Living life at 1,000mph! The world that we created…

Are you? I’m sure you are, most of us are, rushing from one activity to another or from appointment to appointment, this earth shatteringly important thing to an even more important something or other. Busy… busy… busy… We feel compelled to push, push, push just to stand still and the stress is killing us.

We feel we must have control, we feel we must force life to fit the ridged set of requirements we feel are necessary for us to feel secure and at peace. This world stems from fear, we must compete with, battle against, trick, out manoeuvring contriving and scheming and if necessary completely destroy those we see as competitors.

Working so dam hard earning a living when we should be making a life and where is it getting us? - And the big question, where is God in all this anyway?

Humanity suffers from the separation manifested by our out-of-control egos, egos that are fed by the fear that sits at the root of, and is the foundation of, our need to out manoeuvre, scheme against and battle with all those we see a competition for the apparently scant resources of this world.

Look around you at this world that we have created, fighting harder and harder with ourselves and each other and we’re not even standing still, we seem to be sliding backwards.

Is it possible that by slowing down, by training our egos to take a back seat, to step aside and by gradually releasing our fears we can actually achieve more?

That by ending the struggle, ceasing to worry and ending the battles with our fellow humans (and for that matter, with the whole of life) we can finally achieve the state of peace and security for which we’ve always longed?

We human beings were NOT created to live a life of struggle, fear or disease (dis-ease) we are NOT here to worry about our very survival or live a life of terror not knowing if there is a way out.

Believe it or not, life is designed to manifest the exact and most deeply held dreams and desires of your hearts. Really! I know as you look at the world around you it doesn’t seem like it, but it does, always, and it’s the peace stealing and ego feeding fear that does it.

And yes, by the way, there is a way out…!

Let go, stop trying to force life to show-up in a certain way, stop trying to change your world with brut force and ignorance. SLOW DOWN, and to coin a phase, “Let go and let God.” Is it just possible that by trusting the process called life, by believing that God knows how to run your life better than you do, and that he knows how to get you to your destination with grace and efficiency? Not only can he get you there faster but with perfect timing too?

The creation of your desires suddenly become effortless, graceful and you might even say easy, when you let go and trust life, when you trust God. When we cease our fear filled struggle with the circumstances of our lives (Cast your cares…) and follow the lead of our God created spirit, (Seek ye first the kingdom…) the peaceful, fulfilled lives we seek can gracefully manifest in surprisingly short, (but nevertheless, perfect) period of time.

1 Peter 4:8-11 "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen."

That’s not to say you shouldn’t live an interesting life, quite the opposite, live life to its fullest just cease all this maddening, stress inducing, fighting and struggling. Have your adventures, live your dreams, fulfil your potential and by all means live big - but stop the worry filled fear induced struggling!.

To live your life from a position of peace, we must trust, having faith that everything will not only work together for our good but, will also appear and manifest at the right time and in the right season. Cast your life’s cares onto your creator, onto life himself, in the process of which setting yourself and ourselves free to love each other deeply, acting with care and hospitality towards all (something I’m still working on, btw).

Make full use of your talents, you have them for a reason, use them to bless and to serve others and when you do, grace can flow through you in all its myriad forms. Speak at all times using words of love, act with the strength that comes from love and in all things live in gratitude.

Life will get you to the life you dream of faster and with perfect timing better than you ever could yourself, slow down, stop worrying and trust.

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ARE YOU/WE TRULY LISTENING?

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”- Albert Einstein

You've heard it said, "The question is not who does God talk to, but who listens." And it’s true God is communicating continually, all of the time heaven is sending inspiration, guidance and love to, and for each of us in every moment of our lives. We don't seem to recognise these communications for what they really are, assuming that they are even noticed (and most of the time, they are not) we give them a multitude of names anything else but the truth of what they are (communications from God).

It's amazing how so many people perform any number of tactics and mental gymnastics to avoid the truth of the communications sent to them from the heavenly source. We have become increasingly expert in the deception of ourselves as to the originator of these inspirations/instructions. We're screaming at God, Why don't you answer? Where the f**k are you? HELP ME!!! (I used asterisk, I was NOT swearing! :P)

He does answer, he is with us always, we have just become so adept at giving the experience any label but "God", or even ignoring them. I'm sure we're all familiar with phrases like, "I guess, I just got lucky!” or "It just seems to be..." preferring to believe that whatever happened was merely random chance as apposed to being the longed for communications from our creator, the creator of life.

