Inspiration from God

There was a time in my life when I was visited by an angel. Not your typical angel by any means, but heavenly was the experience.

One of the gifts this angel brought me was a book. Three books, actually. They were about a man who one day wrote an angry letter to God, and to his surprise, God answered him. This letter turned into a long dialog between the man and God and eventually became the trilogy, Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch.

You don't need to believe in God in order to read these books. Even if Walsch made the entire "conversation" up in his head, it doesn't matter. The words convey meanings of such beauty, such simplicity, that to me they speak nothing if not Truth.

Below is an excerpt from Book One. If you feel moved by these words, I would urge you to find yourself a copy and get reading. They will most likely change your life [they surely changed mine...] Enjoy.

"...All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by one of two emotions - fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions - only two words in the language of the soul. They are the opposite ends of the great polarity which I created when I produced the universe, and your world, as you know it today.

...Every human thought, and every human action, is based in either love or fear. There is no other human motivation, and all other ideas are but derivatives of these two. They are simply different versions - different twists on the same theme.

Think on this deeply and you will see that it is true. This is what I have called the Sponsoring Thought. It is either a thought of love or fear. This is the thought behind the thought behind the thought. It is the first thought. It is prime force. It is the raw energy that drives the engine of human experience.

...every single free choice you ever undertake arises out of the only two possible thoughts there are: a thought of love or a thought of fear.

Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms.

Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals.

Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.

Every human thought, word or deed is based in one emotion or the other. You have no choice about this, because there is nothing else from which to choose. But you have free choice about which of these to select. 

...You have been taught to live in fear. You have been told about the survival of the fittest and the victory of the strongest and the success of the cleverest. Precious little is said about the glory of the most loving. And so you strive to be the fittest, the strongest, the cleverest - in one way or another - and if you see yourself as something less than this in any situation, you fear loss, for you have been told that to be less is to lose.

And so of course you choose the action fear sponsors, for that is what you have been taught. Yet I teach you this: when you choose the action love sponsors, then will you do more than survive, then will you do more than win, then will you do more than succeed. Then will you experience the full glory of Who You Really Are, and who you can be.

...There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory.

Everything you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.

The wonder of this purpose is that it is never-ending. An ending is a limitation, and God's purpose is without such a boundary. Should there come a moment in which you experience yourself in your fullest glory, you will in that instant imagine an ever greater glory to fulfill. The more you are, the more you can become, and the more you can become, the more you can yet be.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.

You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out Who You Are, seek to determine Who You Want To Be."

Whether you recognize it or not, we are in a time of shifting consciousness on this planet. It is time to rise up; it is time to release the hold fear has on our hearts and to let our light shine through. Who Are You? Who do You Want To Be? It can take a lot of work and courage to choose living your life out of love. But I can guarantee that nothing but good will come of it.

The beauty of our human experience is that we can choose to create a life of love Right Now. The time is here; we are all ready. Let the light shine through.