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As the dawn breaks in the east and sets in the west, so is time; going down to rise on a new day, morning rising, evening setting, ever being, for this is time. As nature cares, as the sun comes up and then again sets, so is time, with no beginning and no end: ceaselessly sharing, ceaselessly caring.
So too the moon; sometimes new, sometimes old, constantly returning in its own form, never altering its pattern but always changing. Just as a circle is one, with no point of origin and none of closing, so is time.
Time is when the clouds form, the shadow moves, the wind breathes. When the tide ebbs and flows, as the storms gather, as the evening twilight emerges and in its turn vanishes. When ripples broaden and the bud opens; eternally present yet passing. All this is time, the beginning and the end.
Time is ever present in its instant, but moving on. For now is the moment: hesitate and it has passed, for a new instant is born. Time is.
I
have lived in my body for many years, but when time comes, it is for me to
leave this planet, to lay my body aside and depart with my soul to whence I
came. The seasons gone by, my happenings and deeds in years past, months,
weeks, days, hours, minutes, a second ago; these have all moved on. No prior
instant may be reclaimed for now
is the only time that I have. My past is no longer with me. The presence
given to me previously has now
departed and, except as a recollection, it is out of my grasp. Similarly I am
unable to be in the future, I might forward plan but being there is beyond my
surety. The only moment that I have is now, this moment, this instant.
I may be fully present in the instant given to me, in attendance with my thoughts and feelings. I may choose to be in the moment and, at the same time, I am free to select to be in the company of love. Whichever thought or feeling I am with is the one I am encouraging. If I am judging, I am supporting that ego. If I love I am sustaining the love within and fanning its ember. Choosing to be with other than love renounces my right to offer and receive love: the opportunity dies as the moment is lost. It is for me to choose, I have this option now; the power of this decision is mine to take. I may consciously join with love to cherish and embrace it in the moment for the opportunity the instant brings will never return. If I do not share the instant with love or one of its features, the opportunity has passed and gone forever and I have supported some other ego. I receive each instant, each circumstance, only fleetingly. Each is a wonder. Mine is the choice.
It is my assignment of life to make
every instant one of love, and that occasion is with me now. This is the only
moment available, there is no other. In it I have the option to be with love
and secure my eternity. My teacher is here now, my teacher is love. Be with the
teacher. Indeed, why be with any other for there is only one teacher. There are
no questions, the answer is love.
Being in the instant is being present in the instant, but being in the presence with which awareness? Being argumentative is being argumentative in the moment and I am free to be with that feeling, which in itself is an experience of living. My mood is able to change though, from being argumentative to being happy or some other alertness. Rather than letting the egos run my instant, I may sway my mood and choose my company. I may reject being in an argumentative mind and alternatively welcome in love, allowing myself to be kind, compassionate and cheerful. In this way I avoid fear and hurt. I have this choice. I am free to choose love and be in the company of my soul. The more I practice being with love in this way, the more love will accompany me in my life. The precious instant of loving and being love then widens into my immediate reality.
I do not see electricity but it is there and I may unquestionably feel it. Likewise I often do not see love, but it too is there and again I may feel it. It is for me to choose. The more I determine to search for love, the more I discover love and the more I enhance my relationship. Love is always present, I simply need to seek and accept. In the same way as I acknowledge the physical existence of electricity, I may also admit to the spiritual presence of love. I may plug into love as a permanent connection wherever I am. Love is the energy of my life and the moment to be with love is now. It, like electricity, is instantaneous, its source surrounds me, and love cannot fail. I may drink of love freely, taking my fill; I may accept its abundance. The cup of love is overflowing, its quality is assured. To love and be loved in every instant is my soul task on planet earth. I have no other calling.
Yet I may be so busy in “my” time: rushing, always hectic, being behind schedule and never quite finishing. Yes so busy that it is my constant state of being. If I am like this and persistently hurrying, then I do not leave time for my spiritual being? It is my responsibility to be prepared when my time comes to depart this planet? If I continue to be frenzied, the moment is repeatedly lost. The instant is now and my time of departure is not known.
Similarly I may be building remembrances to myself at work or play so that I am “recognized” even in some minor way. Am I doing so now by recording these writings? Is my motive love or an ego? Do I throw myself into my work for pride or position or is my motive because I wish to do it properly and in so doing love myself and others? Is my environment of family one of love or is there bickering, arguing and hurt? Am I forcing my presence or beliefs on others? Remember love does not force.
If I had insight and knew I only had ten weeks of life left on planet earth, what would I do? Decisions become imperative. Think about this for a while. Why not write down those things you would do? (Try not to read on until you have completed your list.)
But if I had ten months left, then that would not be so urgent and I might delay making the list, yet the matter would remain uppermost in my mind. Yet if ten years or ten decades, I would probably decide not to panic.
Consider just ten days left. Take time out and rewrite the list. What is different? Why?
Ten hours?
Ten minutes?
This moment?
The answer is to love. To love self and others in the moment, for the next ten seconds, the next ten minutes ten hours, ten eons and to constantly be with love. That is my task and when I arrive I am there. I come to understand all, for the enlightenment is love.
Each moment is given to me, I can waste it allowing the egos to dominate or make eternal use of the presence given. I may be present without being attached, aware but not caught up. I am allowed to receive wisdom and absorb love, it is my birthright, I just need to dare to accept. I am free to do these things, only I (the ego) can be a hindrance to my being love. I am just to love.
