YOUR OWN PLACE
If you say that you are unhappy, dissatisfied, perhaps ill or impoverished, a failure, this is simply another way of putting the fact that you are not allowing the will of God to have free play in your life-you are not doing the thing that He meant you to do.
Discontent is not necessarily a bad thing. It is your duty to be discontented with anything less than complete harmony and happiness. A wholesome discontent with dullness, failure, and frustration is your incentive for overcoming such things. Whoever you are, your true place is calling, and because you really are a spark of the Divine, you will never be content until you answer.
Remember that this call is the call of God, and when God calls you to His Service, He pays all the expenses. Whatever you may require to answer that call-all will He furnish, if you be about His business and not your own. (Emmet Fox)
THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell...Chapter 38...
I am beginning to feel elderly. No more do I just walk out of my home before taking in weather reports and conditions for my area. In the winter I cannot any longer go outside without suitable garb and protection on. In the winter it is coats and scarves and hats, and in the summer it is sun block, sunglasses, and a light sweater in case the breeze should cool off towards evening. At all times I wear the dreaded sensible shoes and now the doctor insists that I walk with a cane as I have osteopenia and a little trouble with balance. Vanity goes out the window as you age.
Every morning I awake and rejoice that I am still alive and kicking. I find myself cleaning the house every morning, which is much different from when I was younger, but I like to have the sense of order around me. As well as the fact, that if I don't put things in a certain place I will have lost then forever as my memory in some areas is very dim. All of the data is still in the organic computer but access to the data is running a little more slowly.
Food is the focal organizing point of the day; three set meals mark each part of the day, and the cleaning up of those meals give the day substance and balance.
The second organizing factor of the day is taking care of your health. There are the monthly doctor appointments, the organizing and taking of multiple medications and vitamins/minerals, and the monitoring of yourself and your diet. The month is ruled by going to the various doctor appointments which entail walking a mile to the bus, taking the bus to your destination, walking to the doctor's office, and then turning around and repeating the process in reverse. It has become very hard to get out and do all of the walking and taking of the bus, but those steps are very necessary to my health so I do them.
I have become ever more aware of my own self and it seems that I can clearly distinguish the outline between my spirit and my flesh. I wonder often if I can hear the music of Heaven for the music is very enticing that runs through my mind. I feel my own mortality and it drags me down to earth. I teeter on the edge of a terror that I will harm myself in some dumb way just like I broke the end joint of my right index finger and I have no idea of how I broke it. It makes you really feel safe to walk out into the outside world. Then there is the other enemy, the germs and illnesses that are brought into the home when the grandchildren have the flue or a cold. I love them so much and I love their hugs and kisses but sometimes I will excuse myself when they are obviously ill, because I automatically catch whatever illnesses they bring with them, and healing from each bout of the flu takes several weeks.
I have become the matriarch of a large interracial family and that is humbling and exciting at the same time. It is what I have definitely always prayed for, but now I have so many young people looking at me to see if I am as good as my word and what I teach them. I pray hard every day to grow ever wiser and stronger and to know what to say to each of them. I pray that I will live what I teach.
This is my philosophy that I share with you for a moment. I feel like I need to write down my thoughts for my family. IT is all about love. The great truths are that we are love and that we are one with ONE.
I have begun to understand that we are all one. That what hurts you; hurts me also. That what brings joy to you; brings joy to me. I am responsible for treating you with loving kindness, for treating you with respect and dignity. For when I honor you , I honor my own self. We are one, my friend, and we are also one with everyone and everything in this universe. We are love, and love is not a weak, ephemeral feeling, but the great force, the great energy, that runs the Cosmos. That is the Cosmos. I do not "own" anything spiritual alone, for all belongs to all. You may hold a fine object in your possession all of your life and believe that you own it. That is quite different from owning its essence; its spirit.
ONE loves you just as you are right now. He loves all of his children and hears them, is with them, at all times. He cares deeply if we choose Him, but He loves us so much that He has given us a free will and freedom of choice in all that we do; He has given us our freedom. There are no rules to ONE's love. It is free and does not quantify nor qualify. It is boundless as the skies. It is infinite. All of us are one with ONE and we are His representatives of love.
The concept of guilt is a bunch of bunk. It gets in the way of our recognizing who we are. Of course we feel remorse when we hurt another person, and we repent and mend the situation, but once we have shown love and compassion to the person we hurt we must let go of the negative feelings in our heart regarding this subject. To do else is to subtract time from more worthy pursuits. The worthy pursuit is to grow in love and in expressing that love. Once you realize that you do love, then you realize that there is no fault in you that has not been overcome by the greatest love of all, ONE. You know that you are a part of the whole, the ONE; that there is nothing that cannot be forgiven.
Tomorrow Ann attains 80 years of age, looks over her family, and sees Ed once more...
