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Answer of the Month (there will be no more Answers of the Day. Way too presumptuous! Head Office has cancelled the program, and disbanded the crew.)
Nothing can stop what is coming, but that doesn't mean...
... doesn't mean you will understand how it comes
... doesn't mean you will know when it comes
... doesn't mean you will like or approve of the way it comes
... doesn't mean you will move in concert with the way it comes
Understanding how it comes... that's up to you and me. Are we relentlessly searching for understanding? Working our minds? Continuing to investigate not just for facts, but for understanding?
Knowing when it comes.... that's up to them. But if we can consistently work on and construct an empowering understanding, then we may be able to recognize the signs. "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near."
Liking how it comes.... Ay, there's the rub. For unless you are being challenged, or challenging yourself, then you may just find that you don't like certain things, or even disapprove. Or even doom. But this is why the Great Awakening must be YOUR great awakening as well. Metaphorically, humanity, and each of us too, if we engage in GA, is being squeezed through a bottleneck. The things that make it harder to move through that narrow, tightening bottleneck are the things that we don't really need in the place we are going: ego, selfishness, prejudice, an unopen mind, too rigid a way of thinking, identification with this fallen corrupted world.
Moving in concert with the way it comes.... Again, the more you and I are divested of that which holds us back, which makes the bottleneck more painful than less painful, the more naturally we will move forward in concert with how it comes.
So, first and foremost, faith. Have faith in God, or faith in the future, or faith in your ability to be more than you were yesterday, or faith in your fellow countrymen and people, or faith in Christ, or faith in the power of good, and all or any of the above.
Faith begets vision, and vision empowers. Walking through the darkness is truly the test of faith, when you can see nothing at all. It is darkest before the dawn, but he who collapses before the dawn will fail to see it's light.
Hope, then. Hope begets Faith. Hope begets ability, and mobilizes capacities we never knew we had.
And Love. Love God, love humanity, love creation, and love the good. Love begets hope.
And remember: nothing can stop what is coming.
Your explanation reminded me of the refining of a precious metal.
And in order to really embrace and serve and be served by the 7 Billion people that are here will take some Patience, Truth and Courage and other things I believe you allude to.
kek.
Maybe I'll reboot. It just seems kinda way too pretentious to posit "Answer for the Day", as if the answers are really answers, and actually the answer to anything.
It was originally designed as a bit of a spoof, obviously, to parlance with Question of the Day, which, for a Q research bunch of frogs, makes great sense.
Questions are hardly ever pretentious, answers, well, who the heck is the Iron guy to provide answers??????
I dunno. I don't think anyone ever took the AOTD as anything other than a bit of a sometimes jovial blurb, but the "This is the answer" concept seems too ..... I dunno.
Maybe Musing of the Day? Extraneous Remark of the Day?
That said, perhaps I just cannot handle the pressure of having to show up consistently....
PS. FI is ketoing too. No rice. Just lotsa kimchi jiggae with that yummy tofu...
When I stay way from the boards my mind wanders.... I saw a pic of Jill Biden as a kid on Joe's lap.
A kid who was just babysitting to get some extra money. This devil groomed her, probably got her involved in his wife's death and has owned her ever since. She's a victim of him and trapped in the shame of her own weakness and deeds. I'm going to pray she gets the courage to stand up and face what she has done and tells her story.