Why Are We Here!
Danielle over at Graceful Addict asked me…’When you refer to “his” love – or “his” spirit of love – I assume you mean God but what does that mean to you ? Are we not all it ? As a collective maybe – to expand our consciousness – our souls/spirits/love – through the physical being? Big question I know – maybe a post if you are so moved to do so…Thank you Mark!’.
I started writing a comment back to her but…Spirit said…🤣
So, here is what I have touched, felt, heard and…become because of it…
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Ok…yes…God’s love is all around in everything, and I mean everything. It’s like a frequency just all around. In the tree’s, rock’s, river and air…even us. In the spiritual state up there we become part of it, all of us together, but still an ‘us’ within it…but down here we have become ‘split’, that is the condition in this conditional world down here. We need to ‘feel’ this split so that we can see and appreciate God’s unconditional world back up there in that spiritual state up there.
One of the first things Spirit said to me was…we know everything as spirit…but we do not ‘know’ it. It is like reading all about the space shuttle. We would know all about it but have absolutely no idea of actually experiencing it. To go inside it, to fly it, to orbit in it, to land in it. These can only be understood in experiencing them all.
Love is exactly the same thing, we see it in so many ways…but cannot understand until we experience it. Hence being down here without it, split away from that perfect love ‘up there’. And in all our experiences truly appreciate what we have been given up there. Going through so much so we can ‘let go’ what doesn’t feel right and become what does. That love.
I have only ‘touched’ unconditional love up there very briefly. and once touched I just wanted to ‘let go down here’ and be there…but I was blocked. It gave me an understanding in that short moment to ‘feel’ and appreciate what is there after this down here. And there truly are no words for that unconditional love, it is so beautifully profound. But I knew that my appreciation of it was built from all that we touch down here…each and every step. It isn’t one or two things we experience because ‘all’ that we experience slowly leads us to that appreciation of just what we are becoming in this very journey. The good and the bad. We must feel sadness so that we can truly appreciate happiness…or with what would we measure it by. And they all have a purpose those many emotions, they all allow us to ‘see’ what love truly is by experiencing them all. And all experiences build those incredible parts of us to open to that love…the empathy and compassion this world teaches us.
And in our journey we have many expectations down here…but they help us find us. Every time we put an expectation anywhere, we feel it. And in that we either let it go or claim it, sometimes even letting it go further on in life. Until finally realizing they taught us well…but we no longer need them and let it all go in that final understanding. One cannot be reached without the other, it all comes down to an understanding of experiencing them all.
We have been given a very incredible opportunity to find that something within ourselves…unconditionally. Our choice each and every step. Much guidance by God’s Spirit (usually referred to as the Holy Spirit), within us…but even that is an acceptance or not. It has to be by us or it isn’t unconditional…it has been added to by ‘something else’ and not our own. Our Spirit within has been isolated (that probably isn’t the right word, more a blocking so we can go through what is needed so to speak but still connected), to find that beauty of what unconditional love is. In its acceptance in this journey is a re-connection with God’s Spirit. We can hear God’s Spirit, feel it and touch it, but it isn’t until we accept it unconditionally do we become a full part of it again. All of us, like a great big community. And I know this sounds odd but we are always a part of God’s Spirit…but…we don’t feel His unconditional love fully either. This journey is to rejoin with it. But it is there, it is just us blocking it down here. But the more open we become in that love, the closer we get to that ‘re-connection’ with God’s Spirit and His love, all together.
I have seemingly come across what seems to be contradictions to things in my journey…but I have seen that these things are simply because I didn’t understand. In the unconditional state up there I ‘knew’ everything. If I wanted to know something I just thought about it, and it was there. It was almost like all of our experiences down here are all put into a computer server somewhere and can be accessed from wherever I am in an instant. The full knowledge, the feelings, everything in an instant. That is a very hard thing to come to terms with down here, it just doesn’t seem possible. But up there it is. And I think because we are all connected up there and have that access to all.
