I have previously on a different blog written about a prayer practice I have of offering up a question in prayer and then opening various spiritually meaningful books and receiving their answer. A while back I did this asking God: What would you have me know about this pandemic? The answers below speak to me of viewing the pandemic as a spiritual event, of examining how we live in the world, understanding the dying which is happening more now, as part of a cycle of life and death that is part of the human experience, how to face our own potential mortality and that of those we love.
Below are the messages I received:
From the Book Emmanuel II: "As you learn to perceive with an open heart, what seems to be taking place on the physical plane of your world, it becomes time to speak. What? Anything your heart tells you. To whom? Anyone who will listen. The moment you speak from love and not from fear, you assume the mantle of leadership..your responsibility is to hear your own hear. this is a schoolroom for learning how to love what appears to be absolutely unloveable."
From Thomas Kelly in a Testament of Devotion There is an experience of the Eternal breaking into time, which transforms all life into a miracle of faith and action. Unspeakable, profound, and full of glory as an inward experience, it is the root of concern for all creation, the true ground of social endeavor. This inward Life and the the outward concern are truly one whole and were it possible, ought to be described simultaneously.
The Prophet by Kilbran The section of Freedom
"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care or your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
The Book of Emmanuel I: the door that unlocks the soul into incarnation can fufill many purposes; teaching others ass well as self. When a life is designed to serve both ends then the cause and the call are magnificent. At those times, the higher wisdom can say "And this is necessary now". ....Can a soul learn from a type of fear so pervasive that there is no space for understanding? The soul can learn. Perhaps the human being cannot.
Wayne Dyer The Power of Intention:
With self as a focal point, you sustain the illusion that you are your body, which is a completely seperate entity from all others. This sense of separateness leads you to compete rather than cooperate. Ultimately its a "no-match" with Spirit, and becomes a huge obstacle to your connection to the power of Source.
Michael Singer The Untethered Soul.
This is how negative cycles happen. You actually take a piece of your stuff, which is nothing but deeply seated disturbance from your past, and you implant it in the heart of those around you. ...This is how people ruin relationships and destroy their lives. Do you doubt that a single blockage getting hit in your heart could case a fall that lasts a lifetime? I has been known to happen...when a block gets hit, its a good thing. It's time to open up internally and release the block energy.
If you fall along the way, just get up and forget it. Use the lessons to strengthen your resolve. Let go right then. Do not rationalize, blame, or try to figure it out. Don't do anything. Just let go immediately, and allow the energy to go back to the highest center of consciousness it can achieve.