THE FACTORS OF FORTITUDE

2015, COURAGE, FORTITUDE, TENACITY

MAY 20, 2015

How do you continue engaging your Life circumstance when it is painful and frightening, when you are tested at your core for what you believe, and of what you are capable?  Even the hero must know his limits of courage and patience.  At the highest tensile strengths, the best metals will bend and snap.  How far will Fortitude take you?  When is a Miracle required?

First:  what is Fortitude—in its essence?  Say that you were born with a handicap.  Perhaps that handicap causes you physical pain.  At some point, that physical pain will also cause you emotional pain, as you will likely exclude yourself from some life activities in which you wish to be included.  A great Fortitude of patience and strength is needed.

For a soldier, great Fortitude of courage and compassion are needed—and the qualities are different, depending on the situation.  Does the soldier fight to defend?  Is there a belief in this cause, or is there a sickening?  How is the soldier affected by what is seen and experienced?  How is the soldier affected by his or her actions?

What about responsibility?  Have you raised your siblings, where your parents could not, only to raise your own children, then grandchildren, then become responsible for your irresponsible parents?  How much Fortitude, and what kinds, are required for those tasks?

Fortitude is the ability to carry on despite great burden, loss of hope, fear, and pain.  Why is it some are blessed with this quality and some are not?  Why are some blessed with great Fortitude, and how do they come to this state?  Is it Nature or Nurture?  On this scale of having none, and having a great amount of Fortitude, where do you sit—in a factored sense?  That is, if you averaged your abilities to apply Fortitude, in general in your life, on a 1-10 scale, at what number to do believe yourself to currently rate?

Have you focus?  Tenacity?  Do you set clear goals and stick with the plan?  Do you ask for help when it is needed?  Do you admit to mistakes when you become aware of the mistakes, and adjust your plans accordingly?  Do you allow yourself to learn from others, barring all beliefs as to the source of knowledge, such as the wisdom of deep listening, clear seeing, or learning from someone whom you believe is uneducated, or somehow “below you” in social rank or standing?

Even children, sometimes especially children, can offer wisdom.  With their less complicated seeing and hearing, their opinions are quite often unbungled by political and social maneuvering.  Listen to your world.  And listen to your Self.  Is the world against you?  Or when you are required to apply Fortitude, is it that You are against the circumstances?  Be clear on this.

Sometimes, we apply Fortitude to a condition that we, ourselves, have manifested.  By blind sight, greed, deafness, attachments, or false accusations, we sometimes find ourselves in a place of fighting invisible demons—called up by programs we have instigated.  We are fighting our own army of hostiles!  When you are required to call upon Fortitude, first ask yourself if Fortitude is required—or if there is some adjustment that can be made in the construct of things that will smooth the way.

The Factors of Fortitude are many.  What Is.  What You Believe.  What Can Be.  Who you are and who you are surrounded by are also big Factors in what strengths you must apply in your Life.  We live as part of a divine tapestry.

Think of the ways and situations in which you currently apply Fortitude.  Is Fortitude required?  How much of what you battle is real?  What is assumed, and what are shadow boxers?  Quite often, in untangling any problem-set methodically, we begin to see its core, and at its core we can come to understand it in new ways—and therefore begin to relate to it in new ways.

Fortitude, in general, is a fine quality, but liken to certain kinds of tenacity, we can become mired in its illusions.  You would no more want to be mired in your physical handicaps—in a tenacity of beliefs about those handicaps—than you would want to be decorated for martyrdom of Fortitude in withstanding a handicap that could be improved—would you?

Forward motion is crucial to your Spirit’s growth.  When Fortitude serves this, it is good.  

When you apply Tenacity, using it as Fortitude, to stay weak and static, forward motion stops.  Grow your Spirit.  Check in with your Life conditions and how you Factor Fortitude.  Even in suffering, it is the Divine plan to keep moving forward, to become Higher, Lighter, and Brighter.


Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: May 20, 2015

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PRAYER

2015, PRAYER

MAY 19, 2015

PRAYER
From Reverend Cathrina D. Flynn:  This is a prayer I've used for many years.  It has become one of my favorites.

I walk through a changing world, yet I am The Light and The Way, which change not. With My Body and Soul, I protect the Faith and the Faithful. With my last breath, I protect the Truth and the transmission of Truth, be it in Light or be it in Darkness.  With Eternity, I am One. So give I myself to this cause, with all that I Am, and with All that I have to give.


Encounter and absorb this however you like.  Because it was included in my journals in such a peculiar way, I don’t remember if the source was found or channeled.  If from the Tribe, being familiar with their ways, I know that they mean this is the Highest manner, with no attachment to certain beliefs, and certainly with no attachment to the ideas and dogmas of religious structures. 