And in my spiritual counseling I dare to ‘open’ to God’s Spirit and sometimes its hard because I still have ‘bits’ I’m hanging onto. But on those days that I’m truly open, I can ‘feel’ that love and the beauty of its guidance. If I try to control it in any way, it fades. If I just stand within it, it speaks. Much practice to get there…but first the negativities and fears of life to understand what I don’t want, so that I do want to step into that love. And yes, it is a hard world. But I know now that it does have a very beautiful purpose. Yes, I cheated and got to ‘feel’ unconditional love where most don’t…but I got dropped into something I wouldn’t wish on another soul too. But it was there that I saw…everything. I even had the audacity to ask God…’show me where love is on a world so devoid of it’. So He did. Beware what you ask for, you just might get it.
But even so, we all have our fears, and they are a terror to us all. But I am so glad I have taken each and every step that I have regardless…and yes, those very same fears too…because I can see they all are creating something wonderful. And when you see it, you too will be glad of each and every step you have ever taken 🤗❤️🙏
I hope that adds to it Danielle, if not ask away below and I’ll add whatever I know 🤗
P.S. Just an aside…Spirit has never spoken to me about reincarnation. Not that it isn’t there, it just isn’t needed for my journey I suppose so never came up 🤗
Hi Mark! I got your message! I’m really sorry about why the commenting situation is the way it is. I wanted to let you know I got your message. I so appreciate you!!! 🙏🏻💗 Always sending you love! 💗 Ka
Thanks Ka 🤗 My site suffers from it, many trying to leave a comment but it refuses them because it says they need to be logged in…when they already are. Frustrating for sure. I’ll keep trying, it usually does it for a while then suddenly I’ll slip through and catch it unguarded 🤣❤️🙏
Same here, Mark! It’s such a thing. Also I have trouble getting anywhere with WordPress if I’m not using the reader. It’s that same circular problem. If I had more time in my day I would probably be hours with tech support on this issue alone! I’m traveling soon and my day is booked full. I better get started! I’m glad that you contacted me with the form. Also sending blessings to your blog! May your blog be free from the endless loops! 🔁 all our blogs! 😁 hugs and love from a day away from being at the airport for a seminar this weekend. I’ll probably post something from there, because travel gets me creative and inspired⭐️ Happy day/night to you dear Mark in the land down under 🤣🤗
Thank you Ka. It can be frustrating bouncing around trying to function on WP. Anyway, have a great time at the seminar, I hope it brings lots of love, light and a chocolate or two 🤗
Oh so you were the one who sent that chocolate! I was gifted a whole bar of dark chocolate with the best functional mushrooms! What a gift 🎁 🙂
Mmm, now there’s a mix. I told the angel courier to select with a taste for the natural 🤣❤️🙏
Well done, Mark. Well done! 👍 🍫 💗🙏🏻💕👏🥰
Haha 🤣❤️🙏
The opening is a very powerful experience and journey, Mark. “Dare to open” is the key. Truth and dare—not truth or dare. 😍 I am grateful for this beautiful share and the touch of unconditional love it imparts. 🩶🙏🩶
Thank you kind lady for your share. This journey is indeed a very powerful and loving path to find us and that meaning we ever look for. It takes a while to realize those hard bits are the greatest in their wisdom, a truth as we realize the meaning they impart. A moment in time where we do dare to go beyond what we are, dare to change and go beyond those fears that held us.
I got both your comments, I’ve set it up so that it doesn’t put your comment up until I answer it, but it should say your comment is submitted. I had a couple of hiccups earlier so I ‘tuned’ it this way. Thank you for both shares 🤗🤣❤️🙏
I didn’t think the other went through because it was asking me to sign in when I already signed, so … oops I did it again … in some form or another. 🤣
A lot of people are having those problems on my site kind lady, I don’t think it is my underarm deodorant 🤣 But it is frustrating not knowing if its gone through, rejected you or I’ve just gone for a cup of coffee 😂 But thankfully all is well…now. Thank you for the share 🤗❤️🙏
😄 It’s not you, it’s them…the WP powers that be. 👻 My pleasure, as always.
