6-5-15 -- The Greatness Of Life












































































































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Heavenletter #5306 The Greatness of Life, June 5, 2015 

God said: 

Every single person on Earth, all people on Earth, have much to be grateful for if only they knew. Life is magic.

Life is as if you have gold and rubies on your neck and wrists, and you are thinking they are mere baubles made of plastic, and so you don’t know what you have, and you don’t yet value what is yours entwined within this illusive quality called life.

What a great thing to come into the Sun. What a great thing to long for the Sun. What a great thing to be under the Sun.

What a great thing to walk on Earth. And, oh, yes, the senses. They alert you, and they melt you. To think of the greatness of life - to be able to hear a loved one’s voice and to look into a loved one’s eyes. What a great gift to be able to touch and be touched. And to taste a peach and to smell a flower. Delicious are the senses. The senses aren’t everything, and, yet, they are incredible. Who could have dreamed of the whole concept of flowers let alone have flowers push their way up through the earth?

Tell Me, what is not amazing on Earth? That from an acorn a tree grows, that from a flower a scent comes, that sprouts grow, and water is wet? Aren’t these amazing miracles right before you?

And how your body moves. How the heart and mind direct you this way or that. To think of impulses and ideas. What Children of Riches be you.

And where do your impulses come from, and where are you going even when you may think you are not going anywhere?

Even these fictional ideas of time and space – aren’t they fun? You can be early and late or, even, on time in this world where you can also say an expression like the snows of yesteryear and where you can say the cherry blossoms are on the bough, and you can visit a new land by sea, by land, or by air or even by foot?

Of course, yet incredibly, war and violence still exist, even as you are far beyond hurting anyone or anything yet you still roar nevertheless.

Everything in the world makes some kind of contrast. Red and white. Blue and gold. Red raspberries and black raspberries. Iris flowers and bleeding hearts. Sweet and sour. Take delight even in the contrast, that the people on Earth can care deeply about so many divergent positions in the world, that some can love war and others be stunned by it. Even this stirs the pot of life.

You can know that ideas of winning or losing are false. Both are false. Both are predicated solely upon a point of view. But how you believe in these opposites. How you believe in them. Even as you may love peace, you hate war and those who seem to predicate them. Only metaphorically can you be a soldier of peace. You can be a throng for peace yet you cannot be an army. Hold the light, beloveds, for I have given it to you. So long as you are stirred up by anger no matter how righteous-seeming the cause, war will mount its horse and spew fire.

There is no war far away. All war is near. The fuel for war is in hearts, and all hearts get wounded, and life becomes disrespectful. It is now for you to shake animosity loose from your heart.

From what does animosity arise? It arises from belief in winning and losing and so you give yourself over to the perpetuation of the concept me, me, me and other, other, other no matter how often I tell you that, no matter how separate you may each appear from each other, you are each My One Self. When you have flickers of separation, you create flash fires. The idea of separateness leads to the conflagration called war, a futile illogical attempt to win peace.

There are a lot of little wars going around at home and work and on the street. Abandon separation. Admit to higher states of existence on Earth, which definitely are not war.



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Celestial Encouragement
From the Desk of George Barnard – May 31, 2015.

The message below came from Christ Michael when I was working on one of my books — “By the Grace of 11:11,” the third of a trilogy. At first He addressed all of us. There were Seraphim and Midwayers close to me, helping with the writing. Then He spoke about the work at hand. 

“I greet you on this fine evening, my diligent children. I am with you always, but I am here with you right now to speak with you as you spend your hours on the third of your trilogy of books. This is the Creator Son of the local universe of Nebadon, long ago addressed as Joshua ben Joseph or the Scribe of Damascus. 

“By your efforts, we can truly say that we are indeed colleagues and of one mind about creating progress and expressing thoughts on paper. Long after the print on your pages will have faded and the paper of the first edition yellowed, your material will still be perused, both here and in higher spheres. 

“Particularly is it my pleasure that you have agreed to alter the text where an (important) error has been pointed out to you by your Celestial Friends. And I promise you, you will bring this work to a satisfactory conclusion, for it is my gift to you, for you to extend your service to my causes. Since the writing describes your interaction with my valiant planetary helpers, the Midwayers, functioning according to my mandates, it is therefore appropriate that at this time I also officially thank them for the effort they have put into your education. 

“I thank you for giving me the opportunity to address my personal wishes and assurances about your writings. Carry on. Never fear, for your success is already lauded in the higher spheres where I reside. Proceed and follow your calling. You are all doing well. 

“As well, I herewith thank all My 11:11 human progress troopers for the efforts in international outreach that is so widely and easily understood and taken to heart. 

“I am Michael.”

Edited by Linda Abell.

© The 11:11 Progress Group. 
My Gift to you is for you to be of service to Me — Christ Michael.


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Mother's Mini-Message #2:  Time to Finish the Lower-Dimensional Hokey Pokey 

Mother's Mini-Message #2

Time to Finish the Lower-Dimensional Hokey Pokey

Good day Bright Stars!  

Did you know that?  Did you know that you are the brilliant Stars that Light up Father's and my sky?  Every precious one of you do.  Yes, you too.  Every one of you is the most treasured.  Every one of you receives all the love we have to give, which is an infinite and ever expanding amount.  As we get better and better at loving, because we are always growing too, we turn and give it all to you.  That is why our Love is always fresh and abundant, so open your spigot!  Here comes a new batch of HoneyLove!

