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(The Big Plan)     

(The Big Plan)     

   

   

Yes, this is the Big Plan, and yes it is inexorable--unstoppable.  It will happen in the whole because God’s will always obtains in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:7._THE_PART_AND_THE_WHOLE whole].  It is nevertheless dependent upon each individual personal being doing his or her best.  The potential lies within living personal beings and the [[actuality]] coming down [[moment]] by moment is their [[activity]].  God has set the whole thing in [[motion]] initially, but then He has shared His [[creative]] [[power]] out to truly [[relatively]] [[autonomous]] [[personal]] beings--all His children.  This is one more example of how He is not separate from us but is living within and riding along in these [[adventures]], of each of ours, with us.   

Yes, this is the Big Plan, and yes it is inexorable--unstoppable.  It will happen in the whole because God’s will always obtains in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:7._THE_PART_AND_THE_WHOLE whole].  It is nevertheless dependent upon each individual personal being doing his or her best.  The potential lies within living personal beings and the [[actuality]] coming down [[moment]] by moment is their [[activity]].  God has set the whole thing in [[motion]] initially, but then He has shared His [[creative]] [[power]] out to truly [[relatively]] [[autonomous]] [[personal]] beings--all His children.  This is one more example of how He is not separate from us but is living within and riding along in these [[adventures]], of each of ours, with us.   

   

   

So let yourselves stretch, my dear ones.  Try to be aware of both the forest and the trees, the [[community]] and the individuals.  See the shared [[reality]] of being human in everyone and see in each pair of eyes you meet another unique [[soul]] of experience, that [[wealth]] of [[difference]] you have to offer each other: if you will, infinity piled upon infinity.  It’s all in The Plan.  God is that infinite [[potential]]; you are the [[actuality]].  As Mother Spirit said, you are the living cord tying your kind of unique universe together.  This is the fun of it all, and that deep [[insight]] into the [[Play|playfulness]] of it all.  From the standpoint of pure potential, none of the [[creation]] had to be.  So we [[glory]] that it is.  Thank you, dear Father, for me.  And thank You for all of us, that we can have each other.  

So let yourselves stretch, my dear ones.  Try to be aware of both the forest and the trees, the [[community]] and the individuals.  See the shared [[reality]] of being human in everyone and see in each pair of eyes you meet another unique [[soul]] of experience, that [[wealth]] of [[difference]] you have to offer each other: if you will, infinity piled upon infinity.  It’s all in The Plan.  God is that infinite [[potential]]; you are the [[actuality]].  As Mother Spirit said, you are the living cord tying your kind of unique universe together.  This is the fun of it all, and that deep [[insight]] into the [[Play|playfulness]] of it all.  From the standpoint of pure potential, none of the [[creation]] had to be.  So we [[glory]] that it is.  Thank you, dear Father, for me.  And thank You for all of us, that we can have each other.  

This is what you’re pointing at, my son, an [[entertainment]]-[[value]] contest between irreversible loss like a car [[accident]] or someone’s house burning down, and the cynical or resigned [[attitude]] that the [[good]] [[things]] in life are all too [[Temporal|fleeting]] and not--as you say--news worthy.  This [[Perspective|viewpoint]] seems especially true to a [[person]] who is getting most of their opinions of life through the level of news you’ve mentioned.  The [[joy]] of life can seem so conditional and provisional while the sorrow and [[pain]] can seem so final.  This fatalism is further magnified by the person’s poor health brought on by such an attitude.  As a person looses their [[sensitivity]] and any [[inner life]] of their own, it takes ever rougher sandpaper--so to speak--to register on their jaded nerves.  

This is what you’re pointing at, my son, an [[entertainment]]-[[value]] contest between irreversible loss like a car [[accident]] or someone’s house burning down, and the cynical or resigned [[attitude]] that the [[good]] [[things]] in life are all too [[Temporal|fleeting]] and not--as you say--news worthy.  This [[Perspective|viewpoint]] seems especially true to a [[person]] who is getting most of their opinions of life through the level of news you’ve mentioned.  The [[joy]] of life can seem so conditional and provisional while the sorrow and [[pain]] can seem so final.  This fatalism is further magnified by the person’s poor health brought on by such an attitude.  As a person looses their [[sensitivity]] and any [[inner life]] of their own, it takes ever rougher sandpaper--so to speak--to register on their jaded nerves.  

   

   

This is why we invite our [[children]] to strive toward greater [[physical]] and [[Mind|mental]] [[health]] and [[sensitivity]], spiritual [[liveliness]] and [[generosity]], so they can begin to see what Mother Spirit and I see--the overwhelming true [[drama]] of human life: all the [[love]], all the [[sharing]], all the [[sacrifice]], all these [[noble]] qualities by the hundreds that are derived from [[truth]] and [[beauty]] and [[goodness]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS]

This is why we invite our [[children]] to strive toward greater [[physical]] and [[Mind|mental]] [[health]] and [[sensitivity]], spiritual [[liveliness]] and [[generosity]], so they can begin to see what Mother Spirit and I see--the overwhelming true [[drama]] of human life: all the [[love]], all the [[sharing]], all the [[sacrifice]], all these [[noble]] qualities by the hundreds that are derived from [[truth]] and [[beauty]] and [[goodness]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS]

   

   

So thank you, my son, for bringing up this spiritual [[challenge]] to see the real [[goodness]] of life so often hidden behind the melodrama of the evening news.

So thank you, my son, for bringing up this spiritual [[challenge]] to see the real [[goodness]] of life so often hidden behind the melodrama of the evening news.