I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 102 quote comes from Chapter Four and the concept of living the Choice to serve others:
Chapter Four
Living the Choice to Serve Others
Carla’s goals for Chapter 4: “This chapter looks at how we make service-to-others choices in our personal environment, in our families, in our spiritual groups and in our political groups as well as other groups.”
The thoughts of an entity, its feelings or emotions, and least of all its behavior are the signposts for the teaching/learning of self by self.[1]
As we travel through each day of our lives on this Earth we will come upon a multitude of ways to be of service to others, and some of them may be quite difficult. We will need to be able to navigate our own inner streams of consciousness that flow in many directions into feelings, emotions, and thoughts that are new to us, confusing, and which result in what we may interpret to be imperfect conclusions as to how we should proceed. I believe that the key to making this inner journey fruitful is to open our hearts in unconditional love as much as we can to lovingly accept each person, each thought, each opportunity to serve, and to accept ourselves as well. In this quote Q’uo gives us an overview of what living the Choice to serve others is like:
And so what is the choice, precisely? Although we cannot speak precisely, although the choice is always veiled in mystery, we would point in the direction of the will which is as the verb in a sentence in which the nouns are made of faith, hope, love and charity. What is the right use of will? The one known as Jesus spoke very clearly when it said, “Not my will but Thine.” For you see, the choice truly is to surrender. The choice of the Fool is to leap into mid-air, knowing absolutely nothing about what lies at the bottom of the chasm of unknowing. One chooses either to have complete faith and thus to remain calm in the midst of this sea of confusion which is the Earth world. This is not an obviously good choice. The choice to believe blindly seems quite foolish and may we say that it is foolish. Upon the surface of events such a choice as pure faith shall only rarely be obviously validated by experience and yet the energy that is released when a seeker chooses to live by faith is tremendous. It certainly flies in the face of logic. Logic dictates that one maintain control in order to better serve.
And yet the way of logic is the way of death, for service is a living and vital thing. It blows as does the wind, and to be of service to another is an art. The beginning of this art is the refraining from using the will in eagerness to serve. As you attempt to serve others, always ask the self, as this instrument said earlier to the one known as B, “What is being asked of you?” For it is in response to what is asked that one may serve another. And upon a deeper level, as events impinge upon you, a good question to ask as a touchstone is, “What does the Creator ask of you?” The answer to this can be known only from the heart, only from the intuition, for what the Creator asks is often illogical, often puzzling, even though one feels to do or not to do something. One cannot precisely explain why. But when there is a strong intuition, we recommend and encourage the will to follow that intuition. Q’uo, May 18, 1997.
I think that Q’uo’s suggestion that following our intuition in deciding how to serve others is a very helpful process because I do believe that following our intuition is another way of opening our hearts to the highest and best path that the Creator’s Love can be made manifest in our service to others. It is far better than intellectual analysis that weighs reasons for serving against reasons for not serving in one way or another. I believe the best use of the intellect is in making the decision to follow our intuition and our heart’s source of Love. In 72.7 Ra gave a means by which we can purify our intentions to open our hearts and be of service to others:
The Law of Confusion, or Free Will, is utterly paramount in the workings of the infinite creation. That which is intended has as much intensity of attraction to the polar opposite as the intensity of the intention or desire.
Thus those whose desires are shallow or transitory experience only ephemeral configurations of what might be called the magical circumstance. There is a turning point, a fulcrum which swings as a mind/body/spirit complex tunes its will to service. If this will and desire is for service to others, the corresponding polarity will be activated.
