The Christ Walk!
I wrote a comment to my incredible friend Karla over at Flannel with Faith who is being a powerful soul as she goes through a very tough time as she faces some hard moments in a health crisis. And Spirit took me to touch a place where our souls can truly relate. Her last post Jampacked June had a recorded ‘fireside chat’ with her friend Tim, and it touched something. Something within us all, something that Karla shares by just being Karla, as we know only Karla can do…
It is a very profound journey to ‘let go and let Him’ Karla. And as you have said, as you go through so much, the sickness, the pain, the days of fogginess, it truly asks us to let go this trying world and be free in Him.
We do keep busy in so many things, which is a part of living. But in doing that we reach a point of feeling ‘where is there purpose’, why do we feel lost with so much all around. And I’ve only ever had one answer for that. We seek that love and happiness all our lives, and have to test everything to find it. And yes, that is an important part of understanding us and that love we seek. And when we reach that ‘lost’ part of us, only then do we go beyond ‘here’ to find those parts of us that did smile, and go beyond those fearful walls we ever held in front of us as a protection.
But those fears had also kept out the love, ever being ‘on guard’ for all those hurts this world brings. But slowly we dare to go beyond that wall and dare to peek a little deeper into our hearts and finally realize we just (says I), need to face our fears. And like every other thing in this world, we just need to understand something…and in that understanding we let it go. The instant we do, it will set us free. We ever point the finger…until we realize that ‘pointing the finger’ is just us hurt, us that has the problem and are reacting to it. Understand ‘why’ it hurts and it totally loses its power over us.
And your right, it is in being quiet that we do finally listen. And I understand the busyness, its so we don’t have to do the hard stuff. And it is hard. But only then will we appreciate what we have faced, dared to step our courage up and go beyond it.
And I think we are tested to some very powerful depths. As you have found, you reach a point when it is time to ‘trust’ and let go in Him. That IS a very big thing after a lifetime of only being able to rely on us. That is why it is so painful after being so ‘open and trusting’ in someone we love…and they hurt us. Trying to do it at this time, and this time so powerfully is such a profound thing. You are giving your ‘life’ to Him. There is no…oh, I’ll try again tomorrow. It’s the love of trust.
This time in what you are going through, it is a complete let go to completely trust again. And find He won’t let you down, has never left you, and loves in a way that no words can truly express. He just is that love…the unconditional one. And you have now found it, and live it in that trust.
God’s Spirit took me to touch what He is, and there are no words for how beautifully profound that unconditional love is. I tried to just ‘let go’ and fall into what it was…but…apparently…its not my time yet, we have much more to share in this world kind lady 🤣 But I think I understand now what you meant in that Christ’s Walk.
And that love I touched, it has never left me. To ‘know’ what is truly there and is awaiting my time down here makes you realize that as painful as it can be down here…it has a purpose, a very beautiful and profound purpose. And it is simply in understanding us, to find the ‘why’ of our pain so we can fully see and appreciate it. It can be no other way or we would not appreciate truly the beauty that it is. It’s like just being given everything for nothing, we would never appreciate anything ‘given’ again, in fact we would expect it.
We are working for this, and very strongly, so that when that moment opens our eyes, like it did me, I just burst into tears. A lifetimes weight lifted off my shoulders when fears wall fell down and I could see. I finally understood. I had been looking at E=MC squared for so long…until someone shared with me what 2 plus 2 was…each moment building on the last…and on it went in this life so that I could eventually understand what E=MC squared really was. And it was a big bang…in my heart.
And I so love your words of it being a ‘Christ Walk’, it is truly a path of finding us through everything we touch, to find Him and the trust of that love that has ever been with us, inside us, beside us. You show that each and every day in what you share, even while going through so much. You show that faith in Him. When I died and God spoke to me and said ‘I am the giver of life’, I didn’t fully understand that ‘life’. But like all else it slowly opened and I saw of what you speak through your path in Him.
