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Daily Light: September 2019

Monday, September 30, 2019
The Real You
How do you find the Real you?

Well, you don't have to find it. It will find you, because it is already there. As you release what is false, you uncover what is Real. Your task is to trust in it and remember it when it "goes away."

It doesn't go away, but it appears to go away. Even if you are given just a tiny glimpse, this is enough. Your faith can carry you, even when it appears that you are covered up by dark clouds for a long time.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Sunday, September 29, 2019
What Can Save You?
There is nothing and no one that can save you other than yourself.

This is the message Jesus came to tell us. He told us that the Kingdom is within and that we only need to realize that and be One with that to save ourself. So he "saved" us by showing us the way back to the Father. Unfortunately, his teachings were distorted by those who wanted to establish a power hierarchy where they made you believe that you had to go through an intermediary to get to the Father.

Jesus said we are all Sons of God. He said we would do greater things than him and he raised the dead -- hmm, that must mean we are pretty powerful and holy.

We are One. Only Unity exists. Each of us comes to be the Christ by dropping what is false and through recognizing that we have never separated from God, that we are in a dream of our own making and that God loves us the same as the moment of our Creation. And we are still in that moment.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Victim Versus Victimized
Many people have experienced horrible trauma in their life with sexual or physical abuse, betrayal, neglect by parents, loss of house, chronic disease conditions, etc.

You may have been victimized but you choose whether you stay a victim. It is normal to fall in the victim mode temporarily, especially if what happened to you was during childhood when you had no control. But we are Cocreators with God, When you choose to continue seeing yourself as a victim, you are cutting your Self off from Source and your divinity. It is powerlessness. Taking your power back from what happened to you and not allowing it to define you is the power that fueled our Creation and aligns with who you really are.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Friday, September 27, 2019
The Present Moment
When we are in the present moment, we are experiencing it as God experiences it through us. This is very powerful and aligns us with our purpose.

It is not that God does not have an experience through us at all times, even when we are living in the "past" or "future." It i that we are not experiencing it ourselves because we are in an illusory state.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Your Happiness
Your happiness is not determined by anything outside of you -- for there is nothing outside of you. As within so without for only Unity exists.

So you have the power to determine whether you are happy or not --- wow! It is not what your partner does or doesn't do; it is not whether your boss likes you or whether you have a lot of money. Not whether you are healthy and your body is beautiful.

Circumstances can and definitely will change like the wind. Don't fall for that rollercoaster for it is false. What is Real is your divinity. This is Changeless. Thus you always have your relationship with God.

You can choose to be happy even under the most horrific of circumstances. There were accounts of people who say only love in the concentration camps in WWII. Your attitude and how you see things is what is critical and will determine your happiness. And ironically, a positive attitude of gratitude will bring you the "external" things of abundance which align with your "internal" joy.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Creating Abundance And Building Faith
Can it be as easy to create abundance and "miracles" in our lives as Jesus did? Yes, but his was borne from complete faith.

As we grow and learn, as God helps us to remember how to move closer to Him in our awareness, we are given opportunities to build our faith. For if we were given everything, how would that build our faith?

It is not that we are given things and that creates faith. This is the dysfunctional thinking of this false world. It is that we have faith and this creates what we want to manifest.

Faith, intention, and feeling the joy of having what you want are the ingredients for you to create great abundance of all kinds. Once faith is complete, as it was with Jesus, you are "given" the Kingdom because you finally recognize that the Kingdom was never not there.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Projection
The appearance of evil, conflict, attack, and judgment in this world all comes from a belief in separation from God that has been projected out.

We believe that we can "get rid of" our self judgment and hatred by projecting it out and blaming others, but this is not possible. An idea does not leave its Source -- nothing is separate from anything else. Science has proven that only one unified field of energy/consciousness exists.

We don't need to analyze the darkness. We need to recognize the Light within. So we need to pull our projections back in and understand the belief system we hold which is false. By bringing what is false to the Light, we heal it, for darkness is only upheld by the belief in it. Remove the belief, and the darkness goes back into the nothingness from which it was formed (this is the power of our thought as Cocreators with God for He has given us all of the gifts of the Kingdom).

Each of us holds different beliefs and some common beliefs. Each of us grew up in different family and societal situations, and we formed a "story" from our parents, society, religious authorities, etc. These are all a colored lens through which we see the world in a distorted way.

Then, because we are One, we hold a collective belief system, and that is based on the belief that we have separated from God, that we have sinned against Him, that we should be punished. Certainly there are those like Jesus and others who have broken free from this collective unconscious, and this is what God is asking each us to do at this momentous time in this Earth reality.

