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 “I once was lost, but now I’m found.”
Spoken by English poet and Anglican clergyman, John Newton, these words are one of the most famous expressions of grace. They would later find their way in a song by American composer, William Walker, who composed Amazing Grace. The story behind what inspired these words will certainly strike a chord with you if you have ever felt lost and unsure of how to find your way out of your suffering, yet somehow — only by the grace of God — you made it through to see better days. Through grace, we stay in the light and allows us a fresh start. So how exactly do we allow in God's grace into our life? ... Learn the three definitive steps to allow God's grace to flow more freely in your life -- FULL ARTICLE ON The Mindful Word AMAZING GRACE: Living in the light of grace, even when darkness creeps in Article by Lisa Hromada on The Mindful Word
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There’s something amazing that my two-year-old told me recently that I think is really relevant to share right now as we are about to put this current year behind us and look forward to the new year, and each year, to come. I believe that it can give us a reminder and a boost in faith that we are never alone in this life. So, here’s the story… The other morning, upon waking, my two-year-old immediately grabbed a book and started looking at it. As she flipped through the pages, she began to sing to herself, “Jesus is my friend… Jesus is my friend”... in a harmonious melody. Now, there were no songs she had been listening to or stories that she had heard to spark her to sing these words, yet she was peacefully and joyfully singing them to herself. I sat and watched her for a few moments and then I said, “I like your song. It is true, Jesus is our friend. How did you know?” And she said... “I just know.” Her confidence was amazing, and I particularly loved this simple answer because it speaks directly to the truth that we all come into this life with a certain level of knowing. We each are “knower soul” at some level. I then ask her who told her that Jesus is our friend. I thought she might say me… that maybe I had mentioned something at some point. But instead she replied,... "Jesus.” …that he had been in her dream. Well, of course I wanted to know more, so I ask her if she knows who Jesus is, and when she told me no, I gave her the simplest answer I could think to give to a two-year old without going into too much detail yet about Jesus’ life and purpose. I said... “well, Jesus is the son of God.” And without hesitation, she said with confidence: “Yeah! And he helped us when he died.” Now... my two-year-old is consistently surprising me with her level of knowledge and understanding of things and her compassion for others, but this still was a surprising answer for me coming from a two-year-old who, for the most part, talks about princesses and sings nursery rhymes. Whether or not she realized the profound significance behind this statement, there was a level of knowing within her of the love of God and the life of Jesus and what he gave. I share this story because I believe it’s a good example that whether we fully realize it or not, we are not alone in this life. That whatever struggles we may have experienced or will experience, we can have faith that as we go through each day, that a divine energy of love is with us every step of the way. I believe that it reassures us that our thoughts and prayers are being heard. We may not realize it, especially when we are in the midst of struggle or when our life is not going as we want, but we have the opportunity at any moment to co-write our story with God. We may do this through our relationship and faith in Jesus or we may do this through other spiritual teachings that speak to this infinite, divine love that flows throughout of all of life. Whatever the method is, we can have faith that this love exists and is with us every moment. And we know this by… not just dreams that we might have, but we know this by seeing the good in our everyday life-- …the conversation with a good friend, ...the quiet moments when we feel at peace, …the joy we feel watching our children laugh and play, the health we experience, ...the job that allows us to pay our bills, ...the comfort of our home and so on. In this experience for my two-year-old, it seems that a song was put into her heart of a love and companionship that is available to us all. It shines a light on the truth that we are never alone in this life and we can count on this divine friendship to see us through any experience. It is my hope that this year, and every new year to come is filled with moments in which you feel this friendship in your everyday experiences. --- You are free to share this or any part of this article as long as you link back to and credit this blog article. - www.LoveIsTheSeed.com. (Listen to this article instead)
