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TRANSCEND the brain's idea that we must orient SPIRITUAL LIFE around the limited parameters of time and space.
Orient to time and space, understanding they are embedded into an existence that is beyond the brain's understanding.
This is a LIFE that understands it's existence is beyond itself.
Lynette Wiest
-INTRODUCTION-
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1) 💖TRANSCEND Physical Unity - Love's UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS
What is the Grand Scheme of Life? The grand scheme of love… The big purpose. Can we know what it is?
When we transcend the limited ideas we have about life, we see beyond the idea of the separateness – of each moment, each location, each life.
We can know each life is embedded within a larger picture, a larger context, and a grander purpose than what we see - yet. This is the context to understand everything from. In this way, we can understand greater purpose in even the most difficult times. The physical unity formed by loving thoughts, actions, and feelings is an outcome, or expression, of an origin- a unity consciousness.
2) 💖TRANSCENDENCE Gathers Us Together in the Safe Shelter of UNIFIED EXISTENCE
Healing our world, and honestly being our true selves, can only come when we inform our thoughts using the wisdom that Transcends the limited understandings of separation and fear. This wisdom reveals the unified existence and unified consciousness of all life. We are each embedded within this unity consciousness. It is where we transcend our separateness, it is where we learn what safety and security in love are. Even though others may not see it, they are also within it. If we know each life fits into this unity – in ways our brains don’t yet understand, then even people we feel uneasy about cannot disturb our core. When we don’t know this, then we believe we are separate, and we feel fear and anxiety.
The only safe attachment to another life is attachment to the love they hold. Discerning how to attach requires the wisdom to transcend any fear that a life holds no love. Wisdom can recognize what is useful, and attach only to that – to love.
3) 💖Transcend! Expanded Context Reveals Global Solutions & Your Impact!
Transcendence is about:
*Seeing, interpreting, and understanding the unlimited possibilities available in our world - despite what current circumstances look like.
*Freeing our minds to build solutions from a context of greater understanding.
*Overcoming obstacles and distractions which interfere with understanding the powerful impact we can have and the solutions we can find.
4) 💖What is TRANSCENDENCE In TRAGEDY? How To Have Purpose & Power Despite Pain
How does Transcendence apply to the pain and despair of tragedy?
Tragedy can activate personal and societal transcendence of previous understandings, behaviors, and beliefs.
There is a struggle between the fears life hands us, and the opportunities love hands us. Using love to join together, we not only heal together, but we empower each other. We create more loving ways of relating, bringing purpose to horrible experience and loss. By trusting and obeying what love guides us to believe and to do in situations which would otherwise be too overwhelming, we increase empathy, share compassion, and appreciate love’s ability to heal. In this, we are stronger than we were before the tragedy.
We don’t have to choose between pain and purpose. Both can exist in the transcendent context. There is a greater context where all comes together in time, revealing the bigger picture. Here we can find purpose and power for each moment.
Being connected in love’s wisdom produces courage and confidence to imagine an even greater context for each life to be operating from, and a greater context FOR creating societal systems. The more our minds are in the greater context of love, the more conscious society is of the possibilities of love’s abilities and solutions – despite tragedy and any circumstance.
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Look BEYOND the Illusion of Separateness!
While I look through my physical eyes,
the lens I wear is best created by my Heart.
This lens interprets how I see the world -> creating thoughts -> creating actions.
Lynette Wiest
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💖TRANSCEND Physical Unity - Love's UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS💖
💖TRANSCEND Physical Unity - Love's UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS💖
We must transcend the limited ideas we have about life. We can see beyond the idea of the separateness – of each moment, or each location, or each life. We can know each life is embedded in a larger picture, a larger context, and a grander purpose than what we see -yet. This is the context from which to understand everything. In this way, we can understand greater purpose in even the most difficult times.
What is the Grand Scheme of Life? The grand scheme of love… The big purpose. Can we know what it is?
We can understand more about our physical interconnectedness - our physical unity. And we can transcend the limited metrics our brains typically use for organizing and categorizing our lives. Our lives are embedded in a unity beyond the physical unity. Thus, each life is an extension of a greater unity. Recognize we are each a part of, and embedded within, Love’s grand scheme for life. When we act in loving ways, we can we feel and know we are helping to manifest love into the physical world. When we act in unloving ways, we separate ourselves from love. We then feel alone, isolated, and miserable. When we are unloving, we block ourselves from seeing our connection to the amazing power we are a part of and embedded within, the power which transcends each individual life.
What is physical unity?
We know a mountain is formed by many elements. Our bodies are also formed of many elements. Physically, everything is interdependent. When we consider physical unity, we may measure the parts with metrics like sight & separation. Although these elements create & form each other (unity), they are still separate according to our typical metrics– whether we differentiate visually by color, by the density of the element, or by any other means of measurement.
In like manner, humans see each other as separate. Even when we see two people hug each other, with no noticeable space between them, we think of them as physically separate beings - and they are. Think of a family system, where each person impacts the thoughts, feelings, behavior, and life story of the others. It is still one family system. We see each person as one part of the whole. This is physical unity – it is within time and space.
When we interpret the information of our physical senses (sight, touch, sound, smell, or taste), through a lens of love, we see from within a context of connection, cooperation, and unity - rather than a context of separateness, isolation, and competition. Even in a context of love, we are still talking about a physical context. But, we are embedded together beyond the physical unity.
What is Unity Consciousness?
Think beyond a family, a community, a nation, or anything which can be seen as physical. To transcend limited physical context, we must look beyond the physical information. We must interpret the world in ways which not only create thoughts of love, but an awareness of our interdependence beyond the physical - of our lives being embedded together in, and created from a greater awareness, a Unity Consciousness.
This consciousness creates thoughts and actions which serve the world with the knowledge that we act as extensions from one body, or one source - each impacting the whole, as interdependent parts. We are each a part of a system beyond our brain’s understanding. Our consciousness is constantly evolving.
In this moment, our brain only understands what is similar to what it already knows. Guess what! That’s not all there is! Don’t be attached to the brain’s judgements, resentments, habits, or any ideas the brain has which are no longer useful. Allow the mind to transform and identify with something greater than what it already holds. Realize that the physical unity formed by loving thoughts, actions, and feelings is an outcome, or expression, of an origin- a unity consciousness.
Physical unity that is created by unloving ways eventually fades. It doesn’t create life. That is why it’s uncomfortable. But because it does exist for a time, it has usefulness. When we use love’s understanding, unity’s consciousness, and trust love’s grander scheme, the discomfort becomes information. It teaches us how to navigate and weave more love into the physical unity, from the source - love’s grand scheme – love’s unity consciousness.
Discomfort shows us where to input more love into the physical world. Because we are embedded within and extensions of love’s unity consciousness, we are delivery vehicles meant to nourish areas of discomfort with love's wisdom. Bring love to these areas.
Do not attach to the discomfort. It is best to stay detached from what is not lasting. When we attach to something in a way that blocks our expression of love’s unity, we feel it. We can know it’s ok to let it go, to detach. This is sometimes called forgiveness. We can learn lessons about how to navigate unloving elements, so that we do not carry them with us.
Our brains orient our lives according to time & space. However, we do not have to be limited to this orientation. Time and space give us a way to organize and categorize. Although our brains' default system operates within the metrics of time and space, these metrics can also be seen as the doorway to something larger, rather than defining something we are inside. See space and time as an opening, rather than as a box. In this context, everything is an opportunity for growth. Don't judge any situation as good or bad. Each moment (whether comfortable, or not) can itself be treated with love and compassion. Each moment is alive. We do our best by loving each moment. Every moment is embedded in all of time - holding a greater purpose than are currently aware of. By knowing this, we evolve our minds into more of love’s unity consciousness.
What would it mean to understand the world in a way that transcends time and space metrics?
Physical metrics can operate as secondary metrics, rather than as primary metrics. Beyond the physical unity is a unity consciousness. The two are not the same. Transcending from physical unity to unity consciousness is a quantum leap. Religions are constantly trying to define this, and regrettably, they compete about which religion is correct. This causes competition and separation, distracting from the power of love’s unity consciousness that religion seeks to understand.
To transcend the limits of physical unity, we must know we are each a tiny part of a unity existing beyond what we are physically. We must accept that this unity is expressed through each life. Each of us is more than just the life our brains comprehend. The brain is a physical organ. It is useful; but it does not know how to see beyond itself.
