Love Reflections VII

(Continued as part of the Love Reflections series based on a prompt. I recommend starting with Part I.)

I recently heard that by 2040 Artificial Intelligence will make it hard to tell between what is real and what is fabricated. And I’ve heard AI experts say the next 5 to 15 years will be a great disruption and struggle for the world, and hopefully (they say) we come out better on the other side. If we establish in us a foundation that only love is real, we will.

Love is our salvation - We tend to look outside ourselves to money, career, another person, social status, “our” knowing and “our” fixing to save us. But it is the love in us, not the love of this world, but our connection with this love that has no agenda, no guilt and is our natural inheritance that saves us. And we can’t have both, just like we can’t have two lovers, we must pick one, the ever-changing love of this world which looks to satisfy our ego and appears to ease our pain but doesn’t, or the love of all, of light. Quiet, changeless, patient, kind, easy and freeing love.

Since the pandemic ended, the pain in the world has only gotten worse. The world will try “worldly” fixes which are but temporary solutions at best, but this love that “the world does not giveth…and passeth understanding.” is all we need, and all we have, quite frankly, to truly cure the pain in the world.

The good news: No matter how off track we get; we can always choose again - To no longer focus on the things of the material world to “Seek ye first the kingdom of God”. How long will we allow the ego to win? Are we willing to go on this “journey without distance” and let this Light, this Love, God bring us out of pain, out of the “horrible pit, out of the miry clay” Psalm 40 mentions. And when this happens, when we win, and love as God loves, we will sing a new song, but the question remains, how long?

When we allow this Love to just be, allow God to be God and lift us up, we can say to everyone without motive……

Freedom I give to you

Peace I give to you

Joy I give to you

My love I give to you not as the world giveth, a love that passeth understanding.

The world wins, we sing a new song.

Recommended song that came up during this reflection: “40” by U2.

This ends my current reflections on the prompt. Additional reflections on love came up since I finished this, but I will add them later as separate pieces.

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By Ben Phipps • October 9, 2024

With coffee, always coffee. In the “About” section I wrote - It has been said that there is one Truth spoken in many different ways. Whether spiritualist, scientist, atheist, “religionist” or another “ist”, I know that if we set seeking Truth as our goal, we may use different language, but will end up in a similar place.... Seeking Truth is a good place to start. The purpose of this blog is to inspire people to think differently about the world and go deep within and seek Truth, so we can live in freedom, free from inner conflict and free to be who we are, in peace and love. My starting point God or whatever term you want to use for this universal force or as Joel Goldsmith calls the Infinite Invisible is All Powerful, All Knowing, All Present and All Loving. I start this as the basis of my seeking for one simple reason – If God is not these things, then I’m not interested because how could you have a God that is not these things? But I also recognize that when I start here, it leads me to questioning, has the world done a poor job of presenting or explaining God? What is Truth? Not your everyday material world truth such as is it true that you are reading this? But Truth with a capital “T” that is not of this world. I start with, can it change? Truth is that which cannot change. Go deep within – Words can only take us so far. This Truth is in the “journey beyond words”. According to A Course In Miracles (ACIM) “Truth is eternal, unalterable, and unambiguous. It is beyond time and process, and can only be known, not learned or believed.” But do not take ACIM’s word for it, we must each experience it for ourselves. May you enjoy the journey. Ben Phipps © 2024

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