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Dearest Mark, thank you for sharing with us your perspective on what unconditional Love is. To grasp such a vast and expansive concept as what Love truly is, puts us all on our individual journeys that teach us what Love is not, and what Love is. Your beautifully described in words that speak to our hearts where you are on your personal journey and I so do thank you. I leave you with a “teaser” on what is to come for you. There is no up there and down here. For all is connected and all is ONE. Heaven as we call that state of BEing, is here and everywhere and in between that. Wrap your head around that! Coming soon to your theater! Much Love to you! xoxo
Hey Amy, welcome back dear lady. And yes, unconditional love ‘just is’ all around as one. I just give a perception as it isn’t the main topic in a lot of my posts…but, I am most certainly looking forward to where you have been kind lady. I can feel you all rested, excited and raring to go. Maybe you’ve been on a little adventure while you’ve been away? And I hope all of your family are going well…those many fur babies, horse and hubby of course. Much love returned in kind Amy, and looking forward to the catch up xox 🤗❤️🙏
All is Good here, Mark. Thank you for asking! As for Beloved Family, that has grown exponentially and in a way that leaves me stunned. I have no idea what I will be sharing either. These days I’m flying blindly and allowing the clues to unfold for me to follow. seriously! LOL
Haha, great to hear Amy. Then may it unfold as only love can kind lady 🤣❤️🙏
Thank you, Mark, for this ode to love on this Sunday morning. I could “listen to”…read your words all day long. To know this place…and then to honor it…not just once (as many people do) but to continue to honor it…day in and day out…minute to minute…YES! That is what life is about, and I am so grateful to witness it! Hope you are well…sending lots of love and light…and healing energy ❤️
Feeling well thank you Lorrie, as I hope you are also. And Love is such a powerful thing kind lady, it ever touches us in so many ways. And this world…I could not think of something that is so perfect to touch us all in so many ways so we can see the beauty of love in experiencing it all. I will ask you a question if I may…how do you feel after your stage event recently? When we face something like that the change in us is truly profound. We appreciate ourselves so much more in daring to do something out of our safety zone…and in doing so love ourselves more openly, more powerfully, and with a belief we never realized we could build. Take a bow kind lady, you have loved well. Much love and light to you also my friend, may there be many more heart building adventures to be made 🤗❤️🙏
Thanks, Mark!! Ha ha…it’s funny you bring up the stage event. It was awesome and it did everything you said above and more. And the funny part is that I am reaching out of my comfort zone once again this coming Friday. I am offering a free experiential workshop on Zoom about my new offer for female writers. So I am truly hoping that all of the above will bless me with more openness.
Thank you Mark!! It is a journey and I am finally living my life the way I want to live it…and it feels good! ❤️
Well done Lorrie. You’ve opened a pathway, a very loving one. And I hope it continues to ‘feel good’ 🤗❤️
And I will send lots of blessings for this adventure, with love and light for however it goes kind lady. You dared it, that is what love is. Good luck my friend, glad to hear the smile in your voice because of it 🤗❤️🙏
Thanks, Mark! I so appreciate the support and words of encouragement! Feeling a little bit overwhelmed as I woke with a migraine this morning…which takes precious time I need right now. I am just trying to go with it and know that all is as it should be.
Many Sweet Blessings, my friend. ❤️
Put those heartfelt hands on your migraine kind lady and heal it, just as you did in your onstage performance. Many people do not realize the power that is in that love within. Many blessing returned in kind Lorrie 🤗❤️🙏
Thank you, Mark!! Powerful…yes…we are so powerful when we connect with that energy of LOVE!!!
Have a super wonderful week ahead, Mark. ❤️
Will do my friend, and good luck with your project 🤗❤️🙏
Thanks, Mark ❤️
Wonderful post, Mark. I thought I had commented but I guess not. I’ve been having trouble with my comments on some blogs. Anyway, you nailed it as always. Your beautiful words are helping so many.
We all minister Michele, just as your lovely site speaks to many too. And yes, commenting can become an art form some days to get through the hiccups. Thank you for your comment and lovely words. Always appreciated kind lady 🤗❤️🙏
I finally fixed this so that my reader identifies your blog and lets me comment. I’m going to work on the next level. I keep thinking about the flow of love after I read your words here for Danielle (and everyone). Yes, even the fears and all the steps we take, we end up appreciating when we are in the flow of the full unconditional love. 💗 it’s a knowing that has no cause/effect relationship. Hugs! 🤗
Hey Ka, I’m allowed back into the playroom am I? 🤣 And yes, this is a very powerful journey. When you finally ‘see and understand’ its like being cooped inside for a dark and dreary winter, to finally step out into a lovely warm spring day. The blinkers are off and truly appreciated after such a path. Big hugs to you also Ka, may your spring arrive soon 🤗❤️🙏
Thank you dear friend 🙏🏻✨♥️
I find it interesting how when some people discover this love and see and feel the depth of love God and the universe have for them, that they then try to bottle it up, so to speak, and sell it to others as the “one way, or true way”. Yet our reality is not that one truth fits all, but that each of us needs to work to discover our own individual truth, for we each have different soul and life lessons to learn.