We know there is more to the world than the limited knowledge of our brains' current understanding. Our brains' default setting is to understand from within the paradigm that measures time. But we can tap into other paradigms, taking us to a new level of understanding and context. Sometimes we call these “light bulb moments”.
The mind can only add together what it already has. But, because we are extensions from something greater, we can imagine possibilities that seem beyond the ability of limited physical senses to witness - making it difficult for the default settings of the brain to understand. Considering the manifestation of these possibilities may seem disorienting, as if they are from another orientation.
So where do these ideas/ possibilities come from?
Artists of all kinds say they can feel something expressing and pushing through them to create art forms – pushing through them as if it were coming through them from somewhere else. Each of our lives is an example of this art coming to and through us. Physical life is a form of Nature's art.
Some religions describe these creative moments as revelations from God. Some religions say the brain cannot comprehend the infinite amount of love that exists. Once the mind comprehends any bit of expression of the grand scheme of love’s unity consciousness, the possibility of that bit manifesting in the physical form of one’s life is present. We call this ‘creation’. We are each an extension of love’s unity consciousness.
One expression of the Unity consciousness is physical unity – all life and all love that exists throughout times and spaces and dimensions, coming together as pieces of an interwoven oneness. The connective tissue of unity consciousness is love. We do not create love. We are expressions of love. As we express love, we express our whole selves into the physical world. Each Being is, and has, ALL the ingredients of Love. We will never be Loved for anything else. In both love’s unity and physical unity, each life is a necessary part of all life.
Love's unity consciousness pours peace into all that it is. Even when we cannot physically see love’s peace, the heart filled with love’s truth confidently knows the internal peace and unity that is always unfolding from the grander scheme of life.
Love’s truth exposes the Power of Unity we are each embedded in and extensions of. We have access to this power. In the fullness of Truth that is beyond our brain’s understanding, we find our Heart’s power to be fulfilled and full of Love. Nothing external can take this away. Sometimes we lose sight of it, but that is because we are distracted by the limited idea that we are separate beings, rather than unified in love. Sometimes we forget the truth of unity. That is normal. When that happens, remember Love’s Divine Truth is power which gives life - giving us the peaceful power to fulfill all loving desires and intentions which stem from love’s unity.
We have arrived on this planet because we are a part of something bigger than just what is physically here. Even from within physical unity/from within our physical senses, we can see the past – the stars that are light years away. It’s like reading a history book in the sky – the lights we see from the stars are the words of what happened long ago.
Today, we know so much more about our physical unity in time than we use to know. We are impacted by what took place 1000s of years ago. But, we are only ever existing in the present moment. AND we are connected to every moment of time, in the moment of now.
Let go of the idea that everything must be measured, categorized, and separated according to time and space. Instead, look at how all are connected right now. What we say impacted the world long ago is embedded into love’s unity today. It is extended to us, and is impacting us in this moment, transcending the idea of separation.
We can start to know our existence as THE Unity of everything. Remember, no matter what you think you see, each life has within it the expression of love’s unity. Recognize, our lives are greater than we can imagine. We can know more about the unity we are all embedded in and significant to.
Divine Love creates Spiritual life; it does not allow spiritual death. Divine love creates the peace of Transcendence, even in the midst of what appears to be disaster. The only thing to fear losing is love. Yet love is infinite and can't be lost. But love can be misunderstood.
UNDERSTAND:
Love is infinite; Love is conscious; Love is what we are made of.
💖TRANSCENDENCE Gathers Us Together
in the Safe Shelter of UNIFIED EXISTENCE💖
💖TRANSCENDENCE Gathers Us Safely Into UNIFIED EXISTENCE💖
Safety is created when we transcend the limits we have put on ourselves. Transcendence is about understanding our Lives are created from, and embedded within, a greater power than we comprehend - the Unity of ALL. We are each an extension of the grander context of Love’s unity.
What we trust is what we become. Our potential of becoming is infinite when we trust love’s unity. We are love’s conduits - extensions of the Divine.
Despite temporary discomforts, love's unity provides our security and safety. Although it may sometimes not feel like it, our interdependence, the unified existence of all lives, is our great power and our safe shelter. We are each a part of it, and protected by it.
In this very moment, we are held by All Love that ever was, and ever will be. Each moment we are in this world, we are each creating a physical manifestation of this Love. We are embedded IN it, and we create FROM it. We are Love in physical form. We create a physical unity of parts, created by/from the wholeness of one love.
*What are your anxieties & fears?
*What holds you back from realizing the full potential of your life in the context of unity?
*Can you realize the unlimited possibilities?
If we believe in false limits about love, we will definitely believe in false limits about ourselves. For example, if I asked you who was the fastest runner who ever lived, you could research it and tell me. But if I asked you who could have been the fasted runner who ever lived, if they had known they had that ability and they believed they could run that fast, well… we don’t know the answer to who that is. The chances are, whoever that was didn’t know it either.
Just as we limit our beliefs in ourselves, we limit our beliefs in love. We hold onto limited beliefs about love’s power, to avoid what seems to be too much risk, or too much outside our comfort zones. But, what if you looked at your life, and believed the power of love is greater than you can understand? Tap into that vision, that energy, that paradigm for your life! When you do, you transcend what you already know, and you release the power of what we call the “miraculous”. But really it is the TRUE/REAL power of what lies beyond what the brain already knows. It’s the power of what we are each embedded in - love’s unity consciousness.
The valid image of who we really are cannot be understood through a mind of fear and separation. The valid image of who we are can only be seen when looking through the lens of love and unified existence. Look at the world, and see the ways love and compassion create life. Then look at hate and fear – they cannot create health and connection.
Love must be the currency / the power which is used to build our world! It’s the only reasonable way forward. Any other currency lacks the power of love.
Your value and potential exists in what you will let love do through your life – as you recognize you are embedded within the unity of all life. You are not alone and you are not separate. Don’t trust the idea you are separate. Without fear, and without trust in separation, we wouldn’t have the necessary ingredients to create prejudice, ownership, envy, disregard for other life, and even individual countries. We would not fear not having enough time or energy to express love to everyone we encounter. We wouldn’t have to consider if we have enough money to help someone, because no one would need money (everyone would share). Money is a way to keep score in a competitive world. But wisdom knows the way to actually win is by uplifting others, not competing with them.
Our bodies are most healthy when we share. Sharing creates healthy chemicals for our bodies (e.g., oxytocin, and endorphins), helping us heal. There is evidence that Love heals us physically; and love heals the idea of separation.
To transcend limits, we can’t be dependent on limits. We must trust what is not limited. This trust allows us to transcend the limits of our finite physical nature - to learn about our infinite Spiritual nature (patience, grace, love, tenderness, forgiveness, and on and on).
Our relationships with ourselves, and with others, have infinite possibilities. It is up to each of us to discover what love is trying to do through our lives. It is our responsibility to ourselves to experience how we best impact the world in a way which brings each of us a sense of purpose and joy.
To discover what love can do through our lives, we must prioritize cooperation over competition. Competition brings a false sense of security, leading to feelings of fear and insecurity – the fear there is not enough – the insecurity that there is scarcity. But, cooperation nourishes ongoing security. Even when a situation is extremely difficult, cooperating with others in love & unity brings security. In situations which seem hopeless, love’s wisdom is able to find the possibility for growth. Anything rejecting the power of unconditional compassion and care for all life lacks the courage and confidence that come in knowing our true power.
Even in our darkest moments, we must encourage ourselves, and each other, to be love’s light - brighter than ever before. Love’s lens is like night vision goggles. We can use it to see how we are embedded together in Unity’s Oneness, to find our connection to the courage we need to position ourselves in a state of Love, even when things seem impossible. The situations we perceive as dangerous through our physical lens become opportunities for growth through Spiritual eyes. Spiritual sight frees us from being trapped in passivity and fear, no matter what the circumstance.
Immersion in the Culture of Love nourishes the Spiritual mind. Spiritual understanding may actually be paradoxical to what previously appeared to be true. Think of this paradox. We defeat fear when we stop thinking others are our enemies. Our safety is in knowing there is love all around us, waiting for us to discover more of it.
