ON TAKING RISKS

Good day and happy Friday! This weekend I am babysitting my grandson, Will, and so I will not write a new blog until Monday morning. I hope you enjoy today's subject on risk-taking.

THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell...Chapter 14 (HEAVEN)

"Now you will find, once you are on Earth, that walls are built up in your mind; walls that keep you from remembering all that you have learned in your other life games and on your stay at home. If there were not these walls, you would not have to learn to choose the right paths in your life game, and there would be no point in experiencing and making different choices in your life games. The point of your life game is to experience; so do it freely, and learn to tear down the walls in your mind. For each wall torn down, you will rise another level and have more awareness of Me and All; this lets you make better choices in your game and will help you win your game.

"Take calculated risks-even uncalculated risks if your heart screams out. Going the easy road gets you through the game, but does not win the game. Do not regret either your failures or your successes, but embrace them as new-found friends and love them equally. For failure spurs you to greater growth, understanding, and knowledge, which all leads to success. Success, on the other hand, is the reward for perseverance and makes you secure in your own person. When big challenges come, take the bit in your teeth and run with it. A great idea, any idea, is worth taking a risk for; it is worth taking the greatest risk for. If you take no risks you will probably have a long, but boring, life, for neither grand love, nor great pain, can be chosen without risk.

"Go for the risks! It is the path of infinite self-awareness; of infinite enlightenment. If you never know great pain, you will never experience grand love. Accept that for every up, there is a counterbalanced down, but the changes in these frequencies is good exercise for your energy levels.

"I have two simple things to tell you, but they are the most important things to remember if you plan to win your life game:

"1) Love one another as I have loved you!

"2) I love you just as you are right now, with no exceptions; just as you are right NOW.

"Become aware of all that is around you, and that is within you. You are not required to know the pain of tomorrow morning now, for only one breath at a time is clear; so be aware.

"Awareness of anything will raise you a level; awareness of all, is the awareness that you are indeed Love, and that you are indeed me, ONE. To create awareness inside of yourself can be tricky; it is not an easy job to do. You must act lovingly in the midst of turmoil.

"There are an infinite number of levels. We constantly rise to new levels as we become aware. These are some pointers to let you know if you are growing and becoming more aware: 1) do you find yourself  being more loving to others, even of those who are different from yourself-especially if they are different from yourself; 2) less likely to judge yourself or others; 3) more accepting of people as they are; 4) more sure of yourself-of who you are; 5) more relaxed; 6) less likely to look at the clock; 7) realize with joy that things are getting better and better in your spiritual life-especially if the truth of the matter is that things around you may be falling apart; 8) treating animals with greater kindness and respect; and 9) doing all you can to protect mother earth.

"And now, a word about words: each word has a spirit/energy of its own, so when you speak or write, be careful that your words convey exactly what you are trying to say. Speak simply, clearly, and briefly.

"The two most powerful words in the Cosmos are love and hate. Love and Hate are four-letter words! They mean the same in any language. Each holds a powerful energy to change the minds and hearts of humankind.

"HATE has the most negative energy possible; LOVE has the most positive energy possible. Use the word hate, only when describing its effects and consequences on the human condition. Use the word love as often as possible, so that the energy of the word dominates all other words. This effect will change the minds and hearts of humans into positive energy; rather like tossing a coin into a lake and watching the ripples move out in all directions. The consequences of this effect will change humans into human beings, and our Cosmos into a paradise.

"Now, you know that time and space are illusions, but in your life games you will use time and space constructions to keep you grounded, to calculate distance, to measure the past and define a future. However, if you must use time and space constructions, know that time/space is vertical, and that all constructions of time/space occur at the same 'instant.' There is no time or space in the dimension of Heaven, only in the sense that you construct it as you create any scenario that you want to play here.

On Monday, we learn the "Rules" of our life games...

ANN CONVERSES WITH THE GREAT I AM

My dear friend, I hope you are enjoying Ann's confrontation with ONE and the ideas He leaves her with. Thank you for returning to this blog, your interest keeps me writing and I appreciate you so much!

THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell...Chapter 14...(HEAVEN)

"We decided that the goal of the game was to become aware that you were ONE; that all of us are ONE. That ONE is love and each of us in our own experience is love, for that is who you are; but how to experience? What was an experience? We decided that it was a feeling and understanding of a particular situation; a situation that we would each create, then play out, in a series of life games. We each chose how many experiences we wanted to try and how many games of life we would play. We arrived at our answers by considering how much we were already aware of, and how close we were coming to knowing that we were love, and that we were ONE. Then when all of us are aware that we are all ME, when love completely fills the Cosmos, we re-create and begin the game again; each of us starting from another perspective, but with the same goals.

"What else worries you dear?"

"Will you love me even if I do bad things; even if I fail my life game?"

"I will always love you just as you are.

"You have been choosing the parameters of your new life game, and what have you chosen when you choose a life game? Everything; as you have just been finding out. You have decided who you want to be a part of your family while you play this life game. You chose your complexion, your culture, and which world to manifest in; and you did so knowing what the consequences of your choices are; what challenges you want to overcome.

"Follow yur heart, it will never fail you. Know in your being that you are a pure bright light. You think only I am pure love, but remember that you are me. Now trust in your basic instinct to love and give, for that is who you are.

"Yes, you can give me a billion examples of persons who seem to truly be the opposite of love. Often these people seem to succeed and know great wealth and status, but they are forgetting who they are, and unless they redirect their energies, will come to the end of their lives without winning their life game.

"The purpose and goal of each person's life game is to remember who they are. To that end I give you free will and freedom of choice which are both needed in  order for you to be a  free person and come to your goals by choice.

"I will always be by your side, and if you choose, I will guide you through your game. All you need do is ASK and I will give you the desire of your heart."

I looked squarely at the bright light that now was everywhere around the room. Then I looked at my own body standing there and realized that indeed I was also light, as were the men behind the fish pond; and the pond, and the chairs and, in short, everything in the room and the room itself was all pure light. All I could feel was love and joy. So this is what ONE is talking about. We are all him, so we are all love, so we cannot fail in our paths if we always choose love.

"How will I worship you ONE? How will I know I am doing it right?"

"A person comes to me in his heart and soul, and it does not matter to me how they come to me-the formulary or rituals-nor does it matter to me what name a person calls me: Heavenly Father; God; Jesus; Allah; Krishna; Buddah, or whatever he is comfortable with.

"Man knows me by rising in frequency to higher levels and recognizing my presence; all else follows. Soime people will know me from birth, some person know me just before death, others never rise at all; it is each person's choice.

"There will be many sacred books that are written on each of your planets. You would do well to study the works of each religion that man creates, for there will be universal threads of truth in each book, although no book can totally captrure the essence, the energy, that is me.

"Study your own feelings and experiences as well as all the knowledge you can possibly absorb on all  subjects from Cosmology to Quantum Mechanics; to all histories and cultures. Question everything that you see, hear, and study. Make you own conclusions, but listen carefully to everyone. Use other's experiences to add knowledge to you own experience. Leave nothing and no one without question. Question yourself. Question Me. But one caution-Do Not Attept to Change Another Person- leave them to their own perceptions with honor!

"DO not be afraid to speak your own mind and heart, even in great adversity; but always conclude, to whomever you speak, that they should question what you are saying for themselves.

"I have given you the great gifts of Free Will and Freedom of Choice. Free Will is the power of the mind to choose a particular course of action AND accept the conseqences of that action. Freedom of Choice is the game of life where at each point in the game we are asked which direction we want to travel and we choose which path to take next. However, we must also be willing to give each other person their own Free Will and Freedom of Choice.

Tomorrow we learn about taking risks; becoming more aware; running with your ideas, and a discussion of levels and our growth through the levels...

ANN LISTENS TO THE GREAT I AM

Good morning my dear friend, I hope you will bear with me over the next four days as Ann listens to the love and advice of ONE, in a rather unusual setting.

THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell...Chapter 14 (cont.)  HEAVEN

"Gabriel and Raphael are here today to witness your choices as you hear them from ONE yourself. So now I will be quiet and we will put our hearts and minds together and prepare to hear from ONE."

As Adam sat down, the room became very quiet, and then I noticed a slight rippling on the surface of the water of the pond. The room filled with a light so bright that I covered my eyes. My heart was leaping in my chest and the most incredible joy filled my entire soul. I snuck a peek and saw splendid light dancing on the top of the fish pond.

"Oh, are you looking?" said a strong, warm voice. "It is only I. I AM. I AM ONE. I am you and all that is in this room, and all that is everywhere and nowhere. I AM."

And then I understood that I was witnessing ONE in one of his Manifestations.

My feet felt frozen to the floor, but I had the barest semblance of intelligence and quickly fell to my knees in awe.

"Come, now, Ann. You know that I love you and I know that you love me. We are best friends. I am best friends with all of my children if they will let me be. Now sit down and listen for just a moment; and for my sake, look at ME."

"Dear ONE, are you sure that I can look at you here, and if you are here, what about everywhere else?"

"My child, I AM everywhere. You can find me in the men's room at the Atlas Drug Store if you really want me there. You can find me beside you in the trenches of war when you call upon me for help with your buddy. You can find me on the third shift of your machinist's job when life becomes overburdened and you just need to talk. I am with the man who is drunk and asking for a cigarette when you have started home too late. I am with the mother rocking a colicky baby at 3:00 in the a.m. I AM that I AM. Nothing exists outside of Me. I am ALL."

"Dear ONE, I will need your help to get through with my life game and come home a winner of the game. Will you be there for me?"

"Ann, IT is all about LOVE. Come from love in all that you do and you will never make a wrong decision. I will always be by your side, even if you forget and can't seem to find me, just say my name and we have started a conversation."

"What if I make mistakes, ONE? What if my intentions start out right and later turn out to be wrong?"

"Ann, if you weren't going to make mistakes there would be no purpose in creating another life game at all. It doesn't matter if you fall down or fail, as long as you learn from your lessons and can pick yourself up and try again.

"I am energy. I am all frequencies. I vibrated at my highest frequency and a particle of matter came into being; a particle of absolute density. I created the Big Bang, I am the singularity, and the Cosmos was born. Evolution took over. All has life-energy-all evolves towards the highest level.

"This beauty I enjoyed and contemplated. There was peace and unity in each process taking place, but then I became lonely and bored and I created the God Games. I wanted to have fun and express love and joy. I knew to create THIS, I had to create the other, THAT: Left and Right; Up and Down; Yin and Yang; Negative and Positive; Night and Day; Love and Pain. Nothing can exist without non-existence also being manifest, for there must be the positive and negative in all creation.

"I wanted to experience what I had created and I did not want to be alone, but most of all, I wanted to have fun.

"Parts of me I put not only into the particle of matter, but also ito tiny energy forms: Spirits; YOU. In your language you are my child, but I say you are me. Everyone is me; everything is me. We are ONE. Nothing exists outside of ME. There is no devil or hell outside of ME; there is no heaven or angels outside of ME.

"So I created the spirits of all, and each spirit is unique. Altogether, that makes the Cosmos a colorful and varied place. The Cosmos is not whole without you; as you change, the mosaic changes. Who you are, is love; all comes from love, for I am love.

"I now had my spirits and I had yin and yang; positive and negative. Now, how could we have fun? I created the God Games.

"Not all of you were on the same frequency, as a matter of fact, each of you had a unique frequency. Some were on one level of consciousness and others were on higher or lower levels of consciousness; awareness.

Tomorrow...we hear more of ONE'S instructions to Ann; Free Will and Freedom of Choice...

SURPRISE AT THE COUNCIL OF ELDERS BUILDING

Good morning my dear friend, I think you will be surprised over the next five days as we deal with the Council of Elders and Ann's audience with ONE (God). Thank you for coming to my blog, I hope you will enjoy.

THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell...Chapter 14  (HEAVEN)

Glenna said that we would take a short break before going to the bungalow, and she led me off of the path down a sloping green mound to the beach that surrounded the island. The sand was soft and warm under our feet and we walked for a long way listening to the water lap against the shore, and watching all the lights from the buildings we had so recently visited. I felt energy fill me and I was ready for any other challenges I would face at the Council of Elders.

Glenna then took me to a nearby bungalow, and to my surprise, a wonderful dinner was on the table when we arrived. We sat down to a meal of bean burritos, watermelon and cantaloupe, washed down with spiced apple juice. When we were done eating, Glenna clapped her hands and all of the dishes disappeared into thin air. Then we laid back on chaise lounges and talked about all we had seen and done on the island so far; all of the mysteries and surprises we had encountered.

Suddenly, I opened my eyes and saw that the world was light once more. I rose and saw Glenna summoning us up some early breakfast. We sat down to pancakes smothered with strawberries and cream, and a pot of green tea. Afterwards, Glenna told me it was time to go to the Council of Elders Building.

As we walked down the pathway to the Council of Elders Building, I noticed that Glenna had a big smile on her face. I asked her what she was smiling so big for, and she told me that there was something about the "Council of Elders" building itself, for me to just wait and see.

We then turned onto the path that led to the Council of Elders Building. The building was round and looked to be pure white, with a roof covered by a brilliant, flawless diamond. As we drew nearer, it looked to me as though something was moving in the walls of the building. We drew closer and I could see that the walls were moving, or rather that something in the walls, was moving. I picked up speed and practically ran to the building, and then stood breathless as I realized that I was seeing an orange fish swim by. Then a whole school of yellow fish, with black fins, swam by.

"What am I looking at Glenna?" I asked.

"What you are looking at is an aquarium. All of the outer walls of the building are aquariums. Just wait until you get inside and are surrounded by the aquariums; it is a very beautiful and uplifting experience."

Glenna and I rushed to the entrance of the building, and Glenna opened the crystal door. We walked inside and were quickly surrounded by the scents of jasmine and roses; soothing tones fell upon our ears and eased my concern for what I might learn in this building.

We walked all around the inside of the building admiring the hundreds of different varieties of fish. There were so many different colors and sizes; fish from  many different planets all living in peace and harmony in the most magnificent aquarium possible. I was thrilled from top to toe and would have spent the entire day watching the fish, but a young gentleman came up to us and asked if I were Ann. I told him that I was.

"Well, Ann, it is time for you to go into the Council of Elders. How do you like our aquarium?"

"Oh, very much," I said, "these surroundings have relaxed me, and prepared me for whatever I shall learn here today."

With that said, the man led me into a large room that was paneled in mahogany and had a crystal ceiling that exposed the beautiful diamond roof. On a raised dais there were three seats in a semi-circle behind a large pond of water filled with goldfish. There was a large plush chair in front of the dais, and in the middle of the room was a table covered in a lace table cloth. On the table were a tray of chocolate-covered strawberries and a bottle of fine champagne. I filled a small plate and took a glass of the wine, and then took the seat in front.

I had barely seated myself, when three men, dressed in pure white robes, filed in and took their seats on the dais. Their faces were universally calm, and seemed to glow with love. All fear and apprehension left when I saw their faces. I was very surprised to see that father was seated as one of the three men on the dais; that I had not expected.

Father stood up, and introduced himself as Adam. He then introduced the other two men, as Gabriel and Raphael.

"Welcome to the Council of Elders," Adam said, "You are here today to hear all that you need to know before proceeding on to your new life game. Since you are here, you must have gone through the other Houses here on the Isle of Purpose. You have made choices as to your character on your new planet, and finished your pathway and game board. You have been approved to come to this house, this day, to hear some vital truths that will tie together all that you have learned so far. You have chosen to know and love ONE, and today you will come to know the truths that you will need, in order to guarantee that you return home as a winner of your game.

Tomorrow, Ann meets the great ONE...

DID YOU CHOOSE THE DATE OF YOUR DEATH? (cont.)

