{"id":111270,"date":"2022-12-07T12:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T20:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=111270"},"modified":"2022-12-07T12:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T20:40:52","slug":"we-are-beloved-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/111270-we-are-beloved-of-god","title":{"rendered":"We Are Beloved of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we get nothing out of this Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness than to do more smiling, be more joyful and happy with one another, then we are in what this is as a Christ action.\u00a0 That is beloved of God.\u00a0 That is born this day in our heart. We can turn to it and just let it out.<\/em> – John Morton<\/p>\n

This article is taken from John\u2019s sharing at the\u00a02019 MSIA Christmas Eve Seminar held in\u00a0Santa Monica, California.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are the beloved of God, and that doesn\u2019t have any exceptions.\u00a0 Try that on for an hour, a day \u2013 that you can love everyone and everything.\u00a0 Do that openly, willingly without any resistance or contraction, including in the level of the mind.<\/p>\n

Consider that the mind is the place where we get into the most difficulty and trouble.\u00a0 When something comes to your mind, check it out with your heart.\u00a0 That could be how you pray.\u00a0 It could just be how you are.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be a formal practice, but often it is a formal practice.\u00a0 It is something like, \u201cHoly Father, Dear Lord\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 Do you have that valence, that connection?\u00a0 It\u2019s a direct, immediate call that doesn\u2019t put you on hold or isn\u2019t available, so you have to call back later.<\/p>\n

If we are not in connection, we may think we are not worthy of God taking the call.\u00a0 Go deeper into your heart.\u00a0 Find that place of love in your heart.\u00a0 What is God doing in your heart?\u00a0 There is an opportunity to realize God is doing each one of us.\u00a0 If you hear silence, God is with you in that silence.\u00a0 If it\u2019s noisy and full of chatter or distraction, then that is also what God is doing with you.<\/p>\n

The opportunity is, \u201cWhere would you like to go with God, your co-creator?\u00a0 All of us have that charge.\u00a0 We can take it into what we want.\u00a0 I encourage you to consider that you have an authority, a power within to bring forward what you want and what that would be.<\/p>\n

There is also a God, a co-creator, who has it \u201cin charge\u201d so it is going to be serving the highest good of all concerned, however that works out.\u00a0 There is lots of room for variation.\u00a0 If it\u2019s not to our liking, we have the opportunity to change that as a continual experience in every moment.<\/p>\n

Keep going towards what you want.\u00a0 If you want to love somebody, then love somebody.\u00a0 It you want to be loved by somebody, then be available to be loved by somebody.\u00a0 Do it in such a way as, \u201cHey, there is love here! I have love available and I\u2019m looking to share that with somebody!\u201d<\/p>\n

Christ Jesus said, \u201cThe way you are going to know that you are my disciples \u2013 that you are following in what I am doing \u2013 is that you are going to love one another.\u201d\u00a0 I did not find or hear any exceptions in that.\u00a0 Jesus brought it to a very clear statement: \u201cLove thy enemy.\u201d\u00a0 Love the ones who don\u2019t appear to be full of God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n

Consider that is an opportunity to bridge whatever that is inside of you.\u00a0 There are moments when our life is reflecting and bringing us into a greater knowing.\u00a0 We can love anyone and anything because that is who and what God is in this world.<\/p>\n

Do you have worries, fears or feel afraid at times?\u00a0 Maybe you don\u2019t have much confidence in yourself.\u00a0 Perhaps the things you wanted to create you didn\u2019t really create.\u00a0 Or you don\u2019t like what you created.\u00a0 Consider that you can love yourself in your worry, fear, and doubt about your life.\u00a0 That can be a gift from God.<\/p>\n

Even if you have already received Christmas gifts, in the Christ Mass ask for another gift.\u00a0 We have a joyful giver, a divine source without limit.\u00a0 The highest good could be served in ways that are beyond whatever limitations we carry.\u00a0 One of the great opportunities is to release limitations.\u00a0 Let go of our doubts, fears, and judgements.\u00a0 That is about forgiving.<\/p>\n

The word \u201cforgiving\u201d has two meanings.\u00a0 Forgiving can be for \u201cgiving up\u201d so you let it go.\u00a0 You do not carry it as a way of relating to your life.\u00a0 Forgiving is also letting go of any judgement you hold.<\/p>\n

One of the great blessings we all have has been said as, \u201cLet go.\u201d Release it.\u00a0 Give it up.\u00a0 Whatever is your disturbance or bothering you, give it up.\u00a0 Let it go and let God.\u00a0 God can love it, forgive it and bless it.<\/p>\n

Have you ever had an experience where something that happened in your life was like a fulfillment of a dream or wish?\u00a0 It exceeded in reality what you imagined anyone could have or experience?\u00a0 Consider that is actually how it is all the time.\u00a0 Every time we are willing to play at the level of God, God has all the treasures, gifts, blessings at full availability \u2013\u00a0as we can handle them.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 We are not given what we cannot handle.<\/p>\n

Part of the issue in our lives could be that we are in a limitation.\u00a0 We are not given what we would want for the highest good because we\u2019re not allowing the openness to cooperate and receive what that is.\u00a0 One of the teachings John-Roger pointed out emphatically and clearly is that when you \u201clet God,\u201d you are in patience.\u00a0 It\u2019s a movement of patience.\u00a0 Be willing to hold and wait for that process to come into order.<\/p>\n

John-Roger also told us, \u201cHe or she wins who endures to the end.\u201d\u00a0 If it is worth having, what would be the greatest gift and blessing in your life, would you be willing to hold for whatever that takes?\u00a0 You can call it forward because it is in God\u2019s order as it serves the highest good of all concerned.\u00a0 If it doesn\u2019t, then you would be brought into the consciousness of what is the highest good.<\/p>\n