In Love’s Culture, arrogance dies. We realize separation cannot protect us, and this unleashes love’s power to protect us. The more we see the power of love, the more we see what appeared dangerous is actually teaching us about love’s power. What we thought was danger becomes an uncomfortable step towards entering unity’s consciousness, when we use love to take the step. Through the spiritual mind, we see love can redeem and reconcile anything.
Fear is not a noun; it is a verb. Fear is not some ‘thing’ that exists. If we don’t do fear, we don’t have fear. Love is different. We strive to connect to love - to what is loving from and for each of us. We can’t define love because it transcends language. Each of us is a part of love's expression – its' expression is all life unified. This is Unity. Because we are embedded together in this unity, we each have access to the wisdom of unity and strength of all. We feel full of love when we let it use us and express itself through us.
We fill our minds with what we trust. What we trust is what we become. Choosing what to trust is a huge responsibility. If we trust love’s wisdom, no matter the difficulty, we will always be glad we did.
We can always expect to learn of, and from, a greater context than we previously understood - unless we let arrogance get in the way. Because we are conduits of love, love continually evolves us. This has always been the way life unfolds – in all of nature – including in each human life. We should be on the edge of our seats, wanting to understand what Love is expressing into the world. Our minds are limited, but our hearts are not. Our minds can’t count all the stars in the sky. But our hearts can know the power of the universe.
Healing our world, and honestly being our true selves, can only come when we inform our thoughts using the wisdom that Transcends the limited understandings of separation and fear. This wisdom reveals the Unified existence and unified consciousness of all life. We are each significant, and we are embedded together within unity consciousness. It is where we transcend our separateness, it is where we learn what safety and security in love are. Even though others may not see it, they are also within it. If we know each life fits into this unity – in ways our brains don’t yet understand, then even people we feel afraid about cannot disturb our core. When we don’t know this, then we believe we are separate, and we feel fear and anxiety.
We must understand we are all joined together as One – a Oneness that is greater than the summation of its parts - greater than anything we can see. This oneness is present in each of it’s parts - in each of us. Wisdom can see what is lovable in the other & in oneself. The love within each of us can see itself in every life.
The only safe attachment to another life is attachment to the love they hold. Discerning how to attach requires the wisdom to transcend any fear that a life holds no love. Wisdom can recognize what is useful, and attach only to that – to love.
If all of us identified our fears, and then trusted Love's Wisdom about our Unity enough to let go of those fears, our Oneness would become our leader – not A person, nor A religion, but the Oneness of All would guide us.
We have faith traditions which admire the love of iconic leaders (Jesus, Abraham, Mohamoud, Rumi, and more). We put faith in leaders. But we are only living up to our potential when we have the faith OF those leaders – not just IN them. The faith of Jesus as he went to the cross; the faith of Martin Luther King as he spoke about his dream for transcending the limitations of fear and racism’s separation. They did these things while knowing they may die for their leadership. Their wisdom came from love - informing them what to think. This same Loving wisdom is available to each of us - to inform us of what to think.
Love protects our hearts and shields us from ingesting hatred and fear. When we surrender our illusion of separateness and embrace our interdependence in unit, Love redeems us and redirects us towards a path of love.
When you have a crisis, how much do you allow fear to get its foot into the door of your mind? Use Love’s wisdom to see the situation. Without seeing our lives through love’s lens, we never see our true security and potential. What state of mind leads you on the days of your anxiety? Thoughts of separation create anxiety. But, spiritual traditions tell us to be anxious for nothing.
When anxiety lasts over time, it can change the physical brain to prioritize attention to what creates more anxiety. if we prioritize thoughts of separation and negativity over thoughts of possibility and love, we get in the way of letting love’s actions transcend fear’s limitations. Find out what love can do, rather than using fear’s helpless attitude.
In a state of love, we are conscious of our embedded nature with all others, and of our safety and security. Any other state of mind blocks clarity - causing confusion and illusion. Love sees all others as lovable; and not as limited to their outside expressions, or to our fearful thoughts.
Love’s wise boundaries are important! But fear and hate break down love’s boundaries. When we fear or hate, we take ourselves away from love’s safety and security. We must orient ourselves in relationships so we experience Love’s presence from within, while we operate in trust - not in fear.
Let love marinate your mind. When we forget the power of love and compassion, we get in the way of purposeful action. We must not forget the redeeming power love has in situations which appear hopeless.
Love’s wisdom creates and sustains your life; fear and doubt interrupt life.
Practicing fearful thinking is like getting a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type. Your own blood type sustains you. The wrong blood type interrupts your life.
The shift from darkness to light is a time of waiting. Don’t get lost in the darkness of suffering and confusion. The sunrise is beautiful, not because we get to see the sun all at once, but because the earth slowly turns to reveal its’ radiant light to us in Nature’s own perfect timing. Likewise, life allows a sense of darkness. It is in the darkness that we are able to experience the process of Light rising up in us. We will lose confidence, unless we believe love will provide. Love gives us strength; but only if we trust it. Trust requires courage. This is the safe path. But it may only be clear enough to see one step at a time. When we cannot see, but can only trust, our Spirit may feel like the experience of a migrant in a foreign country. Then suddenly, in all the foreign noise, we hear the sound of our native language – we know we are still connected. Don’t miss that voice of love.
How can we tap into this level of trust? Life has a biological brain to understand the world. Life also has a Spiritual mind. By using both, we access the wisdom to confidently trust love. Usually, we first use the biological mind to understand what has already happened, to count and measure circumstances, and to determine what has been physically possible thus far. But then there is the Spiritual mind to understand what we thought was unreachable. Look outside the limitations of what you believe regarding your time frame, and of your definitions of possibility. Transcend previous understandings.
Nature shows us that in the darkness of night, with no man-made lights around, we are blind to our immediate surroundings. But then, when we look as far away from ourselves as we can, we see the stars of the universe. Our own small world is not what we need to see; we need to look out at the huge expanse of love’s possibilities. The biological understanding may fear efforts are useless and motivations are wasted. We want things to be OK in ways we expect. But, our biological brains can’t see what is happening in the greater context all of life operating together.
Physical circumstance alone can’t define or shine light on love’s greater context and roles for us. We must think beyond circumstance. If we think we already have the whole picture, we will most assuredly be confused. The spiritual context exceeds the abilities of our human understanding. Love reminds us that the greater context is safe and is exactly what our hearts desire.
Is your perception focused on you as a separate life, or on the way your experience is embedded within unity? Do you go into situations with the knowledge that there is a grand path of love, and you are experiencing each step along the way? See love leading you and protecting you in the greater purpose you are embedded in. Don’t look with physical eyes alone for love to fit into a role you have designed for it.
Do you trust love is serving you, as you are created by it? Do you appreciate, in awe, the unknowable/ indefinable power you are embedded in? Does your sight cause you to elevate your view of your powerful place in love? Or does your brain elevate fear, limiting your understanding of love’s power?
Don’t focus on fear’s limitations. Position yourself under love’s safe shelter of unity. Set love free in guiding your life. Believe love can mold your life into what you can’t even imagine. Expect great things, and receive them with great joy.
Our work is to walk on love’s safe path – It already exists and is waiting for us. The more our hearts seek and experience love, the more we see beauty in our lives.
Are we looking for glimpses of our unity with other lives in nature? - A sunset that is made so perfectly for our eyes? Do we take Nature’s creations for granted? Do we think of what Nature’s creations mean to other beings? Watch the birds, as they enjoy the beauty around them. Watch them play with each other. Don’t get caught up in the complaining or fear. Look for love, in the midst of everything.
💖Transcend!
Expanded Context Reveals Global Solutions & Your Impact!💖
💖Transcend! Expanded Context Reveals Your Global Impact💖
We are each responsible for the way we impact the world. Our impact is a direct result of the way we understand our experiences. To have the greatest impact, we must be aware and choose the most elevated way of understanding. Awareness allows us to transcend old default paradigms which limit our minds.
Transcendence is about:
***Seeing, interpreting, and understanding the unlimited possibilities available in our world, despite what current circumstances look like.
***Freeing our minds to build solutions from a context of greater understanding.
***Overcoming obstacles and distractions which interfere with understanding the powerful impact we can have and the solutions we can find.
