We're following a long path

There is no shortcut to every destination of value (Arabic proverb)

Would You like to elaborate on this?

Can you say something about it for yourself first?

 

Oh yes, if that's what You want.

I notice that the ego likes to have it easily. And that every goal, every beautiful goal, every important thing, well, that has to be fought for, worked hardly, practiced hardly, maybe no blood sweat tears, but effort, and perseverance and keep on trying. And that perhaps that is also the difference between a saint and an ordinary person. The saint continues on the road where an ordinary person leaves off after a while. So what you see now with populist politicians, and for that matter in the whole of modern times: promising quickly and getting home soon. And that's not how life works.

 

Welcome to Earth, My good son. This is it.

It is certainly true that the road is the goal. And while practicing and struggling, it is good if a person also looks around and in the meantime enjoys all the beauty and the good that is around him. And wonderful and unexpected things can happen in a person's life, that's for sure.

But most of the time, life is a long and uncertain and hard struggle with many failures and worries and problems, with many sorrows. But oh oh how wonderful when the goal is achieved, the art is learned, the striving has results, making happiness, comforting, healing and certainly giving strength. In this way life is very beautiful. Experiencing success, achieving what has been tried for so long, experiencing the joy of the new art or achievement.

And man's difficulty can be, not that he tries and that he doesn't succeed, but that he doesn't go on, doesn't get up, doesn't try again, doesn't accept that life is hard, full of uncertainties and that everything has to be built, everything. The prince in shining armour visits few people.

And actually, the human being is happy who accepts his misfortune and knows that a long, often arduous road can lead to beautiful places.

And then, of course, we also have the promise of eternal life, the Good God who keeps an eye on everything, the spiritual helpers on earth who are endlessly available.

So all in all, isn´t life worth living after all?

 

My blessings to you all

No 570

There's always beauty around

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing (Camille Pissaro)

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Wise, true, and oh so simple truth. And know that life would be unbearable if man could not do it naturally. Finding comfort and hope and beauty in small or "humble" things around him. Life would become unbearable, and certainly too difficult and hopeless. For the difficulties of life can fly a man like wasps a glass of lemonade. But there is always beauty to be found there. So is My comment done with these wise words?

No, certainly not, because Camille Pissaro is referring to this: a person can always see more beauty than before, in humbler places than he thought, and in places that someone else passes by. And thus experience more support and comfort and perspective than he was already used to. So the message is rather that this is an endless process and that a person can see more and more.

And this can eventually lead to a wise and spiritual person saying: oh how beautiful this is, how can it exist? And how grateful I am to the good God, in spite of my misery and difficulties.

There is much beauty in the world, and it is only meant to create a beautiful environment for man in the making.

Camille Pissaro is blessed. 

My blessings to you all

No 561

The difficulties seem to overpower us

My God, may I ask You?

I find life becoming more and more difficult, not because of my personal situation, for I am a happy person. But I also see it in people around me. There are so many concerns about the war, about the economy, about the environment, about the negative impact of the Internet on youth, about so on. I see that people are brooding, suffering from melancholy, looking up the future, expecting disasters. And so do I.

How do we keep this up?

And the farmer just ploughed on, your father told his family when there were difficulties and he saw that you were slogging too much into it. And that's what I'm saying to you now. You just have to keep going and I can't reassure you. It gets worse. 

And My only advice is: try to live as healthy as possible physically and mentally. Try to keep your inner peace. In the meantime, try to enjoy the beautiful things in life. And try to prepare yourselves for the worst thing that can happen to a human being such as disease, hunger, despair, sorrow, fear and destruction. Then it may not be so bad in your own life.

Have faith, have patience, be prepared because you do know neither day nor hour, live in the here and now, cherish beautiful memories and do not wallow too much in fear and worry. Live, live in the meantime, and comfort yourself with the words that the farmer just ploughed on. Great wisdom, great insight, great experience. Because that is what you have to do. Just keep going. Anyway.    

And in all cases, after your short-lived life of beauty and happiness, of uncertainty and difficulty, of opportunity and risk, a glorious life after physical death awaits you. Trust that. 

My blessings to you all

No 555

Compassion for the other

My good God, You probably wants to comment on this? 

Yes, I do.

This is about pure love, my son, when one person realizes this or remembers it when he meets the other. Everyone, almost without exception, struggles with problems, difficulties, worries, addictions or grief for a loved one. Everyone. Welcome to this imperfect but beautiful planet. Your humans are developing, and it is a long and painful and worrisome road from former ape to consciously living spiritual man.

And beautiful life experiences contribute indeed to this but actually even more great difficulties. They are better able to grab a person by “his balls”, by shaking him up or increasing his understanding of the suffering of the other. Because if you have experienced a lot yourself, you are careful not to judge someone else. At least if the process went well. If someone becomes bitter or psychiatric due to difficulties, other things are also needed.

Most of the time difficulties bring a person closer to consciousness, spiritual growth and thus closer to God, whether that person realizes it or not. So....... 

Good human being, realize that every human being you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about and your compassion, your understanding, your love even for your fellow man grow enormously only when you remember this. So be nice, always. Because that is desperately needed in these derailing times.  

My blessings to you all

No 541

Keep smiling in life

My friend Merel had another revelation:

On a beautiful day I was cycling in the Twiske, a nature reserve near Amsterdam. To my great indignation I saw that there was once again a lot of waste after an event there. In addition, that week, cycling to work, or walking through city parks, the view of a lot of garbage and junk next to garbage bins, just indifferently wafted away.

I was completely taken for it and sighed to my Angel/God "How can I be a little happy or happy in a world where there is so much bluntness and rudeness towards nature; ruthlessly, man continues with destruction!" ?

It remained quiet for a moment and then I heard

"Dear Child, go down laughing..."

At first I thought huh.. what is this..?

But I finally understood that the downward line is as necessary as the ascending one in the sphere of relativity, and that in Eternity all this is only a small bump; ugly yes, but seen with mildness in God's eyes; like a naughty and stupid school class.   

These where the words of Merel.

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How could I do otherwise, my good son. And what a revelation from the My God of Merel. Actually, nothing should be added to it.

Yes it is a revelation. Because the big question is, "How does man keep up in his inner  self when the world around him collapses?"

In the blogs, sufficient attention has been paid to what is to come, despite Our desire to be optimistic, to inspire confidence and to sketch a beautiful and glorious perspective to all people. 

But there has also been spoken of the great changes that are coming so that Mother Nature can move forward with mankind, but in Her terms. And that's going to be a downfall, for a lot of people, a lot of animals, a lot of plants, a lot of nature.

How, then, does man behave? To speak with the sinking of the Titanic.

Running around madly and drowning in the cold water or making music and waiting in good company with a drink for the waves.

In short: in panic and confused and forgetting that one is human and there is more than earthly problems or in all confidence with a smile facing doom, the promise of eternity in memory. 

The latter seems to me to be more pleasant, more spiritual and more witnessing of self-control, trust and faith.

But there is still something I want to add.

Live the whole life smiling

For the world is a spectacle, your ego endearing, your suffering relative, your future in the spiritual world glorious.

Know that the spirit of humour should be a very important, if not the most important spirit in your life.

In any case, she is the most important helper of God. 

Your friend Merel is blessed. 

My blessings to you all

No 537

Even in trouble you are not left by God to your fate

When you are going through hard times and wonder where god is remember the teacher is always quiet during a test (Keanu Reeves)

My God, would You like to elaborate on this? 

It is certainly a great truth that man never, ever stands alone and is left to his own devices. You are loved and cherished day and night. 

So this quote seems nice and clear but it's not entirely correct.  

This presupposes, even though not really said in so many words, that all difficulties are a test imposed on man by God. And that's not the case. Something regularly happens to man that is not planned, not intended and certainly not imposed. But it is certainly true that God likes to see how man then holds himself up in these difficulties, because that testifies of the spiritual power of man.

And also this quote suggests that God keeps Itself calm, so then does nothing. And that too deserves a considerable nuance. God can never help but keep quiet. So God does not know an attitude of man-is-being-tested-and-God-looks-calm-at-it.    

But what is more important and that is the core of this blog: as soon as man gets into trouble, he is absolutely not alone then and  the spiritual world takes office immediately. I consciously use this verb. Then the spiritual world takes office immediately.

The guardian angel actively invokes the spiritual powers necessary to keep this person afloat or to provide tools. It also activates an acute network of auxiliaries that are necessary to support, help or protect the person himself in these difficulties from wrong reactions or actions. I mention, for example, the spirit of resilience, the spirit of inner peace, the spirit of clear thinking, the spirit of practical action and the spirit of thoughtfulness. But in addition, people are called in around this person in need who can help, think along, listen or advise. All the guardian angels of these people have long been activated and informed so that "their people" can respond adequately and lovingly. 

Keanu Reeves is blessed. 

My blessings to you all

No 524

This sparkling but sometimes quite difficult life on earth.

