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Deities

There are many discussions about deities.

We even have discussions about non-existence of deities. In effect, looking closer, Atheism, is simply another religion. Where the existence of a God, Allah, Jehovah, Great Spirit, or the like is at the center of religious beliefs and the tenets of religions, a non-existence of God is at the center of the tenets of Atheism. Atheism has just as much of a following as any other spiritually-themed belief system. The beliefs people have when adhering to all these beliefs systems simply are different and fit to the people who adhere – these people who are different.

Who among us has all knowledge and understanding of all that exists in the known existence we call this Universe and the World Beyond? No one, of course. Therefore, it is our beliefs which we use to motivate us with how we live our lives.

This means that every other way of thinking can be pseudo-religions in their own way: Philosophy, Government, Science, Psychology, Younameit, Wenameit, Theynameit, etc.

All of these belief systems are based on information which we decide is acceptable evidence for us to build our personal belief systems on, and based on any idea which comes our way which we decide to latch on to.

Many say that Religions have been the cause of so many, if not all, of our wars. Does the person who believes this way, then believe that humanity/homo sapiens did not have conflict before religion came into being? or there would be no conflict after religion hypothetically would disappear? Does the person who believes this way, then believe there was no violence before religion came into being? And there would be no violence after religion disappeared?

We know through eons of study that the struggle for resources to stay physically alive required killing and eating other species. This started with single-celled organisms, grew into simple multi-cellular organisms, into plants water-based life forms, dinosaurs, animals, fish, of all shapes and sizes, etc. All through this living kingdom, life forms kill and eat other life forms – conflict and violence – even if it’s just eating plants. Today, we call this process many things, including “War” – to gain something which the other has, or to prevent someone from taking what we have – resources – like water, food, land, air, space, identity, freedom, and on and on.

As you read this, you have a certain set of beliefs. These beliefs you have now, are NOT the beliefs you had at 6 years old. They are not the beliefs you had at 16, 26, 36, 46, on and on. Each year our beliefs are different even though we don’t realize it. We take in more information and label it truth, and add it to our beliefs. Sometimes we find it very easy to add information to our beliefs – especially if we leaned in that direction already.

On the other hand, we find it very difficult to let go of our beliefs. It can be very traumatizing to become aware that a belief we had, turns out to be incorrect. We had to let go of some of our 6-year-old beliefs, and some of our 16-year-old beliefs and 26, 36, 46, and on and on. But being unconscious of this process helped us to accept the changes of mind we were making. Yet, the older we get, the more we’re aware of the difficulty of letting go of beliefs, because we’re more aware of our beliefs and more aware of our desire to think of ourselves as having finally grabbed hold of truth in beliefs. Put another way, we’ve changed our minds about so many of our beliefs so many times that we want to feel like we’ve finally gotten Truth, and can stop learning.

If we think we’ve never changed our beliefs, we’ve stopped being aware of our path of learning. Pity the person who never changes their mind or never changes their beliefs.

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Blessed are those who are willing to open their mind when new learning presents itself.

Regardless of whether we understand new learning or not, it is always worth exploring the ramifications and the possibilities of how something might be worth considering, how does it fit into our current beliefs, does it make sense and could there be more yet to try to understand about it.

They asked Jesus what was the most important of the 10 Commandments. For His answer, He did not give one of the ten commandments. He gave them a new thought/belief to consider – “To Love God above all else, and to Love your neighbor as yourself.” They were challenged to let go of one belief and learn a new one. And many of them saw how it was worth considering, how it fit into their own beliefs, how it made sense, and that it could hold more learning for them yet to understand.

Pray for wisdom.
Pray to be taught the truth.
Pray for all life.

In our world, now, those who pray for these with their heart open, and their mind open, will receive. Many are being misled, and they cannot be helped, until they want to be taught the truth. Right now, many don’t want to be taught the truth, and therefore, continue to choose that which misleads. Hence, why many don’t pray to be taught the truth.

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Regardless of what anyone fears, and regardless of the challenges, difficulties, troubles, or problems which we will run into and go through, there is also good news, good help, good vibes and the like. This time had been prophesied about. We will also be going through a slow coming out of the sleep and darkness of this 12-year period. The darkest of this energy is ending during the date range from the last week in January to mid-February. We come out of the darkest (2024) energy but not all of the dark energy wholly. It is like climbing out of a hole in the ground or coming out of a cave. We see the exit of the cave long before we reach the exit.

