― Nassim Haramein
When life flows along at an easy pace filled with our appreciation for all that appears to be going well, we are tempted to believe that we have made all the right choices. Then we hit a road block so to speak, when matters spiral out of control leading us to ask, why me?
Here I often refer to conscious awareness, a reference to how each human person perceives who we are, as understood through our daily experiences. Our conscious understandings are formed by the stimuli that we encounter whether by direct experience with others, or through our innermost inspirations generating a course of action drawn from our own personal innermost deliberations.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” —Teilhard de Chardin
Here lies a great dilemma for most people prefer not to trust our innermost inspiration, prioritizing that which we can see, hear, and touch.
“We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.” — The Talmud
Paul of Tarsus had received an excellent education growing up in Tarsus, a cosmopolitan city with several ethnic minorities mixing harmoniously with the local Jewish population. Paul was open minded the result of the influences prevailing in Tarsus. Paul's intellectual prowess as a teacher of the Law of Moses enabled him to become a rising star in The Sanhedrin, the power structure behind Jewish life in Palestine.
That fateful journey to Damascus would open the eyes of Paul to a reality that his education could never have imagined. Paul learnt rapidly that all that he had ever believed had been turned upside down sufficiently to embrace the invitation of Jesus to follow Him.
A radio broadcasts its programmes enabling the listener to learn from that which enters our hearing and conscious awareness. So it is with our inner person revealing The Son's request, to let Him be our constant friend assisting us more ably deal with our life's journey of self discovery.
“Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent” (Luke 24:29).
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