{"id":15065,"date":"2020-05-21T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=15065"},"modified":"2020-05-23T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T17:36:35","slug":"being-a-walking-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/15065-being-a-walking-blessing","title":{"rendered":"Being a Walking Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>This article by John Morton was first published in the New Day Herald in March of 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In this world, we can all imagine how many are disturbed right now: upset, bothered, in excruciating pain, suffering loss, depression, and on and on.\u00a0 Because we are Light bearers, we are called into this, as a choice, right up to our ability to minister.\u00a0 People really need to know we care.<\/em> &#8211; John Morton<\/p>\n<p>By our nature, we are hallowed ground.\u00a0 We are blessed.\u00a0 We are the Lord, we are the Christ, we are the Traveler.\u00a0 We are one with God.<\/p>\n<p>We can shift our awareness so we are more conscious of this.\u00a0 We feel the vibration of that majesty.\u00a0 We can shift our awareness so that this is activated.\u00a0 Activated, so it is an energy field.\u00a0 Activated, so that when you walk into a room, you hallow its ground.<\/p>\n<p>Even a rock is blessed with the vibration of the divine in it.\u00a0 How activated is it?\u00a0 There are degrees.\u00a0 God is found in the most potent, concentrated form in a human being.\u00a0 That is because the Soul is active and individualized in the body.\u00a0 We are walking around with a very potent energy field.<\/p>\n<p>What we do with that energy field is what makes it really interesting.\u00a0 Are we awake?\u00a0 Are we doing things of a lower nature?\u00a0 Or, are we loving, caring, and bringing in the peace vibration?<\/p>\n<p>We could all do this more actively.\u00a0 We could do this all the time, \u201ctwenty-four seven,\u201d so with whatever you do, you bring a blessed nature.\u00a0 We can activate this through intention.<\/p>\n<p>In this world, we can all imagine how many are disturbed right now: upset, bothered, in excruciating pain, suffering loss, depression, and on and on.\u00a0 Because we are Light bearers, we are called into this, as a choice, right up to our ability to minister.\u00a0 People really need to know we care.\u00a0 Caring can just be a walk around the block, or maybe it\u2019s two blocks, yet with the dedication:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUse me, Lord.\u00a0 Right now.\u00a0 I\u2019m a battery.\u00a0 I\u2019m an energy field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And leave it open, so that if you are called into something, not just observing or sending Light, but actually called in to become involved, you do that.\u00a0 At times, that\u2019s how it works.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s going forward into the world, ministering.\u00a0 You talk to somebody.\u00a0 You touch somebody.\u00a0 You do something that is in response to their need.<\/p>\n<p>I find that it\u2019s very natural, very ordinary, as if the Lord was in the room: \u201cin the flesh,\u201d as Jesus spoke of it.\u00a0 How would we know that presence?\u00a0 It would be very much like us, and yet there is joy.\u00a0 There is peace.\u00a0 There\u2019s sweetness.\u00a0 There\u2019s ease in the nature.\u00a0 Some things would be amazing, because it starts transcending the lower nature.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not something weak.\u00a0 How would the Lord confront someone who is trying to bother or disturb, or afflict or destroy?\u00a0 How would the Lord respond to that?\u00a0 That is an excellent question, not necessarily easily answered &#8212; the response is in whatever would demonstrate the love of God.\u00a0 \u00a0Part of what we are doing here is learning how to stay in that presence, so that we don\u2019t lose our peace, even for a moment. \u00a0\u00a0We stay in the loving.<\/p>\n<p>My experience is loving often works in a very silent, invisible way without fanfare or recognition. \u00a0Loving is as close as your breath.\u00a0 If you are breathing, you activate loving as a living truth.<\/p>\n<p>We may need to release preconceived ideas that define loving.\u00a0 Even if there is a proven way of loving we still need to make room for loving to show up spontaneously.\u00a0 It makes itself known here and now.<\/p>\n<p>Consider that all of us are answering the call to be loving here and now.  What if the way that always works is to be living love?\u00a0 You\u2019re in that presence now.<\/p>\n<p>What if we were told that this world is, in fact, the Garden of Eden, and that we have the opportunity to replenish and restore it? What would we be doing, if we understood what that really means?\u00a0 I am speaking of the way Paradise would be flourishing in our midst.\u00a0 We would be in a kind of Paradise.\u00a0 Doing this would transform this world.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with us, as a \u201cportable paradise,\u201d which is another way of speaking of us, as a \u201cwalking blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n<p>WATCH A BLESSING WITH JOHN MORTON<br \/>\n\t\t<!-- Start of Brightcove Player -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; min-width: 0px; max-width: 640px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"padding-top: 56%; \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<video-js\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"6062017143001\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-video-id=\"6062017143001\" data-account=\"6057277728001\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-player=\"djAoIYFR\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-usage=\"cms:WordPress:6.9.1:2.8.4:javascript\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-embed=\"default\" class=\"video-js\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-application-id=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcontrols   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/video-js>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<script src=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/6057277728001\/djAoIYFR_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- End of Brightcove Player -->\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article by John Morton was first published in the New Day Herald in March of 2015. 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