In both Love is the Seed and The Three Supreme Gifts, the subject of free will is talked about often. In The Three Supreme Gifts: A Practical Approach to Self-Mastery and to Transforming Your Life Here and Now, I speak about the empowerment that comes when we align our free will with "Divine will" or "God’s will", which is true free will. Now there’s an interesting conversation we can have just around that, but what I want to share today that came from a Monday, November 16, 1981 session in Love is the Seed: Teachings from the Spirit World in particular, is something that was said by a Wise One regarding “choice.” As a side note, one of the most incredible things about these sessions documented in Love is the Seed is that there were many souls anxious to come through to speak from their own level of knowing on various topics. These souls and Wise Ones were each speaking from a different environment in the afterlife, where they are learning and experiencing different things. So, in this November 16 session, this Wise One spoke about how “choice is the soul living its evolutionary existence” and how important choice becomes in the evolution of soul as well as here in this human experience. That choice is made every second, every microsecond of a soul's existence. The choice we are making is which alternative to choose given our experience, situation, and emotional response. This Wise One says, that one may choose an alternative that helps the soul gain greater understanding of all that is—meaning the love of God—and the soul’s responsibility to all. This would be a positive choice. Alternatively, one might be merely driven to fulfill the ego of the soul, which means simply to fulfill themselves within, and not to come from within and expand out from the loving energy from which each are created. Again, these choices occur in microseconds. As was said by this Wise One, these choices are the soul’s and they are our choices as part of free will. And whatever the choice may be, each choice returns to the soul. If the choice is just and positive, and made with love and fairness, it returns manifold for both us in this human personality and as soul. And if a choice is negative, it too returns, but in a way that haunts, so to speak, the soul… or we can say that it is returned as a debt (or negative karma) to be lived out and learned from. These debts must be recognized and dealt with for the further understanding and development of the soul. What this comes down to for us here and now living this human experience in our day to day life is recognizing the importance of the choices we make, because the choices we make ultimately lead to the experiences that we have here—good and bad. What is really interesting and important to understand is that each of these choices relates to energy—either positive or negative—that we carry with us. So, if a soul proceeds on a negative path and reinforces that with similar decisions and actions, it will become weighted with a negative charge. This may be why we can feel weighted down energetically sometimes. We need a balance. We need a positive outlook and charge to gain greater energy. A soul that accumulates positive energy and positive will gain much expansive energy and eventually will gain a place with evolved souls, and a place of creating as a part of God. This is that ultimate destination. This is part of what they mean in Love is the Seed when they say, that “a law of God for all, is a justice in the heart shall be yours.” If you want to explore this topic more, you can find references of it throughout Love is the Seed. --- You are free to share this or any part of this article as long as you link back to and credit this blog article. - www.LoveIsTheSeed.com.  (Don't want to read? Listen to this article instead.)
Grace is one of the most meaningful and incredible things we can embrace and understand. And while there is still so much that I don’t know about grace (since it is not something that we can grasp mentally, but we have to recognize and experience), I feel inspired to speak about it because right now (given what is happening in our nation and world), we can all use a little extra grace in our lives and be reminded that Grace is at work right now for us, whether we fully realize it or not. I did not truly begin to even think about grace until I experienced specific times of suffering. And it was by Grace that took me out of those times. And this is the beauty of Grace for everyone reading these words. Grace is an important topic because it is such a big part of our lives and our ability to live more purposefully and with greater joy. It is through grace that we can experience blessings, miracles and answered prayers. And it is through Grace that we can find greater meaning and enter into a space where we can begin living a life more of our choosing and experience more of the “good” that life has to offer. ...... The beauty about Grace is that it is available to anyone, at any time, no matter how rough or smooth your life has been or the mistakes you may have made. In the book, The Three Supreme Gifts, I share how Grace is one of the 4 fundamental qualities of love. That grace is not only something that we receive from God, but it is something that we can embody and share with others. And when we do so, we become a giver of empowerments and have the opportunity to make the positive impact in the world. In The Three Supreme Gifts, I explain grace in this way: “Grace can be defined as divine light and energy that is always in motion to benefit all in creation. When you think about, “the grace of God”, what you are understanding is how God moves the good and the bad in a wholly beneficial way.” What this means is that when you are in grace or in the favor of God (which again is available to you in any given moment) you can still experience times of challenge because Grace moves BOTH the good stuff AND the bad stuff in your life. Just think about the ebb and flow that has occurred in your life to get you where you are today and you’ll recognize how grace has been in motion the entire time. I think of this movement of the good and bad as a harmonious orchestra of divinely guided actions of God working through us to fulfill a purpose and that purpose is unique to each. It is through Grace that