To post or not to post
Sometimes it is really better to say nothing, and sometimes that is hard to do. So here I am, wondering if I should just skip this entry altogether. Am I calling attention to the very thing I'm wanting to protest about? Is it my ego that is pushing me to speak up?
The other day I saw a public plea to help in Japan with our thoughts. I found myself bothered by this organized campaign. I wonder who has to be told to visualize good things? Are not all our hearts desiring goodness for Japan and all its people? Is this not a natural reaction? Does anyone wish otherwise? Are there people afoot desiring bad things to happen?
The blog post here of the email from the lady in Japan was inspiring. Her whole spirit was inspiring. She uplifted me. Her letter alone made the world a great place to live in. She made me proud to be a human being.
God in Heavenletters™ has said not to involve ourselves in causes. My understanding is that in causes we are fighting something, and there are better ways to use our energy. I believe God indicates that, regardless of our good intentions, we get hung up on a cause and, often, on its negativity.
When I finished reading about the organized campaign I refer to, despite its high intentions, I found myself feeling down and not inspired.
Now I have to wonder, with writing this blog, if I am spreading the very negativity that I want to oppose. Am I perpetuating it? Is this my little mini-cause I am rallying? Am I doing just what God says not to? Is this blog entry going to emit a low vibration rather than a high one? Okay, I mean to be acting responsibly, but isn't that the case for everyone involved in a cause?
The campaign said:
"Instead of looking only at the devastation that has occurred since the earthquake in Japan; let us focus on the solution...instead of being horrified by the devastation hour upon hour... we all have to focus our energies on the Japanese nuclear reactors which have recently developed problems following the earthquake. This presents a potential threat to all life on the planet - your participation in this visualization is one way of helping to create a safe resolution to this dire situation."
The suggested visualization was to think of the atomic reactors under water.
Forgive me, I will not picture the reactors. I will read over that lovely email from the lady in Japan instead and picture all the goodness her words reveal. I will visualize the people in Japan continuing to help and inspire each other. I will visualize the people in Japan sitting in beauty and drinking tea. I will visualize all the happiness that I can think of for the people of Japan and for everyone all over the world right down to the people in my town and the apartment building I live in.
I was just about to toss out this entry when I spotted Paula's incredible response to the Email from Japan. Paula translates Heavenletters into Italian, and has done so for seven years now. She never misses. She has been reading Heavenletters very well! Paula responded in such a beautiful way. She came to the rescue of this blog entry. She sums up what I wish I had thought of to say:
First, Paula quotes from the email from the lady in Japan:
Rather, I feel as part of something happening that is much larger than myself. This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.
And then Paula says what I will always remember:
Yes, we are all in the same boat called Earth. And there are many beautiful souls, like yours [the lady in Japan], that are keeping the boat in balance even though the ocean gets rough. Your letter is like a beautiful flower blooming in the middle of all the mud and debris. Thank you so much from one part of God to another!
Comments
High vibration and low vibration depend as much from their perceiver as they do from their source
"From" is German. It's depend "on" in English, right? (Happens when you start commenting too early in the morning...)
I am totally indifferent to those kind of bans, they are all a contradiction and a nonsense. They do not even pass the first level of my logical mind, let alone reaching my heart.
Gloria I feel as you do.I would far rather read the letter from the lady in Japan.
I have no interest in visualizing the reactors.For me, that just puts the energy where we don't want it.
I do want to apologize for my lengthy response to your blog where God suggests you not get yourself into a tizzie.
I sometimes get too wordy and realized after that perhaps I need a blog!
Dear Lynda, your response about "a tizzie" made a good point!
I think everyone needs to write a blog!
Actually, I think the words were not mine but God writing Godwriting through my mind, as I immediately received this image of a flower sprouting from the debris left by the tsunami... It was like a thank you from God!
The call to visualize means well and it's better than reinforcing the anguish and despair. I would say the image of the reactors under water was not thought out very well. That's how the problem got compounded in the first place. A bigger tsunami or the land sinking below ocean level is not exactly going to improve their situation.
Jochen, I wouldn't have paid a lot of attention to "depend from" tho it isn't normal. Yes, "depend on" is standard and "depend upon" also works a little more formally. You could say "derive from" and it would mean much the same. Prepositions are slippery little critters.
If I were to come upon your writing afresh, not only would I assume that you were a native English speaker, American at a guess, but I would rate it as the top one out of a thousand in ability and skill. On a level with the writer, Joseph Conrad, who learned English after growing up but you would never know.
Still, if you hang around long enough and are paying attention, the rare "ist" will slip thru and make me smile. I always enjoy your writing for its own sake as well as the thought expressed.
CF ist ♥
Since a disaster has taken place, I don't see how coming up with solutions can hurt, especially if we miraculously manange to come up with the right solutions. But the word "visualize" the reactors, I'd have to agree, doesn't even cross my mind. If anything it's more cognitive knwoledge than visualization.
I think there is just one right solution, Chrysanthemum, and it is "to see that we do not see" or "not to see what we see" or "to see that what we see is not". We should trade in visualization for vision.