Well Jesus said we are to be like little children to come into God's Kingdom. I now know what this means. If you look at babies and children, what they all have in common is an innocence and purity that radiates through their eyes and whole being. This innocence and purity is part of what Jesus meant when he said we needed to become like little children.
This innocence and purity is what truly enables our spirits to feel the happiness that we long to feel. In our world now there is a lot of corruption, and this corruption is even trying to take away the innocence of children. Just as we need to protect them, we need to protect ourselves. Our spirits are no different just because we are now in adult packaging. Deep, beautiful, all encompassing happiness comes from our spirits being filled with purity and innocence, and then the joy that bubbles forth because of this.
Living then truly seems magical! We feel the divine with in life, nature, and each other. We feel a joy, excitement, happiness that is just like a child.
I now immerse myself with pure and innocent things. I then freely live as an amazingly happy spirit, filled with light, joy and the beautiful peace of Heaven!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Faith
I woke up thinking about Faith. It is through our faith that we experience the reality of Heaven. When I say heaven, I mean all the power, truth, love, presence, light of God and His Kingdom. Now why do we need our faith?
Well our five senses help us to experience this world, and this is all we get to experience unless we exercise some faith. When we do, it is as if we are turning on the light of the Spiritual world. It is there all along, in its spiritual glory and wonder, but we can only see and feel it if we put our hand on the knob and turn. That is faith, and it is said we only need the faith of a mustard seed, which is really tiny, so we don't need to do much, but even a tiny act of faith turns on the light.
Now much like the dimmer lights in our house, the more we turn, the brighter it gets. Our faith is similar, the more faith we exercise the brighter the light gets, the more of Heaven and God we get to experience.
We exercise faith by: praying, reading scripture, getting Blessings, going to the Bishop for counsel and/or blessings, asking for prayer, tithing (especially when we are feeling concerned about money), doing our callings, and our visiting and home teaching, preparing a lesson or a talk about something we are needing to learn about, praying for someone who seems incredibly lost in the dark. Reading spiritual literature, watching a spiritual movie. Listening to spiritual music. Also, turning off the TV or movies, putting down books, newspapers, magazines, turning away from the internet, stopping thoughts or words that are not of God. These are just some of the ways we express our faith. There are many more. But all it takes is a small step, and we begin to turn the light of Heaven on in our lives!
Today I use my faith to turn on the beautiful and glorious light of Heaven in my life. I radiate this light into the world, so I feel incredibly happy, and so others may see it and feel it and perhaps begin to seek it for themselves.
Well our five senses help us to experience this world, and this is all we get to experience unless we exercise some faith. When we do, it is as if we are turning on the light of the Spiritual world. It is there all along, in its spiritual glory and wonder, but we can only see and feel it if we put our hand on the knob and turn. That is faith, and it is said we only need the faith of a mustard seed, which is really tiny, so we don't need to do much, but even a tiny act of faith turns on the light.
Now much like the dimmer lights in our house, the more we turn, the brighter it gets. Our faith is similar, the more faith we exercise the brighter the light gets, the more of Heaven and God we get to experience.
We exercise faith by: praying, reading scripture, getting Blessings, going to the Bishop for counsel and/or blessings, asking for prayer, tithing (especially when we are feeling concerned about money), doing our callings, and our visiting and home teaching, preparing a lesson or a talk about something we are needing to learn about, praying for someone who seems incredibly lost in the dark. Reading spiritual literature, watching a spiritual movie. Listening to spiritual music. Also, turning off the TV or movies, putting down books, newspapers, magazines, turning away from the internet, stopping thoughts or words that are not of God. These are just some of the ways we express our faith. There are many more. But all it takes is a small step, and we begin to turn the light of Heaven on in our lives!
Today I use my faith to turn on the beautiful and glorious light of Heaven in my life. I radiate this light into the world, so I feel incredibly happy, and so others may see it and feel it and perhaps begin to seek it for themselves.
Direct Experience of Spirit
Well tonight I was having a family home evening with a few sisters, we have made it a regular weekly event. We were in the process of watching a movie about a Missionary who had served in Tonga, when one of the sisters had an emotional out burst because of a really big challenge in her life. She was going to leave, and so we turned off the movie, and got her to stay, talk about what was going on, and we gave her lots of love. Then we said she should get a blessing. So I called the Missionaries at their home, who were probably just about ready to go to bed and told them we had a bit of an emergency situation and asked if they could come over immediately and give her a blessing. They did not question, or hestitate, they said they would be right over. So they drove all across town, and in a short while they were at the door ready to serve. They came in and gave her a great blessing.
What I realized later was, here we were watching a movie about a Missionary and all his experiences on his Mission, and then we got to first hand experience the love, Spirit and service of Missionaries. It took our family home evening to a deeper and richer spiritual place. It made me so appreciate the Church, and how much we are loved, blessed, and how our Church is truly the church of Jesus Christ. This experience really testified the Truth our church, and how the Lord works when we least expect it.
I now breathe in the Light of Christ, filling my whole being with the glorious light of Heaven.
What I realized later was, here we were watching a movie about a Missionary and all his experiences on his Mission, and then we got to first hand experience the love, Spirit and service of Missionaries. It took our family home evening to a deeper and richer spiritual place. It made me so appreciate the Church, and how much we are loved, blessed, and how our Church is truly the church of Jesus Christ. This experience really testified the Truth our church, and how the Lord works when we least expect it.
