I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 102 quote comes from Chapter Three and the concept of the healthy use of power:
Healthy Use of Power
This instrument has been saying lately that if ever there was a time to be steadfast it is now, and this thought, that you are a nation of priests, that you are a holy people, is along those lines. When you seek, when you learn, you develop a responsibility to share what you know, to live what you know, to express what you know in your daily life. Perhaps it is nothing more than a smile, a positive reaction to a negative situation, a word dropped at the right time, a thought that helps. At a time when it is easy to give negative thought, finding that one positive thought is to work magic.
When people realize their power they become much more effective. And so we would ask each of you to realize the tremendous potential within you. Realize that you are already exerting a great deal of power, so the question becomes, “What is the right use of power?” Where is the love in the situation in front of your eyes? That is the question that brings the most resonance and affords the most magic in terms of being able to effect change. More and more, allow yourself to come into the priesthood that you have so long studied for. Accept the mantle and vow to do your best to run the straight race, to be steadfast with what you believe, to find ways to share those things that only you can share, for they lie within the folds of your personality and they are your gifts to give.
Love one another. That is the heart of priesthood: to love, to bless, to witness to the light. Q’uo, November 4, 2001
Q’uo suggests that as spiritual seekers of truth we have many years of experience in learning how to develop spiritual qualities that are unique to ourselves that we can use in a great variety of ways in being of service to others. We can express these qualities in ways great and small: a smile to a stranger, giving a neighbor a ride to the grocery store, counseling a person who has lost a loved one and is dealing with great grief, giving a friend a place to live while they earn enough money to afford their own apartment, starting a study group that focuses on spiritual information that helps each in the group to progress spiritually, and simply taking advantage of being of service as such opportunities are offered to us in our daily round of activities.
Q’uo went on to say that when we continually seek to use our power in this loving and healthy way we are actually approaching a magical stance like unto a priest who can create positive changes in consciousness for others and for ourselves as the healthy use of power would of necessity require that we open our hearts in unconditional love to flow out to those with whom we interact. I think that we could also see this quality of being a priest as the equivalent of calling upon our higher selves in the magical personality aspect as we continually polarize our consciousness in the positive sense as to how we use our power in service to others. We are all unique in how we may “run the straight race” and use the love that is in the moment to positively affect the lives of others. We must be steadfast in our desire to serve others with joy and devotion to the One which is in all people, and this is how we may give “witness to the Light.”
Q’uo shared another way of looking at the right use of power in our daily lives:
There are also those who are concerned with that called power, which is created in love and in wisdom by the discipline of the personality. When an entity has become very disciplined, the issue then becomes the right use of power. And that may link either into love or into wisdom or into both. So it is difficult to offer one blanket statement as to how incarnations work because there are these three elements upon which it is possible to base the incarnational lessons of a lifetime.
However you set up your life, the idea was for it to spiral, not, as many feel, repeat. Rather, the image would be that of the spiraling staircase that moves upward, and yet, if you gaze up through the staircase from the bottom, you can see that there is that point in the staircase that repeats in each spiral. It is the same place relative to the center of the spiral, yet every time a lesson repeats, you are at a different place in the evolution of your mind, your body and your spirit.
So you are working on your incarnational lesson. You can think of it as an independent study in the School of Life. And yet when it comes around again, you cannot simply say, “Well that’s the same thing,” for you are at a different place in your development. So when it occurs, it is time to take it into consideration as if it were something new.
The benefit of understanding how incarnational lessons work is that when you see an incarnational lesson coming around again, when you see and hear your theme music playing, you do not have to become despairing or discouraged. You can simply say, “Ah, my incarnational theme has come around again. It is time to spend some heartfelt honor, respect and support upon this situation so that I may open this gift I have been given and appreciate it and cooperate with it.”
We are not saying in any way that an illness such as the one known as Y has asked about is easy to take. What we are saying is that even the challenges of an incarnation are gifts to be opened with thanksgiving. Q’uo, November 27, 2010.
