a message from Neale Donald Walsch

My dear friends...

Thank you for being here

I say “thank you” because by being here today you serve more than just your personal agenda. You add to the energy of this group, to the energy of this spiritual community, and that serves everyone who is served by the Conversations with God audience and the entries in this Bulletin.

So...again...thanks for showing up! Someone once said that 90% of Life is “showing up,” and I think they were right!

I’m going to talk about what no priest, no minister, no nun in my childhood parochial school, no spiritual teacher in my life has ever explained to me. . .

Today I’m going to talk about something with which we're all familiar...but, if you're like me, something that cannot be revisited too often.

POSITIVE THINKING!

I want to begin by reading an email that I received recently..and we’ll go from there.

Dear Neale...I'm at a low point in my life right now. I seem to be paralyzed in my fear. Nothing I try to do is working for me. How does one have faith, when nothing seems to be working? I believe everything God has said to you.

I’m trying to change my thoughts to positive thoughts, but my fears and doubts get in the way. I tried to write to God on paper like you did, but He seems silent to me. Yet I know He is talking to me by the sunsets in the sky, and the music on the radio. I choose to turn my life around like you did, but it's so hard to really have faith.
Kathy

And here is the answer that I sent to her . . .

My dear, dear Kathy...Wow, am I glad you wrote to ME! You're talking to a guy who found himself living on the street without a penny to his name. And not just for a week or two, or a month or so, but for a whole year.

Imagine that, Kathy: a year living in the weather, with only a tent for shelter, and only the handouts that people give you to eat.

I'm not trying to get your sympathy, Kathy. I just want you to know that I understand what it is to lose faith -- or to find it hard to hang onto in the face of outward circumstances that just won't let up, or won't resolve themselves. So I know exactly where you are "coming from."

Having said that, I promise you that there is a way out. I promise you. And it is on the way right now. Do you know how I know that?

Because you have written to me!

And that alone is a sign that your inner thinking has still found room for hope. You may think that you just wrote to me for "answers," but the inner truth, Kathy, is that you wrote to me from a place of hope.

If you had absolutely no hope, you would not have written to me at all. Believe me. I know how the mind works.

So I'm soooo glad that you wrote to me, because I like that sure sign of hope! My book Home with God, talks about "hope" in some very inspiring ways. Let me share some of that material with you here, Kathy. Home with God says:

Hope plays a wonderful role...in life...Never give up hope. Never. Hope is a statement of your highest desire. It is the announcement of your grandest dream.

Hope is thought, made Divine.

Hope is the doorway to belief, belief is the doorway to knowing, knowing is the doorway to creation, and creation is the doorway to experience.

Experience is the doorway to expression, expression is the doorway to becoming, becoming is the activity of all Life and the only function of God.

What you hope, you will eventually believe, what you believe, you will eventually know, what you know, you will eventually create, what you create, you will eventually experience, what you experience, you will eventually express, what you express, you will eventually become. This is the formula for all of life.

It is as simple as that.

Now the trick here is to hang onto hope, and to enlarge it! This is easy, but you cannot start from a place of sadness or depression or hopelessness.

What you are, you enlarge. Even so-called "positive thoughts" won't work when, as you say, Kathy . . . "fears and doubts get in the way."

You are right! They DO get in the way! But the good news is, there is a way to get fears and doubts out of your mind forever!

First, stop thinking about your situation and start thinking about the situation you would like to be in. Picture it, visualize it, write about it in your journal ---- create a complete description of it.

When your mind wanders to your worries and fears and doubts, don't give them a second thought. Just change your visual picture immediately to thoughts of how you want your life to be, rather than how it is.

Keep THAT picture in your head at all times! Remember that your thoughts are a magnet. What you give your thoughts to, you give energy to, and what you give energy to you create.

THEN, Kathy, pray. That's right, pray. Share a few words with God. But do not pray to God for a solution to your problems or a change in your condition. Say a prayer of gratitude. Thank God for the wonderful and happy outcome that is just around the corner. Here is my favorite prayer. I have used it for years, and it is remarkable what power it has:

Thank you, God, for helping me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me.

Know that the solution to everything is coming. Just KNOW it. Because it IS. There is no question about it. There is no doubt. If doubt creeps in, just say "No. Go away! I'll have nothing to do with you."

And MEAN IT. Have NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Think of something else immediately.

