From the beginning of time people have begged God to tell them...Why? WHY do terrible things happen to good people? Now comes this question for us to explore again, in a poignant letter and an electrifying reply... Yesterday is usually...
You have gone through so much. The pain of losing two children is more than I can imagine.
Please understand that though you have made mistakes, you are forgiven. All of us make plenty; how else would we grow? God does not punish, and God does not reward. God cares about everything Cynthia. God hears EVERY thought that passes through your mind.
I do not believe your son chose to be killed in an accident any more than I believe the people who innocently boarded planes overtaken by hijackers on 9/11, any more than children crushed beneath their schools during an earthquake, or a child robbed from her bed in the dead of night did.
We look at life through human eyes, but there is more going on than we can see. Life is not easy, but it is a wonderful, brief gift. The memories of what we have learned here will be with us for eternity. I hope you ask God for help. I hope you ask God for help again and again and again, until you begin to feel God’s answer.
Your lovely children are with God. You are loved by God Cynthia. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
Ariel
July 30, 2008 7:18 PM
That was beautiful. Thank you, Neale.
gwen
July 30, 2008 8:36 PM
Dear Neil,
I received this as an email from you today, (you're the first email I open), and was wondering if you could expound on the word "Betrayal"?
It is amazing/spooky how fitting the daily quotes are!
On this day of your life, gwen, I believe God wants you to know...
....that betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another
is betrayal nonetheless. It is the Highest Betrayal.
You are not avoiding betrayal by betraying yourself, you
are merely choosing whom to betray. In fact, there is no
such thing as "betrayal." There is only the truth, finally
spoken.
That is not betrayal at all. That is love. For another,
and for yourself. Can you love that much?
You know exactly why you received this message today.
Love, Your Friend....
Thank You SOOOOO Much for all your work!
Your Sister Gwen
Jeannie Biscotti
July 30, 2008 10:36 PM
I have just read "What God Wants" (at least three times) and am in a state of pure joy. I have always believed in my deepest soul everything you so eloquently scripted......my question is how to get this message to those who need it most??? Those who hate for no reason, kill in "THE NAME OF GOD", and make judgments against those whom one has never known. I teach at-risk youth....they are so lost and afraid. I have always tried to instill in them the truth that all of us have the Light of God within, it is just a matter of finding it. I try so hard to look into their eyes and see their souls -- some of them have murdered, raped and who knows what.....but they are still so young and confused that I just know that the Lord is waiting for them to see the truth.
I am so hoping that your book will help me in my daily life....I want to be the example to them that they need so that all their anger and hurt can disappear. Can you help?????
Jeannie Biscotti
AM
July 30, 2008 10:37 PM
True Blessings
Many thanks to Neale and Cynthia
Love from HK, AM
LLB
July 31, 2008 2:06 AM
That's a lovely message and a comforting way to think on the tragedies that have happened. Cynthia, I hope you find a way through your sorrow.
LLB
July 31, 2008 2:08 AM
"God cannot impose His preferences on us. If He did, we would not have free will, but rather, we would simply be living lives which were being experienced according to a plan over which we have no control."
Here's the thing. Once we come here, we're no longer online with the "supraconscious us" that planned all of the crap we go through. So our experience is the same as living a life according to a plan over which we have no control. Even when we try to fix many things we can't, so we just have to learn how to tolerate, manage, and put up with pain, and change ourselves in such a way that it doesn't seem as bad any more. But then we get God, in some of these books, chiding us for setting aside our fondest hopes. Somebody please channel the message: "Dude. What do you expect??"
I'm getting really tired of this experience in my life. When I finally cross over and meet this "supraconscious me" who planned some of this, I hope I remember to beat her up.
Okay, that was a joke. Sort of.
Erin
July 31, 2008 11:37 AM
Thank you for sharing, Cynthia and Neale.
K. Koje
August 1, 2008 8:16 AM
All right LLB. I am certain a lot of us feel, in the throes of our miseries much like you do at one time or another. It is just one other evidence that your understanding of Your Self is still unfolding at the micronic level inhabiting the body you do. For if you understand Your Self correctly and act on your frustration as you describe you would lash out only to realize that you just gave your self a black eye.