This is for you, the human being, alive on earth today, and struggling to do your best to exalt the divine nature of Spirit.

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: May 19, 2015

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JUXTAPOSITIONS

2015, BELIEF, COMPARISONS

MAY 18, 2015

When comparing two or more circumstances, reality sets, or objects, side-by-side, what is learned is entirely dependent on the Juxtaposition of your beliefs, and how your life energy is divided and distributed across the different categories that affect your interpretive skills.  Should this job or that job better suit you?  The jobs considered are now Juxtaposed in your mind.

In considering these jobs, your beliefs, fears, biases, experiences, goals, drives, needs, desires, capabilities, skill sets, perceived obligations, self-esteem, self-faith, and self-denials are also in Juxtaposition.  This stew of considerations makes for an intricate and sometimes disturbing puzzle—when we are unclear or our own Self-beliefs, Self-worth, and Self-delusions.  How can we become clear enough to study Juxtaposed comparatives to obtain confident and faithful outcomes?

Extrapolation.  Stripping away—first—what is Not True, however difficult this may first seem, is a helpful exercise in reaching the infrastructure of what remains:  what we expect to be most True.  How do we begin?

The gross structures require little help.  Let us say you have eliminated all job opportunities but for two.  The two remaining are equidistant from your home, offer similar pay, and seemingly similar challenge and authority.  How now do you determine the remaining factors in these Juxtaposed opportunities?

Let us say that one job requires travel and one does not.  In your fear cache, you have stored horrible memories of a near-fatal car accident—and job A requires you to travel in a large city, on busy highways with a low safety record.  Will you ignore this job’s greater freedom and higher creative opportunities to feed an old fear?  Will you heed the motto of once-lucky, twice-doomed, and avoid the risk of increased highway-driving exposure, or will you reflect on future authenticity, and possibilities, creating an infrastructure for joy and success?

Job B seems to be a job of lower demands.  More in-house and with less frills, it might offer less glamour on the surface; it might also require less of your personal hours spent in work-related matters.  Listing all of the components you can confidently gather about job A and job B, you have made a 2-column list by which to Juxtapose your ideas for new employment.  You have a category for all things positive and a category for all things negative.

Now:  apply your Self-knowledge to these negative and positive ideas.  Why did you thusly categorize each of these ideas?  By what personality traits, beliefs, and experiences were you driven to find Truth in these outcomes?  Can you track these ideas back to their sources?  For instance:  do you have residual fear for driving on crowded highways due to a past experience, or is Spirit whispering to you in its small still voice, “Be Care-Full”?

Will job A actually take less of your personal time, or is it your own habits, stemming from low self-worth, a competitive nature, disorganization, time mismanagement, or some other condition(s), that will actually rob you—whether you take job A or job B?  Is job B more creative, in actuality, or is it that you are more easily seeing how you could creatively entail yourself at that job?  Could it be that job A has creative opportunities just as significant, but your perceived notions of working “under the yoke” in a small office affects your perceived abilities to perform independently?

Do you see how your beliefs, in your Self and in the world, affects every decision that you make?  Pros and cons are only the beginning of Juxtaposing any comparative factors.  And the formulae for the decision-making stew, in coming to the most beneficial conclusions for each unique individual, are as unique as the individual making the decision.

Inside you there are Legions. Do not try to rule your Self and your Life by autocracy. Know Thy Self. Know your Self in Its largeness, and know your self in its smallness. Be the leader of your Legions. When making Juxtapositions, come to the table. Debate.  Speak.  Become Wise.



Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: May 18, 2015

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HOW TO LIVE

2015, BEING PRESENT, GRATITUDE

MAY 11, 2015

How do you wake, and what is your attitude as you lie down to sleep?  Are you centered in satisfaction and accomplishment more often than ideas of failure and feelings of stress?  Is your purpose clear?  Do you feel that Life makes sense?  What is Life?  What is it to Live?  How do you know that you are Alive?

Look at happy children.  What do they hold back?  Left together at play, do you witness the ease with which children find their common ground together?  Unless taught to withhold, for the greater part, children share a genuine and sincere version of themselves with others.  They enjoy small pleasures.  They respond to Life with authentic emotion.

How do you respond to your Life?  Do you meet your Life each day determined to be awake, aware, and engaged with what it offers?  Do you take responsibility for your Self, your behavior, your thoughts, your actions, and the repercussions of how you involve your Self in Life?  Are you genuine . . . or are you an actor, a hypocrite, a martyr, or a victim?  Do you live your Life, or do you let the stream of Life toss you about like flotsam?

