My Definition of Love

 Love is an expression of feelings that can be both Physical
(an outward expression) and Spiritual (inward feelings that both focus inward
and outward that only you feel). To me, expressions of love are many, and are
as varied in feelings as there are people to experience them, and the love I
speak of is from my experiences. My experiences, they cover what I have felt,
expressions of love I have seen, and a love that over the years have taught me
about heartache, and gifts of love that I could not have imagined possible
happening.

Yes, we love, we experience love at different levels as we  learn, see, and express ourselves in what we feel as love.

 Love at Thirteen

 When I was about thirteen years old, a cousin of a friend of  mind came to spend the summer with them, we met and most of the summer we spent  a lot of time together. Summer was not long enough, she had to return home,  later that day, that night, and weeks later, I did not sleep. The first few  days after she left I cried, it lasted a long time, it was not as today there  would be no talking to her on the telephone, we were not old enough for that.  Was it love, emotions, I know it was powerful, so much so that I have not felt  anything like it since.

 My Father’s/// and a Gift of Life

 I once asked Our Father/// to give me a child, some time
later he did, and I was so happy, and now my happiness can’t be measured. I did
not stipulate when, in what way, whether it should be a boy or a girl, I simply
asked for a child, and now I give thanks every day for God/// gave me what I
asked for in the way He/// did. In the sentences before this one I expressed
how much I love the gift of life God gave me, gave the world, yet I did not use
the word “love” specifically in it. Sometimes we don’t use the exact word “love”
but we mean it in what we do, in what we show the world, and how we live one
with another, no matter who they are where they come from.

 Love and the Path We Walk

 So many of us walk a path full of caring, helping others in
every way possible that includes a hand up, and the giving of one’s self to
enable life in another. I guess I could take the rest of my life trying to
share my experiences and what I see and feel concerning love, but each of us
can do that. Someone I love on a particular level is Mother Teresa and Nelson
Mandela. It was their experiences in life that led them to where they were, and
the wonderful lives they led because of what they believed, and that still
leads Nelson Mandela today. These two started a path that sometimes led them
into trouble, but when love beyond your own power lifts you up instead of
letting you fall, you know whose hands you are in. They were given powers
beyond themselves for their task, and that is how we all are, we have that
power available to us in our defining moments in time. Mother Teresa would see
year after year, people in need seemingly to never end, and Mandela would sit
in prison year after year with no idea he would be president of the very
country that imprisoned him. This was all do to powers above and beyond them,
the same power we give names to such as in my case “Father///”, or God///, and
many other religions have their names. Names or names that we give to what we
believe, but the power of what works with us is undeniable and faithful to all
of us no matter the name.

 The Love of Life and Peace

 This particular need for Love and Peace we have is no less
powerful or important than any other type or level of love we might feel,
because without it many do not get the chance to experience the love in its
many forms. Never the chance to love and share love between people in an
experience they can only measure, love such as parents to children, or children
who will never get the chance to know love in any form at all.

 My Path

 I cannot say what my path in life will be exactly, I know
when I talk too much I am always forced to face it. We are challenged when we
dare to say what we will do in the future, well I am going to love people, no
matter who they are or where they are. No matter what else I make a mistake on,
such as trying to be a writer, I will always care and love people wherever I
find them. I know that love means many things on many levels, but it is also
just one thing, a life of living, I hope it is my life. We talk about love with
our voices low hardly being heard, I guess I am just saying what I have to say
aloud.

 We are in a Process of Learning that  Never Ends

 When we understand the simplicity of love, we will then know
that our learning processes will never be over, the physical body will return
to the earth, and the spirit energy within us will move on to a higher state.
We don’t need to be one or the other, just care, make that step toward caring,
and love will magnify every single thing we do in life and beyond. We cannot
fail, but the world gives much, and when we lose sight of what we are, we fill
ourselves with earthly wants and needs. Sometimes we move around, or even step
over those on this path of our own making, and we blind ourselves from our
spiritual side, you can tell when it’s not right but you ignore it. I know it
is hard to look past the physical side of life, but when you do the simple
things such as caring about someone that’s right in the front of you, all the
other things become easy.

Care about something, love someone, I am a bit behind but I  will catch-up.

Edmond

We have throughout all of time, experienced children who rose from little or nothing to lead from behind; they have in the shortness of their lives shown us a path and their light still shines today. The path and light comes from children, and it does not matter who the parents of the children are or where they came from, for it is a path given by powers and authorities far above and beyond us all. Generally, their time here is numbered, but their task must be completed, and that’s why no matter what their work is, it will be completed. It gets done, in spite of how our world operates, and how we live one with another with everyone thinking they are right while the world fails around them. True wealth is found in our precious children, not yet given a chance to live and learn, and if only they were given half a chance this world would be different.

