‘In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.’

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

‘ A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe;

if you hold it close enough to your eye.

~ Samuel Grafton

‘The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.’

~ Bob Hawke

‘What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?’

~ Jesus, Matthew 16:26a

My friend Brian, sent me this

?’I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

?~ 1 John 5:13

‘The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name.

~ Luke 24:46-47

?’We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

?~ Romans 6:9

?’I am the resurrection and the life, Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.

Do you believe this?

?~?Jesus, in John 11:25-26

The real reason to celebrate Easter I have come to understand,

??Is Jesus Christ.

?Alive

Understanding what has happened and what this means, is the most wonderful discovery of all.

?You are invited to join with me in Rejoicing in this hope beyond hope that Jesus has given us beyond the grave ~

?By receiving in faith His message to all who would believe.

?We are the reason that He set His glory aside and took on a human body to walk amongst us so He could give His life in return for ours ~

He paid the debt owed by every single person in full.

What a Blessing.

??InJoying this day as a new creation in Christ!!!

Because He is Alive!!! ~

?Julia

?Copyright ? 2008 – 2012 You-Nique-By-Design.com

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?’God exists whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.’

?~ Robert A. Laidlaw

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?’Relativism says there are no absolutes. Absolutely no absolutes. Absolutism says there are some absolutes. At least one absolute.’

~ Peter Kreeft

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‘Humanism or atheism are a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.’

?~ William Murray

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‘Man is certainly crazy. He cannot make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozens.’

~ Michel de Montaigne, from Essays

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?’The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.’

?~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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Absolutes, something in these postmodern times that has gone completely out the window.

So what does this mean?

?It means that a postmodern mind, is incapable of grasping the idea of God.

Somehow, people are going to have to reach, to stretch their minds to this possibility, open their minds to meeting this God in ways unlike before. We have to get over the hurdle of unbelief first. This means that we must be prepared to accept the source of new information beyond what we currently base our source of information upon, nature and our reason.

Moving beyond these things into a source of knowledge of the heart, which is called faith.

?There is a huge gap of difference of what my truth is and what God’s truth is. I’ve been growing in understanding about this since my encounter with Christ Jesus last year.

?Yesterday, I had a conversation with a young taxi driver named Paul. He said our human purpose is that, ‘We are born to die.’ And I asked him, ‘Why do we die Paul?’

?He had no answer. His reasoning had no meaning to support it. ‘We die because dying is what we do’, he said. Does this makes sense?

He also said that he believed that everything is just energy. So much new age thinking going on but no meaning to it in all honesty and in our conversation, he could not give any reason as to why he believed what he believed. It was a completely subjective foundation with no objective reasoning.

?As we parted ways, he said, ‘I could have this conversation with you for hours.’ And so I said, ‘Until next time Paul.’

?Subjective reasoning is where we are right now, and to be able to grasp the idea of God, we must look for ideas that are unlike the norm, outside the normal way of thinking we have become use to. The norm now is ‘to each his own’ and whatever belief makes you happy or feels good. This leaves no room for anything beyond our current mode of viewing life, because our perspective is not reaching beyond our own way of thinking. There is nothing greater we are reaching for.

?Oh but there is Julia. Really? I am listening. Well, there’s Spirit. There is spirit and all this is illusion. How can we know what illusion is if we have nothing beyond our own personal experience to define or measure it by? What are we basing this thought that all is illusion upon?

?What I am saying is this, I am meeting many many people who find no purpose or meaning in life, I am observing that many of the younger generation is having serious trouble with personal relationships, they are writing about this because they so want to have social interaction with others, to experience friendships, but don’t know how to have them!

?And in the same vein, I am reading that we are arriving into nirvana through human means.

Something is seriously amiss here!

?Oh but only focus on the positive and the negative will ‘disappear’. I am honestly making fun of myself here people, because I use to really think this way. What this thinking has done in my honest opinion, is made us cold hearted to the sufferings of others around us. ?We tend to leave people to suffer on their own so as to not bring our ‘energy’ down.

?Our future generations right now, have more technological savvy then all other preceding generations, yet many of these younger’s don’t know how to even ride a bike! Technology has been found to remove the cognitive abilities and skills in our younger generations, not to mention making them inept in what is known as ‘soft skills’. Lacking morals and values and meaning that can only be obtained in having one on one personal relationships.

?We are in a sense, re-building the Tower of Babel to reach into the heavens to become like God, without heart. Structure without purpose!

?How can this be?

?Well, I am going to share here what the benefits of reading the Bible has done for myself and millions of others, unlike any other religious or spiritual write up has or can do for us. We must stretch our minds to go beyond what our current experience is or we are closed to growth. We refuse to accept that something or anything can be any different than the way we see it. A shared human experience by the way.

?Mankind’s nature does not seek God of our own volition. We turn away and seek to doing things our own way and we look every where else to satisfy the longings of our spirit and souls, while we make rules to deny our flesh as being the way to ‘enlightenment’, and we do these things by using fleshly ways to practice! To deny our self of say food, does not make us more spiritual nor righteous than another. Once we do these things, we find that we still have temptations to overcome everyday. So, it has not removed us from temptations nor has given us the ability to overcome them.

Our generation is evidence to this fact from all the broken relationships we all have been touched by in our lives and others around us who share this planet with us. It is global in scale now, that most people will not be partnered for a lifetime. We’ve lost our ability to do long term living, and taken up an ‘easy come, easy go’ way of living and we are paying for it.

?Some of the most ‘spiritual’ people I have met and known have serious issues with sexual lust, and they use other means to defer -draw their own and others attention away from this tendency, so they won’t have to deal with being held accountable for their actions, nor will they have to be called out on their very un-spiritual behavior. These ones are usually not accountable to anyone!

?What does this mean? It means they are missing the mark. What is this mark so many speak of?

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What does believing in God do for mankind? It makes us accountable. It gives us a greater idea of the responsibility we have been given. Which means we have a purpose, which gives us value, and with value and purpose, comes meaning to our life.

?With God all things are possible means, that it is God Who gives us the ability to be responsible for the way we live our lives and how we live our lives is determined by what or Whom we serve or are accountable to.

?Mankind is either a slave to his weaknesses or a servant to God. To be a bond servant, means to willing give yourself, your time, your all to God. A slave has been sold, a bond servant willingly gives their service to another out of loyalty that is based upon their ability out of being free to choose to do so, not because of having to.

