Well that was a trip; it's been months since I logged in because,

I forgot my password

not that I think anyone out there is hanging by a thread to hear my words of wisdom or anything.

Frankly I use all blogs as a place to process as I go.

If like-minded people stumble along the path, all the better.

I like sharing the process.

Anywho, back to MIRACLES...

Months have passed and I'm of a new philosophy:

ANYTHING THAT WORKS FOR THE GOOD IS GOOD.

ANYTHING.

Doesn't have to be just 'Christianity' cuz,

good is good.

(DO I HEAR AN AMEN?)

just kidding.

At the end of the day, I'm for WHATEVER WORKS FOR THE GOOD

and trust me, I've taken a bit of condemnation for that

from my "Christian community" who believe there is only one

"right way" (their way) you know how that goes;

BUT I have decided to free myself from all condemnation and bondages

in my pursuit of trying to manifest GOOD WORKS.

SO that's where I'm at... since my last blog in.

I've been blogging on other sites working through it all until remembering my password here...

so I wanted to update the progress/process

and if I may say:

and this may appear to contradict what I previously blogged but,

we all change as we grow...

LOVE is LOVE whatever form or label it takes.

MIRACLES ARE MIRACLES whether they are new age or religious.

I'm still all for miracles, don't get me wrong,

IT IS MY HEART'S DESIRE

but I will pursue any pathway that results in being effective for the good.  And I no longer care what anyone thinks about that.

I basically got kicked out of one Christian fellowship recently,

when I told them I would pursue these good works,

in whatever form or avenue I could find them

BLASPHEMY they felt.

Hmmmm.

The parable of the Good Samaritan comes to mind.

It was supposedly said by Jesus.

Therein it goes:

(paraphrased)

there was a dude beaten to a pulp and left for dead in a ditch.

Along came a
PRIEST

who basically stepped over the dude rather than help him,

and crossed to the other side of the road.

A LEVITE (priestly class temple attender) also came along;

and likewise,

crossed to the other side of the road

either pretending not to see,

unmoved by compassion,

or not wanting to be bothered.

then along comes a low-life half-breed samaritan,

cousins of the jews,

but looked down upon by the jews of that day as, well,

lowly half breeds.

Spit upon etc.

Despised.

BUT... the Samaritan...

he kneels down by the side of the man,

bandages his wounds with what oil and wine etc. he may be carrying,

puts the unconscious man on his donkey,

walks the donkey to an inn,

pays the man's keep at the inn,

and goes along his way saying, he must attend his business but,

will stop in on the way back to see if there is any additional bill

for the man's care; and will pay it.

So.. Jesus concludes the parable by asking,

at the end of the day,

WHO REALLY WAS THE MAN'S GOOD NEIGHBOR???

Who really did demonstrate good?

Not the Priest,

even though it was his paid appointed job to do so...

not even the levite...

whose keep was paid by tithe and who was also considered high and holy;

but the despised half breed samaritan,

hence the phrase that exists today:

GOOD SAMARITAN,

THIS one, demonstrated love.

Whatever works for the good, is good.

THAT man also would have been, and was, condemned by his religious contemporaries.

I'm being condemned by mine,

for searching for alternate modalities of healing,

miracles, etc. in "NEW AGE" such as Louise Hay,

positive affirmations,

visualizations,

meditation etc.

"IT's ALL OF THE DEVIL" they say.

But in all seriousness,

how can anything that helps and heals people,

and teaches them love and even self care and self love,

be evil?

Bottom line: "THEY" can keep their condemnation.

My life purpose is to be a healer.

I have always been a healer of some form,

teacher, counselor... medical office worker,

nursing home worker,

12 step sponsor/program member,

etc. etc. etc.

It's who I am, what I'm called to do and,

I will take whatever I can get for the good,

wherever I can get it,

even from a Samaritan.

Enough said about that.

Last thought for today:

Yesterday I had lunch with a "Sufi" (sect of Islam, a Muslim)

I wanted to learn more about the mystical aspects of Sufi.

I will sit with Wiccans, Witches, Magicians, whomever,

to learn. I am willing to sit at the feet of any guru or if necessary,

sit on the hill and become a guru.

I want the gold.

So...

The Sufi gentleman made an observation when I complained to him,

I'm FRUSTRATED, I can't seem to find the secrets to miracles

fast enough... I want to be effective NOW!!!