Now that's the way I like to begin everything we do, covered and smothered in love like a hot fudge Sundae.  I mention ice cream just now especially for our Sananda who is here by my side as I speak this to you today.  I have asked him to be here to help out with today's Mother's Mini-Message.  Sananda likes ice cream very much; he likes about every kind of ice cream.  We all have favorite treats from when we have incarnated on Earth.  

We want you to get to know us like that now.  We want you to know us, Father and I and your Company of Heaven, personally and familiarly.  We want our bond with you to be warm and close, our communications to be frequent and full of laughter.  Again I tell you that we here in the Company of Heaven are not different from you.  We think of our differences as only a difference in capacity.  In this infinite moment, Father and I have more capacity to love, and that makes us more capable of all things.  That is truly the only difference between us - capacity.  And yours is always growing.  The rest is just perspective.  I will give you an example.  

A long time ago, we all began this Project.  We can use the Project's formal title, The Earth Project, or for today's Mini-Message we can also just call this Project the Hokey Pokey.  You know that dance you did as a child?  Well, it could be said that all of us are at varying stages of finishing the Earth Project dance, the Hokey Pokey.  Some of us, like our Sananda here, are personally finished dancing that dance.  They have put all their parts in and taken all their parts out of the Earth's lower dimensional Matrix.  Then, they come Home to Father and I in between lifetimes and "shake it all about" because that is what it's all about.  It's all about the lessons and the love.  

Many of you are caught on a first line of the song, as if your record is skipping and stuck there.  You put your heart in...you put your heart in...you put your heart in... but you haven't taken your heart out.  You have left your battered heart in the values and beliefs of the Matrix, and yet you wonder why it feels broken.  You put your brain in... but you haven't taken your brain out, so your thinking is still grooved into the dark and diabolical programming that always leads you astray.  You put your will in and you gave it to your lower ego, which certainly does everything possible to stop you from taking it out, so you live a life based on superficial gratifications rather than the everlasting fulfillment of aligning with our Divine Will.  

The solution is easy.  You just need to finish the dance.  Whatever you put into the Matrix, you need to take back out.  You do this by reestablishing your divine will, reclaiming your heart, and taking possession of your own brain.  

You must reclaim your will to direct and manage your own life, your own thinking, feeling and behaving.  No one has the right to own you.  You are not simply a leaf in the wind, being buffeted about by external forces.  If you believe you are controlled by the dark elements in your life, you have put your whole self into the Matrix, then you insist you haven't - you are just responding to "reality," and you have forgotten to take your whole self out.

This is the solution, of course.  First you must be courageous enough to "shake it all about."  Everything.  Your pet ideas, your precious beliefs, your opinions about yourself.  Leave nothing unquestioned, nothing unexamined.  Let nothing slip by your conscious attention. Be attentive as you have never been before.  Allow yourself to apply the strength of your own divine will to polishing the sheen of your own self-love, and you will be able to look at anything, change anything.

Now you are ready to really do the Hokey Pokey and turn yourself around.

And that's what it's all about.   

I am your Mother


Channeled by Kathryn E. May and Christine Burk, June 4, 2015


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Sivananda Daily Reading


6 June

Posted: 05 Jun 2015 02:13 AM PDT

Prayer 
As children we pray to our parents, elders and guardians at the time of our need. We seek their help and guidance. When we grow into adolescence we learn to pray to ourselves - to our latent abilities and strength. We try not to be dependent on others. But there is a limitation to this prayer. So when we feel we are in need of something else, something beyond our capacity, we resign ourselves to God and pray for His help and guidance. Evidently we feel His response - an all potent inner force that listens to our prayers and fulfils our wishes the moment we are a little sincere and faithful.
As for the devotee, he resigns himself to God - surrendering his ego at His feet. He forgets all about the world and thinks of nothing else but God alone who would surely save him and who alone would be able to help and guide him. He communes his will with God's and acts as per His guidance. There is no sense of individuality or doership in him. He knows that God's will is his will and that he must act up to it. Does that mean that he is devoid of self-effort? Certainly not. For he negates himself and resigns himself to the Lord. To him flows the divine grace instantly. His nature is divinised and so he naturally exerts himself in the right direction. Indeed the very act of self-surrender is purushartha (self-effort) of the highest order.
For the vedantin however, his prayer is essentially the prayer to the Self within - to himself   to the cosmic consciousness that is immanent in all. In the initial stage he considers his prayer as a sort of desire - either earthly or spiritual - either with motive or without motive. Then when he advances sufficiently in his sadhana (practice) he considers his (so called) desire as divine will, which finally opens his intuitive spiritual sight and becomes one with the cosmic will.
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The power of prayer is indescribable. Its glory is ineffable. Only sincere devotees realise its usefulness and splendour. Prayer should be done with reverence, faith and non-expectation of fruits. It should be done with a heart full of devotion. O ignorant man: Do not argue about the efficacy of prayer. You will be deluded. There is no arguing in spiritual matters. Intellect is a finite and frail instrument. Do not trust this.
Remove the darkness of your ignorance now, through the light of prayer.

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