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Turn On Your Heart Light

16 May

The title of this article consists of several words of a song that keeps singing in my heart these days.

Turn on your heart light; if I do, what will I see?  As of late I’ve been journeying within and am in the process of working through a book called, “The Presence Process.”  It takes you within to allow you to uncover things that you’ve held onto, most often unaware, that cause you to behave in a way that you do not want to be and that you do not like.  Speaking personally, my response to life seems always to have been not a response but a reaction, and not in a good way.  Thinking back to my reactionary lifestyle, it is most reactionary and volatile in times and situations where I feel threatened or feel that I am being misunderstood and not allowed to speak and explain, and so I jump in with both feet, no time to think, and just blurt out my response, before someone tells me to shut up!  Not a pretty sight is it?

So, tell me, self, what does turning on my heart light have to do with any of this process that I am currently undergoing?

The answer is simple and that is without a light, it is darkness, and I won’t see what it is I am supposed to see.  Rather a simple answer is it not?

To share with you, in my journey within, I have discovered behind a closed door, a locked door in my heart, my child; locked in and very afraid to come out.  The Lord has been gracious in that He drew me to that door, and knocking on the door, He opened it for me to see.  Had not someone turned on the light in that dark closet of my heart where my wee child sat huddled and trembling in the corner, I would not have seen her.

My heart light was turned on that I might see, and I stood there in the doorway looking down at this small child, this little girl huddled in the corner.  She sat with her arms wrapped around her legs, curled in the corner, and she never looked up.  She seemed to terrified, I didn’t want to speak and further her terror, so I just stood there looking down at her wondering what in heaven’s name could have happened to one so very young and vulnerable, to make her stayed locked up in the darkness for so very, very long.

My journey into the light, into the heart light of this once locked closet door won’t be explained in terms of linear time; suffice it to say, it unfolds.

At some point the girl stood and stared.  I’d stepped back from the doorway and wasn’t certain she could see me, didn’t want her to see me in case I added to her fear.  She didn’t move from the corner, and the light cast a shadow and the shadow was even tinier than she was.  She was looking straight ahead, eyes direct, but I couldn’t tell if she was looking at anything or simply oblivious to everything.

I next saw her standing at the line that delineated between being into the closet and stepping across an invisible line and entering into the main room.  Again, I couldn’t see what she saw and I can’t remember where I stood; I just stood silently watching her, willing her to step out into the light of the main room, the garden of my heart where there was no darkness.  I wondered if she saw anything planted in that garden; wondered if I’d left some root of anger or hatred still growing in the soil, the soul of my heart; afraid that if I had, she would see it and retreat back to the safety of the dark closet of my heart.  How I prayed that the work that the Lord had been working in me had uprooted all semblance of anything that would add to her fear, to her obvious negative view of the world at large.

Continuing, she did enter the great room of my heart, where Yahshua sat in his chaise lounge, quite relaxed and laid back; where he’d taken up house some time ago, telling me he was “quite comfortable” in the garden of my heart, and without words being spoken, in the same breath asking me why I wasn’t comfortable within my own self?

I hadn’t seen it before, but opposite him was a tiny lawn chair, a child’s lawn chair, and there she sat, my child, feet dangling unable to touch the ground.  She just stared across at Yahshua, silent, eyes unwavering.  She was transfixed as though seeing something for the first time; something good, something gentle, something that she had no need to fear.

I turned an left, leaving her in the safety of the presence of Yahshua, knowing that the same love that he’d been working in me, unconditionally, filled that large garden of my heart, and that ultimately it will unfreeze and melt away the fear that had kept my child imprisoned for most of her life.  I felt save and knew she was save.

He turned on my heart light for me to see me, the way I was in linear time; how I somehow became frozen in time and space and never grew.  The heart light is an eternal flame, fuelled by the fire of His love, and endless love that perpetuates the same in all that is in its presence.

My journey of uncovering continues, but I will close off this article at this point.

Turn on your heart light, or at least be willing to allow Him, your Spirit within, to turn it on that you might be set free – for as Scripture tells us (my paraphrase), “Whomever the Lord (Yahshua) sets free, is free indeed!”

John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

 
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Castle Doctrine Dies in Texas…State Police Move In

28 Jul

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So much for a man’s home being his castle, his sanctuary!  Received a comment on this article so I went to the site and chose to post it here.  Pretty foreboding, I’d say!

Posted By admin On July 27, 2009 @ 12:37 pm

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
July 27, 2009

So much for English common law and Sir Edward Coke’s dictum that a man’s home is his refuge and castle. “For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium [and each man's home is his safest refuge],” Coke wrote in 1628.

So much for the Bill of Rights and centuries of English common law — police in Texas can now demand you evacuate your castle at gunpoint.

William Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, said “no doors can in general be broken open to execute any civil process,” except in the case of criminal causes.

In the United States, the Castle Doctrine, arising from English common law, designates one’s place of residence as a refuge not only against violent attacks, but unwarranted trespassing by the state.

In Texas, the authorities have put an end to this idea, which ultimately found its way into Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights guarding against unreasonable searches and seizures. Property rights are integral to the Constitution.

“Police can arrest people who don’t leave town under mandatory evacuation orders under a new state law that goes into effect in the heart of Texas’ hurricane season,” reports the Associated Press. “As it stands, officials cannot compel people to evacuate, only warn that those who stay behind won’t have any emergency services at their disposal.” The new law gives county judges and mayors the power to authorize use of “reasonable force” to remove people from the area.

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The state now has the authority to smash down your door and arrest you for failure to follow orders.The Supreme Court has ruled “the Fourth Amendment protects other interests in addition to privacy interests, such as possessory interests.” In other words, the court ruled that the state cannot evict without cause.

