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Heavenletter #5291 You Merit Kindness Too, May 21, 2015

God said:

Give yourself a break. You may tend to be hard on yourself, too hard. You may tend to be a tyrant to yourself. To your expendable self, I hear you crack your whip and say:

“More more. Deliver more. Even if you have exceeded all my expectations, I will you to do better. And, then, when you do better, I will whip you to go even faster in order to prove something unprovable. What a hard taskmaster am I. I am insatiable. I will work you to the bone. I assign myself to illegal servitude.

“Maybe I am trying to prove to God that I am the hardest worker of all. Maybe I know only effort and strain. Maybe I think I’m not worth anything else unless I give and give. Maybe I think that to rest on the Sabbath is not for me. I certainly don’t seem to allow myself to both work and relax while I’m at it. I wouldn’t treat a horse the way I treat myself. I’m not even half so generous to myself as I would be to a horse.

“I would whisper sweet nothings in his ear. I would feed him the very best of the best, and I would make sure he has rest and does not work too hard.

“So what am I to myself? What kind of servitude have I sentenced myself to? What am I trying to run away from? What keeps me back from setting myself free? When is enough? When will I have earned my freedom?

“Why would I compel myself to overdo, as if whatever I do or how much I do cannot be enough? What have I done to myself, and why would I? Why do I set my expectations so impossibly high?

“It’s fine to work and work hard, yet to sentence myself to hard labor seems way out of hand. Is this my destiny to wind up a workhorse who has not yet pleased his master? I ask that I be let free to roam the fields and amble in the sun. I no longer want to wear blinders. I want vast vision. I do not ask to be put out to pasture, no. Just some time to look up at the sky and the sun and the clouds and kick up my heels. Surely, I can be more than a workhorse. Where is time for myself?

“Maybe I would like to take off my saddle every once in a while. Or I would like to be unattached to the plough. I would like to frolic every now and then. I would like to chew grass without a care in the world. Why don’t I grant me this? Why deny myself?

“What makes me think I have much to make up for that I keep raising the rope so I never can get ahead? Have I shirked something? I seem to keep going around a little circle too many times to count. Surely I can do more than go around in circles. Why can’t I seem to open the gate to the corral I have placed myself in?

“If I were once a horse on a Merry-Go-Round, now all my beautiful colors of paint are worn off. My feet hurt, and still I blindly go around and give rides no matter what.

“I think I would like to be a horse running in the wind and to go any direction I want. God, how do I set myself free from the taskmaster of myself?”

I, God say to you, beloved taskmaster, all you have to do is to say to yourself:

Whoa. Whoa there, little horsie. Simply decide to ride the Wild West and go where you have never ridden before. It’s okay for you to be a vagabond. It’s okay for you to ride where you will. Everything is okay. You can throw off your straw hat and the halter. You don’t have to ride around the same circle.

If the circle happens to be your path, know you can get off the circuit anytime you want and go back on again as you choose. You are the chooser of your destiny at this time in this circuit of life. You can be a high stepper. You can ride the range. You can rest, and you can ride.

In this metaphor, you, unlike a horse, have the choice of the range you ride. You merit kindness too.

Michigan, US of A, May 15, 2015.
Teacher Ophelius.
Subject: “The Tests of Time.”

Received by Chris Maurus.

Ophelius: “Today we would like to speak about the “Tests of Time” — those situations where you find you must act or make a decision that will move you into a new space — a new life — a new way of being in the world. It’s as if you are being tested to see how you will choose and how you will act and hold yourself faced with a major change. My dear friends, these tests are real and they are “spiritually engineered” to “nudge” you onto a path that will move you in a near parallel with the divine plan for your life. Your Thought Adjuster (TA) and your Guardian Seraphim work in a coordinated way to bring opportunities and serendipitous situations into your life to help you grow and at the same time move you along the path of the divine plan.

“You, of course, can choose and act, or not act, in any way you decide because you have free will. Your TA “brings” the Father’s Will and your Guardian Seraphim “knows” the Father’s will and therefore will they bring these tests to you in various forms to teach and to examine the progress you are making in your short lives. Your stubbornness to avoid decisions and change will have a direct effect on the way your lessons will be presented.

