Thanksgiving has passed, but the time for Gratitude has not. As I mentioned here last week, gratitude is the most powerful force in the universe. It is the single most effective means of using the Power of Personal Creation (what some have called the Law of Attraction). Therefore, move into gratitude at the slightest opportunity - and certainly at the slightest provocation.
As I made note
of above, this is Thanksgiving Week in the United States, where I am
writing this, and where Thanksgiving Day is one of the biggest family
holidays of the year. But I have an idea about this holiday that is
different from most Americans. I think that the holiday should be
abolished.
It is amazing
how many people are caught in the trap of being deeply concerned with
how things are looking to others. Keeping Up Appearances has become,
for some, an obsession. Many of us will even give up our own happiness
(or our chance at it) in order to keep "looking good" in the eyes of
others. This is beyond sad. It is tragic.
Embracing Godliness is not easy. It can be,
but for most people it is not. That's because most of us do not want to
give up what we have to give up in order to "get Godly."
As I look at those words I realize that to many, even the idea
sounds arrogant. Do we really think that we can "become as God?", or
emulate the Divine?
A lady in the spiritual renewal retreat that I facilitated in Ausburg, Germany in September of ‘08 asked me a question that will live on in my memory forever-because it so perfectly epitomizes the human condition.
In the days immediately following 9-11 I begged God to give me some answers. Why was the world this way? What had we come to? What would it take to get us to stop all this? What is the missing information? I reasoned that there must be something we do not understand...the understanding of which would change everything. What is it? What could it be?
My Beloved Em, my Life Partner, came up with something this week that was so fascinating - perhaps even profound in its implications -- I wanted to share it with you...
We were having a casual conversation about life in general and the things we say to each other during the natural exchanges that occur between people, when she said:
The world faces an extraordinary array of problems, as we all know.
But here is something we do not know: Who is working to solve them?
Part of the problem with problems is that there are so many people
who seem to want to do nothing about them. Usually this is because they
firmly believe that there IS no problem; that those who SAY that there
is are making it all up.
Last week we talked here about the Five Pinnacle Questions. These are:
1. Who We Are?
2. Why we are here?
3. What is our Right Relationship with our fellow humans?
I am in Canada this week, on Cortez Island, at Hollyhock Retreat
Center, for a small-group event to share the messages of Conversations
with God. As I sit here on the plane to Vancouver, British Columbia I
find myself looking closely at the question: Why am I going off to talk
to a handful of people again? What is the point of this?
