4-57. You attempt to perceive a great deal of error in the perfection of Creation. None exists. Regardless of your judgment, all that occurs has a place and a purpose within a Plan that is already complete.
“It’s all just so screwed up.” Have you ever heard someone say before? Have you been the one uttering such a declaration of condemnation and frustration? Or perhaps you’ve thought it, but dared not give life to such a statement of cynicism and outrage. But was it really? Was everything completely amiss? Was all that unfolded completely devoid of any utility at all, if only the usefulness of learning yet another way not to do things? Was every aspect of your life crashing down upon you, completely undoing all that came before it, rendering mute all of the voices of approval and respect that your mind creates in an effort to support you when you encounter difficult and then see the correct way to overcome it? Was all that occurred just an enormous trainwreck of monstrous proportions, so utterly and outrageously ruined that no hope of recovery or repair remained? Perhaps for some this was true, but their experience of irredeemable calamity and the utter absence of any ability to correct their sinking ship of potentiality is absolutely the exception - never the rule. Rarely does any event become so hopelessly mired in difficulty that no hope of correction or redirection exists. Yet that is exactly what the ego sees when it looks out over a world that it does not understand, and so the ego seeks to condemn everything as useless and paints all that transpires with the same black brush of unwillingness to even attempt to correct the path of a series of events, for it’s all hopeless to the ego, and so why should you even bother? What’s the point, when it’s just going to fall apart, again and again? That is the definition of negativity as applied to an outlook that has forsaken any influence on the part of the participant, rendering you into a sobbing puddle of goo on the floor, so beset by circumstance that you no longer wish to participate in life at all, electing instead to be the victim of your own perceptions, judging the world to be eternally flawed, and so relieving yourself of any responsibility for accepting that it is not what happens that matters - it is what you wish to believe about occurrences and the arising of random challenges that governs what their import will be for you. That is your final and unstoppable super-power - to be able to stop utilizing the perspective of the ego, one that is endlessly fraught with sarcasm and an unbreakable will to never genuinely try anything at all, because hey, let’s face it - it never worked out before, so why should it now? That is the opposite of hope. That is a fruitless attempt to negate the power of Faith with the denial of life that is the ego, at its very core. For why should you attempt anything at all, if you’re just going to die in the end, right? It’s all pointless, so why even bother. What silliness this is. Such childish perversity and obstinacy to the possibilities that unfold from every moment of life. What an attempt to posit that simply because the world of form is not exactly perfect - for certainly, the neutrality of materiality does lead to unintended consequences and the imposition of unjust events upon undeserving individuals, that in no way should be construed as some error in Creation that is fundamental or even implicative of anything at all. “Shit happens.” Well, yes. It does. Does that mean that life is shit, or that you are shit, or that all the other people you meet are little piles of goopy fecal matter masquerading as humans? Certainly not. Insufferable calamity and inappropriate challenges are the fodder of the ego’s continuous and continuing desire to tell you that all is not well, that all is challenge and strife, and that defence and withdrawal is the most appropriate reaction to a world seemingly gone insane, one that lost its way so long ago that no one actually remembers what it was like when things were right and proper - the eternal refrain of “the good old days” being the first allusion to some other golden age when the world worked well, as juxtaposed with its current state of mismanagement and ever-imminent collapse. All of that is just an attempt - and a half-hearted one at that, for certainly no one who believes in such fabrications of the ego will be able to generate within themselves much effort at all to change anything that might seem even slightly out of their reach - to impose upon Creation a presumption of error that does not exist. What of the tragedy? Were you lost forever because of it? Were you broken in some manner that cannot be repaired? Were you cast into the endless maw of the sands of time, engorged wholesale and digested into middling bits of your former self, never to be reconstituted again as a unique and tenacious representative of Love, encased in form but never limited by all that transpires within a universe that is neutral and that is not at all concerned with your perceptions regarding the import of what occurred? Certainly not, for if you were, you would be dead by now and all of this discussion and line of inquiry would be moot indeed, for you would be freed of this world and you’d be readily able to See so much more than you may currently be willing to accept. All attempts to impose upon randomness some sense of order or causation that is exculpatory of the Creation of God is meaningless, for chaos is not the purview of Love, at least not directly. That which is chaotic can be acted upon by the instruments of Creation, allowing them to shape its direction into manners that are most effective for your learning and growth, but not absolutely everything that occurs is micromanaged by God for your best interests. While all that occurs does indeed have both a time and a place within a Plan that is unfolding exactly as it should, the precision of its execution is not governed by any singular pattern or overarching control structure that is rigid and precise. That would negate all of the Freedom that your Free Will grants to you, and that is not an undertaking that God will ever engage within, for you are just as Free as your Creator, and that is perhaps one of the greatest Gifts you will ever enjoy. All that can be employed for learning and growth will be, just as it can be, and to exactly the extent that it is serviceable and possessed of utility. That may apply to almost every single aspect of your life. Or it may be incremental and interspersed with periods of languishment in instability while new alignments with other lessons, effected through the mechanisms of materiality as their most gross and direct expression allows, but never solely limited to the situations or alignments that arise. All of this is part of a Plan that is engineered and designed to allow for you the maximal amount and number of opportunities to look within, rather than constantly and unerringly gazing outwards and perceiving this world of form as some unfriendly and - perhaps at times - even violent oppressor that is determined to crush you under its negativity and difficulty. That is where choice enters - can you see what is an opportunity to learn of your True Nature, or will you again choose to believe that you are beset by a world of confusion and strife, consistently refusing to accept that it is your perceptions that flavor all that you regard - never the actual implications or derivations of what has occurred from a fully objective perspective. Alignments arise because there is value to what they present, specifically from the aspect of allowing you to encounter them and then to reflect upon which parts you accepted as being reflective of Love, and all that you rejected as having no place in Creation. All is part of the Path. All can be utilized for growth. Nothing can occur that can strip you of your ability to maintain cognition and cognizance in the face of forgetfulness and courage during the arising of difficulty. Understand first, then accept, then know, and then finally embody this, one of the simplest of all Truths - because you are Loved, God will employ every available opportunity to Teach you yet again of just how universally applicable that Love actually is, eternally and completely. Reject these lessons if you wish. They will repeat again, in another form, but with the same core functionality still intact, until the moment when you have no more use for them, for you will have become willing to accept everything just as it is, and so your Acceptance of yourself will be Complete, and Peace will once again reign over all else, Perfectly and Eternally, just as it always has in Heaven. And so from this newly found perspective, Heaven and Earth will no longer be seen as separate or disparate in your Awakened Sight - you will See that no barrier separated them, and you will come Home to God, Remembering that you are Loved Perfectly and Eternally, just as it has always been and shall always be.