We struggle so much with the situations and problems of life and the questions that arise from them, God/Life that inner voice provides the guidance and inspiration for the everyday and the unusual, the mundane and the magical. It’s the summer breeze that brings that sudden moment of genius, that song on the radio or the smile of a stranger. The question you ask one day may be answered the next day by the perfect author who wrote the perfect book that answers your question perfectly.

The trick is not to stress yourself too much in the search for your answers, or try to force life’s events in a direction they don’t want to go or make things happen too quickly. Truly listening to life brings the realization that the events, experiences and answers you are looking for will happen at the right and perfect time for them to happen. In fact, struggling and forcing the issue may have he effect of slowing down or even preventing those things from happening at all.

“Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you.”- The Nag Hammadi Library

Now, here’s the tuff part, we need the courage to act on the inspirations and the guidance we receive. These urgings are there to help us on life’s journey, they are there to help us grow, to become a more fully realized person and dare I say to help us evolve. It is to our advantage to listen to and trust these intuitive messages that have their origins beep within.

God has the whole multi-media magnificence of the whole of creation to communicate with, the complete bandwidth, every parallel reality and every dimension is his to play with at will. He can arrange anything, from the smallest particle to the grandest star, from the tiniest ant to the most imposing of elephants, anything, and everything at all and it’s all at the behest of the almighty just so he can let you know that you haven’t been forgotten.

So, be on the lookout, pay close attention and listen to the people and events of life as they cross your path, you may find just what you’ve been looking for. And, perhaps when that magical moment comes, the realization that it was right in front of you all along.

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USING YOUR IMAGINATION (THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE USED)

Philippians 4:8 "...if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think on such things."

The human imagination is a powerful thing, it is where your future is born, is where physical reality begins its existence, it is the realms of the possible and from where it begins it journey to manifestation. We use this powerful tool all the time, most of the time we use this amazing gift to imagine what can go wrong with our lives, or how things could fall apart and on how our dreams are never going to happen and not on how your dream life couldn't be easier to achieve or impossible to avoid.

We're doing it all the time, our deeply held fears seem so permanently engraved on our souls that we don't even notice the connection between those fears and the creation of the nightmarish circumstances that so many on this planet live in.

OUR IMAGINATION`S ARE NOT MEANT TO BE USED IN THIS WAY!

We even use our imaginations to create ways to exploit our fellow humans for personal gain, for example: the despicable practice of human trafficking, which is basically the buying, selling, using and when they have no more usefulness to their captures they are thrown away like so much trash. Human beings as disposable objects, with just as much perceived value by those who use them, imagination employed in the pursuit of carnality, evil and the denigrating of others. A subject that a blog entry, or even a whole book by itself and strictly speaking, not the subject of this post…

But, suffice to say:

OUR IMAGINATION`S ARE NOT MEANT TO BE USE IN THIS WAY!

The imagination is where the seeds of the creatively process are sown, it is where heaven places images of your grandest most fulfilling future, played by the projector of your heart and, viewed on the movie screen of your mind. Deep in your spirit there exists the reason for your coming to this life, the mission you are here to express and experience lives in, and has its beginning at the heart of your being. In there is the genesis of the joy and satisfaction we experience when we fully express our purpose for coming to this life, and all we have to do is listen to and follow the yearnings of our hearts.

The process of creation, the journey to manifestation, begins with our imaginations. As children we do it all the time, we create whole worlds with our imaginations, dreaming up, speaking and acting out possible scenarios all 'as if' it was real. Children are experts in the process of manifestation they demonstrate it every day with their play; we seem to forget as we grow older the joy of the creating and manifesting of our dreams.

So, the four steps to creating a fulfilling future for ourselves and by extension, the whole of humanity, one imagination/life at a time are:

Romans 12:2 "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind..."

1) The desire: There are seeds in your spirit, seeds of your desires and of your dreams, the reasons you came to this life, the beginnings of the experiences you came here to explore. Deep, deep within us all resides the driving force behind the whole of consciousness, the life force of creation, the Holy Spirit. Your job is simple, your job is to listen to your heart and search your soul to discover that reason.

2) The dream: This as you might expect, is where your imagination comes in. Use your imagination to give internal life to what are literally the dreams and desires of your heart. Don't worry if you are dreaming the right dream, don't concern yourself as to whether you are making things up or not, just dream. Dream in high definition, not just the sights but the sounds, the smells, the taste and the feeling of being where you know that you should be. Most, most importantly of all is to express the joy, the excitement and the gratitude for the manifestation of what is already so.

