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Save the Date!

Dr Steve and Devorah will be presenting Saturday, 8/24, 6PM, Temple Hatikvah’s, Homestead Jewish Center, 183 NE 8th Street, Campbell Drive (312th St)

open house – free buffet dinner.

An Island Entire To Itself

Specialness is the function you gave yourself. Never doubt that it and the need you feel for it will disappear before your reality as spirit. With spirit you need nothing but It, like the lilies of the field who toil not. Specialness stands for you alone, as self-created, self-maintained, in need of nothing beyond yourself and un-joined to anything beyond the body and its needs. In specialness, you are a separate universe, an island entire unto yourself, always attacked and always furious, with anger always fully justified. Pursuing the purpose of specialness, you employ a vigilance and ferocity you never thought to yield, and effort you never thought could cease.

But enough! Now you are merely asked to pursue another goal, allow your specialness to serve a different purpose, with far less vigilance, less effort and with the grace of God the wind beneath your wings. Yet you find this difficult, a burden wearisome and tedious, too heavy to be borne. Never mind why this is so; it is so. But it need not be so. The choice is yours. Choose again. The test of everything on earth is: ‘What is it for?’ The answer makes it what it is for you. It has no meaning of itself, you give reality to it, according to the purpose that you choose.

A Different Specialness

“Rejoice!” Devorah proclaimed. “There are only two emotions: love and fear. All else are shades of these two and love replaces all fear when we pause in our mad quest for specialness. Have you not felt that happen? In the midst of a traffic jam, money woes, personal disappointment, haven’t you suddenly, spontaneously felt how good and right and perfect life is? In those holy instants your bloated nothingness fell away and the perfect lack of specialness that is your truth manifested itself. Rejoice that you need not be content with specialness, that shabby substitute for love. Rejoice!

“Yet are those spontaneous holy instants few and far between.” Devorah shook her head sadly. “Still, you can allow your specialness to serve a different purpose. By being aware and mindful of it, not attacking it nor feeling guilt because of it you can allow the still small voice to use your specialness, guide you and lead you to manifesting the love that is your Identity.”

Please, enough!

Devorah shook her head sadly. “Please. Enough! What you have given to specialness has left you bankrupt and your treasure house barren and empty, with an open door inviting everything that would disturb your peace to enter and destroy. Please. Enough! Choose again!” She looked out over the gathering, eyes pleading. “How hard can it be to feel the calm, peace, compassion and grace of your reality and oneness with Spirit?” She paused, hands on hips, “As hard as you make it!”

Specialness

“Comparison must be an ego device for love makes none,” Devorah said, smiling out over the multitude. “Specialness always makes comparisons. Pursuit of specialness is always at the cost of peace and love. Who can diminish and cut down another who is really a part of himSelf, use her as a gauge of littleness and be released from limits? Specialness is the idea of sin made flesh. Its purpose is to deny us ourSelves and bind us to the littleness of the ego.

“What could you see instead? Without specialness, without elevating ourselves and our illusory needs at the expense of everyone and everything else, you would see the shining radiance of all that is. And all the world you made, and all your specialness, and all the sins you held in its defense against yourSelf will vanish, and your mind will accept the truth about yourSelf.

“Beloveds, you have come far along the way of truth; too far to falter now. Just one more step and every vestige of the fear of God will melt away in love. Accept Its plan for salvation instead of yours. The ego’s death is not your death. Release specialness, comparisons, judgment, fear, hate and blame. Release

Save the Date!

Dr. Steve and Devorah will be the featured speakers at the free barbecue and open house at Temple Hatikvah/Homestead Jewish Center

183 NE 8th Street, Homestead  (also known as Campbell Drive or SW 312th St)  PO   Box 924250 Homestead FL 33092-4250 at 6PM, Saturday, August 24th. All are welcome!

 

Worship

We worship the God we believe in, rather than the God who is. The God who is, is already within us and will respond at the level of our deepest belief and feelings.

Undone

“Where your thinking starts,” Devorah said, “there must it end. Take not one step in the descent to hell. Refrain from judging, condemning, blaming and attacking. For having taken one step, you will not recognize the rest for what they are. Attack in any form has placed your foot upon the twisted stairway that leads from Heaven.”

Now she smiled. “Yet any instant it is possible to have all this undone. How can you know whether you chose the stairs to Heaven or the way to hell? Quite easily. How do you feel? Is peace in your awareness? If not, then choose again. Heed the still small voice; go within, ask for help; let go and let God.”

Uneasiness 2

The experience of uneasiness, like a low, almost inaudible hum in the background of our lives is there because 99.9% of the time we’re not ourSelves. Only in the instants we get our bloated nothingness out of the way of the divine circuits are we ourSelves.

Help!

I’m looking for a part-time virtual assistant. Someone to help with the social networking and marketing for Devorah and my other books. Opportunity to grow!