“Your Guardian Seraphim (a pair) has an intimate and shared destiny with you and it is her job to see that your soul survives beyond this life and into eternity and that you eventually fuse with your TA. She is held accountable for your survivability and therefore will she do and “engineer” what is allowed by those high spirit authorities to move you into a place where you may grow and achieve the “Great Prize” — life eternal. Your TA chose you before your birth to be the personality and vessel of fusion. None are guaranteed because of free will and therefore do these “Tests of Time” become the tools for ensuring your survival.

“These tests come at you in various forms and in varying degrees of potential change throughout your life. Most of them you do not take notice of, yet those tests that bring major change can be acknowledged and you may become aware that you are about to grow by making a decision or accepting the circumstance of a not so seemingly desirous situation, that by faith, you hold as having ultimate value in the overall outcome of your life. When you notice these “soul-markers” in your life path, it can be sometimes fearful, yet to hold the growth potential in faith that all will be made right and will ultimately benefit your soul, is to be wise and spiritually powerful.

“When you recognize the test or the coming change, leverage all the spiritual resources you can through prayer, by asking questions and working through the decisions of time with your Spiritual Sponsors — your TA, guides, and guardians. You are never alone, my friends, we (spirit) — your unseen family are always with you and will help you through the transition. Know that your Heavenly Father knows what is best for you because it is what is best for all in the Great Plan and so will He bring you through the Tests of Time to a higher place of understanding. Never are you to be “punished” for any decision you make. You are only lovingly guided by the superlative methods available according to your willingness to do the Father’s will. The farther you are away from the divine plan, the more “work” has to be done by you to get back “on track.” Once you are “on track” your life will blossom and you will come into your purpose and really begin to live and enjoy the truth, beauty, and goodness of being alive and a willing participant in the Creation here and hereafter.

“Peace to you,
“The Circle of Seven.”

© The 11:11 Progress Group.
“The giving of self, the illumination of truth, and the relief of suffering
are the noblest paths to higher consciousness.” – Teacher Ophelius.

Sivananda Daily Reading

22 May
Posted: 20 May 2015 10:00 PM PDT
The Lord's Name
The name is a verbal expression of the conception of the Supreme Being, who is known by different names and forms, in different climes and times. The supreme is infinite but as it is not always possible for the common man to conceive of what is beyond the perception of the finite mind, this infinite truth is symbolised as forms, symbols or objects that vary according to each one's respective tendencies or modes of perception.
Though in the initial stage there is difference and distinction among the various names and their associated objects, ultimately, when the habit of repetition of the name is formed and the divine consciousness is kept ever awake, then there remains no distinction between the name and the associated idea or object. The intuitive knowledge of the supreme reveals itself in the name itself - for the basis of all names and forms is the one primal being who manifests himself under different names and forms, as different faiths and tendencies, as different sects and races, in different times and places.
There is an unfathomable depth, intense sweetness and charm in the Lord's Name. It is beyond the futile explanation of the limited intellect. It is a thing knowable only through experience. The music first thrills the nerves, harmonises them and then mysteriously acts upon the mind. The sincere devotee loses himself in divine ecstasy.
The worldly mind cannot grasp or perceive this state of intense emotion. The Lord's Name is all bliss and when it is chanted, the mind merges in its bliss. It loses its individual entity in bliss. It becomes one with the bliss itself.
Without the name of the beloved, none may hope to cross the sea of samsara (worldly existence). The Lord's Name is the lasting medicine against any kind of ailment. You cannot be overtaken by sorrows, sins, troubles, sicknesses if you take refuge in the Lord's Name. Repetition of the Lord's Name dispels all fears and evil thoughts. He who repeats the Name of the Lord has all his desires fulfilled. So sing the holy name. If you are attached to the Lord you will be released from all attachments which bind you and pull you down. This constant repetition gives infinite strength.


				*5-21-15 -- You Merit Kindness*