Last Saturday I jumped ahead of my self by going into Matthew 7, I will digress today. Let’s examine Matthew 4:3-4 concerning Jesus temptation in the wilderness. Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness. The 40 days is a symbolic number which means until completed. The 40 days in the desert and the 40 years in the wilderness just means until what needed to be done was done. (We just don’t write like this anymore).
Whatever the actual length of time, Jesus was hungry. Turning the stones into bread seems like a good thing to manifest when you are hungry. But in so doing you are limiting what God maybe wanting to give you. Jesus had to hold The Faith that God had something better for him and He did. At the end the Angels came and cared for him. The Angels probably provided a lot better than bread.
Verse 4 says “people ….. must feed on every word of God.” To me that is holding the faith. Believe that God has something better for you. The word of God is creation. Remember Genesis, God spoke and his word manifested. The word of God is the manifestation of what you need and want.
Thousands of years ago, people believed that the spoken word held much power. Even today we have power in our words. We can create or destroy; we can uplift or bring down. I worked for someone who would talk about one of his sons. This man said that he always told his son that he would end up flipping burgers and guess what the 40 year old son was doing… flipping burgers. Someone else hearing this man talk commented that it was a good thing he never told the son he would end up in prison.
I have been known to have what negative thing I said to come true. This quirk prevented me from saying anything linking tornadoes and mobile homes in the same sentence when we were living in one. I can say it now since we no longer live in a mobile home — “Tornado bait” there I said it. (Why do I feel like looking over my shoulder?)
Yesterday was Paul and my wedding anniversary. Twenty years seems so long but then again not long at all. I think about all that has happened in the last 20 years. We moved 4 times, had a child (who is now 16), raised angora goats, raised cows, created a subdivision and built and lived in a house I designed. There were also many personal accomplishments and experiences that have been overcome such as depression, panic attacks, and asthma.
This makes me wonder about the next 20 years.
Paul gave me a card that said “The Adventure Continues”. That is so appropriate. Life itself is a journey, not a destination, and our journey has been an adventure.
I remember a line in a play where a woman exclaimed that she did not want to have been dead before she died. I also remember a different show where the characters were headed to a funeral and one remarked that the deceased had died years ago. What this is saying is don’t give up the adventure of life until you have to because you are physically dead. Keep learning, experiencing and serving others. Make the best use of this life as you can. Keep your ears and eyes open and who knows what will open up before you; you may be living on the other side of the world this time next year, you never know!
A Relationship Book in the Children Section
Posted by: Ann
July 4th, 2010 >> Books, Relationship, Uncategorized
Shel Silverstein is noted for his children’s books. You don’t usually think of a great relationship book coming from a children’s author.
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
This is actually the second in a series. The first book is The Missing Piece.
If you have been dating for a while, you will relate to some of the tactics the missing piece uses and may even be able to put names to the various someone’s the missing piece meets.
I don’t want to give the whole book away, it is a fast read with large, simple pictures like a children’s book should have. If you don’t want to buy it, at least check it out from your local library. I bet they have it — in the Children’s section.
This is part of the well known ‘Sermon on the Mountain’. These particular verses say to stop judging others or you will be judged. It is a specific application of the ‘Golden Rule’. Treat others the way you want to be treated.
The ‘Golden Rule’ is very much in alignment with the Law of Attraction. What you throw out there is what you will get back. In the case of this scripture, judgment is the criteria. We humans tend to judge everything. We judge workmanship, we judge plants, we judge countries and we judge people. Boy do we judge people! It is very hard not to judge. Try going through a whole day without judging. Bet you can’t do it! Even when you think you are not judging, you are.
I have a tendency to make excuses for people. Someone speeds past me and I think maybe they just got a call from the hospital that a loved one only has minutes to live. But even when I make excuses for someone I am still passing judgment. If I had not judged them, I would not have made an excuse for their actions.
What is so bad about judging someone? For one thing we tend to judge negatively. When we judge negatively, we invite negativity into our lives. We get the negative judgment thrown back at us.
The second thing is that we assume we know what is going on in the other person’s life. That is a big fallacy. We usually don’t have a clue. I have found that people tend to do the best they can under the circumstances they live with. Sometimes they are tired, but they do the best they can. Sometimes they are in pain, but they do the best they can. Sometimes they have mental problems, but again they do the best they can.
