Archive for August, 2007

August 29, 2007: 11:30 am: StuartMy Word

It is remarked, over and over, in the Bible that when a man goes against the flow of “the world of man,” with only interest in serving God; that a man shall suffer the same persecution that Christ did. 

There are many levels of persecution that Christ experienced.  He was left alone.  He was left standing up for truth and righteousness; while others cast Him down.  He was left shining the Light of Love on a society, and people, that mostly rejected Him.  Even amongst those that once had promised Him their alliance, loyalty and obedience forever; they turned their backs on Him.  They lied to His face and behind His back.
 

I Am certainly not Jeshua the Christ, but I Am a part of Him, and I Am one that wishes to serve God, through my communion with Christ, with all of my thoughts, words and deeds.  I work toward that goal, each and every day.  My true Identity is in the Christ!  This is also true for all of mankind; even though most are oblivious to the truth of their purpose and true Identity.  I know that I fall short, at times; as the process of restoration is far from instantaneous.  But I also know that my heart is true.
 

I look and listen to the world these days; as so much is crumbling from man’s misuse and neglect.  The chaos and cacophony seems almost as endless (both close at home and away); almost as endless as are life’s virtues.  And yet, I know that “Unconquerable life prevails,” and that I Am a strategic part of the restoration that may speak truth clearly.
 

With a blinded or veiled lens, I may tend to look at the realities of my individual world.  However, each day, I try to take a more honest look at that which I have co-created.  These are the days of purification.  I feel the fire of it as it burns through each molecule of my Being.  Simultaneously, feelings are felt amidst an intrinsic kaleidoscope of living experiences and life in its evolution; returning (transforming through transmutation) to the Garden State of Being!
 

To feel gratitude, sorrow, pain and joy through these processes seems to be a very real, experiential, aspect of the restoration process.  I Am present to give gratitude to God through it all!

August 27, 2007: 7:18 pm: StuartMy Word

In this world, we can either make things very complicated or we can let things be assisted through our acceptance of the creative process.  In this regard, perception is the host of either simplicity or complication.  The more life experiences that one goes through, one may find that the results of life are usually less changed than our experience with respect to, and conjunction with, our perceptions of each outworking.  Perception can go hand and hand with expectation; creating a divorced relationship with respect to being consciously present.
 

As focus is maintained on a vision or goal, we are best prepared for its success through our flexibility in the attainment of it.  The goal itself must remain tangible through the actuality of creative practicality for its attainability.  The proving of creative practicality has nothing to do with effort – whereby one says that the end justifies the means.
 

True creative practicality proves its usefulness by the ease of its attainment as it characterizes itself with life flowing ability.
 

You look at two people in life.  One might be a stark and dogmatic business person with many of sought after accoutrements that prosperity offers, and the other person might have a much more simple life whereby they work a job that offers little more than what allows their survival.  Many people in society might look at these two different people and say that the one with all of money and accoutrements, respectively, is more fortunate and probably happier.  This hypothesis, however, could be very misleading and inaccurate.
 

The truth of one’s fulfillment has much more to do with each individual’s internal happiness.  Happiness and fulfillment has very little to do with which a person has amassed.  An awakened consciousness has much more to do with a perfect acceptance and appreciation of circumstances than it has to do with much of anything else.
 

The perception that celebrates the present moment is often much more the byproduct of simplicity.  The simple person with the simple life could very well have the edge on the one with all of the earthly acquisitions!

August 22, 2007: 5:01 am: StuartMy Word

I sit here not knowing what is about to happen in a very important area of my life.  On June 20th, I came home from a meeting to find that my wife had moved to another location.  I didn’t know if our furniture was in storage or what the case was.  After some time past, and my wife began communicating with me again, I learned that she had rented a place without me.  She only left me a letter; as she departed with most of our things, all of her things as well as our two dogs, Kilo and Kayla (our babies).
 

According to her, the plan was for us to work on our relationship and get back together.  Well, I believe that I did everything that I was asked to do by my wife; so that my wife would let me move in with her and continue on together.  But promises were given by her, over and over, with dates when I could move in.  Many of these dates and time periods have come and gone.  The last promise for me to move in was in conjunction for when I had to move from our old address (because of the bank taking the house over).  I have to leave here, all packed up with the house gleaming by Friday – two days from now.  I guess we shall soon see what the future holds!
 

Today, either my wife proves that I can in fact move in with her by handing me a set of keys or I will realize that such an outworking will not happen.
 

Because of a serious legal and financial situation in my life, if I cannot be under the same roof as my wife, I am forced to go live with relatives in Connecticut (where I am originally from).  After 8 ½ years of marriage, leaving and going to Connecticut would prove to be one of the saddest days in my life.
 

I can only say, at this stage of my life, that all I really want to do with my life is to serve the Lord.  I am a fully ordained nondenominational minister, a healer and a channel for God’s words for mankind.  Though I am still praying that my wife will continue to be part of this journey with me, in service to the Lord, I cannot choice that for anyone except for myself.  Once, I thought that my wife had permanently given herself to me for life.  But, now, that does not appear to be the case; as tears fill my eyes once again.
 

