Awaken: Beware wolves in sheep's clothing, Part 2

                                  "For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden 

                                   causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make 

                                   righteousness and praise spring up before all nations."

                                                                                 Isaiah 61:11 NIV

As you awaken, be aware that all is not what it seems. Open your precious hearts and souls to the true lover of your soul, the One who has created you out of love, designed to freely find your own soul's path and live in love and peace. Our creator only asks for your love and for you to share his love with each other. In his presence, you will feel loved, joyful and immersed in a deep sense of peace.

On the other hand, beware the powers of control that would seduce you away from your own self-determination, and lure you further away from your own heart's desire, your own mind, and make you a slave. That is among the tools in the crafty wolf's cache. You will feel anxious, unsure of yourself, afraid, inadequate in its cold, critical, judgmental presence.

Today, the times are ripe with fears of the apocalypse, of end times. Today sagacious warriors of light warn us knowingly in Earth's dark night often alluding to the Mayan Calendar or Hopi prophecies or Egyptian writings that were left specifically for these very times, all abounding in profound warnings and messages from a former golden age. These messages, etched in ancient writings, on walls, temples, and pyramids, warn us about a possible end age that is being suggested could be imminent. It seems to me that we might be in the midst of that age but also on the cusp of a beautiful, radiant new age that will rise out of the ashes of this time.

These ancient messages, though sobering and fearful, are shrouded in mystery yet also hold a glimmer with hope and another promise. Wiser folk than myself have translated these messages from the ancient symbols and writings and are sure that we are entering an "end age." And yet, what is threatening our very survival is not quite as much a mystery as we may think. Ancient Judeo-Christian scriptures mention another wolf who stalks us as its prey, an "antichrist" who is defined as the very definition of evil incarnate.  Some may liken this being to a sinister satanic being, a Devil. That idea, which seems to be the prevailing idea, is actually part of the antichrist's trick. It would send us searching for something that is hiding in plain sight.

Laughing in its dark, bone-covered, crypt, the evil one smirks, cackling at its greatest deception against the sons of men. The antichrist is not so much a singular individual - that would be too easy - as it is a force, an empty nothing, that in its vacuous soul has only the power we unwittingly give it. In its skills set is its ability to suck your soul and power away from you by tricking you into giving it to it.  

It uses the language of religions and customs as its authority to take away your freedom and force your obedience to laws that further weaken your freedom and choice, eventually confusing you and robbing your of your creative, joyful, free energy and self-love. It is the ultimate user and abuser, only you don't know it because you think you're doing the right thing by obeying it.

Rather than dive into a theological comparison of duality, which is what I don't want to do here, I will simply say that the anti-christ is a force that blows across the Earth. It is on the media, in the news, in the market place and the schools. It has become so common that we can't recognize it anymore. It has become a standard of acceptable behavior and decorum that we have become so accustomed to its seduction we don't even recognize it as such anymore.

By slowly raising the temperature of our common life, we are slowly being boiled alive spiritually - metaphorically. We don't know it though. While we search the world over for the anti-christ, as we once sought an elusive terrorist, we miss the forest for the trees. It isn't one person, one nation, one religion - although it has a strong presence in most - it is a force.

As I look around our world at the unbelievable amount of deception, greed, selfishness, ego-based cruelty inflicted on others, it seems clear that control and manipulation are at the roots of most relationships.Too often relationships that one would think are based in love, are rather immersed in ego-driven power struggles. When the love is gone, assuming it was ever there, all that's left for the couple are power games. That idea seems to have penetrated all relationships - personal, professional, political, corporate from marriages to communities, nations, and the entire world.

I cannot listen to the news out of the Middle East anymore. I cannot hear about another innocent woman or child being killed or tortured by an oppressive, tyrannical dictator. There is no question in my mind that we must be close to the end of an age.

If this dark age, run and energized by the dark forces of a fundamentalist religion, which has reduced people to the status of puppets, awaiting the battle cry of yet another dictator, one who may look like a leader, spouting religious language, while building his hate platform against other nations and people who are different, then the end is imminent.

