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:
Note: You can find The Flow as a written message in two parts at this link.
Thoughts of Awakening # 227
Within you
there is a place
where I am
and you are
and there is no difference between us.
This is a state of oneness,
where the two are joined,
and they are the same one.
There is no loss
in this state of awareness.
There is only more.
This is why I have asked you
to inquire deep and broad.
Within depth, there is expansion.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 225-231
- Read NTI 1 Timothy 1-6 & NTI 2 Timothy 1-2
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p215-220, Consciousness Peace ‘I’ and Just This.
- Exercise: Just notice your motive behind whatever you are doing. Are you “undressing” or trying to get something. If you are, then rest, accept and rest to “undress” whatever that is. Notice the motive of your spiritual practice.