we can essentially “start over.” Imagine an event in your life, or a set of events, that have happened that maybe you said to yourself “boy, wouldn’t it be great if I could start all over.” Maybe have things be different. And in this moment, you pray or look to God, or "something greater", that you know exists and you release the negative emotions attached to the event and have faith that something Greater will help clear a path for better things. It is in that moment that you call upon Grace and it is at this point that you allow Grace to do its work in your life moving the good, moving the bad for you benefit. While you can’t erase your past events or experiences that may have caused you suffering, what Grace does is it moves the good and the bad in the most wholly beneficial way for you and gently, or we can say “gracefully”, places you on a better path. And for many, it feels like a new life — or perhaps more accurately stated, a “renewed” life. In my father’s experiences, which are what inspired both Love is the Seed and The Three Supreme Gifts to be written, at one point in his spiritual journey, he was absorbed into the light of, what he described as, the Eternal Gate of Grace beyond and within conditioning existence, where each are “divinely restarted.” Now this can be explained in more detail what that actually means but what’s most important, I believe to understand is that Grace, God’s grace, is a gift available to each and can give us the opportunity to shift our life. Grace is something that we mature into, which means all we’re required to do is what we’re doing right now and at some point, we may be called to do something else. May this day and each of your days be filled with grace. --- You are free to share this or any part of this article as long as you link back to and credit this blog article. - www.LoveIsTheSeed.com.  What does it mean to have a self-evolving free will personality and is the soul always a part of this personality? This is one of those questions that I have been personally curious about for quite some time because in the sessions documented in Love is the Seed, the souls and Wise Ones spoke about the personality being a self-evolving free will personality, but then I wondered “How?” and “where does the soul fit into all of this and how can a personality be “self-evolving” and not be a part of the soul’s evolvement. In one of the sessions with Spirit, they say, Now the human personality is evolving at the time of birth without the help of the soul. The soul will not normally enter the human role and work with the personality until the child reaches the age of reason. What this says, from my understanding of this and other messages revealed within the sessions, is that the soul is always a part of the human, giving life to the human and helping to guide the personality—which has its own free will—yet it is not often consciously called upon or ready to make contact with the personality until the child is at an age of reason, as they say. This age is around the age of seven years old. They go on to explain how the personality relates to its environment and to the body, which can explain a little about how the personality is self-evolving. It reads, The human personality relates to the body through various energy centers in the body normally respond to physical realities known to it. Now the thinking personality can be controlled or driven by these energy centers that relate to physical and nature environment and make or drive the personality. This type of personality will respond to its environment not knowing that it has the power to, through mind, change those circumstances. The human personality in most situations is taught and guided by other human personalities and will respond in a human personality way based upon what they have been taught. So then, where does the soul come in, you might wonder. What was explained is that: However, the personality as it goes through life and thinks and reasons will ask questions, and when those questions do not find acceptable answers, the human personality will begin the reach within to greater and lesser degrees. The soul will send forth mind responses and images and thoughts and make a connection with the human personality to greater and lesser degrees at this time. Now much contact is made in the sleep and dream state when the body is at rest and the energy centers in the body are at rest, and the personality, which is eternal, is not at rest but is learning, experiencing, and creating, a most free time for most human personalities. The human personality incidentally orders that it remember all its experiences for as long as they are valid and necessary to evolutionary growth. The human personality when dreaming or meditating will get some contact with greater realities. (OR their Greater Self; their soul) This is all a part of the evolutionary process. The soul is going through a like process and remembers through the human personality all that it needs to evolve effectively. So, what this says is that contained within the memory of the soul are all of the experiences through the human personalities experiences that are relevant to its evolvement. This one was really fascinating for me. I hope it was for you as well. As always relax in the knowing. --- You are free to share this or any part of this article as long as you link back to and credit this blog article. - www.LoveIsTheSeed.com.   Today as I was going through Love is the Seed: Teachings from the Spirit World to see what I thought would be most interesting or helpful right now, I came across the session entitled: "God’s Laws".