The souls of those who have been sucked in by the controlling manipulations of those who themselves are enslaved to a religion or a nationality or any kind of tribe that sets itself against others who are different, pivots on a seat of hate, violence, fear and cowardice.

As I write this today, my heart is weary from the lies and deception of those who dare to offer the world a face of innocence, honesty, noble intentional living, when they are rather ignorant, selfish, ego-based antichrists who prey on the innocent.

In their "us against them" arrogance, their false sense of superiority supports the ancient viper's mad plan for humanity's ultimate demise. Beware of them and beware of your own complicity, your own vain needs that look the other way as they trick, deceive and dupe others. The sons of God will be taken down, one at a time, due to our own weakness and sleepy soul state if we are not awake and aware.

Next:  Awaken:  Ancient deceiver lurks among us Part 3.

Awaken: Ancient deceiver lurks among us, Part 3

                                          "For what shall it profit a man if he shall 

                                           gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" 

                                                                                Mark 8:36 KJV

Awaken, all you beloved, radiant warriors of light. You, who are driven to serve the light, and seek greater wisdom, are needed so much more than you realize. You are also being targeted but may not know it. You may also wonder how are you to do what you feel in your heart you must do.  

First, you need to gather your weapons. We are at war with an invisible force. Like a windstorm, its presence is only visible in the devastation left in its aftermath. Your primary weapon is simply consciousness and tuning the harp of your heart and emotions.  Vigilance over your mind begins when you awaken. And, the war is won through non-resistance.

We all need to wake up to this terrible truth.  We are being skillfully deceived by the oldest and best trickster in the book. We all are.

If it isn't actually terrorizing and imprisoning us, it is tricking us to give away our money, our affections, our heart, our time, and ultimately our soul.  We even do it willingly. That's how deep the deception runs.  

News flash: the antichrist is here among us, as it always has been, but, perhaps, more so lately. It is a charming, even charismatic, psychopathic, lying, deceiver. Its biggest trick is that it is so nice, so friendly, so seemingly good, even seductively physically attractive, and yet it will steal your soul if you're sleeping at the helm of your life.

While it sounds like I'm talking about an individual, I am not.  It is a collective mindset, a kind of epidemic of evil that has poisoned the world well. Individuals may have these qualities and so might entire nations or political machines or corporations - all of which exploit and prey on the weak and unaware.  That's where you come in.  You are so vital, so important, to the planet's wellness and the emerging Golden Age. You are a warrior of light and your weapon is consciousness.  Conscious awareness is more powerful than many realize.

As you wake up to this, become aware of it, and not fight against it, but simply wake up, you defuse its power.  It's as if you stop one evil warrior by just being aware, nothing more.  Seeing it for what it is often is the first step.

But, the good news is - and there is good news - the vast, comprehensive, all-pervading presence of deception and evil in the world, today, is a clear indication that its demise is imminent. The point is, whenever anything is threatened it strikes out viciously. Apparently, the evil force must feel threatened. It has pulled out all the stops and is emptying its arsenal on all of us - worldwide.

Immediately, all people of the Earth must awaken to its slippery style. The weak among us will be its prey. We may be small and delicate physically, yet strong and wise spiritually. 

Its modus operandi is it tricks us into giving away our power. It assumes an authoritative position and whittles away our sense of value until we are (feel) weak and trapped. By this point, it has us eating out of its hand, completely dependent even if we are fully aware of our status. Then, the real work of dissolving our soul begins. Thereby it sucks the life out of the human being. 

It drains our freedom, our natural power and autonomy, and replaces it with a spirit of fear, of cowardice, of unimaginative living, of cold, apathetic hate and depression, literally stripping us of our creative freedom and divine destiny-making.  

It robs the soul by instilling it with fear. The obvious indication of its presence in your life is the degree to which you feel hopeless and depressed. The rising statistics of suicide in the world are evidence of its high casualty rates.

