S. Brenda Elfgirl - I was told I am an elf in a parallel life, and I live in the Arizona desert exploring what this means. I've had this blog for a while and I write about the things that interest me. My spiritual teacher told me that my journey in life is about balancing "the perfect oneness of a sweetness heart and the effulgent soul". My inner and outer lives are like parallel lines that will one day meet, but only when there is a new way of thinking. Read on as I try to find the balance.
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I just rewatched "Pride and Prejudice", the 2005 version with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden. The scene where Darcy proposes to Elizabeth in the early morning, with him walking through the mists is is one my favorite movie scene. I've had dreams of some man walking through the mists to find me and me, staring at him not quite knowing who was approaching.
When I first saw this scene, I screamed "they stole that scene from my dream!" I don't think I'm the only woman in the world who hasn't dream of some man walking through the mists towards you. This scene could only have been written by a woman and it turns out the screenplay writer's name is Deborah Moogach.
Joshua 19-20, Joshua 21: 1-10, John 2, Psalm 68: 28-35
John 2: 10 (ESV)
“…“Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have
drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
I love verse 10 from John 2 because it shows the power of God’s
miracles. Jesus transformed water into win for the wedding because they had run
out. When it was tasted, it was considered “better than the wine than the wine
that was made for the wedding. God has the power to turn something ordinary as water into something better
tasting than the finest wine. This was Christ’s first miracle. Jesus went on perform
greater and greater miracles until the last miracle before his death, which was
the raising Lazarus from death. We need to remember this verse when we pray and
ask God for miracles. God can do everything from turning an ordinary event into
something that will please our senses and bring us happiness, to curing illnesses
like blindness, and bring life from death. And of course, God’s best miracle, to
save us from our sins with the death of his son Jesus Christ so we can have an eternal
life with him.
“The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
Verse 29 from John 1 is what John the Baptist said to Jesus the
next day after he baptized Jesus. John proclaimed to Jesus it was his destiny to
be a sacrifice for sin. Last year I watched the movie “His only son”, which
tells the story Abraham being told by God to sacrifice his son. The symbol of the
pure lamb as a sacrifice to take away from sin began to dawn on me. John the
Baptist announced to Jesus what his role was, and I don’t think anyone who heard
him fully got what he meant. Certainly, the disciples who witnessed John
baptizing Jesus didn’t get what John meant, and that John the Baptist was
actually predicting that Jesus would need to be sacrificed like a lamb. I think
if they did get it, they would have understood when Jesus told them later about
his coming death. But they didn’t get it, and I think it’s hard for me even now
to fully understand the extent of what Jesus went through for our sins. But
Jesus understood it. It was his father’ s will and Jesus was willing to do
anything to fulfill God’s plan earth. And if it wasn’t for Jesus’ sacrifice, we
would have ti experience the consequences of our sins.
I use EFT (emotional freedom technique) to clear negative beliefs in my life. It really doesn't matter what what system you use. All you need to is find a system that resonates with you and becomes your permission slip to do this kind of work. All systems work and it's all about finding one that you believe in and is an easy process for you. I've been doing it this past week and the following are insights that came to me:
You need to find the belief that brings tears to your eyes. And I mean, real tears. When a belief makes you cry, you know you have a belief that you have emotions wrapped up in. It's a powerful enough belief where your body has a reaction.
If you use EFT, and you get the belief down to 1-3 and you find yourself getting scared, this means you are on the core of rooting out this negative belief.
If you manage to get your belief down to 1 (which might mean on a scale of 1-10, how do you rate the belief. 1 being not true to 10 being very true), you might find yourself freaking out especially if that feeling has been around for a long time. That belief has become over the years a part of your identity.
You might yourself saying "I don't know who I am." This happens because the negative belief had been part of your identity for so long, that your identity is threatened.
Don't worry! This is a normal response. Taking away the negative belief creates a vacuum, and you will need to fill it.
What you will need to say the most positive belief you have about yourself, so this new positive belief fills the vacuum you just created.
You might need to repeat the positive belief to yourself several times before this feeling of loss and "being threatened goes away.
When you get to the part where you are freaking and don't know who you are, CONGRATULATIONS! You have let go of that belief. An image of a wall crumbling or breaking might come to your mind. The negative belief you just eliminated was a core part of other negative beliefs, and these minor negative beliefs will start to crumble because you've gotten rid of the anchor core belief.
I hope this helps. Getting rid of negative beliefs that no longer serve you is a great way to open up opportunities in your life.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made
through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was
life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and
the darkness has not overcome it.”
I love the way verses 1-5 was depicted in The Chosen TV
series. It shows a fictional version of the disciple named John and how he might
have been inspired to write this gospel in the way he did. Whenever I watch
this scene, it brings tears to my eyes. The actor who portrayed John did such a
good job of showing how much his character loved Christ. I love that Jesus said
to John that a favorite memory of his how the world was created, which implies
that Christ was there with God when the world was created. Or maybe not exactly
physically there, but since Christ is part of the trinity he shared memories
with God his father.
Although some may argue that this fictional recreation of how
John came up with the beginning of his gospel may be heresy, there is no
evidence to suggest that it is because we simply don’t have much information on
how these gospels were created and their author. The assumption among biblical
scholars is that John wrote this gospel, but we don’t really have evidence to
confirm or deny its authorship. I love the idea of Christ as the “Word”,
because words create reality. And the reality that Christ created in our world
is beautiful and positive.
For your viewing pleasure from The Chosen Season 2, episode 1:
Many thanks to John Hilton III who put together this show excerpt - please subscribe to his channel.
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