O H . K I T T Y !!!

He took the poor little kitty by the scruff of the neck and immersed her in the cold, cold river repeatedly!!!

Oh, did I forget to mention that she had fallen into quicksand and was drowning? Simply getting kitty out and leaving her to lick off a complete multi-covering of mud would not have saved her life!

He didn’t pause to think whether kitty would like being dunked in the frigid river. First he got her out and clean and warm and fed.

But we – o lofty mortals – we think we always know the best way for ourselves, don’t we? What feels good to the five senses? What gets us what we want instantaneously? How can we avoid like the plague – or mud – our exertion of a modicum of effort?

Btw, Kitty wound up falling in love with her “captor”. We can learn to do likewise because merely titillating our senses does not translate to happening upon enlightenment.

DrRobinStarbuck

B R I G H T N E S S

WORKING FOR GOD is the greatest, most rewarding, “work” one can ever do. There’s no image to be kept up and no competitors to beat down. You’re free to travel with God without a moment’s hesitation as there’s no clock (or pillow) to punch! You get to live in your soul 24/7 until the very notion of a 24/7 is but a faint speck of a memory.

In my experience and in my observations of others, I find that enlightenment comes incrementally. Yes, we get a sudden huge awakening that changes everything in our lives and feels like ‘the final one’!

Then we settle into it and enjoy its effulgence and glory for quite awhile. Little by little we get faint glimmerings of more unfoldment up ahead.

We turn to our vehicle – our human life – once again to make more necessary adjustments out of the world where flesh once reigned. We either (1) get pulled back into the illusion and its concomitant hypnotism or (2) see through more and more of the deceptive nature of the human life.

Choosing the latter (which precious few of us do) we are ready to soar far beyond our selves of 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 50 years ago. We can literally see the markings (like trees have) on our soul which indicate our preparedness.

CHOOSING SPIRIT WHEN MATTER SEEMS MORE ATTRACTIVE
I’m guessing that you are trying to juggle two realms – like we all do – but it doesn’t really work. It takes a lot of courage to choose only spiritual reality when so much is going well in the human realm.
It’s a hypnotic, world suggestion that tries to make us believe we’ll miss out on something if we choose Spirit over flesh all the way. That just simply isn’t true. The “problem” is that if we’re not used to staying with Spirit, it may temporarily seem like something is being sacrificed. Holding to Spirit, God, will straighten everything out in miraculous ways.
drrobinstarbuck

MURPHY’S LAW MEETS HOLY SPIRIT
Who hasn’t had a day in the not-too-distant past when it seemed like everything that could go wrong, did?
A few months ago I had the dubious pleasure of visiting the D.M.V. (Department of Motor Vehicles) to renew my driver’s license. I hadn’t gone in person in some 30 years and yet I remembered the last scenario like it was yesterday’s real live horror show.
This time I was going all “prayed up” and determined to put happy spiritual truths to a test while assuming the loftiest attitude conceivable. I would make two trips if need be, two months early and with zero worldly expectations whatsoever, more of a fact-finding walk in the park.
Soooo, nothing was more important to me – nothing in the whole wide world – than remaining squarely at the center of my being, where God resides. What could go wrong, thought I – it’ll be a positive experience and I’ll simply go back another day to complete the task.
Well, Murphy was on target: my right shoe broke. Mind you, my plan had included walking a few miles through a crowded midtown Manhattan, only now – halfway there – it was to be with a broken shoe!
Next I had a great deal of trouble locating the place due to construction work in full operation on both sides of the very busy street; and, when I finally did arrive – for all intents and purposes – it was worse than I’d ever imagined! Not one single person working there was the least bit helpful or even courteous to anyone who came in.
My mission had become that of finding out exactly what I was to do on my second trip, but I wasn’t getting much of anywhere on this trip as far as knowing what to do next time. Everyone there was in the same quandary that I was, not knowing if they were in the right line and for what!
But, but, but remember I was well prayed up and wasn’t really “feeling” the frustration and distress all around me. I remember wondering if my experience were akin to most of Jesus’ in which his spiritual awareness got him through untold miseries.
I’m gonna cut this short now and say that with a little instantaneous spiritual refreshment I was suddenly miraculously completely through and on my way home!

●WANTING BETTER RESULTS●
If you learnt the hard cold fact
That for you at this point in time
Meditating twice a day
Isn’t getting the job done…

So you stepped it up to
Once every three hours, alas
Still too much negativity
Is hanging over.

Alright you’ll give it all you’ve got,
Every hour on the hour – better yet
Every thirty minutes or until the
Hypnotism’s entirely obliterated.

Finally it’s coming clear,
Both the urgency and frequency
With which your own willingness
Is freely choosing to reconnect.

Been a strange day .. Deliberated for 10 min on the wisdom of wearing lace with checkered pants .. Did so & went out .. Young black fellow called out to me “What a great outfit!” to which I gratefully responded “Thanks! You just made my day!” .. In my park (Dag Hammarskjold) a political demonstration was being held to the left of me and a policemen’s celebration to the right .. I sat smack dab in between, listening to Herb and sporting my checkers & lace.

Do you know some secrets?
Got the poop on a nasty
cantankerous fellow –
hell-bent on treachery?
But you’ve got the skinny
on how to sink his ship?
Just a little well-placed exposure
And ka-bamm! He’s finished!
Did’ja ever think maybe
that’s not your place?
Not your appointment from Love?
That perhaps God’s assignment
for you is to let it all go?
Oh, please join me in this.
God’s way is NEVER man’s design.