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I once lived from an attitude that when I worked with others, I noticed that there were people who were lazy by attitude; just do what is asked and no more. Always wanting to get off work early and leave the details to someone else, yet these were the ones who complained the most about not having any money! Know anyone like this?

?Then, we have the over achievers, the workaholics, who expect everyone else to sign their contract in blood. A mentality that the company owns you. Still a slave.

?My attitude was focused on an end of the earth perspective. In other words, I was making what was happening all around me, the guide of my behavior. I was a slave to the rat race mentality, which leads to doing anything for the wrong reasons and with a wrong attitude. When I experienced my understanding being opened to God’s existence, my sense of responsibility shifted. I no longer was working for a human like myself, I was now willing to serve God and so my ‘work’ became a service towards God from my heart being changed by my mind being opened to letting God in as my Creator, and the benefits of my newly found purpose, is coming from God’s set of values and meaning that has been given to me in my life being lived here.

?So what does missing the mark really mean?

?What does the fall of Adam-Mankind mean?

We enjoy playing games and games have presuppositions or rules. It’s what makes a game, a worthwhile activity. The rules of the game reveal how to play the game and what the purpose or meaning of playing the game is. Otherwise what is the purpose of playing a game without any guidelines or rules to it, especially when it is a game to be played with others?

?Gone is the presupposition of man in his original Being-Ontology, as the created one who has a Creator. Having the idea of a Creator is what underlies the holiness (wholeness) of our character. Where is holiness in these postmodern times? There is no real sense of it. Do you see it in what you watch on tv, or read about in articles and magazines or what is being taught in schools or spoken of in conversation, are you hearing about it in church or spiritual circles? How can we know what holiness is if we have removed the Nature of Holiness in there being a Creator Who is Holy, Who calls us to live in His likeness and have?

To be whole as He is whole?

How can we know what is perfect when we have removed the standard of Perfection?

How can we know what this likeness means when we remove the Creator whose likeness we are created from, far from our minds and hearts?

?Man is fallen in his nature=originally designed pattern. The pattern that was created in mankind was disfigured. From this space in time, mankind began to have children from this broken, altered, disfigured pattern. We still have the image of God in us, yet now, we also have the broken pattern which is the evil we are able to see in our fellow human beings throughout our history here. Evil is what is UnHoly, impurity, that which is not Whole. Whatever is not Holy is un-Holy.

?What is the broken pattern of mankind? At this time, when Adam and Eve chose to listen to the thought that they could become like God, because they changed the pattern of Being created by Creator GOD, into looking to them self as the reference point for meaning, instead of God being the reason of their existence, losing the ability and the authority to rule the earth as vice regents or kings and priests of God. Unable to rule the earth, because they gave their dominion over to the usurper of the deed of this domain, removing God from themselves as The Source of their breath, life and being.

?The Bible speaks to us about meaning, morals and purpose. The Bible explains God’s answers to our problems as defining what the problem?is and the answer.

God reasons with our hearts, which is known as the seat of our intellect. Our ability to reason comes from God.

?And until we stretch our minds to accept that we are created by a Creator, then we will not be freed from the never-ending cycles of dysfunctional patterns that are the make-up of our fallen humanity. All the good deeds, are the evidence that we were created by an Intelligent Being who is loving, compassionate, knowing right from wrong. The evil we see is evidence that we chose to turn towards our self as being the reference point of meaning and away from God’s Holy Nature, and that we attempt to justify or cover over any wrong doing that we have committed is evidence of our ancestors earlier beginnings and speaks of what happened to us as the now blemished pattern of ?human being.

?For we in this idea, know well how to justify our evil doing as being right in our eyes, we choose our level of comfort this way, so we won’t have to change or be accountable for our actions when we decide we are not accountable to anyone, especially to God. If you really believe this is the way it is, and live in agreeing with the idea of to each their own, then there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to ever be angry at another’s treatment of you, nor happy either.

?For there is no guidelines to define what is considered morally right or wrong. Right?

Emotions are meaningless to have when we think this way, because we are removing any standard of morals to be able to evaluate that what another has done is right or wrong. It’s when we feel that we have been wronged, that the ‘truth’ of what we really believe rises to the surface regarding moral absolutes. We find that we really do have a sense of what ?is right and wrong inside of us, and our emotions quite naturally reveal our sense of what our moral absolutes are…it’s when out moral boundaries are crossed that we are able to define our sense of right and wrong…

An inner compass goes off…

?I did this because,?well you see…They cheated on me, so I cheated on them back. They hurt me, so I hurt them back. They said something I didn’t like, so I cut them off. I’ll get back at you, I’ll wait until the perfect moment presents itself, and just when they least expect it, thinking it is long forgotten and then …wham!

??This is mankind’s sense of justice, but not God’s.

?What is happening right now, is the demoralization of the human race, we are losing our worth and value by there being no God Who gives us moral absolutes. And yet, I see many who are showing outrage by the way they are being treated, while also proclaiming to be people of open mindedness, and not ‘judgmental’ of others behavior at all. This idea seems to work fine until someone’s behavior affects them personally!

?We are a very confused generation…

Just something to consider in these postmodern days as you may ponder why what you think is real yet doesn’t seem to really be working for you in your favor… As you go about trying to do good deeds while thinking only positive thoughts and are not getting the results you desire or expected to see, perhaps to the point of giving up and taking on the mentality, ‘If you can’t beat them, join them.’

?Feeling your heart hardening in protecting it from further damage…and the coldness begins to set in…

?When mankind fell, he handed the deed of the earth over to The Usurper, the Destroyer, The Father of All Lies and Illusion, The Deceiver, as Jesus called him. What this means as I read the Bible is that this world is covered over by a false pattern, an image of the Real World as God created it to be. And the angels of deception, holding up the four corners of the earth, the east, west, north, and south , are keeping us under the canopy of the lie of our being sold under slavery to keep the wheel running we are on so that we never break free and reach for God…

Because we are reminded that we gave up on the idea of God a long time ago…

What I came to understand is, we cannot fix the old pattern, it takes Someone breaking the hold and mold of the old pattern and creating a completely newly fashioned Pattern in order for us to be set free.

?”Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. ~ Romans 12:2

?This is what Jesus Christ came and did for His damaged creation. He being our Creator, planned to step into this?dysfunctional?creation for us as His creation, and offer to us the ability to become made into a New Pattern.

