The love for fellowmen

My God, a columnist in my newspaper* wrote:

 "Blessed are those who have people around who suffer from their suffering"

Well, this man is a rabid atheist who can't resist fulminating against faith. At the same time, as a nursing home doctor, he has a very big heart and a lot of love for fellow human beings. And writes beautifully about  life and suffering of man and he does so with great compassion. This article is about the suffering person and ways to relieve or shorten that suffering. And he ends with this sentence, which really moved me.

Would You like to comment on this?

My son, I love to. For the spiritual world loves people who have their hearts in the right place and are listening to it as much as possible. This doctor witnesses a lot of suffering and especially among sick and old people. And because he does not believe, he seeks comfort insofar as there is in earthly and human matters. And this is one.  

"Blessed are those who have people around them who suffer from their suffering"

The man who is allowed to experience this in his suffering experiences the love of people who care about him. A great good and a great happiness, which not everyone has. There are many people suffering who have no one who feels sorry for them.

Yet this can also be a merit of that person himself: if one gives a lot of love to one's fellow man, one may also be able to get a lot of love back in need. 

And there's another important thing this columnist isn't working on. One can also sympathize and pity someone by praying. And especially people who have no one and yet suffer can benefit greatly from people who pray for them.  

And fortunately, there are also many people on earth who pray for the suffering man in general and thus leave it to the spiritual world for whom that prayer is then intended. And in previous blogs I have already explained 

(see https://watchthegod-english.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-influence-of-praying-on-world-and_30.html)

 that it is not the case that God only takes action when prayers are offered. But more that prayer creates an extra channel through which the spiritual world can mean more to those on earth who need it.

In response to a quote from an atheist columnist, God says: give love to the other. And I also say: pray, pray, pray, even if it is for strangers, for disasters or unknown misery. Each prayer is an additional tool for the spiritual world to relieve and to  support earthly man.

And for those who pray may know: every prayer is a flower on your path after death to your spiritual destiny. 

Blessed is Bert Keizer.  

My blessings to you all.

No 550

 

*Bert Keizer, Trouw, 31 March 2023

Love for oneself

I had a nice meeting with a very good therapist/psychologist. I struggled with nightmares and a tendency to live more unhealthily than I know is good for me (alcohol, sweets, meat etc). And after my introduction of my problems, she asked me, "How would the spiritual world receive you if you arrived upstairs now?". I was stunned by her question because I was far from ready for that. Despite the inspiration of the blogs and my conversations with a living God, I still had so much to learn and unlearn. I thought. Because of her question, I suddenly made full and total and also almost physical but certainly in my heart contact with how I would be received. I realized in total love and acceptance.

Without reproach, without judgment, in total love. Suddenly I felt again what it is like to come home into yourself inside. I was good as I was, I didn't have to change anything, I certainly didn't have to be perfect. The days after, oh certainly not every day, but when I recalled this conversation and especially her comment, that it was a choice, an attitude aspect, an attention to myself, which I could choose at any moment, then it was there again: the peace, the silence, the acceptance, the love for myself,  The space, not anymore having to, not wanting anymore, realizing that I was so good enough. Good enough. That I could be there, as I was. That I could stop striving for perfection. Oh what a wonderful realization. I found myself humming inside, with pure satisfaction. Boy oh boy.  

Would You like to comment on this?

My good faithful naïve son, isn't all this contained in My words "Be assured"? This meeting has given you a final nudge in the right direction. This is how a nice meeting with a wise person can turn out.  

Total acceptance, total reassurance, total love. For yourself, and automatically for others. And know that you are then very close to Me. And that I can be so very close to you. Because with that acceptance and that love, God looks at man. 

Your therapist is blessed. 

My blessings to you all

No 549

Fundraising for publicity and publication book

FUNDRAISING for publicity and publication first book blog 1-100, and blog 101-200 in Dutch and English. Blog 575 is yet published on the internet.

My name is Frank van Rooij and eleven and a half year ago I experienced an epiphany. In 2011, during a visit to a small chapel in Leiden, I suddenly heard a voice. It was not my conscience, or a guardian angel, or a guiding spirit. The voice claimed to be God, the God in my inner self. And the experience didn't stop at this revelation. After my visit to the chapel, the voice came back and I started having regular conversations with It. Because I realized that the words might be coloured by my own thinking, I called the presence behind the voice "My God". However, the voice regularly assured me that "My God" and God were one.