You have this one chance to be this singular person in this incarnation, here on earth, living this Life.  This is an honor and opportunity.  As much as possible, choose how you will Live this Life:  with what goals, attitude, level, and depth.  You will not choose everything that happens in your Life, nor will you have the grace to merely respond to, rather than react to, each event as you encounter it.  Do your best.

There are many reasons to be here, Living.  They are all valid.  They are not all necessarily positive or helpful—not in the eyes of All—or in the eyes of many.

Who are You?  How will this Life remember you?  In the Great Hall, where the records and memories of You are written, what will be scribed of this Life?  You are the author.  You will take what you are given, including the interruptions, blessings and tragedies, and forge your story.

Feel the pen in your hand.  What have you to say about this Life?  Living is not a passive activity.  Living is not mere mortal survival—the awareness of occupying space.  To write your Life, you must first read it, as a reader comes to the story, as an open vessel.

Read today.  Write tomorrow.  Only you can forge this story.  And where goes your pen, there go your thoughts.  And where go thoughts, goes energy.  Let the energy that is Spirit guide your pen.  As you read, hear that Song, and as you write, Sing it . . .



Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: May 11, 2015

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HOW TO DIE - PART FOUR

2015, HOME, HOMECOMING

MAY 9, 2015

How can we describe to you something that ascends and transcends everything you can currently conceive with your conscious mind? To perceive the unlimited, through the confines of what is limited, gives a tiny and unrefined view of what is described. Home is something best felt and experienced; even thought forms cannot accurately accede its true unfolded states. Word-forms cannot approach it. However; we will try.

When you die there on earth, transitioning from your mortal body, many shifts occur. Without the weight, density, and organic ties of the flesh, your Spirit chemistry—your eternal Zeitgeist—begins to stretch and reconnect more firmly to its known outposts, close and afar. Like a reverse panning of the heavy element gold, as you transverse higher vibrational realms, you shed lower vibrational materials, allowing you to pass through gateways.

How do you fit through the needle’s eye except to be formed of materials that flow through and around it?

Do not mistake the presence of your Home. It is there with you, now. It is there inside you, now. It is everywhere, always. But like a gemstone hidden in rock, you have obscured this state of purity with weight and fabrication—that you might focus on your intention of mortal incarnation. When you depart that incarnation, and remove that weight, your gemstone once again shines. Returning to the hall of gems, you shine among the shining.

This is not to say that once removed from your flesh you become perfect. We are flawed. We are possessed of varying levels of humor, intelligent, patience, and kindness. We build societies. We do well, and we do poorly. Yet, in all of that, we do not labor so grossly under the yoke of illusion here. While you may shield your self during your incarnation by using your social training, beliefs, fears, and misguidance, here we see more clearly. When we don’t do our best, we are consciously aware of that fact. We are consciously aware that we have made a choice to disregard doing our best.

This is a free will state, as is earth.

So, what can you expect of your reception here? First, let it be said that there is not one “here.” As there are many zones, temperate areas, cultures, and if you will, countries and continents on earth, so too is there a system of grouping among us here. We tend to gather by our common interests and beliefs, even in these greater states. But rather than warring, denying, avoiding, and seeking to use trickery and deceit, we most often deal with one another in clear terms.

We have structure. We have purpose. We do not float idly about, looking down or in or around. 

(And speaking to the subject of disturbed Spirits or Spirits who are stymied and in-between, is not for today.) It does happen. Those nether-regions that occur between the dimensions of mortal incarnation and areas of “homeland,” have their own properties and etiquette. Home, as we talk of it today, is the place you planned to return to upon the event of your birthing. It is the place from which you departed in order to be born into your mortal incarnation.

What is possible in this place, Home? You will re-meet with loved ones and friends. You will study and create and give service. You will review your progress and decide which behaviors and character traits you would like to refine. You will assess your Life. You will assess Life.

Great All has made us to be Self-perfecting. We move forward, and sometimes, back. Let that time known as Dying become the thing that it is: a return. Let that idea help you to survey your current course.

What news of your journey would you take home?  Joy or defeat? With homecoming on the horizon, how can you best maximize this Life that you strove to enter and embody?  

How can you lift your voice and sing fully and perfectly that Song that was made of you in the dawn of the Great All?

Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: May 09, 2015

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HOW TO DIE - PART THREE

2015, BELIEF, BIRTH, DEATH, EXPECTATION

Does the Spirit know when a transition of Life and Death is close? Not always. Sometimes the crossing over is swift, sudden, violent, and unexpected. The karmic issues are a matter for another time, but let it be said that decisions are sometimes made by one Spirit, acting alone or in accord with others, that lead away from the path and previous intentions in various and cataclysmic ways, affecting others in direct assault or by collateral damage. In these matters, there is little we can do to prepare you—except to say that this manner of transition exists and is most often difficult.

