Change

Be The Change

The antidote to hate is love; the antidote to chaos is calm.  The world you live on is beautiful, rugged, with peaks and valleys, wonders of nature and architectural developments. Astounding vistas abound.  And yet, within and among all of this, there is doubt, there is fear, uncertainty, troublesome occurrences, unintentional and deliberate evil.  There is also love and kindness, cooperation, resolve, and the intention to do what is right and good.

The antidote to negativity is positivity;  the antidote to darkness is the light.  If the battle between dark and light was going to be easy then the need to develop personalities that can withstand such trials and tribulations would not be necessary. Our suggestion when you begin to falter, become exasperated, to doubt or fear, is to break it down into smaller segments than what you are currently perceiving and find what you can do in those moments to be different from what you fear, to be responsive from a positive viewpoint. Can you be a faith filled child of God in this moment and then make it last a moment longer, and then a moment longer?

There are times when looking at the big picture is necessary and there are times when getting focused on the smaller perspective is necessary. Usually these correspond to your level of doubt and despair. As you feel these emotions come to you, recognize that you may need to narrow your viewpoint and find a focus.  Sometimes one thing at a time leads to larger occurrences that are more fruitful.  Therefore, we encourage you to start each day with the centering stillness and invite the cooperation of your Indwelling Spirit to help you see those little things you can do to help turn the drops into the trickle into the stream into the river which becomes the oceans.

While you may believe, sometimes, that the black patches of evil have become larger than the white background of goodness, the white background is still larger and goodness happens more often than evil, although it can seem so difficult to see when contrasted with what you hear about, read about, and see in the media of various forms. But look around outside of the news and see what your family, your friends and neighbors are doing for each other and their communities.  Trust that other neighborhoods and communities are doing the same, often going unwitnessed by the media which operates in the sensational.  Perhaps reminding each other and others about this core of goodness more often will help to broaden perspectives and bring hope and build resolve toward producing more acts of kindness instead of dwelling on the evil.

Trust me, we do see what you see. We just have the fortune of more experience and a larger network of resources built into our awareness at the current time so that the happenings on your world do not seem quite as distressing as it may seem to you.  Sometimes out of chaos new possibilities emerge quite rapidly and what you think may be leading to fall and ruin can ultimately be a temporary recognition of what it is that you do not want before realizing what you do want, what can be and what will be, if you work for it.

So have faith. Lean on spirit as needed. Reach toward the spirit within you, who will certainly be reaching back, and from that connection, your perspectives will find some clarity and perhaps open the possibilities for you to become more representative of what you would like to see in the world.

Being alive, aliveness, means encompassing changes. Change is not in itself a negative occurrence, rather, look upon it as a sign of growth. Does the seed not change into the flower? Does the child not change into the man? There is a sameness to the core of the being. There is also a change, reflecting God's good and holy plan. Many do not understand as they cling to the familiar that the rungs of the ladder on which they roost are only illusionary. They will be threatened by a change, and not even know why in their own hearts. We must be patient with these children and try not to let their fear, which will be masked often as anger, upset our own equilibrium.

I would like you to be aware right now with your entire beings, of your bodily reaction to that word - change. How many have tensed, winced, clenched? How many have turned heads? How many wished not to hear this word? I think that each of you have reacted psychologically, emotionally. You have probably had a reaction of pushing away, for the sad state of humans is - physically, emotionally, psychologically, mindally - to resist change. No matter how sorry your life may be at the moment or what areas one wishes to improve, one does not really wish to change. You wish life's circumstances might change, or relationships - friendships might change, or finances might change, etc., but you, yourself, resist change. It is only through the spiritual that you can truly understand change. Spiritually, for you - children of time - change is not something you have a choice over. It is the very fact of evolution for you. It is built into, and the basic building block foundation of The Father's plan for the evolutionary worlds and children of time and space. You cannot NOT change. Lack of change equals non-survival. Nor can you say this is a good change and this is a negative change. Change simply IS.

It IS. It is not good or bad. It is the very basic idea and will of the Universal Father for his creatures of time and space - is change. So, so much energy goes into resisting change - as if you can somehow control this - you cannot.