Q’uo suggested that the right use of power would include balancing love, or love and wisdom, with the concept of power. These are the three aspects of the magical personality that Ra spoke of and which Q’uo refers to as repeating themes in our evolution of our minds, bodies, and spirits. As each of our incarnations are experienced the lessons, or pre-incarnative choices, bring us the opportunity to use our power in the most effective way to grow more fully into our what we could call our natural selves that see even the most difficult of lessons as being worthy of our time and attention. In this way we may more fully realize our potential to learn from them at each level of our energy body, from the lower energy centers through the higher ones as well.
Carla also had some inspiring thoughts to offer concerning the healthy or right use of power:
That which you are ready to do, you can do. And you can do it so well. You can do it so beautifully. Always trust yourself. Always listen for your own discernment, not the discernment of anybody else. But, every day, start the day by setting an intention, a polarized intention to serve others in your particular way. Everybody is going to make a different prayer. Everybody is going to set a slightly different intention. But the act of setting that intention creates in you a tremendous awakening of your inner power.
And in a way, the right use of power is heavily connected to polarity and to your moving yourself into a polarized position. When you finally realize that you are a powerful, powerful person and that you are actually magic—you are a co-creator, actually; to use Ra’s terms you’re a co-co-creator. That doesn’t matter.
At any rate, the power that you have is awesome and infinite, and when you focus it and when you let loose that focus and you are engaged and you are paying attention and you are there, the world becomes an incredible place. And when you realize that with your power, what you forgive is forgiven, that means you can forgive and it is so. If you judge it is also so for you. So how do you want to set up your universe? How do want your creation to run? You want it to run on love probably. That’s the kind of creation you’d like to live in and you have the power to do that. Carla Rueckert, Homecoming talk, 2010
Carla was always an advocate of the setting of an intention at the beginning of each day as being of paramount importance for the spiritual seeker of truth. This intention to serve others to the best of one’s ability was like creating the foundation of the day upon which the rest of the efforts to serve others would be built. It was the way that we could uniquely activate that inner power that is within each of us.
She went on to say that such intentions to use our unique power was akin to activating the Creator within us and becoming that which is like a “co-co-Creator” with a power that can actually help us to create our own universe of being, of doing, of loving, of giving, and serving the One Creator in each person that we meet in our daily round of activities. What she was really talking about was that the Creator is within us all, and we can activate that nature of our being when we use our power in a healthy and loving manner. This is actually the journey of the spiritual seeker of truth, to see and serve the Creator in all others and within our selves. Each effort that we make to use this power of the Creator in a healthy and loving way becomes another expression of our natural selves moving forward as Players on the Enhanced Gameboard of Life.
This morning I ran a couple of errands with my first stop being at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some Lantana that I want to plant in with the snapdragons in the front yard that aren’t doing very well. My second stop was at Walgreen’s where I bought some duct tape and some Cascade dish washing detergent. When I got back home I transplanted the Lantana in with the Snapdragons. Then I transplanted the nine Drift Roses that I bought at Thieneman’s yesterday into the two gardens in front of the fish pond.
This afternoon I went to The Home Depot and rented a power sprayer to spray the mildew off of the ramp that leads up to the front porch and also the deck out of the back door. Then I returned the power sprayer and, while I was at The Home Depot I also found two Forsythia Bushes that I can plant in one of the holes in my hedge of Forsythia Bushes, one on the north side of the back yard and one on the south side of the back yard. Then I went to Lowe’s and bought some paint that I can paint the ramp and back deck with tomorrow as it is meant to seal cracks in the wood and create a smooth surface that is easy to walk on.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
May 9
You Are The Holy One
I am the spirit of Jesus the Christ and I greet you in the full consciousness which is divine love.
Sometimes it may seem that troubles surround you, that your easy path seems hedged in at every turn and filled with boulders difficult to climb over and impossible to remove.
It may seem to you that you are then comfortless. This is not so. The spirit of Jesus the Christ lives in the world this day, this moment, and for you. You are the holy one we have come to comfort. You are the seeking saint we hope to console. You are the doubting spirit we hope to renew.
Share your responsibilities, your troubles and the difficulties of your path in prayer with those of us who love you most dearly. In that sharing there shall be joy amidst hardship and strength amidst weakness.
In joy, in strength and in peace we leave you now and ever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
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