Question: I want to break a barrier that I create with people whom I consider important and on a higher level. Why do I place myself in this lower position?

John: You come to that position honestly and rightfully. There is a saying about water, that it seeks its own level. Yours is a relative position and represents psychic creation from the past and how you treated people. Now the tables have turned, the roles have been switched, so that the one who was inferior is now superior and the one who was superior is now inferior. It’s a form of balancing: when something is up, something else is down; when something’s in, something else is out; when something is on the right, something else is on the left. Everything moves into a relative position.

The position Spirit takes is entirely integrated and yet still dynamic. So it has a dynamic diversity that stays correctly in harmony. Your challenge is to move into the harmony of this situation. It’s almost like saying that it’s your turn to be in a lower position and then honoring that. So if you’re to serve, do that as best you can. And if you’re to be served, you do that as best you can and allow yourself to be served. It’s just taking the position you’re in, which your life has assigned to you.

It’s interesting to look at the world and all the Souls who have embodied. First, consider that every Soul is magnificently perfect. Then consider that the embodiment has an amazing range in it. On the one end is extreme difficulty, and on the other end is tremendous blessing or great fortune in terms of the world. Is this about which Soul is more worthy? No. They are all worthy. So, what’s going on here? Different conditions, different learning, different karma—and it’s all balanced and in perfect order. Each one of us has the challenge to realize this and not just to accept but to cooperate with what God has dealt us—the circumstances of our own life—and to use everything for upliftment. So, in actuality, there are no victims. It is simply circumstances that take place.

The balancing action calls for great love. As the song goes, “What the world needs now is love, sweet love.” That always answers all the conditions. And it is also to have compassion that registers as our being our brother’s keeper. If something is going on for my brother, it’s going on for me. But my brother’s condition is his condition, and I can’t live his life. God set it up so I live my life and he must live his life. There is also karma if we attempt to live somebody else’s life, to take over their karma for them. We don’t get to do it, and we also get karma for trying to do it. That is God’s way of saying, “Don’t mess with my works. How many times do I have to tell you it’s perfect?”

Can you help? Sure. Sometimes it’s to sit over there and be quiet and just be glad you can be a witness. And one day God may call upon you to be a witness, that you testify and say, “I saw it. I experience that God worked.”

So be careful of challenging the conditions and of raising up causes in the name of injustice. Rather, you might just consider that there’s a balancing action and an opportunity to serve what God is doing in the situation. And if the karma hits and there is a kind of hurt, you might consider that the karma needed to flow. And it also doesn’t serve to add more hurt to the situation or to bring insult to the injury, such as telling someone how stupid they are or that they must really be bad or wrong to have something like that happen. That’s out of place, and nobody really has that position. If there’s any judgment, it’s God’s judgment, which is always rendered absolutely fairly, exactly, precisely as needed. No mistakes. No accidents.

So often we’re confounded and can’t understand why something would happen—what purpose it could possibly serve or what good could come from it. Those are great questions. And make sure you’re there for the answers. I’ve often seen people ask great questions and then fill themselves up with something really distracting and miss the answer. But those who are paying attention can benefit by observing God’s ways, that good must always come from it. So observe. And consider that somehow there’s a good purpose in how something is. Also consider if there’s a place for you to contribute: “Is this my level of concern?” If the answer is no, leave it alone. That’s often how angels work. They don’t interfere with the action. They bring comfort, solace, a sense of peace, and understanding. They prompt the awareness with the teaching, and they often show resolution—the way out or the way through.

And always remember that in this world, we’re not done. So if you have a sense that there is something else, there is. But it may not necessarily be in this situation. There is a rhythm in the way of God that allows us to rest and to gain our resourcefulness so we can understand we are processing and that there’s nothing more to do right now because we’re absorbing what has already been in place. And another opportunity will appear shortly.

Baruch Bashan.