He is the New Pattern Modeled for us.

?And we as mankind are not known for liking to change our old and use to doing things ways, we have become quite comfortable in our usual way of looking to our self as the reference point in finding meaning in our lives.

?This is subjective reasoning.

?Looking at the state of this world right now and how it was fifty to sixty years ago, when values and morals and purpose were not the focus of articles so much because they were a way of life, our grand parents and great grand parents still lived in a time when believing in God was more norm than not, and now that we tossed this idea of a Creator we are accountable to, out of the window…

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?Objective reasoning is opening up our minds and our hearts to the possibility that there is Someone Greater beyond our current level of perception that exists. Just because we don’t currently believe that God exists, does not make it true that God does not exist.

?Now, I ask you to find out for yourself, if this is so and be open to changing your mind about turning your perspective around, from your idea of there being nothing more than you, by making yourself God, to there being a God who created you and will give you a purpose, with meaning and morals to live by.

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Will your life be changed?

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Absolutely.

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InJoy this day,

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Opened to having your mind stretched into accepting the possibility of God’s existence, so that it reaches into your heart.

?May you be willing to receive this new information ~

If you are, you will find your true value and worth, by being given the ability to accept in faith, the ability of God to make you into a new creation, fashioned after His likeness and image, like it was suppose to be the first time.

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InJoy this day,

?May your heart warm to?Knowing God exists,

It will set you free from having to keep on looking into yourself for the reason that you exist.

?God gives us that reason, when we come to Him in faith.

In Truth.

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Many Blessings,

?To your well-being,

What is impossible for man, is possible with God ~

I believe in God.

?In the Love of Jesus Christ,

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Julia

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Copyright ? 2008 – 2012 You-Nique-By-Design.com

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Quotes from Proof That God Exists.com

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?May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit?

~ Romans 15:13?

InJoy this day ~

Walking side by side in communion with The Tenderer of Our Soul’s Potential Garden ~

Many Blessings in the Love and Spirit of Christ,

?Julia

Copyright ? 2008 – 2012 You-Nique-By-Design.com

Photo image by Julia

Quotes courtesy of quotegarden.com

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?Spiritual victory is not something you earn – it is something you accept. The Christian life is not so much about what you have done – it’s about what Christ has done. It’s not so much about how strong you are – it’s about how strong God is.?

?~ Alan D. Wright, Lover of My Soul: Delighting in God’s Passionate Love

‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.?

~ Jesus, Mark 12:30

To live in intimate relationship with God, Who made it ‘believable’ for us to do so, by taking on a name that we ourselves having names, could relate with. Not as some impersonal ‘Someone’ out there somewhere, somewhere we have never been nor seen…?

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‘For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things?because the individual man?refracts and discolors the light of nature.’

~ Francis Bacon

“Our lives shouldn’t be based on what can’t be doubted, but on what we have the best reasons to believe. All other ways lead to insanity.”

~ J. Budziszewski

I wrote about what follows in the forums where I participate, regarding discussions that relate to spiritual topics and to consider whether we tend to use our objective or subjective reasoning abilities when discussing matters of a spiritual nature. Are we able to use our objective (unbiased) reasoning to come to the truth in spiritual matters? Or does the use of our subjective (personal) ?reasoning seem to keep us from ever being able to come to the truth of the matter? Is there a way to find The Way for our souls eternal resting place?

What is Your Reasoning Style?

Have you ever evaluated your reasoning style? Is it more objective or subjective? Come and see, take a look with me, as I have come to clearly see the way mine has most prominently?been?for many years, and now, I am uncovering my ability to use both ways in making different decisions in my life.

We are being overwhelmed daily with so much information grabbing for our attention, and we have the ablility within our self to take the responsibility to create order from within all this informational chaos of our modern day. Our ability to make use of our objective reasoning, helps us to define what the repeatable patterns outside and apart from our self are, assisting us in being able to sort through it all and understand what is true, from what could possibly be true, to being able to identify what is absolutely untrue or false.

We have to have a firm grasp on what defines objective and subjective reasoning, especially in these days when so many are buying into the idea that ‘truth is subjective or relative’ as we diversely?subjugate?truth with the?cliche?of ?’my truth and your truth’ which has led many people to accepting the idea that truth is an illusion. A sign of our times…and one that does not lead us in the direction of agreement, it leads instead to seven billion disagreements.

Is there level ground to be found? A reason to agree and not disagree?

An objective reason is completely unbiased, because it is untouched by any of our previous personal experiences, tastes, or preferences. It is outside the sphere of our personal experience, yet this does not mean it does not exist. An objective reason is also verifiable by concrete facts, including three or more agreed witnesses, and/or figures that support the person’s statement. Whether we exist or not, an objective reason still exists, as it is independent of whether we believe it is true or not, so it is not dependent upon our view point in order to exist.

A subjective reason on the other hand, has been colored over by the lens of our uniquely individual character based upon being the person who is doing the speaking or writing, and often has a basis in reality but reflects our personal perspective of how we view reality. Our reality can hide over reality as I was saying above.

Subjective reason is a view point that cannot be verified by using concrete facts and figures to support our statement, although sometimes there may be a witness that agrees with a particular statement we make. It is colored by our own ?previous personal experiences, tastes and preferences and ceases to exist when we do.

What Is the Purpose for Using Our Objective and Subjective Reasoning?

?They are both tools that affects the way we make the decisions in our life, and each way of reasoning serves their purpose in our decision making process quite differently. To make a solidly wise choice, it is essential to use the appropriate method of reasoning to be able to make a wise, solid, or good choice about something that may be at high risk, like relating to our physical health and well-being, and as above so below, relates to decisions we make that pertains to our spiritual well-being as well.

Objective reasoning is important to use when making any kind of a rational decision like with making the choice in buying a house or a car, or whether to make a change in our careers or not, basically when something will come with a high cost if something is overlooked and there is an error. Objective reasoning is the better choice when making a high risk decision because of how the decision will have an impact upon our life and possibly impact those around us. We are looking both ways before crossing the street. Weighing carefully our options because the quality of our life depends on it.

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Subjective reasoning is useful when nothing of real importance is at stake in our decision making process. Like what flavor of tea we will be drinking at a restaurant or choosing our meal. It’s based purely on what appeals to us as an individual based upon our own personal preferences and not necessarily fact based, and using our subjective reasoning has nothing to do with others choices, unless of course we allow others subjective reasoning to sway our own. It’s used when a decision in our life is not a life threatening or life changing decision.

