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Dalton
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ACTING OUT BELIEFS If
they are spirit, are they not still alive? Will they not always be
alive? So why do we refer to them in the past tense? Hebrews
12 refers to the deceased as our "witnesses." Witnesses have
sight. So even after their physical sight is gone, they still see. They
are alive. If
we acted upon our belief in immortality and the spiritual reality of
those we love, we might start becoming more aware of their continued
existence. Yes, we might even find levels of communication. If we are
spirit and they are spirit, why not? Why
do we not experience them after they have left the body? Could it be
because we are still focused on them as a body? Putting flowers on their
graves and speaking of them in the past tense? It's
time for us to start practicing our beliefs about immortality. Yes, we
grieve the loss of their physical presence, their fellowship, their
laughter, their touch. But why not replace that with openness to their
spiritual presence, fellowship and touch? Instead
of merely looking forward to some kind of future physical resurrection,
we can resurrect the reality in our own beliefs by taking them to heart.
By acting like we believe what we say we believe. LIVING
EASTER If
in our hearts and minds Easter is something that happened two thousand
years ago, we are missing the present reality of it. Have we allowed the
risen Christ to die again? Easter
is about living through gruesome oppression. Jesus lived in a time when
people were routinely nailed to wooden crosses as a form of totalitarian
control and oppression. Easter says the spirit of man cannot be nailed
up and killed. It cannot be entombed. Easter
is about releasing our highest inner potential from limited human
thinking. It's about getting dead things out of our hearts. It's about
cleaning old cobweb ideas that don't work right out of the corners of
our minds. The
biggest graveyards are not where we bury our dead. It's the ones where
we bury our dreams. If you want to live in an Easter consciousness
today, walk through your dream graveyard and call forth some dream. Yes,
you can be what you dreamed you could be. Yes, you can become what you
dreamed you could become. Yes, you can find the happiness you thought
was possible. Yes, you can find work that will satisfy and fulfill you.
Yes, you can find a person who will love you as you are and be a loyal
and loving companion. Resurrect
thyself today! |