Of all the things we go
searching for in life, forever is one of the
most futile and most elusive searches of all. It
is elusive in that it is often disguised as a
need for security, or a need for a guarantee of
our security. And this of course is actually
fear based. The need for forever is futile
because forever is actually already here, and it
is “disguised” as love.
For if there is one
guarantee in all of life, it is that all is
love. You can be secure in that. The need for
forever is actually one of the veils, a self
imposed and mass imposed thought form we have
chosen to protect ourselves from ourselves
because we are afraid.
Ironically, our need to
put things in a box called forever, actually
limits our experience of forever, because our
concept of forever is much smaller than forever
actually is. So in our need to have forever, we
actually limit it. And it is like that game for
children where blocks of certain shapes must be
matched with the holes of the same shape. Where
we have a limiting definition or need for
forever to be a certain form, we pass by, often
do not accept, love that comes in other shapes
and sizes than our perceived needs when we could
actually get love in a much higher form than we
expected if we let go of the expectation. The
universe if full of delectable experiences and
yet we go “shopping” with the same
expectations, with the same list as we always
carry, pushing our carts (our hearts) down the
same old aisles, seeing the same choices. Or, to
use another example, it is like trying to
understand the ocean unaware that we are using
only a thimble as our concept.
What does forever mean to
you? When we trace the meaning of this word back
to wherever we obtained it, it usually connects
to so many people and events that we find
ourselves trapped, wrapped in cords of our own
making. We realize we are like dogs on a leash,
except we are being walked by our own
definitions, definitions that no longer fit.
Forever may mean
responsibility, another heavy word to most of
us. Responsibility means the ability to respond.
And we respond via our definition of who and
what we are accountable to. Again we are
responding here to our definitions. Even our
values are based on our definitions. This is one
reason why people from different cultures and
different backgrounds often have communication
difficulties.
Yet forever does exist.
For all our chasing after it, for all our
looking for it, you will experience it when you
stop trying to find it. Love is recycled. Just
as when you pass from this life in human form to
the next. Your energy shifts. You are still
love, just in a different form. And since you
exist for forever, you have recycled, taken
another turn on the spiral of life and love. It
is only in trying to figure out what we have not
yet experienced, or trying to see what is
happening via an outdated understanding (such as
the thimble) that holds us back from knowing
forever, knowing love.
When we try to understand
forever, we get trapped in our own cords.
Forever is too vast for us to easily understand
the way we used to understand things. It is more
of a felt sense. You may have noticed over time
that your felt sense, your ability to understand
in a “new” or intuitive way is growing.
Humanity, indeed all beings on your planet, and
Earth herself are opening to new ways of being
which require new ways of understanding and
knowing. You do not need to know where your
definitions of forever, or of anything else,
came from. This will just cause you to create
new cords involved with responsibility and
struggle to figure things out. You do not need
to know who or what you are allowing to walk you
on your leash. All you need to do is surrender
the leash, let go of the cords.
Signed English, a type of
sign language, translates “forever” into the
words “always still.” We suggest that when you
realize that you can enter into the stillness of
the oneheart, onelove and onemind, you will find
the always, the forever that you have been
searching for. It is always there, for love is a
constant and love is forever.
