I am posting a video link from the Today show about a little boy who died, went to heaven with the angels, and sat on Jesus' lap before he came back to life. He was able to describe what his father was doing (where and how the father was praying) while the doctors were fighting for his life on the operating table. The child was peacefully sitting on Jesus' lap watching it all happen in the loving, safe arms of Jesus!!!

http://video.aol.com/video/meet-your-maker-today/650697760

"The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM...

They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD." (Isaiah 11:6-9)

"I will give thanks to thee, O Lord...thou didst comfort me. Behold, God is my healing; I will trust, and I will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my healing. With joy you will draw the water from the wells of healing. And you will say in that day:
Give thanks to the Lord,
Call upon his name;
make known his deeds
proclaim that his name is exalted...
Shout, and sing for joy...
for great in your midst is the Holy One" (Isaiah 12:1-6)

In the middle of the night I was awakened to this message. We are at a critical choice point in our evolution. We are at the proverbial fork in the road, and the path we choose may have critical consequences. The world is at a critical juncture and each one of us is of the utmost importance to the outcome. Crisis contains the seeds of both great danger and great opportunity. This is the TIME for GREAT OPPORTUNITY!

Each person must freely, willingly, and consciously CHOOSE God. The "haves" and "have nots" does not refer to particular races, social classes, religions, denominations, or chosen people. It refers to whether you have chosen God or not. Have you consciously chosen God or do you take a passive stance? Do you wonder if God is really real, and secretly think maybe it is just a myth or superstition or just the minds way of dealing with the inevitability of death? Does the god of science crowd out your belief in God? Does your ego voice win when in competition for your attention with the still, small voice of God? Do you listen to the naysayers who use their so-called intelligence, rationality, and scientific evidence to delight in mocking belief in God? Do you let fears and doubts crowd out the voice of truth?

Because we were made in the image and likeness of God, we were created with the mind of God, and contain every good gift from God, including free will and choice. Once the ego started to rule the world and proliferated the belief in lack, limitation, disease, suffering, and fear, the truth of our divine likeness was hidden. Jesus was a divine emissary sent to earth to reconcile and reunite us with God and our true selves. Jesus overcame the lower worldly consciousness and raised the human being back to their divine status as sons and daughters of God, with the divine inheritance of living in the garden once again in heavenly consciousness on earth while still in the body. You do not have to physically die to gain the kingdom of heaven; you only need to die to the ego being in control of your life!

Surrendering your ego and choosing God by your free will choice is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE that Jesus taught. It is the path of love or the path of the heart! The consensus trance of the collective mind is a very strong pull away from the mind of God. We were all conditioned as children when we were open, vulnerable sponges by our parents, teachers, religions, authorities, and society. It takes courage, faith, and self-discipline to TURN away from the beliefs of the world and CHOOSE God and go through the purification, refinement, and transformation to be illumined with the light of God and be raised in consciousness with Christ.

1. CHOOSE God

2. Ask for the Holy Spirit to empower you and teach you what you need to know. Ask for guidance and direction.

3. Listen for the still, small voice of God and act on what you  hear.

4. Be vigilant and pay attention to the thoughts that enter your mind. This takes a lot of effort at first. When you observe negative or distorted thoughts say "STOP" or "CANCEL" out loud. Monitor your thoughts and take every thought captive to Christ. Be transformed by the renewal of your mind.

5. Start to MEDITATE  daily. This is a critical spiritual practice right now. Drop your attention and awareness to your heart. This takes practice and becomes a new positive habit as you exercise your spiritual muscle! Replace the habit of ruminating thoughts, negativity, and critical judgments with the habit of saying "Stop" and "Drop" into your heart to commune with God instead!

From witnessing the clouds of thoughts pass by in the sky of your awareness, you will soon become detached and unidentified with the thoughts, and begin to be still and silent. Here you will FIND GOD!!! Here you will be lifted up and raised in vibration to your original Christ mind. Here your body will be renewed and regenerated. Here you will receive divine guidance, divine wisdom, and power. Here you will receive the living water that will cleanse and purify you. Here you will receive the divine LIGHT of God that will illumine and enLIGHTen you. Here you will be daily CHANGED and TRANSFORMED into the likeness of Christ! Here you will find your distorted or negative emotions will be transmuted into joy, peace, and happiness. Here your obstructions to being one with God will be removed.

