You Can Only Give To Yourself

You cannot give something unless you first have it to give. You must have forgiveness in order to give it. You must have Love in order to give it. In the Kingdom that which you have is what you are, so in the above, you are Love and forgiveness. Because we are One, you do not "lose" something by giving it. You actually increase it because you are giving back to yourself. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

His Joy

Joy comes from blessing others. This does not mean that it comes from "you." It comes from Him. If it comes from you, one of several things will happen. You will not be able to bless or give endlessly, because you are not giving from an endless source. You may have resentment or bitterness around the giving, because you may feel an obligation to do it, like this is what God wants you to do. And you may be giving to be recognized for it, which is an ego need. When you truly get out of the way and become a clear channel through which He can bless and give to others, you can do this without end, and you derive the greatest joy, because it is His joy. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

God Shared ....

When we share, we drastically reduce the power of that which is not real. If we share our secrets and fears, we see that they are specific to us, not universally held. Illusion is only held together by the power of your belief, and through sharing, you take that belief away. Only that which is Real can be shared. God created you by sharing Himself, and Creation expands by the sharing of Love and unity, as well as the sharing of yourself with your creations created out of Love. Lawrence Doochin

When Someone Moves Away From God

The more someone errs and moves away from God in their thoughts and actions, the greater our compassion and the less our judgment should be, because the more they need our help. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Replace

Replace guilt with guiltlessness. Replace judgment and condemnation with compassion, understanding, and innocence. Replace crucifixion with redemption. How you see and how you respond to your brother or sister is how you feel about and how you treat yourself. We all go to Heaven together, or none of us go. This is the circle of Oneness of which we are all a part. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

One Trunk

We must honor all paths. There are certain paths that may speak to you more and you may practice certain rituals or prayers of that path. But even when it appears that a person, group, or religion is not on the path to God, this is only an appearance. We are all on the path, a path of remembrance, to God because God is All and we are One with Him. We cannot, not be on a path to Him. Now maybe someone or a group appears to be on a path that is going in the wrong direction, away from Him (going "backward" to go "forward"), but that is not for us to judge. We don't have a high enough perspective. He has All and is taking care of All, bringing everyone to Him in His timing and in the way best suited for them to drop false beliefs and return to Love. Because in the end all paths or branches merge into the trunk of Love, as He is Love. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Awaken

This world is a dream. When you dream, you think that it is real, but when you awaken, you realize it was only a dream. Allow yourself to be awakened through recognition of His Love for you and your Oneness with Him. Even though it is a dream, this does not mean that you do not participate fully in the dream --- it is this participation which helps yourself and others awaken and allows you to create whatever you want. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Nothing Is Minor

There are no minor or random encounters. Every encounter is the One awakening to Itself. Every encounter is holy. If you begin to look at life like this, then everything will appear as and be a blessing to you. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Never Forget --- Always Forgive

Throughout history there have been many atrocities committed on groups of people. When it is over, you have heard the phrase "never forget." When this is said, it is the same as saying never forgive. When we forgive, we don't forget what happened, but we don't dwell on it either. True forgiveness means to see the experience in a different light, a much larger perspective. There is no anger, hatred, bitterness, resentment, or self pity remaining when we truly forgive. If we look back, it is for this important reason. God wastes nothing. Out of every tragedy can bloom roses if we allow it. So when we look back, look back for the gratitude, for the roses, that came out of the experience and allowed us to move closer to Him.

What Is The Only Answer?

The world appears like a mess. We see many problems that are worsening --- extreme divisiveness and polarization, millions of kids under age 6 on prescription medicine, wars, famine, a crumbling financial system and money as God to many, teenagers so cut off from their true nature and with no support system that they become killing machines, huge numbers of depressed individuals, polluted water, food, and skies --- need I go on? How did we get here? God is the reason we are here --- no, we are not being punished by Him. We are punishing ourselves! We have completely turned our face from Him and his Love, individually and collectively. The farther we believe that we "move" from Him, the more self judgment we feel and project in the world (judgment, hatred, wars, etc) and the more we try to fill that hole of longing for His love with "stuff" --- material goods, sex, medicators, position, etc. There is great news! God and His Love is the solution to EVERY one of yours and the world's "problems." For they are not really problems --- they only appear to us now, but they will melt away into nothingness when we return to and feel His Love and the Kingdom is revealed. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Are You Willing?