We cannot lament “why do those hateful, hurtful people not see what they need to do in this life?”, for they have made their choices to think and live how they see fit, even if it is destructive towards others. Perhaps they will only learn after their time here is done, and God is working with them in a loving way in the Spirit realm, so they can see that the ways they chose were not what was needed for themselves or others around them.
A soul’s journey and development is a individual choice of action and acceptance, some are blessed to see this in this lifetime, to then be able to practice and try to perfect it, while others will have their opportunities to develop later. I see God as so infinitely loving, that this impossibility is possible.
Well spoken Tamara, and yes to that ever bottling up our love, afraid to open for fear of being hurt. Our fears do indeed have a very profound affect on our journey, they take us down a very long road…but…it is this very road and its experiences that slowly temper who and what we are so that we build that empathy and compassion, break free from its hold to finally touch what love really means.
And very yes that it is a very unique and individual journey to find us, no two the same. I can guide in a general sense, and even more individually on a one on one…but…this path we take is built on us making our own choices so that an appreciation of what we are individually can be made. And because of that realize the love we have become because of us and the paths we choose.
Some do find it so tough they can’t go beyond themselves, stand in their fear and give from that place. I, and you, and many others, share of what we are so any that feel lost may have a ‘hope’ in what we have all achieved in daring to go beyond our fears. Are there more ‘lives’ to achieve this understanding? I don’t know as Spirit has never mentioned it too me. But I have no doubt that many paths at least prod us all to ‘see’ something and go beyond it. I do think that one of the hardest things is to forgive ourselves in so many things. That seems to hold us in so many ways for so long. But isn’t that what love is, to find what we truly are inside and go beyond it into something very beautiful and profound.
And oh definitely yes, so many impossibilities I’ve seen and touched. And I couldn’t see because I didn’t understand. There is so much in this world of unconditional love that it does ‘everything’ to guide us to its purity. Hence to get our hands dirty down here so that when they are washed we will truly appreciate what we have become. The one thing that always stands out in my mind was that ‘touch’ of unconditional love. There truly are no words, the only thing that comes to mind is that quote by God…’I am’…there is no justification, or rider or anything…it is that powerful and heartfelt a moment. And that everything is indeed possible.
Thank you for your share Tamara, may this incredible experience be the making of us all regardless the path 🤗❤️🙏
We can study and mediate for years and think we know … but as you say, we can only experience awakening beyond the thinking mind and intellect. That’s when a new reality opens up and changes us forever. Great share Mark. Thank you 💐🙏🥰
Beautifully said Val, it is only when we are ready that it will begin to speak in a voice we will recognize. Thank you for sharing kind lady, may its destiny be that love we all look for 🤗❤️🙏
WOW Mark…. I think that was the most profound piece of writing I have read, that explains Love and why we are here to experience it warts and all… No two experiences ever the same yet we are all working our way towards finding our hearts and allow them to be filled with unconditional love…
Thank you for sharing your answer to Danielle.. ❤️
Much love dear Mark 💖🙏✨
My pleasure kind lady. It is, even among the mayhem…or more specifically because of them, that we are building that love and its understanding Sue. I thought the world was just out to get me. But slowly that wisdom…yes, even me…began to light up those dark places and allowed me to see something very beautiful and precious. When I saw what it was…I couldn’t speak a word for what I now saw was there. It was understanding, meaning and purpose, all wrapped in one.
And thank you for ever sharing your journey kind lady, it too shows your love on a path held dear 🤗❤️🙏
We all of us have to walk our walk before we can talk our talk.. 🙂 learning and growing as we go… What a Journey it has been and even all the shadows, have only shown us just how much light is possible..
