I'm going to talk about relationships, just family relationships.
What I really want to talk about is my granddaughter, she's almost four years old, the light of
my life.
I just love her totally with this very special love.
And I think it's unconditional but it's, I know it's special love.
Now I think about, lesson 128, 129, "The world I see holds nothing that I want."
I remember when I first read that I said, "That's not true!"
But then 129 of course says, "Beyond this world there is a world I want."
So, in particular, what do you say to me about how I should think of my granddaughter or
what kind of relationship, how should I change my relationship with her?
Well, we’ve heard the idea that love is inclusive instead of exclusive.
And that inclusive love would be holy love or agape, it’s unconditional like you were
saying and the exclusive is there’s an attempt to exclude or make special but let’s just
look at the exclude part.
When we have a configuration, we’ll call it family, your wife, your sons, your granddaughter,
and there’s a configuration there, that’s part of the self concept as well as the whole
environment that surrounds, the planet, the sun, the moon, the stars, everything.
And we’re being told that self concept is tiny and small and that love itself is vast.
So if the tininess has an exclusiveness in it like these are the people that I cherish,
they’re in my daily life, they’re the ones that I get to hug and kiss and interact
and talk on the phone with then there’s this “other” group of the seven billion
that I’m kind of indifferent actually about.
I watch them on the news occasionally, there may be some movie stars that I like, I like
that movie that he’s in and I like what she’s doing and that book that they just
wrote.
But there’s these bands, like most of the seven billion there’s like an indifference
with.
Then there’s a heightened sense of caring with a small, tiny group.
And then there’s some others, maybe it’s Denzel, somebody else that you really like,
they’re kind of out there, they’re not quite in the small group, you’d like to
rub elbows occasionally if possible.
So there’s these categories and degrees and what I would say is when you open up to
the Holy Spirit’s purpose it’s more about including in all the rest.
And that’s why in one sense we have to loosen our mind from the form, like I was a loner
and then I had a few friends, I could probably count them on one hand.
You could say that was probably my special configuration, you know, and then I kind of
went through this thing where how do I change this, the same thing you’re asking and it’s
like getting the deck of cards of all the relationships over to the Holy Spirit saying
“You deal.”
And wow, that dealing has brought us together.
Because I was so open to go wherever the dealing led me, to Northern California and we had
some times there and some times here.
And it’s grown and grown and grown because I’ve really, I was just open to including
in the rest of the seven billion and it’s taken me to China.
Not that everybody needs to travel but it’s in the purpose of opening to be used with
someone who’s walking by you on the street, there’s no casual encounters, there’s
no chance meetings, there’s no accidents.
And to start to really feel your heart expand with this really huge love so that you can
safely let it flow through you and include the rest in.
So to me, the thing to do with your granddaughter is, you don’t want to take anything away,
there’s a heart opening, there’s a burst, like the love of my life, the light of my
life, you want to include the rest in with that.
And as you’re willing to just say to Holy Spirit, use me and open up my mind and expand
my perception, then that’s how the circle seems to grow bigger and bigger and bigger
and it’s really all just a state of mind, it’s not really about the form of it all,
that’s just kind of a metaphor I’m using but it’s really about how you feel, that
huge expansive love.
That makes sense?
Yes it does.