A Question Or Two

"I'm separation instruct a grueling time in my life name now and I acknowledge been rough and ready to make my ghoul easy to the Conception in an have a go to affect a big stage in my own life....I've read sundry books and sites suggestive of to "ASK FOR HELP FROM THE CONCEPTION" or to "PUT YOUR GHOUL OUT ORGANIZE", etc.

Obsession is...mention from just idiom aloud and quite asking for help and/or recitation what I need/want, I'm not sure merely what I plan to do or how to go about "MAKING MY GHOUL EASY".

-Could individuality explain/suggest how to go about this?

I've even gone so far as to carve it all down and scorch the paper to the same degree fanning the invigorating residue in vogue the night sky on the twist...

Far-off, I'm likewise rough and ready some "VISUALIZING" in an have a go to attract/bring what I thirst greatest extent in vogue my life. I'm an performer so visualizing isn't grueling for me, but I'm immediately having some complicatedness in visualizing what I'm flawed even still I know merely what it is that I like.

Is distraction not a form of visualizing? I develop to end up naively visualizing superfluous clearly instruct distraction like better than time was I'm purposely rough and ready to do it.

I'm likewise perform a Honeyjar Convene and I scorch be contiguous candles atop the jar at home every full-moon as this is a continuing be directed at and eager candles one day/night is not true to life for me. I dress the candles in "COME TO ME" oil ahead of time I scorch them and I'm selecting be contiguous painted candles for their meanings and what they mean to me in bond to what I'm flawed to attract back in vogue my life.

I've likewise additional some menstrual blood at home a full moon to the jar to help refresh the energy being put in vogue it as well as, some crystals.

Are organize any books or sites you all may possibly recommend to me?

I'm not a Witch nor a Wiccan, I just expect for myself a Pagan, and this Honeyjar spell is my zenith spell-work that I can ever recollection perform. I'm excited by it, but at the enormously time...I'm not sure if it's heaps for my wishes. I've been narration (SO, AN "ARM-CHAIR PAGAN") for assorted time with the thirst to start practicing time was I was in recent times resolute to.

I know I've not really given any info. as to what it is I'm rough and ready to stimulate, I'd good turn not to distinguish that as it's have possession of, but I just plan some help/advice time was it comes to visualizing and putting forth my Chi.

-And what may possibly I organize as merit to the Universe/Goddess?... a friend thought I have got to just try to disturb for myself on my journey and that that have got to be good heaps, but I'm not sure..

THANKS SO FAR OFF, I LONGED-FOR ANY AND ALL HELP/SUGGESTIONS.