I now breathe in the Light of Christ, filling my whole being with the glorious light of Heaven.
Monday, August 30, 2010
An Amazing Spiritual Experience!
Last week, I got to experience what it was like to feel Spiritually not well. I had been consumed with feeling a lot of guilt and negative feelings because I am not yet truly living creatively the way I want. I spent a lot of time digesting a lot of harshness, and negativity. I ended up finally after doing this for a good couple of weeks, feeling filled with darkness, feeling beat up, feeling hard, cold, angry towards myself and others.
I actually felt sick in my spirit. I had to really begin praying, reading scripture, getting blessings. Finally I went to see the Bishop because I could feel I had let a lot of darkness into my soul and talked with him about it, and he did the most powerful blessing I have ever had. "You have a very special relationship to Heavenly Father" and "fill your heart with the love of Christ and this will help you feel filled with the light, and will help guide you in where to live, what to do as a career etc. " there was lots more. I had been feeling bad about all the darkness I had let in before I was baptised just through living outside the Gospel. I was reminded in this blessing that Baptism washed all that away.
Also, I learned from this experience that if we let in a lot of darkness we will suffer in our spirits and spirit suffering is way way worse than physical or emotional. That is actually what depression and anxiety truly is. It is the darkness we feel when we have ingested tons of negativity either from our own thoughts, and words, music, TV, movies, books etc. It is being spiritually ill inside. This is what I experienced many years ago when I was clinically depressed and filled with anxiety all day. I cured both of these things, by totally embracing the light and turning away from the dark, and becoming a positive person as opposed to a negative person. I made myself spiritually well, and this totally irradicated all depression and anxiety throughout my day.
It gave me an insight to the early Pioneers of our church, and how they could have suffered physically, emotionally even, yet have been so happy.
They were spiritually on track, and they could feel it and they knew it. There is nothing so glorious as being spiritually on track, it truly is the greatest happiness. Also, usually in life, with out the Holy Spirit, there are buffers, and layers of denial that keep us from feeling the true pain in our Spirits. What happened to me was the Holy Spirit took away my buffers and I felt exactly what my Spirit was actually feeling. I had a revelation that this is what happens after we die. That the buffers and denial, layers that sit on top of our spirits goes away and we are just left with our spirit and we then get to feel exactly how our spirits feel.
The day my mother passed away she came to me and told me something about this. So much of what is considered normal in our culture really is hurting our spirits, we just can't "feel" it because of the buffers and layers of denial, and the ideas that its all normal.
So even though it was very painful to go through this, I do see it as a gift, I got to truly feel what I was doing to my spirit, and once again understood how important, love, positivity, gentless, purity, innocence is. I am happy to say I am back on track spiritually and feel wonderful, and was able to go to the Temple on Saturday and felt the best I have ever felt there.
I now fill myself, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually with the things of Spirit, and surround myself with the protection of Heaven, making myself very spiritually happy!
I actually felt sick in my spirit. I had to really begin praying, reading scripture, getting blessings. Finally I went to see the Bishop because I could feel I had let a lot of darkness into my soul and talked with him about it, and he did the most powerful blessing I have ever had. "You have a very special relationship to Heavenly Father" and "fill your heart with the love of Christ and this will help you feel filled with the light, and will help guide you in where to live, what to do as a career etc. " there was lots more. I had been feeling bad about all the darkness I had let in before I was baptised just through living outside the Gospel. I was reminded in this blessing that Baptism washed all that away.
Also, I learned from this experience that if we let in a lot of darkness we will suffer in our spirits and spirit suffering is way way worse than physical or emotional. That is actually what depression and anxiety truly is. It is the darkness we feel when we have ingested tons of negativity either from our own thoughts, and words, music, TV, movies, books etc. It is being spiritually ill inside. This is what I experienced many years ago when I was clinically depressed and filled with anxiety all day. I cured both of these things, by totally embracing the light and turning away from the dark, and becoming a positive person as opposed to a negative person. I made myself spiritually well, and this totally irradicated all depression and anxiety throughout my day.
It gave me an insight to the early Pioneers of our church, and how they could have suffered physically, emotionally even, yet have been so happy.
They were spiritually on track, and they could feel it and they knew it. There is nothing so glorious as being spiritually on track, it truly is the greatest happiness. Also, usually in life, with out the Holy Spirit, there are buffers, and layers of denial that keep us from feeling the true pain in our Spirits. What happened to me was the Holy Spirit took away my buffers and I felt exactly what my Spirit was actually feeling. I had a revelation that this is what happens after we die. That the buffers and denial, layers that sit on top of our spirits goes away and we are just left with our spirit and we then get to feel exactly how our spirits feel.
The day my mother passed away she came to me and told me something about this. So much of what is considered normal in our culture really is hurting our spirits, we just can't "feel" it because of the buffers and layers of denial, and the ideas that its all normal.
So even though it was very painful to go through this, I do see it as a gift, I got to truly feel what I was doing to my spirit, and once again understood how important, love, positivity, gentless, purity, innocence is. I am happy to say I am back on track spiritually and feel wonderful, and was able to go to the Temple on Saturday and felt the best I have ever felt there.
I now fill myself, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually with the things of Spirit, and surround myself with the protection of Heaven, making myself very spiritually happy!
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