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Mother Mary, November
26, 2006
My beloved hearts, if your
telephone rings, would you not pick it up? And when you pick up the
phone, do you not listen long enough to at least find out whether
the person on the other end has an important message for you or is
simply trying to sell you something. And thus, my beloved, if you
do realize that the person at the other end has a message for you,
would you not do your utmost to listen to that message and understand
what it says?
Surely, my beloved, you will treat your telephone and the person calling
with a certain measure of respect. Thus, my question to you is, “Why
would you not treat life itself with the same measure of respect?”
Ah my beloved, you will say that you surely have respect for life.
But I would beg to question whether that is really so. For you see,
my beloved, life itself can be compared to a telephone. Every situation
you encounter can be seen as a telephone call from life itself. And
yet, my beloved, there are so many situations in life where you do
not pick up the phone and listen to see if that situation has an important
message for you, a message that can help you transcend yourself –
or some limitation – so that you can be free and be more in
the River of Life.
Why you encounter the same problems again and again
You see, my beloved, most people go through life with blinders on.
They are only half awake, only half aware of what is happening. And
thus, they do not realize that life is a continuous string of situations—with
each situation having a message that can help them rise higher and
overcome some erroneous belief, some misconception that limits them
and the expression of life itself through them.
My beloved, so many of you have these situations happen over and over
again in your life. And you often cry out, “Why does this keep
happening to me? Why is God doing this to me? Why are other people
doing this to me? Why is destiny or fate or luck doing this to me?”
But my beloved, you do not take time to stand back and say, “Why
am I doing this to myself?”
You see, my beloved, every
situation in life can be viewed as a telephone call, and there is
a message in that call. But so often you do not bother to pick up
the phone and listen to the message. And even those people who pick
up the phone – who do consider that they might need to learn
something from certain situations – well my beloved, they so
often do not truly listen for the message behind the phone call. They
do not truly listen with the inner ear, trying to understand the message,
trying to understand that which they cannot see with the outer mind.
And so they listen to the message, they evaluate, with the outer mind.
And therefore, they do not see the message, they do not hear the message,
for the outer mind cannot fathom that message. For my beloved, if
your outer mind had already understood the message that life is trying
to give you, then why would life bother to call you on the telephone
by having you experience the same situation over and over again?
Life does not punish you
You see, my beloved, it is a complete misconception of the human consciousness
and the human ego that life is trying to punish you. And I can assure
you, my beloved, that life itself – and life is created by God,
so even God itself – has no desire to punish you whatsoever.
Thus, it is an absolute law that once you have learned the lesson
you need to learn from a specific situation, then you will not encounter
that situation again.
And therefore, my beloved, when you encounter the same situation over
and over again, it is because you have not learned the lesson. And
that is why life keeps calling you and presenting you with the same
situation over and over again, so that you have another opportunity
– and another and another – to learn the lesson.
So my beloved, instead of grumbling, instead of complaining that the
same thing keeps happening to you over and over again, I have a very
simple suggestion to you. Simply pick up the phone and listen for
the message that life is trying to give. Then learn that lesson. Resolve
the belief that you need to resolve in order to move up higher. And
I can guarantee you that – as if by magic – you will not
encounter that same situation again.
My beloved, life is not very complicated. Life is really very, very
simple. And the underlying message behind every situation you encounter
in life is simply this: "The material universe is a mirror!"
The Ma-ter light will take
on the forms that correspond to the contents of your consciousness.
It is your state of consciousness that projects an image onto the
Ma-ter light. And the Ma-ter light can do nothing else but to reflect
that image back to you—both the image in your conscious mind
and the image in the subconscious layers of your mind, your emotional,
mental and identity
bodies.
My beloved, life is very simple. Life itself is the principle of growth—of
becoming more, of self-transcendence. So the message that life is
always trying to give you is that you can become more. And by seeing
your limitation, by seeing the limiting belief that you have –
about yourself, about the world and about God – you can transcend
that limitation and come up higher and be more in God’s ever-flowing
River of Life.
You see, my beloved, so many people have wondered about the meaning
of life, the purpose of life, the secret of life. So many people have
searched for the philosopher’s stone, the magic wand, some kind
of shortcut that will allow them to suddenly be in a state of bliss,
or a state of having what they think they need in order to be happy.
Yet my beloved, the secret of life is very simple—it is self-transcendence.
And my beloved, this does not mean that you need to attain some remote
state of perfection that might seem beyond your reach. It simply means
that every time you transcend yourself, you are in the flow of the
River of Life. And thus you have the potential to experience the joy,
the bliss, that truly is that River of Life.
And so the message that life is trying to give you in every situation
is that when you encounter a limitation, if you are willing to look
inside yourself and acknowledge the belief that causes you to experience
that situation as a limitation and then let go of that belief, well
then my beloved, you will rise above the sense of limitation and instead
be in the bliss of the River of Life.
Copyright
© 2010 by Kim Michaels |