3) Speak and act: Your words and actions are simply statements of what is already really so for you, they (your actions) should be treated as the 3D image you have of who you think you are. Acting and moving one step at a time, in the direction you wish to go. Write your vision down, put everything in print so that you can read it and be as detailed as possible.

4) Trust: You don't have to know the details of how it works or how to get where you wish to be. Hold the destination in your mind, knowing that it already is, but don't concern yourself over how you will get there. The life, the Holy Spirit that resides within will guide you - learn to listen and learn to trust. And whatever you do, remember to play.

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Mistaken Identity

You are not who the world says you are, or what your thoughts say either, you are who and what God says you are. #DivineDarling

We identify with the world and we believe what it says, of course we do why wouldn’t we, after all it seems so real. We identify with the thoughts that meander through our brains and call those thoughts our identity; we identify with the negative feelings of fear, and hate and think that is who we really are. We identify with the physical form that we see in the mirror, and call that image “me”, thinking that it is a true reflection of who we are.

We over estimate the solidity and permanence of the world around us, thinking we have no control over the events and experiences of our lives. We underestimate the power of our intentions, words and actions to change the world, and consider ourselves unable to affect circumstances for the good. This goes for time too, by the way, we give time mastery over us it rules our very existence we’re continually chasing our own tails just trying to keep up.

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein

Hey, it (life) is meant to feel real, that’s the whole point the experience has to be convincing, it needs to appear real for us to have the intended experiences that we came here to have. The problem is we believe it, - we have a galactic size case of amnesia - we put all our trust in this physical existence not only being real, but being the only thing that is real.

Okay, so maybe not all of us are so amnesic, more and more of us are remembering and reacquainting themselves with a wider reality and realizing, just how much fear and torture our trust and reliance on this created reality has produced. But it has to be said, the occupants of this planet seem to be struggling through this life with a very persistent case of mistaken identity.

As real as it may seem, the world we live in and the lives we lead are called creations for a very good reason. This life is a reflection of what we are being but not of who we truly are, we as a planet have been so fearful that it has produced a waking nightmare -- that’s not who or how we are meant to be, we’re not really being our true to ourselves.

Fear has robbed us of the truth of our nature, it has taken the joyousness out of life and lied to us about how life should be lived, it’s time for a change, it’s time for our true natures to be freed, restored and realized, its time for the truth of love. The world and its events are an emanation and a reflection of what we (humanity) are being, the world and its events are important, but they are not a true representation us - we may be in this world, but we are not of it, you and I are here to shape the world and not be shaped by it.

The fear that pervades this world and the resulting separation has produced some very strange ideas, so much so, in fact that the love that created us has trouble being heard. For example, the idea that some lives matter less than others, ‎go figure it’s crazy, really crazy and bears on relation to who we actually are, or for that matter to what life here on Earth was intended to be like.

So, who are we meant to be? Who are we, really? And, what is the true nature that is hidden by fear? We are love; we are the unending non-judgemental acceptance called love and by definition an expression of God.

What is love? Love is the absence of judgement. - Dalai Lama

Believe it or not, despite all the fear and separation that you see all around you, you are made in the image of unconditional, unrestricted love. It is who you truly are and who you are meant to be expressing, radiating and being in this life. If you were expressing your true self, you would be patient and kind, you would not envy or boast and you would not suffer form pride. You would not dishonour others or be self-seeking or, for that matter, easily angered. It would not occur to you take offence or keep a record of any wrong, you would delight in the truth of love and always be protecting, trusting, hoping and because love never fails, you would always be preserving and never judging. Doing no harm to yourself, to others (who are just the same being, the same body, life, being expressed differently), or any to any part of this living creation.

Matthew 25:40 & 45 …‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’… ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

You are the branch and he is the vine, we are ALL “gods” member of his, the one body, we are made one with him, we are a part of him and he’s a part of us, EVERYTHING he is, we are and EVERYTHING he has done and is doing, we can do also. He not only lives in your spirit, he IS your spirit, believe me nothing and I literally mean nothing is impossible for you, for you are limitless.

You realize don’t you, that there is only one body? You realize don’t you, that when you harm or hurt another you are only hurting yourself? You are diminishing who you are; you are denying the true nature of who you are and missing most of the joy that life could bring. We are missing opportunity after opportunity to bless and be blessed and we are missing the whole point of life.