The answers to my questions, and the reflections I received on events of my life were so intense, striking, and surprising that pretty soon I started to turn every conversation into a report, as I didn’t want to forget anything. A few months after the initial revelation, "My God" suggested posting the reports on the Internet. I hesitated, because at the time I held a certain social position and was reluctant to burden it with possible criticisms.

Still, after some time I started a blog and a twitter account, using the pseudonym Frenkie Oosterveen. My dear mother's maiden name. I also came up with the name "Watchthegod", which also became the title for my blogs. Initially I wrote and tweeted in Dutch, but after about two years I started a separate blog in English. The number of page visits increased steadily. After eleven and a half years, the counter of the Dutch blog is at 128,229 and that of the English one at 78,235 visits. The blog was accessed from more than 100 different countries.

In the meantime the blog has grown to more than 575 reports of conversations with "My God". In short, they are about the meaning of life and the difficulties that a person may encounter on their life path. The various topics include life on earth, life after death, the guardian angel, the power of prayer, the spiritual support of man, what happens during a church service, God Itself, of course, and Its servants, the state of Mother Nature, and many other subjects.

The blog can be read freely by anyone. From the beginning it was clear to me who the texts are meant for, and I have also received confirmation about this from "My God". The texts are meant not for those who are satisfied with what they think and believe, but specifically for those who are seeking, who have become disappointed in the servants of God on earth or in the religion of their youth. They are for people who know there is something, but cannot always find it in their own faith; for people who are dissatisfied with the way their environment deals with things; and for those who like to read between the rules of life. Finally, they are intended for those who still have questions based on their faith or beliefs, and who may be able to find the answers to these questions in these blogs.

Given the widespread interest in the blogs, I decided to assemble the reports of the first 100 conversations in a book. This first series has been edited with the greatest respect for the original texts into which those conversations were converted. The Dutch texts were edited by a scientist of religion. After that, two translators, one of whom is a native speaker of English, edited the English versions. In the meantime, the redacted texts will soon be posted on the blog instead of the original texts on the internet. This will be mentioned at the end of the blog.

In my sincere experience, I am only a messenger. The messages of My God are full of tolerance, wisdom, love, and open-mindedness. If this book offers the reader even one new insight, one new thought, or one new subject worth considering, my dearest wish will have been achieved.

In the meantime, I have invested € 13,750 out of my own pocket on PR and paying the editors. Fundraising can help me take the next step. 

In addition, I worked an average of eight hours a week on the blogspot for almost twelve years, but of course I did it for free. This has been an honour for me to be able to do this. Still about 5000 hours.

Will you help me with further PR and the publication of the first book, please?  And if you do this, no matter how small your contribution, please send me an email so that I can thank you personally. You are amazing. 

Frank van Rooij  

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No 548

Guard and cherish your inner self (2)

My God, I woke up last night and knew that the previous blog was getting a sequel. It’s up to You. 

And a not insignificant sequel.

Because things are sometimes very black and white, what about this:

This inner temple, to be guarded by yourselves, gives access to God. God reaches you better when you build a pure temple, for actually this temple is the house of God within you. And if the temple is polluted by social media, I say, you will weaken something substantial and lasting in your lives. This is about the access to God, the relationship with God, the possibilities of God to reach you, to work through you. After all, this is how you can be the working hands of God on earth. How necessary.

And this strong temple is different from the ego. The temple is your eternal spiritual body that survives after death. While the ego is just a tool that has been spoken of enough in other blogs, I now let that rest. 

The stronger and more beautiful and sustainable the temple, the greater your resilience, the more independent your choices against the issues of the day. And that is why the actual communication to you in this blog is the following. 

Social media are a revolution in the world with unprecedented potential, but this potential can go into a sacred and into an unholy direction. Here we are briefly tuned into the unholy side, this one aspect of confusing turmoil. Social media then become a burden for all of you. A penetrating, viral burden, an unconscious disturbing influence. And as mentioned, they often weaken your temple and therefore your inner security.

And so the incarnated unholyness, call it the devil, wanders around on your earth.

He poisons not just the youth with materialistic influencers, addictive games, with sometimes wicked raps, with confusing and superficial fake facts, with often nonsensical conspiracy theories. And so the devil is more powerful than ever. And he has greater influence than you realize, also and precisely because you no longer believe in his existence.

