The importance of JOY
and my understandings that came thru a part of the
Conversations with God
I highly recommend reading this book!!
I am going to ask you to bear with this communication... and the excitement that I am trying to compose into a direct thought to share with all of you! It is one of the biggest holy cow moments I can remember having in a very long time.... Ask and you shall be made aware... that is my theme for the day, the theme of my life!
Recently I was in deep inner struggle compiled with being emotionally and spiritually just wiped out... and so I went to the Conversations with God book trilogy and opened to a random page begging God for some understanding that I just wasn't getting. And these are the words I opened to:
(If you have never read this book, the bold text in black is Neale talking to God, the red text is God's reply to Neale.
Many people believe if they ask in Jesus' name, you will grant their request.
Yes, many people do believe that. They believe they have no power, but they have seen (or believe others who had seen) the power of Jesus, so they ask in his name. even tho he said: "Why are you so amazed? These things, and more, shall you also do." Yet the people could not believe it. Many do not to this day.
You all imagine you are unworthy. So you ask in the name of Jesus. Or the Blessed Virgin Mary. Or the "patron saint" of this or that. Or the Sun God. Or the spirit of the East. You'll use anybody's name - anybody's - but your own!
Yet I tell you this - Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you....
...It was an act of ego.
Ego- that which is separate, individual - can never duplicate or demonstrate that which is One.
By seeking to demonstrate that he was God, the man on the building demonstrated only his separateness, not his unity, with all things. Thus, he sought to demonstrate Godliness by demonstrating Ungodliness, and failed.
Jesus, on the other hand, demonstrated Godliness by demonstrating Unity - and seeing Unity and Wholeness wherever (and upon whomever) he looked. In this his consciousness and My consciousness were One, and, in such a state, whatever he called forth was made manifest in his Divine Reality in that Holy Moment.
I see. so all it takes is "Christ Consciousness" to perform miracles! Well, that should make things simple...
Actually, it does. More simple than you think. And many have achieved such consciousness. Many have been Christed, not just Jesus.
You can be Christed, too.
How----?
By seeking to be. By choosing to be. But it is a choice you must make every day, every minute. It must become the very purpose of your life.
It is the purpose of your life - you simply do not know it. And even if you know it, even if you remember the exquisite reason for your very existence, you do not seem to know how to get there from where you are.~
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And I just burst out crying... what he talks about... being like Jesus and the others... is ALL I want... its all I want to be... not for the ego, but for the good I know I could bring to this earth. And I cried so hard and begged for understanding of what it is I am missing... I feel like I am on the edge of absolutely knowing, yet can't seem to find what is right in front of my nose... and I cried and begged for clarity to understand what I am missing... why do I keep falling short of the mark when I step right onto it!
And today... just now in meditation... I got the answer! And it is so flippin' simple... how did I never see it before...
If we are not in a moment of absolute joy we are not in Gods space. We are in man's space. Even in our thoughts... when they are not radiating that pure joy, we have moved away from Gods space... if we are not acting from that space of joy, of love, we can never know our true creative powers because we are creating from fear... ick...
So the trick is... the simplicity of this whole blessed thing that has taken me 6 long hard years to figure out... is all about being in Joy Being in the Presence of Love... every moment of every day... and you will know God... you will Be God.
We choose to feel bad.. we choose to look everywhere but that presence that brings us joy. If we are not in complete joy, we need to take another look and quickly. Change the internal channel to the joy/love channel... and you will always know clarity, even in the unknowing of it. It will always lead you to the Right place... to Gods next exciting moment.. and before you know it... its all you know.
Wow weezers even!!
Now... phew... before that revelation came to me... smile.... I had yet another one... ask and you shall truly know... I cannot believe I am just now getting this...
Before the joy aspect was given to me.. I had to wonder what is my part in this world.. what am I even trying to do here. I know I go blindly with faith... more than I have to really simply because I don't ask I just go... kinda funny to even think that way right now... but hey, I can be a slow learner lol.
And I was taken back to once again my own handbook and the chapter on the living library which says:
Living Library
Many times I have heard the term that someone is a “living library,” but I could not quite grasp what that meant. Then I started to hear the phrase “being given the keys to the library.” Again, I was puzzled. I really thought I would wake up one day and just know everything. So as I was reading these two things in a book, I called on my friend and spiritual teacher, Franklyn, to help me understand all of this library stuff, and to find out when I was going to just wake up one day with tons of knowledge (said with a chuckle). The following is what I have come to understand.
The living library is the earth. Everything we ever need to know is upon this earth. We are the books that hold all the information. Each one of us holds our own special contribution within our pages to this library, to share with those who seek the knowledge we store.
For example, I will never wake up one day and know all about crystals the way one person might, or about the various religions as someone else does, or about the many specific subjects some seem to excel in because we all have our own special books to offer one another. Everyone, as a whole, makes up the living library and mother earth is the storehouse for the knowledge that is available. The key is knowing the information stored inside yourSelf.~
...and I was shown myself as hmmmm I guess what you would call the superintendent of the library... the guy/gal who has all the keys to every door on a key ring... that's me... but those keys are not mine as in possessions... but mine to give away to every single person who asks to have their own key!!