When we hold?our subjective view as? being?the?basis for everyone else’s view of ?life, we are projecting our view onto all others in our life, making our view true for all others, by believing what is true for me is equally true for everyone else, even when there is nothing to substantiate this as being true or not, it’s not concrete, it’s subjective. ?We tend to say this is being objective when we are in reality, truthfully being subjective.

This is why it is important to define the difference and purpose between the two kinds of reasoning. Which one is honestly your most particular point of view of life reasoning style and how will it determine the outcome of your decision? Is it possible that we might be wrong about our point of view? Can we be objective with our self and others, in order to understand why another believes what they do, or we do for that matter? The disagreements we have are opportunities to validate or invalidate our opinions or that of another, for making a wise choice, not to prove someone wrong. We might be the one who is wrong.

Objective reasoning is very beneficial when having discussions with others especially new acquaintances, in order to keep our focus on the goal or the discussion on topic, and not by what is coloring our reasoning with what appeals to us, thus triggering an emotionally based response that can turn a discussion into an argument. Our subjective reasoning, is laden with our emotions and when having a discussion, especially in regards to a topic with a difficult nature, it calls for being based upon making a rational decision and not an irrational one.

I say this only because I recognize this in myself. And what is ironic, is that I was tested as being a highly logical person! And I have allowed my subjective reasoning to over rule this fact many times in my life! So for years, I kept ignoring my logical side and ran with my subjective side full stream. What I understand much more clearly now about myself, is that I can make good use of both, it’s just knowing when it’s the proper time to use them and which one to use. The right tool for the right ‘job’.

It doesn’t mean there are no facts in subjective reasoning, it’s just more difficult to define what they are, because they are all in our own minds and based upon our own past experiences, and our own emotions are a factor when sharing from our own subjective point of view or perspective. And no one else can feel or think the same way as we do.

?’Objective reason deals with universal truths that dictate that an action is either right or wrong…Under subjective reason, concepts lose their meaning. All concepts must be strictly functional to be reasonable.’

~ Max Horkheimer

Our objective reasoning allows us to use facts that are concrete and tangible to find level ground, and the way to reach agreement. It is unbiased when what we are pointing to can also be validated by others outside of our own minds view point. As in 2+2=4. It’s the same equation whether we are an American, Canadian, Japanese, English, African or are flying in an air plane or sailing a boat. It’s based upon our objective reasoning.

Are You Objective or Subjective When Discussing Spiritual Matters?

When speaking of all kinds of things of a spiritual nature. It’s interesting that whenever anything is mentioned about Jesus and/or God, we tend to leave objective reasoning out and instead out comes our subjective reasoning! Well…in speaking of spiritual topics, we can no more leave Jesus or God out of the spiritual topic equation any more than we can leave evolution or creationism out of scientific topics. To do so leaves very large gaps in the information being presented as incomplete.

In order for all to observe and be able to make a rational objective decision, the discussion interestingly seems to switch from being objective to easily being from our subjective reasoning, whenever it comes to speaking of Jesus or God especially, and what they have to say about any topic that relates to us. We lose our objective reasoning abilities within having any discussion about Jesus or God in moments it seems…

Interesting…

Something about bringing these two into a discussion seems to bring out the strongest emotional responses in us… It seems that as irritating as these two are to many, they are not easy to ignore.

In making a decision regarding the destination of our souls it would seem to be objective reasoning is the most reasonable choice, and our decision once objectively made, can be experienced subjectively as well. As an example,?I will use the Biblical idea that mankind is made in the image and likeness of God. This is an objective statement. It applies to all mankind, both men and women, all races and cultures, and exists independent of our own personal opinion. ?What we may think about this subjectively, doesn’t change the unbiased statement. It doesn’t change because it continues to exist outside of our personal opinion, whether we believe this or not, ?won’t change the fact of this being a true statement. Is it possible that this idea may possibly be true outside of our personal opinion, as to whether we believe it does or not?

How each one of us chooses to perceive this statement as being true to us, ?is evidenced by the way we choose to live based upon whether or not we apply this statement in how we relate with all people.

Are we objective (unbiased) or subjective (personal tastes and preferences) in how we treat other people?

As equals or only people I like are treated as equals and the rest well…

The decisions we make regarding the destination of our souls is no different than making a rational decision about our health as being vital to our well-being, since our choices will affect our ability to experience a certain quality of life, or can lead us down the road to our death.

Making a rational decision about the destination of our souls is necessary because we are speaking here of where our souls are going to be spending its eternity, and considering the scope of eternity as being outside of the sphere of time, it may be the most important decision we ever make for ourselves, for this life seems like a vapor when we consider what it can mean by an eternity. It’s possible to choose wisely. It is possible to create order within all this chaos of information bombarding us daily, by finding the patterns that will be helpful for us to understand what is true, what could possibly be true, and what is outrightly false or untrue.

Objective Questions To Ask About Any Spiritual Leader or Guides Entrusted With Our Souls Destination?

How can we do this objectively? Objective statements (unbiased) can be asked of?anyone who claims to be a Spiritual leader or guide, whose claims will also be verified by outside of?them-self?third parties. Subjective statements may not always be true as they are colored by the personal opinion (biased) of the person making the statement them self.

These objective questions can be asked by anyone when looking to validate making a choice of who to be able to entrust with the final destination of our soul for all of eternity. The validity of a person’s statement is considered reliable and true when able to be agreed upon by three or more witnesses usually by those who have had some intimate or personal relationship with a person, in person, and also can include outside (of the relationship) witnesses.

Having had an unexpected encounter with Jesus Christ last year that has changed my life, I will use Him as my example here of testing His ability to be entrusted with my soul’s eternal destination by asking some objective questions about Him.

Is He willing to hold himself personally accountable by His own statement, of being responsible to keep His Word to me at all times?

Is He willing to show Himself faithful to maintain his responsibility in the keeping of my souls well being?

Is He involved in caring for my souls safety to make sure my soul reaches His specifically promised eternal destination as being the best place for my soul to find its find rest?

What insurance does He give me that my soul will indeed reach Heaven as being the place He defines is my souls’ resting place if I entrust my soul to His keeping ?

What do those who have known Him personally have to say about Him from seeing him at all different times and in all kinds of circumstances?