Here is where you will live, move, and have your being IN GOD.  Here is where your body is resurrected and ascended to NEW LIFE full of VITALITY and JOY. Here is where your body truly becomes a sacred, holy temple of the Holy Spirit and God manifests himself to you and lives on the throne of your heart. Here is where you will become the eyes, ears, voice, heart, hands and feet of Christ, one with the Father, and filled with the Holy Spirit.

6. CHOOSE GOD, ASK for the infilling of the Holy Spirit, LISTEN for guidance, OPEN, willingly RECEIVE, Pay Attention to how God starts to move and manifest in your life. Notice and pay ATTENTION!

7. Stay AWAKE, alert, and READY to step into the garden of the kingdom of God in the NEW HEAVEN ON EARTH!!!

Today I had such beautiful confirmations of the presence of God. This morning, just as I awakened, in the liminal space between unconscious and conscious awareness I was given guidance. Some mornings I am given a word. This morning I was given a phrase, and making my french press coffee I was given the lyrics of a song! I had a powerful experience in my devotions and meditation time as the light and love of Spirit was palpable.

The message that I have been getting lately is to see as Christ sees. This is particularly important as there is so much going on in the world right now that is very difficult from a human perspective. Looking at the events of the world through the eyes of the ego mind leads to fear, confusion, worry, sadness, and a sense of helplessness.

The most important thing to do right now is to pray, ask for guidance, and ask what you can do to help comfort those who are suffering, free those who are in the prison of their own mind, heal the sick, and spiritually feed those who are hungry and thirsty for wholeness. Send love and God's light to Japan and Christchurch. Send prayers for divine help and intervention in the nuclear challenge.

Ask for God to open your eyes to see as Christ sees. Ask for your mind to be renewed by the transforming of your mind and to take every thought captive for the glory of God. As I came home from seeing patients at the hospital tonight I heard "When every human being is able to see what I see when I look at my created humans, the world will be healed."

A healer was asked why everyone is not healed when they are prayed for. His answer was "because the human mind is involved." Start to see as God sees, put on the mind of Christ, and be united in the One Spirit of God! Come and See!!!

"Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest...learn from me" (Matthew 11:28)

It is time to move from the duality of the world to the nonduality of God; from the duality of the ego mind to the nonduality of the divine mind. Jesus came to the earth to release the world from the old duality consciousness and beliefs, i.e. humans are separate from God. Jesus was the manifestation of the living consciousness of God and his mission was to raise ALL human consciousness to expanded, higher God consciousness so all humans could be ONE with God as he was. REJOICE, or RE--JOY!!! "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full" (John 15:11).

There are no more Adams living in duality, cast out of the garden of oneness with God. Jesus was the last Adam. "The first man Adam became a living being; the LAST ADAM became a life-giving Spirit" (1Cor15:45). The risen Christ, the ascended Christ, was the FIRST of the NEW CREATION: one with God, one in unity consciousness, able to do all that Jesus did and EVEN greater things because Jesus died to disease, sin, and death, effectively ENDING them. Jesus conquered all things. He even went to the depths of hell consciousness to transform ALL things of this earthly consciousness and to raise ALL consciousness to the heavenly divine God consciousness. Therefore, it is ALREADY DONE! and ALREADY COMPLETE!

All we have to do is to ACCEPT it in our mind (get it through our stubborn minds) that all we have to do is accept the GIFT, accept the GRACE. All we have to do is to accept the free gift, or the "get out of jail free" card!!! Accept the "get out of hell consciousness" card, accept the "get out of suffering and disease free" card. In the game of life we have been playing with the old rules that were put in place by the wounded ego. We MUST stop letting the world, the ego, even religions tell us that we are lacking, limited, separate from God, sinful, bad, wrong, defective, etc. The last Adam, Jesus, is dead. Christ is ALIVE, LIVING, and flowing in and through us all as the Spirit of TRUTH, WHOLENESS, LIFE, GOODNESS, LOVE, PEACE, JOY, and HARMONY!!! Christ is your very being and breath!

