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 family:
Family
There is probably no other experience in our lives that gives us more opportunities to be of service to others than do our families. Whether it is our birth family, marriage family, or that family of those we form bonds with as our lives progress through time, we are presented with the chance to not only be of service to others on a daily—and sometimes hourly—basis, but I believe that our birth families provide us with more catalyst for our growth than we will receive from almost any other facet of our lives, and this is very likely because the majority of our pre-incarnative choices are first set into motion in our birth family. Carla was a good example of how such choices may be realized in a manner which might not be the most pleasant or fun. In the following quote (50.4-.5) Ra gave a general outline as to how this played out for Carla:
Questioner: Could you give an example of how an entity sets up a condition for attracting a particular experiential catalyst and how that catalyst then is provided or is learned.
Ra: I am Ra. Such an example may be given.
Questioner: Will you give that?
Ra: I am Ra. We paused to scan this instrument’s consciousness for permission to use its experiential catalyst as example. We may proceed.
This is one instance, and extrapolation may be made to other entities which are aware of the process of evolution. This entity chose, before incarnation, the means whereby catalyst had great probability of being obtained. This entity desired the process of expressing love and light without expecting any return. This instrument programmed also to endeavor to accomplish spiritual work and to comfort itself with companionship in the doing of this work.
Agreements were made prior to incarnation; the first, with the so-called parents and siblings of this entity. This provided the experiential catalyst for the situation of offering radiance of being without expectation of return.”
The giving without expectation of return manifested for Carla as being tasked with a lot of work to do as a child that actually took her childhood away from her because she was such a child prodigy. Her mom and dad felt that she should be given a lot of responsibilities as a child to advance her already very high intelligence. She was baby-sitting at age seven, cooking for the family at age 10, and she was never complimented for her work by her mom or dad. Instead, she was given helpful criticism meant to enhance her ability to do what she was doing.
Meanwhile her mom and dad were playing out their own choices by reacting to having to give up careers as a jazz musician for her dad and for her mom having to give up being a co-host for Dave Garroway on the “Today Show,” that was filmed in Chicago, because their first meeting resulted in Carla’s eventual birth. So there was a tension between them that created a kind of frustration in their dinner table conversations that caused Carla to take shelter in her bedroom when she was alone or with her younger brothers later on and actually be their mom in how she lovingly related to them. Coincidentally, Q’uo shared the overview of this difficult childhood that Carla chose when they said:
Now, in this instrument’s case these relationships which occurred were carefully chosen, not for that which would be considered happy reasons, but precisely because they set up the dynamics in which this particular lesson might be best learned. The incarnational plan therefore has functioned beautifully. However, had this instrument not chosen to engage with that birth family in relationship work and therefore had this instrument never grasped what the lesson was or how to work on it consciously in this relationship, there were repeated instances where this instrument had planned carefully to meet other entities which would have been just as helpful in setting up the dynamics of a relationship of this instrument with an entity who was profoundly worthy of love but who was incapable of giving emotionally in return. Q’uo, May 4, 2003.
So if you want to look at where your various likes and dislikes have come from, it would probably be helpful to look at how your birth family helped you to activate your own pre-incarnative programming of certain kinds of thoughts and behaviors in your life pattern. This is certainly the work of the Player once again.
I would like to share my own experience with my birth family. It is quite a bit different from Carla’s and from most other people’s that I have talked with about how they were raised and the difficulties that they had with their mom, or dad, or brothers, or sisters.
I received total support from my mom and dad. All they wanted was for me to be happy. I think that the basic reason for this was that they were both raised during the Great Depression of the 1930s in America. They were dirt poor and neither one finished high school. Dad had to quit school his sophomore year and get a job in rural Alabama to help support the family. He got a job in a grocery store and continued in that work for the rest of his life, becoming the manager of a little grocery store in Lexington, Nebraska. Mom also had to quit school her sophomore year because her family moved too far away from the nearest school for her to get there by horse and wagon since her family had no automobile on the Great Plains of western Nebraska.
So when mom and dad met each other in Kearney, Nebraska during WWII, mom was working as a waitress in a small restaurant, called The Tasty Tea Room, and dad was a supply Sergeant in the Army. They got married a few months later on January 10th, 1945. They decided to have just one child so that they could give him everything that they never had as kids when they were growing up. Mom worked as bookkeeper in the grocery store that dad managed and also stocked the shelves and ran the cash register, so they were able to rent a small house and pay the bills and provide me with the same kinds of toys that other kids had but which they never had when they were kids.
Starting in junior high school, when baseball was in season in the summer, mom and dad always drove their car for me and some of my fellow athletes to ride in to our away games since there was no bus that all of the athletes could ride in together. They put money aside for me from their earnings at the grocery store so that I could go to college, and they bought me a new car for my freshman year of college so I could drive back and forth from college to home on weekends. It was a 1965 Chevelle Malibu and only cost $2,800 back then. They were very proud of me when I was graduated from college. I was one of the first in their family to do so.
They also were glad when I went into Teacher Corps after college as it was a Master’s Degree program as well as a teaching experience that I got paid for. However, when I moved to the woods of central Kentucky, built a log cabin, and lived off the grid for six and one-half years they were somewhat disappointed because that was how they were raised: with an outhouse and no running water or electricity. They had no real idea of what I was doing or why I was doing it, but they still supported me because they wanted me to be happy. They came to visit me once a year and drove their car up the running creek which was my access road, stayed in a small cabin that I built over my root cellar, and used a little outhouse that I built especially for them.
When I joined Don and Carla and the Ra contact was ongoing they continued to visit me once a year and were somewhat relieved that I was living in a nice house and was working with good people. However, when anyone would ask my mom “What is Jim doing these days?” she would give her best estimation of my situation by saying that I was a typist for an airline pilot. Once again, they had no idea what I was doing or why I was doing it. They were just glad that I was happy. I had quite an anomalistic childhood, to say the least, and very simple and loving parents for which I have always been very grateful.
This morning we got a little rain for the first time in over a week, so I was very glad to have to wait to go outside and transplant the two flats of Dahlias in the yellow Marigolds which have been looking a little wilted recently. I also was able to walk around the yard and attach little balls of deer repellant to trees in the area of my dozen or so flower gardens that are scattered around my yard. Then I ran a couple of errands with my first stop at Kroger’s to pick up some coconut water. My last stop was at Walgreen’s to pick up a prescription.
This afternoon I decided to do some weeding since the rain had made the ground soft and easier to weed. I weeded the Ruins Mound, the Astilbe patch, and the Creeping Jenny patch.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
May 14
What Shall The Day Bring?
I come in the name of Jesus the Christ and greet you in the full consciousness of love.
What shall the day bring? This question lies upon the fearful brow of one who hesitates in the morning to gaze steadily at the day’s offerings.
We encourage each instead to rejoice in what the day brings, whatever it may be. The enjoyment of it is the perfect gift of perfect love. Seize it. Relish it. And, in the best way given, deal with it appropriately.
But know, too, that this, indeed this very moment, is the moment which is given for peace, joy, rejoicing and happiness; this moment and no other. Feel the fullness of the spirit of the living Christ within and open to the splendor of the morning.
We leave you in the bracing wind of spirit and the perfect peace of acceptance, now and always. 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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