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Advice & More April 2012

The Expiration Date

Mother Earth: Change, Exchange, and Blessed Reciprocity

By Robyn Justo

Our hearts and souls bind us in our commonality and connect us to our home here. Our heart is our operating system. Mind is simply the program we are running.

As we look around our planet, we cannot help but notice that the systems and structures that seemed solid for so long, are crumbling. Our financial establishments, political and religious structures, and even our relationships with one another seem to be disintegrating right before our eyes.

We have become sedated, distracted, and hypnotized with messages from the media that we will never have or be enough, and we seem to want more of anything bigger, better, faster, thinner, richer, and prettier to fill the emptiness that exists within us, in spite of the fact that we are depleting natural resources by our overzealous and insatiable consumerism.

Many years ago, only necessary goods and services were exchanged. If someone was hungry or ill, he offered something in exchange for food or medical treatment. There was no excess because there was an acknowledgment of mutual dependence, and the things of value were only the essentials.

We have also created words as an exchange and we use them to express our thoughts, emotions, and needs, but also to convince, criticize, and condemn. Our hearts are all created from the same Divine substance, but we tend to forget this when doctrines abrade, when belief systems collide, and when the illusion of difference polarizes us.

All energy is neutral whether it is in the form of communication or currency. It is how we choose to perceive it and our intent that gives it the power to do harm or good in the world. It is a gift that we can autograph with our collective signature and send it out, exponentially amplified, with blessed intent.

In the midst of the chaos around us now, and the seemingly endless thoughts and fears of a frightened ego and programs of the mind, lies the quiet stillness of the absolute, a reminder of how we are integral and microcosmic parts of Mother Earth. Our hearts and souls bind us in our commonality and connect us to our home here. Our heart is our operating system. Mind is simply the program we are running.

If we simply stop for a minute, we find that there is a sweet, subtle, sacred space between our breaths. It is a moment of true reciprocity, of mutual dependence and beautiful balance. It is the place where peace and the possibility of transformation reside. It is our choice to fill that moment with gratitude for everything that we have and will ever need -- and remember to do our part and return the favor in whatever way we are directed to do so to restore balance to the process of perfection and to the planet.

This is so simple that even an adult can do it. A child lives in constant gratitude and simplicity, laughing from the heart with the joy of life and discovery, fascinated with bright- colored flowers and playful animals, and delighted with the freedom of rolling on the grass. We need to become unadulterated, pure, clean, and simple again, and allow ourselves to become deliriously and ecstatically intoxicated from the scent of honeysuckle and jasmine rising in the air around us, tranquilized by the pleasure and repose of the sound of the ocean waves, and all of the gifts of a generous Mother who is always ready to fulfill the Divine promise in response to a prayer that has already been answered. We need to heal the emptiness inside and remember the intra-dimensional kingdom that is within us, realize that we have enough, and open our eyes to the loving nurturance that is always available to us.

Maybe we are the avatars, filled with our own data, encryptions, and memories, created by our souls for life on planet Earth. If so, then we can change our programs instantaneously at any time by a simple decision and direction from the soul. We can choose a new reality versus virtuality, remove the veil and finally see with the eyes of the heart, and find true fellowship with one another on this incredible Mothership. We can remember that we are a part of an infinitely unified system that will always be there for us, breathing in unison and restoring us to wellness and balance.

All that isn't needed is falling away and perhaps ego is part of that, but it can be replaced by overwhelming waves of compassion that will bring tears to our eyes and break our hearts open from the inside out.

Look around and you'll see it. Close your eyes and you'll feel it. Let us remove our 3D glasses. We can choose reciprocity and we can begin again to worship this beautiful ground that we are all so blessed to walk on.

This amazing change, this subtle shift, can happen within one breath and it will happen within us or without us.


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