Today will either be, the beginning of a new generation of a loving marriage between Bonnie and I or it will be the mark of our completion together as husband and wife!  So let it be written – so let it be done!
 

There in one thing that cannot, and will not, ever change.  As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord – now, and forever!

August 21, 2007: 1:46 am: StuartMy Word

This is the key to being able to work with another person in any relationship; in every relationship.  And, in actuality, everyone’s viewpoint needs a little bit of validation.  Even if you think, or are completely sure, that someone is wrong; you have to learn to let your self see it all from their perspective.
 

If we don’t care to validate each other, we don’t really care about each other or even ourselves for that matter.  Being right or wrong, to a large degree needs to be realized by the individual themselves; not because someone else (necessarily) points it out to them – but because they are allowed to discover it on their own.
 

While there seem to be people in this world that try and take advantage of others, one doesn’t need to put themselves into a position of which they are subject to another person’s mistreatment.  But it does happen.  However, once we learn about a person’s behavior, it is our responsibility to stand our own ground.  It’s not a matter of making another person out to be wrong; it’s a matter of taking responsibility for our own personal lives’.
 

The longer that I live and the more that I see, I am convinced that I am only seeing a minute percentage of what is truly occurring.  The more that this reality is reinforced in my experience, I find that I must let myself move through things rather than resisting the truth of what I am beginning to know in each moment.  And, boy oh boy, do I have a long way to go!…lol!

August 20, 2007: 11:37 pm: StuartMy Word

This is a question that was posed to me recently by an old and wiser man than myself.  I really had to think, not only about the answer, but also about what it meant to experience the results of living from out from the evolving answer in my life!
 

It’s really not all that simple.  It involves taking a closer look (perhaps) than I have ever taken of myself, and the life that I have lead and experienced.  The question is actually a rather difficult question for so many reasons.
 

Life is lived.  Part of it is an observation.  But part of it is so many other things.  It’s loving, it’s learning, at times it’s hoping.  There are so many experiences that shape so many aspects of what life is.  And yet, sometimes, things can seem to get very incongruent.
 

At some point in life, and I believe I am there now, one really takes a look at there life from a place of – I’d like to say stillness – but that’s not really accurate – it’s more like (everything just seemed to stop!)  It’s like having your life turn around and look at itself.  It’s not a very comfortable process – as I find myself looking at something that almost looks foreign to me.
 

I’ll tell you one thing.  Where I am now involves trying to sort so many things out to gain a truer perspective.  I’m not even sure that it’s working.  I feel like I’m standing in the Twilight Zone.  It’s a time where I find myself more and more naked and it’s a little scary at times.  If I ever needed help from my Creator, I certainly need it now!
 

The question that is still one of the largest ones that I am asking myself each day is “What Am I Willing To Give Up To Be True To Myself?”  In reality, I know what I know - I Am that I Am.  It is that bare bones truth that draws me back to myself.  I Am present to let the Heaven be revealed in the Earth.  That is all that I can know.  The knowing of that almost removes itself to a place where words don’t encompass the complete truth.  “The repose into nothing” is everything.  The only only act of being creative is creating!  The Creator does one thing - creates.  This intrinsic reality is something that is easy for me to forget - as I sit here type out words that lead back to themselves!

August 17, 2007: 2:07 am: StuartMy Word

Being attuned to Source (God) is the only way to be Creative.  As I have learned, this is not an isolated thinking process.  In fact, the minds only place is to be proactively conscious is in the present moment.  There is no exception to this.
 

To be honest with you, I think that I fall in and out of the present moment; as if almost by chance.  My mind still tends to flurry; trying to grasp at many different things.  It is an interesting process to experience the almost (seemingly) auto-response of my mind as it can robotically departed the present moment.  It’s like old tapes that still play more often than I wish for them to play.  Actually, I think that I’m tired of hearing the tapes at all.  Training or, actually, retraining my mind to dismiss my old internal mind responses (the old tapes) is a process.  It can be a very challenging process at times.  But there is hope.  I do stay present more now than I ever remember doing so before.
 

The more that I stay present, however, the more I know of it’s intrinsic value.  Basically, I am here to live a simple life – moment by moment.  It’s very complicated.  But all of the complications are actually a mirage.  My emotional experience in everything is also a self induced mirage.  It’s not – “I think therefore I am” – it’s “I Am and also have the ability to think!”  There is quite a difference.  The rest is just a bunch whatever I make it out to be!  This truth, with respect to reality does not negate God.  In fact, complete conscious presence in each moment is the closest that I can be to experiencing God!  The rest of all those life rituals and beliefs tend to take us away from reality and therefore away from God!

August 15, 2007: 9:11 pm: StuartMy Word

The journey through this vestige that we call life brings many people to deep thoughts about unanswered questions. I am no exception to that questioning and, moment to moment, discovering process.
 

