I
keep looking around at the situations of people who are aging. I’m nearly 70—should
I be making plans for the last years of my life?
You’re in God’s hands. Trust love.
You see, we were born through God’s grace. We don’t remember birth. We don’t
remember coming into the incarnation, or being completely helpless, or having
to rely 1000% on everyone around us to take care of us until we were at such an
age and state where we could do it ourselves. You were given that love and care,
and whatever your soul prayed for before it got here, this life is the answer
to that prayer. You’re here.
It’s a long continuum. We travel in
from the world of Spirit and are born into the world of materialization. We
live through life, we age, and then we die and go back to the world of Spirit.
We do this over and over again: spirit world, material world, spirit world,
material world, and so on. We are always under God’s grace and love. She is
always with us. Perfect protection and love are with us in life, all along the
way. For the Lord God is a sun and a
shield, A light for the day, protection all the way.
We live in a society that says
that’s not true. We live in a society that says this is dangerous and that is
dangerous; make your retirement fund, and plan for your funeral. Usually these programs are fear-based, and
they are very, very strong.
Meet the fear, and meet whatever
life brings, day by day. The first precept of love is: Accept everything. Our
spiritual awareness says, We’re not
afraid and we accept everything. So we accept the changes that we go
through in life. We accept the aging process. We accept all the challenges. All
of the challenges are forging us. They come to us because we prayed for them to
come to us.
Our Spiritual Path is to Let Go
When I was in the hospital for a
month, I was completely surrendered, and I saw everyone as God coming to help
me and I let myself be helped. So how is it going to be for you? Are you going
to be gracefully surrendered in God’s love and go into your older phase that
way, or are you going to fight and try to set things up in a particular way?
The ego wants to hang on: “I’m strong. I can do it all. I’m in charge.”
But life demands that we gracefully
surrender. It just does. Our spiritual path is to let go. We’re trained from
the very beginning to let go of the obstacles that keep us separate from
feeling the universal love and harmony that we actually know is there. We just
get in the way of everything. That’s why death can be the ultimate spiritual
experience, because it unites us with the spirit world which is what we’ve had
belief and faith in all along.
We Will Know . . . for Others and for Ourselves
I
think I’m seeing my fight begin. First of all, I’m drawing up an outline of all
the things I have to do or should do before I turn 80.
Don’t think that way. Don’t put such
limitation on yourself. Don’t put such confinement on yourself. The Divine Plan
brings us to the places we need to be. When my mother was very, very
vulnerable, we were there constantly. She’s stronger now. She doesn’t need us,
she doesn’t want us around so much. So there’s no pull for us to be there. What
I’m saying is, we will know when, and when not to, for others and for
ourselves. And whatever we need, it will be there, whatever “it” is. It will
come for us, it will come to us.
Our plan is in harmony with God’s
plan for us. We’re always taken care of in one way or another, no matter what
it looks like; we really are. So when you become worried and you want to make a
plan and control it all—“What are we going to do?”—give it over to God and just
say, I trust that I will hear your voice
and know your heart for me. Then the next step will be revealed to you all
along the way.
It’s our human nature to help birth
others into the world and it’s our human nature to help birth each other into
the spirit world at the end. Think of it as getting ready for your spirit world
birth. There are all sorts of ways the soul comes in and goes out. The nature
of your death will be determined to a great degree by the nature of the life
you’ve lived and the intention you hold for your death. Your death is your
spirit birth.
God has always had my back and will
continue to take care of me. As I keep myself aligned in that place and in that
space, I will intuitively, synchronistically know what to do. My whole life is
evidence of this, and I continue to have faith. So, don’t leave yourself; don’t
leave your spiritual consciousness. If you don’t leave yourself, you won’t get
afraid and you won’t feel overwhelmed or worried or any of those things.
Don’t get lost in the details and
make your fears real. We have this big, looming, mass thought form about old
age because there are so many people going into old age simultaneously. We have
a strange system which is keeping people sick and medicated. Take responsibility
for your life, and take responsibility for your death. Create it to be what you
want it to be.
Maresha's next blog will be published March 25, 2014.
Messages of Light is published by the Sanctuary of Universal Light on Snow Dragon Mountain in Meredith, New Hampshire. www.snowdragonsanctuary.com.