Love & Light {on A Friday!}

Poster can be found here and credit goes to: http://www.scarboromissions.ca/Golden_rule/poster_order.php

In talking about synchronicity and how ideas and/or concepts are linked I want to discuss Unconditional Love for a moment. You will notice in the above poster that each religion depicts the same message of "The Golden Rule." Being Christian I know The Golden Rule to be "Do unto others as you would have done to yourself." Simplified for me this means: love as Jesus loved. As I continue to share my friend's visions about a world-wide spiritual shift two themes that will be repeated over and over and over again are Light and the Power of Love. Not romantic Love but Love as the be-all end-all most powerful light-filled emotion in the world. Ironically today I opened my e-mail to read the bible selection that is sent out daily by my minster Shawn Cornett of Griffith First Christian Church only to find it echoing the blog I wanted to post today which is a reminder about the importance of Love. 

And then we have hate. Hate.  What a nasty word.  Hate is a fear-based emotion.  Hate is darkness.  Low-level energy.  Icky and dark and to be avoided at all costs.  Hate propagates pain and suffering to others and ourselves.  One cannot be in a positive "high" state of mind and be hatin' on someone or even something.  I know not all of you are Christian and the bible may not be your text of choice yet the words below are powerful so I'd like to share them with you- it is a universal message of love. 

With Shawn's approval I am sharing his commentary and the verses here.  

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In 1 John 7:7-11, John speaks of a new command. He does not tell us what that new command is yet, but he will get to it eventually (3:23). It has something to do with verses 9-11. This new command is the opposite of hate. Hmmm...what could it be? We have this dichotomy between light and darkness and love and hate. How can you hate your brother or sister in Christ and claim to love God? If God is love (and He is), then how can you have God in you if you are filled with hate? When Paul wrote of the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians, he lists the first characteristic that the Spirit produces in us is love. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 13 that the greatest of virtues is love. Love is the most important thing! Unconditional love can change the world! At the same time, hate is darkness. To hold a deep-seated hostility and bitterness toward a brother or sister in Christ is the opposite of God because God is love. Hate is ungodly. Hate is anti-Christ. Hate is darkness. Hatin' is bad! What the world needs now is love, sweet love! I feel a song coming on. May your day be filled with so much unconditional, godly love that it overflows to everyone you know and meet. Spread the love, my friends...

7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. 9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

 1 John 7:7-11

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My point in sharing Shawn's commentary and the bible verses, beyond that it's simply a rockin' Friday morning reminder to keep the Love, is that no matter what religion you are or your spiritual affiliation Love *is* where it's at or as Shawn puts it {and can it be expressed any better?}

Remember- unconditional love can save the world.  Love is a powerful emotion.  Love is energy.  When we love strong God-energy flows through us down into the earth and up into the sky.  The love we send out is returned to us and it multiplies, strengthens.  And yes- this exchange of a strong loving energy desperately *is* what the world needs now.

Be a conduit for Love!

 

"It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love” ~ John Lennon 

Love and Light to all :)

~Jennifer

Source Energy

I would like to share my rudimentary thoughts on the basic fundamental idea behind the energy that makes up the universe {God} and all of us.  I am Christian so it is my belief that God created everything.  The universe.  The earth.  Mankind.  And to me God is source energy.  Source energy is God.  It is the energy that we are all created from, that everything is created from.  The earth has a soul and it is source energy.  Source energy is the power that connects us all.  It is the pure, right, clean one-and-only perfect energy that we all have access to... but as a society we fall away from being attracted to it.  The ancients, the old civilizations, they knew about it.  But then Christianity came about and spirituality became of lesser importance.  Do I believe in Jesus?  Absolutely.  God?  Yes!  But God is source energy and He sent Jesus down to save us.  Jesus' message, His teachings, were of source energy, unconditional love for God and for each other.  "Agape."  But as humans began preaching about Jesus' message they, because we are flawed and subjective in our wants and desires, started skewing His message and borne of that was rigid religion which is far from spiritual.