The Christ, the eternal, creative, all-loving child of God, is also a Spirit, a spirit of love, of unconditional acceptance, of patient allowing, humility, imbued with pure honesty, truth-telling, kindness, gentleness, all wrapped in a robe of non-judgment, and absolutely unconditional LOVE. It's absolute power and is our champion. Its power is the ultimate strength, but as gentle as a feather or a wing on a butterfly. And, God's gentle spirit of grace is always available to us.

Where the Christ spirit is, there is creation, there is patience, peace, love, joy, laughter, creativity, hope, and a gentle breeze of presence that fills the soul with light and LIFE. It is life-giving and life-sustaining. It is healing and it is always looking on the bright side of any challenging situation. It hopes all things, believes all things and waits patiently for our evolution, for that day when we open the door to our own hearts and allow the love of God into our hearts and lives. You will know it by its peace and gentleness, kindness, and honesty. Often it is simple, non-threatening and non-dramatic. You will feel alive, inspired and loved in its presence.  

The Christ undoes the antichrist with a simple sentiment of forgiveness. One who can forgive is free of the control of the antichrist. Since the antichrist operates on a platform of judgment and condemnation, demanding an eye for an eye, seated on the pretense of justice, forgiveness is an anathema to its operation. The antichrist dissolves in the face of forgiveness, which is love in action. 

When Christ spoke from the Cross, his last words were "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." His final breath undid the antichrist and taught us the perfect mantra to remain free.

Just to refresh our understanding so we will recognize it when it comes knocking, which it will: 

The antichrist spirit is anti-life, cold, terribly serious, corporate structured, power-hungry, prestige-conscious, ego-centric and money-motivated because it does not love. It cannot love another because it cares only for itself. It seeks to fill its coffers at another's expense. It steals by lying, deceiving through its callous, manipulative and controlling antics, usually whipping others with hate-filled threats, criticisms, condemnations. It is entirely focused on hijacking another of their power deceptively, in a kind of guerilla spiritual warfare. 

As a poisonous snake first bites to paralyze its prey, this antichrist will seduce its prey with flattery, praise, false promises. An example is in the sweet talking false promises corporate leaders assure people in a third world village. They offer convincing arguments that their plan, which will pay people a fair wage to produce products which will be sold in first world nations, will enrich their economy. 

Then, all the ills of a decaying society set in, and a once idyllic, pastoral community is a drug state - for starters. Somewhere along the line, people have slowly substituted their principles, cultural identities, colorful creative societies, for money.  They have sold out and don't realize it until their once fertile rainforest is a stump of rotting, arid land.

In other areas, unwittingly people are stripped of their self-esteem, autonomy, creative license, freedom, joy. They are seduced by its falsity. The antichrist force is a soulless, spiritual vampire that leaves us all zombies.  

Beware. While this stinking spirit is loose on the earth, it stalks all that is free, lovely and life-giving because it is they who have the power it does not have and wants. Its vacuous soul has cut itself off from the true source of life, our eternally loving and creative Creator. Consequently, it operates behind a mask of fear and power. 

It may rear its ugliest head in those who think they are godly and holy.  It even thinks it's holy because that's part of its game, its pseudo-divinity, and it wants you to think it is the voice of God so it would convince you to give it your soul. It is a slippery trickster that can't be pinpointed or caught.  We need to be watchful and aware, guarding our souls by staying tuned into our deep, most intuitive, knowing. 

Beware of those who claim they are super religious because they may be the most infected. Pray for them. Love them into wellness, but not at the expense of your own soul.  Be wise, dear ones, be wise. Fill your own heart with the love that is the very fragrance of God's presence, God's own Christ among us, and then you will be able to smell the difference between the false ones and the true ones. 

Listen with your inner soul light, your own inner sense, and you will be able to see who is true and who is not. Sometimes it is very hard to tell, but we must all look beneath the surface and know who we are dealing with. 

On the other hand, many of our religious leaders, priests, and ministers are authentically faithful, weathered at profoundly "fighting the good fight," and are familiar with this spiritual warfare. It is the ultimate battle. You will know who they are and turn to them. They are there for you.

The real Christ will give you an extra sense to tell - to recognize the mark on the soul of those who have been spiritually poisoned and are themselves now deceptive.  

