When we believe manifestation is reality, we are in darkness as opposed to light. (Ref: Day 226.) That could also be called ignorance, as opposed to knowledge. However, that doesn’t mean that manifestation should be disdained. In fact, the opposite is true. The purpose of manifestation is love (joy).

Yesterday, we saw that love loves the whole, not just selected parts or circumstances. Today’s reading guides us to love all of humanity exactly as it is, without asking any part of humanity to be different. The reading is reminiscent of Jesus’ last instructions to his disciples:

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
~ John 13: 34,35

Love loves. That is its nature. It does not select what it will and will not love. Selection and rejection are aspects of judgment, and judgment is the tool that was born out of a desire for something different from truth. (Ref: NTI Romans 2.)

To return to the realization of truth, be truth. Truth is love (joy).

Today’s reading offers a means by which you can genuinely love everyone just as they are. It asks you not to see people through the filter of personhood, which includes rules and expectations that define “good people” and “bad people,” “attractive people” and “unattractive people,” etcetera. Today’s reading recommends that you see all people as expressions of freedom. To see everything as an expression of freedom is to focus on a quality of consciousness. Therefore, to focus on everything as an expression of freedom is letting go of the filter of personhood. (Ref: Day 214.)

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This is one of my favorite Bible scriptures:

This is the day that the Lord has made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
~ Psalm 118:24

When my grandma died, I was asked to plan the funeral service with the minister. He asked if there was a Bible scripture that I wanted read during the service. I requested Psalm 118:24. He couldn’t see how that scripture fit in with a funeral service, so I agreed to share it during my portion of the service.

I opened my eulogy with Psalm 118:24, and then went on to talk about what a joy it was to have this woman as my grandma. I talked about my experience with grandma in full. I remembered her homemade cinnamon rolls, butter and cheese, which everyone loved, and I remembered that she trusted no one and said some pretty outrageous untrue things about other people, which wasn’t what everyone loved about her. I openly loved it all. I loved every aspect of the personality-body-mind that was my grandma. I said:

This is the Grandma that the Lord has made for me;
I rejoice, and I am glad she was my grandma.

Today’s reading says:

To love they Self is to love all things and all circumstances …

If life is the source and essence of all things, we can only love life as it is by loving all things as they are. If we reject any part of life, we aren’t loving it as it is, because life is not a part; it is whole.

This is why the Loving All Method is such an important practice. If we don’t love all, we separate and divide life through judgment. Separation is illusion. Life is one.

What if you cannot love everything as it is?

Today’s reading says:

To train yourself in godliness [loving all], be willing to rest the mind frequently. Be willing to step back and observe while remembering all that I have taught you. Remember that all circumstances come to you for your awakening, because you are the creative process that is God and awakening is the purpose you have chosen.

Here is a link to a 1-hour audio that is related to NTI 1 Timothy’s teaching about the personhood and about loving every aspect of the personhood as it is:

The Flow

Note: You can find The Flow as a written message in two parts at this link.

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As I write this, it is the day after euthanizing my dog, Jamie. Yesterday, after she was gone, I decided to go for a walk, which is what I would have done had she been alive and healthy. I went to one of her favorite places along the Arkansas River.

As I walked, I noticed lizards, grasshoppers, ants, birds, trees, the water, and the wind. I felt awed by the intensity of life. It was so full of itself—vibrantly present and immediate. I could not find death in life. I knew the dog, Jamie, had ended, but yet there was no loss or lack in life. There wasn’t a hole in life where Jamie had been. Life was perfectly intact.

As NTI John taught, life and light are one. NTI John 1 said:

The Light is in all men and with all men. The Light does not fade or wither, but the darkness that fills the sight of man does not see the Light or choose to know it. And so, the Light waits on welcome, that it may be known.

What is the “darkness that fills the sight of man”?

It is the belief that manifestation is reality. It is the belief that I am the person, that Jamie was the dog, that an ant is just an ant, etcetera.

On Day 212, we saw that it’s a mistake to see ourselves as merely manifestation. It is more correct to say we are the creative principle than it is to say we are the person. To say we are consciousness is closer to truth. To say we are life is truth. To say we are all of it (life, consciousness, creation and manifestation) is the essence of truth, since consciousness, creation and manifestation are made of life. Life is the source and essence of all things.

Today’s reading says:

Rest within the acceptance that the temporal being you seem to be is not the totality of your Beingness, and so it cannot be the truth of what you are.

The person that you appear to be is to be loved, just as Jamie was to be loved, but the person is a temporary expression occurring through the creative principle. You are much more than that.

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