And yes, we are already healed the moment we see and understand Jesus is that path, allowing that trust is that path, love is that path. And it can be in an instant, a moment of a very profound awakening in going through something powerfully, or a long journey to slowly chip away at our wall. Your journey has been very testing Karla, so many paths, so many things to conquer. But I hear your trust as it opens more and more to that walk.
Take a bow kind lady, that is love’s path and you have had the courage to face it with great courage.
I found on my walk that I will start whistling or smiling for no reason. Suddenly stop and watch a butterfly, which is that silence of which you spoke. A cross of light in the woods that He showed you, an appreciation that this world and your life in it, is His life shared with you so that you can find that love and happiness you ever look for. It is such a powerful gift when understood. And back so much earlier in my life it doesn’t look or feel it…but trust me, in His guidance…each and every step, every wobble and stumble is making that imprint within you, that understanding of what love truly is.
One last thing, and this was such a moment. Spirit took me to understand death, and as I ‘let go’ down here Spirit stopped me to look back at the earth (now this is figuratively speaking to show me what is meant), and in an instant I suddenly realized I would not be missing anyone, I was confused at first because it is a first natural reaction. But I wasn’t in that place anymore, I knew I would see those close to me again. I could see this very brief wander back down here (80 odd years), was but a very small but powerful time for us to understand where we are going. There was no time anymore, there was no busyness, there was a connection that goes so far beyond ‘us’, we could obtain any information in the blink of an eye. In that brief moment…I was a loving part of everything.
Spirit wants me to put this one up as a post I think, but it is the ‘you’ that encouraged it Karla, to see you step into that love, especially in going through all you have, and the hope and courage you have found. I’ve had very little ‘religious’ upbringing so my opening to His Spirit within me to guide is a beautiful thing, but to see another guide in you, with that hope and faith only built from your heart opening in that trust, opens another part of me to see its beauty in action.
A few years ago Spirit said to me, come over here and see…thinking I was going to help another soul. But you spoke to ‘me’ instead, that lady of the Flannel and Faith, to share and bring out more of this journey that I hadn’t yet found. For that gift, His gift that you unconditionally share, thank you 🤗🥰🤣🐾🦓🎶🦋🕊️🐬❤️🙏
A very beautiful and loving post, Mark.
Thank you Michele, it has been an interesting journey to realize there is a profound purpose in it all. So many years of tripping and stumbling thinking that there is something wrong with us, to eventually see and understand there is a great meaning in it all. Thank you for sharing kind lady, may your steps keep opening that beauty 🤗❤️🙏
Sending love and light along with your your own healing words. Thank you Mark for walking with us. 💐🙏💖
Thank you Val. Something very beautiful and profound when we see and understand it all. Thank you for sharing your ‘walk’ too 🤗❤️🙏
Walking the walk, and talking the talk is what we do Mark.
And I’m so happy to be on this journey with you also. 💕🙏💕
Even though not in the depth Karla experiences it, I recognized many moments in my life when there was no other way to “survive” (basically mentally) than to let go. I realized, I cannot bear it anymore and can only find freedom in letting go which then was just such a natural process that it was like the step from standing in a circle out of that circle – not more, not less. And I left the whole oppressive confinement in that circle while I stepped into a huge field of liberation. But I could only realize this once I looked back at that circle. The imprisonment or liberation had always been only a step away and the decision to do it had always been my own. That insight, helps to step out of further circles faster because we realize it a lot faster with every experience. On our journey toward the love we have always been that love can tigh us to our knees only to lead us to the greatest freedom we cannot even imagine before we are there.
Thank you for this amazingly inspiring post, Mark. And thank you, Karla, for being such a role model and taking the challenge to show us the journey to our own freedom in finding our way back to the love we are 💖
Thank you Erika, and well said. Those circles are the guideposts in our lives. Safety fences so to speak, and we need them as we do step outside where we feel safe in this world. Whether they be physical or emotional they are in fact a common sense. No one in their right mind would just walk out in front of a car, we in our tripping and stumbling gain that wisdom of the many dangers around us. But we also realize that we do also have our fears. We can see others do things but ‘we’ are afraid. And as time goes by we understand what we seek is ‘out there’ beyond one of those circles…the furthermost one.
