Losses

MON., MAY 15, 2000,7:11 PM
FARM, STUDY

Losses have been yours to experience in this recent past. Now compared to REAL losses these are quite unimportant, but I should speak to you about them on this cool Spring evening. Losses are “experiences”, and experiences are what challenge spirit and make it possible to increase in power.

You seem to have lost the three most recent Teachings that you heard from Me last week. There is no logical place for them to be, given your memory of yesterday’s “experiences”. The chances are good you’ll recover them, but it isn’t yet clear how. You have done quite a good job of keeping most of My Teachings in an order so that they can be re-read and referenced. Yesterday didn’t seem like a day in which you needed to be extra careful, but, somehow, that folder seems to have disappeared. I won’t say you will or will not be “reunited” with those Teachings. You don’t remember them as being quite special… and so I’ll say…

This loss is not earth-shaking. You are still quite in touch with Me, the Originator of the Teachings, and you know that I am quite a “fan” of reinforcement. Any critical ideas or expressions in those missing pages will recur until you have it/them internalized. Be on the lookout for them and be ready to hear from Me during this and next week(s). Everything of true importance will “show up again”. Trust Me.

The loss of Mohammed Ali, your rooster, is another mixed one. You miss his crowing, but you also were aware that he was increasingly more apt to attack you or Lenore… or, particularly, any child who would enter his domain. You still wonder how any “marauder” got away with him and two hens. It wasn’t a likely loss, but nevertheless it was.

Still, the principle of your “longer” life, of which I must remind you, is that the tangible “things” of any life… and this can include other people… are to be enjoyed while they last with you, but are not to be mourned, over-long. Let losses remind you of what you still have, and appreciate these even more.

The balance of your life, you do realize, has been one of many more wins than losses. You truly have to “struggle” to remember… and “mourn”… losses, you’ve had so few. And… if you truly do remember some situation of loss… and now see it in the context of what has happened since and what the situation is now… you will almost always see that the continuing effect is minimal.

Your lapses of memory are troublesome, so you must devise some ways of countering these evident losses. Have extra small tools… return tools and other things to “assigned places”, for you can’t count on remembering where it was last used. Make lists. You are becoming an “old fart”, but counter the losses, when you can… and accept the ones that do occur with a “merry heart”. Just don’t let these losses spoil the joy of this remaining life. (And, yes, as this current movie suggests, I did have a good time, as Jesus, here in the earth) (7:52 / 9:06) And I, Holy Spirit, have many more “good times” than losses. I am not a “tangible person”, so I have no worries about overweight, painful joints, a prostate that’s getting “pushy”, losses of clear sight and hearing… and so it will be with you as you finally drop this body. Oh, it’ll feel like a loss, but soon you’ll forget “how it was” and enter into the unique joys of the spirit world(s).

Recall, again, how you felt in that time when there seemed to be a chance that you would lose this Farm to some mining project… and you hadn’t lived here long enough to appreciate it as you do now. You say, to yourself (then and now) that if you really had to, you could smile, move, and say, “Lord, what’s the next good thing that will happen?”

You’ve lost your youth, but you remember it as a great time. You’ve lost your position as a Professor, with, again, happy, satisfying remembrances. You’ve lost the need to be a “disciplinarian”, with your sons, your grandchildren, and students. You never did that well, so you’re glad to see that as a loss.