4-3. Your baseline emotional state functions as a barometer of your willingness to accept guidance from God. If you are resisting what is best, you will feel stagnation without knowing why.
Disjunctively pervasive impressions of ennui are prevalent within the minds of all of the Children of God who presume, to their most extreme detriment, that they are directed to accept their experiences of this world of form as being representative or demonstrative of the Truth of All That Is. And who could, if they were in their right minds, blame anyone at all who might find themselves feeling listless and directionless, if they were to genuinely embody a belief in separation so easily engendered and supported by all that this world represents? What trivialities and mundanities would they engage themselves within as artificial means of entertainment, so desperately seeking some measure of relief from the unending boredom and commonplace hopelessness that an obsession on and fixation with materiality will naturally arise in those who so choose to spend their time in this world in pursuit of all that is of form, when it has always been but the relief of release and acceptance that assuages all that ails them? All attempts to locate and acquire any mechanism of physicality to alleviate the existential lethargy that accompanies a belief that this world, as mystical and magical as it is indeed, with its great variety of forms of life and vast wilderness areas to explore, or that such entertainments must be designed as the sole and singular source of all interest for the vast multitudes of the Children of God who are now incarnate on this plane of existence, will at the end of all of their presentations fail utterly to contain a value that can be said to be either eternal or universal. What are we to conclude from their rambling and searching, other than to accept that what it is that they seek outwardly must be a reflection of a quest that travels only inwardly, but which is one that they are, as of yet, afraid to embark upon, or to their even greater detriment, that they believe they cannot even begin? Is that an error on their part that calls for condemnation, or for forgiveness and allowance? Indeed, what would an infinitely merciful and benevolent Creator make of such a circumstance, and how might such an Infinitude of Love respond to their requests? By, for and through allowance in endless measure are they given all of the space and time that they might require to search endlessly and fruitlessly for what it is that they already possess, so forgotten and relegated to some long lost corner of their minds that they believe that they have finally discarded it entirely. To forget is not to lose - this cannot possibly be over-emphasized. It is understandable, however, that it would be the presupposition and then directly accepted conclusion of so many that have forgotten God that they would look out upon a world of form and believe that it has ever been possessed of the ability to fulfill them, for there are a great many material accomplishments and possessions that can be acquired, seemingly able to substitute for the Peace of God, but it has always been the belief in their own value that has vaulted them into legendary status amongst the minds of those who so seek them out for acquisition, control and presentation to others as a means of justifying accomplishments that are, at the end, all irrelevant to the only journey that has any eternal and everlasting value. That which is sought out is so because it is believed to offer something that the seeker does not, as of yet, possess. Yet because the Love of God is ever-available in your heart, what it is that you are attempting to find within this world of form, all of which must be external to your own True Nature, will simply never suffice. Because the Truth of Love is already inscribed within the annals of your heart, awaiting but the glorious moment when you learn to read the Word of God again as it has been carried by you since the origin of the necessity for time, what is it that this world can teach you that you do not already know, no matter how forgotten it may appear to be? What possession, control, abdication of power by others now given unto you or direction of events and situations solely ascribed to your own influence is it that you seek outwardly, and what is it that you believe you do not already have that drives you as such? Answer these inquiries with absolute honesty and you will see that they are all directive and illustrative, but ultimately meaningless. For all that was quested for, believed to be valuable, sought out in the interests of the veneration of others or desired for acquisition as some representation of your own value are but the baubles of infantilism, presented to others with the wish to be lauded, when it has always been only your own beliefs about your innate and inalterable value that will allow you to genuinely rest. All that you find to be disruptive of your Peace that can be assigned anywhere within the context and ambit of emotional trials or tribulations are but the effects of attachment - never the solicitous Peace of God. When you struggle against the tides of infinite Love and Guidance that are forever sweeping against the shores of your personally-elected island of isolation, you will be slowly worn down, one little grain of misbegotten illusion at a time, until nothing but the bedrock of your most fervently cherished beliefs remain to stem the onslaught of Knowledge that seeks to dislodge you from your seemingly valuable island of separateness. These tides seem cruel indeed to those who believe that they have been renounced by God, for what that they are asked to give up is all that they have forever cherished - their material affectations, their seemingly well-earned social status and their respect, so readily granted by others in deflection to their apparent value, seen as being “greater” or more “important” than another Child of God, no matter the form in which they present themselves at this exact time. Separation and its besottedly beleaguered cousin specialness are cowards in the robes of royalty, for they seek to place you on a pedestal and to deterministically destine others as supplicants, deserving of their lesser status, for surely you are beloved of God in some manner that they cannot possible acquire. Such is the vast array of illusions employed by the ego solely in the interests of maintaining its own stranglehold over your mind, positing that it might be possible that the king and the pauper are somehow distinct in the Mind of God. They are not. All forms of distinction between the Children of God are so very cursory that they are not actually valuable in any way at all. In the same fashion, when you encounter emotional states that are disruptive, they should not be labeled as “bad” or “unwanted”, for all that occurs can be employed by God in the interests of Teaching you of the Peace of Love. However emotional states that are unpleasant are frequently experienced as such because they are out of alignment with the Will of God, a Will that decrees for all that they should Remember the Love of God, but not before the exact moment when they are fully willing and able to do so. When anguish arises, ask not why this is occurring to you, but rather what it might be that this experience is attempting to teach you, so that you can expand your natural responsiveness through acceptance and limit your ingrained and learned behavior of avoidance, for to shy away from uncomfortableness is but to refuse what it is that is being offered - namely, a lesson in how an alteration of your beliefs and perceptual framework can recast a tragedy as an opportunity to learn, just as much as it is a reason to mourn. The effects of endemic stagnation, which is only arrived at through the exacting application of denial, so often encountered and utilized as a method for blocking out pain that it becomes a rote response to all that is occurs that is automatically labeled as “difficult” and that then is immediately rejected and presumed to have no value at all, are manifest in a ever-deepening dissatisfaction with all of life, a disengagement with the flow of this world and the endless change that is a necessary component of the ever-expansive evolution of all that lives back to God and to Truth. Engage with this languishment no longer, for it performs no action save to exsanguinate you of your verve for life, leaving you a husk of a person, afflicted at every turn and wholly unwilling to accept that it might actually have always been but your perceptions of what has transpired that have determined all that you believed any event to actually be, and to genuinely mean. Look again with refreshed eyes, and you will see that underneath all that is uncomfortable there is a core of resistance to the endless alteration of life that you have elected, and that only you can set aside. Release it back into the ether of awareness from which you first encountered it, afterwards adopting it as your own, for it has served you not and what it gives is genuinely negative in every manner possible. All that is to be will be, but when it will arrive for you is wholly within your own control. Accept that your beliefs will determine all that you experience, and the ability to accept with transcend all of the meaningless limitations of the ego, freeing you to be present, without restrictions and fulfilled by God in the Highest, forever and ever, just as you were Created to be.