A voice from within me is sometimes revealed from a state of prayer and communion with Source.  I usually sense a Divine Presence in my life.  Because of this Divine Presence, I don’t feel the need to try satisfying many of the questions that I once had.
 

The real answers that can be given to life’s questions are found through conscious participation in the living process.  When I stop to ask the question, I am usually missing the true, simple and obvious living answer.  Letting go to what life is requiring is the only answer!  In this regard, I must first be true to myself and then I must continue with the same spirit of honestly; as I honor and accept all that life is bringing forth.
 

They say God helps those who help themselves!  And I think that sometimes I just need to pause for a moment so that I regain my centering with God.  In this way, I Am that I Am moves forth with brilliance and clarity.  There’s a lot on the move with life.  My simple conscious participation seems all that’s really necessary.  Thank God!

August 12, 2007: 9:23 am: StuartMy Word

For me, in this human/angelic experience, it can seem to require a lot of living to awaken while perceiving things as they really are.  I have observed myself with tendencies of relying on forms of things (or results), for a sense of well-being.  To really take an honest look at myself, in this regard, is very sobering.
 

I have lived most of my life reaching forth to achieve goals of many types; be it vocational, athletic, or arts related.  Goals can be a healthy part of the living process as long as they are kept in their true perspective; not taken too seriously and out of context.  Because, whether I achieve some said goal or not is quite secondary to learning how to be in life’s flow.
 

Flowing is actually a gentle, integrative and completely conscious state of Being.  It doesn’t mean that one has to becomes some kind of a numb vessel that is removed from caring about life; no, not at all.  It’s being completely aware, but not subject to that which one is a aware of.  It’s allowing perfect flow, of letting things be…  And, further, it’s to let things evolve as they are naturally evolving.  Being conscious is the greatest level of attainment that I have become consciously aware of.
 

Does being conscious serve anyone?  Yes, it serves the “whole” and it is of the greatest service to the invisible and visible realms of Being.  It is actually the truest way to completely participate in life’s natural flow.
 

I, personally, find myself feeling a lot of gratitude for my world, the Heaven and the Earth, the more that I allow my mind and heart to be still and conscious.  Patience, tranquility, understanding, assurance, radiance, wisdom and love characterize the creative process of consciousness.

August 9, 2007: 11:30 pm: StuartMy Word

The intensity seems to be reaching every place imaginable these days.  And, yet, I sense that it is just a beginning of the things to come.
 

To watch and hear people frantically scurrying about is not a happy experience; as so much of life seems to be undergoing immense change.  To watch people in their living circumstances; it is very apparent that they have been clinging to the forms of things.  As forms tend to change and way, so does the false, or substitute, state of stability…  I, too, have found similar patterns in myself.
 

As the forms of things that were once thought to be “so secure” are now reflecting the opposite of stability and security, it seems to be that one must learn to be at One with things behind or beyond (with Source) their forms.
 

Answers seem to be continuously sought after by the ones that fail to see the truth of their own Being.  Richer or poorer, in sickness or in health, we each are still just “present.”  The rest of life’s details are almost irrelevant at the true level of absolute Being.
 

So much of society has been built on achieving illusionary goals.  The by-product of our society’s deluded state is so blatantly displayed by the lack of consciousness and denial of circumstances.  Like a dog chasing its own tail, one can only hope for exhaustion to set in.  It would seem that the most that we can do, at times, is to let life run its course; while we observe what is actually occurring.  But there is a great strength in allowing our capacities to still conscious and still, under all circumstances.
 

To actually know the state of Being that understands exactly what is occurring; while staying as an observer and holding every circumstance in the blessing state of peace, love and tranquility can do more good than most realize.  There is no stronger presence than One that loves, cares (yet detached), is peaceful and full of joy.  All things that need to transform; melt away into the Truth of Love!

August 8, 2007: 1:24 pm: StuartMy Word

The human condition seems replete with almost an endless scope of illusive mindsets of which premises are built from that compose imaginary dependant associations.  In this, realms of feeling are given governorship.  So dependant, we have become, on our feelings and emotional response; that we, often, loose sight of reality.
 

The emotions are a tool that can assist our abilities to bond and relate with others, but they never need to be allowed to take us away from our center of Being!
 

Living in a fast paced world that takes too little time to be still and openly present, can make us vulnerable to the immensities of change.  While the constant movement of life always characterizes change, we need not be centered or dependant on its outworking.
 

I am learning to stop and listen, watch and sense quietly to messages that are continually expressed.
 

It is wonderful to not feel the need to have anything be any different, at one level; but to still create from the sensing of larger purpose and usefulness.  I have never been so willing, to my recollection, to just be in my life.  If I could ask myself a question, in each moment, it would be – “Have I given forth my all to the circumstances with great care and love; to the extent that I am still unattached to the results?”
 

I have learned that if I am attached to any set of results, then I have actually not given anything worthwhile to the circumstances.  One can never give, only to receive back.  While I can appreciate a certain set of results, I must still appreciate the actual results that manifest – whether they are the same as I expected or not.  I am here to be at One with the Creator!