"Deer Feeding at Bird Feeder"
by Janet Averill
© 2000-2002 Janet Averill

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

To be or not to be, that is the question. A famous quote by Shakespeare and a good one to begin with, be or not be, which is it for your? Do you recognize who you really are or are you so caught up in the roles you are playing that you have lost sight of the real you? Are you pretending or are you actually who you pretend to be? What a deep mystery we all are!
Are you expressing your own truth or someone else's truth? Think on these things, for when you are clear on who you are, what you are and how you portray yourself to the world, you will be one step closer to knowing the truth of yourself and of your life expressions!
Each human being has made the choice to appear on this stage called earth one more time. Are you making the best of it? Are you accepting the responsibility of your choice to experience physical life and all of its challenges.... challenges created by you and made specifically for your spiritual growth? Are you digging in and making the best of what is sometimes a difficult and painful process? Do you realize that from a higher perspective that what you have chosen to experience has been for your soul's growth and ultimately for your highest good? Have you stopped being a victim and taken responsibility for the life you have created for yourself? The life that you have created by your thoughts, your words, your decision and your actions?
There really is no great need to sit and analyze all that has happened in your life for when you have reached the "point of awareness" that allows you to accept the choices and decisions you have made as okay in their now, past, present and future, you will be able to envision your life more clearly. With that acceptance will come a natural feeling of forgiveness when and where it is needed. You will be able to forgive yourself for what was once perceived as negative experiences, as well as forgive others. Then, it will be easier to release any unrealistic guilt you may have and you will have the freedom to express your personal truth, who you really are. Your truth is your freedom, for by expressing it, you will be able to respect and honor yourself in the process and, in turn, you will be able to let go of all that baggage that you carry around in the forms of masks and personas that you present to the world. You will just be you and it will no longer be important who does or does not accept this real you for you will have accepted the real you and that is when personal peace begins. When you are no longer pretending, when you are expressing your God essence, and when you are expressing your personal truth, you will have found the key to "self-validation"!
What if you were to die tomorrow.... die to your old self.... die to all that has gone on before in this lifetime and then take the "new day" as an opportunity to become a renewed being? What if you were renewed in your thoughts on how you chose to look at your life? What if you were renewed in your decision making process so you could begin making choices that would benefit yourself and everyone around you? What if you allowed yourself to see your life from a "higher perspective" and chose to remember how interconnected all beings were.... the tree in it's meditative majesty, the animals in their enduring willingness to give unconditional love to their caretakers...yourself in your ability to feel empathy and compassion towards all human beings. What then would you say life was all about? Would you be able to see that life is a "process of allowing and loving " each life form simply because it exists? Would you be able to recognize that each spirit had the right to be where it was at in its present moment in time? Would you be able to accept and love others because they were really a part of you and a part of God at the same time?
Why not take a moment now and go within to feel the energy of your surroundings and bless all consciousness for the gifts it provides you with? Will you then be able to recognize the beauty and usefulness of all forms of life that is in your world.... a world that you CO-created with the help of All That Is? Would you be able then to honor yourself and honor each soul for the gifts it shares with the world.... the gifts shared through music, art, books, lectures, conversations, traditions, cultural differences, and communication on all levels? Would you then see how each entity affects the other and how all are intertwined and are on a journey together to acknowledge that the life force within is a manifestation of God? Would you be willing to take off your blinders and remove any fear that you feel so you could honestly see that you helped create your world? Would you allow yourself to feel the beauty and the love as you have so easily have felt the ugliness and the pain? Would you allow your intuition to flourish and allow yourself to be accepted and claim your heritage as a "soul on a human path of experience"?
So many questions that you can contemplate on. Will you give yourself the permission to meditate on them and gain insight into your life? This is what life is all about. It is a process of learning, loving, accepting, living joyfully, allowing, forgiving, and experiencing pain. Your motives, your desires, your inspirations, and your creative thoughts are what help you formulate your "life pattern" and your "world view". Will you be able to accept the responsibility for what you have created thus far and then move on to new creations without putting up blocks.... blocks that could cause you to stumble and move off the path that you have chosen for your spiritual growth?