Any seeming obstacle can be transcended by understanding that a powerful and purposeful impact can be created in every circumstance and experience. Our impact must not be from a reaction of fear; we must impact the world from love. Knowing about love is a start. But to transcend the old patterns/ the old solutions, we must transform our minds and actions so we not only know about love, but so we design our thoughts, actions, and lives as expressions of love. In this way, we will create the highest forms of safety, freedom, and security.
What does this mean, and how do we do this? All love is already in each of us. Love created us. The only things in the way of being the loving selves we are created to be are obstructions/ blinders we grabbed onto and need to let go of (e.g., greed, doubt, lack of empathy, arrogance, and fear). No one else is to blame if we limit ourselves with obstructions, rather than elevating our power and confidence in love's ingredients. For example, an attitude of scarcity creates fear; and a mind of greed induces hoarding. But when we understand a difficult situation with a mind of love, we have an expanded context of understanding, beyond the physical experience. The expanded context assures us the possibilities of love’s power are endless. Solutions exist where we didn’t know they existed.
Opportunities can be found in every situation. How do we discover them? When we are ignorant about love, we become arrogant. But when we are honest and humble, we become wise. With wisdom we acknowledge we can’t know the full meaning of anything. We must always be curious about what love is capable of – beyond our current understanding right now!
The more love we manifest into the world, the more we transform ourselves. We are in this world creating this world. When we see through the purifying filter of unconditional love, our perceptions and understandings bring power and purpose to everything - knowing everything is part of a unified system. When we don’t operate in this way, we blind ourselves.
Love creates strength. When love creates our thoughts, we orient and connect to the power of unity. This power transcends the ideas which created division and separation.
Be Aware:
When we seek to transcend earlier contexts of comprehending our world, any issues in the way of transcending will appear bigger than before. This serves to increase our awareness of what to let go of, or to better understand.
Here is a purely physical example (not really about love, but it makes the point of holding onto, or letting go of, a limited mind). Decades ago, the understanding about flying an airplane was oriented around a limited fact. The fact was that airplanes are heavier than air. So the understanding was that planes can’t fly. The Wright brothers refused to be limited to the mainstream context that was oriented around a limited fact. They went beyond the limited fact of circumstance. They trusted imagination; and they discovered greater possibility, understanding, and context. We must see limiting facts as a signal of something to solve, heal, or let go – not as a road block. Otherwise, old default contexts and understandings freeze us in place like a glass ceiling. When we don't transcend to a context of love, we allow ignorance, division, and fear to pull us back, limiting our interpretation and understanding of the world, and of our lives.
The power of empathy and unconditional compassion for all life exists in a context that transcends limited contexts of helplessness and fear. If we don’t live as loving beings, we become a reaction to what appear as limits (helplessness and fear), and we limit the entire context of our lives.
Do we look for how we are being prepared for purposes which transcend our current reality? By seeing the greater context and possibilities for your love, you are protected from the limits of fear. See all others in this context. If someone is dangerous, protect your mind and your body, but also protect your heart with love. Don’t use fear or judgement to decide how to understand someone. Use the elevated perception of love. See them in an elevated greater context, beyond just the current physical information.
We must let go of any false safety we believe in – like the false idea there is safety at the cost of another’s loss. What we do to another, we do to ourselves, because we are all interrelated. If you cut off your right hand, the left hand will pay a price too. When tempted to attack, re-contextualize to a context of love. We cannot see the love in others until we understand and trust the love within ourselves. If we only see love through eyes that say love is conditional or earned, we will always fear love may not have the ability to show up, or to have enough power to give us what we need. We have to believe we are each expressions of love, even before we have the physical proof that this is so. Otherwise, fear will distract us from the powerful and safe shelter of love.
Using fear to see others sets you up to feel controlled by them. Control your mind by using the wisdom of love from your heart. Then let your mind of love direct your life. Do not be a reaction of fear, be an impact of love. Fear is limiting and ignorant. Love is wise and transforms life. When we sense fear, it is a sign that we have clouded our senses. Even in situations where short-sighted human eyes cannot see peace and unity, a mind filled with love’s truth can confidently know the internal peace and unity that is always unfolding.
Arrogance says we are able to see the grand scheme of life without using love to understand the world. Arrogance is a distraction from love. It believes it doesn’t need love, and thus it is void of compassion. Without compassion, there is isolation. Without compassion for others, there is no understanding of love’s power. Here is where fear grows and competition (rather than loving cooperation) is seen as a solution to world problems. In the ignorance of arrogance, we believe love has no transcendent power to live beyond the physical situation of the moment. Fear believes love can die.
In a state of fear, a person feels without agency and power to assert solutions. Blame is the outcome of this, because without love’s power, one is dependent on others to solve problems. Blame steals a person’s understanding of personal power to create love’s impact.
What creates distractions from love’s greater context?
Some religions talk about sin, and having a victory over sin. In the Spanish language, when you say "sin", you are saying the English word “without”. I think of sin as whatever is without love. Sin is not a loss of love; it is anything that distracts from love. Love cannot be overpowered by sin. Love always exists. Sin disappears when love is recognized - like light entering darkness. Sin is a placeholder for the idea of absence. Imagining/ fearing life absent of love brings the fear of sin. But absence/sin has no power over love. Let go of thinking there is power in what is only a distraction from Love’s reality. Love’s power is infinite, and able to go wherever it is allowed - wherever we put it.
In love’s powerful, yet humble state of mind, the idea of sin and blame are transcended. When we are humble, we admit we don’t know everything, and we trust love. We become willing and able to see the possibility to love in every situation. Where do you have to let go of what you see though eyes of fear? Grab onto the courage that comes from trusting love, and see love at work through you. Opening to love fills us with the power of compassion, and the truth of our united connection. Love holds the most powerful ingredients for solutions to the world’s problems.
Anyone or anything creating fear and blame is not to be trusted as a leader or a guide. People often seek someone or something to rescue them. But wisdom shows us that we already have what we need. Ignorance and fear distract us from the possibilities love wants to bring into the world through us. Are we willing to let go of fears and separation, and embrace our interdependence - even with people we don’t like?
We are interdependent with the lives of all creatures. Do we realize we live within the perfect operating system of Mother Nature? Long before humans were on this earth, (and probably for long after we are gone), the powerful creations of Mother Nature transcend everything we think we know.
Sometimes we forget our connection to the unity of all life. This is because we are distracted by illusions. Distractions are normal. But when this happens, return to wisdom and understand through the lens of love. Know Love’s Divine Power is the life blood to all life. It gives us the peaceful power to fulfill all loving desires and intentions. By letting go of what is not love, we let go fear’s distractions.
To have lasting impact and greater wisdom, INTEND to see everything through a lens of unconditional love. This intention allows love’s power and wisdom to be revealed to and through you, increasing your impact in the world - no matter the circumstance. This intention expands our sense of ourselves, opening our minds and lives to go beyond limited positions and beliefs. Love protects us from ignorance, giving us the wisdom to know what to do and what to think, even before the physical information and evidence are apparent.
Love informs us about the Power of Unity we are each made from and embedded together within. It is the power beyond human understanding. It is the power of all the wisdom of life. We are each an extension and manifestation of this power. We have access to this power. We are made of this power! We experience it when we surrender to it - to the power of Love that transcends our brain’s limited understanding. By surrendering limited beliefs, positions, doubts, and unhealthy emotional attachments, we allow love’s wisdom to fill our minds. Once understood, only oneself can limit the expression of this greater context to and through one’s life.
In recognizing we are citizens of this whole world of life, we each have the tremendous power to bring love’s possibilities into the whole world - beyond what we know. Transcend the idea that you can only impact what you see in front of you. You can’t see what love is. But you know it is in you. When your heart shows you a step to take, use love’s courage and take the step. Each step of love transforms us, and lets us transcend our previous understandings. With each step, Love’s power grows stronger within us. The more aware we are of love, the more possibilities we comprehend, and the more confidently we can trust love. We have to keep pushing our minds to walk in the safety of what this transformation brings us – transcendence beyond anything holding us back from love. Do not choose fear and anxiety. Choose to trust love’s transforming power and safety in the amazing things love can do through you.