Think of bowling. Or Christmas. Or chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream. Or whatever you can think of that makes you happy! Go right there! Go right there in your mind, and say Thank you, God, for all the good stuff in this life! And thank you for bringing me more and more of it.

Then, promise to share everything that you receive. Make a solemn pledge within yourself that you are never going to pass a person again who needs help and not give them something.

Agree with yourself that you’re doing to give a little something to every good cause and every good project that you feel deserves your help. In fact, start that right now.

If you only have pennies to give, give them now. Giving away a portion of what you have, howEVER "little" that is, is an act of unshakeable FAITH that there is MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM.

In fact, it moves you PAST “faith”, right straight to “KNOWING.”

I have learned that there are three levels of Awareness: Hope, Faith, and Knowing.

Hope is your announcement that something MAY happen the way you want it to happen....but it also may NOT. And so, you HOPE that it will.

FAITH is your announcement that you feel SURE that it will even in the face of the possibility that it may not.

KNOWING is your announcement that there is no WAY it cannot.

When you walk into your bedroom at night and turn on the light, you don’t HOPE that it lights up the room. And you don’t have FAITH that it will.

You KNOW that it will.

That’s the difference between Faith, Hope, and Knowing.

Always remember, as you act with Life, so will Life act with you. Life is nothing more than a big Xerox machine. Sometimes people get themselves into a spiral of negative, fearful, doubtful thinking. It is understandable. It is also avoidable. And escapable.

You don't have to stay there. Get the hell out of there. I mean that literally. Get the “hell” out of there, out of your thinking.

And here’s an amazing spiritual and metaphysical trick. "Act as if" things are just the way you want them to be.

In fact, go one step further. See the perfection in things being just as they are right now. This is the secret of happiness. Happiness is accepting "what is" right here, right now, without qualification or reservation. Happiness is not needing anything to be different from the way it is in this moment.

The irony of this is, the moment you move into that kind of peaceful non-resistance and calm happiness, the very energy of that happiness starts reproducing itself right before your eyes.

The secret of true inner peace was once shared with me through the wisdom of spiritual master Dr Free John, in three words. I’ve shared this with you before in my writings. I think it’s worth repeating again. Those three words?

Cease all againstness.

You've asked me how to get your faith back, Kathy, and how to keep it. This is how. Now, I want you to go out right now and buy a book, even if you have to spend the last nickels, dimes, and quarters that you have in the house. I want you to get Home with God, in a life that never ends.

Order it from Amazon.com or get it from your local bookstore or from the CwG web store. Do it, Kathy. Get it and read it.

Then I want you to take one of your last dimes, if that's all you've got left, and give it away. Give it to some charity, or some non-profit organization that your heart supports.

Do it, Kathy. Just do it. And don't ever think that your dime or your single dollar bill means nothing to those hard-working non-profit organizations. They do and they will mean a great deal.

And I want to depart from my letter to Kathy again here and speak directly to those reading this bulletin…

Do you know how much it would mean right now if everyone in this room added just a single dollar to what you planned to give to your favorite charity or Non Profit? That could have a sweet impact on the work that they are trying to do. Yet this isn’t something you would do for this charity or Non Profit. This is something you would do for yourself.

You would do it to PROVE to yourself that you KNOW “there’s more where that came from.” That you KNOW you live in abundance. That you KNOW there’s always “enough.”

When it looks like you're doing ANYTHING for another, be clear that you're always doing it for yourself. For what you DEMONSTRATE you DUPLICATE.

Well, there you have it, folks. A short course in Keeping the Faith...by moving to Knowing!

Oh . . .there's one final thing. Help someone else keep the faith. What you choose for yourself, create for another. Find someone else who is down on their luck and who may be losing faith, and give them back theirs. Then watch your own spirits lift, and your fortunes soar.

That’s what I wrote to Kathy, and that’s what I wanted to share with you in this writing.

Move from Hope, to Faith, to Knowing. Let this be the day on which whatever doubt might ever have existed in your Mind about the dependability and the effectiveness of these messages.

And as I said at the beginning of this writing...thank you for being here. Your reading of this message serves this bulletin, allowing every one of its readers to feel encouraged and certain in their knowing of what is true by the energy you put into this space, and being uplifted by, the wonder of YOU.

With Love,

Neale

© 2015 ReCreation Foundation - http://www.cwg.org - Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. His With God series of books has been translated into 27 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.

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