{"id":109913,"date":"2020-05-07T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=109913"},"modified":"2020-05-08T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T23:48:04","slug":"can-we-have-the-virus-and-be-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/109913-can-we-have-the-virus-and-be-great","title":{"rendered":"Can We Have the Virus and Be Great?"},"content":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \n<hr \/>\n<p><em>If you find yourself disturbed, upset or in fear, that\u2019s an opportunity to let go, relax, go within and commune with God\u2019s presence inside.\u00a0 God\u2019s not worried.\u00a0 God\u2019s okay with what is.\u00a0 Is there an opportunity to make it better?\u00a0 Always.\u00a0 That\u2019s my experience. &#8211; John Morton<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This article and blessing come from John Morton&#8217;s sharing with a Master of\u00a0 Spiritual Science class held on March 28, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The heart and the mind can be highly attuned.\u00a0 That\u2019s an opportunity, to have the heart active in your thinking.\u00a0 A key word in the heart is love. But it\u2019s also a keeper of wisdom, the keeper of truth.\u00a0 God consciousness has an indwelling in the heart, not really in the mind.<\/p>\n<p>There <u>is<\/u> a god of opinion in the mind.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lesser god.\u00a0 But you can make your opinions be cheerful and encouraging.\u00a0 There can be a better brand of opinion that comes around.<\/p>\n<p>It is important for all of us to be Self-sourcing.\u00a0 I like to spell Self with a capital \u201cS\u201d, so God is involved, so that my \u201cself\u201d includes God\u2019s Self.\u00a0 Then I intend, relate, and identify that God and I are one.\u00a0 I choose back in that oneness.<\/p>\n<p>I have to open my mind to do that.\u00a0 If my mind is contracted or positioned in a belief \u2013 and my mind knows how to do that \u2013 it can have strong opinions and positions.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s right.\u00a0 That\u2019s not right.\u201d My mind can get into that. I don\u2019t want to get into that because it tends to close down my relationship to what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 It becomes more and more limited and inflexible.\u00a0 It\u2019s not cooperating and in harmony with how life is working in God\u2019s oneness.<\/p>\n<p>This is such a perfect level for us to work that out!\u00a0 It\u2019s a perfect classroom for learning how to become one with God by bringing us to our weaknesses.\u00a0 Where we\u2019re in a \u201changnail\u201d of some sort.\u00a0 We\u2019re hung up on something.\u00a0 We have a position that is righteous, and we\u2019re caught there.\u00a0 We\u2019re not open to other aspects of what\u2019s involved.<\/p>\n<p>One of the keys there is acceptance.\u00a0 We can check our acceptance.\u00a0 How am I embracing what this is or what that person did or said, or what I did or said? How am I in that?<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself disturbed, upset or in fear, that\u2019s an opportunity to let go, relax, go within and commune with God\u2019s presence inside.\u00a0 God\u2019s not worried.\u00a0 God\u2019s okay with what is.\u00a0 Is there an opportunity to make it better?\u00a0 Always.\u00a0 That\u2019s my experience.<\/p>\n<p>The world has a moving opportunity where we can make choices that make the world better.\u00a0 That would be one of the spiritual keys that we all have.\u00a0 Make where we are better.\u00a0 If we\u2019re at home or in our continuous space, what are we doing today to make it better? And then know the dynamic is, \u201cIf you\u2019re not making it better, then you are allowing it to get worse.\u201d\u00a0 Notice I\u2019m saying, \u201callowing\u201d it to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean?\u00a0 There\u2019s a negative movement here.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t do anything, things break down.\u00a0 They go into something that\u2019s unnecessarily negative because we didn\u2019t choose to make them positive when we had that choice available.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, I was studying subjects related to renewable natural resources.\u00a0 I was then working as a park ranger and doing things having to do with ecosystems and the environment and all those causes we are now much more aware of in the world.\u00a0 In that process, I was experiencing that nature always has a way to balance itself.\u00a0 That\u2019s why it works and works magnificently.\u00a0 If we can allow ourselves to come into that attunement with the natural harmonies, then we also can have choices taking us to what would be wild, like a wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>We can enhance the natural world into something like a Garden of Eden.\u00a0 We have influence in nature.\u00a0 Harmony is in what we create. Nature is better, not worse, for our involvement.\u00a0 That\u2019s often what I found in my work as a park ranger.\u00a0 I was striking a balance.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need to just let it be wild. \u00a0Like, \u201cDon\u2019t put footprints here.\u00a0 A human is not to enter here.\u00a0 Keep humans out.\u201d\u00a0 I didn\u2019t personally agree with that.\u00a0 We are here in the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s not to have an imposed barrier that says, \u201cThis environment is at its peak of 100% if we keep humans out of it.\u201d I understand the value of wilderness as well as the value of the lower nature of a human being.