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With Passover and Easter nearly upon us, let’s reflect upon some of the Spiritual messages these celebrations have for all of us. Spiritual truths are true for all beings regardless of what your religious or non-religious affiliation happens to be. Take the truths you find powerful for yourself and cultivate them full-heartedly.

Messages from Passover*

Memory – The stories of the past must be told to remember what the lasting learnings are for us today.

Optimism – Nothing is unattainable when working with God/Divine Presence/All That is.

Faith- “The Passover story conveys that history is not happenstance. It follows a Divine master plan.”

Family- Passover celebrates the freeing of the Jews from their slavery in Egypt. It is celebrated in family homes through the Seder where children are encouraged to learn and ask questions about the Passover in a safe and loving space.

Responsibility to Others – Through oppression in Egypt, the Jews learned about oppression for all people and are called to speak out for justice and the downtrodden, working as partners with God for the good of all beings.

 

Messages from Easter

Faith – Faith is the practice of holding the belief in inherent goodness, which eventually draws to us that inherent goodness.

Forgiveness- Cultivating forgiveness is as close to Godliness as one can get. Jesus said, “Forgive 70 times 7. I have forgiven you, should you not also forgive all others? ”

Love and Compassion- Unconditional love and compassion for others is the daily work for those who know or aspire to know they are made in the image of God.

Social Activism- Speaking up for the disenfranchised is the blessing you can give because of knowing you are  eternally loved by God,  personalized through Jesus. Living in integrity with love and respect for all requires social activism.

Giving to Others- Volunteering to help others in need is faith in action and brings faith and hope alive for all beings.

So as we move thorough your spiritual journeys at this time of year, in what ways do you practice your knowing of your loving self?  Let that knowing expand, unfurl, and spread to all those with whom you come in contact everyday. Change comes one-by-one with each one choosing love as the answer and renouncing all else.

 

 

*Taken from www.Aish.com, 5 Most Important Messages from Passover

You can experience Divine presence though other people, nature, creations, art, music, etc. but to find Divine Connection, you eventually have to go inside and have a dialog between yourself and The Divine. The Divine Presence/God/The Oneness is within. Your I AM Presence, the part of you that is wholly connected and balanced with Spirit, is within. If you seek this connection with open expectations, that is the easiest way to find a connection with Divine Presence.  If you seek with the attitude that you will get your body fixed and then all will return to as it has been, you won’t sustain any emotional, mental, or physical progress or balance at all. For more, read How Does Spiritual Healing Work?.

What if you feel that there is no Divine Presence within yourself? The truth is that your quiet inner voice is both yours and that of the Divine. You are the same fundamental energy. Some people call this voice intuition and others call it an inner sense of knowing. If you can’t see yourself verbally speaking with Divine Presence, get a notebook and write to God, Mother Mary, Krishna, King David, Jesus, Mohamed, Great Spirit, Divine Presence, or to whomever you feel connected. Have your dialogue in writing. Whatever you think about yourself as a human, there is also an eternal part of you that is Divine. You are always both human and Divine energy. You can choose to ignore the Divine Energy, but it is still there.

All humans are both human and Divine. This may be way beyond your ability to fully grasp, but it is true for all of us. A caveat is that you can attract a negative spirit attachment and in that case any negative, pejorative, hurtful, berating, or angry voice you hear is not yours or Divine Energy. There are plenty of negative spirits around as we all have Free Will to do as we please even if we are no longer in human bodies. In some cases, a negative spirit can attach to your own unhealed energy and exacerbate your already unhealed feelings and energies. (See The Six-Step Spiritual Healing Protocol, Chapter 10)

Why seek Divine Connection? Well, things are just easier this way. You can call in healing for yourself or others if you have a connection with Divine Source. You create this connection by showing up and listening or speaking with Divine Source energy. What have you got to lose? If you need help, try asking for it with your whole heart. Begin by opening Sacred Space with the Six-Step Protocol.

Here’s an example:

“I am here seeking connection with Divine Source. However, I don’t know how to do this. It is really my first true time to give this a try. I may not hear the guidance today but I really need help with my relationship with my mother (or name the person). I have some sorrow, regret, and anger here but I would really like healing for this relationship. I call in all the healing I need and that (other person’s name) needs for us to come to a place of healing and mutual respect. Thanks for listening, I will be on the look out for what is needed from me.”

