Notes from Neale…
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My dear friends…
It has been an interesting week, has it not? These days it seems that every one-week time span produces incredible changes in the conditions and circumstances that we face on this planet. This week, of course, it is the swine flu…
What a fascinating situation we find ourselves in. And once again, fear threatens to run rampant across the land. Will life ever settle down again? Will we ever know the idyllic life that we led in the 50s and 60s, when I was young? Were you even alive in the 50s and 60s? Or does that seem like Prehistoric Times to you….? ;o)
Our job, as spiritual messengers (which, of course, you all are) is to quell the fear that may be building around us, and to bring those we know and those we love back into alignment with the larger truth of Who We Are and of why these changes in our lives are being visited upon us.
As it says in the newest CwG book, When Everything Changes, Change Everything:
Change does not occur in a vacuum. Change does not take place in the universe for no reason. Change is not a random act. Change is an announcement that something is not working.
The change that has occurred in your life has happened because disharmony was present. When disharmony is present, life becomes dysfunctional-and that condition violates the first of the Basic Principles of Life (Life is Functional, Adaptable, and Sustainable) and invokes the second.
Our opportunity on the planet right now is to take a look at what is not working. For instance, we were discussing in the Messengers’ Circle on my personal blog the other day (www.nealedonaldwalsch.com) how this swine flu thing came about so fast, and why it has swept Mexico so devastatingly, with over 150 deaths. And a member of our blogging community posted this observation…
I see the Swine flu as a wake-up call, just like the financial meltdown. The things happening to people can be very hard to understand.
Yet there is a practical reason to some of this happening. The swine flu started this time in a country that has a shockingly large amount of abject poverty. The US has done a good job at sending jobs down there but paying wages that do nothing more than maintain that poverty. Over all, there is little health care for humans, much less livestock. In the US, we have vaccines for pigs to help prevent swine flu. In poorer countries, that is something they just don’t have.
This is similar to the financial meltdown, as it draws attention to the fact that there is an ever-growing division between the haves and have-nots. We have access to vaccines for animals. While there is no universal health care, by any means, we still have greater access to health care and medications that lessen the effects of this disease.
So, this shows what happens when countries have access to things that can prevent deadly diseases but don’t actively share what they have. That is just begging us to start writing a different story.
Now you might say, “Wait a minute! This country shares plenty. How much more of the world do we have to take care of before people get off our back!?” And I would agree with you that the U.S. has been a very generous nation. Still, globally it is true that 95% of the world’s wealth and resources is held by around 5% of the world’s people. I think that is the point that this blogger was trying to make. It is not just about the United States, in particular. It is about the “rich” and the “poor” on this earth. It is about how we are choosing to “divide up the goodies.”
I agree with the blogger that on this score, we would surely benefit now by starting to write a different story…
The world is receiving many “wake-up calls” these days, and I happen to believe that humanity is at a real crossroad. We are deciding about ourselves; about who we are as a species, and who we choose to be. These are spiritual decisions, not political ones, as I see it. And that is where you come in.
Each of us has an important role to play in the creation of our collective tomorrows. I’d like to talk more about that in the weeks ahead. I hope you’ll join me here for that exploration.
Love and Hugs,
Neale.
MONEY - LOVE - SEX - GOD
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The CwG Reader
Further explorations of the Conversations with God material from the author
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Neale Donald Walsch through the years has given hundreds of talks and written scores of articles revolving around the messages he received in his Conversations with God. Now, every seven days, we will present in this space a transcript or reprint of those presentations. We invite you to Copy and Save each one of them, creating a personal a collection of contemporary and uplifting spiritual thought which you may reference at any time. We hope you will find this a constant source of insight and inspiration.
This week’s offering: An essay written by Neale in February, 2005 in which Relationship’s Two Essential Questions are defined and explored.
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When we are young we imagine that life is going to last forever. As we get older we see clearly that we have a limited number of years here. Our time in this body is not infinite. Time itself is infinite, and We are, too-but our time in this particular body is not. This, then, is the Gift. This, then, is the Treasure. Time in this body is the Treasure of Treasures.
At some point during that time we realize that each moment is golden. We see that every second is meant for something-or, at the very least, can be used for something that is quite good. That is, in fact, extraordinary. Each second can be used for the molding and the creating and the experiencing of The Self in its Next Grandest Version.
We do not have to continue replaying the versions of the past. We do not have to be who we always were. We do not have to continue as we have been, acting as we have been, believing what we have been, accepting what we have been, becoming what we have been. We do not have to remain the same. Not from year to year, not from month to month, not even from week to week or day to day. Not even, truth be told, from second to second.
The great secret of life is that we can change ourselves and change our lives in a second. We can engage in the process of Self Creation from moment to moment. In fact, we are doing so, whether we want to be or not. This is happening. It is not a question of whether it is going on, it is merely a question of whether we know it is going on, and of whether we are watching it or causing it.
As we get older and begin to understand all of this more profoundly, we feel moved to make some important inquiries. We begin to ask what I call The Essential Questions.
As an old newspaper hack (read that, professional reporter) I immediately recognize the golden formula of all journalists as they sit down to write a story. There are five questions that every newspaper reporter must ask, and that every newspaper story should answer: Who, What, When, Where, Why?
And so, it all turns out to be very simple. Who am I? What am I doing here? When am I going to do it? Where am I going? Why?
In my own version I like to expand the fourth question, but even my expansion still falls within the five W’s: Where am I going, and who is going with me?
These are the two Primary Questions in All Relationships. It is vitally important to ask and answer them in the right order. That is, in the order that works; in the order that is functional. If you ask those two questions in reverse order, what results is dysfunctionality. Yet most people ask them in exactly that way. Who is going with me? Now, where am I going?
No wonder people get off track. No wonder people wake up at 45 or 50 and look into the mirror, trying to figure out what happened to their lives. Yet it’s easy to understand how these two got switched around. Most people are desperately afraid of being alone. They would rather be lost than alone. So they lose their way, but at least they have company.
Once we confront our challenge with being alone, once we solve the problem we have with the idea of no one being alongside of us-which we can only do when we answer the first Essential Question, Who am I?-then we are free at last to ask the Primary Questions in All Relationships in the functional order: Where am I going? Who is going with me?
This changes everything. And the irony of this is that we are, from that point on, hardly ever alone. And that is because we have become such dynamic beings-wholly alive, fully self-expressed, completely confident, and totally secure in who we are-that everyone wants to be around us, including a whole host of people who could qualify as that Significant Other for whom we had formerly been searching so desperately that we were willing to give up our very sense of who we are in order to find him or her.
In future essays we’ll answer the Essential Questions one by one, in the order in which they are most beneficially addressed. Stay tuned.
With love and light, NDW
Neal Donald Walsh
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