I was like well holy cow batman... that makes perfect sense... I can see that in myself and where I have come from (my course)... how humbling really.... how exciting!! I know my job now... my joy now!!
Remember... only focus where you feel joy... if you are not feeling joy... change the channel... find the joy channel!!
I would also like to share this part of the Conversations with God trilogy book because it was also the very next page I opened up to the next day (as I was seeking more understanding for someone I was working with in getting this information posted above).
So tell me again - why does it take so much time for me to create the reality I choose?
For a number of reasons. Because you do not believe you can have what you choose. because you do not know what to choose. Because you keep trying to figure out what's "best" for you. Because you want guarantees ahead of time that all your choices will be "good". And because you keep changing your mind!!
Let me see if I understand. I shouldn't try to figure out what's best for me?
"Best" is a relative term, depending on a hundred variables. That makes choices very difficult. There should be only one consideration when making any decision - Is this a statement of Who I Am? Is this an announcement of Who I Choose to Be?
All of life should be such an announcement. In fact, all of life is. You can allow that announcement to be made by chance or by choice.
A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction.
Reaction is just that - an action you have taken before. When you "re-act", what you do is asses the incoming date, search your memory bank for the same or nearly the same experience, and act the way you did before. This is all the world of the mind, not of your soul.
Your soul would have you search its "memory" to see how you might create a truly genuine experience of You in the Now Moment. This is the experience of "soul searching" of which you have so often heard, but you have to be literally "out of your mind" to do it.
When you spend your time trying to figure out what's "best' for you, you are doing just that: spending your time. Better to save your time than to spend it wastefully.
It is a great time-saver to be out of your mind. decisions are reached quickly, choices are activated rapidly, because your soul creates out of the present experience only, without review, analysis, and criticism of past encounters.
Remember this: the soul creates, the mind reacts.
The soul knows in its wisdom that the experience you are having in This Moment is an experience sent to you by God before you had any conscious awareness of it. This is what is meant by a "pre-sent" experience. It's already on the way to you even as you are seeking it - for even before you ask, I shall have answered you. Every Now Moment is a glorious gift from God. That's why it is called the present.
The soul intuitively seeks the perfect circumstance and situation now needed to heal wrong thought and bring you the rightful experience of Who You Really Are.
It is the soul's desire to bring you back to God - to bring you home to me.
it is the soul's intention to know itself experientially and trust to know Me. For the soul understands that You and I are One, even as the mind denies this truth and the body acts out this denial.
Therefore, in moments of great decision, be out of your mind, and do some soul searching instead.
The understands what the mind cannot conceive.
If you spend your time trying to figure out what's "best" for you, your choices will be cautious, your decisions will take forever, and your journey will be launched on a sea of expectations.
If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.
Whew! That's quite an answer! But how do I listen to my soul? How do I know what I'm hearing?
The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen to your feelings. Follow your feelings. Honor your feelings.
Why does it seem to me that honoring my feelings is precisely what has caused me to get into trouble in the first place?
Because you have labeled growth "trouble", and standing still "safe".
I tell you this: Your feelings will never get you into "trouble", because your feelings are your truth.
If you want to live a life where you never follow your feelings, but where every feeling is filtered thru the machinery of your Mind, go right ahead. make your decisions based on your Mind's analysis of the situation. But don't look for joy in such machinations, nor for celebration of Who You Truly Are.
Remember this: True celebration is mindless.
If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you because what is best for you is what is true for you. \
When you act only out of what is true for you, you speed your way down the path. When you create an experience based on your "now truth" rather than react to an experience based on a "past truth" you produce a "new you".
Why does it take so much time to create the reality you choose? This is why: because you have not been living your truth.
Know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
Yet once you come to know your truth, don't keep changing your mind about it. This is your mind trying to figure out what's best. Stop it! Get out of your mind. get back to your senses!
That is what is meant by "getting back to your senses". It is a returning to how you feel, not how you think. Your thoughts are just that - thoughts. Mental constructions. "Made up" creations of your mind. But your feelings - now they are real.
Feelings are the language of the soul. And your soul is your truth.
Does this mean we are to express any feeling - no matter how negative?
Feelings are neither negative or destructive. They are simply truths. How you express your truth is what matters.
When you express your truth with love, negative and damaging results rarely occur, and, when they do, it is usually because someone else has chosen to experience your truth in a negative or damaging way. In such a case, there is probably nothing you can do to avoid the outcome.
Certainly, failing to express your truth would hardly be appropriate. Yet people do this all the time. So afraid are they to cause or to face possible unpleasantness that they hide their truth altogether.
Remember this: It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent.
You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.
This leaves no room for half truths, the "brutal truth" or even the "plain truth". It does mean the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God.
It's the "so help you God" part that brings in the Godly qualities of love and compassion - for I will help you communicate in this way, always, if you will ask Me.
So yes, express what you call your most "negative" feelings, but not destructively.
Failure to express (i.e. push out) negative feelings does not make them go away; it keeps them in. Negativity "kept in" harms the body and burdens the soul. ~
I love you ohhhhhhh so much and am sooooo excited with it all!!!
((((((((((((((HUGZ)))))))))))))))))
Lisa