And yes, once we make that big step beyond the fearful one and see things from a whole new way, they do become faster to cross because we finally understand us. A big step, and a beautiful one kind lady. Mind you, there are still some that test us in this conditional world. And as I feel Karla facing her path I can hear this powerful acceptance of this journey, hard though it is. But in it an understanding of another circle, one beyond us down here. It is a profound one because it isn’t stepping out into this world anywhere, but into our hearts. A depth that touches us at times but only ever faced when we finally accept ourselves. And realizing that we have just let go this world and gained another. A very loving one, an unconditional one, and realizing there is only one maker of this world.
Thank you for the share Erika, may your circles ever open your heart 🤗❤️🙏
That’s wonderfully despribed, Mark. Sometimes we hold our noses out of our comfortzone, try out how the air smells out there and maybe only then dare to take the first small step outside. Sometimes, maybe with a bit more experience, we just take that step since we know we can only gain. And sometimes we go back and wait while life is preparing (or pushing us more) for the new trip. It is an individula process and I believe that everyone does those steps at the exact right moment… which is something no one else can judge.
Thank you for taking us closer to this point we all are dealing with probably on a daily basis, consciously or unconsciously. Let’s enjoy the ride and the surprising developments when we suddenly reach the limit of our comfort zones. Have a lovely rest of your Sunday, Mark 💖
Thank you Erika, and spoken beautifully kind lady. It is indeed something we all individually do at exactly the right time to benefit us. Even if the odd repeat 🤣 And why the statement of ‘do not judge’, because we each have no idea what the other has been through or even what their aims are.
It was an interesting chat with Spirit. Karla and her chat with Tim had opened something for me and as I wrote the post so much came out. So much so that I think I tried to explain everything too intensely, and maybe a little bit deep. Anyway, the comments between us and others will hopefully fine tune that a bit more.
Thank you for the share kind lady, have a great day yourself 🤗❤️🙏
Can it ever be too deep? I think that is what this world do desperately needs: Depth! And thankfully, you are one of those who provides some depths since only there we can find true salvation. Thank you for writing it your way. We have statements in so many ways but your way adds to it importantly 💖
Thank you Erika, I think I’m just trying to make it understandable from wherever any of us are standing. And I think I stepped out of one of your circles into the next 🤗 Karla and Tim opened something that I had missed due to a very small amount of religion in my upbringing. And after such a long journey from just my spirituality, the two decided to meet each other in a more profound way. I suppose its like seeing New York for the first time, colors, lights, action…so much happening and then trying to explain it in two minutes 🤣
Anyway I shall absorb it a little more and see what it brings. A little holiday within it I think. And speaking of which, I hope you also have a great two weeks Erika, in whatever it brings to you also. Enjoy kind lady, I hope you have a great time 🤗❤️🙏
I hear you, it is like “understanding” the universe but impossible to explain with the mind’s language.
Isn’t it amazing how all of a sudden we receive a seemingly small hint which probably was the last piece to see the picture? It amazes me every time again. And I makes me happy to feel how you feel by slipping another step higher and seeing so much more from a much better view. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Mark 💖
My pleasure Erika. I’ve been blessed in ‘touching’ so many things, as we all do in our own ways. And as you said, it just takes a little light from something to suddenly open a step across those experience/safety circles of which you spoke. Thank you for sharing those too. Have a great break kind lady, may it bring a nice relaxing circle 🤣❤️🙏
Thank you very much, dear Mark. I wonder whether that will happen … and I bet it will 😄💖
Indeed my friend 🤗❤️🙏
Reading your post Mark, having not as yet gone over to Karla’s post, I felt my whole heart open up… The Love that I felt, was overwhelmingly beautiful.
