Posted by: Sue Ann Edwards | June 19, 2008

Let It Begin With Me

I *know* I inspire some of us to feel uncomfortable. And I sincerely thank those of us who have had patience and compassion with me, as I fumble for words and ways to convey meaning for those of us starting to awaken and in various stages of awakening. Unity is not easy to communicate in terms of conflict. Unity embraces conflict but it doesn’t work the other way around. Conflict does not embrace Unity. It can’t. Because it’s conflicted. So you can imagine my dilemma.

I speak of Unconditional Love as a healing Power and cite our beliefs in conditional love, as the cause of all our conflict. It takes drawing a line to separate, in order to originally make parts. Once we have parts, THEN we can set these parts in conflict with one another. And that is what we have all been taught to do. Relate ‘parts’ in a pattern of conflict.

Like the way we ’see’ oil and water…in conflict with each other. They just don’t mix.

And here I pop up and say, “Oh yes they do mix! Perfectly in fact. They respond to each other exactly as their nature programmed them to do.

Just like the rapist and his partner in victimization.  The rapist is a victim of certain attitudes of judgment and his expression is a result of it.

You see, it’s relating things in a way of cooperation rather then conflict that is the distinguishing characteristic of Unity. And it is also expressing this tone that makes a lot of us feel uncomfortable.

I see the rapist and his “victim” as ends of the same rubber band. And the rubber band’s name is “sex”. The rapists’ actions are born from urges beyond his control. And his “victim” is one of us who has radiated condemnation for almost all sexual activity. Most likely inhibited and judgmental of carnal desires.

Follow it along and we’d find that the rapist has been mentally and emotionally battered and beaten and abused, by the condemnations and judgments of the uptight and sanctimonious and there we have it….the two ends of the same rubber band. One end goes one way from “balanced” and it causes the other end to go in the opposite direction of “balanced”. *walla* The Universe maintains harmony between all ‘parts’, unbalanced or not, all the time.

Unity awareness is also being at Peace with things that cause others of us to wail and moan in horror. Unconditional Love is just the start. Unconditional Acceptance and Unconditional Tolerance are even HARDER to anchor, ground and integrate.

I extend Compassion but not Sympathy and a lot of us have the two confused. Sympathy is what us victims want; but not Compassion. For Compassion is when we claim responsibility for our life while sympathy requires we not.

I extend Understanding but not necessarily agreement. And this is where it gets *sticky*.

I can certainly understand conflict. There is simply no way I can oppose it and maintain any Integrity of being. Sure, I can say I oppose war, yet simply opposing it is the same as taking an attitude of warring upon it. ‘Make war on war’. It’s the same thing as hating haters and being prejudice against prejudice people. These are all idiotic ideas and I *know* because I happen to have been one of the idiots that thought such things once…what seemed like long ago.

I can extend Understanding; I simply cannot agree to conflict just the same and, express Peace with any semblance of Power or Integrity. A Sovereign cannot be partial. Always embraces ALL ways. The good and the beautiful, as well as, the bad and the ugly.

You see, when I was little and used to cry at the drop of a hat because I was so sensitive, I heard a song. I guess I heard it so often I took the words to heart. Little did I know where it would lead me or what it would lead me into doing.

By expressing being AT Peace, no matter what horror, no matter what disaster happens…I make those of us who are conflicted, (and I have certainly been there)…uncomfortable. But I won’t stop.

Because while many of us say we’d like there to be Peace in our World, it never has occurred to us that we’re the ones responsible for putting it there. And therein, is the reason why I respond to life the way I do. I’m working under Universal Law, sowing and reaping in my life. Like the song lyrics said:

Let there be Peace on earth
And let it begin with me.


Responses

  1. So how can there be Peace without conflict my dear?
    Peace and Conflict are two halves of an inseperable whole, and if there were no Conflict, there could be no peace. Destroy one and you have destroyed the other also!
    I see your statement “Let it begin with me!” as a choice to be on the side of Peace, a most admirable decision!

    Kudos, SOE

  2. amen…

    and let it begin with ME, too.

    ((( Sue Ann )))

  3. Yes indeed, peace is its own reward. There will always be those who don’t get it. They will keep the spirit of conflict alive.

    cheers,
    jim

  4. Actually no {{shadows of enlightenment}} Peace and conflict are NOT halves of the same Whole. Peace embraces the Whole, while conflict does not. That’s why it is conflicted.

    Unity embraces conflict but conflict does not embrace Unity. It can’t, because it’s conflicted.

    One concept is based on awareness while the other is based on analysis. Analysis is not awareness. One is an act of adding things up; while the other is an act of separation.

    The statement “if there were no conflict there would be no peace” is a conflicted statement all on its own. Peace is not defined through its absence, nor is it dependent upon anything, like conflict for its existence.

    I have to perceive reality as separated into parts before I can imagine those parts in conflict. And in that act of separation, Unity is destroyed.

    Choices of response: Peace or conflict.

    If we don’t desire events like 9-11 to continue, then we need to change our response to it.

    I am not trying to say that ‘bad’ is not ‘bad’ and we should all learn to like it. I AM trying to convey we need to change our RESPONSE to ‘bad’ if we want to see ‘bad’ stop happening.

    {{{{hugs}}}}

  5. {{{{{grace}}}}}

    One drop at a time, one drop at a time, will change the whole contents of our collective consciousness.

    Blessings {{{sis}}}} !!!!

    It ain’t easy is it?

    Simple but not easy….

  6. Welcome {{{insomniac}}}} !!!!

    Yes, it is not time for all of us to *get it*. Some of us are not ready to leave conflict behind quite yet. That is the resistance of the “old consciousness” trying to hang on.

    But all it really Is, is a matter of time.

    “All those who live by the sword (of duality), die by the sword ( of duality).”

