One of the good things about email is that people like to send their friends all sorts of little jokes, pictures, and videos of Barack Obama doing a keg stand in his pre-Kenyan days. It gets really interesting in the inner recesses of “Christian” circles. We often like to send little warm fuzzy letters about Jesus this or Jesus that to one another when we are getting along. Then one of us will quit getting along with the other and the next thing you know, ironically, we are no longer sending warm fuzzy Jesus letters to those whom we once got along with. Instead, we take them off the list of people that are copied on a message. In fact, we are pretty much acting like the rest of the world, yet consider ourselves to be “saved” and the only ones going to heaven a lot of times. I find it ironic that we can’t call ourselves more often. I guess it is hard to see one’s self – takes time.
Let me run through a phased example of this. Note how the persons emailed changes…
Phase 1 – Everyone Happy and Getting Along!
For example:
From: shohnwifefamilymember@cooldaddio.com
To: shohn@bigdog.com, shohnwife@shutupanddrive.com, shohnsisterinlaw@funnylittlefellas.com, otherfriend@notsocool.com
Subject: Jesus Loves you!!
Jesus loves you – send this to all your friends!!!!!
Phase 2 – Turn of Events – Life Disruption – Karmic “Test”
From: shohnwifefamilymember@cooldaddio.com
To: shohnwife@shutupanddrive.com, shohnsisterinlaw@funnylittlefellas.com, otherfriend@notsocool.com
Subject: Jesus loves you!!!
Jesus loves you – send this to all your friends!!!!!
Phase 3 – Turn of Events – Karmic Test “Passed” – Relationship Restoration
From: shohnwifefamilymember@cooldaddio.com
To: shohn@bigdog.com, shohnwife@shutupanddrive.com, shohnsisterinlaw@funnylittlefellas.com, otherfriend@notsocool.com
Subject: Jesus loves you!!!
Jesus loves you – send this to all your friends!!!!!
My mother in law and I had been at odds over the last 16 months or so. At some points, I felt like she thought I was the devil incarnate. We have had a long relationship and had been good friends over the years when my wife was apart from me after high school. During the worst stages of the divorce movement, I got pretty desperate and scared and did some things that I later regretted. I then observed my name being taken off the cool list as far as people being emailed to. I’d receive copies of messages through the email chain from time to time because we have mutual friends, but never would I be on the copy list – or as I call it – the cool people list.
One day, last summer, I received a message from my mother in law and I was once again on the cool people list. Sweet! I got so excited, but then analysis mode kicked in and I realized it was probably a typo and she sent it to me on accident. Dang.
Around October of 2008, we had a major victory and I was once again honored to be on the cool people list, but for real this time and have been ever since as far as I know. Yaay!
Now, here is where it gets interesting. You see, we have an effect on the people we encounter. Even when we are in our closet and no one can see – there are forces that are at work that impact us and others. The things we say when no one is looking still rub off on people. Call it instinct, call it spiritual, call it the flux capacitor, but it is true and is easy to verify for yourself – you don’t have to believe me – you can test this for yourself.
My mom and dad have been doing this cool people list stuff for years now. It broke my heart to see them both on my instant messenger list knowing full well that I could talk to both of them, but their hearts were too hardened to talk to each other – even after having babies together and sleeping in the same bed every night for more than a quarter of a century. I can see in their eyes that they still loved each other… yet… pride stood stronger.
My mom and dad thought I was nuts at first trying to stick it out for my wife. Eventually though, I started to notice changes in my mom. She started to pray for my dad instead. She started to speak good about him instead of the negativity. I saw her starting to change. She was able to “see” herself. To be honest and objective. Eventually, my mom let my dad know that she still loves him. He is cold to this over a couple months. I tell mom – just pray for him – and be nice when you see him – the reason he responds with cold shoulder is because he is hurting and we should always pray for those who are hurting and believe me mom – I know it is hard!
Today, my Dad finally put my Mom on the cool people list. He copied her on a message that was sent out in broadcast amongst friends and family. My mom told me about this this evening. I was so excited. This doesn’t mean they are getting back together. This doesn’t mean that my prayers of over 9 years are being answered, but what it does mean is that there is movement in the spiritual world. It could have been an accident, but the part of him that is up there in the heavenlies – living in the real world and not this dream world – copied her. Now you may think this is small and of no consequence, but you have to watch for these things as they occur – to see movements of the Spirit.
I think the above Spiritual movement came about by whatever I’m going through rubbing off on mom and dad coupled with some deep down love for each other. Movements of the Spirit. There was another major movement of the Spirit today.
I am apparently going to be allowed to be with my wife on her birthday. This doesn’t mean we are getting back together any time soon or ever in this life time, but it is a movement – a sudden and unexpected change in direction. This will be the first time we have been together in a non-court setting for over 16 months. There was a whole chain of events and karmic debt paying on my part that had to occur to bring this moment around. In many cases, I could sense that I was being tested – yet the test becomes harder each time so don’t think I’m trying to brag. I’m trying to educate you through my personal experiences and point to something bigger than me and behind me – back stage working the lights and making things happen, meanwhile I just happen to be an actor on the play attempting to learn how to move my arms without the assistance of the puppet masters above.
From what I have gathered, my wife and I (not strictly me – as in Shohn and her – but our souls – the higher part of us that lives not in this realm – it gets complicated and I have simplified for purposes of discussion) have probably done this mutually abusive thing several times over a course of lifetimes – locked into what I call a karmic loop. I have been given a great gift to be able to see these things and I don’t really know what I did to deserve it.
