Are We As Transparent To Others As We Think We Should Be?

There comes a time when we must recognise the truth about ourselves.  There is the reality of what we are and what we do.  Then there is the picture that we show to others.

There is the well-known saying that, “We wear our heart on our sleeve.”  In other words, we show our emotions readily for all to see and don’t try and hide what some people may not like.

“Honesty is the best policy,” we are told and so it is.  If you tell lies they will always find you out.  You cannot remember all the lies you have told and so you will trip yourself up sooner or later.

Then George Washington was six years old he was given a hatchet with which he chopped down his father’s favourite cherry tree.  His father asked, “Who had done this?”  The young George is supposed to have said, “It was I, father.  I cannot tell a lie!”

Those who recognise their own conscience, will find that they suffer by being untruthful.  If they do something wrong, it festers in their minds until they admit it and put it right.

Those who are ambitious seem to find it easy enough to turn their backs on their conscience and keep saying and acting what suits them best.

If they go to certain churches, it seems easy enough to visit the confessional at regular intervals to be absolved by making some trivial penance and to being let off.

This is a common enough happening around the world in certain churches, which peddle forgiveness for just a few dollars more.  Forgiveness given this way by a man dressed in white for purity, doesn’t represent the Almighty except in his own mind.

Forgiveness comes from the heart and must be forgiven by the one who was wronged.  No one can forgive a person for what they did to another except that person themselves.

We all need to seek that forgiveness for ourselves from all those who we have deliberately or accidently wronged by thought or word or deed. 

Benjamin Franklin is famously quoted as saying, “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”  This is of course very true, because we don’t always know that there will be a tomorrow for us.

We are here on this earth plane for a set time and we don’t know when our passing into the next dimension will be.  If we knew it would affect our behaviour in so many ways, so it is kept from us.

Many, who have had Near-Death Experiences and were taken into a dimension of unconditional love, found that it was too great for them to describe using earthly vocabulary.

They always comment on the love and the light as being greater than anything that they had ever witnessed.  They were blessed with a chance to see where they were going to and what direction they needed to take.

Before they returned, they were told that they had to come back to continue their life on this earth plane, as it was not yet their time.  Miraculously their symptoms of dying were gone.  They returned.

They were given another chance to set their lives back in order before they pass finally into that dimension and they witness their own life revue and are shown what they had done well and what they failed to complete.

We never know when that time is coming, so we must act honourably and seek our own forgiveness before we run out of time to do so.

Jenny and Michael Ayers

Saturday, 6^th October 2018