SPIRITUALITY IN THE EARTH  IS A THREE LEGGED RACE TO HEAVEN Copyright © By Joan Wilson. All rights reserved. Spirituality     We are spirit beings made in the image of God.  We are spirit before we express ourselves in a physical body and we are spiritual beings while we have physical bodies, and we remain spirit beings when we shed our physical bodies.  We must remain aware of our basic nature no matter what form we assume, and we must act in accordance with that truth.  Faith is knowledge of things not seen, and we must have faith in our spiritual nature.  We are being bombarded with physical and mental images that would have us deny our spirituality and accept that reality is all material.  Our food is tainted.  Our air is tainted.  Our water is tainted.  Everything we need to sustain our physical bodies is being poisoned.  If we  would survive this onslaught, we must first clear our environment by dedicating everything in our experience to spiritual awareness.  It is not the additives that poison, it is the greed and self-interest that motivates others to put these additives in, to condition us with needs that are not real.  We can ask for blessings on everything we accept to further our growth and understanding of our true nature.  That will remove any impediment and alter the effects to growth.    The Earth  The earth is unique in that it allows us to function without having to  acknowledge our connection to all creation.  Physical appearances dictate what is real and not real.  Indeed many live their lives without knowing of any connection at all except for what is before them physically.  They still learn and grow and develop skills that will help them become aware.  The earth is but one room in a very large school to help us develop our “beingness."  It takes a powerful spiritual being to come to the earth and attempt self-actualization.  It is a difficult forum for advanced beings.  The lesson of what Jesus taught and how he was treated speaks volumes about the risks.  Yet, that thickness also provides great opportunities for growth.  There are other places where it flows easily, but the earth slows things down and calls for choices.  It is the place where we get to become aware with great difficulty of who we are and what we are.  We need to appreciate the pressures because they will forge us into aware spiritual beings.  Once we learn to ride a bicycle, the skill remains with us.  It is there for us if we need it again.  So too are the lessons we learn in the earth.  They are part of us and there when we draw on them.  We all need to focus on every aspect of our circumstances and what  it provides for learning and growth.  We need to acknowledge that each of us is struggling with the same limitations and potentials.  We need to realize that physical appearances give us only a clue as to  what is really present in our lives and look within and beyond for greater clarity.  We need to stop judging and start helping each other just as we would bandage an injured part of our body.  We need to become aware of our connection to all creation so that we can focus our energies in cooperating with creative forces and not try to force them to cooperate with what we think we want.    Three Legged Race  Man is in a three-legged race with all creation.  He is attached at the hip and one with all creation yet he tries to blindly run the race independently without acknowledging the obvious.  Because he  cannot see the connection physically, he denies it.  He tries with his mind to get all creation to bend to his desires and doesn’t try to work with it.  Man has had teachers who teach him how to work with creation, but he tries to incorporate their words with his desires.  He cannot see what they see so blindly stumbles on.  If he is approached and an effort is made to help him, he repels it because it is not in keeping with what he thinks he wants to do. He can admire men who flow with creation, but the one effort to put it into effect in his life is never done.  That effort is surrendering to the truth that he is one with all creation.  In order for man to learn the truth of things, he chooses a sacred path  which will help him.  This is his framework in this physical world.  Cultural and genetic factors make up part of the framework.  He can  choose illness, or handicaps to slow his pace.  He will choose the greatest challenge for him to learn and work with all creation.  Because he does not recognize these paths, he thinks they are holding him back instead of thrusting him forward.  He then wants God to intervene and do it for him.  Man must learn to discern the truth.  He must learn to develop spiritual sight and not be fooled by outward appearances.  He must learn that we are one, and that if any man falls, it affects us.  He has to learn not to cut off his foot by destroying life because it doesn’t agree with his philosophy.  The earth offers a unique opportunity to become one with all creation, or I should more correctly say aware of our oneness with all creation.  The density and distractions are continual challenges and opportunities to admitting our vulnerabilities and drawing on inner strength to deal with them.    Heaven  We now know who we are, where we are and what we’re doing.  Now we can explore why and what this all means.  We can now choose how to express ourselves with this knowledge.  We can now establish the Kingdom of Heaven.  We don’t have to wait for a spaceship to take us there; we don’t have to die to get there.  We have to build it, one brick at a time, and go there, one baby step at a time.  Heaven is not some far off place in the sky.  It is here, within, and we create it with our choices.  When we have had enough of living in the shadows, we turn on the light.  When we are through living in fear and distrust, we can choose to live in love and acceptance.  When we are through with this world, we can choose to live in heaven by creating it where we are.  We have the control panel in front of us and choose the direction of our lives.  We choose how to live as one with creation.  We may have tremendous challenges, but we still sit at the control panel and decide where to go and how to get there.  We are surrounded by a wall of fear of musts and have-tos in our lives.  We are surrounded by ultimatums to control our behavior.  We have the power to wash that wall down with a flood of love.  It will give with enough consistent effort to love and accept creation and work with these energies and become aware of our oneness with them.  People who have had near death experiences are often changed completely by the experience.   They have serious life threatening injuries or illnesses that temporarily blind them to this world.  When they are focused again on this world, they still have serious life threatening injuries or illnesses, yet they are completely different.  What has changed is their awareness of their circumstances, and perhaps without the trauma, it would have taken them much longer to wake up.  We can choose to grow in awareness and one step at a time choose to live in heaven.  As children of creation, inheritors of the Kingdom, we set the course.  bjwilson@erinet.com

 
 


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