Now, I am not sure what led me to this particular section, but I believe that it is not just coincidence. Recently I’ve been drawn to researching various subjects relating to biblical scripture and the personalities, or people, that scripture talks about. And throughout everything that I have been looking at, a key theme is: "good things come from living by God’s Laws.” The God’s Laws that I am going to be talking about today are ones that a Wise One expressed in Love is the Seed within the Chapter, “God’s Laws and Creation.” What I found interesting was how the “laws” expressed in Love is the Seed by this Wise One reflect not just themes in scripture but also just simple truths to reflect on and perhaps incorporate more in our life. So, I’ll read these to you in case you don’t have Love is the Seed, there are about nine in this session and as I do, I want you to think about why you think this Wise One named these specific laws in particular… This is something that I ask myself often when I read Love is the Seed because I recall being told many times growing up by my mother that when this occurred in the early 1980s, there were many souls that came through to share information that THEY thought would most benefit mankind. So, here are the laws listed from the Saturday, November 21, 1981 Session 54. It reads: This is a Wise One. One of God’s Laws is to love all. Love all, greatly. Now, I want to pause here and say that to love all greatly doesn’t mean that we love everything that people do, but it means that when we understand how love is defined from a spiritual perspective, which includes love being defined as compassion, grace, mercy and patience, as defined in the book The Three Supreme Gifts, it IS possible to Love all from that perspective. Ok, let’s continue... One of God’s Laws is that all is created equal in the eyes of God. … to accept what you cannot change and change what you cannot accept. …that the justice in your heart you shall have. Now, this justice that they talk about partly relates to a truth in love, that what you give out is always returned to you. This is talked about in Knower Soul™ videos. One of God’s Laws is resolve and you shall find. The Wise One does not explain what exactly they mean by this, but from my interpretation from other sessions, this can mean that when you make the choice to find a solution to a problem, whatever that problem might be, whatever you might want to change, and you look for the solution through faith, you shall find it… or you can say, it finds you. One of God’s Laws is love for the reward and you may have the reward, love for the endeavor and you shall find the love and reward. One of God's Laws is (to) have faith in yourself and you will have faith in God. Have faith in others and you shall have faith in God. One of God's Laws is (that) souls are forged with free will. And that Love is infinite and infallible. This I think it one of the most important of the Laws to understand, because it is through love that everything else comes. And this Wise One concludes by saying GOD LOVES ALL. --- You are free to share this or any part of this article as long as you link back to and credit this blog article. - www.LoveIsTheSeed.com.  How can knowing the truth of love change your life, starting today (this very moment)? “The wisest understand that what is created from the heart, the honest integrity from within given freely to all, receives back the same multiplied many times.” – Wise Guide, Saturday, June 12, 1982 Session 185 This type of message was repeated within the sessions with spirit many times. In fact, it is one of the core teachings within the book. To say this another way, “A love given is a love received. That is a just solution for life.” One passage from Notebook #38 in the book specifically reads, “In one way or another, a love given is a love received. A love held closely is a love held closely. There, in love, lies justice, what we give so shall we receive.” This is what they say is the truth of how love works. That love is “just.” So, what does this mean? How can knowing this change our lives here and now? There are many ways in which this question can be answered and this video can get really long, so I will share one of the most important aspects of this and how it can change our lives. It comes from understanding how “a love given is a love received” works. “Love given” is a divine energy that flows all throughout life. It is only through the energy of “love-given” that things function smoothly in life. What is most incredible to understand about this aspect of love-given and love held closely is this idea that no matter what, what you give out is returned to you. So, let’s say for instance, you have a falling out with a friend and you come to a place where you’re ready to try to make amends and you try to communicate with your friend. But let’s say that your friend is not receptive to anything you say and do to heal the relationship. You have given out of love, freely, but it is not being received with an open heart and reciprocated. Most times our response is anger or disappointment because we are being nice, and we are not receiving a positive response back. But here’s where “a love given is a love received” is so amazing in how it works. Although we are giving out of love to this other person and they are not giving the same back is irrelevant within this idea of “a love given is a love received” because… the way that the energy of love works is that whatever you put out there, is held in this sort of vortex, and it will naturally seek like energy to return back to you. It may not be in a form of a relationship or from this other person, but nonetheless, what you have given out is carried through this energy and returned back to you. Imagine: When you give out of a loving heart, know that no matter what, it is always returned to you. That’s the beauty about love-given—this energy will always find like energy to give back to you. And THAT is freeing! As always, relax in the knowing. --- You are free to share this or any part of this article as long as you link back to and credit this blog article. - www.LoveIsTheSeed.com.   