The difficulties of life and counting blessings

Me and many others find that there are a lot of problems in the world nowadays: Corona, terror attacks, an economic crisis, an uncertain future, refugees you name it. But now I'm reading a book that plays out in the Middle Ages. The cruelty, the ignorance, the prejudices, the poverty, the diseases, it really is many times worse than nowadays. Well, except for the environmental crisis, that's a thing.

Is it true, My God, that the worries of life are really less than in early days?

My son, you live in heaven compared to the Middle Ages. So it would be nice if you put the difficulties into perspective a little bit, if you counted your blessings more, if you were better armed against what is going on now. Over the past five centuries, life has become infinitely better for the majority of people. Not only physically, materially and in terms of health, but also in terms of education, freedoms and righteousness, you almost all live in heaven, compared to the hell of the Middle Ages. Count your blessings and do not fear of trouble. Your ancestors really had a tougher life. I'm not saying you're spoiled, but I'm saying you're very blessed these days. Rejoice more about that.   

My blessings to you all

No 492

Every choice and every action contribute to your spiritual home

The pursuit of the ideal—the striving to be Godlike—is a continuous effort before death and after. The life after death is no different in the essentials than the mortal existence. Everything we do in this life which is good contributes directly to the enhancement of the future life.

Treatise103 section 5 (page 1134)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   My God, may I ask You. I was thinking about life and realized we actually choose all day long, for the small or the big, for the healthy or the unhealthy, for the good or the bad, for the loveless or the loving. And actually so to speak everything is really important and has big consequences. And at the same time, there should be no stress and tension and pressure and a sacred must, because then we become rigid fundamentalists. And then I also came across this quote from the Urantia book, which confirms that everything is really very important.  How do we reconcile all this?

Would You like to  comment on this? 

 It's a paradox, My son, and I like to comment on this. Especially since nowadays more than before people have come to believe that everything must be possible, so to speak the sacred individualism while at the same time everything has consequences, as We know.  How do you reconcile that all, and what is Our perspective from the spiritual world?  Here it  comes

First of all Our perspective because that determines your perspective, in the end. 

We view everything with great love, great patience and a lot of compassion. It is true that everything has permanently great consequences, and that you must always suffer the consequences of your actions, sooner or later. Even if you do so in the deepest secret, hidden in your own home, or in your inner self.  

But the consequences are just, the laws of God are simple and the hints of God to do the right endlessly and the patience of God as you goof, in a thousand times and endlessly.  So in a way, namely Our way, everything is fine, even if it's not fine. This sentence is very important, My son, 

everything is fine, even if it is not fine.

Because the consequences, the corrections, the perspectives and the correct course of action are already embedded in the failure to act properly. Unconditionally and accurately.   

And now your perspective.

So everything you do always has great consequences, because there is no sparrow falling off the roof and God will know of it. Everything you do is extremely important. It is literally a permanent building of your spiritual home. You are contributing constantly to your spiritual dwelling with all your thoughts, all your feelings and all your actions.

And if you come to realize that you can create a ruin, but also a spiritual palace, why contribute even longer to a ruin? What is the point of destroying life by your own actions, making life ugly, planning your own future suffering. Why would you still do so? 

I like to mention the remark of a married woman who mused about possible infidelity because she ran into a nice other man. She spoke the winged words: "When I consider what an anguish I call over my loved ones and myself when I go into this possible infidelity, I recline and realize that I am not in favour of it and do not want to do so”.  

And that would be a nice approach for all of you, if you deal with this paradox. Do you want to accept the consequences of your pernicious actions for the environment and for yourself? And if that's what you want and you are doing the pernicious thing, then it's fine as well. Not immediately, but it'll be fine later on, after some suffering. And that’s an euphemism.

My blessings to you all

No 491

Loneliness can induce purification

My friend Merel also has a line up to the spiritual world and heard on a good day, when she was musing about her life and her being alone so often: "Loneliness can lead to purification". Would You like to comment on this? 

That's what I like to do. 

She has been alone a lot during that period and that can be hard to come by, because man is not made to be alone. But her My God whispered to her this sentence and that was also a comfort to her.  