I wanted to ask you. I see a lot of happiness around me and people who enjoy the rich and beautiful life, but I also see a lot of suffering, and sometimes the suffering seems to me too great to bear for a human being, oh not particularly for myself, but just when I look around and check the media I do have to sigh 'My God where do they get the strength and courage from to endure this? And I don't even listen to your answer, sometimes. But I just want to sigh and suffer with what I see around me.

Today I saw a woman in her 60s and she looked so unhappy, so lonely, so lost. I thought "when was the last time she was lovingly touched and caressed and when was the last time someone said to her "I love you". And I was so impressed by her loneliness that I felt my heart become all heavy and sad. What a suffering and how do people keep up? I'd love You to comment on this, just for my own comfort.

Oh my good son, how big is your heart. I like to go into this.

Man suffers a lot on earth. And regularly too much. And there are also many people who can't handle this and become psychiatric or bitter or atheists. And they are for sure suffering and as well concerning others.  

That's how it is, and that's how it was, that's how it will be a long time. 

 

Sad is life and useless and pointless and cruel and an unthinking creation of an unsuspecting and indifferent God. At least that is sometimes your perspective and even the sincere opinion of many, especially at times. But is the perspective true?

 

And then I say, "Of course not."

I would like to tell you from the perspective of the spiritual world because We see over the fence of your earthly existence. 

 

Everything that happens, all suffering, all sorrow, all accidents and diseases, all crime and injustices, even for many people during a lifetime, are totally and overall and overwhelmingly nothing compared to what man is waiting for after his earthly life. We see the glory and happiness and the overwhelming balm for all what happened, once someone has left his earthly body and moved on to a better life. We see the sparkling, overwhelming, fortunate developments and possibilities of the spiritual world. And they are so overwhelming that every spiritual being, once accustomed to his new existence, always sighs, "it was worth it".

 

And We give you the sincere advice "in the meantime, enjoy to the fullest of all that is to enjoy in terms of happiness and beauty and health and pleasure, for we truly find it a mortal sin , that someone is ruining his earthly existence more than necessary. Never let the suffering, no matter how great and overwhelming, get in the way of the beauty and joy of whatever is there. If you succeed, you will once sigh sooner "it was definitely worth it". 

 

My blessings to you all

No 495

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

The good, the bad and the unwished (Lost in life, 2)

 
Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us*
 

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I love to.

This is so basic, so common, so much just the experience of every human being that I do not really need to add anything to it. Every person knows this experience. How he in a painful and profound and unexpected way gets torn away from his old life. How he experiences a lot of sorrow or difficulties or a crisis, then really often makes himself scarce and afterwards says: "I could not figure it out but it was exactly what I needed. This had to happen or this brought me so much. I'm shivering at how I felt then when it happened to me but now, being all over, I look amazed at what it has brought me. "

And God adds that this illustrates that man does not always knows what is good for him, what he is praying for or what he wants in his life, these are sometimes the worst things. Therefore, thankfully, God has the wisdom to hear not all prayers, and God regularly gives man the opposite of what is being asked.

And that's how it works.
 
My blessings to you all

Nr. 408

* https://www.powerofpositivity.com/11-quotes-to-remember-when-you-feel-lost-in-life/

Schokland, a lonely island in the north

The history of Schokland in the north of the Netherlands is bizarre. It was once a former lonely island in the middle of the Zuiderzee and became over the centuries increasingly endangered by the furious storms at sea. Eventually, the government forced in1859 the inhabitants to leave to the mainland, where they started to live in a district in Kampen on the IJssel river. Now the island is situated in the fully muted Noordoostpolder, as a kind of heightening in the flat meadows.

We spent a day visiting the museum and the former island and got deeply impressed by what the islanders have done in the past to survive. Periodically, houses and sometimes the whole church were destroyed by the wild sea. Periodically, a little bit of the island crumbled away, and it must have been a hard and difficult life for this small group of citizens of the Netherlands.

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This group of people has suffered a tough struggle for life and eventually after several generations they had to abandon it. They are a symbol of the power of man, who tries to survive in barren circumstances. These islanders find their brothers and sisters in the rest of the world, such as in the Sahara desert, on the cold plains of Siberia, in the high mountains of Tibet, in the rainforests of Brazil. And for centuries, mankind has evolved thus into what it is now, intelligent, resourceful, social, conscious and powerful.

But there is something more important to say.

These extreme circumstances were necessary to evolve evolutionarily the intellect, the willpower and the creativity of mankind. Because the more exciting the circumstances of this evolutionary man is, the more evolving his talents are. So it is stated here: the challenging planet earth is a great opportunity for mankind as a whole to reach unprecedented heights in its development. And this is what God is waiting for. And then the near future with her big challenges is still on the rise.