Jonathan Jorissen, writing for the Ave Maria Law Review in 2007, noted that “forcible removal of victims of natural disasters [in this instance, Katrina] seemingly constitutes seizures. Applying the requisite standard of reasonableness, it must be asked whether the actions were, in fact, reasonable. Given the nature of the situation, it is evident that they were not. The affected citizens were not guilty of any crime. Additionally, their property was in no way necessary for the government to carry out its duties. Instead, these hurricane victims were further victimized by their government, which removed them from their homes based on the suspicion that they might contract some disease. Without a more compelling interest, the government’s actions were unreasonable.”

As Supreme Court Justice William Patterson observed, property rights are the foundation of any social compact. “Men have a sense of property: Property is necessary to their subsistence, and correspondent to their natural wants and desires; its security was one of the objects, that induced them to unite in society.”

In Texas, the state has destroyed that compact and the very concept of natural law.

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Gnostic Gospels of Yahshua (Jesus)

28 Jul

Anyone claiming to be a Christian or for that matter a Jew, seems to be struggling for perfection in a way that indeed results in struggle and stress.  Look at the world today; stressed and stretched beyond its natural capabilities; even nature howls at the pain caused by man.  We’ve depleted our natural and our own physical resources in efforts to attain – WHAT?  Christians scream that the “law” is dead, Jews that the “Saviour” has yet to arrive.  We fight, we argue; each to assert his position, to be RIGHT.

All the while, we are walking dead, and don’t even know it!  Humanity is looking for salvation in the form of flesh; looking externally when all the while it has resided, internally, in each and every one of us:  but as a whole it is trapped and needs to be set free.

As a person, born into the Roman Catholic “religion” (ugh one of my least favourite words in the English or any language!), my journey towards Truth has been colourful and, if I might apply the word, eclectic.  At 40 years of youth I had myself baptized in a Pentecostal “church” (ugh, the other of my two least favourite words).  Anyone who has experienced or participated in these two religions will know that their “practices” and their “rules” and “doctrines” are like night and day; and yet both are darkness!  All religions are ruled by the doctrines of man.  Even those who seek to be “godlike” and, in the case of Christians, “Christ like”, fail miserably – because being “humans” and making our efforts from the “flesh” we are doomed to fail before we even start!

Gnosticism; what is it and why have I “added” it to the above title?  Gnosticism is knowledge and not of a material for spiritual realm.  There was a “brand” of Christianity some time around the time of Yahshua known as the Gnostic Christians.  The Gnostics were “people of spirit”.  There were two other “assemblies” of peoples (or as we might call them today “religions”, including “agnostics”).  These were those who were “ignorant” (people whom today we’d label unbelievers and say they weren’t “saved” and we really really need to “save” them…yeah right; like any man can save another!)  and these were “people of the flesh,” and ordinary “Christians” who were “people of the soul.” I think that today we continue to be the “people of the soul” and that that is why we continue to struggle.

Yahshua came to “set us free,” just as YHWH set the people free from slavery to Pharoah in Egypt.  The freedom that Yahshua is about is freedom from the things of the flesh and the rule of the soul; freedom of Spirit!

The “church” continues to this day with the symbolism of Yahshua being the “head” and the “church” being the body and thus we are united with him of one accord.  But even in that, don’t you see, there is a disjointedness; a separation; a difference?  We are told by Yahshua himself that he and the father are one and that just as they are one so shall we be one.  I don’t know about you but I don’t see any “divisiveness” in one; one is a whole integer, cannot be seen as separate, there are no distinguishing lines like you would visiualize between a “head” and a “body”. We are told (if anyone reads the Bible/Torah/Tanakh) by YHWH that He is Spirit and that humankind was made in His “image”.  Thus you and I folks, well we aren’t this skin, bone & blood we see; we are what cannot be seen by the naked eye.  We are Spirit!!!  And, our Spirit needs to be set free from the rule of the flesh.  Yahshua said, “Ask and it shall be done.” and “Anything you ask in my name….” (according to the heart of the Father), well it would be done!

I think we motley crew have failed, because you see we’ve been blind all these years, and didn’t even know it; didn’t even know we had to ASK to be SET FREE; to set our SPIRITS FREE to fly, to rule, to be ONE with the ONE!

What are you waiting for; don’t you want to be set free from the weight of the things of the world that keep you oppressed, keep you “heavy laden.”  Again, Yahshua invited us so lovingly.  I can see his wonderful gentle face (if I must attribute human attributes to get the point across), his gentle eyes entreating all of us as he speaks in the book of Matthew, c. 11 v 28:

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Are you not weary of being weary?  What do you have to lose?  Give it a shot.  Why do you think “heart” disease is so rampant, especially here in North America?  “Hardening of the arteries;” just as the Hebrew children “hardened their hearts,” so too we have “hardened our hearts,” and caused a blockage such that we can no longer see, such that it is as though we have “blocked” the free flowing love of our Creator!  We are walking dead men and don’t even know it!  How our Creator weeps!

I’ve come a ways from my beginnings in the RC church, but have not yet reached that place where my Spirit rules, my Spirit is One and knows without thought that all is One; that I AM.

Hear what Yahshua speaks:

“Our thought was one with their thought, so they understood what I was saying.” … In word and peace they have united in the gnosis of Jesus, and Jesus concludes, “They have come to know fully and completely that the one who is is one, and all are one.  They have been taught about the One and the assembly [note, 'assembly,' not 'church'] and the members of the assembly.  For the father of all is immeasurable and immutable, mind, word, division, jealousy, fire, yet he is simply one, all in all in a single principle, because all are from a single spirit.”

Quoted from: Gnostic Gospels of Jesus, p. 245 - Marvin Meyer

 
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