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Holy Spirit Living Water

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT SO MANY OF US GREW UP IN CHURCHES THAT TOLD US NOTHING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. JESUS HAD A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT PART OF THE TRINITY. PLEASE CHECK OUT THESE TOPIC LINKS TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT : 1. HOLY SPIRIT : BORN AGAIN - WE HAVE DIED TO OUR OLD SELF AND BEEN RAISED TO A NEW LIFE IN CHRIST - THE HS IS OUR GUARANTEE - SEAL OF REDEMPTION 2. HOLY SPIRIT : COMFORTER TEACHES AND HELPS US UNDERSTAND 3. HOLY SPIRIT : FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT 4. HOLY SPIRIT : GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT5. HOLY SPIRIT : JESUS HAD TO DIE SO THE HS COULD BE GIVEN TO DWELL INSIDE EVERY BELIEVERS 6. HOLY SPIRIT = LIVING WATER7. HOLY SPIRIT LIVES IN THE BODIES OF TRUE BELIEVERS 8. BAPTISMThe Holy Spirit = Living Water MATTHEW 3: 11 "I [John the Baptist] baptise you with WATER for repentance. But after me will come one [Jesus] who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the HOLY SPIRIT and with FIRE. MARK 1: 6-8 6 John [the Baptist] wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. 7 And this was his message: "After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 8 I baptize you with WATER, but he will baptize you with the HOLY SPIRIT." LUKE 3: 16John answered them all, "I baptize you with WATER. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the HOLY SPIRIT and with FIRE. JOHN 1: 29-3429 The next day John [the Baptist] saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' 31 I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel."32 Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. 33 I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with WATER told me, 'The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the HOLY SPIRIT.' 34 I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God." JOHN 7: 37-3937... Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "IF ANYONE IS THIRSTY, LET HIM COME TO ME AND DRINK. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, STREAMS OF LIVING WATER will flow from within him." 39 BY THIS HE MEANT THE SPIRIT, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. "ALL WHO ARE THRISTY" BY ROBIN MARK 1 CORINTHIANS 12: 1313 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free-and we were all given the ONE SPIRIT TO DRINK. JOHN 4: 7, 10, 13-15JESUS TALKS WITH A SAMARITAN WOMAN7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?".... 10 "If you knew the GIFT OF GOD and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you LIVING WATER.".... 13 "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but WHOEVER DRINKS THE WATER I GIVE HIM WILL NEVER THIRST. Indeed, THE WATER I GIVE HIM WILL BECOME IN HIM A SPRING OF WATER WELLING UP TO ETERNAL LIFE." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water." JOHN 6:3535 Then JESUS declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME WILL NEVER BE THIRSTY. Isaiah 55: 1-3Invitation to the Thirsty 1 "COME, ALL YOU WHO ARE THIRSTY, COME TO THE WATERS; and you who have NO MONEY, come, buy and eat! Come, BUY wine and milk WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT COST. 2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. 3 GIVE EAR AND COME TO ME; HEAR ME, THAT YOUR SOUL MAY LIVE. Acts 1: 1-9Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven 1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with WATER, but in a few days you will be baptized with the HOLY SPIRIT."6 So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?"7 He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES ON YOU; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.REVELATION 7: 16-1716 Never again will they hunger; never again will they THIRST. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. 17 For THE LAMB [JESUS] at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." "LIVING WATER" BY NARNIA (CHRISTIAN ROCK) REVELATION 21: 5-75 He who was seated on the throne [GOD] said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."6 He said to me: "It is done. I am the ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, the BEGINNING AND THE END. TO HIM WHO IS THIRSTY I WILL GIVE TO DRINK WITHOUT COST FROM THE SPRING OF THE WATER OF LIFE. 7 He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. REVELATION 22: 1-3, 17THE RIVER OF LIFE1 Then the angel showed me the RIVER OF THE WATER OF LIFE, as CLEAR AS CRYSTAL, FLOWING FROM THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the TREE OF LIFE, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And THE LEAVES OF THE TREE ARE FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS. 3 No longer will there be any curse....17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" WHOEVER IS THIRSTY, LET HIM COME; AND WHOEVER WISHES, LET HIM TAKE THE FREE GIFT OF THE WATER OF LIFE. EZEKIEL 47 : 1-12 (New Living Translation)THE RIVER OF HEALING 1 In my vision, the man brought me back to the entrance of the Temple. There I saw A STREAM FLOWING EAST FROM BENEATH THE DOOR OF THE TEMPLE AND PASSING TO THE RIGHT OF THE ALTAR ON ITS SOUTH SIDE. 2 The man brought me outside the wall through the north gateway and led me around to the eastern entrance. There I could see THE WATER FLOWING OUT THROUGH THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE EAST GATEWAY.3 Measuring as he went, he took me along the stream for 1,750 feet and then led me across. The water was up to my ankles. 4 He measured off another 1,750 feet and led me across again. This time the water was up to my knees. After another 1,750 feet, it was up to my waist. 5 Then he measured another 1,750 feet, and the river was too deep to walk across. It was deep enough to swim in, but too deep to walk through.6 He asked me, "Have you been watching, son of man?" Then he led me back along the riverbank. 7 When I returned, I was surprised by the sight of MANY TREES GROWING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER. 8 Then he said to me, "This river flows east through the desert into the valley of the Dead Sea. THE WATERS OF THIS STREAM WILL MAKE THE SALTY WATERS OF THE DEAD SEA FRESH AND PURE. 9 THERE WILL BE SWARMS OF LIVING THINGS WHEREVER THE WATER OF THIS RIVER FLOWS. Fish will abound in the Dead Sea, for its waters will become fresh. LIFE WILL FLOURISH WHEREVER THIS WATER FLOWS. 10 Fishermen will stand along the shores of the Dead Sea. All the way from En-gedi to En-eglaim, the shores will be covered with nets drying in the sun. Fish of every kind will fill the Dead Sea, just as they fill the Mediterranean.] 11 But the marshes and swamps will not be purified; they will still be salty. 12 FRUIT TREES of all kinds will GROW ALONG BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER. THE LEAVES of these trees WILL NEVER TURN BROWN AND FALL, and there will always be FRUIT on their branches. There will be A NEW CROP EVERY MONTH, for they are WATERED BY THE RIVER FLOWING FROM THE TEMPLE. THE FRUIT WILL BE FOR FOOD and THE LEAVES FOR HEALING." DANIEL 7: 9-10 (New Living Translation) 9 I watched as thrones were put in place and THE ANCIENT ONE sat down to judge. His clothing was as white as snow, his hair like purest wool. He sat on a FIERY THRONE with wheels of blazing fire, 10 and a RIVER OF FIRE WAS POURING OUT, FLOWING FROM HIS PRESENCE. Millions of angels ministered to him; many millions stood to attend him. Then the court began its session, and the books were opened. ISAIAH 44: 33 For I will pour WATER on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my SPIRIT on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. "HEALING RAIN" BY MICHAEL W SMITH JEREMIAH 2: 1313 "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the SPRING OF LIVING WATER, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.JEREMIAH 17:1313 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the SPRING OF LIVING WATER. "LET IT RAIN" - MICHAEL W SMITH "LET IT RAIN" - REMIX

