You are to use your intelligence and abilities to make the best choices with what you know, what you are aware of and what you see.  Make your best choice.  Take your best shot.  But know this – none of those choices are anything less than perfect. – John Morton

This article and blessing are excerpted from a sharing session John had with the Master of Spiritual Science class in April 2002.

No matter where you go, you are still here and still you.  One of the illusions we often carry is, “It’s not here, and this is not me.  I need to get out of here, change myself or do something.”  Like there is a big problem and we need to fix it.  That’s not true.  When we really get ahold of ourselves, it’s all here and it’s all me.

All of me is in direct relationship to God.  The “all me” part isn’t something isolated, or a “you are not” kind of thing. It is an “all me” that is all inclusive.  If you are going to get lined up with how this is working, you better find out what acceptance is.

Your relationship to acceptance will be your connection with what things are, instead of resistance, denial or the sense of “I am not that.”  There may an attempt to hide, deny or attack where you say, “I need to get rid of that because I am not that, and none of those things work.”  That leads to pain and frustration, like, “I’m not alive.  I’m dead.”  Nothing too pretty.

One way I relate to it, is there is a tone of who we are.  When we really get with it, we have a sense of harmony, beauty and relaxation.  The fight or struggle is over.  There is receptivity towards things.  When we really take them in, there is a converging where all things become beautiful.  All things become who we are.  Who we are, if we didn’t realize this already, is beautiful.

One of the things that is going to happen when you get with yourself is the experience of profound beauty.  Not the kind like, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?”  That’s an unnecessary pursuit.

There will be change.  Change is one of the constants here.  That is a movement of Spirit and God.  God in action is change.  You can count on it, and you can count on it being on purpose.

When things are on purpose, it has meaning.  Does it have direct meaning to where you are and what you are doing?  There are things related to you in each situation and circumstance so that your creatorship is engaged.  It is not a random process where it doesn’t matter and you can say, “I’ll do anything or I’ll do nothing.”  No.  It matters.

You are to use your intelligence and abilities to make the best choices with what you know, what you are aware of and what you see.  Make your best choice.  Take your best shot.  But know this – none of those choices are anything less than perfect.  You may say, “That’s amazing! How could God possibly do that?”

God manages it so that it is all perfect.  Nothing less than that is allowed.  It is just not permitted.  You can relax and let go.  You may say, “It doesn’t matter what I choose because it will be part of perfection in some way, and I will be able to use that.  It will serve me.”

There is a game that is “on” here, where you are being called forward in your abilities and creatorship to demonstrate that you do know and exercise who you are.  That is how we progress. We move into ourselves by making choices that are aligned and true for our self.

It’s very simple.  What appears to you to be the best?  Some people say, “I don’t know.  It seems like it could be better than that.”  Just try something.  If you hold back or resist what is there for you, something else comes in and says, “This doesn’t work.”  Holding back or withholding yourself does not work.

Make a choice.  Do something.  This is a doing level.  Engage yourself.  Get involved and learn from the experience.  You will learn.  There is no choice in that.  That is part of the perfection. By your experience you will be gaining knowledge.  You will be awakening and becoming a better co-creator with God.

Baruch Bashan

The Blessing of Connection – We are Family

Dear Lord,

We give thanks that you’ve brought us together in your fellowship, that when two or more of us are gathered in your name, which is your sound, your vibration, the Holy Spirit, the one who is anointed from above in the highest, and that you do bring it to us in the flesh so that if one of us has been touched clearly and directly by you, we all are connected, we are family.

So let us bask in your presence, that there is goodness overflowing, that each one of us is overflowing with goodness. And right now that is a blessing, and we are taking in this moment to look upon anything that we are related to, anyone, and all the situations and circumstances of our life for the inherent goodness in all of it, so right now we bless our mind and our Spirit with your anointing.

So we now relate to it as all good and entirely good, even though we know we have not always done that, that we have denied, we have shut down, we have attempted to masquerade what we are not. And all the while, you have stayed with us as an eternal force and presence that is good, that you adore us. And as we look upon you, we adore you. And we see it in the face of all things, that wherever we look, we can see you and your inherent goodness.

So give us your strength this moment and every moment of our existence, that we do remember you, and in the remembering, we see the good, we see the blessing. And that we may go about our days in this world doing greater good, and in some way touching others and leaving them with greater good. And when we have done that for the last time, let it be your praise that they know that you leave your sign, that it is your presence in all that’s good in every way.

Baruch Bashan