For all other matters and manners of Transition, turning to your inner wisdoms of How to Live and How to Die will help you to gauge your readiness and probable response to making an earthly exit. Your Spirit knows its Home, and the many resting places, and places of incarnation it has enjoyed in its existence. In these matters, you have the ability to be flawlessly led—although the lingering shadow of incarnation, ego, and personality are sometimes temporary stumbling blocks.

For instance: a mentally-disordered or physically disabled person might cross over and retain a strong identity-vibration with their earthly state, taking these perceived flaws with them into the non-mortal realm. Children will cross over with child-mind. Criminals cross over with fear of reprisal. Martyrs cross over with expectation of reward. Depending on circumstance, the depth of the identity-vibration, and the ego-state’s attachment need, healing these illusions take time. However--there are High Spirits aplenty, aware and compassionate, at hand to help with these cleansings.

For those who know How to Die, the transition is a blessed reunion with friends. Dying is a return to all that is Whole and fully seen, sensed and known, a wonderment of belonging and easy purpose. Returning to the fold is like returning to the table of a feast, being greeted with great love, asked of your time away, and regaled with stories of what has transgressed in your absence. You feel your place. You know your Self. You feel the Great All and sense how perfectly You fit into ITS web.

For those who know How to Die, the transition can be joyous, and at the very least, bittersweet. And just as you learned how to walk and speak and move about inside your own culture, you can learn the conscious language of your Spirit. In the quiet of your still, sacred, central point—that is ascended and part of All That Is—you will find everything you need to succeed. Learn the language of your Spirit through stillness and listening. 

Do this daily.  And what of the Transition itself? Listen to your Spirit today. Know its voice. On the morrow, we will tell you of your Home.

Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
    Archives: May 08, 2015

 

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HOW TO DIE - PART TWO

2015, BIRTH, DEATH, FEAR, PLANNING

MAY 7, 2015

Dying and Living are joined by doorways—transitions by which the Spirit changes its relationship to the Great All. As you are born with certain knowledge inherent to you, these processes are accounted. It is the sometimes ponderous and entangled mortal incarnation that causes difficulties in the process called Dying.  Let us address this.

If you knew the date of your Dying, leaving this mortal realm, what would most concern you today? Very likely, as one of the Spirits receiving these words, fear of annihilation is not one of your concerns, or it is low on your list. Continuation of Life, like the note of sound that is You and your Song, winding eternally with All That Is, goes on. IT Is. You Are. We Are.  Have faith in that.

Perhaps you worry for the ones whom you leave behind there on earth. Some depend on you. Some see you as crucial. Some have even inflated your importance in their lives, letting what your earthly existence means to them eclipse their own paths and purpose. As with dependents and caretakers, such as parents and children: when there is a sudden and/or violent cutting away, transitions are difficult in the parting sense. Many enter therapy and healing right away upon making the transition from earth.

If your resistance to Death and Dying is that you have dependents, particularly children, who rely on you, ask yourself: what have you done to see to their future welfare should you be unable to continue as their caretaker? Having material resources is helpful, but applying yourself to future planning does much to soothe anxiety. Leaving behind loved ones, whom we believe will suffer at our loss, is the greatest resistance to transition.

Those recently crossed over worry when obligations lag and dangle behind them, and they find themselves unable to tie up loose ends and make good on personal obligations.

Another great impediment to a peaceful transition is fear of reprisal. What have you done in your life that evokes scenes of purgatory and hell? Do you believe that in crossing over, you will be met with punishment, isolation, revenge, or destruction? This is a common theme, as is the expectation of a state of heaven or nirvana built to specifications by a religion which taught the Spirit a group of false descriptions of paradise. Where is the feast? The mansions? The angels?

Being absorbed into the Whole is a fear-state we find more common in the recent years. The idea that You, the Spirit who is singular and unique, will be absorbed in the greater Whole, without discrimination, is as false as false ideas of heaven and hell. 

You are part of the Whole—a cell in an organism—yet as a cell, you are unique and have your own thumbprint, Song, personality, purpose, and drive. In crossing over, You will remain You. You become more aware of the Whole and better able to see the larger picture, but do not doubt that you will remain intact. You will not be rendered down to some base material and reabsorbed.

So . . . what are your unique beliefs about Death and Transition? Look forward.  Imagine you are crossing that threshold. What awaits you? How fares what you have left behind?

When we meet again, we will talk about the Spirit, its Song, and how it continues, always. We will tell you of the glory of Life, and we will show you that in knowing how to Live, you know well How To Die.

Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.
    Archives: May 07, 2015

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