CHRISTMAS PARADIGM SHIFT AND THE OBSERVER EFFECT

“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.” 
― Jodi Picoult


"...and the Light shines in darkness, and the darkness cannot overtake it"...Christmas is all about a revelation...an epiphany...a New Birth...a change of heart...a paradigm shift...a triumph of Light over darkness...

With the revelation of the miracle of Christmas, the Grinch's heart grows three times its normal size...Ebenezer Scrooge rethinks his life, and is euphoric to wake up and find that he hasn't missed Christmas, after all...he ecstatically wishes a Merry Christmas to everyone, and a Happy New Year to the whole world, with no trace of "Bah! Humbug!"...George Bailey realizes that he really does have a wonderful life, and wants to live again...Charlie Brown comes out of his depression about the commercialization of Christmas, and just decides to relax and enjoy it for what it is...

We've discussed here on the blog and at METRON Community the concept in Quantum Physics called "the Observer Effect", the idea that the observer creates reality...

Wayne Dyer says, "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"...that's it...ideally, Christmas changes the way we look at things...call it magic or miracle, the truth is that this is the time of year when we open up our hearts to believe that the clunky and clumsy logic of natural law is completely suspended, and suddenly we re-visualize a world of possibilities...a dreamland where anything can happen...not just a place where every mother's child is gonna spy to see if reindeer really know how to fly...not just a dimension in which an angel tries to get his wings by showing you that you've really had a wonderful life...not just a strange world in which ghosts visit you in the night, and cause you to have a completely transformational paradigm shift about life, about money, about relationships, about yourself...but an amazing, timeless world where massive angelic choirs serenade shepherds out in the middle of nowhere, in the dead of night, for no apparent reason...a place where eastern magician-astrologers are led by celestial light to a foreign country just to worship an infant King...a nexus for the visible and invisible realms, where a virgin can somehow conceive, and, inexplicably, the Word is actually made flesh and dwells among us...a real place where He appears and our souls feel their worth...

Yesterday, my FB friend, Francis, posted this comment on the previous blog post, "You are so right! Whatever we want in this human experience we can have it.  As for me and mine...I want to live in heaven on earth. I believe we will wake up one day and hear...You've been here all the time..."


It made me think of the story of Jacob in Genesis 28 when he awakens from his dream of the stairway or ladder into "heaven", and realizes that he is already there...

Jacob woke up from his sleep. He said, “God is in this place—truly. And I didn’t even know it!” He was terrified. He whispered in awe, “Incredible. Wonderful. Holy. This is God’s House. This is the Gate of Heaven.”

(Genesis 28:16, 17 - The Message)

Basically, that's what happens to Ebenezer and George and the Grinch...they realize on Christmas how awesome it all really already is, and what they already have...Christmas causes them to change the way they look at things, and then the things they look at change...

That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown...

WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW

It's early Friday evening, and I'm sitting in a Starbuck's trying to think of something to write for a post here on METRON-SPEAK...my partner, Ken, is on call with his job tonight, as he has been all week, so I've spent a lot of time alone with my thoughts over the last few days...you'd think that I would have been more prolific this week with all of the spare time that I've had, and that I would have posted more here than I have posted, but that's not the way that creativity works, at least not for me...I generally find that the more free time I have on my hands, the less that I tend tend to get done (if you want something done, ask a busy person, I always say)...there's been some business to attend to this week, and some pastoral duties that I have fulfilled, and I started working out with a trainer again, but basically I have just spent a good deal of quality down-time with myself, and it's been good...I like accomplishing a lot in a day, but at this point in my life I'm also OK with just being...I've worked hard over the last 30 years, and have enjoyed some of the benefits of success, but these days I don't mind some seasons of guilt-free relaxation now and then...but I do like to write, and I aspire to put something out there every day, even when I don't make that goal...I've said and written a lot over the course of my professional life (thousands of sermons and 16 books so far), so sometimes I think it's just good for me to be quiet...but I do enjoy this blog and want to keep it alive and vital...I'm going to see a movie in a little while, but I've been sitting here in Starbucks drinking iced coffee for a minute, trying to think of what I want to talk about here, and so far tonight I just don't have that much to say...

Well, here's something I can talk about...on Tuesday of this week I went to the hospital to visit the brother of someone who attends METRON...he (Richard) has been quite ill for several months with a life-threatening condition, and when I got to his room in ICU on Tuesday morning, I found that he was not conscious...but I prayed with him, anyway, and spoke to his spirit as if he could hear me (because I believe that he could) and told him that his sister and his mom (who I met up with in the hallway right after) loved him very much and wanted him to get well, but that if he was tired of fighting and wanted to rest, that he could and should do that...I told his family afterward what I had said to him, and they were in agreement and at peace with whatever happened, and then I left...about an hour later his sister called to tell me that Richard had crossed over...I'm doing his funeral on Tuesday of next week...

Being a pastor my entire adult life, and growing up as the son of a pastor, I've been around death and dying for as long as I can remember...pastors spend a lot of time in hospitals and convalescent homes and hospice facilities, as well as in prisons and jails and courtrooms and other places where people are in distress, but especially in hospitals...these days I don't feel obligated to respond to every request for hospital visitation that I receive, and I make no apology for that...some people are angry at me for it, and I've gotten my fair share of rebukes and reprimands for it recently, but I honestly feel that I only have influence in the area of healing with people who are currently a part of my life and who really hear my voice...I didn't know Richard, but his family is very supportive of what I do and are quite connected to who I am now, so going to see him was obviously the right thing to do...but, as a rule, if I don't feel like I can really help a situation, I'd just rather not show up in person, and simply be in agreement with whomever for the best case scenario for them or their loved one...I hope that the people who are upset with me for what they perceive as my lack of interest in their suffering can understand my paradigm on this...anyway, I've seen many people literally and miraculously raised up from a death bed over the years, but I've also seen many people cross over to the other side...the mystery of it all (death, dying, healing, health, longevity, etc.) still intrigues me, and I understand a lot about the whole thing, but I also have many unanswered questions about it all...that's why I am studying things like cell memory and energy healing, in addition to what I know from the Scriptures, because I want to really help those who are a part of my present "Metron" (my current sphere of influence)...

Dr. Wayne Dyer at Unity North - 9/23/14

That evening a sweet couple who attend METRON took Ken and me as their guests (he was able to get away from being on call for a couple of hours) to see Dr. Wayne Dyer who was in Atlanta for one night only...it was an extraordinary experience...I have to say that I have seen Dr. Dyer many times on TV and have read a couple of his books, and I quote him quite frequently in my teaching, but seeing him in person was a completely different experience for me...he really is something special...he lectured for nearly two hours and never lost my attention once...he also spoke to several things that I was thinking about in relation to my time in the hospital earlier that day, and about life and death, and gave me some insight on some of the questions and observations that I have about it all...it was an interesting day, to say the least...

Most importantly, he gave me some profound food for thought about how to better reconcile some of my historical beliefs with my present understanding of things...I truly believe that a major part of my calling is the reconciling of belief systems...I plan on talking about the things that his message inspired within me this coming Sunday at METRON...I think it's going to be a very important day for me and for the people who are connected to me...in a word, he was awesome, and I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to hear him in person, and I really believe that his message was a catalyst for my upcoming message, and for where that message will take us...

OK, that's all I have to say tonight...just sort of thinking out loud and writing about what I know...

I am very grateful to those of you who consider the things that I say, and especially for those of you who respond to them...you're all awesome and beautiful, and I love you...I even love those of you who are angry at me for whatever reason...I hope that we can all better understand one another in the future...

Well, my movie is about to start, so I'm going to close it here...

Peace and love to all...