Love does not create or contain fear. When we sense fear, we are distracted from our power in love - we are distracted from what is possible. When we experience a difficult situation and we don't see what love is doing, or creating, from an elevated/ expanded context, we experience fear. Often, this is because the situation is not unfolding in the way we wished or expected. Thus, the context is beyond the brain's understanding at the time. This is NOT cause for fear. It is cause for more trust of love's process. Be humble, realizing the bigger picture/greater paradigm is beyond what the brain can comprehend at the time. Connect your trust to the greater paradigm, where love is infinite, intelligent, and always in action. Tap into this, and let it soothe your brain.
We have heaven on earth when we are in a state of pure love. We are reminded of this by the glimpses we see of our true selves and our loving united consciousness of love. The more love we manifest into the world, the more we transform ourselves.
We are in this world to create this world – and only love creates what is lasting. We can only feel true purpose to the degree that we trust love to be our guide, strength, and wisdom. We have to trust the value and power of love’s manifestation through us, as we operate in unity with the love around us. When we do this, we can trust OUR LIVES ARE BRINGING LOVE'S CREATIONS INTO THIS WORLD, WHETHER WE CAN SEE IT OR NOT.
💖What is TRANSCENDENCE In TRAGEDY?
How To Have Purpose & Power Despite Pain💖
💖TRANSCEND Beyond TRAGEDY - Purpose & Power Despite Pain💖
When we are faced with personal or societal tragedies, they are often followed by other huge disappointments. We may experience fear, thinking the pain will never end. However, when we see the broader context of all life situations operating as interdependent pieces of a very large puzzle, we can trust the puzzle is made of love’s greater context, purposes, and solutions. Tragedy then becomes a trigger, bringing us to a greater understanding of our purpose, meaning, and value. Although we do have to cope with pain, we can transcend despair and find purpose, motivation, and inspiration - even in times of tragedy.
When tragedy occurs, pain, sadness, and grief can be strong in the experience. We may experience fear, thinking the pain will never end. But when we broaden our context, to see from a greater view – to see all life situations operating as interdependent pieces of a huge puzzle – and trust the puzzle is made of love’s purposes beyond anything our minds can understand, then we can transcend the pain – despite still feeling the pain. We can be filled with the love that helps us heal, and supports us as we search to discover how the tragic situation fits into a greater context. We evolve to understand and orient ourselves to a new and broader context - not a new version of the old - but a context that transcends the old.
It is difficult to believe there is purpose to each tragedy. When we have no proof that there is a bigger picture or context, it can seem there are reasons to be fearful or desperate. But we can transcend beyond the mind when it sees only despair, and open to the wisdom that transforms our minds to know even the worst event in history can be used by love to activate transcendence of previous understandings, behaviors, and beliefs for individuals and society.
Here is an example of transcending an old context, and orienting to an elevated new context:
(This example is not about tragedy; but, it explains a context/ situation of struggle which activates transcendence to a larger context of purpose/ meaning).
Old Context: Opposite ideas cause conflict and discomfort, causing division and limited understanding of an issue.
New/ Transcendent Context: Opposite ideas unite in love, creating an evolved understanding of an issue.
Topic: Creation
Application: In the Limited/ Old Context, some people orient around the idea that humans are passive participants in a predestined evolution of our species. Other people orient around the idea that humans are free to be intentional active participants in creation. People in these two groups may believe one idea is right and one is wrong. Thus, a Limited Context wherein people believe opposing ideas create division.
In a Transcendent Context people would operate according to the idea that the two orientations come from one greater context of understanding:
the uniting of different human roles in creation: intentional creation activity reveals the unknown and unexpected, whereby humans passively accept laws of nature they did not create, and then create intentional decisions from within these laws. Like being born into the summation of all the biological activity that took place overtime to develop one's genetic makeup, and then being intentional about how to best use one's body.
This orientation to a new context transcends the old. Instead of differing ideas causing division, the differing ideas trigger cooperation and humility – love’s powerful and united transcendent context.
How does Transcendence apply to the pain and despair of tragedy?
Sometimes in our lives we experience suffering, in order to experience the miracles love can create through us. We are faced with both the tragic situation, and our freedom to choose to see the situation does have a greater purpose than we may yet see. It is both painful and purposeful, when we understand the power of our thought choices. We don’t have to choose between pain and purpose. Both can exist in the transcendent context. A mind of Love’s greater context understands all the pieces of Love’s purpose come together in time, revealing the bigger picture. Here we can find purpose and power for each moment.
Tragedy can activate personal and societal transcendence of previous understandings, behaviors, and beliefs. When we are in pain, and we trust there is a greater context, love finds a way to transform and heal us in the tragedy.
The more we choose love to control our minds, the more we will understand what we thought was impossible to do, is possible. With this understanding, we can help others know that life can be transformed by love, before they have physical proof.
Being connected in love’s wisdom of transcendent unity produces more courage and confidence to imagine an even greater context for each life to be operating from – and a greater context FOR creating societal systems. The more that minds are in the greater context of love, the more conscious society can be of the possibilities of love’s abilities and solutions – despite tragedy and any circumstance. Love transforms anything and anyone who is willing to be transformed.
There is a struggle between the fears life hands us, and the opportunities love hands us. We will grow and transform in love, or in fear. So let’s choose to be guided by love’s context that transcends all fear.
Using love to join together, we not only heal together, but we empower each other. We create more loving new ways of relating, bringing purpose to horrible experience and loss. By trusting and obeying what love guides us to believe and to do in situations which would otherwise be too overwhelming, we increase empathy, share compassion, and appreciate love’s ability to heal. In this, we are stronger than we were before the tragedy.
Think about different times of life - times of joy and times of tragedy. Realize different moments in life fit together perfectly. When seeing moments as pieces of a bigger context, we transcend measurements of comfort, grief, joy, loss, and gain. In the greater context, we can trust love gives purpose to everything. Think back on societal tragedies – where we were given opportunity to clearly see our interconnectedness. If we want to understand our purposes, and how we fit into a better world for everyone, we must know we are interdependent with all life.
We can evolve and grow in love, despite experiences which brings us to our knees. By trusting love’s inspiration, guidance, and wisdom to move us forward, we transcend our previous life, while bringing every bit of love we had with us into the future. That love came to us from the transcendent context we are moving more into. It is in us, and we move more in it.
Love joins us together. But fear brings a feeling of separation; and fear brings the illusion that division can somehow be a solution to pain. Fear blinds us from solutions. When we are in a state of fear, our senses are clouded. When we experience a difficult situation and we don't see what love is doing or creating, it is time to shift our focus away from whatever belief is activating the sense of helpless or fear.
It is important to be aware of our vulnerabilities. When tragedy is followed by more of the unexpected, or any circumstance is not unfolding in the way we wished or expected, we are vulnerable to narrowing in on information we are afraid of, causing a sense of helplessness & division. When this happens, broaden the context to understand the big picture – the place we find love’s power and solutions. The unexpected occurrence just means the greater context is beyond our brains understanding at the time.
Our brains don’t hold all the information there is. We can and must transcend our focus to the elevated/expanded context of love’s paradigm/ process at work. We must trust there is a greater purpose that we are each a part of. In this trust lies the solutions we are seeking. We courageously take each next step of what love tells us to do. Connect to the greater paradigm - where love is infinite, intelligent, and always in action. When we allow ourselves the freedom to be humble and confident in the context of love, tragic situations can bring us together into greater purpose.
When solutions aren’t within the realm of what we think is possible, we often dismiss solutions, saying they are impossible. But we know our brains can’t possibly know all the possibilities that exist. When we insist we know what is impossible, we won't be open to what we can do when we trust solutions which are created from love’s infinite wisdom. We must invest our thoughts and actions in love’s solutions.
We are the expressions of love’s solutions, when we operate in trust that love has infinite power. We don’t have to wait, to have the hope and joy we desire. We can see so many of what the world calls “miracles’, NOW. Our imagination is made of love’s power and possibilities. But, fear tells us that love can’t provide what we need in order to carry out our hearts’ dreams.
Realize, in the midst of seemingly overwhelming grief and pain, people have followed their hearts to do what seems impossible. People who are full of love often do what seems to be impossible. For example, some people walk thousands of miles to save the life of a child or to help someone in need. There are so many stories about people who have been able to do what we thought was impossible. We love to hear these stories. We can feel the physical sensation of love and power which these stories stir in our minds, hearts, and bodies. These true stories remind us of the power of love that lives in each of us – it is this power we feel in us as we listen to these stories. This feeling is the power to take steps with.