The gentleman says to me:

(again paraphrased)

"My dear...

every time you sat with someone in crisis,

the distressed people, the drug-addicted people,

the suicidal people... the battered women,

the elderly, the sick, the mentally ill...

every time you sat with them and gave them your time,

your unconditional love, your positive regard;

honored them with  your caring presence:

you healed them.

Try to understand, the principle of reverberation.

You made a dent in one life...

and that person... went on to effect many others with an upward spiral for the good.  The life skills you taught..they also impacted the people with healing and miracles...

because where you saved even one person,

you saved a generation.

And where you save a generation,

you save life."

At first I objected: yes sure I have been doing all those things from childhood on... but in the hierarchy of my mind I thought I needed to grow... I had done the hospitality, the nursing, the nose wiping,

the sitting through the problems and the processings of the griefs,

but I wanted to CUT TO THE CHASE and quicken all that,

with outright MIRACLES

let's just get on to the miracles!!!

The gentleman made me realize all along,

I have been a healer...

every person I have met along the pathway...

I have tried to validate and help and leave with resources and hope.

I will never know the number because, I didn't count.

It's just part of who I am and what I am here to 'do.'

I am not bragging...

it's a simple fact of my purpose... everyone has a gift,

a talent, a purpose...

and the Sufi also reminded me,

as Wayne Dyer teaches also,

that being of service to our fellow man

to humanity...

in some capacity...

(and EVERYONE big or small has that capacity) is part of

our purpose of life, because when we help or save others,

we help and save ourselves,

because we are all one.

Suddenly I realized he was right.

I was practicing some form of healing all along.

And just maybe here or there was a break through splash of a miracle

a suicide prevented, and that person going on to impact many for the good.

That person might be the person to invent the cure for cancer.

AND SO IT GOES FORWARD spiraling up for the good,

paying it forward if you will.

Who knows, one of those people may one day save even me.

All healers are wounded healers,

especially in their angst to want to heal MORE, NOW, as many and as quickly and painlessly as possible,

consumed constantly by the awareness of suffering,

and longing to be more effective.

I realize I may not be as effective as I would like to be,

or at the level I would like to be at;

but I was, and still am,

a healer and even a little miracle worker,

every day.

And that's a good thing.

Beth

"God said: let there be light. And there was light."

Man is made in God's image and likeness.

If HE who framed the world by faith

spoke it into existance,

and we also are made in his image,

does it not follow that we also

have the power

to speak forth things by faith?

The Word says

"We call forth the things that are not,

as if they are; by faith"

and,

"We walk by faith, not by sight"

However...

"Faith is substance and evidence;

substance of things hoped for, and evidence of things unseen."

Consider the vocal cords.

The air from the lungs pushes past the vocal folds,

and they vibrate...

these vibrations can of course be heard and recorded,

but also seen on voice graphs.

They exist!

Few people would dispute this fact.

So I say..

Did you not just manifest, into the physical realm,

the ideas from your head,

into the physcial plane of existance

by the movement of your life force breath

vibrating your vocal folds,

in a way which can be physically seen and recorded?

Congratulations!

You have brought forth an idea from your mind

and manifested it into the physical plane of 'reality'

and THIS is the first step

toward manifesting your heart's desires

into your "physical plane" realm.

You can also manifest into the physical by other means;

playing an instrument, drawing or painting a picture,

or even writing a list of affirmations

all nice and 'tangible.'

You (and I) have just begun

the first step toward

speaking forth the light.

It is written in the Bible,

Jesus spoke to the wind and the waves to calm the storm.

He spoke to the fig tree to curse it and it withered.

He spoke to Peter's mother-in-law's fever and rebuked it,

and the sickness immediately left her and she got up and cooked.

Jesus said,

you too... any whosoever who will...

can speak to a mountain

and command it to move from here to there

and will have the things he SAYS

if he doubts not in his heart.

He said it again regarding a Mulberry tree.

"Most assuredly I tell you,

who so ever shall say to this mulberry tree,

be thou uprooted,

and cast and planted into the sea,

and doubts not in his heart,

will have the things he says.

Therefore,

what so ever things YE desire,

when ye pray...

believe ye receive it

and ye shall have it."