The Jan/Feb 2025 end date is NOT related to what is happening in US politics in the way many people want to think it is. The only metaphor I have to offer at this moment for the entire many years and many events, is we’re still cleaning out our closet. But, I’m not speaking of politics here – even though many choose to believe this. I’ll add – for us to clean out our closet, we must first look into the closet and see what exists in the closet. We must bring it forth, so it can be in the Light and we can see it clearly. This has been the purpose of this 12-year time period. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, and the 13th year is 2030. This time period is not determined by the calendar months and years. In 2030, the sun will be up.

“Come unto ME, and I will come unto you.” The Infinite Consciousness of the One God of Infinite Love.

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Truths on Truth

All Truth comes from God.

God gives Truth to those who seek it and consciously want it.

Those of us who want Truth, seek it out.

Truth can come through many channels, but the source is always from God.

A good prayer for Truth is “Lord, please, teach me/us the Truth.”

Truth is found by those who seek Truth.

Many times, we choose to seek Truth, and therefore find Truth.

Many times, we want our beliefs to be Truth.

Many times, we will only accept our own beliefs as Truth.

God does convey messages that some beliefs we hold are NOT Truth. Some of us accept the messages, some of us don’t. AND Sometimes we accept the messages and sometimes we don’t.

When we seek Truth, we are called to learn to let go of our beliefs which are not Truth.

Letting go – of believing some false beliefs – is not always a peaceful experience.

It can be painful to learn some of our beliefs are false.

When we do not want the Truth, we do not seek the truth, and therefore do not believe or recognize the Truth which we hear it.

God does not force us to seek the Truth.

God does not force us to believe the Truth.

“He stands at the door and knocks” and respects both if the door is opened to the Truth or is locked up solid against the Truth.

God does not take away any soul’s freewill to choose.

God’s ear is always listening for those of us who say in our hearts that, “I want the Truth”, but it’s always us who decides if we accept it and keep it once Truth is presented to us.

God gives the Truth abundantly and without hesitation to those of us who seek and want the Truth.

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Everything We See

More often than not, we don’t recognize God when God is present. We don’t know what to look for. We don’t know when to look. We don’t know how to recognize God. This is because we just don’t know that much about God. We can read that God is Infinite, or God is everywhere, or God is everything, but we just don’t see how this can be, and so we don’t see God. Jesus said, “Many will see and then believe, but blessed are they who don’t see, yet still believe.” The Edgar Cayce readings say that “Faith is the belief in things unseen.” It is also believing in things not understood in our minds and paradigms.

If we just don’t yet see God, then perhaps all we can try for is to believe that everything we see is God. We don’t yet have to understand it, but we can still believe it. After all, there are many things we don’t understand, but we still believe them. And there are many things that we see.

Everything we see is God. Now, that’s quite a thought, and quite a belief. Everything we see is God. Take a look around. Everything we see is God. There’s something about this belief that feels good. Everything we see is God. Keep your eyes open for now. Everything we see …

… is God.

Try it and see.

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Trust and Beliefs

“We can learn to trust others when they are being trustworthy, and learn to not trust them when they are not being trustworthy, but we need to learn when to trust ourselves in order to learn to tell the difference.” (The Rainbow Cards)

It is easy to be misled. We want to believe certain things. Sometimes, we want so badly to believe that we allow ourselves to be misled.

However, problems can arise from this in several ways. First problem is when we want to hold on to our beliefs so badly, that we act destructively towards others who we may see as challenging our beliefs. The second is when we then go on to help mislead others.

Everyone alive has different beliefs from everyone else alive.  Maybe not drastically or noticeably different beliefs, but somewhere in there, there are differences.  There is no avenue to dislodge someone else from their beliefs other than presenting different perspectives and different beliefs. This is because freewill is given to every soul, and will not be taken away from any soul.

We can be misled when we don’t have strong beliefs, and we can mislead others knowingly and unknowingly. We can also mislead ourselves. Every person has the freewill to choose what they will believe and hold to.  At the same time, we tend to think it’s the other person who has been misled and we are the ones with beliefs that are true.

Contrary to what one may think, one method of helping to not be misled by our self or by others is to keep an open and ever inquiring mind. It is a paradox, sometimes.  This is not an act of accepting everything we see and hear, but rather, working to understand in a deeper way that which could be new to us. This includes asking questions, asking more questions and then asking even more questions.