It gets more interesting though. There seem to be miniature karmic loops within this life time. You see, you can undo things upon yourself by helping others who suffer from a similar plight or who have the same problems. Your misery is your ministry.
Let me set this up first. You need background to understand how all of this ties together.
The traveling pastor …
I had met a friend, counselor, and spiritual mentor around this time last year. I had prayed for a “Christian” mentor around February 2008. After my prayers, I went outside to smoke a cigarette. Within 5 minutes of my prayer, I see some guy standing on a street corner waving a bible at cars passing by. I think to myself – I’ve got to meet this guy. Sheesh what courage. I ask him to pray for my wife and I. He then says the name… Yeshua. I turn and cock my head. At that time, I was into the sacred names movement quite a bit – Yeshua. Noone says this that I had met except on the Internet. Fascinating.
The kid…. I met the kid last year around this time as well. He was a devil worshiper at the time. He smoked crack a lot. He slept with anything that had teeth and a vagina. He needed help and didn’t know it. He now has a job. He is now taking care of business. He is now talking about college.
The kid bugs me sometimes. He has stolen from me. He has lied to me. Sometimes I got so upset that I wanted to hurt him. I noticed an interesting pattern though. He would go in phases – two steps forward – one back. He would make progress – then blow it all. Then I saw part of him that wanted to do the right thing start to emerge. At first, this part of him was very limited. Each of has different parts or personalities that move in and out depending upon the external stimuli. For the kid… his problem was drugs. He had the morals of a 5 year old. As long as something wouldn’t get him in trouble he was okay with it. As I studied him though, I noted that there were parts of him that were smart and then parts that had as much brain power as a box of rocks. I noticed that when he lifted weights – he literally became smarter. It brought out the part of him that could lead the rest of him into victory – like Moses leading the mass of grumbling Jews across the Red Sea. The kid stole from me. I informed him that he could no longer stay at my home unless he … lifted weights. It seemed like nonsense to him at first but he complied. Changes started to occur. I noticed that the grumbling Jews within him began to follow after the Moses within him though he was unaware of this happening.
As I studied him, I began to learn more about myself. I started to use similar concepts to work on the parts of me that need help. To begin to take my own thoughts and make them obedient to Christ as it is said in the scriptures. Bringing this all back full circle, what I noticed was that each time I was ready to give up on the kid – I would threaten to toss him out – something would happen negatively with my wife. Now, I’m not saying I couldn’t be firm with the kid about the rules, but rather if I sought instead to guide him without using my selfish parts – then it would go better with my wife. Doors would open. I suspect that somehow we have an interesting multi-faceted karmic double helix here.
The pastor… the pastor was key in much of this. He understood things like spiritual rhythm and timing – watching the movements, the promptings on the heart, gut feel, intuition, etc. Prayer is one thing and is definitely good; however, action coupled with prayer is better. Like the song, the Gambler, you have to know when to fold them and know when to hold them though. The pastor and I started to become more and more educated about these movements as my home became a veritable spiritual laboratory.
Between the pastor and I we quickly came to realize that there was a whole series of dynamics at work here. Within my home, it was as though we had created a spiritual community. People were being helped – the universal to the particular. The pastor has been counseling my wife and I. Invariably, we make some progress and then I figure out a way to ruin it by getting desperate, but none the less – not even a week ago did I in my wildest dreams expect to be with my wife on her birthday.
I think all of this is directly correlated with how well I am helping and serving the weak. The kid is the weak. My wife and mother in law are as well. Yet so am I.
I have been informed that she, my wife, wants to talk to me. I want to talk to her as well, but I no longer know how. Part of me is scared of her. I’ve gotten used to her saying she’s not coming home and it makes me not want to be around her if that is how things are going to be. I’m so used to whatever I say getting twisted and sending her reeling. It seems that the laws of the universe have put a new twist on things as well. She now would like to talk to me, and what I would have killed for 6 months ago, I have no idea what to do with now. I don’t even know what we would talk about. We like the same bands and we have kids together. We picked out houses together. We like the same artists. We both like basketball. Yet she has changed and so have I.
I want to tell her that I’ve found God and have repented and it is okay to come home, but I’m afraid she will freak out. I’m afraid that she won’t be ready to handle all that I’ve learned and will reject it, curse me, and then get repulsed once her beliefs are challenged. I want to tell her that I no longer see God as some guy with a flowing beard like what seems to be talked about in the Bible on a surface level reading, but rather something that is you and me and all of us and all that is and separate yet somehow not and in as much as my body has atoms we are nothing more than an atom in Him, and parallel universes, and multiple dimensions, and chakra, and energy points and on and on.
Coming back down from the clouds. Part of me says – we are scheduled for mediation…. what the heck is going on? Part of me is screaming V for victory. Part of me is retreating and saying to heck with her, I’m tired of her antics and then part of me is trying to stand back and watch all these multitude of personalities and take a leadership position like Jesus did with the disciples or like Moses did with the 12 tribes. Then I realize. She has the same thing. Part of her doesn’t like me. Part of me is scared of what could be. Part of her has turned away from home and is never coming back. Part of her thinks about what could have been. Part of her misses me. Part of her thinks of what she ever saw in me. There is a multitude within her. I have to invoke the part of her and myself somehow that will work? Trust? Well, at least I made the cool list for her birthday. Perhaps I will bring her one of my cakes.
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