That person in your life who has angered you most, who has betrayed you, who has judged you, who has not loved and abandoned you, is your Savior. That person has God expressing through them. That person is God coming to you to show you His Love for you. That may be difficult for you to hear, but Love is not doing this to you to punish you. He wants you to find your joy through forgiveness. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Give Up The Games

When you begin to give up all the ego games and strategies and defenses, all of the ways you try to control situations or people, you look back and see how you have imprisoned yourself and cut off your peace and joy. You lived in hell, but you don't know it is that until you have stepped out of it, at least temporarily, and looked back. For His peace and joy can only come from being free, and you are only free when you have released that which is false and which blocks your recognition of your Oneness with Him. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Without Resistance

How can He help you if you don't give Him your burdens? He knows what they are, but He cannot take them from you --- that would mean that you don't have free Will. You have to give them to Him. It is your intention, your act of giving them to Him, which is a surrender. This surrender creates the opening for change to occur as He can now work in and through you. Can a river flow freely if it has to navigate many dams? Your surrendering your burdens and your act of asking for help --- acknowledging that you cannot do it and that you are nothing without Him --- is what removes the dams so that the River of your life flows without resistance. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

God IS

God is your Father, your Mother, your Comforter, your Beloved, your best friend, and your Creator, the giver of Life. You cannot speak of yourself without also speaking of Him, because you are One with Him. Have you ever thought, ever felt in your true Being, what this Oneness means? You are not this collection of neurons, not the homemaker or accountant or sister --- this is all temporary, solely designed for you to have an experience and to recognize that you are Holiness Itself. Wow, what a blessing you provide to everyone you encounter. Light emanates from you because you are Light. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Self Judgment

Nothing is ever accomplished by self judgment. You can't "correct" the situation or change the past by condemning yourself. Self judgment takes you down a negative spiral where you cannot make proper amends and right decisions. If you have hurt someone, beating yourself up does not help them. When you make a mistake and you feel guilty, let the guilt and self judgment go. When you start first with compassion on yourself, you can have compassion on others, and you can stay in that God space where He can give you the answers as to what direction you need to go. How do you have compassion on yourself in this situation? First, know that everyone at some time has self judgment and guilt over experiences they would choose to do differently the next time. Second, remember that compassion is the foundation of Love, and you are Love, for you are One with Him. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Guilt

Guilt establishes a need for and confirms the false belief in time. Guilt cannot be established without a past or a future. You feel guilty over something you have done in the past or something you anticipate doing in the future, even if it is in the next moment. Without guilt there exists only the present moment, the Now. Lawrence Doochin

How Much Do You Know?

Surrender comes when you admit that you can't figure anything out. That is the opening which takes "you" out and allows Him to enter. The more you think you know, the less you can understand. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

ALLOW Him

God cannot help you unless you ALLOW Him to help you. He will give you hints as to the steps you need to take for emotional, spiritual, physical, and mental healing, but it is up to you to take those steps, as you have free Will. If you don't take the steps, it will be obvious why your life is not what you want it to be. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Recognizing Your Divinity

We can't learn how to love and how to be Love unless all of us is integrated and loved. There are parts of each of you which long for expression, but which you suppress. God is Love, and Love is wholeness. When you suppress aspects of yourself, you cannot fully recognize your divinity. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Sin Versus Error

If you deem someone or something as unforgivable, then you see that as a sin, for sin, as defined by our culture means that it is permanent and disappoints God. God cannot be disappointed --- He expresses through us and we are One with Him --- can He be disappointed in Himself? Because His Love is unconditional, God sees errors, not sins. He loves us regardless of our actions, words, thoughts, etc. It is very important to distinguish between human love and divine Love. Most people are not able to do this, because their concept of Love is a condition based one that comes from their human, ego based experience. Nothing is permanent except God and His Love, and because you are One with Him, you are Love --- permanent, eternal, holy. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Joy And Grief

If you aren't willing to feel grief, you can't experience the joy of God. For God is joy --- that is our inheritance! We are Spirit, but we are temporarily living in a "reality" of a body that has experiences. In this reality people hurt our feelings, they "die," at times we feel separate from God, our Beloved. So grief is a healthy and naturally rising emotion in this world. We come back to a recognition and remembrance of our divinity and Oneness with God through the emotions, for God is Love. If we block or suppress our grief and sadness, we block our joy as well, and we are not able to feel and experience "living and having our Being in Him." Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Moving With Purpose

There is always a vehicle through which God brings us closer to Him. This can be a one time experience, or one that continues to repeat, a person, or a problem such as the loss of a job. It can be all of these things at different times. Maybe it is a friend with whom you have had a long relationship and it turns sour. Some of these may be short lived, and otehrs may be over a long time, such as ups and downs in a marriage. Unfortunately, the vehicle may occur as a tragedy or disaster, because we have not listened to God's signals up to that point and He really has to get our attention. Everything and everyone has the purpose of helping us to remember Him and His Love. We go through little move toward Him, and we go through big moves. And sometimes we take a few steps back. But we are always moving with this purpose. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Victimization