Have a wonderful new week, and may you be blessed with all of the desires of your heart!

THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell...Chapter 13...

And wth that said, Marie led us back to the original room, and directed us to go to a door across that room. When we got closer to the door, we saw a sign on it that said, "Open to go to Pathway Planning." Glenna opened the door, and we were in a little room with a small desk in it and a sign that said, "Ring the Bell."

Glenna rang the bell and soon a tall young man appeared. He was singing under his breath, and was smiling at the same time. "Hello," he said, "you must be Ann! We are going to have a good time finishing your game! My name is Alex, and I will be your gamemaster today, any questions?"

"Not yet, Alex," I said, "but I'm sure I'll have a million once we get going."

Alex led us down a short hallway, into a large, bright room. There, on a large table, lay the game board I had seen in the House of Goals and Challenges, with all of its writhe of paths, and the one golden path. One thing had been added, the beginning square now said July 14, 1944; 7:59 p.m.

Alex said, "We are going to first establish a date of death so we can fill in the last square. Have you given any thought to when you are going to die in your life game?

"Well, well," I stuttered, "that hasn't crossed my mind yet; I sure want to live long enough to win this game."

"I have had a lot of experience counseling people on death dates," said Alex. "From what I know of your life game, I would suggest a long life of reasonable to very good health. I see some very dark periods of your life where there may be times of grave physical and mental health, with some possibility of near death experiences. Yet, somehow, I see you coming out on top of all of these problems. Do you want to create such a scenario?"

"Do I want to create near-death experiences, and grave physical and mental health? Not if I don't need to; but are you really saying that I may need the experiences to grow and develop, and accomplish all I need to in this life game?"

"Yes, that is what I am saying. Shall we say 75 years of life? 80?"

"From my perspective 80 sounds a lot better than 75."

"Okay, then we'll say 80 years. So you might make November 13, 2024, your death date. Can you create that; do you approve of that?"

"Yes, I can create that. So, now we have our final square. Would that also be my 'win' square?"

"Well, Ann, you won't know for sure if you have won this life game, until you return home. You will find out after you die. This final square will simply indicate the end of this particular life game.

"Okay then, let's get on with setting up your life game. I am going to show you some landmarks along your path; first the sad landmarks, and then the happy landmarks. Are you following me?"

"I think so; let's get on with it. I am ready to listen to you."

"Well, the hardest and sadness landmarks are when beloved family members die. You will have several of these incidents. Your first death is of your little girl, Carol, in 1970. Your father and brother will die within two weeks of each other in September 1991. In May of 2000, both Bruce and your mother will die; again within two weeks of each other. In 2005, your beloved Ed will die; in 2007, Charles Albert will pass away; and in 2008, your beautiful and much loved daughter, Becky, will pass away. These are the hardest times of your life and they can be physically, mentally, and emotionally draining. Each death of a loved one changes your life, and can send you down a dark path, but I can tell by looking at your character on these printouts that you will always return to the golden pathway.

"Enough of pain, let's look at the good landmarks now.

"You will choose to experience six different religions in your life game, and furthermore, you will participate in several other religions as a learning experience. When you get older, you will develop your own spiritual path and be happy there for the rest of your lifetime.

"We will mark the landmarks of your relationships and marriage. Then there are the landmarks of the various colleges and schools you will attend and graduate from.

"Your mountain experience will last for 14 happy, but struggling years.

"You will learn to play several instruments; you will become a teacher of religion for children and adults; and you will have a professional life as a Teletraffic Engineer.

"Then finally, your greatest joys, the births of your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren."

"Boy," I said, "the game board is filled with landmarks. I can hardly wait for the game to start!"

"Well, Ann," Alex said, "these are all landmarks along your golden path. Your response to these landmark occurences may send you down darker paths, or give you the strength to conquer your next mountain top.

