Focus My Son/Correction

2000-3-31 03:36:00

Good to hear from you again John K., but I am sorry it is from such difficult circumstances. I was wondering how you were doing. First, let me say that I have been where you are and worse and have empathy with you.

It is often a difficult challenge for creative and spiritually minded people to meet their needs on the material plane. Indeed this is the very reason that many disciples who have incarnated to assist in the bringing forth of the kingdom of God are neutralized.

Earlier in my life I found myself in and out of awkward situations such as is happening to you, until I made a discovery. I discovered that I was trapped in an illusion.

And what illusion was that?

Because I saw myself as being on the spiritual path I felt that Spiritual and creative aspiration must come first. The problem with this though, was that it did not work for me. Whenever I applied myself spiritually my physical world fell apart to the extent that I had to forgo all things spiritual and concentrate on the material, which thing I found to be very frustrating.

After much wasted time, pain and distress to me and my family I finally went into deep contemplation with an open heart to any answer and here is what came to me.

My approach may have been fine for the passing age, but we are entering a new age with new lines of approach, with new emphasis and in this age a balance must be achieved between God and mammon, the spiritual and the physical.

My soul thus told me to shift my physical emphasis from the creative and the spiritual to physical reality, and develop and means to become self sufficient. Concentrate on this with a one-pointedness until I can at least take care of myself, and then shift attention back to the spiritual work.

Making this shift was one of the most difficult things of my life, but when I made a definite decision and followed the inner voice I felt a tremendous peace and this confirmed that I had made the right decision.

I therefore, found myself putting my energies on my weakest point, for monetary matters and business was my most fragile point, but I have learned since that the soul is more interested in us developing that which is weakest within us more that displaying that which is strongest.

Now just because I followed my soul here that does not mean I had an easy time of it. I resisted this message from my soul for 20 years of my life and after I finally yielded, it took ten years of struggle to get in the position where I needed to be. In many ways I feel I needed to work twice as hard as the average person because I was working where my ability was weak.

Now I feel that that which was weakest within me is becoming my strength and that I will do some powerful things in the business world in the near future - balancing the spiritual and the material.

I rejoice now that I followed my soul because if I had not I would have not had the means to publish The Immortal. It would probably be sitting on my desk gathering dust awaiting some magical financial gift that would never appear.

So John, I'm not saying that you have the same path as me, but I give you my experience as a point of meditation for you. No matter what your situation, there is always a way out. What I have found in my life is that the way out, as shown me by my soul, is often the last choice on my list.