Our Children

Children give us life in what they do in life, and it is that unknown child left in a place we may only talk about, but where little is done to help, that maybe the child that saves the world. We are coming to a turning point, not one of our choosing, and we need hearts willing to help heal and save the world. Today we have children everywhere in the world that can contribute, and they must be given the chance to make our world better. The time for war is over, peace will rise up, and no matter what side you are on, or what you may believe, it will be over. We must give rise to the only true wealth we really have, our children and their future, it is not some children, but all children.

Our Duty as Human Beings

We actually had one law or instinct programed into our genome, go forth and multiply, and everything else followed; it was our duty to have children. It is also our duty no matter who we are to take care of the children no matter where they are. 

 The Valley

A spiritual mist covers this valley, it permeates all things, and when I was a young boy my mother called it “The Vale”, a place seen by so few peering through the Vale. The foundation of this mist can be called the foundation of all things, which hold the present, past, and future in one place, a place and way we cannot yet understand clearly. It is possible to understand in levels or degrees from person to person, that understanding comes to us, and we ourselves do not create it, or cause it to be, we simply become, a gift I call it. We are processors of information, then we surmise or fix an outcome, and no, we are not robots but thinkers who have not yet understood the infinity process, and that we are a part of it.

 All our efforts, our thoughts, energies, ideas, beliefs, or non-beliefs are all here in this valley, our receptacle. No matter what type of person we are, were, or become; it is here in the valley the results rest, our spiritual consciousness we call soul does not.  

 The Great Light

A connection can be made both spiritual and physically while in the body to this Great Light, because our hope is to use our earthly physical time learning and understanding our spiritual power. In using the word power, I do not mean control in any form, but my description of power is such words as peace, giving, receiving, and sharing. In trying to understand the last sentence, take it up a couple of spiritual levels, and it works wonders in the physical world in more ways than one.  

About Being First

Being first is not easy; it could mean being last, which does not equate to our understanding of progress in the world in which we live today. The spirit within taught me that there is no guarantee no matter what you do that I could end up first. I started to worry about being first, I saw myself in a different place, the people had power and authority, yet none of them seemed different from the other.

I saw a picture, then I was in it the picture, people were dressed in colors of all kinds yet the cloth was all of the same quality, and everyone seemed to be very busy. I walked around looking at everything, it was then I saw people lined up going toward two large doors that stood but no walls held them up. I walked up behind the last person, and began to wait my turn to go in, I had no idea what was on the other side of those doors. A lady in front of me grabbed my arm and motioned me to move ahead of her, I didn’t want to do that because she was a woman and older than me. Tears start to come down her cheeks and I moved in front of her quickly, this happened again with a man, then a boy. I had no idea what was on the other side of those doors or why I was standing in this line, I asked the boy who had just let me in front of him, and he grabbed my hand, the right hand. He smiled, said nothing at all, he just continued to hold on to my hand as the line moved forward.

Then for some reason I turned around and the kid behind me that really looked like a teenager smiled, I said move up in front of me, he did and we continued to stand there. Then somehow, I lost tract of time, and the next thing I knew I was close to the end of the line again back where I had originally started from. Now I had a boy holding my hand, but he had another child holding his hand, a little girl. I kneeled down to talk to them, and the little girl asked me if she could go home, I had no answer for her at all, then a hand touched my shoulder, I looked back, and it was the older lady who let me in front of her the first time. She pulled on my shoulder, and I bent down closer to her, she then began to whisper in my ear something I heard but did not hear. Tears began to flow from my eyes, I felt I knew something about the line we were in, it is not being first in line, but it is the feeling of being first no matter where you are in life. The little boy and girl that stood with me, we left the line, and as we walked I understood that the boy and girl, they were my children not yet born because they began to fade away. Then as I walked closer to the people who were so busy I began to fade away too, I woke up.  

I wrote the fifth part to “The Valley between Religion and Spirituality”, but something rose within me and I cannot share the last part of it now. What I must do is share with you the beginning of all these things where humans are concern here on earth, our beginning. I am now in the process of writing that from my visions of the last thirty years or more. It will be in series form beginning with how the multicellular organism started which turned out to become humans. How we first became a pair, man and woman walking upright side by side. How earth was a garden and we were planted in it, or I should say planted in the water.

You cannot imagine the kinds of visions I’ve been gifted with seeing over the years, and the first one I remember taught me about the truth of visions concerning me, I was just four years old.