When people don’t use love to understand these stories, they may not believe the actions of others are done in love. They have a skewed sense of reality. Without knowing about love, some people can’t comprehend how/ why a parent could walk a thousand miles to a foreign country to save the life of their child. Without love, people project their own fearful or selfish intentions and agendas for why someone would make the trip. Minds distracted by fear and division cannot understand the strength and empathy of love’s unity.
It is difficult to believe love can bring purpose to each tragedy. But in love’s consciousness of greater understanding, we can transcend. We can open our minds to the wisdom that transforms us into knowing no matter the amount of pain, love transforms, heals, and evolves us in our pain and tragedy.
"God Gathers Us Together in Safe Shelter" Sermon-Dr. Lynette
A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE, March 4, 2007
Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Psalm 27; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35
What are your anxieties and fears? What holds you back from realizing the full potential within in you? When we transcend and rid ourselves of all fear, the President of the world is realized to be Pure Love, and we all live in the Garden of Eden/Heaven/Unity.
Without fear, we wouldn’t have the necessary ingredient to create individual countries, prejudice, laws, ownership, envy, maybe even disregard. We would not fear not having enough time or energy to express love to everyone we encounter. We wouldn’t have to consider if we have enough money to help someone, because no one would need money. What if all Christians identified their fears, and trusted God enough to let go of them? God would just naturally become recognized as the Top leader in the Christian Church; It may seem like God is already recognized and totally trusted; but is God really? Who is the leader of your fear thoughts? Who leads you on the days of your anxiety?
When you have a crisis, how much does fear get its foot into the door of your mind? Do you think of how God sees the situation? Without seeing our lives through Gods eyes, we never see our true full potential. Thoughts of fear create anxiety. We are told to be anxious for nothing.
We must position ourselves to experience God’s presence while we wait in faith, not fear.
Do we put our minds under the care of God, allowing ourselves to have the faith that Jesus had, as Jesus went to the cross? His faith came from the Holy Spirit informing Jesus of what to think. This same Holy Spirit is what informs us of what to think.
If I asked you who was the fastest runner who ever lived, you could research it and tell me. But if I asked you who could have been the fasted runner who ever lived, if they had known they had that ability and they believed they could run that fast, we would never know the answer. Chances are, whoever that was didn’t know they could run that fast. Even if they had an inkling about their speed, they didn’t believe they were really that fast. People hold onto limitations to avoid what seems to be too much risk, or too much outside comfort zones (in careers, education, relationships, relationship with God, in hobbies, in our vision of ourselves impacting the world). But, what if you looked at your life as God sees it? The Holy Spirit can see your full potential. Do you tap into that vision, that energy, that paradigm for your life? When you do, you release the power of the miraculous, of what you can’t do without God. Stop practicing fear, and practice faith.
In Colossians, Paul says God offers us God's valid image of who we are in God's eyes, and who God is in the world and beyond. Paul said, ""your life is hid with Christ in God". The accurate picture of ourselves is hidden from us unless we look at ourselves through the love of Christ. Look at what Christ has done for you, before deciding how to know your potential. Your potential exists in what you will let God do through you - not what you could do alone.
Psalm 78 reminds us that we can get in God’s way of action, if we forget God's redeeming power in situations that appear to be wilderness. Vs. 40-43 say, “How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert! Yes, again and again they tempted God, and LIMITED the Holy One of Israel. They did not REMEMBER His Power (for us, what Easter is all about); The day when He redeemed them from the enemy, when He worked His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zion.”
By allowing fear, we can get in the way of letting God fix a situation. You can’t walk on water until you step out of the boat. If your thoughts are that you don’t know how to swim, you will never walk on water. Put your thoughts on what God can do, not your inability. We need to stop trying what isn’t working and sit under God’s safety.
Only your own blood type can sustain you. Practicing fearful thinking is like getting a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type. Spiritual thinking sustains Spiritual health.
Fear is not a noun, it is an adjective. Yet, we fear ‘fear‘, as if it was a noun, something to be afraid of. If we don’t do fear, we don’t have fear.
Think of Daniel in the fiery furnace. He trusted God. He came out alive. The only thing that was burned off of him were the ropes that had held him in the fire. He didn’t even smell like smoke when he came out.
In Genesis chapter 15, Abram was able to see what God wanted him to see. But first, in chapter. 14, he said no to temptations of wealth, and seemingly quick security. Then, he followed God outside. To Abram it was dark, but to God is was a bright night, full of star light. God was probably excited Abram had said ‘No’ to temptation, and God wanted to be reciprocate the love, courage, confidence, and faithfulness. I know we can’t make God bigger than He is. But in this example of Abram’s faith, I remember the name of a ministry, “Lifting Jesus Higher”. Is our courage and confidence in God, even at our darkest moments, encouraging God to shine light brighter in our lives than ever before? Are we on the edge of our seats for what Abram, and us, are about to hear from God? God says, “Count the stars if you are able to number them. So shall your descendants be.” Can we fathom applying this to our own lives? If so, then it gets even better. In vs. 18-21, God gives to Abram’s descendants more than what Abram had just lovingly let go of in chapter 14. In Chapter 15:1 God said, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” It is in the trust of God’s promise to protect us, to be our shield, that we get the great reward of God's promises fulfilled - bigger than we could have imagined. God redeems whatever ignorance takes away, when we surrender it completely to God.
The shift from darkness to light is a time of waiting. Don’t get lost in the suffering, or stuck in the wilderness. The sunrise is beautiful, not because we get to see the sun all at once, but because the earth slowly turns to reveal its’ radiant light to us in God’s own perfect timing. Likewise, God often offers us the darkness so that we are able to experience not just His radiant Light, but the process of it’s rising up in us. We learn about our Spiritual abilities, about God's patience, Grace, Love, Tenderness, Forgiveness, and on and on. Our relationship with God reveals infinite possibilities in getting to know ourselves, our God, and everyone we ever meet.
Psalm 27 says that we will lose heart, unless we believe God will provide. It says to wait on the Lord to strengthen our hearts. We first have to believe that God will. This takes courage. God's path is the safe path. But it may only be clear enough to see one step at a time. In the darkness, our Spirit may feel like the experience of an American in a foreign country who suddenly hears someone speaking in English. Don’t miss that voice.
How can we tap into the faith that Abram discovered? God has given us a human lens, and a Spiritual lens- the Holy Spirit. By using both, we access faith.
Abram first used his human lens to see what had already happened, to count his biological heirs, and to determine what was physically humanly impossible. But God had him use Spiritual sight to look into the stars as an example of how many biological heirs he would have. He had to look outside the limitations of his body, his time frame, and his home, to see what God wanted him to see. In the darkness of night, with no man-made lights around, we are blind to our immediate surroundings. However, if we look as far away from ourselves as we can, we can see the stars of the universe. Our own small world is not what we need to see; we need to look at the huge expanse of God’s possibilities.
The human lens alone may reveal fear, hopelessness, useless efforts, motivations wasted. We want God to make things OK in ways we expect. But our human lens can’t always see what God is doing. Circumstance often doesn't define or shine light on God's role, even though the ego wants us to think we already have the whole picture. Emotion can blur the human lens to focus clearly. Ego can bend our human lens to perceive fear. But emotion/ego can’t bend the sight of our Spiritual lens.
Spiritual sight allows us to continue in seemingly impossible situations. Spiritual sight is like night vision goggles. We can use it to see in ways we would otherwise be in the dark about. With this sight, we see the courage we need to position ourselves in God’s safe shelter when things seem impossible. The situations we perceive as dangerous through our human lens become opportunities for growth through Spiritual eyes. Spiritual sight frees us from being trapped in passivity and fear, no matter what the circumstance.
When we push through situations using Spiritual sight, God is faithful to reveal His night vision to us. We can see the infinite stars in the sky; not just the depth of the darkness around us. The Spiritual picture may actually be paradoxical to what previously appeared to be true.
Think of the Easter paradox. God defeated fear when love was "killed" and rose from death. It is in the apparent crushing that our victory in God is won. When Jesus was killed, God unleashed Christ's victory over fear. It seems the closer we get to God, the more paradoxes we see. A mind filled with fear sees darkness. A mind like Christ’s, as He went to the cross, believes God can redeem anything.