I personally think that is why we keep coming back if we have not yet learned how to access that inner love and that Faith, of Trust, in allowing ourselves to let go and Allow and accept our journey to be led via that Love. Once we give ourselves over to such Faith in what is I assume what your friend is speaking of.. ‘ The Christ-Walk’..
Beautifully said Mark… and I am so pleased you put it into a post, as you shared not only your own thoughts, but your experiences of walking that road.
Sending you much love my friend.. Now I am off to visit the post of Karla’s xx <3
Thank you Sue, it is a big walk we do. And like all wisdom it takes a few trips and stumbles to realize the truth of this walk.
In the beginning we can’t see beneath it all, we have enough trouble paying the bills and relating to all these many others. But in one of those deep and meaningful moments where we feel the world is against us, we finally dare to go beyond what we feel we are locked into. That inner need to find that love and happiness begins to take precedence over all else and we begin to shake off what we start to realize has no meaning anymore.
It is a powerful ‘walk’ in hindsight, after all we have gone through to reach this discovery. But without all those hardships we wouldn’t reach this point to ‘want’ to go beyond it. And it is scary, we don’t know what’s there. But He gives us many nudges along the way. Yes, those choices are still ours, to take a step in that walk or turn away. And we will turn away on many occasions, it isn’t easy. But it is that daring to reach out beyond our fear and reaching its understanding that we will truly appreciate what we have just done.
Thank you for being a part of my walk also Sue, you share a beautiful love and light from your many crafts and garden that are all a part of that.
Much love to you and the two ‘B’s’ kind lady, and thank you for sharing your walk 🤗🥰❤️🙏
Oh, Mark. I tried to write a comment and it disappeared twice so I emailed you! Or maybe it showed up here?
I’m so humbled, dear friend. I cried when I read this, over and over.
THANK YOU for being an inspiration To me. For your precious words and understanding.
“I was a loving part of everything.” YES!
My religious upbringing taught me rules, Mark. I’m so happy you felt as Tim and I–that the opening, or scales falling off my eye, opening up to the Spirit through the complete EMPTYING of me. No more striving harder to be “better”. But to BE–ONE in the Spirit.
You have that same courage. This path we’re on leading to “HOME” is so beautiful. It’s never promised to be EASY. When we get home, I’m going to give you a huge hug (and I’m sure, chocolate!). Finn and I love you dearly, dear friend. It’s such a blessing walking in love and light beside you! 💗❣️🤗🐬🦋✝️🌊💛🦓🐾🙏🏼
Your here Karla, I just have to approve it so it comes through. And yes, you have been a light my friend. Because of what I’ve touched I can now understand this incredible journey and see the beauty within it.
A child can be running along and fall in a puddle…but I can see that next time they will be more careful ‘because’ of that hardship. They call it wisdom, and this journey has it all. And you kind lady have seen many puddles in your path, and the light of that wisdom is shining well.
And His world gives us all this, even those difficult parts to open your heart as it has. And once we are full of this world, but not finding that love and happiness we search for, the time comes to peel away all we hold as it isn’t working. And as the emptying begins, which is that wisdom of the puddles, it dares us to clear those hard bits out. And behind that wall we held is a difficult but oh so precious discovery of that love ever looked for.
Huge hugs, love and His light returned in kind Karla (and Finn too). I’ll keep an eye out for the dolphin courier for the chocolate 🤣 And thank you for sharing your ‘Walk’, I can now see more of the puddles 🤗🥰🤣😂😀😎🐾🦓🎶🦋🕊️🐬❤️🙏
Hi Mark! Nice to see you posting again. Have you worked all the WP bugs out? It’s always heartwarming to hear of the Unsurpassed Love that changed the course of your life. The light of Spirit and Source arrives in many different names and forms—each tailored to the person on the receiving end. That’s what I believe anyway. 😍 May Karla heal and may you continue to whistle, smile, and thoroughly enjoy all the simple pleasures of life. Many blessings of peace, love, and chocolate upon you, my sweet friend. 🙏❤️🌷💝
Alas still bug things MM…but I’m working on it 🤗 And yes, my wander on my walk has been a very profound blessing. To have this guidance from Spirit since I was very young has taken me to amazing places. And in hindsight I think my religious upbringing was kept basic so I could ‘see’ it from another angle. The love angle.