But, love them, anyway.  Love them, pray for them, imagine the love of God filling the dark caverns of their souls and let your own love, your own patient mercy, melt away their cold-heartedness and be a light for them, a mirror of the divine. Then hopefully they will meet the Christ Spirit who is in you and come out of the spiritual prison in which they've been languishing and realize they have been used, robbed, deceived and defiled by the great seducer. Then, they will find their hearts again and love again and come back to life, again.

It's important to remember that as you love them, love yourself. And, always, be wise as serpents and gentle as doves.  

(Aware, part 1 and part 2 are on March 25, and 26, 2012)

Out of the shadows

You precious angels of light, you who thought you were only mortal, long imprisoned in the shadows of this dark prison, see beyond the darkness around you.  Look up, look around, and you will see, even if only fleetingly, that these walls are not real, mere illusions of other's fears, even fears born of the challenge your own freedom offers them.


As a shadow chases ahead of a child running on the beach, so the dark forces of this world blind us to our destiny, block our awareness of where we are going, thwarting our path even threatening our souls, tugging at all our personal lifelines to our transitory lives.  Each step we make in the right direction feels blocked, darkened, by something, someone - a force - a lie - a decption - a trick and we are swept away into another world, darker, yet filled with the illusion of truth.  Something within you is always there, always leaning in to hear more closely, understand more clearly, seeking and finally, finding, the truth.  


Sometimes I think that the harder the situation is, the more piercingly painful, the more it threatens your very life and sanity, the closer you are to finding the way out of the inner prison, that virtual hell that haunts the soul.  The haunting, the pain, the sorrow, is the symptom of the shadow's presence and yet it is also a symptom that you are very much on the right track, on the path to light, truth and peace. 


There is a kind of gravitational momentum on the Earth today.  It is in full steam ahead, attempting to block we soldiers of light, we disciples of the Christ, who search for God under every rock and in every dark place.  The path of Christ is not a Sunday stroll through a rose garden.  It is a hard hike through dark woods and treacherous mountain ravines.  And, you cannot know ahead, why or what for you are being led by the Divine through whatever travails on your path.  But, you must, as Jesus languished in the desert for a painfully long time, thirsty, hungry, tired and terribly tempted to give up, to give in, even to the point not realizing who he would be, persevere.


The shadow may block the light, but it cannot extinguish it.  There is a way out. The challenge is to find it. We have to learn how to see in the dark. We have to learn, accept, that if we are being chased by the shadow of death, that we are indeed being chased for a very good reason:  We are a threat to the dark forces.  We just may find the light and the manipulations and lies, the deceptive effort to extract our beautiful power, to trick it out of us, to exhaust us, to lure us to give up the good fight, would be revealed and thwarted.  Perhaps, in some strange way, it's the ancient foe we are dueling with.  In all its insanity, it stalks us, it lies to us, and in our innocence we once believed it, when we see what it always was, we continue on the way, the way of Christ, the way of light, the way of the cross, still free, still alive, still full of light and still innocent.  


The darkness cannot overcome the light.  It still shines in the darkness, but do not be fooled.  It is there.  It is a real oppressor and controller.  If there is anything you can do when you are under spiritual warfare, it is to look through the shadow it casts and you will make out the path through it.  It is only a cloud that dissipates when the sun comes out.


That, my dear ones, is what Lent is.  We are on the way, we are walking the path of light higher and higher as we ascend out of these dark times.  No one ever said it would be easy, but it is the only way out of this hell. 

Outrageous acts call for courageous reaction

Love may be the highest level a human being can reach, whereas hatred is the lowest. Love is also the most powerful state a person can achieve, even if it appears weak because of its non-reactionary, calm, gentle, wise, loving ways.  Hatred, which is the least powerful, seems strong because of the fierceness of its angst, storming outwardly from a lack of control, and lack of faith in its own worth and strong center. 