By being with love I am able to restore myself, now is my new beginning, each and every instant. This moment I may look inwardly, observing, searching coming to know, comprehending, and being aware of all that is love. In any instant I may be with love, I may be in the company of the child within, with my soul. If I look outwardly at the many people and things surrounding me and try to assess and understand them, I am diverted away from the real me, away from my soul whom I have so long neglected. It is time to return. At this very moment love is within me, am I in that same place?
With love as a companion I am to make today a day where my feet take me only in the direction of love, leading me towards peace. May the path I tread be the path of wisdom and hope, joining with others so all may share? Should I veer off course, may I inwardly quickly realise and return to love. Today may my hands reach out to love, being caring in all they do. May I touch others with love and be touched with love by others, giving and receiving; living love. Let my eyes see the beauty and my ears hear the harmony and my feelings be only of love. I am one.
Do not start the day expecting to get something out of it, rather spend the day putting love into it, at work or at play. Then, as I put love into my surroundings, I pass on love and give the opportunity for others to love. As I give to the universe I will be repaid many times over and I, together with those who accept, will be restored. Rejoice, for today is given to me for loving, today I will love, today I will only be love. I will only do loving deeds, I will only say loving words. Let my mouth speak truth, may the words I utter not deviate. If anything I think, do or say is not loving, then I choose to be silent and so the opportunity is offered for love to re-enter. As I again find love and cherish the moment, peace, truth and forgiveness return to be within. I am reunited with my soul.
Yes, I have much loving to do today, to love everyone I see, everyone I meet and everyone whose life I touch. To love myself, the child within, to love my neighbour, the visitor, the stranger, my adversary and all of nature. Everyone and everything of nature that surrounds me is of love, my soul is love. In the past I have sometimes forgotten these things and I became confused, looking blindly and not seeing. I previously perceived differently.
These matters are vital, for this may be the last time I touch you and the last time you touch me. Grasp the moment firmly with both hands for the opportunity is now. Never let go of love, rather join with others so all may share. Seek in each moment to be living abundantly, living love. Not to do so is living to die. The choice is mine. My journey is urgent but I take time to tread cautiously for each instant is sacred. Aspire never to abuse a single one.
If I am not finding love then I am to search differently, for love is surely there. I am to keep seeking, for even if a shadow is present there has to be light. Then having found love, I do not let go. I take love on board as my friend and partner to accompany me from moment to moment to eternity. There is no more powerful ally. I look now to pursue my learning with love and the presence of nature. All is here to be seen and felt. See and feel the beauty and hear the triumphant rejoicing.
As I release my fears I make space to receive love. Then, as I accept, I may continue along on my journey, moving with time and receiving the newness of life, relinquishing the old and embracing the new. Over past times I have been afraid but now is the time of my renewal. I am here on this earth as the representative of love. What is there to be afraid of?
As I maintain my focus on the love within, I am no longer abandoning the time given to me, but should I abuse the moment, the precious opportunity is lost forever. In every moment my responsibility is to accept love. Life has no other worthy cause.
My undertaking is to breathe love and be in this moment of wonderment, to experience and honour the joy, else I am dieing to myself. Love is ever present; love is here within me now and I may again recognize and embrace it as my every day, and lifetime companion. Otherwise I wither allowing myself to fade and wane away. As I actively live love I am recognising the life given to me. Love will prevail as long as I accept its presence. I do not have to wait for a chance to love; the moment is now. We each have the ability to help in this work, whether at home, at work or just out and about, wherever. In each instant my feelings, thoughts, inlook and outlook are to favour the loving answer. By reuniting with my soul, I restore myself, my fellow beings and everything that is nature.
I got
myself here to this moment in my life, why would I expect some other to come
along and resolve my situation for me? So many, so many, want the instant
miracle, the waving of a wand, rather than taking time out to learn love. We
wish for someone else to come and just take the pain away. But I was given and still have the gift of
freedom of choice, given to me in the beginning: my life has been my choices.
Each past decision was mine to make, each to my destiny remains mine to make. I
may now initiate the move in my connection to love. If I choose love then love
will unfailingly help and the wonder occurs, it cannot be otherwise. But only I
can be in the process and obtain this companionship. I can pick no better
friend than to be with love.
I myself have the great power of love, visible within me and through me; it’s just that I have hidden it. I have buried it deep within to the delight of the egos. Love is my birthright, I was born love with the assignment to give and receive love, now and always. There is always a season of growing, there is always a season of sowing: now is the time to plant and nourish love and bestow the fruits of my future. There is an ocean of love available; I am free to take the plunge. I may drink of love freely, taking my fill, accepting its abundance. Love will always assist, why would love do anything else? Why would I do anything else? My soul yearns for my loving presence. The child within yearns my presence. The only possible error I can make in the moment is not to choose to be with the love that resides within.
Maybe you would like to contemplate this now before you move on with you reading. What are you feelings about this situation?
Quietly also consider this.
Similarly if there were just one hundred people left on planet earth, would they be living harmoniously, or would there be jealousy, rivalry, judging and disputing? Might there be hate, the forming of groups and factions?
If there were thousands, millions of people left on planet earth, would most be full of hope and loving one another? Or would there be greed, separation and killing? How many children would go hungry? Hungry for love, hungry for food?
Today, now at this moment, there are billions on planet earth: many may be loving in the instant but billions are judging, being resentful, grasping, disputing, forming factions and fighting. Many millions are hungry and there is much sadness and misery. Consider these things.
If you and I were the last two people left on planet earth today, what will I do? What will you do?
It may be the last time you see the next person you meet today. What will you do?
This instant is the seed of my future.
Practice:
In peace consider the instant. Accept the wonder of the given moment. Be present in the moment
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