The fact that the residents of Schokland lost the battle does not detract from the fearless and powerful genes they are still on the continent passing on to their children.

The Schokkers are blessed.
 
My blessings to you all

Nr. 402

Being born is as difficult as dying (Dying, 3)

My God, I'm always a bit allergic to insufficient fresh air, I have to choke quite quickly and You know my fear to suffocate. Now it seems to me that a baby -at some point becoming so big that he has to get out- is really having cramped and difficult times. You have already told something about the end of life, dying. But the beginning of life, the whole process of being born, is actually quite dramatically. So my question to you is: is the birth process not actually as difficult as the process of dying?

Being born is generally speaking as difficult as dying.

Like often in life beginning isn’t that easy at all.
Beginning with change.
Beginning with overcoming an addiction.
Beginning with being yourself as stout,  as gay, as an independent thinker.
Beginning with fighting against the regular social ideas as emancipated woman, as an atheist in a strict religious society, as a critic in a dictatorial country.
Beginning can be very difficult.

But beginning with life is really just as painful,  as confrontational, just as confusing, just as making insecure as dying is.

Take the foetus, safely vegetating in the womb.
There are, but we are assuming the ideal situation, no tensions. The mother's consciousness is 100% focused on the little one. In fact the last few weeks she has actually become the abdomen, the uterus with maximum love and attention and care for the little one.

But the little one has become big, the foetus has to go on. Signals are arising in the maternal body this huge special organ has to be divested. That this is not meant to continue, that this “innocent parasite” has requested enough from the body. Let's not get romantic about this. The body wants, no needs to repel this excessive proliferation in the body, it has to go away.

And this is for the foetus a very painful physical and emotional experience, it has to bugger off,  while it before was loved and cherished and cared for so much. A process of rejection has begun, it has to be mentioned in this manner. This is for the foetus drama number one.

Drama number two is to be squeezed through the channel of birth. People with claustrophobia will not be happy here. The foetus must squeezed out of the womb through  the canal of birth, which is stretched in a for the mother dramatically painful way. This pain, this anguish, this terrifying experience of the mother is the foetus experiencing in all its vulnerability and former security as a terrorist attack, so horrible, so oppressive, so painful, so strangling: these experiences -if it is lucky to be squeezed through the canal of birth for just a few hours- are intense for a small and vulnerable and helpless little being.

Drama number three is to have been born. First, the enormous anguish of the cutting of the umbilical cord and the need for breathing with not working lungs still full of amniotic fluid, but at the same time having lost the protective atmosphere and intimacy of the mother's body. The baby will breathe for sure,  the baby will get used to the autonomous independent life, certainly, but only when it feels something from the familiar smell and atmosphere of the parental body, the baby will fall asleep exhausted.

Overall, my son, it is true, being born is often as difficult as dying.

All babies and their mothers are blessed during childbirth.
 
My blessings to you all

Nr. 342

Do not underestimate too quickly a difficult life !

I find it difficult to reconcile Your stories on evolution with “everything is all right”.
You have said in previous blogs "some" people are having a miserable and difficult life, just because they are standing at the wrong side of evolution.

And at the same time You seem to radiate in all blogs we can have confidence, all is well,  we are kept in love and in eternity.
Sometimes I can’t combine it all. Would You like to comment on this?

A lot of death, disease, suffering and sorrow is all around in the world .
This is part of the convulsions of evolution. The creation of a perfect transparent world of light and love is really taking some time. And this time is used by the method of evolution. In this process mankind, the animal and plant world as well, are going through terrible things, such as premature death, serious diseases and painful dying. This is a hard fact . Yust look around.

I have explained in many blogs the ways you all are supported by the spiritual world day and night, just to endure everything.
One aspect has not been mentioned before, and this I will do right now. And this will resolve your dilemma .

In the whole spiritual world, where plants, animals, man, angels , gods , and many other to you unknown spiritual beings are dwelling, one general truth is well known . It can easily be seen if an evolutionary creature (man etc ) has had on an evolutionary planet much or little suffering. Those who have suffered a lot, are generally spoken more powerful , more beautiful , more loving and more open-minded than their fellowmen, who "have been in luck".

And this short little start of between 0 till 90 years evolutionary, physical life, in all its efforts, revenues, depth, life experience is bored in eternity for thousands of years. Such a intensely, harshly and rigorously polished diamond will shine for eternity . What a difference with the soft , simmering , sagging start of all others. With all respect.
So the spiritual world is observing behind all the suffering the magnificent consequences for the Inner Life.

There is nothing more to say.

My blessings to you all