Does he have any double standards or any contradictions in himself or his life?

What’s it like to live with Him on a daily basis?

Does His words align with his behavior and actions all of the time, some of the time or not really?

How does He handle those who disagree with Him?

Where is He receiving His direction from regarding being able to qualify Himself as the way for all of mankind to reach their eternal destination?

What stands out about Him that would give evidence to validate that he is who he says he is?

Is there anything that separates him from all the rest who claim to also be the way?

What assurance if any does He give and how is he willing to back it up in action that shows that I can trust Him explicitly with the eternal destination, the final place of rest for my soul?

Is there any evidence in being able to validate the claims He makes as being 100% verifiable true?

Are there at least three or more witnesses that can validate that His claims are true?

Can He give me a 100% guarantee of knowing that His directional guidance is without a doubt the most accurate one?

Is He familiar with the place He is leading me to? Has He ever been there personally?

Does my subjective reasoning conflict with my objective reasoning regarding Him? Or do they both agree about this person? Which reason disagrees if there is conflict?

Have I genuinely looked into what He has to say?for myself, or is my opinion of him formed by what others around me have said based upon their own subjective opinions about Him?

What are the consequences (if any) of not following his guidance?

If there are any consequences, do they agree with or contrast with other ways and possibilities of my soul being able to reach my eternal destination?

What do other ways say about there being any consequences (if any) in not following their way to reach my soul’s eternal destination?

If His way is not the one true way yet, I follow it, what are the consequences (if any) of my soul’s eternal destiny by living my life in following his way, if His way is the wrong way?

If other ways are not the one true way yet I follow them, what are the consequences (if any) of my souls eternal destiny in following after these other ways, if they are the wrong way?

Is It Possible God May Exist Out Side Our Subjective Reality?

Can we be objective about these questions asked? Yes, I genuinely believe we are capable of being unbiased yet are we willing to be unbiased? Can we reason and decide without involving our emotions in answering these questions? If emotions arise then we are using our subjective reasoning in answering objective questions that relate to the eternal destination of our soul. This doesn’t make us bad, just unable to be objective when it comes to our questions about God. Each and everyone of us tends to get emotional when we are speaking of God. Whether we agree or disagree.

And this tells me something. That God is personal. Because we take God personally as all of us do. It is literally impossible not to be affected in someway in speaking of things that relate with there being a God, or even?Jesus for that matter.

God hasn’t gone away. Even atheists really believe in God deep down inside when you think about it, even if they never admit this until their death. Because they fight so hard against there being a God (not always outwardly) and anything having to do with God and they challenge those who believe in a God as much as they are challenged by people who believe in God. Why so much effort spent upon something or Someone Who does not exist? Why not focus on putting their efforts into something else that they say they?do?believe in? I am genuinely asking about this. And to say to stop the nonsense, is nonsense.

Can We Be Objective About God, Our Self and Others?

Love is not possible without forgiveness. And forgiveness begins with accepting it for our self. And we have to know ourself in an unbiased-objective way in order to be able to forgive our self and others, and this means we are very capable of harboring unforgiveness towards ourself and others, but ultimately it is towards God, even when hidden by denial. And we have to have a basis for knowing our self objectively from outside of our own personal bias.

Being unbiased about our self comes from someone objectively stating what they see in us without subjecting their personal emotions into their objective, by being ‘outside’ of ourself. While we have the ability to reason objectively, it seems we are not very good with applying this kind of reasoning with our self and others. We tend to favor our subjective reasoning when it comes to our self and others.

We speak of having a Love that is unconditional to draw out from within our self, yet we deny the very Source that gives it. Unconditional love isn’t a love based upon emotion, because emotions come from subjective reasoning. It’s a Love by Will, Freewill. It is Love choosing to Love by doing what is best for the object(ive) of God’s love and not based upon emotions or any other conditions, nor expectations of receiving anything in return, and this is simply not possible without being able to be objective of our self and with others. Otherwise our feelings get hurt when we feel like we are not being responded to and we take it personally, it has become subjective.

Something to Consider Objectively and Experience Subjectively?

What we also seem to forget about is that Love is not the only truth about God’s nature. It is written that God is also Holy and Just in His nature. And one part of God can’t deny the other or God cannot claim to be a Perfect Complete Being, a Fully Whole Being. This would describing a partial being.

It is not possible to know ourself objectively because we base our whole view of our life subjectively from within our self, tucked within the immaterial part of our self, where no one else like us can see. So to answer these questions I posted above, it would seem to be a logical choice to consider, that we are not just of a physical makeup that can be seen in body only, with some able to be hidden deep inside emotions tossed in for good measure.

It is a good possibility that we might just be triune in nature. Body, (heart)Soul(mind), spirit. It is written that we are made in the likeness of God. Making it also a possibility that God is very possibly a Triune Being in essence.

?And what I have been learning about what God has to say about us in reading the Bible again after a 16 year sabbatical, is that Jesus validated being Love’s Logic by being willing to Incarnate on earth as the Expressed Image of God in a body. Objectively view Him by the way He lived His life as was shared by three or more witnesses, actually quite a lot more but who is keeping count past three, four plus… He spoke with authority being the physical embodiment of The Logos, The Living Word of God, ?and came to establish the way God’s view is of us in speaking to us of this truth and reality:

That we are made in the image of God, and are endowed with such infinite worth and value, revealed by the mystery of all time, in that God ‘squished’ His Infinite Self into the limitations of a human body, in order to have a relationship with us, due to the infinite worth and value He holds of us, in giving us freewill to make moral choices.

?The Missing Link?

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The ability to love and reason with one another comes from healing our relationship with God first, in order to be perfect or complete, fully furnished, whole as a being. And God’s Word is known as The Logos (Reason) or Word of God, Who is Jesus, who is The Lover of our souls. You can witness it for yourself in reading the Bible in the Book of John.

As I observe these ideas of practicing deep breathing, yoga, meditation, explaining right brain-left brain, etc…I see that these are other ways we are willing to explore as a spiritual healing practice, or we are seeking to understand and explore the spiritual side of our nature, yet these ways all turn our attention to being inside and subjectively focused, as being ways of looking specifically for God who exists outside of our reality in order to be able to remain unbiased in His unconditional love for each one of us.

We have possibly been looking for God in all the wrong places.