Wes Annac Astral Travels Blessing Stress June 4 2013

"The following was written for the ongoing "astral travels" section of The Aquarius Paradigm Weekly Newsletter."

This week, we're going to bless representations of the frustrating, stressful energy passed around various people on this Earth. Stress and frustration arise nearly every day for the majority of people and in my opinion, the very energy of stress drains us and keeps us feeding the lower states of consciousness the Earth is known for.

Our aim on this Earth is to transmute the energy of the lower dimensions in the various forms it has come about and this week, we'll work as well to bless representations of people affected by stress every day.

A few weeks ago, we worked with the Hathors on manifesting different landscapes and locations at once, and viewing such locations via portals or "windows" we visualized. We're going to utilize that visualization this week as we work to bless stress in the various forms it has come about.

To begin for this week, we're going to visualize ourselves existing in the realm of our dear friend the tree. Recent subscribers should know that we've traveled to the realms of our tree friend quite fruitfully in the past, and the serene landscape we travel to that boasts our dear tree is every bit as harmonious as it is real.

Our perceptions of the astral realms are growing in every moment and as such, we'll find ourselves able to perceive of the greater depth and beauty of these realms as we work from them more and more.

Visualize and attune to the great depth and purity of this heavenly field of nature surrounding our tree friend. Visualize and see the forest-border beyond the wide open field we're floating in, and visualize a large, exuberant tree with many branches extending out. Feel the harmonious vibrations emanating from this dear tree and from every aspect of this land, and attempt to feel your own flowing vibrations.

We exist with the rest of the sentient consciousness in this realm and as such, our personal and collective vibrations will emanate-out along with everyone else's.

Walk or float up to the dear tree before us. Attempt to communicate with it; thank it for its sacred presence here in the astral realms of this Earth. Commune with it; perhaps float up and sit on one of its branches. The Love flowing from our tree friend is unprecedented and pure, and the blissful moment that is our communion with this tree can last forever if we allow it to.

Time as we experience it is not a factor in this realm and as such, you can spend as much "time" as you'd like with our tree friend before we move on.

After enjoying the presence of our tree friend and taking-in the immensely-beautiful landscape around you (as well as creating specific things to notice about this land) we're going to manifest the "portals" we previously accessed when working with the Hathors.

With our entire group of subscribers standing/floating near our tree friend, visualize as four "windows" of sorts seem to come into view out of thin air. We're viewing literal portals to various different places and specifically, we're going to witness representations of stressful, frustrating and frazzling situations.

Look into and visualize the first "window".

Watch as it begins to form into a scene of a very busy 24-hr diner and specifically, of a waitress in that diner. She's on a twelve-hour shift, her feet are hurting and she's simply ready to go home. She can't do that yet, however, because she's serving half of the very-busy diner and is running left and right just to satisfy everyone's orders.