Since so much of our world is on a wild roller coaster ride,  outwardly reacting, only superficially aware of the deeper issues within the soul of a people, a collective tribe whose religion is iconic of their collective identity, we tend to see things differently.  We tend to react angrily to someone's powerlessness because we think they are more powerful and thus we feel threatened, but we are only reacting to someone's projected illusion of powerlessness.  We are jousting at windmills.  We are all very sadly, tragically, confused and lunging at our brothers and sisters in our collective madness.


While love is creative and life-giving, evil is a thief and a liar, always with an agenda of anti-life, anti-creation, anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-beauty and anti-love.  Recently when a handful of American servicemen in Afghanistan burned Qurans and other religious items, an even more incendiary reaction was ignited.  The wick, already well oiled by decades of unrest, of long terribly debilitating wars that have devastated Arab/Muslim cultures which were already painfully reactionary, was primed and explosive when the holy books were set on fire. Some have said the burning was an accident rather than an intentional act.  If that's the case, and I don't know if it is, then any reaction to that mistake needs to be carefully thought out and measured. 


Can anyone make any sense out of this insanity?  Can anyone ever comprehend the insidiousness of evil to worm a foothold among hurting, broken people?  


An intentional and determined strength of character to choose not to be reduced by the heinous things that happen to and around us, is the higher state that all the world's holy books teach their followers as a means to defeat evil.  An angry reaction only feeds it more, not less. 


When a young, terribly impoverished, feeling unloved, powerless young man in an inner city pulls out a weapon and shoots and kills another person, perhaps for drugs, or money or blood revenge, or any other reason, evil has won.  If the (in)justice system sentences that young man to death, the entire community has been reduced by that decision.  We are lessened by the doubled loss of life, not made more, not enriched, and evil has won another victory.


Those languishing powerlessly by the consequences of war, poverty, prejudice and injustice, are like that oiled wick.  All it takes is a single match to start a wave of world-wide mob reaction to an ignorant, foolish, and cruel religious infraction such as the Quran burning in Afghanistan.


Recently I was talking to a Muslim friend who expressed outrage at the Quran burning.  Certainly there are no words of comfort I could offer him except to assure him that he has every right to feel badly, to feel terribly outraged.  But, maybe there is another reaction my Muslim friend could choose.  I said to him, is not the Quran written in your heart?  Is it not a part of your days and nights, your thoughts, your entire world view?  Is it really possible that anyone can burn that out of you?  He hesitated, waiting to hear where I was going with this.


"Are you not so much more than this external self-definition as a Muslim or an Arab?" I said. He listened.  


"Because you follow the teachings of the Quran, can that really separate you from the rest of the human race? Can it?  Or, does the Quran help you live a more noble life, a more godly life, one of greater integrity and hope and spiritual sophistication, a life far above the monstrous acts that defame the book that defines and gives you life?  


"Does the Quran really need defending?  If someone burns the Quran is that really an insult against the Quran, or is it an insult by that ignorant person against his own self, an indication of his own loveless, dark interiority?"


Justice would argue that my friend has the right to be outraged.  But, he also has the opportunity to rise above the situation and choose a different reaction.  He has the opportunity to not be reduced by anything that happens to him outside himself.  He is not defined by anyone or anything outside himself.  He is his own person, beautifully made into a loving and peaceful person by the very book that he feels he needs to defend.


If he or anyone chooses to let this evil act reduce him to a level of anger and revenge-seeking, as it has for many Muslims around the world, then evil has won.  It will have managed to bring down a whole race of religious people, hurt them even more, stripped away what little power they still had in their reaction. Evil, the anti-life puppetmaster, knew just the strings to pull to enrage them into a global combustion.  If they do react that way, as evil would want them, as evil expected, then evil has won.  Tragically, they reacted with anger, outrage with a blood thirsty sense of indignation which entitles them to react in a spirit of an eye-for-an-eye.  Evil won, but maybe, hopefully, only for a day.  You can almost see the devil laughing behind the scenes.  They reacted just as he wanted and expected them too.


My friend said to me, "What if that were the Gospel?  What if someone burned the Gospel in your face?  What would you do?  Wouldn't you be outraged?"  I had already wondered what I would do if that had happened.  


"I would probably cry,"  I said as I was already crying over his pain and my fear for the entire world as things are worsening more and more every hour.


