{"id":112910,"date":"2026-07-08T16:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=112910"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:49:29","slug":"making-your-best-choice-taking-your-best-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/112910-making-your-best-choice-taking-your-best-shot","title":{"rendered":"Making Your Best Choice \u2013 Taking Your Best Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0\u00a0Make your best choice.\u00a0\u00a0Take your best shot.\u00a0\u00a0But know this \u2013 none of those choices are anything less than perfect.<\/em> – John Morton<\/p>\n

This article and blessing are excerpted from a sharing session John had with the Master of Spiritual Science class in April 2002.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No matter where you go, you are still here and still you.\u00a0\u00a0One of the illusions we often carry is, \u201cIt\u2019s not here, and this is not me.\u00a0\u00a0I need to get out of here, change myself or do something.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Like there is a big problem and we need to fix it.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s not true.\u00a0\u00a0When we really get ahold of ourselves, it\u2019s all here and it\u2019s all me.<\/p>\n

All of me is in direct relationship to God.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0\u201call me\u201d<\/em>\u00a0part isn\u2019t something isolated, or a\u00a0\u201cyou are not\u201d\u00a0<\/em>kind of thing. It is an\u00a0\u201call me\u201d\u00a0<\/em>that is all inclusive.\u00a0\u00a0If you are going to get lined up with how this is working, you better find out what acceptance is.<\/p>\n

Your relationship to acceptance will be your connection with what things are, instead of resistance, denial or the sense of \u201cI am not that.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0There may an attempt to hide, deny or attack where you say, \u201cI need to get rid of that because I am not that, and none of those things work.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0That leads to pain and frustration, like, \u201cI\u2019m not alive.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m dead.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Nothing too pretty.<\/p>\n

One way I relate to it, is there is a tone of who we are.\u00a0\u00a0When we really get with it, we have a sense of harmony, beauty and relaxation.\u00a0\u00a0The fight or struggle is over.\u00a0\u00a0There is receptivity towards things.\u00a0\u00a0When we really take them in, there is a converging where all things become beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0All things become who we are.\u00a0\u00a0Who we are, if we didn\u2019t realize this already, is beautiful.<\/p>\n

One of the things that is going to happen when you get with yourself is the experience of profound beauty.\u00a0\u00a0Not the kind like, \u201cMirror, mirror on the wall, who\u2019s the fairest of them all?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s an unnecessary pursuit.<\/p>\n

There will be change.\u00a0\u00a0Change is one of the constants here.\u00a0\u00a0That is a movement of Spirit and God.\u00a0\u00a0God in action is change.\u00a0\u00a0You can count on it, and you can count on it being on purpose.<\/p>\n

When things are on purpose, it has meaning.\u00a0\u00a0Does it have direct meaning to where you are and what you are doing?\u00a0\u00a0There are things related to you in each situation and circumstance so that your creatorship is engaged.\u00a0\u00a0It is not a random process where it doesn\u2019t matter and you can say, \u201cI\u2019ll do anything or I\u2019ll do nothing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0No.\u00a0\u00a0It matters.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0\u00a0Make your best choice.\u00a0\u00a0Take your best shot.\u00a0\u00a0But know this \u2013 none of those choices are anything less than perfect.\u00a0\u00a0You may say, \u201cThat\u2019s amazing! How could God possibly do that?\u201d<\/p>\n

God manages it so that it is all perfect.\u00a0\u00a0Nothing less than that is allowed.\u00a0\u00a0It is just not permitted.\u00a0\u00a0You can relax and let go.\u00a0\u00a0You may say, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what I choose because it will be part of perfection in some way, and I will be able to use that.\u00a0\u00a0It will serve me.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a game that is \u201con\u201d here, where you are being called forward in your abilities and creatorship to demonstrate that you do know and exercise who you are.\u00a0\u00a0That is how we progress. We move into ourselves by making choices that are aligned and true for our self.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very simple.\u00a0\u00a0What appears to you to be the best?\u00a0\u00a0Some people say, \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u00a0\u00a0It seems like it could be better than that.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Just try something.\u00a0\u00a0If you hold back or resist what is there for you, something else comes in and says, \u201cThis doesn\u2019t work.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Holding back or withholding yourself does not work.<\/p>\n

Make a choice.\u00a0\u00a0Do something.\u00a0\u00a0This is a doing level.\u00a0\u00a0Engage yourself.\u00a0\u00a0Get involved and learn from the experience.\u00a0\u00a0You will learn.\u00a0\u00a0There is no choice in that.\u00a0\u00a0That is part of the perfection. By your experience you will be gaining knowledge.\u00a0\u00a0You will be awakening and becoming a better co-creator with God.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

The Blessing of Connection \u2013 We are Family<\/p>\n

Dear Lord,<\/p>\n

We give thanks that you\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s good in every way.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0\u00a0Make your best choice.\u00a0\u00a0Take your best shot.\u00a0\u00a0But know this \u2013 none of those choices are anything less than perfect. – John Morton This article and blessing are excerpted from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":112911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-john-mortons-current-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}