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If You
Work for God, You Must Work for Free (Editorial
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Today I met an amazing man. A man whose life has touched more lives than any other man I know, a man who is changing the world - one person at a time. This man is Neale Donald
Walsch. In my estimation he is right up there with Oprah Winfrey. Not because they are better than, but because they have no fear of the unknown and simply step up to the podium and do it. Change lives - that is.
Interestingly, at the press conference I expected more cynical questions, more questions about “who do you think you are” and, “what makes you think that it really is God who is speaking to you”. This then, is surely and indication that our audience has indeed matured. The questions were a lot more profound – of course the answers were even more profound!
We did, however, have the inevitable question about his wealth. This he answered with as much magnanimity as the rest of the questions. He asked the questioner whether she would feel more comfortable about his wealth if he made it selling drugs, or taking his clothes off and dancing on tables… Wayne Dyer also made a very valid statement when he said something like; “how can we pay our movie and sports stars an obscene amount of money and our teachers and nurses battle to feed their families?” I agree. When are we going to let go of the idea that if we work for God, we must work for free? When are we actually going to get it that God should be in every business, in every industry. The fact is she is already there – we just deny it.
We are very, very quick to point out the blunders of those who “work for God”. As with any other industry, the “God” industry also has the professional workers, the charity workers and the charlatans - just as there are good, mediocre and bad doctors, lawyers, teachers, television producers, nurses, etc. Let us all be aware that we earn what we perceive our own worth to be. So if your perception of your own worth is low… Always remember that you have an internal warning system that will let you know which of the above you are dealing with. But yet again we are lead by what others think and say. If a person whom we hold in high regard recommends someone to us, we often ignore our own internal warning system and accept the recommended individual on face value rather than our very own gut instinct. How often have we wanted to kick ourselves for not listening to that inner voice?
This is what Mr Walsch recommends – always find your own truth, always! You have within you innate wisdom – that wisdom is the Godness of our humanness. Stop for a moment and listen. If you just listen, you will hear it. But you have to be still first.
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Love
Cannot Wait (Editorial
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Hilda de la Rosa)
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Only when we are is faced with our own mortality do we sit back and consider how fragile life really is. A friend is ill – very ill. Looking at her I know that I have not told her enough that I love her. I know that I have not said it often enough to those very special people around me. I also know that I have not heard it enough. Even understanding mortality from a spiritual point of view and even knowing that every choice is appropriate, does not make it easier. Right here, right now – the not knowing is the worst.
Love is too small a word. We really need to invent more descriptive words to define what it is that we feel. Let’s see how many different variations we can begin to fathom and we only have the one word for it. Love between a man and a woman, that wild passion that goes on in the beginning. That I-can-barely-breathe feeling. That then changes into that endearing love, the one that says, “I really know you and really feel comfortable with you”. I have yet to find a divorced couple that do not have - beneath the exterior of pain and resentment – a deeper feeling of understanding and compassion for their ex-spouse. What is that feeling?
Then there is the love of a father for his special daughter, or his son. The love of a mother feels for her children. Yes, even that feeling we have for that one “special” child that we never admit to. The love one has for nature – that feeling you get when you are in the forest alone and it is so beautiful your heart aches. The love we feel for our pets. The love a farmer has for his or her land. The love we all have for a higher power – even those of us that say we do not believe in anything but our one life – even those of us, have a small place of hope in our hearts. The love we have for art, both the artists and the viewers. The love we have for our respective careers. The passion the doctor or healer feels about healing and health. The love we have for our friends. The love we have for our siblings and our parents. Then the love we have for cousins, uncles and aunts is yet again subtly different. Yet we still use only the one word.
Tell those around you that you love them. Do not wait another moment. Tell them all the time. Life is just too fragile to rely on tomorrow.
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