I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from the Introduction and the section on the Holy Spirit:
The Holy Spirit is also an inspiring helper that can aid us in our spiritual journey of learning our pre-incarnative lessons and of being of service to others. Carla had a special relationship to the Holy Spirit from an early age. Her name for the Holy Spirit was Holly, and she was able to channel over 480 short messages from the Holy Spirit. We selected the best 366 channelings from the Holy Spirit and published them in 2007 as A Book of Days: Channelings From The Holy Spirit. This is what Carla had to say about these channelings in the Introduction to A Book of Days:
Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in us the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit and we shall be created, and You shall renew the face of the earth! O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may ever be wise and enjoy Its consolation. Amen.
This prayer, which I learned at an Episcopal Cursillo weekend in 1983, inspires me still, every time I offer it. It helps me to remember that we do not have to depend entirely upon ourselves and our “street smarts” to live a life of faith, hope and peace. We can turn, each and every day, to the Holy Spirit and ask for Its guidance and consolation. And we can watch our lives become ever more meaningful and beautiful as the Holy Spirit enkindles our hearts and firms our intentions.
We all live in two worlds at once. The outside world is noisy and restless. We hear the engines on the road, the voices on the telephone and at the door, and the din of our own unsettled thoughts. And although I do see the beauty and the blessing of that outer life, I constantly yearn for my Redeemer and Its voice. I cannot rest until I rest in the Lord.
Daily, in utmost thankfulness, I turn to the inner world, and here I hear no sound except that “still small voice” which radically and daily transforms my life, tosses me into my service and learning moment by moment and serenely guides me through every circumstance I encounter.
In offering to you these daily thoughts which I have collected, I offer you some of the fruits of my inner life. I make no claims for them whatsoever. I do not claim that this material is from the one and only Holy Spirit and therefore must be believed by all. I do not claim that this material is sacred or divinely inspired. I wish only to share these thoughts with those who may find them comforting and enlivening in their own lives.
A word about the format of these readings. The opening and closing greetings are artefacts of my channeling process. When I converse with the Holy Spirit, as I do sometimes using pencil and paper and writing down my questions, the responses are offered to me with less formality.
The readings as you see them begin after I have finished the challenging process and have accepted the contact with the Holy Spirit, who opens by greeting me. Because the channeling is being offered aloud, there is also a closing greeting when the reading is done.
Generally speaking, the meat of the reading lies between the opening greeting and the closing greeting. If you find these greetings repetitive, you can move directly to the thought for the day.”
These channelings are the most inspirational information that I have ever read, and I believe that simply reading one each day as a part of your spiritual practice can be most helpful, especially if you also take the time to consider each concept that is shared in the day’s message. I have found over the years that often the message from the Holy Spirit is synchronistically in tune with thoughts and experiences I have had that day, and I always include each day’s message from the Holy Spirit in my Camelot Journal entries. When Q’uo was asked about the Holy Spirit, this is what they had to say:
The Holy Spirit is not a comfortable comforter. It can create in the seeking soul a divine discomfort. It can help to sharpen and hone your particular vision of what it is to be yourself, what it is to be a part of the one infinite Creator, and what it is to face the world and look at that world, not for solace or for riches but for the opportunity to serve the light.
The one known as R was asking if the Holy Spirit could be considered an inner-planes or an outer-planes entity. We may say to the one known as R that you may consider this energy source to be both. In its function as guidance it is inner-planes. The calling is within the inner planes of your planet and in the inner bodies of your self. The connection is from the unseen realms directly into the heart, coming through the crown chakra, the gateway to intelligent infinity, down through indigo and blue, to rest in the heart itself.
When you have prayed to the Holy Spirit for a long period of time, you have created the connection that is instantaneous and strongly comforting, a never-failing source of wisdom, compassion and good advice.
The outer-planes portion of the Holy Spirit is that portion that has nothing to do with planet Earth or with your perceived notions of who you are or what the Creator is, for the Creator Itself is transcendent to Its creation. It is not an actor caught within the play of creation. It is uncreated, inorganic, infinite and eternal. Q’uo, March 19, 2006.
Today I stayed inside and worked on keeping warm as the temperature to begin the day was -3 degrees. I put a space heater in my bedroom and spent most of my time there as I have a heat vent in my bedroom and also another heat vent in the bathroom that is connected by a door to my bedroom. I decided not to take a speed walk today because of the frigid temperature, but I was able to do a load of laundry and vacuum the first floor of the house.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
December 23
To Smile Or To Frown
I am of the principle of divine love. I greet you in the consciousness of Jesus the Christ.
What have we to say about the world as you gaze at it this day? Perhaps today we would wish you to see that which is behind the daily matters which shall parade this day before your eyes.
Many things shall occur within this day and you shall have many opportunities to smile or to frown; to speak the kind word or the harsh one; to react impulsively or to take it easy and gaze at a situation long enough to gauge its total nature.
Perhaps, this day of all rushing Christmas days, we would suggest to each to take the time to slow down and to consider, in all the hustle and bustle, in all the choices that are made, that the great choice is always for merriment and for the expressions of love and sharing. All other considerations of preparation and business have not the priority of offering and manifesting the love of Christ in God.
May you stop and sense that abiding, deep, magical and peaceful presence. And in each choice that you make this day, may that feeling of peace empower and strengthen your ability to choose well your manifestation to the outer world.
You are children of the Most High. May you experience your birthright this day.
We leave you in love, joy and peace, both now and evermore. 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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