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1/28/96 #1   HATONN

 

THANKSGIVING: HAPPY OR OTHERWISE

What are your feelings at this moment?  Yea, even in the reading you can pause and reflect on this moment as the clock reads 7:45 and 52 seconds A.M. on Thanksgiving morning.  IT ALL DEPENDS ON CIRCUMSTANCES, DOESN'T IT?

Thousands in the U.S. awaken today with their homes crammed with harassed family visitors; a most hapless turkey awaits its roasting; some are still awaiting execution.  What is there to be thankful for, if you are ill and in pain?  What ARE your "feelings"?  What reflections go through your mind?

I can suggest to you who feel a bit isolated and pressured on this usual day of football, gluttony, and too much wine and beer--that others around the world are not impressed with YOUR holiday.  And yet, in the U.S.A. this holiday is about the ONLY one left with any intent toward simple family get-together.

What I am going to share will be an embarrassment to Dharma, of sorts, because we always write twice or three times as much on holidays (major holidays I am even more demanding), and what do we find?  THANKSGIVING!  Sometimes it takes 65 years to learn what is no-wise a lecture on negative thoughts and wishes for it is the most POSITIVE sharing I can offer.  Part of God's testing is in watching that which HIS people DO in their days of testing, sorting, and LIVING.  And yet, to make parables, truth must be represented lest there be no parable.  What you KNOW is always that from which you can best learn.

DOES ANYONE DO WHAT YOU WOULD WISH?

Rather than embarrass any of you--I will, as I most often do, have to you Dharma--who, by the way is pretty despondent this morning as "just" another day is foreseen dealing with the tragedies and misfortunes of a sleeping world.  Because her heart is so filled with appreciation, she is loathe to be the brunt of my parable for the day, but so be it.

For 57 years she did it all--every Thanksgiving, every Holiday, she prepared feasts, made the dinners, cleaned the debris, entertained as many as would come to the table, friend or street person.  These people have memories which overflow the mind in diversity.  And today?  A dozen lawsuits needing attending TODAY; only one of 8 children even asked "what are you going to do today?".  No other asked at all.  So, we reflect a minute and wonder what might we have done so wrong as to be ignored by so many who promised never to leave us, never to forget us, never to do other than help, serve God and Nation, and above all, just be there.  Perhaps it is like marriage when the ruffles and flourishes are passed.  Ah yes, God recognizes the changing attitudes of mankind.  Where are all those promises of LOVE-without-end, in absolute and forever adoration?  Do you see that these things of physical pretense cannot be that which is FOREVER?

...I could use anyone on the globe for example in this thought-probing exercise, but charity begins at home.  You see, so many of you consider yourselves failures that you cannot reach your brethren and relations with TRUTH.  They abuse you for your input and insistence and tolerate your presence for you become from another world of influence when you choose GOD and they have not yet seen any reason to do such a stupid thing.  Oh, they dress up, often, and trot the trot to the church house and plan their week during the sermon.  But "choosing God?", oh I think NOT.

CHOOSING GOD

Some family members are even in agreement with you, work with you, and still they don't have the time to read the zillions of profound dumping that are produced, much less try to LIVE as if such writings are actually TRUE.  And the heart cries out--"WHY?"  And, just because we serve God, the multitudes from here to distant countries await us to write the writing, fund the funding, fix the broken pieces, and serve up solutions and information.  And yes, readers, the SPIRIT grows weary and worn IN JOY OR IN SORROW for, once finding GOD in TRUTH, the soul and the mind are at PEACE--even in a bitter world.  When you find "purpose" there is no longer the typical depression without alleviation or the loss of attitude adjustment possibility--it is simply a sad blanket of reflection and realistic observation of that which IS.  THIS IS that "pious" appearance of acceptance, allowance, and sad countenance of one who comes to KNOW truth.  There seems to no longer be a "place" in which to "fit" or be "wanted" in inclusion of the daily affairs of simple living experiences.

I would take this opportunity to point out to all those who think there to be some kind of "cult" here--no, there is nothing, not a pot-luck lunch, nor a feast-in, nothing is here except some people trying to do their work, separately or together, but simply do their tasks as agreed and contracted, no more and no less.  Furthermore, we have to apologize for the work on the holiday required if we write.