"Now, the most important landmarks of all to place are: FUN! You have to have fun to survive; a little joy goes a long way to helping you stay on your chosen, golden, path. Let's add the parties; the holidays-celebrate everyone you can; the anniversaries; the graduations; the marriages; the birthdays; actually, celebrate all of your days, just because you've made it through them! I will give you one great piece of advice: laugh. Laughter, even forced laughter, chases away pain and unhappiness and will save your life many times over.

"Well Ann, now your board is really full. Do you feel comfortable with your life game? Can you choose all that we have spoken about?"

"Yes. Yes I can. Are we done now? Are we really all set up for my game?"

"Yes, Ann, you are finished preparing your game. It has been a pleasure working with you on this project. Now take a good, long look at this game board and make sure that there is nothing that you want to add or subtract."

I looked the board over and could definitely see many twists and turns; many dark paths chosen, but all of the paths eventually returned to the golden pathway and the golden pathway led straight and true until the end square. I was pleased; a little scared, but pleased, and I told Alex that I chose this board game to reflect my life game.

And with that said, Glenna and I left Alex and the Game Development: House of Pathways. When we got back outside, it was a soft, gentle night. Glenna said that we would next go to one of the bungalows to rest for a while and have some supper.

She told me that in the morning I would be going to the Council of Elders Building, where I would be prepared for my trip to the next dimension: Earth.

Tomorrow, a trip to the very exciting Council of Elders building. What about it is very strange?...

DID YOU CHOOSE THE DATE OF YOUR DEATH?

Wishing you a great Sunday, and a wonderful new week!

THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell...Chapter 13

Glenna and I left the Goals and Challenges Building and walked out into the warm afternoon. The breeze carried the rich aroma of roses and violets. We walked for a while until we were deep into a young pine forest, and there, to my surprise, was an ice cream vendor. Glenna ordered a double-dip vanilla cone, and I ordered a double-dip Moose Tracks cone. What a total luxury to enjoy a beautiful day, in a sweet-smelling forest, lapping up rich, cold ice cream.

"Well, dear," said Glenna, "how does it feel to be almost finished with your game development?"

"I am very happy that we only have two more houses to go to. My mind and spirit feel like they are stretched to the limit, but every house has been so different, and so interesting, and I've learned so much about who I will be on this visit to Earth, that I am almost sad that there are not more houses to go to."

"Well, this next house is really the last one where you will be creating and choosing for your new life game. In the second house you will be listening to the Council of Elders and only requires your full attention; you will find your time there most enlightening and very interesting. So, when we have finished our ice cream we will move on to the House of Pathways."

In a little while, we found ourselves walking toward the next house; it was very close to the House of Goals and Challenges. The Game Development: House of Pathways Building was very long and had a ruby roof that glowed like fire. It had a big brass door and Glenna had some trouble getting it open. When she did, we entered a very large room. Several hundred computers where in use. Glenna told me that the people working there were working on schedule co-ordination and time-lines for people's life games.

Glenna spoke to a young woman behind a desk by the front door, and the woman told us to start our course by going to the back of the room where there was a sign on the door that said, "Birth Date." We made our way to the room and took a seat to await the arrival of whom we were not sure. Soon a lovely woman with very serious eyes came to help us. "Whom are we helping today?" she asked.

Glenna said that my name was Ann, and the woman said that they had been waiting for me. She rang a little bell and another woman of serious demeanor came out to meet us.

"Hello," said the woman, "my name is Marie and I will be helping you today. Come along to my office."

With that said, we walked down a hall to Marie's office. Her office was stuffed with books, charts, and papers, but, even with that said, it all looked to be in precise order.

Marie told us that in any life game there must be a beginning and an end: a birth date, and a death date; a beginning square and an ending square. Her job, she said, was to create a beginning for me. With that, she brought out a printout that detailed the attributes, qualities, and weaknesses that would be "me," my character, in the new game I was preparing.

"Dear," she said, "I have spent many hours preparing a chart for you that would reflect your true character, and give you guidlines for your future on Earth. You will be born in San Diego, California, U.S.A., Earth. Your sun sign will be Cancer, your moon sign Taurus, and your rising sign Aquarius. You will have Mercury in Gemini, Venus in Cancer, Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Leo, Saturn in Cancer, Uranus in Gemini, and Neptune in Libra. Does that all sound like gibberish to you?"