I know that no one can burn the gospel out of my heart.  It is centered in my very being.  It is my most sacred Book, but if someone did something like that, it would show me how tragically lost that person was, and that would make me so sad that I would cry.  


The situation is challenging all of us to be more than the evil puppet master anticipates.  We can trump evil by rising above it and not be reduced by insulting acts such as the recent burning of the Quran.


We are engaged in a war for our entire world these days.It doesn't take a genius to see how incendiary the entire situation is between Syria, Israel and Iran.  It's all a bomb ticking. These are the times that need us to grow up, stand up and be the human beings our religious books teach us to be.  Those holy books do not need defending.  They will be around long after we're all gone.  It is our souls that need defending and if we allow anything or anyone to cause us to react and be reduced to someone other than who we want to be, then we have given our power, our spirit, our souls to the evil forces that are ravaging the earth everywhere and in every way today.


This isn't going to be easy for any of us these days.  The wars that rage out there are not between Christians, Muslims and Jews.  The wars that rage are between those who don't know God's love and those who don't know how else to respond to the pernicious evil that seems to be threatening us all from every direction.  


These days require us all to stand strong with as much courage and personal integrity as we can to become the magnificent, brave and powerful human beings all our religions teach us to be.  We can choose not to react to any insult. We can choose not to be carved down, body and soul, into monstrous creatures by those who are themselves monstrous creatures seeking to dissolve our souls by attacking our sacred books and religious artifacts.  


We must all stand strong and have the courage to NOT react, to not allow our wicks be lit by those evil forces that seek to destroy us.  We need to even do more than stand strong.  We need to love and love with as much as we can, despite the dark forces' desire to make us angry and unloving.  We can choose not to be made unloving, reactionary people.  Rather, we can choose to be beautiful people of light who will stay bright and whole and godly despite all the dark forces that storm tempestously around us.

One World

Can you see we are all woven together on this beautiful earth, one people, one world, and one radiant fabric of conscious being with the gorgeous potential and innate ability to love? Do you know we can heal our earth when we apply our love to our land, our rivers, our children, our neighbors, our blessed animals, even our enemies and those who oppose us?  An enemy is only an unmet part of ourself, our own shadow standing before us.   


I believe we can find peace, I believe that we are one body, cast upon this precious planet, and we can find a way to love, to nurture, to support, to uplift each other.  We can begin healing our earth by loving our own bodies enough not to poison them with toxic foods. We can apply that same awareness and stop polluting our earth, our rivers, our animals, our land by being choosy about what we purchase to put on the dinner table and in our homes, offices, cars.  First we take care of our souls, which Tiger Lilies has been calling for, and then we take care of our own bodies as we would care for a child.  


If we did this, maybe we wouldn't need a national health care plan, rather all we might need is a national consciousness-raising.  We were not designed to get sick. Our cats and dogs were not designed to get sick.  We have been seduced into complicity with the dark forces which seek to sicken and kill us by creating an illusion of pain and lack which weakens us, making us perfect prey for addiction.  A parasite can only feed on a weak host.  Healthy dogs get less fleas than a sick or weak dog.  (It's a fact!) A healthy body and a healthy mind resists any kind of addiction and wisely stays alert to any temptations to be less than the beautiful, wise divine-human being God created.


According to the human genome project, the human being was designed to live to 120 years.  Why don't we?  The darker power, those run by greed and power, make billions of dollars off our unwellness through pharmaceutical sales and the sale of toxic food products in the grocery stores, to which we have been made addicted.  Wake up, my dear ones! Everytime you poison your own body with sugar, dairy, flour, cigarettes, pot and alcohol, you add to the toxic overload on the planet.  You are blindly mixing a toxic cocktail that is like a slow nuclear bomb going off in our bodies, and our rivers and soil.  


Love yourself enough to love each other.  Or, in the great words of the world's greatest One, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself.  On this hang all the law and the prophets." Remember we are all intimately connected, especially today on the day of love, and love yourself and your neighbor and your enemy and Our one world.  