    What this means is it is simply a waiting game. Waiting until all those of us who live by the sword are killed by the sword, then Peace will rule the world because there will only be peaceful beings left alive on it.

    For example, being at Peace with Death means we not only do not fear our own but we also do not fear other people’s. It’s not that death is something wished for or wished upon. It is simply something that is not feared or judged. It is something we do not feel conflicted over. For Love of Life is an altogether different value system then is Fear of Death. And it is Fear of Death that conflict feeds upon.

    Welcome! Welcome!

    {{{hugs}}}}

  7. Amen! Sue Ann this is an excellent article and says what you so often try to convey in an “embracing” manner. Thank you for being yourself. PLL, Cordieb.

  8. Thank you… feeling welcomed.

    cheers,
    jim

  9. {{{{{hugs}}}} cordieb…

    It’s ’simple’ but not easy.

    It’s what is meant by the statement “it’s not about me”.

    It’s not about what other people are going to think about me. It’s not about how other people are going to feel about me. It’s not “about me”.

    I’m not seeking validation. I’m not seeking “to get” anything from anyone. And most of the time, because of the ways we have been taught to think, it IS about us. It’s about us getting from others whatever we think we need at the time…emotionally.

    It’s true, misery does love company. It is also true that ‘the lord helps those who help themselves’, meaning….if we desire to stay down in the dumps, we will, no matter how many people extend themselves to help us out. For it’s not what other people think and believe that matters. Only what WE think and believe that does.

    The truly best and most loving act when we’re lost in ideas of being a victim, is to be isolated and left alone. Because without anyone else to blame for how we feel, we have to face our own responsibilities for our own choices and actions. We don’t have the option to blame anyone else if no one else is around.

    And one of our illusions that doesn’t help AT ALL, is our believing that all our FEELINGS are coming from our Heart. Not so. Most of us are gut centered and run into our heads or mentality, in order to avoid facing that the fuel that runs our lives and determines all our decisions is FEAR, not Love.

    There are the words to a song that we have proved to be correct over the past couple of decades…

    “Paranoia strikes deep
    Into our hearts it will seep
    It STARTS WHEN WE’RE ALWAYS AFRAID.”

    Gads…it really IS unattractive, how lily livered we have become. Why, we wouldn’t have even had any kind of space program back in the 60’s and 70’s if we had been as gutless as a Nation as we are now. We didn’t achieve what we did by being afraid of something ‘bad’ happening.

    One of my friends in high school was named “Bonnie White”. Her dad was one of the men that were burned alive on the launch pad. I can tell for a fact that both her and especially her mother, were not witless emotional boobs.

    Many people have called me a “strong” woman. When what I am, is an integrated human. Whatever strength I am seen to posses, is ALL an expression of Spirit. The very same Spirit that is within each and every single one of us.

  10. And so it has begun. Thank you for sowing it in my corner of the world so my winds may blow it heavenward.

    Peace to you tonight Sue. Don’t forget to let the fireflies go back to the dark.

  11. {{{{SE}}}} You have touched my Heart and I Thank You, sincerely. I really do understand how a Peaceful Being can make others feel uncomfortable, when we have so much of an emotional investment in conflict.

    Been there, done that. *smiling*

    As for the fireflies…ever noticed how we can’t really appreciate them in the light of day?

    It’s much like lighting candles. When our wick is first lit, it always sputters for a while until our flame finally burns strong and bright.

    Come to think of it, I haven’t seen a firefly or a lightening bug in a long time. They used to be more plenty. Now it’s the deer that I look for at dusk, come to eat my buttercups.

    Blessings {{{SE}}}}

  12. “. . . in order to avoid facing that the fuel that runs our lives and determines all our decisions is FEAR, not Love. . . . ” So true Sue Ann. I lived my life for so long in some form of fear; it is only recently that I have been able to live fearlessly most of the time. It is those occasions when I degress that I know it’s time for some mental self-awareness and that something is not right with me. It is then that I must try to find the lesson. Again, blessings to you and yours. . . CordieB.

  13. Ohhhhh Cordieb {{{{{HUGS}}}}}

    We all get lost in the forest of our trees every now and then. Every single one of us, including me, where I *AM*. I am not immune to the waves of upliftment that are streaming in right now. I simply can shift and adapt, always quickly adjusting to a center of balance and Peace. We just get quicker with practice. (Smiling.)

    The important part about being lost is that it takes someone who doesn’t rush to where you are, because then we’d both be lost. That’s when someone has to stand at the edge of our forest and keeping talking, symbolically, so we can hone in on their signal and find our way out.

    One hand washes the other. By God’s Grace we’re not all lost at the same time, just as we’re not all sick at the same time.

    HUGS!!!!!

  14. Right back at you. Funny you mention about the fireflies in the day. We have had an overabundance of wildlife and bugs (?) this year. The other day I captured one, I thought it got hurt and I got very sad and said to one of my children, it’s a firefly, a firefly…I meant to tell my children it was lost, it was here in the daylight when people could not understand it.

  15. I know how we used to be when I was little. Fireflies were abundant and we’d catch them and put them into jars. So…, maybe you saw one that was passing through ‘incognito’? Because like you said, some of us people didn’t understand it in the dark. We would take their freedom away.

  16. Yes. It’s happened more than once since I wrote the comment above, a gentle deerlike reminder perhaps.

  17. Great blog, I find what you have written interesting, certainly a way of seeing things that I had not seen before.

  18. Greetings {{dumakey !!!}}}

    I’ve been gifted with looking at things with a scewed perspective since I was born. I simply share, offering a choice many of us might not have ever entertained before.

    I’m also stubborn. I’m Sovereign over the contents of my own mind and quite blatantly claim the Liberty to think as I Will.

    Welcome, welcome!


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