Let's pull together and create a positive morphogenic field to calm the winds during this fire storm season. Visualize winds turned to a soothing breeze. Place protection around power lines from sparks. Ask for heavenly intervention for homes and businesses.
Lord, we ask for your calming hand to quiet the winds and curtail the flames. Protect the homes, families, animals and firemen in harm's way. Send a blanket of moisture across the hills and canyons. Thank you for your provision and protection.
So be it,
Mother T
Monday, October 13, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
God is Our Refuge
I returned to LA this weekend after a month's journey to the midwest. As I flew back over the LA basin I was struck by the immense population, once described to me as a "human ant hill." The image hits home if you consider all of us scurrying to bring bits of nourishment back to our tiny abodes. It can all be quite orderly, or if a big foot comes along and squashes the hill, we all run in fear and confusion.
Yesterday the Homicide Report listed an investment agent who killed his wife, children, mother-in-law and then himself. The man must have felt so squashed by the current economic meltdown, so filled with fear and despair, mass murder seemed the only alternative. What a waste and yet, not a surprise, in a society so focused on money. We put our faith in money, look to money for security and a fat bank account for peace. We measure people's worth by their portfolio. We're printing $700 billion to fix a spiritual problem. Do you think that's going to work?
Many of us are at a crossroads: we can chose fear or we can chose faith. There are some advantages to being of a certain age. I've known fear. I've seen my house short sold and my fridge empty. I've wondered how I was going to feed my children.
Those times of despair have led to the greatest moments of spiritual growth. When all you have is God, when you surrender the illusion of self-sufficiency to a Higher Power, you open heaven's gate. I've clung to Psalm 46
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;...Be still and know that I am God."
God is a gentleman. He doesn't barge into your heart univited. But when asked, He is a wonderful Presence--especially when the going gets rough. Lesson 50 of "A Course in Miracles" puts it so well:
"I AM SUSTAINED BY THE LOVE OF GOD
Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. In this world you believe you are sustained by everything but God. Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols: pills, money, "protective" clothing, influence, prestige, being liked, knowing the "right"people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers.
All these things are your replacements for the Love of God...Do not put your faith in the worthless. It will not sustain you. Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances."
How I wish the investment man had chosen faith instead of fear. Money comes, money goes, but the Love of God is forever.
Blessings to LA today,
Mother T
Yesterday the Homicide Report listed an investment agent who killed his wife, children, mother-in-law and then himself. The man must have felt so squashed by the current economic meltdown, so filled with fear and despair, mass murder seemed the only alternative. What a waste and yet, not a surprise, in a society so focused on money. We put our faith in money, look to money for security and a fat bank account for peace. We measure people's worth by their portfolio. We're printing $700 billion to fix a spiritual problem. Do you think that's going to work?
Many of us are at a crossroads: we can chose fear or we can chose faith. There are some advantages to being of a certain age. I've known fear. I've seen my house short sold and my fridge empty. I've wondered how I was going to feed my children.
Those times of despair have led to the greatest moments of spiritual growth. When all you have is God, when you surrender the illusion of self-sufficiency to a Higher Power, you open heaven's gate. I've clung to Psalm 46
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;...Be still and know that I am God."
God is a gentleman. He doesn't barge into your heart univited. But when asked, He is a wonderful Presence--especially when the going gets rough. Lesson 50 of "A Course in Miracles" puts it so well:
"I AM SUSTAINED BY THE LOVE OF GOD
Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. In this world you believe you are sustained by everything but God. Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols: pills, money, "protective" clothing, influence, prestige, being liked, knowing the "right"people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers.
All these things are your replacements for the Love of God...Do not put your faith in the worthless. It will not sustain you. Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances."
How I wish the investment man had chosen faith instead of fear. Money comes, money goes, but the Love of God is forever.
Blessings to LA today,
Mother T
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