\u00a0 We need the higher nature to change and transform the human condition. That is an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>I consider that what is called the Coronavirus is helping the entire world come into a better relationship with the harmonies that are here, including the micro-kingdoms. I hear people and leaders directing people, \u201cAttack the Coronavirus.\u00a0 Job one is to attack the virus. Go out there and march and kill it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s find out how we can have the virus but feel great.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have to wear masks from now on.\u00a0 Is this the \u201cAge of the Mask,\u201d when all of humanity began wearing masks?\u00a0 I hope not.\u00a0 I hope we\u2019re not going to that requirement.\u00a0 Years from now, do we want our children and their children wearing some kind of helmet mask and wondering who\u2019s behind it, where the face will become something of a former age?\u00a0 That is kind of scary.<\/p>\n<p>We have been directed and put into a shared continuous space.\u00a0 I\u2019m good with that.\u00a0 In this moment we\u2019re discovering what is upon us because there is still tremendous mystery about what this is, how it functions and how we can create harmony.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need to get sick and we don\u2019t need to have our mortality registered by this cause.<\/p>\n<p>I say, \u201cHey, remember!\u00a0 Nature is powerful.\u201d\u00a0 One of my deep experiences studying nature for years was that I understood why some people think of it as a religion.\u00a0 The natural world is their god.\u00a0 They feel like that\u2019s where it is holy and sacred.\u00a0 A place where we commune with nature and harmonize with how it works.\u00a0 I understand that.<\/p>\n<p>There are greater dimensions to God.\u00a0 What we\u2019re looking at is a magnificent witnessing to the grand design.\u00a0 I had that experience studying science in school.\u00a0 I did about six years of science after high school, and just kept finding there is no way this is random or came out of some chaotic accident, like an explosion.\u00a0 Like there\u2019s no design or intelligence to it. \u00a0There has to be intelligence.\u00a0 There has to be a creator or a collective.\u00a0 I thought it possible there was a collective creatorship.\u00a0 It\u2019s on some level of intelligence that I\u2019m in awe. Wow!\u00a0 I have an experience of how much I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 One of the lessons from science is, for the most part, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>We can claim God is love and we are of God and the love of God.<\/p>\n<p>Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Blessings In Always Ways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lord, we are open<\/p>\n<p>and in the ways we are claiming to be open, but we are not open,<\/p>\n<p>we ask that You adjust us, that You clear us<\/p>\n<p>You release us<\/p>\n<p>from the unnecessary forms of restrictions<\/p>\n<p>we have placed upon ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>We especially ask for that in the unconscious and subconscious levels<\/p>\n<p>where we habitually continue the forms that would keep us restricted<\/p>\n<p>in unnecessary ways<\/p>\n<p>that are not serving the highest good.<\/p>\n<p>That in Your perfect wisdom<\/p>\n<p>in your perfect mercy and love,<\/p>\n<p>You bring to us a release, a clearing, a balancing, and healing.<\/p>\n<p>And in that way, You turn to those of us who have this need<\/p>\n<p>for greater forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>If the direction is to forgive thyself,<\/p>\n<p>that it is upon each one of us<\/p>\n<p>to do what that is in our way<\/p>\n<p>for whatever applies in releasing and letting go of any judgments,<\/p>\n<p>any negative forms, any disturbances from any existence.<\/p>\n<p>When it has been done in this way,<\/p>\n<p>we are released from the karmic flow that is no longer necessary.<\/p>\n<p>We find our self moving into soul consciousness,<\/p>\n<p>soul liberation, soul transcendence,<\/p>\n<p>that is the oneness with God<\/p>\n<p>the eternal nature<\/p>\n<p>that is always loving in all ways<\/p>\n<p>in the living truth that abides in all of Creation<\/p>\n<p>as the eternal truth.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what we are doing in a temporary form,<\/p>\n<p>this life in this day in this life<\/p>\n<p>in this moment in this life,<\/p>\n<p>You reveal again we are always in movement,<\/p>\n<p>and this is the living force.<\/p>\n<p>And this movement is going to God,<\/p>\n<p>going into all that is good,<\/p>\n<p>all that is blessed.<\/p>\n<p>Then You remind us that this is to be shared,<\/p>\n<p>that we have a loving, sharing and caring God.<\/p>\n<p>This is our way.<\/p>\n<p>This is the way.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is upon us is to rise up,<\/p>\n<p>not partially but completely,<\/p>\n<p>in the anointing that is the Holy Spirit and the Christ.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, we become the living truth,<\/p>\n<p>we become the light,<\/p>\n<p>we become the love,<\/p>\n<p>that this world is in need of.<\/p>\n<p>And if we are here in the world, we are in need of this love.<\/p>\n<p>We are part of the need for greater love.<\/p>\n<p>We just take a moment to hold for that transformation<\/p>\n<p>to the greater love.<\/p>\n<p>In whatever parts of our creation have resisted or have blocked,<\/p>\n<p>have attempted to stop or deny,<\/p>\n<p>we have the opportunity now to eternally set the tone<\/p>\n<p>in God\u2019s will being done.<\/p>\n<p>To love all of Its creation,<\/p>\n<p>and to move us into the fullness of what that can become.<\/p>\n<p>This day we are one with God.<\/p>\n<p>Always in always ways.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I said that. 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