Change is part of who you are. Change will get you Godward. And change should be welcomed by each of you. Immobility - consider it - what a horrible fate! Even the angels - created perfect - learn through experience and change. Immobility is probably the worst thing that could become of you at any stage - not because you are first graders now. So, do not spend your energy thinking you can resist, control, or mail-order what types of change you wish. Because all of this is fantasy and generally to do with your outer environment and not your inner landscape, because when it comes to the inner, you are all resistant. Now, spiritually, if you can truly understand that change is always a step Godward, that not only should change NOT be resisted but should rather be embraced, sought after, prayed for, blessed. When you can recognize this event, you will have the adventuresome attitude of the spiritual soldier, evolving being, towards change instead of a material coward hiding-from-something, the unknown. For there is no unknown to you, your destiny is to "be you perfect even as I am perfect" as our Father has promised you.

What is so unknown and frightening? Yes, the path of evolution has prickly patches full of thorns, rocks, sunburned places that burn our beings. Yes, true. These are the events, which shape our characters and force change, and while going through them it is sometimes painful and difficult and disappointing, etc. However, do not make the arrogant mistake of putting down or hiding from The Father's plan for you - for there is a plan for each of you, a divine destiny - because it is hard at the moment, difficult, and because your vision is not wide enough to see the ultimate perfection and goodness of The Father's plan for you. One life, is not nearly enough time to glimpse destiny. You must on faith believe that whatever befalls you is to the ultimate goodness of your own being - and that of God's. God will not leave you naked. God will not let you, like the serpent; shed your skin before you are ready for a new one to grow.

Would a benevolent loving parent do this to his most helpless child? No. Therefore must you trust and with a faith-filled heart embrace the adventure of uncertainty. It is only uncertain in linear time. It is not uncertain in eternity. Whosoever will, may run the race Godward. Whosoever will join the adventure is welcome, and legions of helpers will be sent to you. And you have already begun to run this glorious race of time and eternity. Change is God's gift to you, the gift of experience is change. But you cover yourself up and root yourself in and dig holes and, like stubborn little frightened babies, refuse to leave your cocoon. The world, the universes, the ascension plan is glorious. The calluses you burn on your soul will some day turn into a being who can be god-like, god-like in terms of experience, in terms of every stage of creation, in terms of service, in terms of perfection, in terms of goodness and love. This is the stuff - these calluses that you are experiencing now - that will create the god-like in you.

All glory is to God. God has created all glory and all glory should go to God. Have not in your hearts fear or sadness or anxiety or resistance to change. Whether it comes in your own personal hearts and souls, or whether it is fear of losing. These are all illusions, for the teachings come from God, we come from God. Nothing can ever be lost in God's plan, his magnificence.

The making of decisions is allowing change, encouraging growth, and therein you find that the life which you knew has become a new energy pattern.

Even as one of you may enjoy a new relationship with another, the molecular characteristics of your arena alter to accommodate the new relationship, and yet again as you become a group and emerge into teamwork through three and four and more, each time your environment alters to provide for the energy 
patterns of each other. When you disallow another's energy patterns, you invite chaos. 

I speak to you as if you were all enlightened. When you are invited to know yourself, it is the emerging soul self which we refer to. In this way we become a part of the organism of life, the spiritual organism. We've become connected. There is appropriate self-forgetfulness as you embark upon the pattern of working together in unity of purpose. The advantage of an ability to work together in this way is that you begin to follow the guidance of the greater reality, and as a number of you together are enjoined in this synergy, you gain strength exponentially.  

And so, even though there may be few of you of like mind, even so, the power that you potentially have may, through creative order, bring about that impetus to alter the course of destiny. Love is more contageous than hate. Light is more powerful than the darkness. When you begin to work creatively 
within the divine order of the universe, your chaos makes sense.  It's a part of the reconstruction or the reassimilation of those energies which combine together to exalt the purpose of the infinite, and thus inherently the universe is working with you.

