"Nature's Totem"

by Janet Averill
© 2000-2002 Janet Averill

"Gifts of Spirit"

Again I say to you that all you need and desire in life is within your very selves. Deep within is a wellspring of knowledge, but you must have the faith to believe that it exists so you can drink from the waters of the self. The spring is pure for it comes from the very source that you identify as your God. As you begin to sip the waters of universal knowledge, your consciousness will raise and your faith in "all things are possible" will be renewed. As you are now in lesson on your earth plane, you need to have physical proof and that will come to you bit by bit. But as you are in process, faith must become a part of that process. Without faith in the unknown, the undetermined and the nonphysical aspects of life, you will not reach your desired goal of reuniting with your spiritual or higher self.
Use the gifts that you have been given to use while in the physical to your advantage. These are well-known to you and they are :(1) the ability to feel emotions, (2) the ability to make choices by using free will , and (3) the ability to be in touch with spirit through your intuition. Each gift plays an important part in "raising your consciousness" and the consciousness of those who come in contact with you.

Let's start with your ability to feel emotions. Love is the greatest of these emotions and comes in many forms and degrees of intensity. Love ranges from the unconditional love a mother may feel for her child to the agape love one human feels in the form of compassion for another human being and for the human condition. As you love, so shall you reap! As you give out, whether positive or negative, so will you receive. Those individuals who receive what you have given out will, in turn, send out to others what may be the goodness of their joy or the sadness of their betrayal. It is like throwing a pebble into a lake. The circle of energy gets larger and larger until the ripple formed from tossing the pebble disappears into the whole. Remember, all energy is interconnected. So, your emotions are the energy that connects all souls together.

Your second gift of free will is also very special and important to you as an individual and to you as a human species. This aspect allows each individual to be a part of the evolution of mankind through the decision making process. It is an awesome responsibility to co-create with God by using your free will, but it is necessary for the evolution of plant earth. The goal is to move into a higher dimension as a planet so that all humans can live together in peace and love. Progress will be made as each person works through their karmic debt. This will be accomplished through the decision making process by using your free will. Nothing is predestined, but all decisions have the aspect of the "self-fulfilling prophecies" and are determined through attitudes, beliefs, choices and actions.

The third gift designed to help you while in lesson is a gentle lifting of the veil through the gift of intuition. Your task is to learn to recognize when spirit is contacting you and trying to help you with the choices that lay in your future. That is also where faith comes into p lay. Emotions and feeling come into play here, as well, for without them you would not experience any intuitive feelings.

So, you must see now that all three gifts of spirit work together as a unit to help you become more aware of your "real self". When you really become aware of your real or higher self, you will feel the pure love that event brings. In turn, you will then be able to send out that pure love to others and the decisions that you'll make will then be made with all others in mind. The ripple effect will then be in progress and all mankind will benefit as a whole from "your raising of your consciousness". Every action, every thought, and every decision that you make affects others and , in turn, affects the whole of mankind. You do CO-create with God and with your fellowman all the life experiences you have by using these gifts of spirit. They have been given to you to help you work through your "lessons of life" while on the earth plane. So, use them well! God Bless! Received in meditation by - Janet Averill

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