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The elections are important, but all of us going forth into the future together is critical. Vote for humanity, it is more than just financial. This is a turning point in our history, I know many of you said that four years ago, but it critical now. We are starting a journey that all can travel together; we cannot turn back now. We must see it through, because for four years republicans decided to do nothing, which is nothing for anyone, no help to the people who sent them to Washington. The idea was to smother one party so change could not take place in the next election cycle, well that is not how our government should work, and anyone that can vote should know that, party aside. You work together the four years no matter who is voted in, and the next time your chance to vote comes you change it if needed. You don’t decide to punish the people in our country because you did not get the presidential position.

How can voters change the Washington nightmare, easy, the republicans sat on their hands for four years doing nothing to help the country come to grips with our problems? The president used powers I knew nothing about to help everyone he could in any way that he could.

Because one party and their actions decided to punish everyone; then we must decide they do not deserve this vote, certainly a vote of confidence is what it is and they don’t deserve that, not mind.  

Part Four of Five Part Series

Why do I call it a Valley, it is the divide between what we call Religions and Spirituality.  I call it a Valley because as human beings of this planet our physical bodies seem to be tied to it. Our spiritual bodies are not, and so this place is a place of learning and experiences, and all we learn and experience rest in the same place. Until we understand who and what we are, and discover our real spiritual value we will only live and die in our own understanding. We are neither physically or spirituality tied to any place, but how long will it take us to find that out.

Referring to the divide, the Valley denotes to me the separation between faiths with boundaries, and faiths that are boundless. The Valley holds all of our understanding of what and who we are, created by us with the physical and spiritual forces within each of us. 

A place where all our spiritual and physical realities meet, a place of our own making, a place where all our thoughts and beliefs rest, it is a place where both physical and spiritual roots rest. A place where our intellectual and spiritual roots began, where over time we as humans have built our foundation on what and who we are according to what we believe and understand. The Valley is where our foundation receives outside stimuli along with all our various individual and cultural differences shaping and directing our course. Our pass history is full of corrections and adjustments to religion and spirituality, both leading us and stopping our progress. The valley is the foundation of what we believe, and most are unwilling to modify or alter it in any way, or for any reason. I call it a Valley because of what rest just above the Valley that will be explained in part five.

Questions, Answers, and more Questions

Where does the truth fit in what I have described above; trying to describe and define one’s self, or a people is a method of reaching above and beyond one’s understanding. Answers continuing to give way to additional questions, a cycle meaning continued growth if we are true to it. 

 My Technical Definition of the Valley

An invisible place, a spiritual place where our Inner Beings are the only travelers, and thus we have division and separation in the physical world. Humans are divided when it comes to our human realities, and the origin and invisible force called Soul.  How much faith or belief do you have in a Soul, an Infinite Being that exists before birth and after the death of the physical body? The spiritual realities of human beings no matter what their beliefs are continue to shape the world we are in, and the outcome will determine the direction of all human beings in time. Just as in our pass history, so it will be in our future, outside of our own thinking will come the driving force that will give us the lighted path for the future. It is in this valley that the change must and will take place, and instead of just collecting the essence of what and who we are, it will collide with the physical world we hold in our minds. The Valley is a place with the ability to let strength be drawn from it.

I cannot understand the war on women in our world. One young woman’s work for peace, and she was shot because of her work and because she was a woman. I saw this article and it just made me mad, even here in America woman in this day and time have to fight for their rights to health and God given rights to make choices of their own. It is time for all of this to stop or at least make a decision about the kind of world we live in.

Part Three of Five Part Series

Spirituality covers a broad range of processes that ultimately leads to one Path, and each of us walks a personal Path just for us. The Path is a way for everyone to search and discover a personal way to find our higher source, we can do it as a community or alone. Within each of us is a spark I call “Spirit Consciousness”, and its purpose is to bring us into awareness with our higher source. I will explain what I mean by higher source when I share with you concerning the Valley between Religion and Spirituality.  The blog I wrote July 8, 2012 “in the Vision and Reality Series”, “The Sprit–Body Connection” gives much more of a description concerning Spirit Consciousness. None of us knows the “One Path”, but the creator spark within each of us will teach us to reach out, to search and question everything, because it is in this way we start to build our belief system. Sometimes we are outwardly guided or directed so forcefully or passionately that we form no strong belief system of our own, but a central belief.  We need to form our own belief system, being guided from within, and while building it we start to draw near, like sources where we learn and share what we believe, thus religion and beliefs, not the other way around.  