Is your perception focused on you, or on God in your experience? Do you go into situations with the knowledge that God has gone ahead of you? Do you see God waiting for you in God's experience? Or, do you look with human eyes alone for God to fit into a role you have designed for God to prove something in? Do you appreciate, in awe, the unknowable/ indefinable power that already conquered what you think you need to fear?
Does your sight cause you to elevate your view of God and God's power in you? Or, does it elevate fear, limiting God's power in you?
Don’t focus on human limitations. Position yourself under God’s safe shelter. Set God free in guiding your life by believing God can do what you can’t even dream of. Expect great things from God, and receive them with great joy. Safety exists in our Spirits. This is a gift from God, and requires no work of our own. God blows the chaff away, to clear our minds, to clear away the danger, to show us what He means, what God is doing, and what God wants us to do. Our work is to walk in this path of safety that God has created for us.
As we look at what we can know God can do, we can see possibilities everywhere. Just as when we look into the sun, and then look away, we see the silhouette of it on everything. We look at God, with our hearts wide open, and our hearts see God everywhere around us. The more our hearts seek and experience God, the more we see God's gifts in our lives. Are we looking for signs of God's Love and victory today? Do we see God waiting patiently for us? Do we look for glimpses of God's handiwork - a sunset that is made so perfectly for our eyes? Do we take God's creations for granted? Do we think of what God's creations mean to God? Do we get caught up in complaining in fear? Do we let God create safety in the midst of despair.
We are looking forward to Easter, the day we focus on Christ's resurrection. When God rose, the past, present, and future of God's love all came together. The people of Old Testament had looked and waited for this, knowing God would be faithful; Jesus' friends experienced this with Him; we look back in history to this as the defining moment of our eternal relationship with God. God revealed victory over all sin and death -by dying for us out of love. Jesus became exposed and humble, willing to endure anything in order to have a relationship with us, the ones who were killing Jesus. God allowed Jesus to experience a brutal death, so that we could have an eternal relationship. Where do you have to let go of what you see though eyes of fear? Grab onto the courage God wants to give you. It is in that faith that you will see God at work.
In Philippians, Paul says to walk with our minds set on our citizenship in heaven. This is a leap of faith, yet God’s Spirit transforms us so to be able to believe it - to have faith as we walk. Chapter 3:21 says, “God transforms us…, to be conformed to Love's glorious body, according to the working by which God is able …”. We just have to keep pushing our minds to walk in the safety of what Easter brings us - transformation. Will you choose fear and anxiety? Or will you choose to trust God’s transforming power and safety?
The people of Jerusalem sought safety in a Messiah. So do we. Is Jesus talking to us in Luke, when He says, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her”. Do our fears kill the possibilities God is trying to tell us about? Jesus goes on, “How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!” When do our fears keep us from God’s safety? We must let go of the false safety we believe in. God says, “You shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” Can we believe God before we have the proof in front of us? It may make our waiting time shorter if we do.
In Matthew, the Marys went to see Jesus' tomb while they were grieving. When they saw the stone rolled away, they must have been scared, since the angel told them not to be afraid. Often in life a great tragedy happens, followed by another huge disappointment. Here Jesus died, then the stone is rolled away, and He is gone. They experienced fear. But God sent an angel to give them comfort, to not be afraid. It is difficult to believe that message of comfort when we feel such sadness and grief, and there seems to be physical proof to confirm the fear. The angel told them Jesus had risen - that God has just transformed the worst event in history into the best. When we are upset, and we wait, God finds a way to transform and heal us in our tragedy. The women could easily have doubted the angel. So much seemed to have gone wrong already. How could they even let hope in anymore? Yet, they trusted the message that God had transformed the tragedy into a miracle. They obeyed the angel by going to seek the miracle. In their trust and obedience, they also went to share the joy with loved ones, before they had the physical proof that a miracle had happened. Do we tell others how God will transform our lives, before we have the physical proof? Before the women get to where they were told Jesus would be, and before they are able to tell their friends, God honored their trust, and they saw Jesus sooner than they had expected to. Often it is in trusting the impossible, and the obedience that trust produces, that we are able to see God in places we did not expect. God wants us to have His joy right away. God waits for us to trust and seek His miracles.
God does not send us into darkness. We create darkness when we don’t trust God. We want God to give us answers that we want. We insist we are right. In this way, we may not see God in our fear, because this reality informs us God is not able to help. Paul was in several desperate situations. He focused on his faith. He didn’t insist on what he most surely wanted to be true- that he would be physically or emotionally comfortable. In the midst of seemingly overwhelming grief, people have been able to see God‘s Light.
Sometimes in our lives we have to experience the negative first (like Jesus death), in order to experience the miracle from God (Jesus resurrection and our eternal life). It is both painful and hopeful when we understand the reality of our own destructiveness. It is often a necessary understanding, so that we can see God redeems. There is a struggle between the fears life hands us, and the joy God hands us. We need to be guided by Spiritual courage. We may see Him and His answers sooner than we thought.
In John's description of Mary Magdalene's time at the tomb, he says that she wept because she didn't know where Jesus was. We weep when we don't see God’s role. Could it be that He has already told us what He is doing, but it doesn't turn out like we expect. We may think God isn't in our presence because the circumstance doesn't look as we expected. When Mary encounters Jesus, she doesn't know it is Him until He says her name. God may almost have to yell at us for us to realize He is right here with us. We must remember we are the ones who attach our perceptions and meanings to our experience. It is from the interior landscape of our soul that we design the compass we use to see our life - giving value, worship, and allegiance - to God‘s safe shelter, or to fear.
One day, we will have heaven. Even now, God reminds us of the hope of heaven as we look for God in each day we have - glimpses so that we can see God is so close to us now.
According to Psalm 23, God prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies. According to the Bedouin law of hospitality, once a traveler is received into the Sheppard’s tent, and especially once his host has put food before him, he is guaranteed immunity from enemies who may be attempting to overtake him. We know what it means that God has prepared a table for us in God's presence. God has forgiven us, welcomed us into the family, and protected us from our ignorance and sin. Do we watch for the times God prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies? When God miraculously protects us, or gives Wisdom. When we see this it transforms us. Do we prepare a table for our enemies in the presence of our own hearts, so that we can love them so much and sit with them at the table before God?
In the story of the talents, Christ states the number of talents given is "to each according to his own ability." The Greek translation of the word "ability" in this instance is "miraculous ability", which I understand as Spiritual ability.
We have been entrusted with spreading the message of Christ's Peace, and with living it out in our relationships. Because this ability is Spiritual, thus dependent on God working through us, we can only do this to the degree that we trust God to be our guide, strength, and wisdom. We have to trust the value and power of the message, not depend only on ourselves. When we do this, we can also trust that this work produces fruit, whether we can see it or not.
"I HAVE SEEN THE LORD" Sermon By Dr. Lynette
A Christian Perspective, Easter, 2005
Psalm 118:14-24 Easter '05
Jeremiah 31:1-5
Matthew 28:1-10
John 20:11-18
Col 3:1-4
When we look into the sun with our eyes wide open, and then look away, we see the silhouette of it on everything. When we look at God, with our heart wide open, our heart will see God everywhere in the world around us.
Today is the day of the year we focus on Christ's resurrection. The day He rose was a moment in time when the past, present, and future of God's love all came together. It was what the people of the Old Testament had looked and waited for, knowing God would be faithful; it was what Jesus' friends experienced with Him; and it is what we look back on and cling to as the defining moment of our eternal relationship with God. God showed us how we can know victory over all division. God showed us Jesus, how He operates - by dying for us out of love. He became so exposed and humble, willing to endure anything in order to have a relationship with us.
How often do we look for and see God's Love and victory today? Do we see God exposing ideas and ways to us, and when God then waits patiently for us to finally 'get it'? Are we thankful that God even chooses to do this? All these gifts come out of God's ultimate gift to us - the gift of Oneness. God's willingness to open Love to us, to wash us clean with this love, and to draw us into Oneness. Do we look for glimpses of the gifts - like in a sunset that is made so perfectly for our eyes?