Our process of choosing to be of service to others with an open heart is actually a kind of magical action since we are seeking to change our consciousness into a more focused and purified state of being that we reflect in how we relate to others on a day-to-day basis. To be successful in such an endeavor we need to continually make this choice each day and reflect this choice in how we relate to the people who are a part of our days whether they are friends, neighbors, or strangers. Once again Q’uo describes living the Choice from another angle:
Now, perhaps it is valid to build on the choice that has been made; to rest within its commitment as if it were a cleft in the rock, and, from that point of view, which is the choice to be fearless, to allow all other choices to be those choices that optimize the perceived sense of love. The choice of service to others or service to self that so classically is expressed in the archetypical image of the tarot card of The Lovers seems a simple one. It often seems very clear what is service to self and what is service to others. However, many are those who have found that there are courses in polarity given to them by the school of life which are exceedingly subtle and worthy of study. For those who are attempting not only to choose but to choose with grace and deftness and skill, not the most obvious service to others but the highest, there is a never-ending and very rich palate of choices to be made, options to be considered. And always, ever-new each day; a new and newly mysterious universe to comprehend, behold and give thanks for. Q’uo, January 26, 2003.
So Q’uo suggests that we can refine how we live our Choice to be of service to others according to how the “school of life” gives us a variety of “courses in polarity” that we can interpret to be of the highest or most helpful as time goes on. I believe that as we continue to keep our hearts open with unconditional love for everyone that we meet that the opportunities for being of service will continue to present themselves to us in ways both subtle and obvious, large and small, short-term and long-term, physical and metaphysical. As we continue to deepen our desire to be of service to others more chances to do so will come our way as we become Players on the Enhanced Gameboard of Life. Q’uo affirmed how our service to others may be enhanced by our open hearts:
This entity, because of his attitude of service to others and his determination to make a difference with his open heart and his loving energy, has fulfilled the requirement of right livelihood, which is to serve the one infinite Creator with, as this instrument would say, singleness of heart. The purity of desire to serve is powerful in metaphysical terms and once this determination to serve the infinite Creator in all that is seen and in all that is sought and in all that is beheld is adopted, the service is established in a way that shall never be true within third density alone. For within third density, thoughts are not things. Thoughts remain in the mind and it is the doing of them that is therefore so impressive and so talked about within the consensus reality that this instrument and those within this circle enjoy. Nevertheless, what lies behind consensus reality is not a world of things. It is a world of thought. Thoughts are the objects of that realm which is entered in what those of Ra would call “time/space,” or the metaphysical or inner realms of existence. Within those realms, we do not believe, my brother, that there is anything which you can do to earn money which would not be considered a right livelihood in terms of your intention to serve the one infinite Creator. Q’uo, August 4, 2004.
So when we open our hearts in unconditional love with the intention to be of service to others Q’uo suggested that we may do so both in the consensus reality and within the metaphysical realms for the Creator is fully present in both realms and gives us the opportunity to be able to live our Choice to be of service to others.
This morning I vacuumed the first floor of the house and then ran some errands with my first stop being at Paul’s Fruit Market to buy another tray of Dahlias to transplant into the orange Marigolds later today with the tray of Dahlias that I bought yesterday. I also bought some hanging flower baskest to hang around my fish pond. My second stop was at Walgreen’s where I bought some Pepsi and ice cream. My last stop was at the vet’s where I picked up some meds for Mr. Mush.
This afternoon I hung the flower baskets around the fish pond and then transplanted the Dahlias into the Orange Marigold garden. Then I put new topsoil down in the geode and fossil display beside the bird bath and replaced the geodes and fossils on the dark topsoil so that now they stand out more vividly.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
May 12
Whence The Spirit Shall Blow
I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ. I greet you in the full consciousness of love.
At the beginning of time the spirit moved upon the face of creation and light shone forth upon the darkened portions of the Earth.
The spirit of the living God is a light which comes from beyond time, a light which encompasses all times and places, a light which may move as it will from past to present, from future to past.
Nothing is closed to the light of love and the spirit of that love moves as it wills. Thus is it ever impossible to know whence the wind of spirit shall blow nor whither it tends. The only prayer of the spirit-filled being is a prayer of surrender. For plans may be made, but the spirit may well overturn the plans of man.
Yet is not the strong action suggested by spirit more desirable than all the ordered series of actions without the spirit of love in the universe?
We leave you in the peace of the mind’s surrender to eternity and the forces of love, 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.
[1] The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, 42.11.
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