We are forever putting together an ever bigger paradigm of ourselves and the world in which we live.  The greater the paradigm of understanding, the stronger the foundation of that paradigm.

The act of knowing truth is a subjective act. It is not an experience that one person can give to another person. It is only an experience that we can own because of it coming from within our own heart, mind and soul. It may seem like “someone said something that rang true”, but had it not been within one’s own heart and soul first, it would not have “rung” at all.

With the great number of differing beliefs – about every facet of life – this then, is why I continue to mention, “It is not what we believe, but what we do with our beliefs, that is important.”  In other words, how do we motivate ourselves and others using our beliefs as the foundation?

It then behooves us to consider what then we  choose to believe – about ourselves, about others and about God.  We can choose to believe the very worst.  We can also choose to believe the very best.  Probably somewhere in between is what is actually true when we choose beliefs about individual people.  As Edgar Cayce said in one of his readings, “There is good in the worst of us, and there is bad in the best of us.”  Seeing life as one or the other, but not both – good or bad, white or black, left or right, right or wrong and not seeing the blending of the two within every person – good and bad together in one person – white and black together in one person – left and right together in one person – right and wrong together in one person – is the belief where we mislead ourselves the most.

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“What is to be asked of ourselves is, do we want our beliefs or do we want the truth?  Holding onto just the first can sometimes prevent the second.  Allowing for more than just the first, can help discover the second.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2018, Jodie Senkyrik)

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To Believe or Not to Believe

We are at a time in our world, with technology, politics, social media and “everything else going on in the world”, where we sometimes don’t know what’s true or what isn’t. Very “loud” conflicts are happening with people on each side claiming the people on the other side are disseminating fake news. The “noise” level is so loud, that it can be very easy to not know what to believe or who to believe.

Now, in a “seeming” change of topic, at last count, there are more than 7.3 billion people on this planet. Of these 7,300,000,000 people, there are no two who are exactly alike. Because we’re different, because we’ve experienced different things in life – all through our life, we, therefore, have experienced different experiences, met different role models, mentors and teachers, felt different feelings, and thought different thoughts about and through all our lives. I mention this, because there are no two people who believe 100% exactly the same in all things of life. So, therefore, all 7.3 billion of us believe different things to be either true or false.

We may not know what is true, but so what. Our own dogged search for the truth via our seeking it from God can be chosen or not chosen per our own freewill.  7.3 billion people believe different things are true. Throughout all of mankind’s history, this has never been the actual source of the problem – beliefs being different. Having different beliefs has always been the way life is, anyway. It’s not a problem, because it’s not the cause of problems. Believing different things are true, is not a problem.

The problem is with how we relate to our beliefs, and therefore, motivate our own actions. In other words, what do we do with our beliefs? What actions do we take regarding our beliefs?

This is where problems arise. With different beliefs, do we choose to bring forth cooperation with others or do we choose to create conflict with others? Do we use our beliefs about what is true or not true to feel an underlying compassion for others or instead an underlying condemning of others? Do we use our beliefs to bring pain and suffering into people’s lives, or do we use our beliefs to motivate us to offer mercy, understanding and tolerance?

The issue is not what we believe, but what we do with our beliefs. Our actions and behaviors – how we relate and respond to others – determines how we walk in this world. It’s possible to believe exactly opposite than someone else, but with both people choosing for themselves to be kind, tolerant and compassionate, there will come to be peace and respect among them. We know people in our lives now, who believe differently than we do, but because they choose to show kindness, respect and patience, we enjoy their company. And there are people in our lives who we may believe so very similar, but yet they choose their behaviors towards others in such a way that we can’t wait to leave the room when they’re in it.

How do we use our beliefs? To help build separation and animosity, or to help build mercy and unity? We can profess to have the highest of beliefs, and even believe that “we know the truth”, but our behaviors and actions will speak more truth than our mind will hold or our mouth will speak. Our behaviors can become so loud, that no one can hear what we profess, anymore.

Actions speak louder than words, and our actions that we demonstrate – loving kindness or condemning judgment – are what shows how we relate to this world full of people. It is truly possible that billions of people can live in peace… and even with different beliefs.

Still, you may believe differently than this, …

and God bless you for it.