Why must we understand “thought” in the evolution of our soul and in this shared reality that is our life on Earth? What we know from the sessions with Spirit, documented in Love is the Seed—and if we just think about our lives—we realize that it is thoughts that create our reality, OR what we perceive our reality to be. It is said within Love is the Seed that: “Thought creates each experience and in fact makes each experience what it is.” That this human experience is a dream, and in this dream, we are creating what we experience through our thoughts—good or bad. It was said in one session that: This is the dream of consciousness and when one on Earth sleeps or meditates, one is closer to reality than when one is experiencing the experience.” What this means is that true reality lies within who we are authentically as “soul;” not the reality in which we live here in this human experience, which is temporary, like a dream that the soul has created for the sake of learning, growing and evolving. As one of the core teachings within the book, Love is the Seed, it is expressed how our thoughts can live on forever in the memory of the soul. That: "When the soul is focused within any reality it is focused by the method of thought creation, the infinite law of God, and truth says that which is created through thought lives forever as a free will creation.” What this means is that if we think enough of the same thoughts here in this human experience that cause the same types of emotions, that this thought-energy can be stored in the memory of the soul until we learn enough through the thought energy to release it. As expressed in Love is the Seed on page 139: “To hang onto a thought is to remain in a particular energy field for as long as the thought is hung onto. So, when you hang onto a negative thought, you will stay in this low-level energy field until that thought is let go. Like with all creations, thoughts themselves become multidimensional within their own vibrational level and live on within there.” For example, let’s say that stored within the memory of your soul is a thought-energy of low self-worth. To learn to the truth of love, beyond this thought-energy, you then come into this life and are presented with experiences in which it sparks these thoughts and feelings of low self-worth, in order for you to seek the truth of who you really are and your connection to love and God. To learn more, check out this session on the Frequency of Thought and more in Love is the Seed. As always, relax in the knowing. --- You are free to share this or any part of this article as long as you link back to and credit this blog article. - www.LoveIsTheSeed.com.   How can we see the “Love” when bad things happen and how can we find greater peace? One of the core teachings that came through the sessions documented in Love is the Seed is that all are created equal in the eyes of God. You may find it difficult to see God in others and wonder how God has created all equally and all out of love, when there are those out there who create devastation, spread hate and harm others. How can they possibly be created equally and out of the same energy of divine love that you were created? The thing is, and as was reflected by the souls and wise ones who spike in Love is the Seed, there are layers upon layers of history, beliefs, man-made structures, laws and a collective unconsciousness that exists… and this can be especially difficult to accept. It can be easy to overlook the love that exists each day and in each person. Yet love will, nonetheless, always reveal itself. It can be as simple as a small gesture of kindness or selflessness—of giving without the expectation of receiving anything in return. We have a story—many stories, in fact, over lifetimes. And each lifetime, a self-evolving personality as a part of our soul. Within this particular lifetime, you are born into a different set of circumstances, physical body, environment and upbringing. Regardless of appearance, color, race, dialect, level of intelligence and social status, whether described as a “good person” or a “bad person,” who speaks “too soft” or “too harsh,” “too loud” or “too quiet,” whatever the belief or reality may be, you, and each, are created equally in the eyes of God. This core teaching that all are created equally in the eyes of God, is important to understand because it speaks to the divine justice of this life. Each day, we share your space with millions of souls each on their own journey of self-discovery and learning, and each at their own level of knowing, within the evolution of soul. This means that inevitably our life is full of contrast—good things, bad things, good people and bad people. So, all are created equally in the eyes of God because all—no matter “good” or “bad”— are created with love at the seed and each living out their justice. And this justice is always given out of divine love. If you want to read more, you can find references to this question throughout Love is the Seed. And as always, relax in the knowing. --- You are free to share this or any part of this article as long as you link back to and credit this blog article. - www.LoveIsTheSeed.com.   Among the notebooks that I have from what manifested between my parents in the early 1980s, part of which is documented in Love is the Seed, I found these words in response to those deeply suffering and contemplating their life’s worth. I found it fascinating and perhaps it will be enlightening for you all, so I wanted to share it. So, your life right now causes you deep suffering. There are a few important points:
What stood out most to you? Share in the comments below. As always, relax in the knowing. --- You are free to share this or any part of this article as long as you link back to and credit this blog article. - www.LoveIsTheSeed.com.  |
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