You can't change the world or anyone else. You can only "change" yourself, and it is not really a change -- it is a recognition of who you are. When enough people have made this recognition, then the appearance of the world will change to fulfill the Kingdom that Jesus initiated.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Monday, September 23, 2019
Wholeness
Only by accepting all of you can you know that all of you is all of Him.

Every problem in this world stems from the belief that we are separate. When we feel separate, we feel unloved -- for only God can fill that longing of Love. When we feel unloved, we have self judgment and hatred, and we project that out to others.

But we are not separate. We have not sinned against God. We are His/Her most holy Child, and Christ lives within each of us.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Sunday, September 22, 2019
What You Do Unto The Least ....

What does it mean to be a Christian?

It does not mean to be one in name only. This is worshiping a false god. If you put your focus on anything but God -- like your wealth, your career, your reputation, really anything of this world -- then you are not a Christian. If you think it is okay to stay (for we all go there sometimes) in judgment of yourself, of others, of groups, of nations, etc, then you are not truly understanding and practicing what Jesus came here to show us. For when he said judge not lest you be judged, he was referring to the reality that we are One. As we judge, we judge ourselves.

What you do unto the least of my brothers, you do unto me. Another profound statement of our Unity. Jesus spoke this as the Christ, not as the personality who was in this world 2000 years ago. He is making these statements to aid you in the awakening of the Christ within you, for there is only one Christ, of which we are all a part.

Mother Teresa worked amongst the poorest of the poor because she understood what you do unto the least of my brothers perfectly. She said that she was administering to the Christ in each person, and this helped her to remember the Christ within her. Although her nuns operated and still operate in the most horrific of conditions, they live in the greatest joy for they have given themselves over to God and the Christ within. They realize that nothing of this world can compare.

Stop the endless chase of going from one thing to the next in trying to find your salvation in the world. You will never find it. You will be continually disappointed, and at some point, you have to stop fooling yourself in thinking that it will be the next thing that will provide it. If I only had more money, if I only had a soulmate, if I only had the respect of others, if I could only stay young. This is like the gerbil spinning endlessly on his wheel and going nowhere.

This doesn't mean that you don't enjoy the things of the world or that you don't have a special partner in your life, because most people are not meant to live a life like Mother Teresa. We are given certain gifts that will enable us to be a Light unto others, but we must first recognize and be a Light unto ourselves. And we must recognize what is truly Real and what is false. Only the Real can give you peace. Only the Real can give you joy. Only the Real can give you the Love that you strive for, that Beloved relationship with your Creator.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Friday, September 20, 2019
What Is Your Eye?
"If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."

When we have a singular focus, and that focus is God, then our outer covering becomes like a thin veil, allowing our true nature, our light, to shine through. Throughout his teachings Jesus tells us how to become like him. As he showed his body full of light, so can we. If our focus is not singular --- we are in no man's land --- "ye cannot serve God and mammon."

If we fully give our attention to our relationship with Him, then we have no worries about being provided with those things of the world. "But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Freedom
What is freedom? Freedom gives you the space to be who you are. It allows God to enter.

You are free when you don't judge yourself, anyone, or anything. You are free when you live in the present moment. You are free when there is an absence of fear. You are free when you give your life to Him in Love, in service, and in gratitude. You are free when you have no attachment to anything of this world. You are free when you no longer look outside of yourself for your identity and self worth.

Freedom allows you to soar, on His wings, to heights you could never imagine. Freedom gives you His peace. Freedom to be who you are.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Anger
Anger can be expressed through your false self (ego) or through Love. Just because it is anger does not mean that it is not an expression of Love, because Love is All.

The vast majority of people get angry from their false self. They sound like they are five years old and not getting their way, and this is true in a lot of instances as they have not become adults emotionally.

When Jesus was angry at the money changers, his anger came through Love. The Love, the teaching that he needed to express, came best through anger in that instance. It was the best vehicle to get the teaching received.

But his anger was in no way demeaning or hurtful to a particular individual or group. He had no regrets about getting angry, whereas there are often regrets for what is said when anger is not expressed through Love.

The next time you get angry at someone, while you are angry, think about how what you want to express is best said so that it is not hurtful or demeaning to that person.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Where Do You Fall?
What is your balance? Where are you on the line between feeling sorry for yourself and being grateful?