The third point is what we like and don’t like in someone else is what we like and don’t like in ourselves. The next time you are hot on criticizing someone, stop and take a look at your own life. If you are honest, you will see the same behavior in yourself. Often it takes asking a friend who will give a candid answer if we have that trait. Be ready for the answer, you may not like it.
I am not going to ask you to stop judging, but be prepared for what gets thrown back at you.
I have been reading several books lately about manifesting. They all point to the same technique. In fact a couple books have a Christian bent and talk about how faith and belief and a positive attitude are upheld in the Bible.
I am very familiar with the Bible, having read through it at least 4 times. But for some reason my upbringing instilled in me a ‘holiness’ to poverty. These books are telling me the opposite. So I am going to work my way through the Gospels and record all the places where a reference to having faith, believing and good coming to you are stated or even implied.
This may take a while but should be very interesting. I am using this to counter all the ‘lies’ I was brought up with.
God, at least my God, is a God of abundance and all powerful. What I had been taught was God wanted you to deny your material property (sounds like a past life monkish existence) and live in scarcity. This does not make sense. How can you help the poor by becoming one of them? Why would you throw back into God’s face what he is lovingly trying to give you? Sounds like a very rude thing to do.
When I give someone something, I love it when they gush and accept it with gratitude. Don’t the people who can’t take a complement drive you crazy? Makes you not want to give one. I was always one to believe that you should graciously accept, and don’t throw a complement back, at least not immediately because that make you sound like one-up-man-ship.
Getting back off my soap box, I will title the post with the Bible verse involved and the post will explain how it supports manifesting.
In the past I have written a lot about change. This is not the jingle in your pocket but change in life.
Last year I was constantly seeing number sequences, this started in February 2009. Usually I would get the urge to look at the clock. At first (according to Doreen Virtue’s book Healing With The Angels)
Then around November 2009 the sequencing changed and the meaning was that change was immanent. I kept anticipating that change. But now I believe it has occurred.
For one thing I have not seen any sequencing that points toward change for several months and the second thing was that I experienced a major change more than two months ago. Lying in bed one night, I awoke in a panic but this time I started thinking how I have had some form of fear all my life. I went back through my life, checking into the major fears I had during each life phase. Then I thought about my past lives that I knew about and the fear that was present in them. It was then that I realized I would always have something to be afraid of so I decided that was ridiculous. At that point calm crept over me starting in my legs and spreading upwards. I have not written about it until now because I wanted to make sure it would last and it was the immanent change I was waiting for.
Since then I have still been seeing number sequences but they are related to something else; manifesting. That is a whole different topic.
Cats like having a human wait on them, this includes opening doors. To counter this behavior we installed cat doors. The standard size for a cat door is 4”x4” which is very small for our large 12 to 18 pound cats. We install the larger “small dog” doors for our cats and even then it was a squeeze for our largest cat.
One house we lived in had a small dog door installed in the wall leading between the utility room and the garage, and another one installed in the garage door. This way the cats could ‘wipe’ their feet on the way to the inner-sanctum for the house.
One day we had been doing some work in the garage with the garage door open. That evening we closed the garage door and went to bed. About 2:00 AM we awoke to a scratching sound in the living room. Paul got up to see what the cats were up to. The cat was scratching at the carpet where the door to the study was. In the dark, Paul leaned down to push the cat away from the door. His first clue was that he felt he had to reach down farther than he should for one of our cats. That is when he decided to turn on a light.
As Paul’s eyes became adjusted to the light, he saw that the creature was not our black and white cat but a black and white skunk. Paul swung the door to the study open to let the skunk check that out because it was insistent in clawing its way into the study. The window was open creating a draft under the door that the skunk was feeling.
After making its way around the room and realizing there was no way out, it meandered back out. In the mean time, Paul had opened the front door which was very close to the study door. As the skunk came out, it sensed the bigger draft from the front door and started that direction. However one of our cats, Brenda, had seen the open door and thought that was a novelty in the middle of the night and ran over and sat in the doorway.
The skunk saw the cat and raised his tail. Paul grabbed a jacket from the coat rack and holding it behind the skunk said soothingly “Its OK, you don’t have to spray”, then, out of the corner of his mouth he hissed to the cat in the doorway, “Brenda, get out of the way”. Finally, Brenda took the hint and moved out of the doorway. The skunk then meandered out of the door.
Luckily it never sprayed and it was then that we determined that juvenile skunks that have never sprayed don’t smell (or that would have been a bigger clue that it was a skunk in the living room). The only damage was to the carpet by the study door. We think the skunk may have been closed in the garage that night and the first cat door he came to was into the house.
