This insight was received during yesterday’s meditation on a prior post (Perseverance).  Things got a bit busy in the last 24 hours, but this post in particular felt very meaningful so I wanted to at least get it out today.

As I meditated on the words in the Proverb I listed, I had a recollection of an e-mail that a friend sent to me.  This particular friend studies the stars as his profession and he sent me an e-mail detailing what an amazing astrological occurrence is underway right now, as I type:  Uranus Square Pluto.  From what my friend explained, this transit in the stars hasn’t occurred in 80 years!  What happened then?  Well, some of the things that happened were that the atom bomb was created, as well as the development of the leaders who would bring about World War II.  So, as you can see … this is a pretty intense time astrologically.

I never have been one to live my life in accordance with such things … however, I DO like to pay attention so that I can see how things unfold and somehow correlate.  So I looked up my own personal forecast from a professional site I sometimes review and, wouldn’t you know, Uranus Square Pluto was listed as having a major effect on my life.  The title of the short forecast, beginning in Mid-April?  “Sweeping Changes” … here is a snippet of what it said:

“Conditions that have been developing slowly will force major changes upon you now. If you are flexible, you will be able to start a whole new phase of life, even though you may have thought that the time for new starts in your life is past. You will have a new birth of awareness, and you will be able to deal with your life unhampered by old patterns of thought that have limited you.

 But if you cannot adapt and be flexible, this will be a period of great turmoil and stress as you try desperately to hold on to circumstances, possessions and relationships that no longer have any real function in your life. What you are trying to save is not something real, it is only an illusion.”

I found this to be incredibly interesting!  Here’s why:

When I look at my life over the past 15 years or so, ever since I began making a concerted effort to “open” myself up and connect with God, I have been on this long, drawn-out evolution. There were a lot of years before that where I was just shut down and trying to avoid being “open” at all costs.  I won’t go into it all right now, but suffice to say that everything seemed to come full circle and to a head last fall.  It could have been a very awful time in my life.  I could have made decisions that would have negatively affected my life for the next several decades!  Through it all though I gritted my teeth, meditated my brains out, and did my best to follow where I felt God was leading me.  It literally was the Refiner’s Fire and I stubbornly refused to do anything but stand there with my arms flung wide … and take it!

So I find this whole Uranus Square Pluto forecast interesting.  All of the astonishing internal breakthroughs I experienced coalesced to form one final, MAJOR spiritual change … and this happened in the beginning of April.  Ever since that time I have been experiencing a blessed time of peace, and beautiful closeness with God.  That is exactly what is described in this forecast … EXCEPT, it said that if I cannot be flexible or resist it will be a time of great turmoil and stress.

Here’s the thing … had I NOT decided to trust God in going through what I went through last fall, I would never have made these breakthroughs.  I wouldn’t be in the place that I am now, where I am able to receive this monumental time of change with the open arms of one who trusts God completely.  When I was going through the hellfire of my trials I was sobbing, screaming, and begging for it to end … but I never gave in, and I never ran away or closed myself to God.  I persevered … and now when the change comes I can receive whatever it will be with an open heart that is listening and watching for wherever God leads me to go.

This is what Perseverance is all about to me … TRUSTING GOD.  We have absolutely no clue what the future has in store for us.  I didn’t know that if I didn’t deal with what was going on then, that it would be far worse in just 6 months time … I can only see that now in retrospect.  It also makes me realize how MANY times I failed to do this in the past and just made things worse for myself.  Still, the past is the past … I am here now; one with God and open to whatever “Sweeping Changes” are to come :-).

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!

There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.

By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

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