For we all fall somewhere on the line, and this determines our life experiences. There will always be things we can feel sorry for ourselves, and it is normal to fall into this space at times, but we cannot stay there. Looking at yourself and the world through a prism of victimhood will bring you more of the same as your thoughts create your reality.

There will always be something you can find that you are grateful for, even if it is "minor." Being grateful brings more blessings into your life, which creates more gratitude, more blessings, etc.

It is a matter of where you put your focus and how strong your will is which determines how you look at yourself and the world.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Monday, September 16, 2019
Peace That Passes All Understanding
Think about the phrase "the peace that passes all understanding." What it is saying is that you cannot get to God with the thinking mind. It is beyond the comprehension of the mind.

God resides in the heart, not the mind. We reach Him through our feelings, through Love.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Build Your House ....
Build your house on rock, not sand.

Don't try to live up to the expectations of society or the world. Don't look to these places for your salvation. This is building your house upon the sand. This is building your house, your identity, on what is false.

Can you even say what you are trying to live up to --- does it even matter? What is false is false --- it doesn't reflect what is Real. Even if everyone and everything around you operates in the false, it doesn't change what is Real. It doesn't change what is within you, for that is Real.

You can "pretend" that you are something you are not, but it doesn't change Truth. Build your house, build your identity, on the rock that is God. Build it on your divinity, on your Oneness with Him and all that is, even when everything and everyone around you "appears" to tell you something different.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Not By Thought
When Jesus said "which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature," he was telling us that thought cannot take us to God.

Joy, compassion, Love, and peace --- the gifts of the Kingdom --- do not originate with thought. They spring naturally from your true self and are felt. Because God is Love, the path to God is through our feelings, through the body which is His holy temple.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Friday, September 13, 2019
To Enter Heaven
When Jesus said that only those who were like little children would enter Heaven, he was referring to innocence and non judgment.

Judgment is the biggest attribute of the ego. When we judge, we cannot see the Unity of all that is. If you come from judgment, come from the ego, you will not "see" Heaven.
Heaven is within, but our judgment cuts us off from recognizing this. When we judge others, we are really judging ourselves.

We are not to become like little children in a physical state but rather our mental state. When we see from Unity, we see with wonder, innocence, gratitude, and awe. These are attributes of how a child looks at the world until they are "taught" by adults to judge and to see the world as a cruel place.

Each of us can return to that innocence and that wonder, opening the doors of Heaven.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Why Do we Try To Control?
Your happiness is not determined by the outcome you are trying to control.

We can't really control, but we try. We think it keeps us safe and that is where our happiness lies, but we are only safe in God. Only by letting go of control, by being vulnerable, can we come to know our power in Him.

Most people try to control because they have a story which they are trying to keep intact. Often they were abused in some way, especially as a child, and this keeps them from allowing that to happen again. But that is a fearful way of living life, a non joyous way.

What we need to do is go to the source of our beliefs and fears and heal what needs healing, releasing it forever and live the abundant life God has for us.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Pray In The Positive -- Affirming
When you pray, pray with gratitude for all the abundance and blessings you have, even if you are talking in general terms. If you pray for something you don't have, you are acknowledging and reinforcing a lack which is not really there.

the Universe responds to what you are praying for and reinforcing and will bring you more of the same, even if that is lack.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
The Puzzle
As an integral piece of the puzzle we call God, you go into place when the other pieces around you have been placed. This is Divine timing.

You can't go in too early -- you can't push for something to happen -- or the supporting pieces are not in place and it will not work. If you try to eat fruit before it has ripened, it does not taste good and can sicken you.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Monday, September 9, 2019
Only God's Love
Many people go from one addiction to another, always seeking to fill that deep hole of longing and sadness over not feeling God's Love.

Some have to hit rock bottom, while others make the realization when they are dying and they finally know that the body was not their reality. It is all about coming back to a remembrance of our Beloved relationship-- this is why we are here. Only God's Love can fill the longing within you.

Lawrence Doochin

These posts are similar to the over 2700 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of several books on emotional and spiritual healing, including the latest "The Divine Speaks (Volume 1): Sayings About Life, Love, and God." which can be purchased on Amazon (link below). Now the statements you have enjoyed electronically are presented in this new book in a divinely guided order which takes the reader on a powerful journey of remembrance, bringing about great healing and personal growth. http://a.co/51Urbqf
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Healing Work
Unless we walk the world like Jesus, all of us know areas where we want to improve on our remembrance journey back to God. The key is not getting down on ourselves and self judging when we "misstep," when we don't meet the standard we want to.