I keep seeing a lot of religion forcing themselves instead of giving. Love cannot be forced, it is unconditional. It’s almost like a forced marriage, and at the least it is teaching the opposite.
Mmm, you’ve also just made me see something not realized before. I was a bad boy and got my girlfriend pregnant at 16, it was effectively a forced marriage. Twenty six years later I can now see that love forced in this way was not love. I grew to love her but that ‘direction’ most certainly does not encourage the unconditional variety. But, like all else we face, we have to see the ‘conditional’ variety first so that we can understand the unconditional love that I now see. It is so night and day the difference.
Thank you kind lady, if I dare to keep my heart open, much more love is discovered. Much love and light to you also MM (oh, and the chocolate 🤣), enjoy the love of your walk too my friend. That one you give yourself unconditionally 🤗❤️🙏
Thanks so much for sharing, Mark. There are so many (hard) lessons to learn as we run, walk, trudge, crawl through life. We will continue our walk together on this journey full of twists and turns. LOVE is the most powerful force in the world…but so many are embracing hate. 🙏💝🌷🥰
Yes, alas they are. I need a ray gun that will eliminate all weapons so that they have to face each other from within. Probably something so foreign to them they’d be lost. But, that is this conditional world, and it will take a great courage to step back and realize the direction they are on is a closing, diminishing place.
When I died on my kitchen floor and faced hell…I can never forget that there was no love. We are so used to it here and now, because it is simply always a part of us…like air. But there…I think this world of God’s is totally unconditional, it is ever up to us to accept it. And if we accept ‘no love’, ie these hatred mongers…I think He will give them just what they want.
Don’t get me wrong, He will give them a billion chances to step away from it, for them to save themselves…but…in hell…every cell in my body screamed. Not dying screaming but a grief times a million at its loss. I can only say…don’t go there…don’t ever go there. There are no words for its horror.
Sorry, it is something I can never forget. May we never face it. And if anything it allowed me to open to the love even more.
Find your love kind lady, and let it set you free 🤗❤️🙏
Nothing to be sorry about, dear Mark. Keep opening to the love and sending it out into the universe. I found it and it is freeing. 🙏🥰🤗
Thank you MM, may that love continue to set you free 🤗❤️🙏
Wow, Mark!
First, sending all beautiful white healing light for your friend. It seems the healing journey has touched her soul and I hope that she continues to thrive in her walk. But your words are so beautiful. Every time I hear you speak this way I just KNOW what God is…what eternal life means…and how we are here preparing for something better! Thank you for always speaking from your soul and imparting such beautiful wisdom. You have this beautiful, one, extraordinary life – and I know that you LIVE it!
Thanks for bringing me to a deep place in my own understanding this morning.
Much love to you, friend 💜💜
Thank you Lorrie, Karla is going through a difficult time and would appreciate that love and light from you, thank you 🤗❤️
And it is in ‘feeling’ her journey through a very difficult time that Spirit asked me to truly understand that walk in we all do. We all go through so much, just as you have very recently and dared to find that love through your fears. A very profound moment for you kind lady, to reach beyond it and realize there is a much more profound and beautiful love gently waiting for that moment. It is only in making that decision ourselves that achieves that beauty, and an appreciation of what we’ve found in doing it.
And the most amazing part of this walk is when you step through it, the entire world changes. You smile for no reason, you stop and look at things that before were just walked past. You had no time, ‘now’ it is everything. And an incredible part is, we now just want to share what we found. We find what we have ever looked for, and the ‘happy’ within us has people asking what have we found.
Enjoy the journey Lorrie, you’ve climbed that big hill, now you can enjoy the view 🤗 Much love to you and thank you for sharing the walk also kind lady 🤗❤️🙏