July 2008
Accelerated Developmental Cycles

Most people I notice are going through re-evolutionary changes in their lives. They are either embarking upon a new cycle or ending an old one. Whatever cyclic process we are in there is no mis-take that personal monumental changes are abound. I am not speaking of the change rhetoric spouted by presidential electorates where things on the surface appear different, but the underlying pattern stays the same. Instead, the kind of change I am referring to challenges us to confront our conditioned patterns in the way we live, relate and react in the world. While one cyclic process sloughs away to accommodate a fit for better service, the other healing brings an end to a period of dis-ease. When the latter shift is the case it is a “making life anew” in our willingness to engage in forgiveness.

Change requires us to be receptive and invite in the new. It also requires that we relinquish all that does not support the highest and best in each of us, which is a personal conquest that comes only from within and always begins from where we are. This singular act of release is fueled by a desire that welcomes new healthy patterns of being and maintains the necessary patience to adjust to them. Too often we give up and slip back into old faulty patterns of living. If we can only reconnect with our inner fortitude we recognize that it is the glue that rejoins us to our highest blueprint for living, consciously connecting us to the sphere of Divine presence within and outside us. Here the joy of presence flows unobstructed by our mental ideations when we let go and forgive.

Forgiveness is a mental climate that heals, constructs bridges and breaks down barriers. It binds the spiritual realms ever closer to the human family. It builds right relationships in families, groups, communities, nations and humanity itself—the world of the soul revealing the element of true fellowship. The more evolved have a greater depth of understanding and natural willingness to engage in forgiveness because we understand that no authentic relationship can exist unless we eradicate divisive and narrow thinking and identify with the inner light in all evolving forms. Relationship with this inner light has been described as “the very breath of life itself.” (Alice Bailey)

Embracing change and relinquishing our faulty attitudes towards self and others shows us how to breathe in life differently allowing us to see with new eyes. Forgiveness is the healing balm, while perception is the transformative power. What could we possibly be waiting for?

 


In Service I AM,

Rev. Alisa Battaglia
 



Without Forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

~Robert Assagioli

 


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