The actual work we are doing becomes almost secondary to the beliefs around that work --- compassion on ourselves and the letting go of self judgment, guilt, and shame when we don't meet our own standard becomes the most important thing we do. For if we don't fall into self judgment or guilt, then all of the other work we do, whether it is forgiveness or healing from emotional abuse or anything else, becomes much easier and quicker.

Lawrence Doochin
Saturday, September 7, 2019
The Meaning Of The Cross And Suffering
As with many things in our spiritual evolution and remembrance, we have to see and hear with the eyes of God to understand the true meaning of the words that Jesus spoke and what transpired during his lifetime. Why did he come? What purpose did he have for humanity? What is the meaning of the cross?

The cross serves several purposes to help us understand our true Divine nature. First, it represents the crossing out of the belief in sin, for sin is a leg in the stool of separation, along with guilt, self judgment, punishment, the need to do penance, etc. Jesus did not come to take our sins away but to destroy the belief in sin, and ironically, he did this by allowing himself to be crucified. Sometimes God shows us our errors in thinking (in this case both individually and collectively) through contrast – by allowing the false thinking to be put to the extreme. It is similar to someone who wins the lottery and then it ruins their life. They had believed that having a lot of money would be their savior, and they could only learn what they needed to be shown through the occurrence of the event.

But obviously Jesus’ crucifixion did not take “sin” away as anyone can plainly see what is happening in the world today. But the appropriate term is the appearance of sin, because that is all it is, and the appearance is only upheld by the belief that sin is real. Take away the belief, and what is false falls away. Almost everyone walking this planet with the exception of a handful of people believe to a certain extent (and it varies a huge amount depending on that person’s level of awakening) that they have separated from God, that sin is real, that they either need to do penance or they will be punished etc. But appearances are not reality.

Jesus did not save us from our sins but he “saved” us from our belief in sin. Or at least he offered an example for those who could see and hear with the eyes of God. To see it this way – to see our divinity and that we have never separated from God -- is the only way “out” of “sin.” His crucifiers wanted to literally destroy his body as they tried to project their sins on to him to get rid of them, but this is a false belief as an idea cannot leave its source. We cannot project something away from us to get rid of it or change it. We can only change it at its Source which is our false belief system. And Jesus also showed that this whole system of thinking was false when he resurrected.

The second meaning of the cross is the blending of divinity and humanity. Only in this holy reality can God know Himself/Herself in a limited three dimensional aspect. This is not good or bad. It is just another way of God coming to know Himself, and Jesus was the perfect representation of this, the first human to walk the earth who had fully remembered his divinity and lived as that expression. And he said we would do the same (and even more), so he was the wayshower. We owe it to him to use his example to learn, to heal ourselves and release what is false in us, so that we can be of service to the world. It doesn’t take many candles to illuminate a darkened house.

The third meaning of the cross has to do with the idea of suffering. We humans with our ego minds tend to want everything to be rosy and good, so when something adverse happens, we want to get away from it or change it, we judge it as “bad,” we are angry with it, etc. But that is precisely the purpose of this existence on Earth, of God having an experience through and as us. Because to God, it is only an experience – always holy even under the most difficult circumstances. Always holy even when the person commits horrible acts. For at one level of reality these acts are real and we need to address the suffering that is caused, and at another level of reality this is all like a play on a stage. This is the paradox we must continually hold, just like the paradox of divinity and humanity, of us being One with God and also being the Son.

So the word suffering is not the best term as it is ego tainted. Jesus showed us that God was with him throughout his whole life, even when he asked on the cross why he had been forsaken – in that moment, he did not feel God’s Presence, but this was a test of faith for Jesus, his final one. Even when the clouds completely cover the sun, do we still trust that the sun (God’s Love and Presence) is still there?

What does this mean for us? God is with us during the “suffering,” during those times when we live the human experience under adverse conditions. He is not only with us, but He carries us, and if we can come to see it this way, come to know Him within us, then we see this “suffering” under a totally different Light, and we have great peace about it. So the message of the cross is that “suffering” – regardless of how bad it is and being crucified on the cross is about as bad as it gets -- is always overcome (we resurrect from it) through faith and giving our will to Him.

The final message of the cross is that we are meant to fully become the incarnate Christ in this lifetime. Jesus said the Kingdom is here NOW. He didn’t say it would come when he came back. It is there for our taking, for our remembering, and we are each here to walk this same journey. And what a glorious journey that can be with a result that is holy beyond measure. For when Jesus resurrected, he was the full Christ Light body, the same one which we are all meant to inhabit in this Earth reality.

Lawrence Doochin

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