Got it yet? You and I are not meant to live a life of fear and anxiety; we are all of us made in the image of unconditional, unrestricted love. I know what fear might say, but, you have complete freedom to choose and to be whomever you want, so choose your deepest hearts desire. You may have days when you feel powerless, but believe me, it is you who has the authority in your life, not some figure you‘ve given authority to, you do, you are the light and the city that cannot be hidden. We/You/Me/Us are limitless creative beings, if we don't like what we see we can choose something new and change it. We can recreate ourselves you are, and we all are, expert re-creators made from and in the image of the one creator.

You know he sends us nothing but angels? Most of the time their wings are invisible not only to you, but to their owners as well. Believe it or not, but you are an angel in the lives of so many, showing up right on time just when you were needed. It’s time to be who you were always meant to be, it‘s time to be authentic and true, it’s time to stand up and set the captives free.

Consciously choosing our actions as apposed to unconsciously reacting to a circumstance, cultivating the ability to think for ourselves, knowing our own minds and not just adopting the ideas of others. Renewing our minds, leaving the mistaken identity and its attendant fear behind and realizing the power inherent in who we are.

Doing No Harm and Setting The Captives Free

Faith = Action taken from a position of certainty, knowledge and trust that our intended goal, dream or desire has already been accomplished. It is an unswerving confidence in the process and creator of life, that which we call God. The fuel that powers such trust, such complete faith, is the unending acceptance called love.

Links: Genesis 1:27, 1 Cor 12:12&27, 1Cor 13:3-8, Ps 82:6, John 14:11-12, John 15:5, Romans 8:17, Romans 12:4-6 , Eph 4:25

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STOP JUDGING YOURSELF

A message has just fluttered down from heaven, it simply said:
“I choose you!”- God

I know it doesn’t seem like it but you are who you are for a reason; you are perfect for this life, so stop judging yourself. I know, I know, believe me I know it, everything you feel tells you that you are extremely unsuited and inadequate for the place and time in history that you find yourself. Life at the moment seem to be an apparently unending battle, all we want is to live a life in which we are free to blossom into our highest potential. We feel threatened by events and the decisions of others, you feel so angry with yourself, with others and with life the whole of life seems to demand we constantly fight.

So angry in fact, that sometimes you don’t want to be here anymore, you’re looking for a way to be free of all this stress. You in fact feel, and I think this is the perfect and only word for it, you feel abandoned. Sweetie, of one thing I’m sure, you are being the best you, you know how to be - STOP JUDGING YOURSELF!

Matthew 10:26 (NIV)“So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.”

"The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.” Proverbs 13:9(NIV)

Cariad (sweetheart), as hard as your life may be your life has a purpose, you came to this life deliberately to be here at this time. I know this world seems so full of attacks and struggle but you shouldn’t be judging or blaming yourself for not managing, the world is a tuff place right now and frankly I think some of those “attacks” may actually be attacks there are those in the world with less than compassionate motives. But please, please don’t allow them to overcome your beautiful spirit.

Remember, cariad of one thing I’m sure, you are being the best you, you know how to be - STOP JUDGING YOURSELF! You owe it to yourself to do your best and to reach for your full potential, in fact you owe it to yourself not only to reach for that potential but to stretch and challenge yourself, to dare yourself to become more.

"When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick."-Bill Lemley

Its time to stop hiding yourself away, your beauty and your talents need to be shared. It is time to make fresh starts and initiate some new ideas, it's time to reach for that new life and become that new you. You can’t do this by judging yourself or for that matter, by letting those with less than trustworthy motives dictate your sense of self worth.

Change your beliefs and not just the surface thoughts you hold about yourself but the deeply held beliefs, it is how you perceive yourself in your heart that matters. How and what you feel towards yourself is essential, anger and a judgemental, negative attitude toward your own abilities only hold you back. Belief begins with a thought; thoughts reiterated and perpetuated over and over, time after time become your beliefs. Changing your emotions changes your thoughts and changing your thoughts will change your beliefs, and then over time, watch your life change.

“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
2 Corinthians 3:18(NIV)


“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33(NIV)

You are a star that illuminates the Earth, NEVER FORGET THAT!

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." — Gandhi

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LIMITLESS FREEDOM in WHOLENESS

God did not create you to have limits.
You are made in the image of EVERYTHING; you are an expression of the ALL. You are the very image and the likeness of freedom, expressing itself without fear or restriction. You can choose to be any part of the “everything” you wish to experience and express any part of the whole, in any way you wish. It is in the nature of what you are to express freedom that nature is why we resist the restrictions that others may place on us.