Say yes to life and it's process! Say yes to the God energy that you were created through! Say yes to your ability to think! Say yes to your intelligence and your current level of awareness! Say yes to exploring new ideas, new concepts and thought patterns.... for without them you would be at a standstill. Say yes to the insights of dreams and other states of altered consciousness that you experience! You can choose to explore the symbols in your life, both day symbols and dream symbols, for they can tell you much about yourself that may be hidden to your daily consciousness. They can help explain who you are right now. Symbols are the key to your life expression in the physical as well as in the spiritual. They can show you your emotional state even though you may want to hide from your emotions. They can give you a clear picture of you life expression. You need only exert the energy and have the desire to decipher them. Say yes to deciding to discover the real essence of yourself by using all the tools available to you, the tools you were blessed with from birth and the ones you helped to create during your lifetime!!!!
Within each soul is an inner child, a child of God. This child did not come into this world with original sin, as some would choose to believe, but each soul came into this world with innocence, energy, imagination, creativity, and a loving nature. It is time to Remember! To remember all the good that is within you. It is time to let your inner child out to play and to integrate its essence into your adult self. It is time to let your adult self-benefit from the child-like qualities everyone possesses. It is time to let your energy flow and your intuition to come alive. It is time to replace your fears with the excitement of risk taking. It is time to release your pain with acceptance and to grow from that experience, what ever that may be. It is time to "move into love for yourself and others" and accept the wonderful beings that you all are.... for the miracle that you are! It is time to accept yourself as "perfect in your now" and let go of anything that block you from feeling the love and acceptance that you so desire. It is time to say no to negative energy and to pull into your essence the positive vibrations surrounding you. It is time to say to yourself..."I am okay, I am loving, I am acceptable as I am now for I know who I am and where I came from". It is time to allow yourself to be loved and to be intimate. It is time to explore life to it's fullest.... to be silly, to be dramatic, to be adventurous, if you must! It is time to share your true self with others. And, it is time for you to move beyond self-doubt and self-criticism. It is time!!!!!
Each person reading this today has a story they could tell of their personal life experience...their personal truth. Each person has experienced love, joy, fear, doubt, sadness, happiness, compassion, and humor...the full range of human emotions. That is why you came to earth, to have the human experience. You came by choice and for the need to grow spiritually. To be fully human and fully alive, that is what you can to do. You came to get in touch with your real selves. The real self that is free from all shame, all guilt and self-recrimination is your God-self or soul-self. Now, to free yourself from all that blocks you and gives you pain, you need to be willing to release it. You will need to recognize what causes your pain and then acknowledge it for what it really is...
a tool for growth and change. Work on releasing it so it can be transmuted into a powerful and positive force in your life.
When you are finally able to peel away all that is not necessary for you to function in a healthy and positive way, you will be able to get in touch with your inner child and experience the innocence that it possesses and learn from the wisdom contained in that innocence. What you experience is directly related to how you envision who you are. If you see yourself as imperfect, full of discrepancies, filled with fear, and unlovable, you will be unable to experience the joy and creativity experienced by those souls who have found the freedom to do so. Your inner child is of the light whether you choose to accept it or not. You are on a path working towards realizing that very fact and sooner or later you will own that wisdom for yourself. Your personal God energy uses every experience in this lifetime to awaken the knowledge that you are, indeed, a child of the light. All of your experiences, whether viewed as positive or negative by you now, will help you to realize the truth in that statement.
You can seek beyond the immediate perception that you have of your current reality to see where it has brought you and where it can bring you. Each day you experience adds to your growth. Indeed, each thought that you think, each moment that you experience, and each emotion that you feel will continue to bring you closer to finding your true source, your connection to "All that is"! So, why not allow yourself to sing, to dance, to meditate, to feel loved, and to celebrate life, for that is why you are here!! Allow yourself to experience all emotions, to express them and to share yourself with others for it is through your relationships that you connect with God. Put you fears aside and step into the unknown with faith. That faith will change what is unknown to you into knowledge of what life is all about. "Life is sharing and free interchange between spiritual beings on a human path of experience!"
