Elmer
10-24-2005, 09:20 AM
ER: This is an excerpt from the most recent newsletter
published by Neale Donald Walsch's organization -
author of the Conversations With God series. David and
Carla always caution us about a perspective of fear,
even in times of disaster, and some of the links and
discussions here recently seem to skirt the shores of
that ocean of fear the STSers use as their tools of
manipulation. So I thought I'd forward this along as a
fresh perspective and a reminder...
It's all about the love.
Elmer
My dear friends...
A Miracle is occurring on the earth right now, and it
looks like a continuous calamity.
A Miracle is occurring right in front of our faces,
and it looks like something is going on behind our
backs and catching us off guard.
What is occurring is the transformation of our
civilization. We are, at last, to become civilized.
Civilizations become civilized when it becomes
apparent that being uncivilized is simply no longer
acceptable, desirable, or sustainable. Civilized
behavior emerges spontaneously and civilized
characteristics reveal themselves miraculously at
times of cataclysm. Disaster calls forth the worst of
us and the best of us?and, seeing both in full view,
we turn in revulsion from the cruelty of our old Small
Selves and move into the full flowering of our better
nature and the manifestation of our new Big Selves.
Where once we could but crawl, now we are ready to
fly.
This is the moment of metamorphosis, the end of the
caterpillar, the emerging of the butterfly. What seems
a disaster to the former reveals itself as a miracle
to the latter.
What is occurring on the earth right now is the
emerging of a new way to experience life. In a sense,
a new life form itself. This miracle of metamorphosis
is taking place over many months spanning several
years?a period of time which is, in geophysical terms,
a single elongated moment. From the perspective of the
Universe it is the blink of an eye.
The moment began in December, 2004 with the tsunami on
the Asian rim. It continued in 2005 with hurricanes
Katrina and Rita in the United States and Stan in
Southern Mexico and Central America. (The incredible
2005 Atlantic hurricane season continues at this
writing. With more than a month still left to go in
the official 2005 hurricane season, along comes Vince,
the 20th named storm of the season and the first
tropical cyclone in history to make landfall in
Spain.) The moment has made itself manifest again with
the earthquake in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, and
it appears to be preparing to transcend individual
locations and ignore all borders, presenting itself as
the clear possibility of a worldwide bird flu pandemic
that, if it jumps to humans, could be deadly to
millions.
In many ways it looks as if our earth is falling
apart. There are those who say that these events are
evidence of the End Times?that God is wrecking
vengeance on the humanity at last for its wickedness.
Yet this is not God?s vengeance, but God?s blessing.
This is not the Tribulation, but the Transformation.
Our earth is not falling apart, but falling together
for the first time.
Have you noticed? These calamities have brought the
world together. America sent its condolences and
offered its help when the tsunami devastated
Indonesia?a largely Muslim region. Iran sent its
condolences and offered its help when Katrina
devastated America?a largely Judeo-Christian nation.
Many people are dying as this miracle is occurring. No
one is dying in vain, and no one is leaving their
physical life against their will. All have chosen at a
superconscious level to use their lives to allow this
miracle to unfold.
All death fuels a miracle. That miracle is called
life. Death births life, and makes it possible. All
death is, in this way, a gift. Without death, life
cannot go on. This is true universally. It is true of
a dying star in the heavens, and of a dying plant,
animal, or person on the earth.
All life forms die to form new life. There is no other
reason to die, and no one and nothing dies for any
reason other than this. Death is therefore not the end
of life, but the beginning. No one and nothing that
dies fails to continue living, but merely does so in
another way.
Everyone is a butterfly.
Those who go on living in another way, in the
spiritual realm, experience the bliss of reunion with
God?the Pure Essence of Life, the All In All that is
Everything There Is. They then move forward in glory
on their evolutionary journey, encountering the
wondrous joys that all of us have imagined as heaven.
In every sense, the deaths surrounding these disasters
now visiting our planet are a blessing, both to those
who have left the earth and to those who remain.
This sounds like blasphemy?yet all great truth begins
as blasphemy, and every great miracle begins as
disaster. It must, for without a disaster, a miracle
would not be necessary. (Nor would it even be
possible.)