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“We have eternity to work this out.” Jesus Christ

“Everything broken can be fixed. Every mess can be cleaned up.  Everything separated can be rejoined.” Jesus Christ

“With God, all things are possible.” Jesus Christ

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Freewill and Judgement Question

I wonder how you define freewill, I’m a bit theologically curious. I don’t think God is as non judgmental as you seem to [think], and I think you are giving him a get out of jail free card on some things. And my bias is Christian…  V.

Thanks for the comment and question. (Here’s my answer.  I’m sure others would have other answers.)

More important than my understanding of freewill and more important than our differences in our beliefs is the question, “What do we do with our beliefs?”

The world will never have “Peace on Earth, and Goodwill towards all men” if we think we all must believe the same way, because that’s not going to happen.  But, if we look at the question of what do we do with our beliefs, or to what use do we put our beliefs, or how do our own beliefs serve us?, then as we answer this or these questions, our answers will determine how we treat and relate to God, ourselves, and each other.

If we use our beliefs to strengthen our kindness, our compassion, our understanding, mercy and forgiveness, our support, our encouragement, our willingness to hold the hand of those who need a helping hand, then we will find that the world does indeed gain more “Peace on Earth and Goodwill towards all men.”

But, if we use our beliefs to condemn, to criticize, to judge, or to carry out our own vengeance, or our own bitterness, resentment, or hatred, then we will not achieve that which Christ has come to establish.  We can use our beliefs to bury people in guilt and shame.  We can use our beliefs to symbolically stone people to death, until they despair and lose all sense of hope for themselves.  We can use our beliefs to chain and imprison people in blame.   We can use our beliefs in any number of ways to bury people under the weight of the entire world, if we want to choose that.

Regardless of what God chooses to do, to judge or not judge, we can choose, within our own hearts and minds, the beliefs, acts, thoughts and feelings which we want to follow and become who we choose to be.  This is how I define freewill – making a choice on our/my own actions, our/my own feelings, our/my own thoughts, and our/my own beliefs, and then following through with them.

This may seem to some people to contradict the fact that we live on a planet that has a system of justice and imprisonment.  This is a reality on our planet, but each of us still has the choice within us as to whether we condemn another or hate another within our own heart.  Even those that commit crimes, that go through our criminal system, and that are imprisoned – these men and women are loved by someone, and most certainly by Christ,  in addition to being the recipients of Infinite Love from our Infinite God, who also offers Infinite Forgiveness, Infinite Understanding, Infinite Mercy to you, me and everyone else.

This means that everyone, no matter what we, of our own freewill have chosen to act out, or think, or believe, — everyone is already worthy enough to be loved — with no exceptions — and no one can stop this love going to another person.  We can only stop what comes to ourselves.

When we realize this is for all of us, and let the Infinite Expressions of God come forth for all of us, then we have (to use the common phrase) “accepted the keys to the kingdom” – the keys to that existence where Infinite Forgiveness, Infinite Mercy, Infinite Understanding, Infinite Patience, Infinite Compassion and Infinite Love all exist and are ours both within and without.

But, wait, there’s more.  (Sorry, it was too tempting to write that sentence.)  We don’t have to wait until we die to accept this, because of our own freewill, we can choose – within our hearts and minds today to act, to think, to relate, to treat others from that place within us where God lives and where we can draw upon Infinite Mercy, Infinite Patience, Infinite Forgiveness, Infinite Understanding and Infinite Love when dealing with each other.  This is called, “creating a Heaven on Earth.”

God has given us freewill to make our own choices.  These choices of actions, feelings, emotions, thoughts, beliefs and more, – we make these choices every minute of every day.  As humans, we are a mixed bag of all of these, including being judgmental and condemning at times.  With that, it’s not unheard of our wanting God to follow our lead and be like we are, judging who and what we judge, rather than us follow Christ’s lead – being patient, forgiving and merciful – letting go of judgement.

Thank you, again, for your comments and question.  This is how I answer, and I’m sure it is very different than many others’ answer.

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“None of us understands God, as much as God understands God.”  (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2014, Jodie Senkyrik)

“As we pray for others, so are we praying for ourselves.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2003-2015, Jodie Senkyrik)

“To successfully forgive, we must let go of the benefits we believe we get from NOT forgiving.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1999-2015, Jodie Senkyrik)

“Feeling peace is not experiencing God.  Helping someone else feel peace is experiencing God.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1999-2015, Jodie Senkyrik)