2005-02-13-On Reflection

Session

Lesson

The Beloved One: “There are times when it becomes necessary to reflect upon and ponder with thoughtful concentration the issues at hand. Will your actions lead to success or to failure? It is very important to from time to time realize that on looking back over your life you are happy with what you have experienced, and if these experiences have brought you a greater understanding, indeed, that you have learned from those lessons. It is important to realize that this life serves you to grow into an independent personality. Sometimes you amaze yourself at your reactions to certain things or sayings. It is then you need to realize that there is much more to learn. If, per example, you react in a childish way, and you are horrified at that as you thought childishness and patience were traits you had mastered.

“Impatience is a very difficult trait to overcome, but nevertheless needed. It is not always easy to discover the why's and the wherefore’s in yourself, so reflection is in order that you may gather an understanding. Reflection upon one’s own shortcomings is a hopeful sign that you have begun the maturation process to a higher level of thinking. To do this with scrupulous honesty and sincerity, you need to place yourself under the looking glass, and figure out what those buttons are that trigger your impatience. This is an excellent beginning to greater self-discipline, because you have started to educate yourself – purposefully begun weeding out things you don’t like in yourself. However, the time may come when you spent many hours in self-contemplation and fall in the trap of berating yourself ‘at every turn in the road’. This is not healthy either.

“Self-reflection becomes easier when you start asking for help. To get the best help available, you turn within to the Source of your existence and confer with Me. I can show you when, where and how you err. I can help you and lead you into a more satisfactory way of being and living, for I am telling you, that when you ask Me, that I will surely guide you and seemingly unconsciously, you will have begun to feel calmer as then I can better be-influence you. For you and I together are in the business of making you into a perfected image of the Creator. This is not an assignment for the slothful, which almost never spent time in the higher regions of the mind, or rarely seriously reflect and entertain the thought that they can make their lives better by being more open to the divine leadings from within.

“This ‘path’ of a growing realization, of where improvements are needed, are for the courageous and the stalwart awakened ones on the planet. It is for those who desire to make a difference while living their lives in the flesh. It is in the thoughtful decisions you have made and acted upon. It is in the loving services rendered. It is in the overcoming of less desirable habits. It is the level of faith and trust attained. It is the courage with which you have lived your life to the best of your knowledge. It is in the insights gathered along the way and the wisdom gained by having lived through the difficult periods in life and not having faltered. It is exhibiting the fruits of the spirit by living a reflective life, by being less judgmental with increasing tolerance for others and most of all by becoming more loving and more ready to forgive and forget and daring to let your own inner light shine.”