I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote is from the Introduction and the section on values and how we estimate the situation:
Values-how we estimate situations
If we feel that values like peace, love, and service are the ways we would like to live our lives, then through the lens of each value we can evaluate any situation that we might be part of. When we speak of peace I think that it is important to realize that we are not talking about the absence of strife. We are talking about the inner peace that we feel when we realize our unity with all people, the creation, and the Creator. Q’uo had some inspiring words to share regarding the value of gaining and experiencing inner peace:
You have these pure, truthful, truth-filled emotions within and simply need to see them, all of them, as valuable precious, priceless objects which hold clear and crystalline truth. Even the deepest notes of terror, pain and all of those ways of suffering that flesh is err to, as this instrument would say, these notes too contain enormous beauty, earth-shattering intensity, and in the melody of your existence you may see yourself attempting to purify those notes. This is indeed an effort worth maintaining, for to the one who persists shall come that tremendous inner peace that spreads over the consciousness of one who has stopped judging on appearances and is willing to listen to the most distorted feeling complex with the steady and sure faith of one who knows that beneath the distortions that hide the crystal there does lie the virtue of perfect emotion. December 15, 1996
When we speak of love we are talking about the kind of unconditional love that opens our hearts to everyone and everything around us. Q’uo shared the concept of each of us having unconditional love within us when they said:
We can share that in every civilization, wherever hearts beat and hopes are high, there lives the personification of unconditional love in one savior or another, one hero or another, one saint or another. And those Christs and heroes and saints are you and I and everyone. Each shall have his moments throughout the long journey back to the one infinite Creator of realizing the self as the Christ, not in any egoistical way but in the sense of giving over the life completely to unconditional love and finding at last the source of all hunger and thirst being filled by embracing the consciousness of unconditional love.
Each of you is on a journey toward that identity and that nature. And you shall not find that identity and that nature by tossing away that which you are at this very moment for something better. Nay, my friends, you are, now, all that you need to be. You are perfect. You may not see as of yet that you are the Christ child, that you are spirit, that you are unconditional love. Yet we say to you that you may trust and rely upon the fact that this is the essence of all of you and each of you, every single one of you.
You may be in prison and have done terrible things. You may be on the road hungry and in despair. You may be angry or hurting or separated from that feeling of love by one thing or another. And yet we say to you that you are the Christ. You are, in your essence, unconditional love. And your journey as a spirit within incarnation may be described as a journey towards that realization and then towards the expressing of that realization when it has become your gift to yourself. December 15, 2007.
Then from these basic states of spiritual being we are able to be of more profound service to others in the way we live our lives and relate to other selves. These values also give us a standard of excellence which we can use to affect any situation that we might find ourselves involved in. I think that the Prayer of St. Francis says it well:
“Lord make Me an instrument of Your peace
Where there is hatred let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness joy.
O Divine master grant that I may
Not so much seek to be consoled as to console
To be understood, as to understand.
To be loved. as to love
For it’s in giving that we receive
And it’s in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it’s in dying that we are born…
To eternal life.
Amen.”
This afternoon I went to visit my friend, Connie, who has been in a care home in Southern Indiana for the last three and one-half years. While there we talked about how we were doing, and Connie has had some improvement in being able to move her right leg and right arm which have been paralyzed since her two strokes back in the summer 2019. That is really good news! Then I read Connie’s favorite book, Archangels and Ascended Masters by Doreen Virtue. We finished the book and then decided that the next book we want to read is Carla’s A Wanderer’s Handbook. Connie was always a big fan of Carla’s and was one of three women who came to visit Carla regularly when Carla was confined to her hospital bed for the last four years of her life due to a lumbar surgical wound that would not heal.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
December 17
Nothing But Darkness
I am the spirit of the full consciousness of the love of Jesus Christ. I greet you in the power of that love.
May all be well with you this day as you realize that only in the spirit can any meaning be made clear to you, the nature of any obstacle revealed or the depth of misunderstanding repaired.
The greatest illusion of your illusion is the apparent difference in vision betwixt day and night, for it would seem to suggest that there is as much clear and lucid sunlight to illumine understanding as there is darkness to cover it. Yet there is nothing but darkness in the illusion. The shining light of truth and peace enter in your inner eyesight only upon request.
Request, then, that Christ be with you, that the spirit of Christ remain with you always. For how else shall you see into matters too deep for your earthly sun to reach?
We leave you in the mystery of peace, peace unending. May God bless you. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of Love and open our hearts, our minds, and our souls to send love, light, and healing energies to Mother Earth as she brings forth a New Earth in fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energies of the One Infinite Creator heal the heart of each soul in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energies in their hearts, in their minds, and in their souls. Amen.
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