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Overcoming Life’s Challenges, with Jesus as the Pattern

[Background: Writer, Protestant background, spiritualist. This was a physical, mental, and spiritual reading in regard to challenges she was experiencing. She had complained of bitterness and struggles and terrible lessons she had experienced in her associations with others.]

Reading 954-5

Confusion is often caused, then, and is ever caused unless there is an ideal drawn or accepted by which all of these conditions, all of these experiences—whether physical, mental or spiritual—may be judged; or from which conclusions may be drawn.

Otherwise we are measuring ourselves by ourselves, and this becomes unwise. For it again leaves confusions as to what is another’s standard.

But know that as ye are body, mind and soul, some portion of this trinity evidently is a part of a universal consciousness; or is accustomed to being, or may be acquainted with being on speaking terms even with that which is a universal consciousness.

There then cannot be one measure for you and another for I, but rather is it of such a nature that it takes hold upon all that is, all that was, all that may ever be. For that consciousness is a part of same.

Who, then, is the author of that awareness, of that consciousness? That which is without thyself? or that which is a part of thyself, that is also a part of that universal consciousness?

Hence as has been given by Him, we may be—an individual entity may be—aware of and yet not a part of that harmony that is the birthright of all who oft commune with that universality of good—and right—and harmony!

Then whatever may be the form that partakes of those measures as to guide or direct one in these choices, ye know that it becomes and is thy deeper concept of that universal, that continuous hold upon consciousness itself.

Know that it may partake of or take on that image of the imp. For who hath not in some experience or some consciousness seen himself as such, with all the attributes of what the name itself implies!

And again, who hath not felt the pangs of disappointment, of discouragement, of that anxiety in which it seemeth so useless!

It is because the self has become enmeshed or entangled in the desires of the body, without full consideration of the mind and spirit that knows no end! and thus confuses the spiritual, the mental, the physical self.

Then the judgement, then the ideal, is that of the universal love, universal consciousness—that as was and is, and ever will be, manifest in Him, even the Christ—as was shown in the flesh in the man called Jesus!

Then when doubts and fears arise, when discouragements and disappointments come—yea, when joy of body or mind or soul is thine—ask thyself the question: “What would Jesus do?”

For if ye do that (and ye will, if you will choose), ye may have—ye do have His promise. And remember that there is nothing in heaven or hell, in body, in mind or in spirit that He hath not experienced. And He hath given, “I am thine—I stand at the door and knock.” Saith He, “Whosoever will, open thy heart within—I will abide, I will come in and abide; and as I and the Father are one, so may ye and I be one—that the father may be glorified in thee, in the manner in which ye deal with thy fellow man.”

Then, put Him not to shame by speaking, thinking or acting unkindly to thy fellow man. For “Inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye do it unto me,” saith He.

It is from that premise, then, my child, that we would give thee thy answer to thy problems, now!

Then take each of them to Him and talk with Jesus about same!

Ready for questions.

(Q) Please analyze my life path as it now appears and tell me where its most constructive work lies now. What progress is being made toward the order “Make thy paths straight”?

(A) This ye may better do than any source or channel that would analyze same for thee. For that which troubleth thee today, tomorrow may be as chaff in the wind—yea, may be as burning flax.

Rather as has been given of old: Use that thou hast in hand today, and tomorrow that as is necessary will be given thee.

For He will not fail thee! As He hath said, “Though the heavens and the earth may pass away, my word shall not pass away!”

Then as the kingdom is within, it is there—in the temple of thine own body, which is the temple of the living God—in which ye, thyself, must worship, must meet thyself and the problems of the moment. Then it is there, with Him whom ye would serve!

Whom then, this day, will ye serve? The Lord thy God, or thyself, or fame, or fortune, or any of the attributes of the material world? Knowest thou not that He knoweth what ye have need of before ye ask? But in the asking does the blessing come to thee, and in the asking and in the doing is the glory of the Lord shown to thee! . . .

(Q) Please give some thought or meditation as help to overcome results of the recent terrible crisis.

(A) Just as has been given:

O God! Not my will, not my purpose but thine!

Remember the prayer as He gave.

If possible let this cup pass from me, but not my will—thine O God be done in and through me! Here am I, Lord—use me! Though it break my body, though it purge my soul, use me and let me not abuse Thy promises but make them mine—day by day!

[Background: Writer, radio broadcaster, Protestant. This was a life reading in which Cayce counseled her on how to deal with present-day turmoil.]

Reading 1472-1

EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1472].

In giving the interpretations of these, we find these are those that may be helpful in the experience of the entity through the present sojourn.

These are beautiful in many of the experiences, yet the more turmoil may appear to be present in this present sojourn.

For the entity has come a long way, and oft grows weary with the burdens not only that become a part of self’s experience but that apparently are unburdened and yet burdened upon the entity, in its dealings with those about self.

Remember, though, that these are but that which is a part of the experience; for those whom He loveth, those He holdeth dear in their dealings with the fellow man.

For He hath indeed given His angels charge concerning thee, and He will bear thee up—if ye will faint not but hold to that purpose where-unto thou hast purposed in thy tabernacle in the present.

For know that His temple in thee is holy; and thy body-mind is indeed the temple of the living God . . .

Yet know in the awareness that ye will find more and more that the truth indeed sets one free. Not to convention, of the material policies or activities, but in spirit and in truth!

For God looks upon the purposes, the ideals of the heart, and not upon that which men call convention . . .

And in the present those abilities arise from its desire, from its hopes to put into the word of the day, the experience of the day, in all phases of human experience, lessons—yea, symbols, yea tenets—that will drive as it were home, in those periods when the soul takes thought and counsel with itself, as to whence the experiences of the day are leading—as to whether they are leading to those activities that are the fruits of the spirit of truth and life, or to those that make for selfishness, and the aggrandizement of material appetites without thought of those things that are creative and only make the pure growths within the experience of others.

Hence whether it be in jest, in stories, in song or poem, or whether in skits that may show the home life, the lover—yea, the weary traveler yea the high-minded, and they that think better of themselves then they ought to think—these abilities are there. Use them. For He, even as then, will bless thee with His presence in same. And what greater assurance can there be in the experience of any soul than to know that He—yea, the Son of Mary—yea, the Son of the Father, the Maker of heaven and earth, the Giver of all good gifts—will be thy right hand, yea thy heart, thy mind, thy eye, thy heart itself—if ye will hold fast to Him! . . .

(Q) Why do I get so little love, consideration and appreciation from those to whom I pour out the most service and devotion?

(A) Study that which has been given thee relative to such, and ye will see that it is patience ye must learn, that ye must add to those virtues that have made thee ever the burden bearer for the many throughout those periods when the awakenings were coming.

Faint not because of thy loneliness, for who can be alone with His love, His promises abiding with thee!

These may make for a blooming into activity in thy experience, and will, if ye will give expression more and more to those promises that are thy very own.

For He, as He hath promised, may bring to thy remembrance all things—from the foundations of the earth. Know the Lord is nigh; and that those who keep watch, who keep faith with