I speak of this for it is an opportunity to point out to you that when you back OUR people, you back TRUTH and in that recognition you will perhaps feel better qualified to write in their behalf.  We don't make political promises here and yet, I need to share a couple of things YOU DON'T KNOW, about the circumstances as they have come to be against the Ekkers, in the courts of injustice. ...

CONFOUND IT: WE WELCOME INVESTIGATIONS!

Daily I am asked "WHEN, WHERE, HOW will we show up and what are we going to do?", and thus and so.  WHAT ARE YOU DOING AND WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT?

GOD is not going to "fix" anything FOR YOU.  You have to fix the things of your own doing and undoing--and THEN we can perhaps speak of greater things.  This is YOUR LIFE, people, not mine.  But yes indeed, I DO understand that you can't do anything TODAY--because it is, after all, Thanksgiving Day and you have to entertain, feast, and drift while your world breaks down before your eyes.  Wouldn't it be nice if the homeless only had to WORK on a holiday or on a Sabbath (if you could ever decide which days are Sabbath).  How many of you spend a "self" holiday instead of for "all your relations"?  Is this a guilt trip of some sort?  I don't know because I can hardly recognize some of you who start so diligently and then blow it off when an idea you have formed is somehow "crossed".  Is there hope for the world?  Is there hope that somehow a skunk can change its smell to beauty?  People--THIS IS LIFE!

This is not about "Dharma".  She has but to mention a thing and thousands ask her in.  Cards of great love and beauty come every day.  This is about realization readers, and example is all I have to offer that understanding can be achieved.  Who cares where you eat lunch?  The point is so much more important and that is: WHERE ARE YOU IN YOUR JOURNEY?  EVERY day should be THANKSGIVING, and every day should be filled with brotherhood and LOVE.  But don't the OTHERS in your living spaces have to also be reaching out TO YOU lest neither they, nor you, realize brotherhood?

With lawyers involved in anything--remember something: the old adage about the fox and the rabbit.  The lawyer is running for his supper, his life-style, his Mercedes--while the "client" is running for his life and the wherewithal to continue the life-style of his lawyer.  THINK ABOUT IT.  Only, it comes after a decade of struggle that the client may well be weary of running for his own attorney who is inept, undecided, and allowing of such atrocities to continue.  Offensive?  NO, for in most cases you simply cannot offend an attorney!  I guess it has taken 8 of the 9 years to come to BELIEVE the clients.  It somehow appears that TRUTH just CAN'T be a part of a case lest the jury and judge cannot believe simple truth.  You have come a long way, babes in the woods--a long way indeed.

THANKFUL?

So, again: is there anything for which to be thankful?  YES INDEED--YOU STILL HAVE A COURT BEFORE WHICH YOU CAN APPEAR--AND IN MANY PLACES, YEA EVEN YOUR OWN, IT HAS CEASED TO BE AN ALTERNATIVE TO CRIME AND HATE.  Nothing is too late in America--IF YOU WAKE UP AND RECLAIM YOU NATIONAL CONSTITUTION, COURTS, AND FREEDOM--UNDER AND WITHIN THE LAWS OF GOD!  CONTINUE IN THE GIVING AWAY TO YOUR SOUL ENEMIES YOUR VERY LIVES--AND IT IS OVER FOR YOU OF HONOR AND GOODNESS.  This does not mean that it is NOT over for the evil practitioners--for they are ALREADY LOST.

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.  Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."   An Indian Proverb.  Ah, but would it be so.

We must still always live in the give and take, pain and joy of experiencing life and, in the humble reflections of thoughts, is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the Sun, so have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done, to have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes?  You have to, however, be assured, if you walk with HIM, HE will never fail you.  And readers, when you find that someone has done something good--applaud, PLEASE, for in that way you make TWO people happy.

Dharma, as with yourself, if you have prayed CORRECTLY--you will realize that EACH thing that comes is but an answer in possibilities FROM GOD.  YOU cannot know that way in all details and respects, and the call compels the answer so that if you pray for HIS WILL TO BE DONE--IN THE BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE MANNER--the answer WILL come.  Will you, however, RECOGNIZE IT?  Do you lick your perceived wounds to the extent that you cannot see the gift?  A gift is but a package usually unopened until too late to refuse to accept it.  I suggest you FIND the value of positive giving from any response from God--for God only shares the most priceless and beautiful treasures--IF YOU ASK.  Most often, however, you do not recognize the gift or its value.  And THIS, readers, is what THANKS are about.  YOUR ENEMY DEPENDS UPON YOUR MISSING THE GIFT!  And, believe me, dear ones--YOU DO NOT WANT A FRIEND OR A LAWYER WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN YOUR CAUSE OR YOUR CASE!  When a lawyer can only think of his own backside--he is NOT thinking about yours!  All he really wants from you is--like your enemy--your money!  And yes indeed, innocent victims of the system--IT HAS EVER THUS SINCE TIME BEGAN. ...