If you say that you are unhappy, dissatisfied, perhaps ill or impoverished, a failure, this is simply another way of putting the fact that you are not allowing the will of God to have free play in your life-you are not doing the thing that He meant you to do.
Discontent is not necessarily a bad thing. It is your duty to be discontented with anything less than complete harmony and happiness. A wholesome discontent with dullness, failure, and frustration is your incentive for overcoming such things. Whoever you are, your true place is calling, and because you really are a spark of the Divine, you will never be content until you answer.
Remember that this call is the call of God, and when God calls you to His Service, He pays all the expenses. Whatever you may require to answer that call-all will He furnish, if you be about His business and not your own. (Emmet Fox)
THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell...Chapter 38...
I am beginning to feel elderly. No more do I just walk out of my home before taking in weather reports and conditions for my area. In the winter I cannot any longer go outside without suitable garb and protection on. In the winter it is coats and scarves and hats, and in the summer it is sun block, sunglasses, and a light sweater in case the breeze should cool off towards evening. At all times I wear the dreaded sensible shoes and now the doctor insists that I walk with a cane as I have osteopenia and a little trouble with balance. Vanity goes out the window as you age.
Every morning I awake and rejoice that I am still alive and kicking. I find myself cleaning the house every morning, which is much different from when I was younger, but I like to have the sense of order around me. As well as the fact, that if I don't put things in a certain place I will have lost then forever as my memory in some areas is very dim. All of the data is still in the organic computer but access to the data is running a little more slowly.
Food is the focal organizing point of the day; three set meals mark each part of the day, and the cleaning up of those meals give the day substance and balance.
The second organizing factor of the day is taking care of your health. There are the monthly doctor appointments, the organizing and taking of multiple medications and vitamins/minerals, and the monitoring of yourself and your diet. The month is ruled by going to the various doctor appointments which entail walking a mile to the bus, taking the bus to your destination, walking to the doctor's office, and then turning around and repeating the process in reverse. It has become very hard to get out and do all of the walking and taking of the bus, but those steps are very necessary to my health so I do them.
I have become ever more aware of my own self and it seems that I can clearly distinguish the outline between my spirit and my flesh. I wonder often if I can hear the music of Heaven for the music is very enticing that runs through my mind. I feel my own mortality and it drags me down to earth. I teeter on the edge of a terror that I will harm myself in some dumb way just like I broke the end joint of my right index finger and I have no idea of how I broke it. It makes you really feel safe to walk out into the outside world. Then there is the other enemy, the germs and illnesses that are brought into the home when the grandchildren have the flue or a cold. I love them so much and I love their hugs and kisses but sometimes I will excuse myself when they are obviously ill, because I automatically catch whatever illnesses they bring with them, and healing from each bout of the flu takes several weeks.
I have become the matriarch of a large interracial family and that is humbling and exciting at the same time. It is what I have definitely always prayed for, but now I have so many young people looking at me to see if I am as good as my word and what I teach them. I pray hard every day to grow ever wiser and stronger and to know what to say to each of them. I pray that I will live what I teach.
This is my philosophy that I share with you for a moment. I feel like I need to write down my thoughts for my family. IT is all about love. The great truths are that we are love and that we are one with ONE.
I have begun to understand that we are all one. That what hurts you; hurts me also. That what brings joy to you; brings joy to me. I am responsible for treating you with loving kindness, for treating you with respect and dignity. For when I honor you , I honor my own self. We are one, my friend, and we are also one with everyone and everything in this universe. We are love, and love is not a weak, ephemeral feeling, but the great force, the great energy, that runs the Cosmos. That is the Cosmos. I do not "own" anything spiritual alone, for all belongs to all. You may hold a fine object in your possession all of your life and believe that you own it. That is quite different from owning its essence; its spirit.
ONE loves you just as you are right now. He loves all of his children and hears them, is with them, at all times. He cares deeply if we choose Him, but He loves us so much that He has given us a free will and freedom of choice in all that we do; He has given us our freedom. There are no rules to ONE's love. It is free and does not quantify nor qualify. It is boundless as the skies. It is infinite. All of us are one with ONE and we are His representatives of love.
The concept of guilt is a bunch of bunk. It gets in the way of our recognizing who we are. Of course we feel remorse when we hurt another person, and we repent and mend the situation, but once we have shown love and compassion to the person we hurt we must let go of the negative feelings in our heart regarding this subject. To do else is to subtract time from more worthy pursuits. The worthy pursuit is to grow in love and in expressing that love. Once you realize that you do love, then you realize that there is no fault in you that has not been overcome by the greatest love of all, ONE. You know that you are a part of the whole, the ONE; that there is nothing that cannot be forgiven.
Tomorrow Ann attains 80 years of age, looks over her family, and sees Ed once more...
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