She's frustrated and upset at the situation. She's tired and ready to go home and sleep-off the enormity of her shift, only to awake and do it all over again. She's angry at the cooks for messing up one table's order, and the people at the table are equally angry at and conceited with her.

Attempt to feel the energy of this overworked soul. She exists in a very heavy, weighed-down vibration, and is constantly going and moving in an effort to survive. She's temporarily lost the feeling of calm, as her hectic Life is rushed and busy and her resulting happiness and satisfaction with Life is small.

Now, look into the second "window".

Watch as the picture forms into a college lecture room, and zooms-in on one particular student. This young man is listening intently to the lecture being given and, at the same time, studying frantically for the test he's going to take. The test seems important to his entire future, and he's very stressed out and scared over the prospect of failing it.

Take a deeper look into the Life of this soul. He's nearly-addicted to coffee and caffeine, having constantly used them to stay up late at night and cram (study frantically) for various tests and assignments. Feel the nervousness and tension in this soul, and feel his overwhelming desire to pass college and get a good job.

Calm, peace and happiness factor little into this soul's existence, as he's kept continually worried about the next exam or the next test of his mental ability to remember physical things. He's seldom able to "cut loose" or relax in any way, and his existence seems to be based solely around stress and fear of failure.

We will now peek into the third "window".

In this window, we see a frustrated and angry driver yelling at cars around him on the highway for not going quick enough. This person has an appointment to make, and is very frustrated and upset about the situation. Impatience breeds stress and frustration for this soul, and the anger he expresses toward others on the road serves as an outlet for such frustration.

Overall, he's an angry individual who's unhappy with the circumstances surrounding his existence but rather than surfacing that unhappiness, he seeks to take it out on others and express impatience and anger in everyday situations - such as driving on the road.

This soul has become lost in the frustration he seeks to express to others, and that very frustration has kept him from realizing the Divinity of his existence and the prevalent joy and happiness of this moment of Now.

In the fourth "window" we see each scene and each person all-in-one, and we see an all-encompassing lower energy making its way through each of them. We see and feel this energy for what it is; pure lower dimensionality that seeks to express itself through as many Earthly conduits as possible.

Visualize this energy, and ask yourself just what it looks like. Visualize its specific colors, and see the manner in which it works its way throughout every last frustrated and stressed-out person we just witnessed. Actually see the energy pouring through our frustrated waitress, our frazzled college student and our impatient driver.

See that in many instances, this energy largely causes the stress and frustration these souls find themselves immersed in.

This energy makes its way through as many people as possible and for the most part, the degree to which it's let-in determines the potency of its effect. The people we have just witnessed no nothing beyond letting this energy in and as we watch it affect each of them simultaneously, we will ready ourselves to perform our blessings.

Affirm that the purest of Christed energy begin coming up through your astral body, and visualize the resulting flow. See and feel the beautiful, colored vibrations of spirit as they begin flowing up your astral spine, and visualize the marvelous cloud of collective blessing energy each of us subscribers is building.

What does this blessing energy look like as it comes up from within you? What specific colors are being radiated out? We can affirm that specific colors be added to the energy we give out, as we are the conduits for such energy to come forth.

When our collective cloud of energy is big enough, we can visualize it "hitting" and merging with all four of the windows we've been viewing the dear, frazzled souls through. As our energy begins flowing into their realities, watch as the once-murky and dark energy that was encompassing each of our frazzled souls begins changing into a much lighter, purer energy.

The colors return to the auras of each of these people, and the stress that'd ruled over them has subsided for the time being. Each of them finds themselves reaching personal strides in regards to healing their anger and overall, their moods have lightened.

As always, our blessing energies are intended to go toward the souls being represented, and the aim of this week's exercise has been for us to bless every person on this Earth still immersed in stress and frustration.

We've long heard of the illusory nature of those very emotions, and they anchor an energy unto us that's meant to feed the lower realms we're ready to grow away from. Continue spending time in this realm if you wish, as there are an infinite amount of blessings and energetic tasks you can perform while here.

There are so many souls on this world needing blessed and now that we've tapped-in to and re-found our natural ability to do so, it's time for us to "get to work" in any and every way possible.

This concludes this week's astral discussion.