"Pretty much," I said. "How does that translate into a birth date for me?"

"Well dear, if you were on Earth and knew your birth date, and time of birth, you could easily find out what your "horoscope" read, but here, I have to extrapolate your birth date, and time of birth, from all the knowledge we have of you as you have created your persona for your new life game. Do you want to know your birth date and time of birth?"

"Oh, yes, very much!"

"Well dear, you will be born on a holiday, but not one celebrated in the U.S.A. You will be born on Bastille Day, a French holiday much like the U.S.A.'s Fourth of July: July 14, 1944, at 7:59 p.m. Does that make you happy?

"Yes it does. I don't know why, but I like the look of the numbers, they seem balanced. I guess that sounds kind of dumb, but I really do like it, it seems to fit me."

"Your birth date and time give you some helpful clues as to your strengths and weaknesses, and some help, while you are on Earth, as to some likely occurences or trends in your life. A wise person studies all aspects pertaining to their lives, so that they can be prepared-as much as they can be-for situations coming up in their lives."

"Thank you so very much for all of your hard work, I really appreciate it," I said.

To be continued tomorrow...

Tomorrow we decide on our own death date...

WHAT GOALS & CHALLENGES DID YOU CHOOSE? (concl.)

I  hope you are having a wonderful day, my blessings are with you, thank you for coming to my Blog.

THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell...Chapter 12...

"In your adulthood, you will be put under much stress: Charles will be gone most of your married life, for he will be in the armed forces and it will be war time; you will raise your five children essentially alone; you will live in poverty and find it a great struggle just to feed and clothe your children.

"You will have a mental illness-bi-polar disorder.

"Do you think you have enough challenges?"

"Grief, there is certainly a lot that I hadn't counted on. Did I choose to go through all of that?"

"Some of the challenges you have already chosen as consequences to other choices you have made, some you haven't yet, but you asked to win your life game this time, and that requires a very hard row to hoe. Are you up to your challenges, and do you accept them as part of your game?"

"Yes. Yes I do. I know I can win if my eyes are fixed on ONE'S great love. I know that if I can remember to have faith in him, that he will always walk with me and give me strength and guidance. I know that it is also his goal to have me win; that he wants all of his children to win. Yes, I choose the challenges you have put before me."

"Then, if you have made these choices," said Larry, "We are almost finished here. Would you like to see your game board?"

And there, on the table before us, appeared a game board. It seemed to writhe with different paths interconnecting; and forks in the paths leading to nowhere. I could see that there were choices to be made on Earth also. In fact, it looked like we make constant choices and everywhere there are paths that can go in any direction depending on the choices we make; but I could also distinguish a golden-colored path that ran throughout the game and landed on the win square. Surely, if I followed the rules that I had decided upon, I could always see the golden path and come back to it if I strayed too far away. I was sure that I could accomplish my goals; sure that I could indeed win this game.

"Thank you for helping me set up my game. What is my next step in this process?"

Then Tom said, "We all have faith in your abilities and believe you can win this game or we would not send you on to the Pathways Building. Glenna will take you there next and you will see the final work done on your life game. Have faith in yourself, for your spirit will always guide you to make the right choices, and you know that your spirit was created by ONE and is part of ONE, so again, have faith and you will win."

With that said, Glenna and I left the room and the so-intriguing board game, that was to guide my life on Earth.

"Well, my dear, are you comfortable with what you've learned and set up here? Are you ready for a stop in the park, some ice cream, and a little serious talk?"

"Oh yes, Glenna I am comfortable with what I've just learned; I'm a little scared of some of the challenges, but I feel comfortable that I can overcome them. Let's do have some ice cream and rest a while, for my mind seems to be locked in a brain freeze."

And with that, we left the Goals and Challenges building, and walked to a nearby park to get some soul refreshment.

Tomorrow see how we set our birth and death dates as we complete our Game Board...