 

For how can man come to himself, to his heart, to God when there are crowds all day long and people and sounds outside distracting from what’s happening in the inner world?

How can the sound of silence, the gentle hints of the inner self, the inner-ish voice of God be perceived otherwise than in solitude?

Didn't you for the first time in the same way only hear me in a big moment of desolation? 

Man can find God in the other, but really accomplish the subtle communication with God only well in being alone.  This contact with God is one of the aspects of purification. The other aspects are subject for another blog. 

Merel is blessed. 

 

My blessings to you all

No 490 

God, who comes to rest in man (W.H. Auden)

 I read a poem by W.H. Auden, "At Schrafft"'and this part struck me:

 

Having finished the Blue-plate Special

And reached the coffee stage,

…A somewhat shapeless figure

of indeterminate age

… our globular furore,

…Which of the seven heavens

Was responsible her smile

Wouldn’t be sure but attested

…That, whoever it was, a god

Worth kneeling-to for a while

Had tabernacled and rested

At the end of that blog (check blog label W.H. Auden) you said; 

God, Who comes to rest in man. This is worth a separate blog, My son.

You then responded to this poem by Auden, Would You like to comment on this now?  

That's what I like to do. Commenting the sentence “God who comes to rest in man”. 

 

God works on the evolution of planets, plant species, animal species and of the intelligent being, man, who becomes the crowning glory of creation. A being who finally consciously and passionately will kneel before God and then recognizes what God has accomplished.  

 

God who waits so many years for this moment, and labours, and tries, and gives, and hopes, and beckons, and bestows and loves and searches for man.  

 

And then there is that man, however void and unsightly, who kneels before God and focuses on God and recognizes God and only then lives in truth at that beautiful and scarce moment.  

 

And then God visits this man.

And God can then rest in a certain way in the sanctuary of man.

And God gets recognition of Its work and knows that it has been accomplished, and that is so together with man. Everything is so accomplished, everything that has been sought for has been achieved. For a moment there is the Kingdom of God on earth. For a moment, creation has come to its senses. For a moment, God can rest and enjoy. Yes in the temple of man, built by man, reached by man, desired by man, and visited by God.

That's where God can rest.  

My blessings to you all

No 489

Mother Nature's spectacular sacrifice

My God, I want to ask You.

Again about Mother Nature, about what is happening on earth now. 

It is utterly terrible and hopeless what is happening in nature, at the hands of mankind. I don't even have the appetite to mention it because it's been mentioned so many times in all sorts of blogs. But I mean, of course, the total pollution and destruction and the massively propagating destructive mankind. I'm sorry I've been a bit of a misanthrope lately. My burning question now is, "How does Mother Nature stand as a spiritual greatness in the face of all this. 

I know your question stems from feeling sorry for Mother Nature. Don't have that, my good son, because then you make Her small and human and victimized, and she's not. But I like to answer your question. 

She is a wonderful force and of great power, Mother Nature. She is a Spirit of incredible beauty and strength, and one of the main powers on earth. This age-old wise and patient spirit that works longer than you realize on the growth and flowering of nature on this lonely planet, knows of it all. And she's not surprised, she's patient. She sacrifices herself these last five hundred years and the centuries to come, and undergoes mankind and her works. She is in this all not a victim, but willingly and deliberately participating in the demise of her current rich state. She sacrifices herself because, while she cooperates with joy, she knows about the phase after. Now there is the phase of a mass birth of new spiritual beings who, as evolutionary monkeys, in Her bosom, may acquire eternity. It's an act of pure love. And She serves God and the planned harvest of billions of new evolutionary beings. That's one aspect of her decisiveness. Know, My son, that She is doing all this out of pure love for God and Its darling, man.

But there's more. Although She sacrifices Herself, seeing thousands of plant and animal species lost on earth for which She has worked for millions of years. And She is witnessing one of the greatest pollutions in the history of the earth.  But know that this is not the first Total Pollution. There have been devastating pollutions before, and not caused by mankind, and the evolution of the earth has already caused a great deal with heat waves, tidal waves or volcanic eruptions. This is the normal price of evolution on a planet.