Stand up and be counted

Wake up, you sleepy prophets.  Wake up, speak out and bring your leadership to the effort to take back our world.


For many of us, to accept our own self-determination and freedom will ask us to dig deeply within for the courage to speak out and step out.  We will have to face many dragons as we struggle for our own freedom.


You have a real leader, a real hero to help you and equip you for the battle ahead.  Take heart and find the courage to look at everything with new eyes.


You are being called to stand up, take your sword of wisdom and have a voice.


Those prison guards of our lives who once believed us at our own self-imposed exiles, which we also believed we should endure, will not take kindly to our new voice.  We may have deceived ourselves into believing and allowing the circumstances around us to occur because we had been taught to be silent and submit to authority - even the well meaning authority of the church and government.  


We may have built castles around our lives and now realize those castles are more like prisons of the spirit, locking us in, rather than opening us into the beautiful green pastures for which we now long.  These are the times we've been waiting for and these times call for a courage we doubt we have but which we need and yet know we do have.  


The world needs your courage.  The world needs your voice and your strong stance for the freedom and dignity of every soul alive. Every new step of our lives, our real lives, call us to pray for courage until we are taller than those systems and principalities which we had allowed to silence and control us.  Heaven will help you as you seek for the strength and the courage to be free to stand up and be counted among the new leaders God is calling us to free our world from the powers of darkness and ignorance.

Divinity of true humility

Message from our Blessed Mother to Mirjana, Feb. 2, 2012:

Dear children: 

       I am with you for much time and already for so long I have been pointing you to God's presence and his infinite love, which I desire for all of you to come to know.  And, you my children?  You continue to be deaf and blind as you look at the world around you and do not want to see where it is going without my son.  You are renouncing him - and he is the source of all graces. You listen to me while I am speaking to you, but your hearts are closed and you are not hearing me.   You are not praying to the Holy Spirit to illuminate you.

       My children, pride has come to rule.  I am pointing out humility to you.  My children, remember that only a humble soul shines with purity and beauty because it has come to know the  love of God.  Only a humble soul becomes Heaven, because my son is in it.

      Thank you.  Again I implore you to pray for those whom my son has chosen - those are your shepherds.

The above message from our Blessed Mother was given to Mirjana, one of the visionaries at Medjugorje yesterday.  It is so profound, beautiful, and powerful.

Given the amount of effort Heaven has been putting into communicating with us lately, it is important to hear Our Blessed Mother's message with real understanding.

When our Blessed Mother reminds us to enter into humility in order to shine with purity and beauty, she is not calling us to surrender into spiritual slavery to the world.  She is not calling us into weakness and self-lessness. She is calling us into our true communion with ourselves which is communion with God, rather than the mask of the ego which some may mistake for their true self.

Our Blessed Mother is calling us to clear our egos, remove all our issues that lead us into those masks of the ego, arrogance and pride, and be filled with a self-love that comes ONLY when our own little selves are filled to overflowing with God's love.  This is the message of her son.  Pride is what has caused the predator-victim symbiosis that keeps the power brokers at the world's helm.  If we removed our attachment to material things, and entered into complete dependence on God's great love and providence, we would not be  controlled by the external world.  Our souls would shine with a wisdom and power that would lift us into real living. 

Real humility is real empowerment, freedom and nonreactionary because there is nothing left within our egos to trigger. When there is nothing else in us, when we are completely emptied of any of the vanities of life, when we have swept our souls clean, freed our minds, and have invited in the holy spirit, God's power and love will come into our now clean hearts. In that state, we are truly powerful and truly humble. 

It is a fallacy that humility is a self-debasing state of victimization.  Please don't make that mistake.  Be no one's victim and be no one's abuser.  Be free of that spiritual disease that has kept good people enslaved to ignorance and spiritual poverty. Only in freedom can you choose to receive God's love and will for your life.  Only in freedom are you truly humble and only in freedom can you choose God above this dark world.  And, only in freedom will you accept the holy spirit's wisdom and bring to the world authentic leadership through your own humble presence.

*http://www.medjugorje.ws/en/messages/latest-message

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