Smile you are in control, I know the phrase that is most often used is “God is in control”, but here in this physical life, it is us that have dominion, we (humanity) have complete freedom to create, express and experience anything we can imagine. It is essential for you to be able to experience yourself as you truly are, and to express the freedom of your will, you can even say no to God. Saying “no” to your creator does have consequences in this relative world however, not that you would be judged or punished for your negative response, but that your life will not “take off” in the way you dreamed it would. In this physical, relative realm our choices have consequences and outcomes; there will always be a harvest from our seeds.

The struggles and restriction we experience are artefacts of our level of awareness, it is a measure of the level of fear we still allow in our lives and an indication to the level of reality we ascribe to the physical world. Fear has us so tied up in knots that we can’t see the truth, we can’t see ourselves, and we’re hidden from ourselves by our trust in this negatively imagined reality.

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead."--Nelson Mandela

Time to begin travelling through this life consciously, to begin deliberately choosing your path and creating a self, a life and a world where freedom is truly experienced and expressed. Wholeness, fulfilment and utter complete freedom are your birthright, you are a free being and being completely free is who you really are. Shift from a limited idea of who you are, move from a narrow view of what the nature of physical reality is and realize (make real) in your experience the expression of the limitless and free being you are.

Ephesians 4:15 (NLT) Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

Practice love and compassion towards everyone you encounter, starting with that good looking gorgeous one in the mirror. Why? Because the very definition of limitless freedom is love and the first person we all need to learn to love is ourselves, that “gorgeous one in the mirror”, second share your love with all others. We are all perfect for the lives we came here to live.

God did not create you to have or experience limits, the only limits in life are those placed on you by you. You are created to be utterly free to express and experience a life of wholeness, free form the limiting negativity of small thoughts. Limitless freedom comes with the realization of our true nature (wholeness/oneness) and with the movement into wholeness the realization of limitless freedom. The circle is complete.

By the way, how is all this chasing after stuff working for you? Does it bring you the happiness and fulfilment you seek? It doesn‘t? Well, that’s interesting huh!

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DOING THE STUFF YOU’RE “SUPPOSED” TO DO

Nothing is impossible for you, do you believe that? Believe it, because it’s true. Do you know how limitless and without boundary you are? You are you know; believe it, because it’s true.

You know that great big long list of things that this expert or that guru or for that matter society itself says we must do in order to be accepted as this, that or the other. Those impossibly high standards of busyness that we must attain in our lives so that others will think of us as a successful human being.

Then there’s all the tiny, inconsequential and unimportant stuff we fill our days with you know what I’m talking about, we keep ourselves so busy with the distractions of life. We spend most of our waking hours, perhaps ninety percent (90 %…!) doing the things that could never produce the fulfilling lives we so desperately desire. We give the lion’s share of our time and energy to the situations and people that deflect us from our true purpose, and therefore fulfilment in life.

We spend so much time retweeting this, or liking that, playing this game or watching that TV show. We worry about every tiny little thing, most of which we are apparently unable to do anything to change, we procrastinate (which at its root, is just fear of change) and we run around stressing about EVERYTHING!!!

Now, spending time on social media sites like Twitter isn’t necessarily a waste of time as long as it is used to encourage and to move your purpose forward. Everything has its rightful place in our lives as long as it helps us grow and move forward toward wholeness and fulfilment, and not distract us and deflect us from truly living. The social media does present us with an AMAZING opportunity to bless, encourage and bring a little light into someone’s life; it would be to waste an opportunity otherwise. But, that said we need to keep our online activities in the proper perspective (says a self confessed Twitter-aholic).

The experience of fulfilment is a window into wholeness, and wholeness a window into your true self and reason for being here; it allows you to peer into the truth of who you are. Be completely present in life, pay attention to what really matters in life, the people, the relationships and the expression of love within those relationships. Pay attention to the things that you are passionate about, that is a great big flashing neon sign that’s trying to tell you where and on what you need to spend your time.

Fulfilment, the experience of wholeness, resides not in the doing of “the stuff you’re supposed to do”, in all that running to keep up with societies expectations, constantly worrying about what those around think about you. Do whatever it is that brings you the most abundant joy; do whatever makes you overflow with satisfaction and wholeness. Do these things not only to bring yourself joy, but also to share that joy and to lead others to their joy and wholeness too.

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:32-34

Dream your biggest and most wonderful dreams, and then live it! There is amazing wonder, overwhelming beauty and magnificence in your life and for that matter every life, go find yourself a mirror and check it out! Nothing is impossible for you, do you believe that? Believe it because it’s true, not only for the leaders of this world or the rich, but for you too.

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