Values

JAN. 19, 1981, 5:43 AM
W. WILLOW, STUDY

Hear, o son, a teaching on values and on valuing. It is a broad title, and the examples can shed some light on aspects of life you are dealing with now. Still, I always encourage you to see events in the light of… what is it you value, truly.

What things, what behaviors, what consequences are of most worth? What is worth? Do you decide on values or do you just “know” what values are? To what extent do you “have” values and apply them to situations, and to what extent do you discover, even create, values out of ever-new situations? These are important questions… and, interestingly, the questions are as important as the answers.

Values are an important quality of human life, and, like life itself, they have a nature of being and a nature of becoming. You can have a value… say, paying your bills reasonably on time. You built and developed that early and it persists as a value. Yet often it conflicts with other values, it is not held highly by Lenore, whom you value as a person and as a mate, so it is constantly becoming… more to less important. You value this time with Me and the importance of a certain amount of “ritual”. Yet today you valued the responsibility to Matthew, and that came out over the value of the undisturbed time with Me. Values thus become… stronger or weaker with actual application and use. What do you value? Test and see.

As I have told you before, I value the freedom of individual humans, but I also value My overarching purposes. If they are to be achieved then there sometimes must be encroachments on individual freedoms, and, in effect, I then value these less. But at another time, in another rhythm, I may postpone or modify My purposes and let people come to Me freely and with compulsion.

I value freedom, and I also value peace. But eventually peace is disturbed by freedom. Do I allow war to develop as an exercise of freedom? Each is a value… and each is also a value becoming.