The underlying message is always constant. Learn to love yourself and accept a higher power as your true essence so you can love others and express that God essence to them. It can be as simple or as hard to accept as truth as you choose it to be. For in truth, you do have the power "to be...or not to be" an expression of God or your higher self in the physical.
Are you simply a human being residing in your personality or ego self or are you simply a human "being"... being all that is and ever shall be? Are you experiencing freely all that life has to offer or are you closing yourself off to the wonders of life? Which path have you chosen in the past? What are you choosing now? What will you choose in the future? Only you know the answers...only you have the power to change what is necessary within to experience life to the fullest. Have you already started on your journey of "self-discovery" or are you still putting off today what you think can be done tomorrow?
Remember that all life is interconnected, that all life on every level of vibration is interconnected and that you need each other. It sometimes seems as though you are facing the unknown alone, but, in truth, you are being guided on some level of awareness at all times. Help is here for you now, but, of course, it is your choice whether you accept it and act on it or not. You can choose to listen to your guidance, to discern what you receive, to allow your intuition to work for you and to trust what you receive or not. You have the choice to accept and act on what you receive or not. Everyone has the ability to do this, but many do not always recognize this gift. You may dismiss feelings, new ideas, inspirations, and messages that come in the form of symbols or dreams. You may sometimes see them as meaningless and therefore miss opportunities for spiritual growth due to your inability to recognize their importance.
That too, can be a part of your life plan. You may have chosen ahead of time to ignore the signs of the spirit in order to accomplish your goals in this life through your own power or initiative. There is good in all approaches to your growth. There is no right or wrong approach...everything just is!
Each person has a unique road to travel, but whichever road you choose, you have the ability to do good for the whole of mankind. You can help raise the consciousness of all life. Remember, God's energy envelopes every inch of your being and you need only ask to feel it, touch it, see it, and experience it to recognize it working in your physical and spiritual lives. Indeed, you are being educated continuously so you will eventually reach the level of awareness you desire. Inside your soul is a spark of life that will burst forth when the correct amount of loving energy is allowed in. You have control over that process and can develop a trust that universal love will ignite the flame within you for the knowledge that you desire. You can reach the mountaintop if you are willing to forge a pathway to its peak and maneuver through the brush that block your way. If you are willing to stare down what you perceive as enemies fearlessly and send them love, you can create a clear path to follow. If you have pure intentions and love in your heart, you can accomplish miracles!!
When you feel that you have reached the peak, you will feel God's envelope your very being and you will have knowing that up to that point had escaped you. You will feel and know the love of life. You will appreciate to the fullest how precious life is and how you can best use your own life to benefit others. Then, when you feel that you have arrived at the top, you will no longer have the "need to arrive". You will know that it was the "journey, the adventure, the process to attain" that was the most important aspect after all.
Your life is that process. Every moment is perfect in and of itself. The striving, the backslides, the creative maneuvers, the victories, the challenges, the insights and your relationships are what make up the journey of discovering who you are. You will eventually remember that you are filled with the energy of God. You will know that you are an extension of His energy and that you are truly an important part of the entire universe. When you know this, not just believe it is possible or want to know it, but really feel it, experience it, and know it, you will recognize the beauty in your soul and in the soul of every living creature on this earth. Then you will be able to "express your truth to yourself" and to all others without fear, but with love in your heart. You will have regained your "personal power" and with that come self-validation.
Say yes and take advantage of what all life experience has to offer. You are in the process of becoming the best that you can be by using the tools you have been gifted with. Those being your intelligence, your intuition, your ability to make decisions and choices, your ability to feel and express emotions, your ability to feel empathy and compassion and your desire to discover your source. So, why not use them well and move forward into the awareness of yourself and all that you have created. Say yes to life!! Go in peace and God bless.

Received in meditation by Janet Averill.

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