Your experience may have been one of victimization, but you are not a victim unless you choose to act like one. When you choose to act like a victim, you disempower yourself because you cut yourself off from your identity in God and all of His gifts. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Not Consistent With Love

If you feel that you have had actions or thoughts which are not consistent with Love, the number one thing you want to do is forgive yourself and not judge yourself. If you do nothing but this, it will have the greatest healing effect. If you have said some words to someone that you regret, saying you are sorry is important, but doing this will be much more authentic and have much greater power if you have first forgiven yourself. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

What Is Strength?

Strength is the willingness to go through whatever trials or tribulations are presented to you. It is the willingness to work through unhealthy emotional patterns and beliefs and release them. It is having faith that God would not give you more than you can handle at that time. Having strength does not mean that you don't dislike what you are going through or that you don't temporarily fall into self pity, but it does mean that you have set your intention and Will to stay present in it and to see it through to the end. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

The Easter Message

The Easter message is one of Love and redemption --- not from a God who requires a sacrifice, but one who is Love and has given us the Kingdom. How could a God who is Love require a sacrifice of anyone of anything. How could a God who is One, which means that God is all that exists, require a sacrifice of Himself. Jesus came to awaken us, not to take away our sins, because the concept of sin only exists in this false and changing world. Everything of God is changeless and eternal. Jesus did not come to take away our sins but to take away, to "cross" out, our belief in sin. He "died" to reveal Truth for us. When we drop what is false, when we drop all of our beliefs that we are not worthy and that we are sinful, we are left with is what has always been there through the dream --- God, Truth, Unity, our Holiness --- all one and the same. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Why Do We Believe We Have To Suffer

Continuing the theme from yesterdays post (which is below), why do we believe we have to suffer? Because we believe we are guilty. We believe we have sinned against God, and we are guilty of this "eternal" offense and must suffer for it. Guilt is projected out individually and collectively in the appearance of the world. Anytime we judge, we are feeling guilty and projecting that judgment from ourselves --- unsuccessfully. For a thought cannot leave its source. So we cannot project the guilt away. But similarly, we were created as a Love thought by God, and we cannot be separate from our Source, which is Love. Guilt, sin, fear, judgment, suffering, the need for redemption --- these only exist in a mind which believes it can be separate from God. Suffering and Redemption post ----There is a collective belief help by most people outside of indigenous societies that we must suffer or be punished to be redeemed by God. The false message of this Easter weekend is that someone or something has to be sacrificed and suffer in order for our "sins" to be removed from us and in order for us to be back in God's good graces. But we can't fall out of Grace. We never left it. We can believe in the concept of sin, but that doesn't alter the Truth that we are One with God and that if we are sin, He must be as well. God has only good and Love for you. You do not have to earn it, because it is your birthright. No parts of the One need to be sacrificed or suffer. This is a pagan concept left over from days of old when Unity and God's unconditional Love were not understood. It is time for us to drop these false beliefs and return in our recognition and remembrance to who we really are. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Suffering and Redemption

There is a collective belief help by most people outside of indigenous societies that we must suffer or be punished to be redeemed by God. The false message of this Easter weekend is that someone or something has to be sacrificed and suffer in order for our "sins" to be removed from us and in order for us to be back in God's good graces. But we can't fall out of Grace. We never left it. We can believe in the concept of sin, but that doesn't alter the Truth that we are One with God and that if we are sin, He must be as well. God has only good and Love for you. You do not have to earn it, because it is your birthright. No parts of the One need to be sacrificed or suffer. This is a pagan concept left over from days of old when Unity and God's unconditional Love were not understood. It is time for us to drop these false beliefs and return in our recognition and remembrance to who we really are. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Condemnation

When you condemn just one brother or sister, you condemn yourself. For we are One. There is no middle ground. If that anger and bitterness is more important to you than releasing this other person, then you have denied Heaven for both of you, for we only go together. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."

Love Versus Fear

Love has no need to attack. It knows what it is. Only fear attacks. Only fear judges. Only fear hates. If you do these things, you are not fear, but you believe you are fear or you would not do these things. You are Love, for only Love exists. God is Love, and God is One, which means that He is all that exists. Drop the false belief that you can be something you are not, and you will be what you are --- Love. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2100 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence traveled a long road of recovery from sexual abuse and is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."