Most can probably relate to the experience of stepping out of a hot and steamy shower.  Initially, as you leave the tub or shower stall area, you step into a slightly cooler area where there is still a bit of a mist from the hot water used during your shower. The bathroom mirror is all fogged up and you can’t yet use it effectively to view your image.  However, as the minutes pass, the mist in the air begins to clear and so does the surface of the mirror, which gradually allows a reflected image of you to appear.  Now, you can see the earthly image of you (perhaps) quite clearly.  This, experientially speaking, becomes a transitionally dramatic change from being in the shower.  In the shower, you had no earthly connection to something of an identity and now you are looking at a reflected image of your physical, earthly capacities.  For a moment, you reflect on how it felt to be bathed by comfortably hot steamy waters, relaxing, like being back in your mother’s womb, with nothing to tie your experience to anything else, just being held in warm cozy comfort that seems to soothe the entirety of your Being…  But, you do end up leaving that space of warm and cozy comfort to look into a mirror that offers a reflected image of your body.  Now everything that led up to this moment of your life dawns again, through glimpsing the image before you.  The joys and/or sorrows accumulated from your life’s journey start grazing your consciousness.  Today, that usually means more than it ever did before, as life is reflecting back exactly what we’ve co-created inclusively.
 

For me, I have had a very sobering realization that came into my consciousness in a most powerful way last night.  It had to do with abortion.  I thought about the miracle of Life that is born through the birth of a new Life.  There is so much that comes together from Divinity’s perspective, through birthing a new Life, that just cannot continue to be ignored as it has been hitherto.  Through my Life experience, I have been a part of three different abortions.  In other words, I made Love with three different women when I was in my early 20’s, creating three different pregnancies over a period of about 4-5 years that resulted in abortions.  There have been, perhaps, no lower moments in my life than these outworkings.  Even today, so many years (decades) later, my breath and my heart shudder at this recollection.  And yet, this dreadful outworking has been repeated in our world thousands of times over the course of decades.  The fact that this happens with the saddest of regularity reveals how low we have sunk as a people.  The error isn’t so much in the outworking of a young couple getting pregnant together.  No, not in  the way that we think of it, as a ‘mistake.’  The real tragedy is in the lack of human, family consciousness.  We create orphans all around us.  As far as your next door neighbors are concerned, they may as well be orphans in your consciousness.  They are orphans, as far as you are concerned.  There are only, perhaps, a hundred or several hundred yards (give or take) that physically separate you from them physically and yet they may as well live on the planet Mars, because we have orphaned ourselves from each other.  Our gorgeous homes that cost us more than we think, we created to be nothing more than prisons.  They are prisons that keep us all disconnected from each other.  Well, knowing this truth, what is our response?  We can justify not bringing another baby into this world and kill the Life before it has the chance to  live.  Spirit gives us an answer that would invariably require changing the way that we’re living, but we say ‘NO’ and kill this new and very Divine messenger.
 

There are bands of people that protest abortion.  That hasn’t been very effective because the real problem is that we’ve still been in an ‘orphan-creating’ state of consciousness.  Even though the answer is always new, even a new Life perhaps, we haven’t seen it.  All that we have seen is the world (like a prison) that we have co-created, as our selfish fears embark the deadliest course of action.
 

Lord, I must apologize to YOU and to all of my brethren for ever looking at anyone as if they were separate from me.  I have been guilty of creating a living, walking prison whose barriers were much greater, thicker and stronger than any brick or concrete wall ever built - not actually strong, just ignorant and stubborn!  Knowing this, from deep down inside, what shall YOU and I do?  How do I (how do we) remove our walls?  A demolition job is never very pretty or comfortable.  We’re gonna get dirty.  We will have dust and dirt going everywhere – in our mouths, between our toes – you name it!  The sterility of our homes needs to change.  We need to get dirty so that Life can be born and live.  Our “shit” (everyone’s shit) needs to be looked at in a new way.  It’s “honey pot” time.  For those of you who may not be aware of what a “honey pot” is, it refers to these big containers that hold human feces.  In some parts of the world, the feces are collected and put into these containers (honey pots) and carried around on people’s backs.  These human remains are most valuable for fertilizer to grow new crops.
 

We need to stop putting people off because we think that they are dirty or less than us.  Whose shit is dirtier?  Shit is just plain old shit and we better start using it to let Life grow well.  We throw out everything that we thought didn’t serve our purpose.  In truth, nothing can be thrown out and everything must be put into use.  Disease grows from stagnation.  Nothing and no One should be just left alone without your Love and without the opportunity to express Life.
 

We had set an unloving stage for each other where competition enslaved and hurt our delicate hearts.  For fear of being hurt more, we had hidden ourselves in prisons.  Could a beautiful home, a Jaguar and gold Rolex be  prisons?  They are if they keeps distance between YOU and others.  Life knows this and Life is going to continue giving us a way out of our prisons.  We still have the opportunity to walk out of them.  If we don’t walk out, we will still have to leave our prisons, but we may need to crawl out of them!
 

Use your home and your Divine Temple (your capacities) to start fostering Love and Life with everyone.  You are a father or a mother, a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, to everyone at any given moment in time.  Let the moments in Life, in this regard, be lovingly complete.  Let no one ever be orphaned in your life ever again.  And for God’s and Our own sakes, don’t kill our babies – don’t kill Life’s answer to Life!

These are the thoughts that are moving through me. I invite you to click on ‘comments ‘ and share your thoughts and experiences on this subject.