The real challenge for all of us is to absorb, accept and actualize in , the flesh, the reality of Our Self as actually only one Self. One Self! A self so vast and all-encompassing, so irresistibly powerful that the only way to grow, to examine and experience more of the limitless possibilities and potentials inherent in Self and life is to individual ize Self into manageable units committed to extracting all knowledge and all experience through these units within forms and without.
A grand experiment? You can bet your cat's fur balls it is. Imagine, if you will, just hangin' around with all power, all glory, all knowledge and nothing to do but create more stars, more light, more of everything you have already mastered so well, it's become boring. Imagine being outside of all of these worlds you've created looking at them from the outside. Little balls of your own energy floating before you, around you within you. Then, the idea! Hmmmm! What if I could be down on these balls and as lots of little selves of all forms, genus, species, race and-well nationality was a bit of a surprise. What would would that be like? What would it be like to stand on a planet and actually experience walking around on it, living on it working with it, then moving on when I'd had enough. What would it be like to walk up to another spark of me as a stranger? To love that stranger, to hate that stranger, to work with that stranger as if he were not me. As if she were totally something other than what she is...me, myself, I. WoW! The possibilities are limitless. Boredom disappears in an instant. A wealth of knowledge and experience flows and life is wonderful again.
Of course for this to work, none of the little mes can remember who they really are while having this experience or it would simply ruin the game. They would not be able to experience the newness of each other if they already know. So they just have to forget for a time.
Then of course, there's LLB. LLB will be very upset about all the frustration, the misery and hopelessness experienced in the game and will leave the flesh wanting to have a good barroom brawl about it but what to do...? Nothing really! Once he realizes he is God he'll just remember and laugh it off!
Dawn Feska
August 15, 2008 8:23 AM
Hello
I have now for over 3 yrs been asking Y?Y?Y? AS WELL.
nO I DO ADMIT some of the path or what I call learning exsperience's
I have chosen or brought all on my own to cause certain heartaches or hardships.for I too am not nor will be a perfect human being I do make mistakes too.
but.. I've kept my self in /out of the laws ways for I've never broke the law not even a parking tkt.I always have opened my door my home to those in need as well as the food I can't afford for my self Thank God for the churches 2 x's a week or I surely would be gone now from starvation.I never used what I've spent done or gave to someone as a tool thinking there would be a pay off for me..
Out of 4 other sibling's I've been the one to follow the church up untill my son turned 14yrs I would even drag my challenge little sister & baby brother w/ me. I've always been the first & @ most time's the only to not be ashamed to my sibling's I loved them .
MY path's have never been always the straight or narrow but I have sence the age of 13 yrs old worked found one way or the other legitamtely to pay & support my way.I've 2 been homless lived in a tent for 7 months never went on welfare lived in gov housing tho had the poor husband a rich husband a husband from another country I lived the poor life & the good good I loved & lost..
Sure there was happy times but 99% of them If i didnt shower someone cash from 7,000 jacpots or paydays or pay my way for there attention family members or so called friends I surly wouldnt of had the good times I'm referring to.
NOw to explain why? I have so many Y? that never get unanswered.
Like why? when I was 16 I was told by 4 different dr.s I would nevrer
have a child then the GOOD LORD ABOVE did indeed bless me w/ a son whom I got to be a mommy to for only 27 yrs. If he my son was to be taken away from me then Y? Y? didn't i miscarriy or abort or lose him before all the hardship struggling to be the best mommy for him the sick days the sad days the sport games the teen yrs. ect. sure losing any child hurts but why?? after haveing to re-train him to walk go to the bathroom useing pampers on him at 18yrs old after he was left for death at the age of 18yrs.? was I put thru the test of having to start all over w/ my one son at 18 after doing 18yrs already w/him.
Y? did he surrive that to just have his face alreconstructed after a beating two yrs later once again I was taking care of my boy then 2yrs later he get's shot one hollow bullet to the heart killed & taken from me.
Then Y? did my husband after saving my life from a failed suicde after sons death did my husband get stabed in the heart w/ a razor kife die in my arms.. and y? did my dog of ten yrs whom was playing tug a war with me the day before suddenly die just 2 weeks ago.