Everything that bothers or disturbs us, anything we do that is wrong or doesn\u2019t work serves the purpose of correcting and adjusting us into what does work and serves the highest good.\u00a0 If you are relating to what that is, you\u2019re going to realize it is a divine order.\u00a0 It requires us to go into a greater state of who we are.\u00a0 That divine order is relentless and absolute in how it works.<\/p>\n

However, there\u00a0is<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0something called mercy.\u00a0 If we get to a place where we don\u2019t know how to handle something and we don\u2019t want to respond, give up, not do what is needed, or we want to fight or struggle – that doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0 That will be pointed out to us each and every time, however long it takes.\u00a0 At some point we can\u2019t take it anymore.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure we have all had something in our life where we realized, \u201cNo matter how much I fight, oppose, avoid or deny this, it\u2019s relentless.\u201d\u00a0 Consider it\u2019s a blessing when that happens, your gift from the Christ.<\/p>\n

This world is designed in your favor.\u00a0 It is also designed to teach us how to become co-creators.\u00a0 It is a classroom.\u00a0 Class is always in session and the tests keep coming.\u00a0 If you learn how to handle the tests correctly, at some point you are put into a higher learning and higher state of what is in process for you.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, where this goes in this world is being of service.\u00a0 The highest state we can move to is in service to ourself, so we are included in that.\u00a0 We are in service to what God is bringing forward through our life.\u00a0 We can do that.\u00a0 Often, what I experience is in a silent, sacred way.\u00a0 It is supreme.\u00a0 It is the opportunity to do some good.\u00a0 One of my rallying calls is, \u201cLet\u2019s go out and do some good!\u201d\u00a0 When we really get what that is, we experience enthusiasm with, \u201cLet\u2019s go out and make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you trip over \u201cstuff\u201d in the place where you live because it needs some improvement, you might want to begin there.\u00a0 If you want to go teach your neighbor about peace, but you don\u2019t have peace at home, you might want to do some peace at home first.\u00a0 Then you will know more about what peace is when you go to share it with your neighbor.<\/p>\n

That is something the Christ spoke of from the beginning.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just an historical thing with Jesus.\u00a0 It is open in terms of that consciousness of the Beloved who is awake spiritually.\u00a0 Whoever that has been on the planet has been great amongst us.\u00a0 There are many ways to access what this is.\u00a0 I encourage you to be in that consciousness of the Beloved this day, wherever you are, whoever you are with.<\/p>\n

You can turn to somebody right now and say, \u201cHello, Beloved.\u201d\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to limit it to just one.\u00a0 If you are by yourself somewhere, you can find a mirror and say, \u201cHello, Beloved.\u201d\u00a0 Would you be willing to step into an elevator and say, \u201cHello, Beloved\u201d to whoever is there.\u00a0 The next time you give your car keys to somebody, could you say, \u201cHello, Beloved?\u201d\u00a0 If we were doing more of this, it just might get into our way of relating in a great way, in the way of loving one another.<\/p>\n

There are other ways to say, \u201cHello, Beloved.\u201d\u00a0 When we see each other, it\u2019s in a smile.\u00a0 We can smile more, even in the mirror.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need a reason to smile.\u00a0 John-Roger told me a story of how he used to practice smiling in the mirror because he needed to smile more.<\/p>\n

If we get nothing out of this Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness than to do more smiling, be more joyful and happy with one another, then we are in what this is as a Christ action.\u00a0 That is beloved of God.\u00a0 That is born this day in our heart.\u00a0 We can turn to it and just let it out.<\/p>\n

That beloved of God, that Christ action, wants to come out from inside you, through your eyes and smile.\u00a0 In the Christ, there is a consciousness that loves each and every person, even the most unlovable.\u00a0 Consider that this is the moment, this Christ Mass, that is our liberation.\u00a0 We finally find that everything in our life is lovable.\u00a0 We follow the Christ and love one another in the joy of our Lord.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

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A Blessing of Liberation<\/h5>\n

Lord, we do ask for your blessing, extending through us as a gift.<\/p>\n

As those who extend in your purpose to express your blessings, we ask that you visit each of us personally at this time, to work with us in our relationship to this world.<\/p>\n

We ask that you bring your great Light that is the Holy Spirit, through the one we know as Lord of us all, to sit down with us, to visit us where we live, to look in every corner, every aspect of what we have created.<\/p>\n

We ask this through all that has been created, that we have a balancing here and now, a lifting of what is no longer necessary, and a placement of your grace.<\/p>\n

We claim the debts are paid, through this action of your Beloved that comes in and sits with us now, that we are the Beloved, and we do partake of these blessings, the lifting of the debt.<\/p>\n

We claim the healing, the balancing for ourselves, for those we have entangled through unnecessary actions.<\/p>\n

And now we claim that you are liberating us again and straightening our consciousness, so that we live according to what is true, what is your love and is unconditional to all.<\/p>\n

We set this purpose supreme, carrying it in our hearts, sanctifying our dedication, acting upon our devotion anew, putting aside our attachments and our distractions, bringing us to our wisdom that we will act true to our divine nature, that we will find the direct way you have placed before us, the clarity, the strength, and the knowledge.<\/p>\n

We give thanks that you fill our hearts, that we affirm with our breath in each moment. We breathe in the blessings. We breathe out our gifts, our sacrifice, willingly, openly, and freely unto all. Increase us evermore, that we may expand past all limitation, finding ourselves transcending and knowing ourselves in the Soul.<\/p>\n

We accept your patience, the patience that always endures and overcomes.<\/p>\n

We accept your peace, the peace that is the understanding that it is done.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The above blessing comes from John\u2019s book, The Blessings Already Are<\/a>, available at msia.org\/shop<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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