Possibilty Junction

(Note: I usually cut and paste the full text. For some reason I am unable to manipulate text as usual. Every time I try it gets worse than before :-). This is actually the good version! I apologize for the formatting problems.) 

Do you sometimes feel like there is something missing in your life?

If your answer is yes, then please listen today not

from a place of lack as in, "I haven't been doing

enough," but from a place of fulfillment as in, "There

is much more to life than I am experiencing and I

choose to fulfill my life through the power of God's

Love.

Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla write in their

book THE QUEST that, "It is the desire of every

human being to feel he or she can begin anew. Do

you not feel this need in your own soul?"

If your answer is yes - and even if it was no-

please know that you can begin again ... and

again ... and again ...  and again! There are no limits

on new beginnings. Every time we choose fear,

anger, hatred, guilt, etc over Love, God says. "Are

you sure, because you can begin again?" (kids and

knock-knock jokes; it seems they never stop. God has

this relentless stcik-to-it-tivity © in offering us the

opportunity to begin again. Every time we choose

fear, anger, hatred, guilt, etc over Love, God says,

Are you sure? Would you like to begin again?")

It seems as though from the time I started on my

journey to the awareness and experience of

wholeness I have heard frequently heard this

statement, "We are in are the most exciting times!"

Yes, it's true and always has been true for all

people at all times down through the ages!

Here's a story that points to why this is so ...

According to an ancient story, there were once

four people who were walking in the woods. They

were all complaining about their lot in life.

"Woe is me," one said.

And all four of them went on like this over and

over again complaining because their individual

requirements for peace have not been met."

All of a sudden, as they were walking in the woods,

they came across a high wall. They were very curious

because they could not see over the wall, so they built

a ladder.

The first person climbed up and was amazed at the

incredible beauty in this other world, on the other

side of the wall. Then he climbed down and the

second one climbed up and he was also amazed at the

beauty. The third person climbed up and said the

same thing.

Everything they had ever prayed for in their lives

was on the other side of the wall.

The first, the second, and the third thought it was

wonderful, and yet they climbed back down the

ladder and returned to their usual life of complaint.

The fourth climbed up the ladder, stood at the

top, and said, "I want a better life and there is a better

life; and 1 am going to go over the wall and accept it

and make a commitment to it. He did so and lived in

the other world."

Every moment in our life is a decision point to

go forward and live the better life we have been

seeking, or to climb back down the ladder and

continue on in the way things have always been just

hoping that we'll have enough happiness in our lives

to outweigh the bad.

Old maps depicted uncharted territory as Terra

Incognita, Greek for "unknown land," and the maps,

as we can see suggest that this unknown land is

populated with dragons and sea monsters.

True, the unknown can be seen as terribly

frightening, full of dragons and sea monsters; it also

can be seen as a beckoning adventure. What if the

guy who drew the map populated it with rainbows

and smiley faces?

How we see the unknown is based upon the

foundation on which our personal lives have been

built through our moment by moment choices. Do

we have the habit on climbing back down the ladder

and continuing on in the old way when we glimpse

the world we have prayed for all our lives, or do we

sally forth into the beckoning adventure?

The new world in the fable is a state of mind, not

a different location. It's an inner world. A different

way of seeing & being within the very world in

which we live.

In the Gospel according to John, Nicodemus

comes to Jesus and expresses his recognition of the

spirit Jesus carries, saying (3:2), "Rabbi, we know

that you are a teacher who has come from God; for

no one can do these signs that you do apart from the

presence of God."

If that conversation occurred today , Jesus might

answer by saying, "Exactly!" but our Loving Present

Friend was more eloquent and informative than that.

In 3:3 Jesus replies, "Very truly, I tell you, no one

can see the Kingdom of God without being born from

above." 

In order for our lives to change our

consciousness, our awareness, has to be born again

from above. No one can experience the

consciousness of God without living from a higher

understanding ... without living from - and through -

the wisdom of God, the power of God, the will of

God, the strength of God, and the Love of God. True

rebirth is spiritual rebirth.

The fourth person in the story did not go to live

in a land far away never to be seen or heard from

again. He/she lived in the world with a new

.

consciousness.

We are all at a place called "Possibility Junction."

Each "now moment" is another junction at which we

choose between being born again from the Spirit

above, or from our individual ideas alone.

Choose the Spirit above and the power of God 

and allGods Love, without limit, will support you.

Be an ally of God and not "me first" in seeking how

happiness can come to your life.

We're at "Possibility Junction" with every

decision we make. The four in the story were at

possibility junction at the top of that ladder ... we're at

"Possibility Junction" with every decision we make.

How are we "born from above?" How do we make

lasting and satisfying change in our life?

1. Remind yourself that you are a whole and

innocent, fully loved child of God; that you

are a part of God, not apart from God.

2. Choose to feel one with God. We do this

not just once but choose once again at each

possibility junction. (we have to remind ourselves)

3. Ask God, "What would you have me do?"

(not would you have me do this or that?)

4. Stop, look, listen and feel. Stay alert for

your answer. You might hear it as an answer

in your head - you might feel it in your heart

- you might see something that gives you

your answer.

For instance, you might wake up unhappy one

morning and say to yourself, "I am a wholly innocent

fully loved child of God, attempting to remember

how that feels, followed by asking God, "What

would you have me do?" and then you get out of bed

and stumble into the bathroom to see this. 

 

An answer to your question can come from

anywhere, even your bathroom sink!

The ultimate rebirth is an awakening to Spirit,

and that rebirth always leads to a better life and it

doesn't matter what preceded that awareness.

What can be is not bound by what is or was, and

that has to be the most freeing concept anyone can

imagine!

These are exciting times!