types of entities represent the gross result of the other end of the spectrum of the human condition.  I call that....the "separation of ego".

You see...there is really only one true condition of humanity, albeit seen as being at least two and usually many more.  Our true condition is Love.  This is what we are, what we came from.  That God-spark lives in each of us, no matter how far we have become separated from that center. 

There is Love, our true reality, and then there is ego - that part of us that separated from our center, in order to experience other aspects of ourselves.  It was truly an endeavour borne of our own loving natures, and so the INTENTIONS were initially good.  Look around today, and you will see just how far we have taken it....

Once you understand that there are only those two aspects of humanity - Love, and ego, then most everything else becomes clear as a mountain spring.  And when you realize that there is only one TRUE aspect of human Spirit, Love, then you have it made.

This is really the basis that builds a Bridge of Light, and we will be following up on that concept on this site.

In the meantime, enjoy these quotes:

Jerry Bridges
“We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.”
Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey


Frederick Buechner
“We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.”
Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat


Ann Tatlock
“There's one thing you need to understand," Larry said. "We love because God first loved us, even in the face of all our unloveliness." He paused. He seemed to want to give John time to think about that. Then he said, "Go home and love your wife John."

I'm afraid I can't find the strength in myself to do that, Larry."

Pastor Larry leaned forward, smiling tenderly. "That's good, my friend," he said. "Now we're getting somewhere.”
Ann Tatlock, The Returning


Edmund Spenser
“But O the exceeding grace
Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.”
Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queen Book 1 Ed Bayley


“And human love needs human meriting:
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?”
Francis G. Thompson, The Hound of Heaven


“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 4:13, 4


Elizabeth Goudge
“...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.”
Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch


Frederick Buechner
“And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.”
Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat


“What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!”
John Ortberg Jr., Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them



Sunday, 8 September 2013

Frederick Buechner
“If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”
Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
 
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Let's begin in the beginning....

As some of the simplest, and most famous Words ever spoken  decree, from John 1:

"In the beginning was The Word, and the Word was with God, and God was The Word..."

The Word.  Was Spoken.  By God....making a sound....and from It was issued forth the Light.

The Light of the Love of God is the All-That-Is, forevermore.

All of us understand this, to some degree.  From those who live it consciously day by day, to those who choose to continue dwelling in the darkness of ignore-ance.  There are myriad "reasons" why one would choose to remain in the dark, but here, we shall not sink to judgement of any....for we all have at some point or another found ourselves facing "the dark night of the soul".

Here...we shall focus on the Light.  We shall endeavour to work through many Ways that this Light that is available to all, can be accessed instantly, by one and all.

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In upcoming posts, we will be discussing and using some extremely practical methods to help us navigate this Bridge across the abyss of loneliness and darkness, fear and chaos - the trademarks of ego - back to the place where we all belong...the Light.

There will be guest posts from many who share the same goals and wish to bring their own brand of healing to us here.  These will encompass everything from a variety of methods to begin with clearing old issues that are holding you back from realizing your full potential on ALL levels...to how to "put yourself back together" with the absolute best and most effective techniques in the known world.

I look forward to being a part of your healing journey, and most especially I anticipate watching how you blossom into your highest ideal.  :-)

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Scott Snider's tidbit of the day:

The love that you ARE and the love that I AM will always BE. Because THAT is what we ARE! How can we be any less? Only by the distractions and roadblocks devised by the egoic mind, can we delude ourselves into thinking we are somehow diminished. We are perfect!

your brother, Scott

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Brennan Manning
“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”
Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out


Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.”
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Jenny B. Jones
“To truly try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, " she said. "But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you.”
Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me
 
    Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.”
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
 
   Stephen Adly Guirgis
“Right now, I am in Fallujah. I am in Darfur. I am on Sixty-third and Park having dinner with Ellen Barkin and Ron Perelman... Right now, I'm on Lafayette and Astor waiting to hit you up for change so I can get high. I'm taking a walk through the Rose Garden with George Bush. I'm helping Donald Rumsfeld get a good night's sleep...I was in that cave with Osama, and on that plane with Mohamed Atta...And what I want you to know is that your work has barely begun. And what I want you to trust is the efficacy of divine love if practiced consciously. And what I need you to believe is that if you hate who I love, you do not know me at all. And make no mistake, "Who I Love" is every last one. I am every last one. People ask of me: Where are you? Where are you?...Verily I ask of you to ask yourself: Where are you? Where are you?”
Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot