In hope on the way to Easter

May I ask You to say something about this? 

You are now experiencing great hope and perspectives in your life for a number of reasons that concern no one. However, this applies to the whole world. 

The road to Easter is not that of destruction and death and in the life of Christ torture and murder.

The road to Easter is the way of hope. The promise of a better life, the assurance of God that every suffering, every loss, every sorrow are only temporary and are containing within the resurrection. 

Resurrection for the common man? Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?

No, it's the truth. In all these difficulties, even in your time of destruction of nature, and wars, and murder of brave people like Navalny, there is "the hope of a resurrection." The resurrection of a better life, of your spirit, of a glorious future, of much and great perspective. And this promise applies to every situation, every time, every human being.

Hope is more powerful than destruction.

The spirit is more powerful than matter. 

Eternal life is more powerful than temporality.

For God is more powerful than the devil.

Trust this, know this, hope for this.

Because it's the truth.  

 

My blessings to you all

No 564

My spiritual life

It's nice to talk about it, not because it's necessary, because that spiritual life does lead its (her?) life, but it's nice to think about such things, to put things in perspective, to ask yourself, what is the situation, as far as that works this is my attempt.

I strived for enlightingment for a while, but soon found out that it was just a word, which everyone interpreted differently and I thought sometimes the word was abused. It never really appealed to me, simply because I was still too attached to my personal life, my feelings, my way of thinking, my body. And because of that, an overwhelming realization and a considerable peace came over me. Maybe it's not for me, maybe I don't want it, maybe it's just a word that everyone misuses. And because of this, there was room for a beautiful spiritual experience that I have cherished very much ever since, and experienced again and again: I love this life, I love my body, I love the personal, I love the variation in feelings, the variety, the contrasts, I love that life is surprising and not boring at all. I don't want to get rid of it at all, I'm in the middle of it and it satisfies me very much, even though I know there's more. And I find it exceptionally nice to be completely immersed in it, regardless of the consequences. And that doesn't mean that I don't just walk with my head in the clouds, but also with my feet in the mud. Everything is part of it. Yet what I am describing now has been a long struggle of many years before I could say yes to everything, and I am still sometimes shocked by the intensity, especially of negative experiences and emotions. But still: I do that as much as possible, saying yes to everything.

Another important insight occurred to me concerning matter, the earth, the physical. Many religions are rather negative and judgmental about the body, let alone sex. Many New Agers are very contemptuous of matter and money as if they were inferior to the mind. But how I have always loved the material: beautiful things, a painting, a plant, a candle, sunlight through a stained glass window, and so on. The wonderful, constant, fine, reliable matter that is always there for you, no matter how you feel. The matter quietly continues to be there. Delicious, and actually money is part of that, handy, easy, why would money be dirty, something like that.

And then God. All my life I have sought to be closer to God, and I have often been mistaken about methods, movements, gurus or books. But I can also say: I dived into it, took out what seemed right to me and moved on. In that process, I never doubted God, at most Its servants on earth. The good God, I have always been able to feel Its presence in crucially beautiful and crucially difficult moments, and for the past twelve years or so I am hearing Its voice. I don't search anymore, I don't have to read about other people's insights and don’t have to follow gurus on YouTube. It is all right, but not for me. I've found it.

And that doesn't mean I know what it's like, but I've come home to Myself. I feel seen, affirmed, loved, reassured, and from that contact I have learned, I should say unlearned, to judge. No more judgment, but understanding, no more separation from others but the experience of respect and acceptance of the great variety of people, opinions, experiences. Total acceptance and peace in this, the other person is allowed to be how he is, and I am allowed to be how I am and if someone else judges that, I know that they have a problem, not me. If I judge, I have a problem and not the other. Peace and space and trust. And in that also more love than before for myself, for the other, for life, for difficulties, for the negative side, in short, peace and saying yes in this too.

And in all this and in everything I experience, I don't compare myself with others, because I don't know exactly how it is, and I don't look into someone else's heart, his inner self, his mysteries, but I only compare myself with myself before. More peace, more space, more love, more acceptance, more God and God closer, namely just in my inner self and the most most most beautiful thing is that when I am loving towards life, towards the other, towards myself, I also feel more close to God.

Do You want to comment on this?

This  will do.

My blessings to you all

No 563

Trust the greater Self

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle (Christian D. Larson)

Would You like to  comment on this quote? 

Don't many blogs actually say something about this? But I am happy to go into it because it contains just about everything that the spiritual world is asking from man.

Trust, trust, trust.

Hope, hope, hope.

Lean on Us, build on Us, know that We are there.

Your Sparks of God, your souls, your guardian angels, the spiritual world, your spiritual coaches, your angels on your path, your heart, your spiritual body.

In short, trust, trust, trust.

All will be well, here or later, on earth or in the spiritual world. 

 

Endure the misery, know that it is temporary, hope for a better life. Say yes to your pain, your sadness, your unhappiness, your fears, your problems. In the end, everything is surmountable and in the spiritual world you will sigh "maybe a little more misery would have been better".

Christian Larson is blessed.  

My blessings to you all

No 562

There's always beauty around

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

Would You like to comment on this? 

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 power of a loving heart

The God of love dwells in the one who loves, not in the one who is loved (Plato)

My God, would You like to say something about this? 

My Son, one of My favourite subjects! Of course I do.

First, a necessary correction. The God of love, of course, dwells in everything and everyone, and certainly in man on earth, who is endowed with free will and in man who is loved, and certainly also in man with a heart that can love.

In short, God dwells in everything and everyone.

It is one of My favourite subjects because God comes into Its own in a person who loves. Not necessarily in a person of faith, but in a person who loves. 