TIME FOR THANKS

GOD IS A CREATOR--NOT A DO-GOODER!  Are you LESS?  WHY?  Is goodness such an alien concept as to divert your attention, your strength, and your journey?  Oh my.  You are given that with which to CREATE your success and you turn it away, hide it for a better moment, bury it for it may bite someone.  NO, YOU USE WHAT IS GIVEN UNTO YOU, WHEN YOU RECOGNIZE THE GIFT!  You do not give evil intenders the quarter of the battle--USE YOUR AMMUNITION AND SQUASH EVIL WHERE IT REARS ITS UGLY HEAD(S).  You may well be surprised at how good it feels to stamp out a bit of evil and a few evil doers.  I don't want to kill my adversaries--just squash them so they LIVE to understand the errors of their lying, thieving ways.  If you produce WRONG, it is WRONG, and if you ALLOW WRONG--YOU ARE WRONG.  This is a growing time for all of us, is it not?  Well, some are more weary of waiting for others to catch up than to longer appreciate paying for the lessons of the others who still cover only their own backsides instead of accepting the lessons offered.  And, how dare you do WRONG and then assume the idiots in the group will accept your change of attention.  Forget it, silly children.  GOD did NOT put us on the Earth to suffer and lose--HE CREATED YOU TO REFLECT THE PERFECTION OF HIS TOTALITY OF CREATIVE ABILITIES AND MORE IN INTEGRITY, LIGHT, TRUTH, AND HONOR.  LOVE BECOMES YOUR BEINGNESS--NOT SOME SEXUAL GAME OF CHANCE.

How can you not think of SELF first, last, and always?  You can't.  You must clean up, shape up, create and live these things of Creation WITH SELF FIRST, LAST, AND ALWAYS!

Ah, and would it not be nice for ME to believe that I have brought a good and learned lesson this day to just a few?  Will you just read this and put it aside--or will YOU pay attention and take responsibility--for after all, it IS your life.

I think I've made my point and hope that, from the lessons, we have strengthened at least a few backbones which are bent and under stress.  It is amazing how your very body will tell you where you are stressed and struggling.  Try looking at your pressure points and pain focus--and check out why, where, who, how, when, and WHAT might be causing you trouble--from your intestines to your soul.  If your back hurts, you carry the load incorrectly.  If your butt hurts--I suggest you clear up the pain in the...!  If your neck pains--look to the-pain-in-the neck and cure what is eating you AND NEVER MIND WHAT YOU ARE EATING.  If your ear hurts, it may well be temporarily relieved by pinching a toe--but it will not FIX the ear.  KNOW IT and get rid of the cause and you will find yourself feeling a whole lot better as you move through your days.

Now I am going to shatter one last fantasy: Fix the thing you can, let go the things you can't--and REALIZE THAT YOU CAN FIX THEM ALL--for you ARE Creator's most prized reflection when you choose to REFLECT HIM.  If you wish to build a castle--build a castle--JUST REALIZE WHY YOU WISH TO DO SO!  How many of you do things until.... and never seem to realize that "UNTIL" has arrived?  To EACH must come forth HIS OWN!  And, "where" you dwell upon a planet with many facets of dimension has no matter.

Can we accept our lessons?  Yes, we not only CAN--we must, lest our adversary suck us into more and deeper muck of the moment.  We become what we choose to be--EVERY TIME.  WE ARE WHAT WE BELIEVE OURSELVES TO BE--no more and no less.  And for this gift, allow us always to give thanks.

Salu, and may our thanks and offerings always be unto our Creator who asks only that we use HIS gifts and reflect HIS wonderment and perfection in like kind.

 

 

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Source:  CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT, December 3, 1996, Volume 15, Number 4, Pages 41-43.

http://phoenixarchives.com/contact/1996/1296/120396.pdf

Transcribed into HTML format by R. Montana.