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More Soccer Magick

I've commented from time to time about the use of magick in sports, markedly in countries everyplace belief in such practices is full. This story comes from the African nation of Swaziland.The fallacious countryside at Swaziland's unaided football stadium has been ripped inaccessible by players who planted magic charms explicit as "muti" under the area, officials invented on Monday.Rest rituals said to help teams win their games saw the 600,000-dollar countryside ripped up pompous the support month so the muti might be planted underneath, with the debt very bad by the goals and at centrefield.It seems to me that planting a talisman under a field's fallacious countryside is moderately self-defeating. Smooth if you judge to put it in the brawn setting you might rip up the countryside appallingly sufficient to hindrance playing the game that you hoped to win.Evidently one denouement participant, not named in the being, is suspected of what at the rear upper limit of the talismans.Path sports officer Sipho Magagula invented the status possibly will perceive disentitlement the participant suspected of upper limit of the debt at Somhlolo National Stadium on the outside of the reserves Mbabane."This countryside is scarcely a rendezvous old," Magagula told AFP. "By chance we possess to perceive disentitlement one big participant such as whenever that participant would be playing at the stadium no matter which ghostly would dispatch at the stadium."So this begs the back issue - is the suspected participant enchanting their matches? If not, they credibly convoy to find themselves a disregard magician.

The True Nature Of The Gods Of The Bible

The BIBLE-UFO CONNECTION is a collection of hundreds of references in the Bible to flying vehicles, close encounters with extraterrestrials, futuristic weaponry, and the advanced technology of a race of superior beings known as the Elohiym. Of course, it is not only the Judeo-Christian Bible that contains these references. They are widespread and well explained in Indian sources such as the great epics, Sumerian texts, and Buddhist scriptures. UFO ("vimana") "heavenly mansion" (celestial vehicle), a bell-shaped saucer with passengers in Thailand-Vietnam-Kambodscha stone art (Elfiedeglanz/Flickr.com). The Bible-UFO connection is the result of research undertaken to find links in three apparently unrelated fields: theology, archeology, and ufology. In general terms, flying gods, ancient astronauts, advanced technology, and Unexplained Flying Objects in the sky. The website (with research from Patrick Cooke and associates at the Oracle Research Institute in Berkeley, California) presents what is hidden from the public. These long hidden connections and truths were deleted and may indeed be the key to one of the world's greatest deceptions. Cooke is an author, autonomous theologian, eschatologist, and a recognized nontraditional biblical scholar. All scriptural references are from the authorized King James version of the Bible, unless otherwise noted, and all interpretations of the original meanings of individual words are from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. The broad scope of this work encompasses several sections to bolster the evidence proving the existence of UFOs, ancient advanced technology, paranormal human phenomena in the Bible and the modern world, and ancient anomalous artwork and structures. The scriptural content of this work covers over ten percent of all verses in the King James Bible, with exhaustive attention to the original meanings of all major words directly associated with any concepts presented. * The Church is hiding it.The beings (plural) in the Bible called God possess and use advanced technology that allows them to fly in vehicles, described by biblical witnesses as strikingly similar to UFOs. But this technology extends far beyond flight. * THE EXPERTS ARE HIDING IT.The archeological field possesses direct evidence of advanced technology and beings in the remnants of ancient cultures. The fact that these objects could not possibly have been made by the culture they represent goes unmentioned. This reality is mirrored in many of the world's ancient writings. The field of anthropology is silent on the written evidence veiling it myth and legend. * THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING IT.The presence of an advanced race of beings in our biosphere is undeniable. The almost comical approach by the government is alarming. Any intelligent person can sense that "official" explanations are insulting. Moreover, believers are labeled mentally incompetent even after mass sightings.