Greed can take over.  Greed shouldn't reside in religion but it does.  Many people die under the name of "God" and that is blasphemy and the last thing God would ever want.  Greed and personal desire for power took over spirituality in some religions.  Led people away from this idea of a source energy.  Do you know why?  Because "source energy" is POWERFUL.  And mankind as we know it, especially in developed nations, has this ultimately *male* desire to reign over people.  To rule them. Religion has stolen from people this idea of personal power or a link to source energy.  One of the largest organized religions in the world does not teach about personal power.  It, in my opinion, uses this idea of sin as a way to hold people back, causing them doubt their every thought and move.  Becoming preoccupied with sin can move a person away from source energy which is ridiculous because it is in essence moving them farther away from God. I am not saying we should not live our lives trying not to sin... but there must be a healthy balance.  We shouldn't let those efforts strip us of our love or our personal power.  Jesus wants us to concentrate more on loving God and loving others than trying not to sin.  Know why?  Because when you do love God, and you do love others, then it's hard to sin. 

My point is this- at this time in the world there is a need for people to become enlightened about source energy, God-energy.  It is a powerful energy, abundant and good.  Completely available to us... and when we know to trust it, love it because it is God and the very same energy our souls are created from, then we can USE it.  It is manifestation or The Law of Attraction.  We are all made of "good stuff."  When we trust and believe in source energy then we draw it to us and good things can happen.  Source energy is "agape love"- the love God has for his people.  Pure unconditional love.  Love is THE most powerful important energy, emotion, in the universe.  Ever.  We are all made to love and this is why in The New Testament Jesus died on the cross to have our sins forgiven.  The Ten Commandments, rules that no human can follow without consistently breaking and sinning, were made into two main commandments: Love God and Love others {as you would love yourself.}  How easy is that?  Love God.  Love others.  If your God is "different" than my God {they are all source energy} so what?  Don't you love your God/Goddess/Buddha, etc.?  Of course you do!  It is all about love- and this is source energy.  The energy the entire universe is made of.  If we all concentrated on LOVE instead of: hate, greed, fear, doubt... there would be an entire shift in the paradigm of EVERYTHING. 

Our thoughts are energy.  This is why it is so important to stay joyful.  God {mine or yours!} gives us this duty.  We may not always be happy but we should be joyful, even in the face of pain, anger and loss.  Happiness and joy are two different things; happiness is an emotion and joy is a state-of-mind.  If you woke this morning then you can be joyful.  If one extra person each day woke joyfully then that is one more person sending joyful energy out into the world... and this creates a shift in the overall consciousness of life. 

Does this make sense to you?  In my opinion, and I am by far no spiritual guru, this is what an Awakening, a spiritual ascension, is all about.  A mass positive change in group consciousness.  The more hate in the world then more the world will hate.  We will draw to us turbulent forces/energy such as earthquakes and tornadoes- all full of tumultuous angst that is a reflection of the energy we, as a whole of humanity, are emitting out to the universe.  Not only sending out to the universe but consider this.  We all stand with our feet firmly rooted to the earth.  The earth.  When we experience fear, pain, angst, worry, hate... where to you think it goes?  It leaves our bodies through our feet and our head.  We have chakra centers in our hands and feet.  Shake hands with an evil person and how does it feel?  Icky- because they have shared with you a taste of low-level energy and your high-level energy recognizes that.  So when we have negative emotions we shoot it right down into the earth through our base {feet} where it is manifested into negative energy.  It also leaves our heads and flows out to the universe.  On a personal level he who thinks only bad things will draw to him bad things.  On a larger level if you have a person who makes a conscious decision to be positive then she will draw to her positivity.  Concentrate on love and you will draw love to you.  Concentrate on love and you will draw love to you... and the you will send that love back out into the world to create more love...

You will be a Love Generator!

Now take 10,000 people and place them in an arena.  Ask them to all at the same time pray for peace... concentrate on joy.  This is why there are "prayer circles."  Praying is concentrating on source energy.  Group energy is a powerful thing.  Do you have any idea how connected to source energy they would become?  THIS is what an Enlightenment is about.  Opening the consciousness of people, one by one, about love.  Because as people begin to love, become positive and joyful, that connection with source energy can CHANGE THE WORLD.

The Bible says to love as God loves.  And that is source energy.  It IS the same thing.  We do not need to be divided based on our beliefs.

Love, my friends.  Stay positive.  Pray and be thankful.  Be joyful.  And you will change the world.

~Jennifer