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Message from Saul

Through   John Smallman ~~ 1-15-13

Humanity’s   journey has been long and arduous, and although most of you have very little   sense of it, you are very close to awakening. Time is a strange concept and   yet it is an essential part of your illusory reality. It is one of its main   foundations, and the more you can focus on and live in the ever-present now   moment, the more effectively you can cooperate in dissolving time and the illusion.   As you know, you have never left your Father’s side, His eternal Presence,   and to awaken is simply to release yourselves from the bondage of time and   all the other unhappy aspects of the illusion in which you have seemingly   become ensnared.

You   have unlimited assistance available to you just for the asking whenever you   choose to pay full attention to the present moment, the only real time. For   much of your lives you are distracted by the “outside world” – other people,   places, activities, problems that absolutely insist that you pay attention –   when the “real world” is the one within. Not the one of anxieties, concerns,   suffering, and judgments, but the one of total peace and contentment that you   can access and enjoy when you cease striving to reason out solutions to the   many problems or issues which seem to define who you are or why you exist.

You   can only find yourselves by letting go of your logical mind and then allowing   the thoughts that come to mind to flow through without your engaging with them.   Doing that does bring a sense of relief and peace that you cannot find   anywhere else — a sense of space, of freedom, and of security, because you   are effectively floating in the arms of Love, in the Presence of God. This   kind of experience or brief awakening gives you the strength and courage to   face and learn the lessons with which the illusion continuously presents you.

You   do of course live and experience life in the illusion and so you do have to   deal with the issues and problems with which it presents you, but try to do   that in the moment instead of dwelling endlessly on issues which cannot be   resolved until some future event or time because you do not at present have   the necessary information. When you have the required information then the   issue can be resolved; until then enjoy the inspiring moments that life is   constantly offering you if you will open your eyes to see.

Life   lived to the fullest extent possible is inspiring, uplifting, and very   rewarding. Nevertheless, many times you switch off your awareness of it and   drift away into worry and anxiety about issues that, in the present moment,   you can do nothing about. Then life passes you by while you ignore it and you   fill your minds with trivia that cause you only pain and suffering. Yes, of course   you have all suffered, maybe you are suffering right now — but why? Are you,   in this moment, in pain. Yes, of course some of you are, but most of you are   not, and for those, your suffering is very likely self-imposed because you   are thinking or worrying about issues that in this moment you can do nothing   positive or meaningful to resolve, and you are missing the smile of an   infant, the beauty of falling snow and the peaceful contentment that   awareness of wonders like that provide.

I   am not disparaging or discounting the pain and suffering that many are truly   experiencing; I am just trying to draw your attention to things of beauty and   wonder that you miss when you let go of your awareness. Letting go of   awareness is shutting yourselves off from life and all the delights that it   offers in every moment. Even if you are in pain, the smile of a loved one or   the colors of a sunset can uplift you into a moment of rapture.

The   illusion wants your attention; in fact it demands your attention because it   relies on your attention to support and maintain it. If you can be in the   world but not of it, you relieve yourselves of an enormous burden because you   cease to feel responsible for correcting it, or for helping to destroy the   evil in it. Evil is a lack of love, it is an act of desperation by one or   numbers of people who feel lost, alone, unloved and unlovable, who, in great   suffering (often denied or deeply buried within them), try to escape from   themselves by ill-treating others. Of course it does not work, so they may   try harder until it becomes obsessive.

Sometimes   it becomes necessary to restrain or contain those who would hurt others; at   other times it is impossible because they apparently have power and authority   to inflict pain and punishment without restraint. But they can only be healed   by love. And if they are severely damaged it can take a very long time.

Everyone   on Earth is here to learn lessons personally selected or chosen, and to help   everyone else to see the illusion for what it is. There is really only one   lesson, despite the innumerable forms in which it can be and is presented,   and that is to accept the Love that your Father offers you constantly, and to   be a channel, a conduit through which that Love passes to all with whom you interact   so that a spontaneous and constant flow of Love envelops and embraces you   all.

Free   will can seem at times like a spanner in the works because it allows you to   reject Love, to hide from It, to refuse to believe that such a thing exists.   But It is all that exists; It is the flow of God amongst his beloved   children, seeking only to embrace them and see them peaceful, content, and   happy, always. Yes, Love is the lesson, and all will learn it. However, free   will allows each to decide when the moment is right, and, notwithstanding the   denial of Love to which many have attached themselves, there will come a   moment when even the most ardent refuseniks will open themselves to the Love   that constantly surrounds them.
  All are saved and will return Home — it is just a question of timing. Open   yourselves to Love now, in this very moment, if you have not already done so,   because further delay is most definitely not in your best interest,   especially when you consider that there is nothing else, only nothingness, illusion,   whereas Love is everything.

With   so very much love, Saul.

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