Disasters set the stage for miracles, and are part of
them.
See these days on our earth, therefore, not as Days of
Disaster, but as Days of the Divine, expressed. For
life informs life about life through the process of
life itself, and we are informing ourselves about
ourselves, that we might know ourselves as who we
really are.
This is not a time to lose faith, but a time to find
it, not a time to hope for a miracle, but a time to
perform one.
And what miracle, exactly, may we perform?
The miracle of love, brought into physicality through
acts of heartfelt giving, through moments of pure
service, through times of fervent prayer. This is what
we have to offer each other during these world-shaking
catastrophes that kill thousands and displace hundreds
of thousands and impact millions.
Many human beings are already performing these
miracles every day. We send our highest thoughts to
those in turmoil. We send our gifts to those in need.
We meditate and we pray and we hold the world in
light. We are seeing ourselves as one family. We
experience that we are truly All One.
Humanity is in the process of recreating itself anew,
in the next grandest version of the greatest vision
ever it had about itself. Upheaval precedes such
massive re-creation. As noted, some people will give
their present physical lives that humanity as a whole
may continue to evolve. We hold in the highest place
in the depth of our being those who have done so. We
see their higher purpose, and we pledge to honor their
gift with a gift of our own: the building of a newer
world.
We will do this by using our present disasters as
deliverances?delivering us from our own ideas of evil,
for ours is the kingdom and the power and the glory
forever, if we will but create it and use it and
bestow it upon each other, thus to truly Know God in
us, as us, and through us, now and always, and all
ways.
The world needs you now. The world needs you if you
see what is happening in our world in this way. It is
time for you to move into Messengership. For not
everyone will understand what is occurring and will
occur. Not every caterpillar will understand the
miracle before emerging from its cocoon.
You do, now. Therefore bring comfort to the bereaved,
help to the afflicted, clarity to the confused, and
support to those who would bring understanding to
others. Find each other and support each other and
join with each other in a global movement to explain
the miracle?and to live it.
BlessÃÃÂà ‚‚ƒÃ ‚©d be, and journey well.
Neale Donald Walsch
__________________________________
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published by Neale Donald Walsch's organization -
author of the Conversations With God series. David and
Carla always caution us about a perspective of fear,
even in times of disaster, and some of the links and
discussions here recently seem to skirt the shores of
that ocean of fear the STSers use as their tools of
manipulation. So I thought I'd forward this along as a
fresh perspective and a reminder...
It's all about the love.
Elmer
My dear friends...
A Miracle is occurring on the earth right now, and it
looks like a continuous calamity.
A Miracle is occurring right in front of our faces,
and it looks like something is going on behind our
backs and catching us off guard.
What is occurring is the transformation of our
civilization. We are, at last, to become civilized.
Civilizations become civilized when it becomes
apparent that being uncivilized is simply no longer
acceptable, desirable, or sustainable. Civilized
behavior emerges spontaneously and civilized
characteristics reveal themselves miraculously at
times of cataclysm. Disaster calls forth the worst of
us and the best of us?and, seeing both in full view,
we turn in revulsion from the cruelty of our old Small
Selves and move into the full flowering of our better
nature and the manifestation of our new Big Selves.
Where once we could but crawl, now we are ready to
fly.
This is the moment of metamorphosis, the end of the
caterpillar, the emerging of the butterfly. What seems
a disaster to the former reveals itself as a miracle
to the latter.
What is occurring on the earth right now is the
emerging of a new way to experience life. In a sense,
a new life form itself. This miracle of metamorphosis
is taking place over many months spanning several
years?a period of time which is, in geophysical terms,
a single elongated moment. From the perspective of the
Universe it is the blink of an eye.
The moment began in December, 2004 with the tsunami on
the Asian rim. It continued in 2005 with hurricanes
Katrina and Rita in the United States and Stan in
Southern Mexico and Central America. (The incredible
2005 Atlantic hurricane season continues at this
writing. With more than a month still left to go in
the official 2005 hurricane season, along comes Vince,
the 20th named storm of the season and the first
tropical cyclone in history to make landfall in
Spain.) The moment has made itself manifest again with
the earthquake in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, and
it appears to be preparing to transcend individual
locations and ignore all borders, presenting itself as
the clear possibility of a worldwide bird flu pandemic
that, if it jumps to humans, could be deadly to
millions.
