Self Effort and Grace: Take Advantage of the Grace
Conversations with Linda

LINDA:
Dear Peace Mother, how I miss hearing your voice! I listen to you like a child hears the mother's voice and you restore me. It has been like a lifetime since we have talked and this worries me. I appreciate your care but do not feel as if I deserve you. I am concerned with trying to stay in the circle of your enveloping arms and to remain strong and resolved in the good work of daily practice but it seems that life currently is conspiring to spread me too thinly. Please do not think badly of me as I feel badly enough. I hope that we can gain this understanding and humor back. I wish you well and wish for you to be happy and fulfilled. I realize that I know nothing about who you are as we have been focusing on me! I should like to re-direct my gaze... I look forward to hearing from you, in peace and love... Linda.

PEACE MOTHER:
"Dearest Beauty-full One, for this is what your name Linda means...it is good you are aware of being pulled by the light and dark forces at the same time. It is good you are concerned and there is reason to be concerned about the direction you are allowing the waves of life to take you. Premlayo and I are sending you waves of transformative light to help you break the chains of spiritual amnesia, but at every moment it is you and only you who can make the self effort that is needed to go along with Divine Mother Grace. I recognize what is going on with you, as I all-ways see clearly what is going on with everyone around me, and by that I do not mean on a superficial level. Since you want some of what Premlayo has access to, and since it is your Re-Birth Day, I shall give you quite a few Golden Teachings. May you value them, and may they serve you well:

I see the spiritual battle that is ongoing for your soul. I feel only compassion for you and for everyone on the Beauty-full Radiant Earth, know that you are included in my daily prayers. I understand that each person will make choices as to how to use their Life Force, and that they will make it based on their capacity. It is my duty to encourage the little brothers and sisters to listen to their soul's calling and choose to walk hand in hand with the Divine, more and more.

However, it is up to each individual to listen to this guidance. Each choice has a consequence and we must never forget this. One cannot be an Impeccable Warrior if they indulge forget-fullness. To succeed on the spiritual path in the highest way, one must memorize a code of honor, a code of Golden Laws, that you choose to live your life by and then you commit your life towards upholding those Universal Positive principles.

Self effort is supremely important on the spiritual path. It is not up to the Grace to do everything for you. Each person must apply plenty of self effort, out of respect for the Grace they are demanding, invoking, and petitioning from their Spiritual Protectors. The bird flies by using both wings, Grace AND self-effort, so you will determine the pace of your spiritual unfoldment based on the amount and quality of self effort you put forth.

My message for everyone, at all times, is the same:

· Live life joy-fully, live life in a Victory-us way
· Respect yourself, others and Divine Mother's Creation.
· Pray, sing, dance, love, laugh, meditate, make sacred sounds, and offer it all to the Universal harmony by donating all your beauty-full actions and thoughts to humanity.
· Remember who gave you this life force and praise that Benevolent Force each day
· Honor those Compassionate Celestial and Earth Forces that assist you in your walkabout here on the Radiant Flowering Earth, by feeding them with your sacred offerings each day.
· Choose to be happy, choose to be a Positive Force for all of humanity
· Choose to be the brightest, most steady light and shine that light for all of Divine Mother's Creation, illuminating the path for humanity
· Choose to reach your Highest Destiny with each breath, with each moment, with each step.
· Walk the BIG Walk, Dream the BIG Dream, sing the BIG Song, Pray the BIG prayer, carry the BIG Faith and radiate the BIG LOVE to the ends of all Universes, to the ends of all Galaxies….
· Be the living, breathing, Flame of Peace. Direct this Peace into everything and everyone around you

When we live as sacred beings, we live this life as a sacred life and this means doing everything from a sacred point of view, with sacred intentions. This leaves no room for self-destructive behavior. So start your new cycle with the vow to be awake and aware as to which forces, the negative or the positive, are influencing each of your actions. Each action and thought casts a vote. By what you choose, you show your loyalty to either the dark side or the Light.

It is not life that is conspiring against you, it is the eternal negative forces that are assigned to drive a wedge between all beings and their highest, purest soul path. I thank you for your blessings and thank you for your love. Know that I do not think badly of you, like a faith-full Divine Scientist, I simply observe and pray for those around me. If your soul is happy with the way you are leading your life, then excellent. If you do some soul searching and you find you are not hitting the highest mark, then you must see where and how in your life, you can make changes.

If you were to chose to go into another profession at this time of your life, you would need to get training. So you would need to enter a training school, and this would require changes in your schedule, in your home life, in the way you prioritize your life, wouldn't it. Or, for example, if you found your self out of shape physically, and decided that you wanted to enter a sporting event, competition or race, you would find that you would need to make changes in your diet and in order to work in enough exercise, your "comfy" routine would have to change. All routines are comfortable even the ones we think we are unhappy or uncomfortable in. By "comfy" we are referring to habit. The petty self likes to hang on to the known. It takes great courage to make sacrifices, to venture into the unknown and trust. But sacrifice is what makes any action so full-filling. If it comes easily, humans do not value it as much. Sacrifice, giving more of our self, stretching yourself, exerting of ourselves, this is what earns the badge of courage. This Courage, Willingness and Love, is what builds the soul muscles and rings the bell of freedom for the Universe, for all beings.

So, it is all-ways a matter of how much you want what you say you want to live, experience, and do. Changes are never easy for anyone. And there is all-ways plenty of support from the little ego and from all those around you who are still ruled by the little, fear-full ego, for staying stuck, or for moving slower on the path of growth, especially when it comes to your the Spiritual Path.

As I all-ways encourage everyone, I shall encourage you: think impermanence and take advantage of the Grace that is available. Don't apologize, there is no need. It is not my life we are concerned about, it is yours. If you are not hungry for the Grace that is being served in this Divine Banquet Room called Sacred Peace Center, by this Divine Cook, I do not take it personally. But, if you are thirsty for more of the Divine nectar you have tasted, then get up and get going, go and get some more! What are you waiting for? An invitation? You have already been invited to this Hall of Nectar, you have already been invited to Dance with the Angels! The Angels invite, they don't beg you to dance with them, and they are not here to bother anyone.

~ Peace Mother ~