Devilish madness, of which parents have no realization, which tempts young people to carry weapons, to outdo each other in suicidal games, which throws depressing delusions around, and ideal images that no one can live up to anymore.

The devil has been released on earth for a while, haunting, and hardly anyone sees it. He will have his time, but fortunately his power is temporary. God takes care of that.

But know what is happening and be vigilant.  

My blessings to you all

No 547

Guard and cherish your inner Self (1)

My God, may I ask you. I came across this quote from Montaigne in an article in my newspaper about a biography of Michel de Montaigne written by Stefan Zweig:

Take care of yourself, save within you what can be saved. Build while others are destroying, try to be wise in the midst of all the madness. Shut down. Build your own world. 

His words seem more relevant than ever.

My son, they are no more relevant than ever. The world is no worse than it was 100 or 1000 years ago.  But his words may be placed on a golden scale. Because there is one very big difference with earlier times. Now you are also bombarded by social media with the delusions of the outside world in the intimacy of your own living room, in your easy chair or warm bed. And that wasn't the case before.  

And you do not realize how much the dynamic, hard, exciting outside world, and certainly the mass media with their focus on suffering, sensation and panic, thunders hard into your safe inner world and worries you and emotionally puts a lot of strain on and disadvantages you. And that day and night. We find it intense for you.

That is why you should cherish his words, build your own inner world, protect yourself from the issues of the day, build your own safe and protected inner temple where no one is allowed to go uninvited. Guard your own inner fortress. For when you die, that is the only thing you take with you to the spiritual world. And the stronger and healthier the fortress, the more powerful the start in the spiritual world.

And this fortress is affected by the social media not strengthened.

Montaigne is blessed. 

My blessings to you all

No 546

You are children of the earth and are becoming children of the Stars

My God, This quote I probably got from You? Would You like to comment on this at the beginning of a new year? 

My son, that's what I like to do. You are evolutionary creatures, children of earth and, like all other beings such as plants and animals, you would be absorbed into the spirit of your species after your physical death, but would not survive individually. That's how it was. 

Because you have developed your own individual will through evolution, God lives within you. The individual gift of God to you earthly beings is called the spark of God, My God, Atman and whatever else all religions have come up for names of the indwelling God.

Since then, you have been able to survive as an individual being after physical death, and have become children of the Stars. And this process has been exceptionally facilitated by the arrival of the Son of man on earth. The World of Stars is now completely open to you. Christ not only made the gates of eternity more accessible, but lubricated the hinges and the locks and made the gate of heaven luminous, and paved the way to it and made the path more visible.

All religions, without exception, have been pointing for ages to this gate and to the possibility of attaining eternity. All religions have received and proclaimed revelations that have paved, facilitated, and explained the way to heaven. And all religions on earth promise this one thing: You man can become children of the Stars, even if it is formulated differently by each religion.

In this new year, repeat this saying "I am a child of the earth and become a child of the Stars", make it a mantra, consider it and discuss it with your fellow human beings and all will feel the light in their hearts, the hope in their being and the energy of the Stars. The path is thus levelled even more and so you all, children of the earth, become childeren of the Stars even earlier, and faster and better and with more certainty.  

My blessings to you all

No 545

You can choose for love

I learned that the world can only be endured if you decide to love it (Mevlüde Genç)

My God, may I ask You. I read this quote from a Turkish woman who experienced how two daughters and two granddaughters were killed in an arson by racists.  And yet she has been an example of tolerance and love throughout her (further) life.

Would You like to comment on this?  

This is then indeed a Christmas message, my son, while Mevlüde Genç is a Muslim. She has learned what love is and in a terrible situation still has chosen for love, and not for hate. I say chosen, because she herself says she can only tolerate the world if you decide to love it.

And this is the Christmas message for all people of good will.

If you start to realize that you choose all day, all day long, why not choose the good? Is life that simple? Just choosing the good?

Yes and no.  

No, because it is so understandable if a person becomes unhappy due to a bad upbringing, severe accident or a lot of bad luck and starts to hate life. 

Yes, because you don't have to. Time and time again you start your life. You choose again and again. Again and again you can ask yourself what is best for yourself and for the other person.

And then is choosing for happiness more convenient than choosing for unhappiness. Then is choosing for love easier than choosing for hate. And then is realizing that you always choose is more drastic than feeling like a mere victim and blaming the world.

And such a world also becomes unbearable then. 

Mevlüde Genç is blessed.  

My blessings to you all

No 544