The question I always ask myself is “why is our world in the turmoil it is in today”, if everyone has either religion or belief that they are part of, then why? The world is mostly covered by four major religions or beliefs, so what could the problem be. Shouldn’t everyone want peace or at least be on the same page to make peace?  There is an underlying problem in how we express what we believe, not everyone, but some who have the power of persuasion go too far, and it did not just start. Major Religions and Beliefs want to be strong keeping their base intact, and sometimes start to push their idea of their Religion or Belief above others. Even in this most important part of our lives we fight over whose religion or belief is right, there is no one right. There was no wheat or tares when religion or belief was formed; it was not formed out of right and wrong, but the giving of one’s self to the benefit of all and the outcome of what happens when that is done, the building of something physical or spiritual.     

Spirituality or spiritual energy is invisible, yet visible layers of pure energy are on a level above what you see and experience in both the physical and the unseen world of science. Spiritual energy is the fabric that holds everything together; just as the cells of the body know exactly what part they play in making parts of the body. This fabric is everything, yet in its self makes nothing, it is a continuum, and it exists everywhere at once. I know is sounds like I am talking about God, but the problem starts in the valley where we will go next. Religions and Faiths have Gods or Supreme Beings called by many names; it is simply a personal level of closeness within the religion or faith when you can call by name the one who is your guiding light. Spirituality has no Supreme Beings, it is simply understood as Creation, and the spiritual power in all things simply is. There is no real description of the powerful force that caused all, or holds all things at once, and how the pass, present, and future, and where you stand right now is known at all times. How you can with one move right now change a bit of what tomorrow brings you, and make it different from yesterday. How this unseen force continually changes history while we seem to want to keep history in a solid form, it is not. What has the power to be all things to all people at once, what power knows righteous things from hateful things, and yet let you make your own choices.

We can name the source of all power anything we want, it is and never will be ours alone, but belongs to everyone’s from the East to the West and into the South. Trying to harness our spiritual source reduces our level of receiving, our way of spiritually growing; we cannot make it do anything. It will and does do things for all of us no matter who we are or where we are. We formed our physical world into what it is now, we made the wars, and the constant starvation and sickness that we as a world refuse to intervene in, our actions caused this. We realize weather and physical planetary conditions change, but we have the power to change and overcome in mass, but we do not. The questions most of us ask ourselves is “if the Supreme Being is, then why do these things continue to happen, and if the powerful source of all things can see as we do all these things happening, then why is it not stopped? The real question you should ask is “why do we continue to let these things happen, why do we not use the power and authority we have to stop them. Not the army of navy’s of the world’s nations but people power, when will that deep inside of each of us come forth, Just as Jesus did by calling Lazarus  from the death, he called the spirit source within him to come forth, the real power to raise the dead, the power that is the spark of original power, our source. The power within Jesus called to the power within Lazarus and it came forth, that spark or power is within you, that source of power and life within spreading outwardly in helping and caring for one-another. The source or spark within each of burns brighter when we do that, and wanes from us when we do wrong, and we know what we do wrong, just look around us, doing nothing is doing wrong. It is the world’s responsibility for what is going on, and we are the world, its people.

I referenced Lazarus because of my Christian background in the message above.   

Part Two of Five Part Series

Religions and Beliefs seem to be more a hands on approach to learning and participating in the understanding of powers, and authorities above and beyond our physical means to understand them. People are guided and directed, they are given histories of their religions and beliefs to start them on their journey through a life of Faith, Understanding, and Respect of all things. We have to the best of our understanding and perspectives formed and interpreted what is our known history of beliefs and religions. I believe that every human being has the chance to be a part of some form of religion or belief no matter how large or small a group, and others may choose not to take part or believe; it is our choice to make.

Whether a religion or a belief, we grow in faith and knowledge on two levels, a physical level and a spiritual level. The physical level happens when we are guided, and or instructed by someone with knowledge beyond our own concerning teachings and history for our edification or improvement. It is before, during, and after the physical level that the spirit instills some level of overall understanding and balance in what our personal level belief or faith is. It is a developing foundation that you stand on; it represents your personal foundation faith. It is what you believe within, a growing spiritual foundation backed up with a physical presents, and it connects us to our higher source.

Believers tend to stay under the guiding hand of the leader, and very seldom ventures away from that in both actions and what they learn. One day we will all have to stand on our own feet in the faith of what we believe. If we have to point back over our shoulders at something else to explain ourselves, then we are lost. In that moment of being lost, we search ourselves finding nothing we ourselves have put there, when we can say nothing about ourselves, and where we actually stand on anything we find ourselves saying, “We were told”.

Most, if not all religions and beliefs tell you a basic truth, that all people are One, no matter who they are or where they are. Beyond that, it starts to change a little, and you must find exactly where you stand because you may have to repeat every word, and those words have to be yours.