Think of someone close to you who has given you a home made gift. When you look at the gift, you don't see it as just what you see on the surface. You see it with your heart and your emotions. You might think of what it took to create that just for you. It may have been hard work, taken a lot of thought, been a struggle, and taken time. You might think of what the creation meant to the person who made it. Think of the joy it brought you. Similarly, the world we live in is a home made gift, made by God for each of us. He made it so that we can know more about Love, know how much God loves us, and see God's gifts to us all the time. Do we see God's creations of people, places, things, opportunities, circumstances, time, and family as things to take for granted and to see only as they appear on the surface? Do we think of what God's creations mean to God; the reasons God made someone, or did something, or allowed something? Do we think negatively of struggles God allows? Or do we see them as a potential for growth God has put into process? Do we see difficulty as something to be avoided, or as a hidden opportunity to plant peace and joy? For example, do we think of difficult conversations with loved ones as something to be avoided, or as opportunities for relationship growth? Do we look to see God's hand in everything; in either the creation of something, or the solution to something?
Each time we open ourselves to a beauty God gives (like a person's love or something in nature), do we think of that moment as a custom made gift? We are the only person in the world to see, hear, or feel that moment exactly as we do. Do we see God then? Do we appreciate, and let our relationship with God grow? Or, do we take gifts for granted? Do we get caught up in complaining; distracting our hearts from remembering and growing in the potential to create love's greatness in the midst of despair? Where does each of us have to let go of what we see though eyes of fear, and grab onto the courage we get in our relationship with God? It is in that faith that we see the Spirit at work. God created everything that is good - everyone and everything. Each life that we see is made in God's image. God is the potter and we are the clay. Even when we twist and try to reshape the figure of ourselves and others, God still sees what the original form. Can we see God's gift, the original piece of work, in ourselves, in others, and in the world? What would it take to do that?
Paul said to the Colossians, "Set your mind on things above." We need to look at all things with a heart of love, and not with the gloom that the world twists creation into. The more we see things as God sees them, the more we can see God. We need to continually check ourselves to be sure we are seeing God and creation everywhere; to be sure we are not tricking ourselves into seeing our selfish desires as the best way to see the world. God always offers the best; we don't always see it, or even want to see it, if it doesn't fit with our expectations or our selfish desires. God knows the desires of our hearts; and God provides for them in the best ways.
In Psalm 118, we are told, "The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes." When the world rejects something (like peace, honesty, love, or fairness), do we look for the way God builds it despite the rejection? Do we see how God uses the rejection as a part of the building process? The world rejected Jesus - killed Him - and yet God used this as an opportunity to show Jesus' followers that God's personal gift of eternal life is true, meaningful, lasting, and makes a difference in this world. When we think of God's message of peace and we see the world rejecting it, do we look for the ways God is building it anyway? Do we become a part of that? Do we see how God wants to take the worst of what is in each of our personal lives and relationships and make it a stepping stone to what can be the best for each of us at this time in our lives?
When we are misunderstood or rejected, do we let God channel our pain into something good? Or, do we hold onto resentment and anger? God can take any sadness, or any sin and redeem us, if we are willing to let this be. It isn't so much God's ability to do the redeeming that is so awesome, since God can do anything. It is the fact that God loves us so much and is willing to redeem us or our situation, despite our tendency to try to do things alone, and create such messes.
Jeremiah gives the people a message from God saying, "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness. I will come to give rest to Israel. ... with loving-kindness I have drawn you. I will rebuild you, ... You shall ... go forth in the dances of those who rejoice." Jeremiah was reminding the Israelites that, when the Egyptians sinned against them, God protected them. And now later, God tells them that out of love, God will bring about
wonderful things - beyond what they probably would have hoped for. How often does God do this for us - protect us from the cruelty of the world around us, and then not only protect us but use it as an opportunity for us to be closer to God's mind and increase the joy in our lives? Do we look to be sure we see these opportunities? Do we listen to the Jeremiahs in our lives? The people who try to point out what God is doing for us? God doesn't always protect us from breaking down. But when we are broken down, God protects us. And then out of God's love God draws us to the Spirit, and like healing a broken bone, heals us so that we are stronger than we were before, because we see God's love in us even deeper.
Matthew tells us that Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary (I think the mother of James), went to see Jesus' tomb because they were grieving. When the stone rolled away, they must have been scared, since the angel had to tell them not to be afraid. How often does it happen in life that a great tragedy happens, and then another huge disappointment on top of it (here Jesus dies, and then the stone is rolled away and He is gone). It is so hard to believe any good can come of it all. On top of their sadness and unfulfilled expectations, they experience fear. But God sends an angel to give them a message of comfort, to not be afraid - the same message God gives us. It is so difficult to believe that message of comfort when we feel such sadness and grief. Then the angel says that Jesus has risen - that God has just transformed the worst event in history into the best. Doesn't this happen for us too? When we are so upset, and then when we wait, God finds a way to transform us or heal us in our tragedy. The women could easily have doubted the angel, since so much seemed to have gone so wrong already. How could they even let hope in anymore? Yet, they trusted the message of hope. How difficult this may have been. But, because they had hope that God had transformed the tragedy into a miracle, they obeyed the command of the angel by going to seek the miracle. In their trust and obedience to God, they also went to share the joy with loved ones, before they even had the physical proof that it had happened. Are we able to tell others how God will transform our lives for the good, before we even have the physical proof? And then, before the women even get to where they were told Jesus would be (Galilee), and before they are even able to tell their friends, God honors their trust, and they get to see Jesus sooner than they had expected that they would see Him (in Galilee).
Often it is in the experience of trusting the impossible, and in the obedience that trust produces, that we are able to see God in places we did not expect. God wants us to have joy right away. God doesn't want to wait any longer than it takes us to trust and seek the miracle.
Sometimes in our lives we have to experience the negative first, in order to experience the miracle and gift from God (here, Jesus resurrection /our eternal life). How difficult it is when we are required to understand what was destroyed in order to understand what God creates. There is a struggle between the fears life hands us, and the joy God hands us. We need to stay with the joy, or the thoughts produced by fear can mislead us. We need to be guided by spiritual courage and joy, even in times of sadness. If we do, we may see God and God's answers sooner than we thought.
In John's description of Mary Magdalene's time at the tomb, he says that she wept because she didn't know where Jesus was. Likewise, we weep when we don't see what God is doing or know where He is. But could it be that God has already told us, but it doesn't turn out like we expect? And then when she encounters Jesus, she doesn't know it is Him until He exclaims her name.
Doesn't this happen to us so often? We may think God isn't in our presence because the circumstance doesn't look as we expected. God almost has to yell at us for us to realize love is right there with us. At times, when we look with eyes from within our relationship in God, we see love, and our perception of God's love in us grows.
Do we let a lack of fulfilled expectations blind our sight of God and what He is doing? Or, do we know that God is faithful and doesn't usually do things the way we expect? Do we pray for vision to see how God is accomplishing things?
In Paul's letter to the Colossians, Paul says that when Christ sat down at the right side of God, Christ had finished the work He would do to redeem the world. It was finished. Everything had happened to assure us that evil in the world cannot control our hearts. When we surrender our hearts to love, God offers us the valid image of who we are in God's eyes, and who God is in the world and beyond. Paul said, ""your life is hid with Christ in God". Do we realize the accurate picture of ourselves is hidden from us unless we look at ourselves through the love of Christ? Do we look at Christ's beauty, and what He has done for us, before we decide what it means to see ourselves accurately. When we surrender to God, we get glimpses of God, of our true/ redeemed self, and of the world through God's eyes.
We are told to set our minds on "those things which are above, not on things on the earth". When we keep our minds, attentions, and visions of our hearts on the things of God, rather than the fears and confusion of this life, we are open to glimpses of who God is and how much God loves us. It is work to set our minds on things of God, since the world so easily distracts us with it's cares. But when we don't look at God, ourselves, and others the way God wants us to - through love's eyes/ God's example, we end up with an unrealistic perception of reality. And we get sucked into living life without the power of God's love flowing through us.
Today, we focus our minds on God's gift to us. Despite pain, we have faith that God is manifesting solutions of redemption to the world. For now, we can have spiritual peace and love to freely live in. One day there will be a whole world of peace and love - in the world of 'Heaven'. Even now, God reminds us of the hope of heaven as we look for Love in each day we have - glimpses of God so that we can see Heaven is so close to us now. Do we look for His Kingdom on earth now?
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