Apr 13
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What Jesus Is Teaching me Today; …Right NOW (36)
LESSON THIRTY-SIX: “Transformed From Perception To An Alternate Ending”
You choose what you see, through your perceptions.
Seventy times seven is still 490 – I want you to write in the broader terms of what forgiveness means. First for yourself so that you are able to forgive all others …I AM gave me the concept and the words to give to Peter and you saw it intellectually and began sharing it over twenty years ago. TODAY you will begin releasing the concept throughout the whole of your being; physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Repeat and share it as you began to see it back then and then I will give you the newness of it for now and evermore.
Two mornings ago I awakened knowing I “needed” to write. What Now? I asked and the foregoing came flowing almost with the force of a storm. What do these words mean? Several memories crowded into my mind. Particularly the end of one era of my life that folded into the beginning of another . . .
Do you have to sanitize your life or can you accept it?
I spent the next fourteen hours intermittently writing the true story of the thirty years of my life between 1958 and 1988, but “sanitizing” the “true story” of what, to me, were all the more traumatic events. It still made a somewhat interesting story (again, to me), but it had lost the emotional impact.
As I began reliving several parts of in my memory I realized that by leaving out what had been traumatic incidents along the way, while remembering and typing the narrative, my emotional responses to some of the mental images were significantly reduced.
At around 11:20 that night I finally put the finishing touches to the story. “What is wrong with it?” I asked and immediately felt the need to review it for veracity and removed some stuff that I felt might seem self-aggrandizing to anyone who bothered to read it …it was now after midnight. Then I knew …the story wasn’t to be used …so what was the purpose for the process and all the hours it took to write it all about?
This is forgiveness. You have seen the need for others to forgive themselves and others by getting rid of the emotional attachment to some of the drama in their stories. You’ve seen this particularly with people who were victims of abuse. You needed to see this for you. I have a reason for bringing you to the point of doing this. You often dramatize your feelings in conversations; you paint a picture that is distorted by your own pain that no longer needs to be there. You emphasize a self-importance that needn’t be there. It is in the past and needs to be released from your memory. Do you notice the difference in how you feel about the entire episodes in both Honolulu and then in Anchorage; what got you to both places and the events that led up to you leaving both places? Remove the drama and the emotional impact is gone; this equals forgiveness.
Removing the emotional trash, is transforming perception.
I just now, with a mixture of joy, relief and a bit of reluctance (because of spending so many hours on it) deleted sixteen pages of carefully edited narrative; all true and all rather dull even to me now that it was denuded of the drama. Then I began to realize that I could have created several alternate endings to any part of “my” story and most likely would have avoided creating additional trauma and drama that were necessary only because I was holding onto the images subconsciously that kept me trapped in a cycle of repeating the same thing over and over.
The English word “forgive” actually comes from two words in Greek, one of which means simply to “let go” or “release;” the other word means to send away with violent force. Understanding the word “forgive from its origins helped something come alive to me, that is, what the writer of the Gospel according Mark was seeing when he recalled Jesus’ words and how they have been misinterpreted and mistranslated in English.
Stop right there for now, I want you to transcribe one thing and stop for now. Two different ways of saying the same thing are not saying the same thing at all. I was quoted by one person as saying that “All things are possible to the individual who believes enough.” I AM translated this for you long ago and you tested and proved this for yourself. Another writer quoted me as saying “With God all things are possible.”
You’ve seen that in one perception an individual takes the responsibility for believing and then doing. Within the confines of the other perception an individual perceives that God must do whatever.
Simply understand, right now, how this is purely perception as to what I meant to each individual and to you. To make dogmatic “truth” out of any perception traps each individual in his or her own perceptions and thus judgment.
It is the same with your experiences – it is how you perceived the truth of them that made them “true” for you. By removing your emotional perceptions you have changed the reality of your life in the NOW. Yes, make the offer to provide anyone with your own perception of the truth as you have applied forgiveness in the past and now how you are being readied to apply forgiveness in the future. Yes, these are your lessons and some will find them valuable to apply to their own lives.
In your next lesson you will hear from me about the new Pope …don’t let that surprise you, be open as it relates to changing perceptions and therefore “reality” as you are about to affect the perceptions of thousands of people who have the openness to change from a place of judgment to a place of love …a place of new forgiveness that will breed new life for this planet.
Wow, I can wait …I have enough to digest until 37 – a whole lifetime of preaching and writing “truth” that was based in my perceptions of being a hapless victim of circumstance. I’m laughing with absolute joy and gratitude – hey, it’s never too late to change, right? Thanks for joining me for the ride!
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