I notice how these practices are being used as ways that are considered helpful to the relieving of stress or releasing of unforgiveness, in order to give us more compassion and love, and I am struck by the clarity of seeing mankind’s need to have spiritual fulfillment and nurturing, to be fed spiritually in some way. It is an intimate necessity in us to have this spiritual hunger met and filled. I’m not saying these things will not help people. They just don’t deal with the root cause of what is causing the need ?in us to look for other ways to practice spirituality when we are leaving God out of our equation.

A part of our triune nature is missing and we know this deep down inside.

This makes the third need we all have, as remaining incomplete-not fully filled in us, aside from meeting our body’s needs, our soul’s needs for being able to nurture our desire to feel and use our minds to reason or not, we also need a spiritual filling for our insatiable hunger that nothing else seems to fill. We have an innate need for God that only He can fill, while we continue to seek and live as though He is not real or accessible.

…the ways of God are way past finding out, and who can know Him intimately?

Long yes, but totally at peace in the writing of this, mm hmm, it is subjective from using experiences from my own life journey from being on this long road of looking everywhere else to find the right way to fill my spiritual hunger and I have finally found Him. I am fed by a Living God through relationship with Him.

May this speak to the soul who is still spiritually hungering and really looking for a way to logically and objectively be able to find the right direction for your soul’s resting place and then be able to finally find this rest, relax and enjoy the ride with a peaceful assurance, for you will know you are on your way and heading in the right direction that is leading you to Heaven, the final resting place for your soul for all eternity, because you know the One who has gone ahead before you, to prepare a place for you to live with Him.

This is the way Jesus spoke of Himself as being The Way. His Way.

And there were witnesses who validated what He said, after not believing it themselves at first.

You can find your way to The Way. I know you can. By using Love’s Logic in working together, and not by leaving one out and leaning only to one side. This leads to being imbalanced. It has taken me many year’s to understand this. Thank God for the gift of both when they work together, we gain deeper understanding on how to use the tools in the right way and much more effectively.

My life when I consider eternity, is just beginning and wow, my mother was prophetic again, in saying, ‘Lisa, in Japan, people believe and say, that life begins at 50′. Hon to Yo! Kahsan! It really does and I am a witness to this statement and loving it. ?Thank you mom, I love you in my memory always.

In the Love of Christ for you all,

Sharing many blessings for your well being in finding your souls eternal resting place.

InJoy this day being open to looking at Love’s Logic objectively?by?considering His Way as The Way to Heaven,

?“We love him because he first loved us.” ~ 1 John 4:19

Love, Grace and Peace in the Spirit of Christ,

Julia

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Blessed is The season which engages the whole world in a Conspiracy of love.

?~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

?PEACE IS . . .

?~ gazing at the stars with the knowledge that you know their Creator.

?~ closing your eyes in sleep without fear of tomorrow.

?~ the stillness in your heart when trouble swirls around you.

?~ a quiet mind in a raging world.

?~ Unknown

?’Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.’

?~ George F. McDougall

?’The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God.’

?~ C.S.Lewis (Mere Christianity)

?’The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when he gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son.’

-~ Robert Flatt

?’This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.’

?-~ Frank McKibben

God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith;

the warmth of Christmas, which is love;

the radiance of Christmas, which is purity;

the righteousness of Christmas, which is justice;

the belief in Christmas, which is truth;

the all of Christmas, which is Christ.

?~ Wilda English

?’Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship.’

?~ Dr. Thieme

?’Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. ?It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.’

?~ William Parks

?’The greatest gift you will ever receive will never be found under a Christmas tree. It is far too valuable to be stored in any other place but in the depths of your heart.’

?~ Anonymous

?’Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience.’

?~ Handel Brown

?’The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the Spirit of Christ is supernatural. The spirit of Christmas is a human product; the Spirit of Christ is a divine person. That makes all the difference in the world.’

?~ Stuart Briscoe

?’What self denial! What self abasement! What self emptying! He, whom no infinitudes can hold, is contained within infant?s age, and infant?s form. Can it be, that the great ?I AM THAT I AM? shrinks into our flesh?’

?~ Henry Law

??I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.??

~ Charles Dickens

?Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.??

~ Christina G. Rossetti

?Tis the Season…this time I am sharing the ‘other’ reason for celebrating Christmas. It’s quite different from the one I’ve shared in the past isn’t it? Well, I’ve had quite a year of change! And full of surprises, it has been. I’ve grown in my understanding in so many ways, after taking a year to just be with myself. Or so I thought…

??After 32 years of looking into various ways of spirituality, the first 16, spent in studying the Bible, and then turning away and finding myself immersed deeply into the new ‘age’ spirituality for the next 16 years, I had an unexpected encounter with Yahshuah while enjoying an early morning solitude a couple of months back. He came looking for me…so, it must be time to open up and share more about my life journey…if you are open to hearing about what it’s like to find yourself suddenly on the ‘other’ side of the road, and looking over at where you once were.

?Willing to share these things with you, and all I can say is that the Peace I have?unexpectedly?found in this recent reunion with a resurrected man, is nothing at all like the peace I thought I was experiencing before.

?Perhaps you might be genuinely still looking to fill your spiritual hunger, as I must have been or I wouldn’t have had this experience that changed my former perspective. So far, I have been openly willing to share about my progression, content to be in the ‘right place’?a midst?the new ‘age’ spirituality community, and I feel that this unexpected meeting of Yahshuah, happened for a reason and deserves to be shared as well. I did not understand what the big deal and difference was until now as I have spent the past few months learning about the differences that I could not see before, not by people, but by The Holy Spirit of God.

??I genuinely wish you all many Blessings and Well-Being ~

?May The Holy Spirit of God, shine the Light of the Babe of Christmas, not just for a one day of the year celebration, but as an everlasting reason to celebrate this season for the rest of our lives all year long.

?Tis the Season to rejoice and wish for Peace on Earth and to share the Goodwill of God towards all mankind.

?? InJoy these beautiful songs by Amy Grant,

‘My Grown Up Christmas List‘

.. which speaks for each one of us, deep within our heart, whether for those who draw near to God and those who stand far off. The words speak of what we all in our very souls desire for our fellow man, the earth we share, and for our self in this physical world.

O Little Town?

This song speaks of where it all began. The Greatest Gift ever given to mankind. Where God became a man through a miraculous birth, to walk amongst us and show us the way God always intended for us to have a relationship with Himself, that had been so misunderstood. It still sits unopened by much of humanity today.

