Travel Update: We are motoring along the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway of North Carolina. It has elevations averaging three to four thousand feet, and yesterday we took a side trip to climb up Mount Mitchell, 6,684 feet, the highest point east of the Mississippi–we also crossed over the East’s continental divide. As we roll along we climb, then descend, only to climb once again atop a serpentine crest (the road-architect said he wanted the road to look like nature had put it there). There are expanses of evergreens and deciduous forests, maples are showing bright spring colors along with early wild azaleas (the rhododendrons have yet to show), an abundance of waterfalls and lakes–and when looking out on successive rolling mountains there is an amazing general transparent blue-cast in the atmosphere. The Blue Ridge Parkway is almost 500 miles along the backbone of the Appalachian mountain range, with a maximum 45 mph speed limit–in the summer it is the most heavily traveled of any of the national forests.
We are currently at Linville Falls State Park and will be going on northward today. Internet has been very spotty, so I am sending this from a pullout near Grandfather Mountain. We now have plans in place to fly back to the Northwest for three weeks in mid-May for medical tests: scans, probes and prods. And, very much looking forward to our time together at Loon Lake as well as local services and meditations.
I awoke this morning with God talking to me about past remembrances. A recurrent theme for many are the memories of times and places that disturb us, having unresolved emotional charges attached to them. We may take such memories as an opportunity for healing. We can do this by re-creating the moment of disturbance in a way that neutralizes the emotional charge and sends a message to the subconscious mind for how we would like to handle a future like-situation, if it should ever arise.
For instance, a memory takes shape in your conscious mind of a situation in which you felt embarrassment or shame. In thinking of what happened at the time you now introduce new elements. If you were careless or thoughtless and at fault, you picture yourself doing it all differently. Perhaps you change the scenario before the actual point of embarrassment–you see yourself being mindful and taking care during what happened before. You feel more calm, methodical and aware that if you do not do so, it will not turn out well.
There may be another time when something occurs that is outside of your control, yet the results of what happened continue to haunt you. In this case you may recreate the situation seeing yourself surrounded by the Light of God, the Masters are all around you, angels of mercy hover nearby. You feel a deep, unshakable calm within, and you may see those around you also in the Light of God. Many times people will say and do things out of their own anxiety that lands very hard on you, and they do not realize the effect it has. Other times they do know, and feel powerful in “lording it over” another. In either case, it is done in ignorance and they will have to suffer the pain they inflict on others. Real healing comes in divine understanding, knowing that whatever we do to another, we do first to ourselves.
God meant this life to be lived in joy and light. The fact that we have wandered away from this vision of a Divine Life does not mean we are to be forsaken. Divine Mother is calling us to be awake to the fact that this creation is sacred, holy ground, and Heavenly Father wants us to know that there is a sure, unflappable source of peace and inner assurance that transcends the thralldom of duality. The healing of the fissure between heaven and hell is as close as our next thought, simply lay the healing balm of God-remembrance upon the past, present or anticipation of the future.
Picture: Wild Azaleas in bloom