Open your minds to the consciousness that Jesus brought to the world. OPEN and RECEIVE the TRUTH of God: You are ALREADY made WHOLE and HEALED! You are already raised in consciousness with Christ to union with God. You only need to die to your old beliefs and KNOW that you are a new creation, a Christ being, made in the image and likeness of God, whole and complete. Change your mind by DIS-IDENTIFYING with the old Adam ego mind and start IDENTIFYING with the truth of who you really are. Put on the mind of Christ, the higher deeper Christ consciousness and watch in AWE and WONDER as your physical life transforms before your very eyes!!!

"But seek FIRST his kingdom [hint: it is hidden in your very heart] and his righteousness [being in right relationship with God as Jesus was: ONE with God], and ALL these things shall be yours as well" (Matthew 6:33). God's kingdom consciousness is here on earth as it is in heaven right now. All the things of God consciousness shall be YOURS as well: love, peace, joy, harmony, goodness, miracles, wisdom, wholeness, vitality, aliveness, and creativity!!!

I woke up this morning with a burst of new energy. I practically jumped out of bed, bounding to the windows and exclaimed "this is the day that the Lord has made, I will REJOICE and be glad in it!" I was filled with the burning flame of Spirit, the kind that does not consume you, but instead fills one with the life, energy, and creativity of  God!

I realized without a doubt that I can no longer color within the lines, or live in the box that the world of the past has restricted us to. I am shouting from the roof tops "I am no longer willing to accept the theories, theologies, or stories of the past, no matter how revered or respected they may be. I must STEP OUT and enter the NEW UNKNOWN! I must no longer follow the seen, well-trodden path, but enter the NEW UNSEEN that is more REAL than the seen. "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few" (Matthew 7:13-14).

I had been trying to go back to traditional religion and to join a church. I was taking a traditional class at a church learning to pray for healing. Something was just not right. I was trying to fit into the church's accepted ,wide, easy gate and I had that nagging feeling within that something was just not right.

I grew up in a very religious Lutheran family. After both my children were confirmed in the Lutheran church, I started looking for a new church.  I knew that I did not feel the presence of God within the church and felt there were too many distortions. When I reached the pinnacle of what I considered worldly success, I suffered a crisis of meaning and the floor fell out from under me. I fell into an abyss of pain and suffering. I was led to read the bible for the first time and as I started reading the New Testament, the words opened up, revealing the life and spirit of the living God speaking directly to my heart. I was AMAZED and ASTOUNDED at what was being revealed!!!

After three days of this unfolding and revealing of the living word, I sat down again on the couch to read. I started to feel very hot. I first thought I was getting sick, but soon realized that the flames of living fire were flowing through me and I was compelled to get into the bath tub where I had the experience of the Holy Spirit entering as my very breath. My arms were literally raised by a power that was not my own to above my head, and I found myself praising God at the throne. A short while later, Jesus manifested himself to me at a Buddhist meditation class in my masters program, where my heart was flung open, and the chains that were binding me were released. Since that time I have had mystical, spiritual experiences of the intimate actual presence of the living God, and the indwelling Spirit within me. It has taken me a long time to integrate these experiences and I wanted to come back to the traditional church, and find a community to communally worship the Living God.

The thing I realized this morning was that I can not go backwards. I was feeling conflicted and uneasy, and the PEACE of God that I have come to know as I follow Jesus and seek to do the will of the Father was missing. I realized this morning that while there is much richness, beauty, and truth in the church, there is also way too much distortion, dogma and doctrines that were made from the ego of man that is NOT of God. I MUST follow the living presence of Christ Jesus that has been revealed to me. I MUST express the Spirit of God in the unique way that God wants to express through this body vehicle. God is wanting to do a NEW thing. This is the TIME! This is the PLACE! The past must be left behind. We can no longer sustain the old structures  of the past that were separate from God and perpetuate the lie that we are separate from God.

This is the beginning of the new AGE of GOD living in the midst of humans. This is the "age to come" that Jesus spoke of. This is the time to let go of the past. We can no longer afford to look back as Lot's wife did and be turned to stone. We must BE HERE NOW! Here in the present moment, God is living, active, and VERY  REAL. His presence is POWERFUL and able to perform MIRACLES and make the impossible POSSIBLE NOW!!! The Spirit of God is NEW every moment. It is fluid, flowing, powerful, life giving, healing, renewing, restoring, energizing, and regenerating. LET THERE BE LIGHT!

I don't see the next step yet, but I am STEPPING OUT and STEPPING UP!