Here’s another example:

“Okay, here goes. I need help. I have chronic pain and tiredness as well as some depression in my life. I have looked a lot but I do not know what is keeping me from healing. I would like all this draining energy to be transformed so it no longer shows up as pain, tiredness, and depression.  I want to have a healthy balance so that I can contribute to other’s well being but I can’t do that as long as I am so out of balance. Thank you for anything that can be shifted for me. I am willing to receive healing for anything I am holding onto which is causing these issues for me.”

These steps will get you tuning in effectively to what you need. Always begin by opening Sacred Space to work within.

1. State why you are connecting with Divine Presence.
2. State the specific issues you are concerned about.
3. State what you want.
4. State what you are willing to do or to receive.
5. Give thanks.

This will get you started. Keep at it. Do not give up. Keep asking, “How can this healing come to me? What do I need to learn, let go of, call in or clear for?”  You will be guided and often not at all in the ways you may have envisioned.

What exactly has been promised us?

Seek and ye shall find
Ask and it will be given to you
Knock and the door shall be opened
Speak to the mountain and it shall move

We have been promised that we will be heard. This does not mean that you will receive all that you ask for or that you will even receive what you think you need. You receive what it is you actually need. Further, you may receive what is needed in a way you have never even imagined it.

I remember at one point when our 11 year old son was sick, asking for Divine help with finding doctors who would be helpful to him. When we were well into our hunt for the right doctors, our son told us that he did not like a couple of specific doctors he was seeing and in another case he said the doctor was okay but he was not helping him. One afternoon we had a loud disagreement over going to see one of these doctors. I eventually realized that the help I had asked for was coming through our own son via his sense of what was working.  He did indeed know what was helping him and what wasn’t. I had not been listening. I had been so busy trying to help fix things that I had not even noticed that exactly what I needed was being delivered through the knowing of our own son. This changed our complete approach to the healing process.

You may ask, “Why don’t I just get to have this full relationship with God by virtue of living a good life?  Why do I have to ask for help?” It is true that you already have a relationship with Divine Presence without your doing anything specific at all.  It is just that it is a richer, fuller, more vibrant relationship if you are fully involved.  That full involvement for me has meant inviting the Spirit of Oneness, the Living God into my life, time and time again.  So the first step to healing is to ask for help for whatever is needed. State the imbalances you know are within you and begin with forgiveness. You might begin with the Healing Tutorial offered on my website or try the Six-Step Healing Protocol. 

How do you ask for help?

Ask for help:

• knowing that you will always be heard
• that God is always for us and never against us
• that there is nothing you can do which will make you unworthy of the love of God

From John 3, “Beloved, I desire above all else that you may prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers”.  I want to say this again. You do not receive the love of God by being a wonderful human being. God’s love for you is the constant here and you essentially cannot earn it because it is freely and fully given, and available all the time.  There is nothing you can do that will set the love of All That Is beyond your reach. God loves you because you are. Simply that. You are, therefore you are loved.

You are a child of Divine Source, created in the image of God, a tiny spark of the Divine, if you will. You can’t do anything that will forever separate you from the love of All That Is. However, you can be distanced from the love of Divine Spirit by simply not being tuned into that Love and by not really embracing that there is real, practical help from the Divine for every aspect of your life.  You can choose to have any kind of relationship you want with Divine Presence. It can be close, trusting, and mutually appreciative. Or you can have what I like to call a theoretical relationship with God, one you hold in abeyance in case you might need it someday when things are really bad. Or you can run your life as if God’s love for you is something you heard about at church, in temple, or in mosque. You just never quite got around to really knowing that Divine love for yourself. You may have never asked for Divine love to come into your life in ways you could experience it and know it fully.

What type of relationship do you want with your Divine Creator? All the help you need is fully available to you but for the asking, but for the believing, but for the embracing, but for the hearing.  So go ahead, ask for God’s help where you really need it and watch your life change.

Put your trust in that which is really worthy of your trust. Put your trust in Divine Presence/God/The Oneness.  Some of us have spent a lifetime putting our trust in being “somebody”, in “having prestige”, in “being respected”, in being “really good at what we do” or a myriad of other conditions.  WE have spent a lifetime putting our trust in others or in our human self.  Now put your trust in the Spirit of the Living God. That is all that is needed. Get yourself a partner for life, one that is always available, immensely powerful, and loves you unconditionally. Get into Right Relationship with God/The Oneness/All That Is. That is the message again and again, develop your relationship with Divine Presence – wholeness and health will be the result.