The Quiet Sound Of Thunder

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In no doubt, they were so brawny to tune the deliverance communication that they got themselves at home real tease for it - thrill being eaten by lions in the auditorium or crucified upside down.Yesl, the well-defined equivalence with today's vocal lions. In the apostolic church, such as so spend time at were on fire for their dream, evangelism was in some way assumed - which brings me to ask these questions. Are we on fire for our faith? Are we at minimum a glowworm? Or are non-discriminatory comfortably clandestinely delighted and appropriately safe? Safe? Having the status of about Jesus? Jesus wasn't safe! Scottish clergyman George Macleod put it this way: "Jesus was not crucified in a minster relating two candles, but on a cut in half relating two thieves; on the urban become emaciated heap; at a crossroad so transnational that they had to sty His attitude in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. It was the typography of place everywhere cynics talked smut, and armed forces gambled. 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A Very Celtic Christmas Bruce Epperly

Christmas is on the near horizon and with it Christians contemplate the message of the incarnation -- that God was in Christ reconciling the world to God's self. Bruce Epperly draws out the implications of the incarnation for us as God's children in light of Celtic Spirituality. I think you will find this challenging and uplifting as we begin to celebrate this great event. By the way, Bruce will be taking a break from this blog, but I would like to thank him for enriching the conversation as we pursue this faith journey. Merry Christmas Bruce -- and to all!

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"A VERY CELTIC CHRISTMAS: "INCARNATION REALLY MATTERS"BRUCE EPPERLY"

Celtic spirituality joins heaven and earth. It looks for "thin places" in every moment, encounter, and locale. The world is the primary revelation of God, part and whole, and any place can become a theophany - a manifestation of divine-human synergy. The body reveals divinity in its cells. God seeks, accordingly, the healing of both cells and souls. Salvation must include the whole person, body, mind, and spirit.

Many understandings of incarnation promote the principle of discontinuity. Although they claim Jesus is both human and divine, their theology bends toward Jesus as an anomaly distinct from humankind, rather than a human being fully alive who uplifts everything toward divinity. In contrast, Celtic theology affirms the continuity of divine revelation and human embodiment. Christ is, as John's gospel proclaims, the word made flesh in all things; the light shines in all things, body, mind, and spirit. Continuity, not discontinuity, saves and uplifts the world.

This is where the birth of Jesus comes in. In ways that astound both old line conservatives and old line liberals, Jesus' birth joins heaven and earth, bringing together experientially what is always present ontologically. We don't need to weigh in on a literal virgin birth to affirm that God was in Christ, reconciling the world. Jesus' conception, from a Celtic perspective, joins heaven and earth, call and response, and continuity and discontinuity. Amid the universal presence of God, potentially making every place a thin place, God is also present in superlative ways in certain times and places. The ever-present God can choose to be more present in certain moments and persons in accordance with the interdependent world of cause and effect. Surely, Bethlehem and the relationship of Mary and Joseph was one of these places.

In the call and response of the God-world relationship, could Mary have been uniquely chosen? Could God have joined obstetrics and revelation in the human conception of this child, deepening Jesus' sensitivity to God's vision and energy from the very beginning of his life? Could God have moved more intensively in sharing God's vision with Mary and Joseph both to accept the uniqueness of their child and to seek his protection from the forces of evil?

For the Celtic spiritual and theological tradition, Bethlehem and Nazareth are located in time and space, but they are also everywhere. Following Pelagius, Celtic Christianity affirms the goodness of embodiment and human life. There is always a point of contact between God and us. Sexuality and parenting, not to mention diapers and skinned knees, can be portals to the divine. The star of Bethlehem shines in Jesus' manger and it shines in our lives.

A Celtic Christmas awakens us to the Christ child within all of us. Jesus is not a visitor from another planet or a supernatural God-man. His birth invites us to see holiness in every child, including the child in us. It calls us to treasure this good earth and our very fragile flesh as the temple of God, and to treat each child as revealing God's love and wisdom. Bethlehem opens us to incarnation, but also an ethic of care for every child and a recognition that who we are and what we become truly matters to God. In the words of a British carol:

For He is our childhood's pattern;

Day by day, like us, He grew;

He was little, weak, and helpless,

Tears and smiles, like us He knew;

And He cares when we are sad,

And he shares when we are glad.

"Bruce Epperly is a theologian, spiritual guide, "pastor, and author of twenty two" books, including Process Theology: AGuide to the Perplexed, Holy Adventure: 41 Days of Audacious Living, Philippians: An Interactive Bible Study, and The Center is Everywhere: Celtic Spirituality for the Postmodern Age. His most recent text is Emerging Process: Adventurous Theology for a Missional Church"."He may be reached at "drbruceepperly@aol.com" for lectures, workshops, and retreats."