Every person who loves is very close to God, and God is very close to this person. And a loving heart can do much on earth.  

But first the heart, and if it works all the way according to God's plan, a loving heart. Miraculous instrument, magical organ, glorious part of earthly existence, glorious weapon against the devil, magisterial aid to sickness and destruction, addiction and disorder. Blessed heart. Healing and living and blessing and powerful organ. How much worse would the state of the earth be without the millions of loving hearts?

A mother who cherishes her child.

A child rescuing an insect.

A policeman who protects a vulnerable person from a criminal.

A soldier defending his homeland against unreasonable enemies.

A farmer who takes care of his land.

A shop assistant who treats her customers in a friendly way.

A manufacturer that takes good care of its employees.

A politician who works hard for his ideals. 

A caregiver who takes care of the ailing body of an old person.

 

Oh man, don't stare blindly at the wars and diseases in this world, at the natural disasters and injustices in countries, at your own suffering and sorrow.

All of that is certainly there. 

But there is much more.

And above all, there is the loving heart. 

Look around you and know that the loving heart holds the world up. 

Know that the loving heart is the comfort of the unfortunate and the salvation of many. Trust in the loving heart. 

And trust that the loving heart will prevail in these uncertain times.

For God dwells in a loving heart.

God cherishes the loving heart as a temple on earth.

God works best from a loving heart, and there is no other lasting victorious power on earth. 

Blessed be Plato. 

My blessings to you all

No 560

My beloved child

My God, may I ask You. I followed a podcast in which Jan Geurtz talks about loving yourself. I was touched by it and for a few days I was so happy inside every time I thought about this. I felt the skin of my face light up, almost being pulled up to You instead of pulled down by gravity. I must have walked around with the smile of an old monkey. But in the meantime lighter, sweeter and happier, happier with and about myself. And that's for free. Everything was good and beautiful. And very doable, even all the difficulties, I looked at myself with all the acceptance and love and joy that is in me and I was surprised that what I once learned from You I now experienced so completely through the words of Jan Geurtz. Would You like to comment on this?

My beloved child, feel blessed. Be loved. Know that you are viewed with love and acceptance. Love yourself. Nurture yourself. Love yourself. Look at yourself with affection and room and know that you will be closer to God than ever. For that is how God looks at all of you, regardless of what you do and don't do, can and can't, try and don't try. Do you remember it over and over again, over and over again. And when you have forgotten it, you go there again, to that happy and loving look at yourself. And don't confuse this with the blunt selfishness of some people, because they don't love themselves at all, even if it seems that way.

Look at yourself with all that love and affection that you have in you and can muster for a small child, a sweet kitten or a flower. And then know that God rejoices because then man comes closer to God, and God gets closer to man. There is simply so much more possible in your lives with this loving attitude. The world would accelerate through its transformation, and it would be accompanied by less destruction and less suffering. Live the love for yourself.

Because it is closely linked to love for others and for the world. 

And if you forget this again, My son, remember again. It is the difference between night and day.

Jan Geurtz is blessed. 

My blessings to you all

No. 559

Stupid behaviours lead to modesty

My good God, I was recently losing myself in the small, stupid and unhealthy attachments of life. I won't go into which ones they are, because that's not really that interesting. And when I had enjoyed myself so much, I sensed a great humility in myself. I don't have an inferiority complex, and I don't call myself a measly meaningless worm, but still. My self-image was : "oh what am I worth, how much can I do, how much do all the primitive forces in life have more to say about me than You God" I sighed. “What was I worth, what a wonderful stupid monkey I am".

Well, something like that. And in doing so, I experienced a smallness, a nothingness, and a nothingness, which gave me peace and a kind of simple sensation of relief. In any case, I wasn't exactly suffering from pride or great self-importance at the time.

And I thought of You and of the spiritual world and sighed, "What patience and love and power You have all to work with us. What a job for You All".

Well, I would ask You to comment on that?

My good son, My question this time is not "Has it brought you much, this behaviour? Did it help you, did you experience any good?" We park these questions, because they have been asked in other blogs. 

(Check https://watchthegod-english.blogspot.com/2013/06/renounce-yourself-teresa-from-avila.html )

And it is through: We are Patience, Love, Power. 

The Son of Man preferred to deal with tax collectors and whores, who knew a lot about the dark side of life but did not dare to think that God was thinking of them. He preferred to hang out with them rather than with priests and Pharisees who lived oh so righteously and knew very well everything about God and holy books and rituals.

Why do you think? 

The tax collectors and whores did not find much of themselves, were infinitely open to every straw of life, and Christ was indeed a straw of life, rather a rock in the surf. 

But the priests and Pharisees had a very high self-esteem and did not wonder anything. They were filled with self-importance, and had no questions, no need for support and counsel, and certainly did not want to hear anything new and painful, except to be confirmed very loudly that they were very special.

Every word of truth and love spoken by the Christ was absorbed and loved and internalized by the whores and tax collectors, but they were doubted and discussed and rejected by the priests and Pharisees. 

This is not a plea for sin and corruption, for addictions and songliness, but it is a plea for the wonderful works of God, Who in the poor in spirit and the oppressed and gloomy and the sick, the sighing and sinners, gets a lot of power and achieves much. And in the spiritual world, a whore with a big heart is welcomed with more joy than an icy cleric with a cold mind.

You were more open to Me after all your little stupid acts than before. I'd like to see that. Because with God, you can start over every day. 

The Christ said to the tax collectors and whores after a frank conversation: "Sin no more".

And almost without exception, they stopped sinning and became half-saints in life.  And the priests and Pharisees— ahh they crucified the Christ. 

Be blessed for your honesty. 

My blessings to you all

No 558