Emmanuel?

Breath of Heaven

InJoy this day genuinely,

May you be touched in?Love with the Spirit of Yahshuah who desires to gift you with His Presence!

Merry Christmas! Tis the Season ~

Julia

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‘When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.’

~ Chinese Proverb

‘Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.’

~ William Arthur Ward

‘You say grace before meals. ?All right. ?But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.’

~ G.K. Chesterton

‘Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. ?It’s a way to live.’

~ Source Unknown

‘Praise the bridge that carried you over.’

~ George Colman

And so with these thoughts on thanksgiving, I wish each and everyone a joyous day of new beginnings. To begin this day sanctioned as Thanksgiving Day, to choose to live a life of giving thanks daily, by having ?eyes that are centered and focused on what we have to be thankful for. Let’s try this for this ongoing year. Spend a couple of dollars on tools to help you do the ‘accounting’. A pocket sized notebook and a pen or a pencil, and every day, find one thing to be thankful for and write it down. Remember to date it. Just one thing. If you have more, by all means, write it down. Tuck this little book somewhere close by within reach. And then, once we run out of room in this little notebook, well….surely we will find that we can afford another. And including the contrasts that make what to be thankful for ‘stand out’, as is?referred?to in George Colman’s quote.

Here’s to making a lifestyle grounded in giving thanks, and letting go of a lifestyle of moaning about what we don’t have now or yet.

I created this card for all. I took this photo of this lovely tree just weeks before letting go of living in Kansas City. A year has passed and now, I am finding new eyes to see life and I share my Joy with you ~

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!

From my Heart to yours ~ I am thankful for you!

InJoy!

Many Blessings InLove and gratitude,

Julia

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Photo and Card Designed InLove by Julia??

‘A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. ‘

~ Victor Hugo

Hello to all, this is a response to comments?left here?requesting a response?. I wish to say thank you very much for taking the time to write to me and for your kind thoughts towards me. I am not one to ignore others however, I ask?one thing, that when you leave a comment, would you be so kind as to leave your genuine real name, if only your first name and for now, your genuine email without the advertising.

I genuinely have an interest in?each one I meet as a real person,?and do understand that we are living in a diverse universe with people who come from all walks of life…you know, a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker and then some…

?My blog was created to reveal?me as opening my door and letting people see into this being called Julia. Julia is my real name, and my blog reflects my passage through the process of being on a spiritual path for over thirty years now. Seems hard to believe in moments…

Moving from the church years, through the new age Spirituality of consciousness and now, radically turning around and seeing not a ‘religion’ of any kind so much as it all kept showing up in ways to be…and this was what I could not sit completely still for…ah…

I am looking?into some of the suggestions you have made regarding the browser issues some of you are?and have been experiencing?in reading my blog. Computer technology is still a very new learning arena?for me, and I am moving at a snail’s pace in becoming more adept in computerese.?I thank you for your patience.

I will also be more than happy to address the other comments about follow ups on previous blogs as well as questions regarding blogging. I have been ‘toying’ with the idea of beginning a facebook page to be able to interact with all who have posted comments here. I am open to hearing back about this so feel free to leave a response.

It seems the comments set-up has changed with WordPress from when I first began this blog. It’s not a simple click to add comment any longer so this is why I am considering having a facebook page dedicated to responding to all the wonderful comments you are leaving. Thank you very much.

I am?undergoing a huge change in my life right now, I am?in the midst of experiencing what it is like to keep a promise made?to myself to?give myself a whole year to? just be me being me, no matter what.?Open to whatever?would open up in?my way?to really let my authentic self?be in company with herself. And listen, by paying close attention to what showed up in silence and less outside conversations except by choice.

It’s been interesting to say the least…and I find, it’s really been about surrender. Having to?lay down?all of my projects begun but still not quite finished yet, like crayons and paper left?sprawled all over the floor, left in the midst of activity…and uncovering the purpose for it. Hard to do this? Yes. Worthwhile, no doubts whatsoever, YES!

My writing will reflect these changes and I honestly hope that you will come along and continue to grow?with me, as I?am willing to?reveal what has unfolded in my process of being?still, and listening, and hearing?God?in the quiet speaking to me about me In Love, in order for me to become like a child again, full of faith and trusting in the process of my life.

For now, Thank you again for all your comments.

I wish you well ~

InJoy this day,

Blessings In the Spirit of Love,

Julia

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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.’

~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

‘The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.’

~ Thomas Merton

‘The rule of unconditional love; it is in the giving that you make the other person realize.’

~ Unknown

‘Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.’

~ Hafiz of Persia

?And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.?

~ 1 John 4:16

In late 2007, I joined a forum, known as Our Ultimate Reality Forums, put together by?Adrian Cooper, a man whom I now consider as my friend.? It is a global forum with people of all faiths coming in to mingle with others?who all have foundational beliefs (realized or not),?that are quite different from each one of ourselves. A most wonderful place full of opportunities to be able to discuss, agree and disagree on all subjects that matter to each one. A very?diverse community where one can experience ?growing in their Spirituality.

I began a thread in the Religions and Traditions Board titled;? Definitions of Meanings, Speaking in Spiritual Language. I sensed to begin this thread in order to allow us all to see what we understood about the various terms used in the Spiritual arena.?Bringing into the Light for clarifying what we felt their meaning was?to each one of us, and perhaps uncover more InSight into a meaning that would deepen our you-nique understanding of a word, and enlarge our view.?Growing in?our perspective of these meanings, and how we might be able to make greater use of them in our everyday living through the practicing of our newly gained understanding. Becoming skilled in our practicing, bringing theories and practical living together into one place. Into us and living it out. And through this process, gaining more practice in becoming effective communicators with ourself and others.

The idea came through to be expressed much like?having a Family Night, where we would have the opportunity to gather together in the Great Room, and play games together, in order to learn about ourself and those around us. This forum being a gathering place in itself for one’s who desired to be Lights shining in this world of UnConditional LOVE. And so, my very first post was on asking what does the definition of?UnConditional LOVE mean to you?

I have to say that if anyone were to read through all of my experiences as I have moved through this forum in the past three and a half years, you may find yourself laughing at me, getting mad at me, shocked at some of my language, and even hurling angry insults at me in moments. And through this whole experience, I can only say, that I am so deeply grateful for this wonderful opportunity to grow so much in my Spiritual process through all the interactions I have had in this forum.

