{"id":546,"date":"2010-08-05T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T21:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=546"},"modified":"2016-06-07T15:17:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T22:17:25","slug":"its-your-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/546-its-your-turn","title":{"rendered":"It’s Your Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John
John Morton, DSS<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nEditor\u2019s note: This is a sharing John Morton<\/a> did at a PTS<\/a> workshop.<\/em><\/p>\n

Question<\/strong>: I want to break a barrier that I create with people whom I consider important and on a higher level. Why do I place myself in this lower position?<\/p>\n

John<\/strong>: You come to that position honestly and rightfully. There is a saying about water, that it seeks its own level. Yours is a relative position and represents psychic creation from the past and how you treated people. Now the tables have turned, the roles have been switched, so that the one who was inferior is now superior and the one who was superior is now inferior. It\u2019s a form of balancing: when something is up, something else is down; when something\u2019s in, something else is out; when something is on the right, something else is on the left. Everything moves into a relative position.<\/p>\n

The position Spirit takes is entirely integrated and yet still dynamic. So it has a dynamic diversity that stays correctly in harmony. Your challenge is to move into the harmony of this situation. It\u2019s almost like saying that it\u2019s your turn to be in a lower position and then honoring that. So if you\u2019re to serve, do that as best you can. And if you\u2019re to be served, you do that as best you can and allow yourself to be served. It\u2019s just taking the position you\u2019re in, which your life has assigned to you.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to look at the world and all the Souls who have embodied. First, consider that every Soul is magnificently perfect. Then consider that the embodiment has an amazing range in it. On the one end is extreme difficulty, and on the other end is tremendous blessing or great fortune in terms of the world. Is this about which Soul is more worthy? No. They are all worthy. So, what\u2019s going on here? Different conditions, different learning, different karma\u2014and it\u2019s all balanced and in perfect order. Each one of us has the challenge to realize this and not just to accept but to cooperate with what God has dealt us\u2014the circumstances of our own life\u2014and to use everything for upliftment. So, in actuality, there are no victims. It is simply circumstances that take place.<\/p>\n

The balancing action calls for great love. As the song goes, \u201cWhat the world needs now is love, sweet love.\u201d That always answers all the conditions. And it is also to have compassion that registers as our being our brother\u2019s keeper. If something is going on for my brother, it\u2019s going on for me. But my brother\u2019s condition is his condition, and I can\u2019t live his life. God set it up so I live my life and he must live his life. There is also karma if we attempt to live somebody else\u2019s life, to take over their karma for them. We don\u2019t get to do it, and we also get karma for trying to do it. That is God\u2019s way of saying, \u201cDon\u2019t mess with my works. How many times do I have to tell you it\u2019s perfect?\u201d<\/p>\n

Can you help? Sure. Sometimes it\u2019s to sit over there and be quiet and just be glad you can be a witness. And one day God may call upon you to be a witness, that you testify and say, \u201cI saw it. I experience that God worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

So be careful of challenging the conditions and of raising up causes in the name of injustice. Rather, you might just consider that there\u2019s a balancing action and an opportunity to serve what God is doing in the situation. And if the karma hits and there is a kind of hurt, you might consider that the karma needed to flow. And it also doesn\u2019t serve to add more hurt to the situation or to bring insult to the injury, such as telling someone how stupid they are or that they must really be bad or wrong to have something like that happen. That\u2019s out of place, and nobody really has that position. If there\u2019s any judgment, it\u2019s God\u2019s judgment, which is always rendered absolutely fairly, exactly, precisely as needed. No mistakes. No accidents.<\/p>\n

So often we\u2019re confounded and can\u2019t understand why something would happen\u2014what purpose it could possibly serve or what good could come from it. Those are great questions. And make sure you\u2019re there for the answers. I\u2019ve often seen people ask great questions and then fill themselves up with something really distracting and miss the answer. But those who are paying attention can benefit by observing God\u2019s ways, that good must always come from it. So observe. And consider that somehow there\u2019s a good purpose in how something is. Also consider if there\u2019s a place for you to contribute: \u201cIs this my level of concern?\u201d If the answer is no, leave it alone. That\u2019s often how angels work. They don\u2019t interfere with the action. They bring comfort, solace, a sense of peace, and understanding. They prompt the awareness with the teaching, and they often show resolution\u2014the way out or the way through.<\/p>\n

And always remember that in this world, we\u2019re not done. So if you have a sense that there is something else, there is. But it may not necessarily be in this situation. There is a rhythm in the way of God that allows us to rest and to gain our resourcefulness so we can understand we are processing and that there\u2019s nothing more to do right now because we\u2019re absorbing what has already been in place. And another opportunity will appear shortly.<\/p>\n

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

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