?????WHY WHY WHY is everything I loved cherised or needed in life on earth dying dead and left me?? WHY&? dose God think I'm strong enough for all this & what may come next CAN YOU TELL ME WHY???
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Dear Cynthia,
You have gone through so much. The pain of losing two children is more than I can imagine.
Please understand that though you have made mistakes, you are forgiven. All of us make plenty; how else would we grow? God does not punish, and God does not reward. God cares about everything Cynthia. God hears EVERY thought that passes through your mind.
I do not believe your son chose to be killed in an accident any more than I believe the people who innocently boarded planes overtaken by hijackers on 9/11, any more than children crushed beneath their schools during an earthquake, or a child robbed from her bed in the dead of night did.
We look at life through human eyes, but there is more going on than we can see. Life is not easy, but it is a wonderful, brief gift. The memories of what we have learned here will be with us for eternity. I hope you ask God for help. I hope you ask God for help again and again and again, until you begin to feel God’s answer.
Your lovely children are with God. You are loved by God Cynthia. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
That was beautiful. Thank you, Neale.
Dear Neil,
I received this as an email from you today, (you're the first email I open), and was wondering if you could expound on the word "Betrayal"?
It is amazing/spooky how fitting the daily quotes are!
On this day of your life, gwen, I believe God wants you to know...
....that betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another
is betrayal nonetheless. It is the Highest Betrayal.
You are not avoiding betrayal by betraying yourself, you
are merely choosing whom to betray. In fact, there is no
such thing as "betrayal." There is only the truth, finally
spoken.
That is not betrayal at all. That is love. For another,
and for yourself. Can you love that much?
You know exactly why you received this message today.
Love, Your Friend....
Thank You SOOOOO Much for all your work!
Your Sister Gwen
I have just read "What God Wants" (at least three times) and am in a state of pure joy. I have always believed in my deepest soul everything you so eloquently scripted......my question is how to get this message to those who need it most??? Those who hate for no reason, kill in "THE NAME OF GOD", and make judgments against those whom one has never known. I teach at-risk youth....they are so lost and afraid. I have always tried to instill in them the truth that all of us have the Light of God within, it is just a matter of finding it. I try so hard to look into their eyes and see their souls -- some of them have murdered, raped and who knows what.....but they are still so young and confused that I just know that the Lord is waiting for them to see the truth.
I am so hoping that your book will help me in my daily life....I want to be the example to them that they need so that all their anger and hurt can disappear. Can you help?????
Jeannie Biscotti
True Blessings
Many thanks to Neale and Cynthia
Love from HK, AM
That's a lovely message and a comforting way to think on the tragedies that have happened. Cynthia, I hope you find a way through your sorrow.
"God cannot impose His preferences on us. If He did, we would not have free will, but rather, we would simply be living lives which were being experienced according to a plan over which we have no control."
Here's the thing. Once we come here, we're no longer online with the "supraconscious us" that planned all of the crap we go through. So our experience is the same as living a life according to a plan over which we have no control. Even when we try to fix many things we can't, so we just have to learn how to tolerate, manage, and put up with pain, and change ourselves in such a way that it doesn't seem as bad any more. But then we get God, in some of these books, chiding us for setting aside our fondest hopes. Somebody please channel the message: "Dude. What do you expect??"
I'm getting really tired of this experience in my life. When I finally cross over and meet this "supraconscious me" who planned some of this, I hope I remember to beat her up.
Okay, that was a joke. Sort of.
Thank you for sharing, Cynthia and Neale.
All right LLB. I am certain a lot of us feel, in the throes of our miseries much like you do at one time or another. It is just one other evidence that your understanding of Your Self is still unfolding at the micronic level inhabiting the body you do. For if you understand Your Self correctly and act on your frustration as you describe you would lash out only to realize that you just gave your self a black eye.
The real challenge for all of us is to absorb, accept and actualize in , the flesh, the reality of Our Self as actually only one Self. One Self! A self so vast and all-encompassing, so irresistibly powerful that the only way to grow, to examine and experience more of the limitless possibilities and potentials inherent in Self and life is to individual ize Self into manageable units committed to extracting all knowledge and all experience through these units within forms and without.