Much love Mark… ❤️
Indeed kind lady, and we’ll get there 🤗❤️🙏
Incredible insights Mark – and as always I read and re-read your posts. It takes time to process here – but in a very good way.
I too have come to understand the part you share about us ultimately having all the answers down here – and once we ask – it truly is given.
I think we are given the “illusion” of forgetting who and what we truly are – so we can have the experience to expand in finding that love. We can’t know it unless it is blocked and then we travel down every “yellow brick road” trying find it – line up with it – when everytime it leads us right back home…to our heart our spirit our grace – our power within to reconnect with what we thought we lost.
Such great stuff Mark thank you again for being soooooo available to answer such questions.
Much love and appreciation!
Danielle
Haha, I love your ‘yellow brick road’. It is exactly that though sometimes that lovely glow of light is dimmed sometimes. And what I explained in my experiences is a general guide, I have no doubt that each of us will have our own unique path to find us on that ‘yellow brick road’.
And it does amaze me in how we always attract the very thing that is our bane in life, the one place that pokes and prods the sorest place within us so that we will eventually build enough courage to step beyond it. It’s so like Jesus died on the cross for us and in return we just have to accept His love, that unconditional place inside us all. But to go there we have to love ourselves first, go beyond those conditional things we hold against us, and in that understanding finally let go and be free.
It is a big journey, but truly only then will we appreciate just what we have found by doing so. Thank you for your reply Danielle, a heart found speaks so differently from the one that was lost. But I have no doubt the love you are finding is making it worth every step you take. You path has tested you so much and those you love. Sometimes I wish there was a switch at the end and it will all go away…but I think we ever hold those scars ‘down here’ so that we will truly appreciate what it took in that journey to find the empathy, compassion and love that we have become…because of those very things.
Now this bit I touched ‘up there’, the unconditional love all around…didn’t have time for all that went before, and whatever we do we stand in it. Do you remember when you first fell madly, deeply in love. You were on top of the world and you could move mountains, heal everything and there was no room for yucky bits…you were above it all. That (and a 100 times more up there), were so beyond it in that love. Are the scars there still? They probably are but that love takes you so far beyond it. In that too is a very beautiful and profound love.
Hang in there kind lady, it is worth each and every step you take. He promises that.
Much love to you and the man at your side, and an appreciation what you both share in your journey too 🤗❤️🙏
Great answers to great questions, Mark! “One of the first things Spirit said to me was…we know everything as spirit…but we do not ‘know’ it.” Amen, Amen! That line stood out and really resonated with me. Many thanks for the beautiful share, my dear friend. Your personal experiences with higher consciousness and struggles with fear are always inspirational, relatable and moving. 🙏❤️🥰
Thank you MM. I put myself in a place that tested me somewhat 🤣 But aren’t we all 😂 And as I faced myself I saw a couple of truths that my masks had covered over so I decided a rebuild was required. Plus I dared God to show me love. That took me places I would never have even remotely touched, simply because I didn’t understand. So I was guided to that understanding. So all those experiences gradually built an understanding so that I could reach that love within me. In fact it was a clearing out sale, remove all the junk so I could see again. And I shouldn’t say junk because it all has a purpose. And like any classes we slowly progress and go beyond what was there before. Thank you for sharing kind lady, may that place we reach for be that profoundly beautiful 🤗❤️🙏
Beautiful response, Mark. As I read, I kept saying, “Yes,” in my mind. Everything resonated so profoundly. I’ll only add that I get the sense that there’s a sort of feedback loop of our experiences expanding the mind of the One while we shift our level of consciousness to connect to the One. I’ve had beings come into my healing sessions specifically to observe and learn (with permission). But more so, I’m surrounded by my healing team who supports me in transmuting consciousness. It’s my belief that we’re all here to experience whatever our soul wants to experience, without judgment.
I have no doubt there is many more things than I have experienced kind lady, and yes to the feedback loop. I think it is all connected and even in that it has a purpose. I’ve even had ‘others’ like you mentioned and come into a healing session for whatever their reasons were. No interference just a loving connection to what was occurring. And also we are indeed down here to experience so much so that we can find that love and beauty in those experiences. Thank you for sharing, may this journey ever guide us heart and soul to that love 🤗❤️🙏