It is a most wonderful place, to really get to know ourself through our relating with others. I’ve learned that no matter what another says to me about me, it says more about the person saying it, than it does about me. And this applies to myself as well, in what I say to, or about another. I have learned again and again, that whatever I say, is my own words expressing from what is inside of me. I am the owner of my thoughts, emotions,?words and deeds, and this is where it rests. The buck stops here. I’ve grown more Self responsible through this wonderful adventure of moving through this forum with everyone there.

Thank you my Precious Family at OUR.

In my quirky childlike imagination, of loving stories; I can see Owls’s and Eeyore’s,?Rabbit’s, Piglet’s, Kanga and Roo’s?and Pooh Bear’s, Tigger’s, and even Christopher Robin, in this Hundred Acres Woods of unfolding stories.

All in all though, having a common place to gather together with fellow souls on this life journey, as well as here in my blog has been a most rewarding experience in my life. And so, a funny thing has happened to me along the way while moving throughout the rooms of this forum, and I?would?also come?in here, my blog, which is like having my own room to sit in and reflect and write down the impressions?flowing through?my Heart as it was experiencing authentically in the midst of all the activity going on all around me outside my inner door…

Here is what flowed through this morning in my quiet time, while in my inner sanctuary.? I felt deeply moved?in my Heart to express in the Definitions and Meanings post today with my fellow souls, about how the meaning of UnConditional LOVE has changed alot for me, many times throughout my life’s progression, and very recently, I heard something so clearly, and felt this ‘Click’ inside that brought inner and outer together in a moment, and I?had to share what can only be experienced in understanding Heart Language and received only by another who listens with their?Heart ~

I’m posting my written expression here, and?the link is above?should anyone want to see this woman, walking, slipping and sliding, stumbling and falling, yet, getting right back up, washing herself off, and keeping onward with?her journey in this world as long as I have breath left in me.

Be Blessed, Be Well In Your Being ~

Thank you My Beloved Friend Adrian, for your generous Heart in opening up this Forum for those who desire to grow and evolve in their Spiritual Journey.

InJoy this day,

May this expression be received in the Spirit in which it given ~

From A?Love that Never fails us, that sticks closer than skin all throughout our journey here.

In LOVE UnConditionally,

Julia

From Definitions and Meanings ~

Hello Everyone,

A while ago, one of the definition cards drawn was LOVE, or rather UnConditional LOVE. Opened up for anyone to give their impression of it…the idea of this thread was much like having family night, where cards are played around the table together. So many you-nique expressions that are shared and not shared. Yes, we all have freewill.

I’m coming back to this card; Unconditional LOVE, and sharing something about this LOVE that mystified me for a very long while, and going through the sifting and sorting process of mmm and ahh…

UnConditional LOVE has changed in meaning for me. Alot. Now, after playing with the pieces of this puzzle for years, something clicked into place for me, quite recently actually. I’ve gone through a process of letting go of anything that once defined what love meant to me, as in, where I was still looking for this love. And as each person, place and thing has come and gone on, slipping through my fingers, I kept moving through each cycle learning to let go of this and then that and then when I looked at this once filled space now left empty, I let it remain empty to see what would happen, and I walked on. I’ve moved from grasping tightly to these things, to loosening my grip and then gripping at the last minute before they disappeared from sight and on into, letting them follow the natural cycle of life…

Unconditional Love. It’s what cannot be changed in Its essence, Its nature. You’ve said this before Julia. Yes I have. I’ve expressed what is so hard to describe in mere words. Its something that can only be understood and expressed in a language of the Heart.

This kind of LOVE, is not shaken by anything that happens. When my inner and outer world was being shaken by events unfolding in my life, I did not see nor understand this for a very long time, that whatever can be shaken, is not UnConditional LOVE. This is why these events were happening in my life. They were my own and others ideas and forms of love that were being shaken and loosened, to remove whatever was not of this kind of LOVE.

There is a kind of LOVE that cannot be shaken or changed by any outer circumstance or appearance. Its the LOVE that remains after everything and everyone else is gone from our presence, our awareness. We all love with human love, each and everyone of us, and I see from my own blended experience, that it is very very easy to confuse the two. What is human love and what is this ‘other kind’ of LOVE.

There is a LOVE that sticks closer than a brother. And IT is this LOVE that has opened my eyes to see this. It stuck closer than a brother, closer than skin and after awhile, it sinks in. It takes time for most of us to ‘get it’.

It’s a no matter what kind of LOVE, IT will do whatever is in the best interest for the ‘object-ive’ of Its LOVE.

Because to do otherwise, It would have to deny Its very essence which is LOVE.

I say this with LOVE, that we seem so often, to confuse our ideas with this Greater One’s Idea of LOVE.

To understand IT, we have to be willing to merge with IT, in order to receive this LOVE to share with others, because we are so use to doing love our way, and we really tend to withdraw from ones who do not do things our way. It’s our commonly shared human nature to be this way. It comes from experiencing this LOVE being interpersonal and interactive in our life that we eventually can see the difference of when we are being loving with personal interests (hidden, unspoken yet still expected) and when we have no expectations from another having to give us anything in return to be able to be LOVING towards someone else outside our self or friend or stranger to us.

Do I only help those people whom I like? Or am I willing to help someone who may be a stranger to me in this moment? All our friends were possible stranger’s to us at first. Or what about the person who made our lives a living hell at work or school or in our neighborhood or even within our own family? What if something happened to them and they needed help. Would I be willing to give it, by letting go of their past behaviour, and seeing them as a fellow Child of GOD, whether their soul was a regenerated one or not yet? By my willingness to be a vessel that extends UnConditional LOVE towards my ‘enemies’, it may be the very act that opens them to receiving in this kind of LOVE. It may awaken them to their own unregenerated soul that needs a drink of living Spirit water to regenerate them, as IT has for us. This kind of LOVE isn’t something that can be hoarded to ourself. In fact, it’s impossible to be selfish with it.

UnConditional LOVE is not the norm in this world. And in these days we are living in, the Light of this kind of LOVE, really will stand out when I am willing, when we are willing to be filled with IT, to overflowing and sharing with all we meet in how we act out with one another.

UnConditional LOVE is the oil intended for our lamps.

InJoy this day All ~

In the Spirit of UnConditional LOVE,

Julia?

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