In many ways it looks as if our earth is falling
apart. There are those who say that these events are
evidence of the End Times?that God is wrecking
vengeance on the humanity at last for its wickedness.
Yet this is not God?s vengeance, but God?s blessing.
This is not the Tribulation, but the Transformation.
Our earth is not falling apart, but falling together
for the first time.
Have you noticed? These calamities have brought the
world together. America sent its condolences and
offered its help when the tsunami devastated
Indonesia?a largely Muslim region. Iran sent its
condolences and offered its help when Katrina
devastated America?a largely Judeo-Christian nation.
Many people are dying as this miracle is occurring. No
one is dying in vain, and no one is leaving their
physical life against their will. All have chosen at a
superconscious level to use their lives to allow this
miracle to unfold.
All death fuels a miracle. That miracle is called
life. Death births life, and makes it possible. All
death is, in this way, a gift. Without death, life
cannot go on. This is true universally. It is true of
a dying star in the heavens, and of a dying plant,
animal, or person on the earth.
All life forms die to form new life. There is no other
reason to die, and no one and nothing dies for any
reason other than this. Death is therefore not the end
of life, but the beginning. No one and nothing that
dies fails to continue living, but merely does so in
another way.
Everyone is a butterfly.
Those who go on living in another way, in the
spiritual realm, experience the bliss of reunion with
God?the Pure Essence of Life, the All In All that is
Everything There Is. They then move forward in glory
on their evolutionary journey, encountering the
wondrous joys that all of us have imagined as heaven.
In every sense, the deaths surrounding these disasters
now visiting our planet are a blessing, both to those
who have left the earth and to those who remain.
This sounds like blasphemy?yet all great truth begins
as blasphemy, and every great miracle begins as
disaster. It must, for without a disaster, a miracle
would not be necessary. (Nor would it even be
possible.)
Disasters set the stage for miracles, and are part of
them.
See these days on our earth, therefore, not as Days of
Disaster, but as Days of the Divine, expressed. For
life informs life about life through the process of
life itself, and we are informing ourselves about
ourselves, that we might know ourselves as who we
really are.
This is not a time to lose faith, but a time to find
it, not a time to hope for a miracle, but a time to
perform one.
And what miracle, exactly, may we perform?
The miracle of love, brought into physicality through
acts of heartfelt giving, through moments of pure
service, through times of fervent prayer. This is what
we have to offer each other during these world-shaking
catastrophes that kill thousands and displace hundreds
of thousands and impact millions.
Many human beings are already performing these
miracles every day. We send our highest thoughts to
those in turmoil. We send our gifts to those in need.
We meditate and we pray and we hold the world in
light. We are seeing ourselves as one family. We
experience that we are truly All One.
Humanity is in the process of recreating itself anew,
in the next grandest version of the greatest vision
ever it had about itself. Upheaval precedes such
massive re-creation. As noted, some people will give
their present physical lives that humanity as a whole
may continue to evolve. We hold in the highest place
in the depth of our being those who have done so. We
see their higher purpose, and we pledge to honor their
gift with a gift of our own: the building of a newer
world.
We will do this by using our present disasters as
deliverances?delivering us from our own ideas of evil,
for ours is the kingdom and the power and the glory
forever, if we will but create it and use it and
bestow it upon each other, thus to truly Know God in
us, as us, and through us, now and always, and all
ways.
The world needs you now. The world needs you if you
see what is happening in our world in this way. It is
time for you to move into Messengership. For not
everyone will understand what is occurring and will
occur. Not every caterpillar will understand the
miracle before emerging from its cocoon.
You do, now. Therefore bring comfort to the bereaved,
help to the afflicted, clarity to the confused, and
support to those who would bring understanding to
others. Find each other and support each other and
join with each other in a global movement to explain
the miracle?and to live it.
BlessÃÃÂà ‚‚ƒÃ ‚©d be, and journey well.
Neale Donald Walsch
__________________________________
Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click.
http://farechase.yahoo.com