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You Have Arrived

7/22/2013

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When you can
observe
without judgment,
you will know
you have arrived,
arrived unto
My Kingdom.

Excerpted from the book
Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story


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Plagiarism

6/23/2013

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Plagiarism, that’s the only explanation the minds of men can come up with when another man expresses an idea as his own inspiration and the idea has been previously, documented somewhere else by another. It is thus assumed that one copied from another. Even the radical ideas and teachings of Jesus are attributed to other factions that some assume he must have studied with. These small minds are not yet aware of the “One Great Mind” to which all have access to. Ideas of Truth are always present and available here. This is “The Source,” the fountain of inspiration of all inspired thought. Inspired thought is that which rises in one’s own mind from seemingly “nowhere” as man cannot physically or mentally know this source.

Jesus spoke of this saying that the Kingdom of God, “His Wisdom,” was hidden from the intellect of man. This is why no amount of reasoning will convince any one of the truth of these words. Some people insisted that Jesus prove himself. They wanted Him to argue His points and defend His Message. But as He knew this knowledge was hidden from mens minds and intellectual reasoning, He did not bother. In fact, He thanked and praised God for the fact that God had so hidden and thus kept safe this “glorious wisdom” from fools disguised as scholars.

If we want to know and understand “Spiritual Truth,” we have to be a seeker. We have to have an open mind and heart. We have to desire a higher understanding. We have to let go of all preconceived ideas. We have to quiet the noise of our minds. We have to make a continual practice of this. We have to listen, listen to our own heart. Within each of us “Spiritual Truth” lives. First one has to know thyself and their innate worthiness to know higher.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente


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Oh, Sings My Soul

6/11/2013

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Everybody is born “in the zone.” I mean every soul in a body is not only “fresh from Heaven” but still there. We are not “born” with a sense of separateness, we learn it. We are conditioned. We are taught. We are told. We are “civilized” and “de-spiritualized.” We are “reprogrammed” but not “rewired.” Nope, nobody can change who we really are. It’s still there, all there. The innate connection we have with the Divine, lost to our own awareness perhaps but always at hand. Jesus was reminding us of this when he said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

One needs not even to reach. It is already within, within each of us, all the Power and Presence of God. We are to seek this “Kingdom of God” this eternal and internal land of good. We are to seek it ourselves and to acknowledge its existence in all others, whether they themselves have come to recognize and demonstrate this truth or not. As one finds his way, his way back to his Truth, to the Light of God, he becomes illumined. His light shines. This light becomes a beacon of hope for all others still foraging through the forest of doubt.

But oh to live in joy! Oh sings my soul. My eyes have seen the glory. These words are mine now, my truth, my reality. I write the songs of joy, my psalms.

Excerpted from the book
Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story
by Debra Clemente




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Supplication

6/11/2013

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Bring forth the ideal, supplication.

I need not worry what the next moment brings for I trust in God’s Ways. You see, I see through faith, faith in God’s Will, God’s “Good Will.” This is not the same as one whom one says “Oh, it must be God’s Will.” Like, “If punishment is due, I guess it is due.” No, Jesus taught us a different way to look at and be led through God’s Will. Through supplication of our own will, or need to control, and the asking that God’s Will, or Good Will to All, is done in His Name through us. God knows my desires and my uniqueness for My Maker Himself has bestowed the gifts I have, on me. Of course He wants to use these “God given” abilities to enlighten and bring joy to His creation. This is my only true desire, to be of service so I have laid my life down.

Some would say here that I have “taken up the cross.” But I do not, for that seems to me as an announcement that one is expecting their way to be hard and a burden. It’s just the opposite for me, as I am laying down the burdens of my mind, my fears and worries for the future, and knowing that God will provide my daily needs and lead me out of temptation. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on Earth (the physical) as it is in Heaven (the spiritual). This is truly my daily prayer, which I ask in the Name of Christ, who reigns in me.
 
I find myself speaking with such authority. The words take me back and I laugh, laughter of joy and amazement that such adamant wisdom flows so freely and forcefully from my mind and mouth. “It is true… It is this way… Yes, I know… This is because…”

Excerpted from the book
Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story
by Debra Clemente
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Full of self

5/27/2013

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“It is easier for a camel to slip through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” Why is this so?

Because the rich man is so “full of self” that he has not room for God. Only one who seeks, finds. And one who has spent their life in the business of acquiring material riches upon riches is not the likely sort to spend energy and time seeking the Peace of God. This is not to be taken as a statement against having and enjoying material abundance, for God delights in our enjoying the gifts available to all in this world as He wishes to shower each one of us with a multitude of blessings, spiritual and material. He has provided a Way for this to manifest while we are on Earth. Jesus told us this Way: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto thee.”

Excerpt from: Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente
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