A grand experiment? You can bet your cat's fur balls it is. Imagine, if you will, just hangin' around with all power, all glory, all knowledge and nothing to do but create more stars, more light, more of everything you have already mastered so well, it's become boring. Imagine being outside of all of these worlds you've created looking at them from the outside. Little balls of your own energy floating before you, around you within you. Then, the idea! Hmmmm! What if I could be down on these balls and as lots of little selves of all forms, genus, species, race and-well nationality was a bit of a surprise. What would would that be like? What would it be like to stand on a planet and actually experience walking around on it, living on it working with it, then moving on when I'd had enough. What would it be like to walk up to another spark of me as a stranger? To love that stranger, to hate that stranger, to work with that stranger as if he were not me. As if she were totally something other than what she is...me, myself, I. WoW! The possibilities are limitless. Boredom disappears in an instant. A wealth of knowledge and experience flows and life is wonderful again.
Of course for this to work, none of the little mes can remember who they really are while having this experience or it would simply ruin the game. They would not be able to experience the newness of each other if they already know. So they just have to forget for a time.
Then of course, there's LLB. LLB will be very upset about all the frustration, the misery and hopelessness experienced in the game and will leave the flesh wanting to have a good barroom brawl about it but what to do...? Nothing really! Once he realizes he is God he'll just remember and laugh it off!
Hello
I have now for over 3 yrs been asking Y?Y?Y? AS WELL.
nO I DO ADMIT some of the path or what I call learning exsperience's
I have chosen or brought all on my own to cause certain heartaches or hardships.for I too am not nor will be a perfect human being I do make mistakes too.
but.. I've kept my self in /out of the laws ways for I've never broke the law not even a parking tkt.I always have opened my door my home to those in need as well as the food I can't afford for my self Thank God for the churches 2 x's a week or I surely would be gone now from starvation.I never used what I've spent done or gave to someone as a tool thinking there would be a pay off for me..
Out of 4 other sibling's I've been the one to follow the church up untill my son turned 14yrs I would even drag my challenge little sister & baby brother w/ me. I've always been the first & @ most time's the only to not be ashamed to my sibling's I loved them .
MY path's have never been always the straight or narrow but I have sence the age of 13 yrs old worked found one way or the other legitamtely to pay & support my way.I've 2 been homless lived in a tent for 7 months never went on welfare lived in gov housing tho had the poor husband a rich husband a husband from another country I lived the poor life & the good good I loved & lost..
Sure there was happy times but 99% of them If i didnt shower someone cash from 7,000 jacpots or paydays or pay my way for there attention family members or so called friends I surly wouldnt of had the good times I'm referring to.
NOw to explain why? I have so many Y? that never get unanswered.
Like why? when I was 16 I was told by 4 different dr.s I would nevrer
have a child then the GOOD LORD ABOVE did indeed bless me w/ a son whom I got to be a mommy to for only 27 yrs. If he my son was to be taken away from me then Y? Y? didn't i miscarriy or abort or lose him before all the hardship struggling to be the best mommy for him the sick days the sad days the sport games the teen yrs. ect. sure losing any child hurts but why?? after haveing to re-train him to walk go to the bathroom useing pampers on him at 18yrs old after he was left for death at the age of 18yrs.? was I put thru the test of having to start all over w/ my one son at 18 after doing 18yrs already w/him.
Y? did he surrive that to just have his face alreconstructed after a beating two yrs later once again I was taking care of my boy then 2yrs later he get's shot one hollow bullet to the heart killed & taken from me.
Then Y? did my husband after saving my life from a failed suicde after sons death did my husband get stabed in the heart w/ a razor kife die in my arms.. and y? did my dog of ten yrs whom was playing tug a war with me the day before suddenly die just 2 weeks ago.
?????WHY WHY WHY is everything I loved cherised or needed in life on earth dying dead and left me?? WHY&? dose God think I'm strong enough for all this & what may come next CAN YOU TELL ME WHY???
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