Dark Energy and Manifesting Thoughts
Posted by: Ann
June 29th, 2010 >> God, Manifesting, Physical/Material
I have been reading Wallace D. Wattles book “The Science of Getting Rich”. This is the same book that Rhonda Byrne’s daughter gave her to read that lead to her producing “The Secret” movie (you can download an e-copy of Wattles’ book there). There are some interesting correlations between what this 1910 publication says and modern discoveries.
A key idea that is often quoted in the book is “There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imagined by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.” This correlates with some astronomical discoveries made in the last 10 years or so; the existence of dark energy and dark matter.
Scientists believe that dark energy exists because of its effect on bodies that are visible; like the belief in subatomic particles because of how particles act and react under certain conditions. Scientist believe that the dark energy condenses into dark matter. It is the dark matter that condenses further into the physical bodies that we see in space. It is said that only about 5% of the energy available has actually created all the physical things we can see. This includes all the galaxies, all the solar systems, all the planets and everything on each planet such as the chair you are sitting in and yes even your body. That leaves a lot of energy floating around out there.
How do these ‘things’ get created? I believe mainly through the mind of God. The first thoughts were God’s and since we have been created in the image of God, I believe that means we are creators also. Often our creating has taken a more tangible form such as taking hammer and nail to cut-up trees. But even that has to start with an idea.
Could we be more powerful than we give ourselves credit for?
The Holographic Universe
This is an intriguing book with references and explanations of a lot of research that has been conducted world wide. I was familiar with some of the researchers like Fred Alan Wolfe but this was my first introduction to most of them.
Many examples are given from various experiences of different people including the author. One such experience relayed involved a hypnotist who was hired to entertain a group of friends at Mr. Talbot’s father’s house, the author was in attendance. One guest seemed to be susceptible to hypnotic suggestion. Tom had never been hypnotized before but proved to be a very good subject. The hypnotist put him in a deep trance and performed the usual tricks that a stage hypnotist does. One trick was convincing Tom that there was a giraffe in the room at which Tom responded by gapeing in wonder. The hypnotist told Tom a potato was an apple and Tom ate it with gusto. But the real kicker came when Tom was told that his teenage daughter would be completely invisible to him. Tom’s daughter, Laura, was positioned in front of Tom and then Tom was awakened and asked if he could see her. Laura was giggling but Tom looked right through her. “No” he couldn’t see her. The hypnotist went behind Laura so that he was hidden from Tom’s normal view and took an object from his pocket. Tom could not have seen what the hypnotist had done and the hypnotist pressed the object against Laura’s back. He asked Tom to identify the object. Tom said it was a watch. Then the hypnotist asked Tom if he could read the inscription. Tom squinted and read out the name of the watches owner (someone that none of them knew) and the inscription! The hypnotist then showed the watch to the others in the room and everything was correct. Later Tom said that all he had seen was the hypnotist standing and holding the watch in the palm of his hand.
Many more experiences from other people are also given with the explanation of how a holographic universe could account for that.
What tops this for me is that two weeks after reading this book an article came out in our little sleepy town, conservative newspaper with the title “Are We Holograms?”. Makes you think.
How Would You Handle Manifesting
Posted by: Ann
June 26th, 2010 >> Change, Manifesting, Physical/Material
If you could manifest anything, would you? I have heard of some ‘masters’ in India who can create out of thin air. The things they create can be quite valuable, gold items, exotic gems etc and all of these they give away. Yes some of the items created have been tested and found to be of the highest quality.
I don’t believe any of these people live a life of opulence. Even though they can create what ever they want they don’t create much of anything for themselves. That in itself seems to give them less credence in our materialistic world. I can hear it now “If they are so great and can create what ever they want, why don’t they live in a palace?”
Think about it a little. If you could create what ever you wanted, when ever you wanted, would you be in any hurry about creating any more than you really need. I don’t think I would. The pressure would be off. I would know I could have food, housing, clothing anything I needed whenever I wanted it so I would have no need to create it right now. I would have more fun creating ‘trinkets’ for others and giving them away, just like these people do.
There is so much material available concerning manifesting and the law of attraction. Much of the material is being rediscovered from published works in the early 1900’s. It does seem that what the masses concentrate on comes about. This makes me wonder if more and more people will be able to manifest what they want at will. Maybe this is the great change that the December 2012 date is pointing toward. It is interesting to contemplate. The whole dynamics of society would change.