Your message was beautiful and I believe that if you wish kindness you give
kindness, and so on but when you are face to face with a rattle snake, there
is no kindness that will keep it from striking.  And striking again.

Melba
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From: "Stacey L. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:27 AM
Subject: An Inspiring Message From Neale Donale Walsch


> Neale Donald Walsch is the author of Conversation with God and whether or
> not you are a fan of his, this is an inspiring message:
>
> Statement - September 11, 2001 - 12 noon pst
>
> >
> > Dear friends around the world.
> > The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily
> > lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger
> > questions of life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but
> the
> > purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have created
> > it-and we look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate ourselves
> anew
> > as a human species, so that we will never treat each other this way
again.
> >
> > The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most
> > extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.
> >
> > There are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first
> comes
> > from love, the second from fear. If we come from fear we may panic and
do
> > things-as individuals and as nations-that could only cause further
damage.
> >
> > If we come from love we will find refuge and strength, even as we
provide
> it
> > to others.
> >
> > A central teaching of Conversations with God is: What you wish to
> > experience, provide for another.
> >
> > Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in your own life,
and
> in
> > the world. Then see if there is another for whom you may be the source
of
> > that.
> >
> > If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
> >
> > If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they
are
> > safe.
> >
> > If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help
> > another to better understand.
> >
> > If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness
or
> > anger of another.
> >
> > Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for
> guidance,
> > for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for
assurance
> at
> > this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.
> >
> > This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching. What
> you
> > teach at this time, through your every word and action right now, will
> > remain as indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those whose lives
> you
> > touch, both now, and for years to come.
> >
> > We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour. In this
moment.
> >
> > There is much we can do, but there is one thing we cannot do. We cannot
> > continue to co-create our lives together on this planet as we have in
the
> > past. We cannot, except at our peril, ignore the events of this day, or
> > their implications.
> >
> > It is tempting at times like this to give in to rage. Anger is fear
> > announced, and rage is anger that is repressed, and then, when it is
> > released, that is often misdirected. Right now, anger is not
> inappropriate.
> > It is, in fact, natural-and can be a blessing. If we use our anger about
> > this day not to pinpoint where the blame falls, but where the cause
lies,
> we
> > can lead the way to healing.
> >
> > Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause.
> >
> > Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will
> > never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead, we will
> > forever live in fear of retribution from those within the human family
who
> > feel aggrieved, and, likewise, seek retribution from them.
> >
> > So at this time it is important for us to direct our anger toward the
> cause
> > of our present experience. And that is not necessarily individuals or
> groups
> > who have attacked others, but, rather, the reasons they have done so.
> Unless
> > we look at these reasons, we will never be able to eliminate these
> attacks.
> >
> > To me the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic human
> > lessons. We have not remembered the most basic human truths. We have not
> > understood the most basic spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not been
> > listening to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves do ungodly
> > things.
> >
> > The message of Conversations with God is clear: we are all one. That is
a
> > message the human race has largely ignored. Our separation mentality has
> > underscored all of our human creations.
> >
> > Our religions, our political structures, our economic systems, our
> > educational institutions, and our whole approach to life have been based
> on
> > the idea that we are separate from each other. This has caused us to
> inflict
> > all manner of injury, one upon the other. And this injury causes other
> > injury, for like begets like and negativity only breeds negativity.
> >
> > It is as easy to understand as that. And so now let us pray that all of
us
> > in this human family will find the courage and the strength to turn
inward
> > and to ask a simple, soaring question: what would love do now?
> >
> > If we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to understand
> why
> > they have done so, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet
> > negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what
then
> > will be the outcome?
> >
> > These are the questions that are placed before the human race today.
They
> > are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years.
> Failure
> > to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at all.
> >
> > We should make no mistake about this. The human race has the power to
> > annihilate itself. We can end life as we know it on this planet in one
> > afternoon.
> >
> > This is the first time in human history that we have been able to say
> this.
> > And so now we must direct our attention to the questions that such power
> > places before us. And we must answer these questions from a spiritual
> > perspective, not a political perspective, and not an economic
perspective.
> >
> > We must have our own conversation with God, for only the grandest wisdom
> and
> > the grandest truth can address the greatest problems, and we are now
> facing
> > the greatest problems and the greatest challenges in the history of our
> > species.
> >
> > It is not as if we have not seen this coming. Every spiritual,
political,
> > and philosophical writer of the past 50 years has predicted it. So long
as
> > we continue to treat each other as we have done on this planet, the
> > circumstance that we face on this day will continue to present itself.
The
> > difference is that now our technology makes our anger much more
dangerous.
> >
> > In the early days of our civilization, we were able to inflict hurt upon
> > each other using sticks and rocks and primitive weapons. Then, as our
> > technology grew, it became possible for clans to war against clans and,
> > ultimately, for nations to war against nations.
> >
> > But even then, until most recent times, it was not possible for us to
> > annihilate each other completely. We could destroy a village, or a town,
> or
> > a major city, or even an entire nation, but only now is it possible for
us
> > to destroy our whole world so fast that nothing can stop it once the
> process
> > has begun.
> >
> > That is what makes this point in our history different from any other.
And
> > that is what makes this call for each of us to have our own conversation
> > with God so appropriate and so important.
> >
> > If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be
> experienced
> > by our children and our children's children, we will have to become
> > spiritual activists right here, right now, and cause that to happen. We
> must
> > choose to be at cause in the matter.
> >
> > So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice, for
> > insight and for strength and for inner peace and for deep wisdom. Ask
God
> on
> > this day to show us how to show up in the world in a way that will cause
> the
> > world itself to change.
> >
> > That is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today.
> > Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the
> beauty
> > and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred-and
the
> > disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of the world which I
> > touch?
> >
> > Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence
that
> is
> > You.
> >
> > I love you, and I send you my deepest thoughts of peace.
> > Neale Donald Walsch
>
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