If you think about it, you can interpret that the Pope has already endorsed a galactic neighborhood, in that he has acknowledged the existence of angels. And the thing that holds you back, as a race of people, from embracing the cosmic neighborhood as your own back yard, with all its particulars, is the residue fear and ignorance that the universe may not be a friendly place after all, and that is based upon your mortal experience as having shown you that your immediate environment is not necessarily always a friendly 
environment, but putting these perspectives into your overall comprehension of where we are in terms of planetary evolution, epochal development, it will give you additional impetus to encourage the concept and to even assume the faith of others as being not too far removed form your own. It's when you look upon each other as enemies or as on opposing teams that your obstructions become tangible and problematic. Lead the way. Pave the way, then, into the new dispensation by revealing your relationship with the universe.

The marriage of science and religion will come to pass when we are able to feel comfortable that what intelligent life in the universe is, is an extension of Paradise, and not an extension of the baser nature of unevolved chaos.  

Transitions are interesting to consider in light of how things may not be as they appear. One set of standards must give way to a higher set of values and standards and one must rise from the demise of the other.

In the eclipsing of previous values and the enhancement of more supreme values, both are part of the growth process, of the transition from the one to the next. That is what is experienced on the individual and personal level throughout your ascension career. There are the cycles of outgrowing smaller dimensions and growing into new dimensions of your being. The act and the experience of transition is a constant throughout your universe ascension career. There will always be the next cycle that will eclipse the current cycle.  If you remain fast to your desire to seek and find greater truths and higher principles through your spirit relationship to your Divine Parents, such growth will require numerous transitions from age to age and through cycle after cycle.

The journey forward will be made significantly easier when you decide that your attitude about change is so significant as to affect the outcome of change. Realizing that when change is happening there may be some uncomfortable aspects of letting go of previous assumptions and growing in your ability and awareness of greater and greater truths requiring greater capacity and then growing into larger parameters of yourself. This same dynamic of growth, the cycles, the passing of ages and stages, is what is now happening so pronounced in your arena of social life on this world. While change is upon you, it may come with its times of discomfort from the feeling of loss of something familiar and something that brings you security. Many times, the first reaction to such change is resistance, thinking things are working just fine as they are and a change is not necessary.

But a wise and seasoned individual understands that change is always a necessary component of any circumstance. All things change. How they change is what is under some of your jurisdiction as the observer. If you enter into a mindset where you feel change is thrust upon you and you see it as a challenge to be overcome or subdued or resisted somehow from being implemented or accomplished, if you take such a stance then truly your difficulties will be great. As has been said ‘resistance is futile' in such circumstances, it only deters your progress. All things change in accordance with their growth needs.

Therefore, the master looks at change as opportunity, as the conditions being favorable to move in a direction of more perfection. When change is present things may be seen as in flux, not frozen in the ice of previous experience. Choose to adopt an approach to take to infuse excitement and joy into the equation, this same stance of welcoming change and being willing to work with it and to so interact with it so as to dance the dance or walk the walk.  Such an attitude of embracing change conditions your outcome, conditions the journey and brings you more of that which is exciting, beautiful, truthful and good.

So whether you are considering the personal level or the national level or even the universal context, the same set of growth cycles are before you that are there provided to bring you the growth you need, bring you the method of change to become more perfect and to become better with each attempt. At this time of Easter when you are reflecting how the Master was able to provide such a graphic example of having laid down his life only to pick it up again but pick it up in spirit form, the same personality, the same individual, the same part of the whole only transformed through great change to the next dimension of growth, the spirit context and the eternal component of self, the part which your Master attempted to illustrate survives beyond the mortal constraints and rises from one form and takes another to continue on the eternal journey.

Blessed are you who know of his story and who are aware of his contribution and his example. Literally he did show you the way and the way to The Father is through him. He showed you the way.  Easter represents a grand opportunity to be able to focus on the Master’s example, the Master teacher is the example and so we are blessed to have been privileged with this gift of grace and it is always good and well to acknowledge and pay tribute to the gift of Michael’s example, not simply his words and lessons and stories but far more grand was his display of attitude, of grace and love unconditional. It was his desire to demonstrate to all his fellows and followers what he meant when he spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven. Such a kingdom is certainly within, to be had with that component of the self referred to as your ’spirit aspect’ or your ‘eternal component.'

Be in peace. Go in peace. Peace is not the destination, peace is the way, it’s the journey.