The world is powerless to harm my prospects, or to turn my past success to failure. My place within God's Eternal Kingdom is secured by love, I trust it completely and I have a good reason to trust it. Unity is the divine principle; separation an impossibility. Eventually we'll all have to own up to our 14 billion or so companions and peers; each with the capacity to exercise an independent judgement, and then try to feel happy. It's a very common idea that there are some wicked people in the world who deserve to be punished, and most of the people who think like this feel they are able to determine where those lines should be drawn. As if we we are all going to vote on the matter, you're free to vote but you're not the enforcer. If all those people who we don't like receive favor instead of punishment, how will we complain? The possibility of forgiveness is only meant to be a pardon from punishment, it can not make us exempt from judgement. We are supposed to learn from our mistakes and achieve personal growth, so that we do not continue to make similar mistakes. Ignorance may serve as our best excuse for just about everything we ever did in life that might have been a crime, but it can not serve as an excuse indefinitely.
I have heard people proclaiming that our world is about to change, something fundamental to our awareness perhaps, i'm not sure what they're expecting. And some people desire to be in a controlling and guiding position, they write books expressing some personal truth. And i'm mostly thinking about Neale Donald Walsh when i say that, since i subscribe to his quotes on facebook, and he's somewhat famous for his 'Conversations with God' books. When we discover something unexpected then personal growth may occur; and if we have some personal experience that contradicts our past beliefs, then we may be changed. Neale seems to feel that the answer lies in overcoming our fears of a mortal end, which is at the root of all our bad feelings. Personally I think that I've already achieved that goal; those who have are supposed to lead those who are yet to overcome. But how did it happen to me? The change was anything but instantaneous, it required years of time and confidence building. But the revelatory experience took place in just a few moments of my early life, and it was something completely unexpected. I can only refer to the event as an intervention by some higher power, evidently something uncommon to all people, but I've heard a few personal stories of such experiences. It was nothing like a conversation as Neale claims to enjoy, and I would subsequently have to doubt any voice proclaiming itself to be God. I never had the problem of hearing voices, that I know some people do experience. Can I know for certain that God favored me with a personal experience of itself, I might assume it was a lesser person than the most high God. But clearly someone greater than a human-being had been paying attention to me and cared enough to make a special effort. That such a person may be able to exist and excerte a little power over our reality was enough of a revelation to justify a growing trust in God I guess.
I don't think that there's really anything I can do to enable other people to have a similar experience of their own. It simply doesn't depend on anything that I can do, or some special knowledge that I might be able to impart. And I don't think it will ever be good enough to go around saying to people that the human spirit is a very durable thing, and something that could last forever. By virtue of a form of manifestation which is yet invisible to us, perhaps our consciousness is sustainable. It's always going to be speculation until we experience it, even faith can't make it more real than that. I believe and feel good about the belief, but good feelings are not enough, that I've had to learn. Still my belief is enough to affect some of my choices; I'll wait to see if the judgement was sound, I can be that patient and I can afford to be surprised. Or I can afford to be wrong and unable to feel surprised if my experience becomes an experience of unconsciousness. If we believe that consciousness is a phenomena of life then i suppose that unconsciousness makes sense; but if you think as I do that consciousness is a phenomena of God's presence then it may be preserved.
I have heard people proclaiming that our world is about to change, something fundamental to our awareness perhaps, i'm not sure what they're expecting. And some people desire to be in a controlling and guiding position, they write books expressing some personal truth. And i'm mostly thinking about Neale Donald Walsh when i say that, since i subscribe to his quotes on facebook, and he's somewhat famous for his 'Conversations with God' books. When we discover something unexpected then personal growth may occur; and if we have some personal experience that contradicts our past beliefs, then we may be changed. Neale seems to feel that the answer lies in overcoming our fears of a mortal end, which is at the root of all our bad feelings. Personally I think that I've already achieved that goal; those who have are supposed to lead those who are yet to overcome. But how did it happen to me? The change was anything but instantaneous, it required years of time and confidence building. But the revelatory experience took place in just a few moments of my early life, and it was something completely unexpected. I can only refer to the event as an intervention by some higher power, evidently something uncommon to all people, but I've heard a few personal stories of such experiences. It was nothing like a conversation as Neale claims to enjoy, and I would subsequently have to doubt any voice proclaiming itself to be God. I never had the problem of hearing voices, that I know some people do experience. Can I know for certain that God favored me with a personal experience of itself, I might assume it was a lesser person than the most high God. But clearly someone greater than a human-being had been paying attention to me and cared enough to make a special effort. That such a person may be able to exist and excerte a little power over our reality was enough of a revelation to justify a growing trust in God I guess.
I don't think that there's really anything I can do to enable other people to have a similar experience of their own. It simply doesn't depend on anything that I can do, or some special knowledge that I might be able to impart. And I don't think it will ever be good enough to go around saying to people that the human spirit is a very durable thing, and something that could last forever. By virtue of a form of manifestation which is yet invisible to us, perhaps our consciousness is sustainable. It's always going to be speculation until we experience it, even faith can't make it more real than that. I believe and feel good about the belief, but good feelings are not enough, that I've had to learn. Still my belief is enough to affect some of my choices; I'll wait to see if the judgement was sound, I can be that patient and I can afford to be surprised. Or I can afford to be wrong and unable to feel surprised if my experience becomes an experience of unconsciousness. If we believe that consciousness is a phenomena of life then i suppose that unconsciousness makes sense; but if you think as I do that consciousness is a phenomena of God's presence then it may be preserved.
