I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The Ra quote today comes from 68.3:
“Questioner: Would you recommend a greater rest period between the end of this session and the next session? Would that help the instrument?
Ra: I am Ra. We might suggest, as always, that the support group watch the instrument with care and make the decision based upon observation. It is not within our capacity to specifically recommend a future decision. We would note that our previous recommendation of one working on alternate diurnal periods did not take into account the fragility of the instrument, and thus we would ask your forgiveness for this suggestion.
At this nexus our distortion is towards a flexible scheduling of workings based upon, as we said, the support group’s decisions concerning the instrument. We would again note that there is a fine line between the care of the instrument for continued use, which we find acceptable, and the proper understanding, if you will excuse this misnomer, of the entire group’s need to work in service.
Thus, if the instrument’s condition is truly marginal, by all means let more rest occur between workings. However, if there is desire for the working, and the instrument is at all able, in your careful opinion, it is, shall we say, a well done action for this group to work. We cannot be more precise, for this contact is a function of your free will.”
When we first began the Ra contact we had sessions every day and sometimes two sessions per day during the first few weeks. Don asked Ra if two sessions per day was possible, and Ra was careful to respond that it was possible. In retrospect I think that two sessions being “possible” did not necessarily mean that it was advisable. Over time we discovered that two sessions per day were very wearing on Carla as each session was described by Ra as equivalent to a full day’s work for her as they suggested in 60.4:
Questioner: You are saying then that the physical distortions that the instrument experienced are part of a balancing process? Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The physical distortions are a result of the instrument’s not accepting fully the limitations, placed prior to incarnation, upon the activities of the entity once it had begun the working. The distortions caused by this working, which are inevitable given the plan chosen by this entity, are limitation and—to a degree consonant with the amount of vital and physical energy expended—weariness due to that which is the equivalent in this instrument of many, many hours of harsh physical labor.
This is why we suggested the instrument’s thoughts dwelling upon the possibility of its suggesting to its higher self the possibility of some slight reservation of energy at a working. This instrument, at this time, is quite open until all resources are quite exhausted. This is well, if desired. However, it will, shall we say, shorten the number of workings in what you may call the long run.
But our contact with Ra was based on our free will, and Ra was trying to help us determine our session periodicity without infringing on our free will. At one point they recommended that we have sessions every other day, but even this timing was too hard on Carla’s fragile body. Her pre-incarnative choices had provided her with a fragile body in order that she not dissipate her energy in worldly activities and keep her focus instead on the inner world of prayer, meditation, contemplation, and channeling. So there was a delicate balance that we were trying to maintain. In 22.2, Ra referred to Carla’s physical limitations being a product of her pre-incarnative planning:
Also, this entity has begun, due to this working, to accept certain limitations which it placed upon itself in order to set the stage for services such as it now performs. This also is an aid to re-aligning the distortions of the physical complex with regard to pain.
Ra mentioned that it was our group’s “need to work in service” that should be balanced with Carla’s overall condition, with especial notation of her physical body which had very little natural energy. I think that our “need to work in service” was based on fulfilling our group’s pre-incarnative choice to serve in this manner. So Don and I did our best to evaluate Carla’s condition the night before a session was contemplated. For her part, Carla was always ready to have a session because she wanted so much to be of service. But she was also willing to give over the final determination of whether to have a session to Don and to me, as our viewpoint was more objective than was hers. We decided not to have sessions on just a handful of occasions. We each knew what an honor it was to be able to have sessions with those of Ra, and we wanted each session to be as well accomplished as was possible for us. Ra first suggested that Carla give over the decision-making regarding having Ra sessions to Don and to me in 44.1:
Questioner: The instrument had some question as to her vitality. We were having a hard time appraising it. Is it possible for you to comment on this?
Ra: I am Ra. We scan this instrument and find that we may be of service without infringement due to this instrument’s decision to abide by the most careful appraisal possible rather than the most desired.
We have been surprised that we have been able to maintain contact on a regular basis during this most intense period of negatively influenced interference. Sexual energy transfers have at some workings given this instrument additional vital resources upon which to draw. However, this is not so at this working and, therefore, the will of the instrument drives its bodily complex. This instrument has no judgment about this service. The faculty of will, while recognized as most central and valuable, could in this application cause serious distortion in bodily complex of the instrument.
May we note that martyrdom is not necessarily helpful. We ask this instrument to examine these thoughts, judge, and discriminate the possible truth of them; and if they be deemed true, we suggest this instrument release the power of judgment to the support group whose interests are balanced far more than this instrument’s. Allow decisions to be made without expectation or attachment to the outcome. Our hopes, may we say, for long-term contact through this instrument depend upon its maturing ability to be of service to other-selves by accepting their help and thus remaining a viable instrument.
May we thank the questioner for allowing us to speak to this point, for we were aware of the distortions incumbent upon one whose will to serve is not regulated by knowledge of limitations of bodily-complex distortion.
This morning I used my backpack blower and blew the leaves in the back yard into a pile and filled three garbage cans with them. I went back outside in the afternoon and decided it was time to get the last of the Sycamore leaves out of the gutters that I had cleaned last Monday by local lawn service guys. However, the Sycamore made a rain of leaves until yesterday that filled the gutters again. So I used my extension ladder and backpack blower to blow those leaves out of the gutters and into the side yard between the fish pond and pet cemetery. There were also a lot of leaves from my neighbor’s oak tree in that area, so I blew all of the leaves into position and crunched them into leaf dust with my big mower.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
December 4
The Instinct Of Creation To Praise
I am of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ who comes in the name of the one infinite God. I greet you in the full consciousness of Christ, which is love.
Every creature which is perfect of its kind is a true picture of the face of God. Each flower that blooms shouts with its colors in praise and blessing of the One who made it. All that is, is full of the instinctive love of its Creator.
Humankind alone removes itself again and again from the Creator’s praise, interpreting the signs and events of experience in ways that do not honor the love that created all. Do you think that you bloom with truer colors than the flower, you who doubt that each experience is full of love? Again you betray the love and honor which would be yours to offer if those who were self-conscious were also fully conscious.
It is the faith which we who are of the principle of Christ seek again and again to strengthen in you which alone can inform human consciousness of the divinity of all things and of their true color. Praise is not possible for most who are self-conscious without such aid. And yet the instinct to praise and bless one’s Creator is a true part of your makeup.
Seek, then, the grace of the Holy Spirit, that you may become a blooming flower, rejoicing in the light of a sun that always shines regardless of the appearance of evanescent clouds. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of Love and open our hearts, our minds, and our souls to send love, light, and healing energies to Mother Earth as she brings forth a New Earth in fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energies of the One Infinite Creator heal the heart of each soul in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energies in their hearts, in their minds, and in their souls. Amen.