For a while the focus of this blog will be to combine

these universal principles

so that the spirit of the man who cares to

can manifest into his physical realm

all that he desires in his heart

by 'faith.'

My last word for today will be,

don't worry about 'faith'

for though faith cometh by hearing the word,

the word says he have already been given

(yea unto each man)

a measure of faith,

and that it only takes a mustard seed size

to move a mountain

if you are willing.

More on faith tomorrow.

For today; why not practice opening up your mouth

and speaking forth your hearts desires

in words of blessing

and simply believing for now

if nothing more,

that you have already begun a scientifically tangible thing

by manifesting your ideas into the physical realm

through your vocal cords.

Tomorrow we shall blog on further,

about having the child-like imagination untainted by doubts

set in from 'knowledge' according to man

to accomplish the things that are possible

to anyone who believes.

"All things are possible to him who believes"

God bless you all...

Beth.

On this, the first day of my first blog experience, I contemplate the vision.  I think of the "salon" of Paris where great artists and thinkers gathered and hope this little e-corner of our expanded global community will be a place for creative and innovative people to gather in spirit and share their musings.  I believe it will be a forging place for me personally to work on heightening the awareness of my own aspirations.  I want to get more connected, more effective, more proliferate; whoever it is I am, whatever it is I am here to learn, create or accomplish -- today I challenge myself to begin to consciously co-create my divine purpose.  It is said we are always manifesting something.... so why not consciously work toward manifesting what we want?  Much of this blog, at least from my contribution... will be about manifesting from the heart's desires, the seat of the soul, into idea, into word, and speaking forth word with affirmation, visualization and meditation until word becomes manifested into life... whatever it is we want to consciously co-create our existance to be.  I believe these are universal principles as science has now discovered that our brains (which govern all the rest of our bodies -- every cell, organ, system, and function) don't know the difference between something well-imagined in detail... versus something 'real.'  Hence our bodies perceive as real whatever data we immerse ourselves in or choose to program -- and respond accordingly.  I find it interesting that science and technology are just now catching up to things written thousands of years ago such as: "As a man thinketh.. as he believeth.. so he becometh."  "you will have the things you say." "For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."  "There is power of life and death in the tongue; therefore, speak life."  Whatever spiritual path you walk, I invite you to take what you like, and leave the rest... but I assure you there is validity and blessing in heeding some of the golden rules of life such as loving neighbor as self, forgiving... meditating on good things... for they either bless your body and hence your life or tear it down accordingly.  The wisdom of these teachings were designed for our benefit. Example. "Let not the sun set on you in a provoked state. Have your anger, but sin (wrath) not in it. Be peaceable among all men as much as is possible. If you have something against your brother... go to your brother and try to settle the case. If he won't listen, take along 2 or 3 others and try to reason it out."  All this mediation stuff is about feeling the feelings, processing it out and letting it go so you don't reap the bad stuff due to resentments like physical ailments (While, by the way, the guy who pissed you off has since gone down his merry path humming a tune while you toss and turn sleepless nights with headaches and ulcers... he dumped it, you're carrying it and in the end you pay the price of your own anger/hatred/resentment/unforgiveness while your 'enemy' has no reprecussions.. but, more of that to come later.  In the mean time I will leave for whosoever will join me in contemplating it: the power of words...thoughts.. and even atmosphic variables such as music scientifically documented by Dr. Emoto of Japan in his laboratory experiments of speaking to WATER... and having it literally change molecular structure as as result of content of words and even intent! Dr. Emoto used music and written lables also with the water... then froze the samples...and the crystaline forms of happy healthy words produced beautiful intricate snowflake-like patterns whereas the ugly words of hate and curse produced evil packman or microphage demonic looking creatures. (for more information do a net search using key words Dr.Emoto/Japan/water or rent the recently-released-on-dvd "What the Bleep?" at your video store.) If our bodies are primariliy made of water... what should that tell us of the power of thought/words/environmental variables such as music selection.... on our mental, emotional and physical health?  More thoughts on manifesting thoughts, creative projects and ideas, heart's desires, etc. into "reality" on tomorrow's blog.  Hope I meet up with some fellow 'whosoevers' out there who want to contemplate ground breaking (mountain moving?) miracle making topics with me on here... but I have enough noise in my head to fill a few blogs on here until somebody shows up :D