But there is another side to the story that fits 100% into the "self-interest" of Mother Nature. This sacrifice now, this act of love, is always grandiosely rewarded by God. And Mother Nature knows this. She will create out of destruction a new nature, of such incredible beauty, you cannot realize that. This new nature will be accompanied by an explosion of new plant and animal species, literally at a higher level of energy than the current species. The species will be more refined, eat each other less and radiate more spiritual beauty. And so these new species themselves with Mother Nature will come closer to the paradise state of the spiritual world. For in the end, the Earth must become a planet of Light and Love with the highest energetic radiance possible on an evolutionary planet.

Perhaps I should give examples of  more “sophisticated” species? And know that I do so with the utmost love and respect without judgment of any kind about any species. Think of a palm tree compared to a beech tree.

Think of a grass compared to a rose.  

Think of a Tyrannosaurus Rex compared to a hummingbird.

Think of a path compared to a bird of paradise.

Think of a hyena compared to a fallow deer.

In other words, Mother Nature will use this total destruction as an instrument in her spiritual development towards a perfect world of Life in which no one or nothing will be eaten by each other. That is the state of a planet of Light and Love.  And in the meantime, she is looking forward to all her physical creations, the past and the present and the future. In Her eyes this all is a timeless and total explosion of life and love, in the name of God. 

My blessings to you all

No 488

The love of God is enough

I am so busy and have so many people with problems around me that I , that’s how I feel it, let myself be walked all over lately. I have got a touch of the flu and one evening I am really afraid that I will be struck down by a severe flu, all the signs are there and all the symptoms too. Just before I get caught by a flu, I am always really down. In short, I don't feel up to life anymore and I sigh to God: `Oh my God, please don't let me get sick, I have to do so much at work and will really harm people when I call in sick, please please please don't let me get sick and give me some perspective because I don't feel up to anything at all anymore. `

You don't get sick. Do not worry.

After a mediocre night and an intensive day at work, I actually feel pretty good next evening, everything worked out on the day and I really feel more pleasure for life. I thank I thank I thank the good God that my prayer was answered.

My good son, you suffer a lot for Me, you carry many burdens of others on your shoulders. You are an advocate for many in the spiritual world who are stuck in old patterns and need your prayer from the earth. I saved you from a bad flu. You earned this.

But my God, how is this possible? I make so many mistakes and so many things don't work. And I'm so messed up with praying and with immoderate living. And I'm burdened by all those thoughts that jump around in a million ways. I don't find myself very inspiring. It's just not enough.

My good son, My love is there for your life. My love is there for your efforts. For your goodwill, for your compassion for others. My love is there for your shortcomings and imperfections.

Is My love not enough?

I am really touched and I thank God thank God thank God. I feel the love, for my whole being, without having to do anything, learn anything, perform anything.

Be blessed, my good son.

My blessings to you all

No 487

Mankind, stop reproducing

Would You like to comment on the following quotes from Patricia MacCormack (The Ahuman Manifesto *)?

 “Nothing strains the earth more than human reproduction. That is why it is time to think about other earthlings ”

And

“All I suggest is that we as a human species should stop reproducing. My wish comes from compassion. Compassion with the earth, and the earthlings. Also compassion for mankind ”

And so it is. Her remark that it is “time to think of other earthlings by not reproducing at all” is of course for her more a philosophical than a political manifesto. She does not advocate a totalitarian state in which reproduction is prohibited.

Man is indeed engaged in a thousand ways with the other earthlings. Which person on earth is not concerned with a garden, a beautiful tree, a river nearby or pollution?

But mankind as a whole has become an all-destroying, all-controlling, and all-wiping out earthling. And mankind propagates and grows and burdens the other earthlings such as the plant and animal world to such an extent that this cannot continue. And mankind is not intervening thoroughly enough.

That is why she argues for a very thorough end to this. And no more massive and excessive reproduction is a very reasonable wish. The fact that she receives so much criticism has more to do with being “an old school Gothic” and her touching one of the greatest taboos in mankind than with the reasonableness of her suggestions.

And as said before, because mankind is not working hard enough on this, Mother Nature will take on the correction.

Patricia MacCormack is blessed.

My blessings to you all

*Trouw, Dutch newspaper August 8, 2020

No 486