DIVINE THREADS OF TRUTH

                    The world as we have know it is not only changing, but transforming! Transformation suggests change which is irreversible. People around the Globe are awakening to fresh insights into the nature and purpose of their existence. They are beginning to feel a fermenting within, bringing changes in the way they see themselves personally, collectively, and spiritually! It is an exciting time and one which has been spoken about in diverse religions, wisdom teachings, myths, and stories of indigenous cultures around the globe for centuries. These many faceted stories and beliefs contain the truths of a universal oneness of Spirit. If we look deep enough we are able to see this expressed by every race, culture, and religion.

                    It is time we get a Worldview! It is time we stop erecting walls of separation and begin to look for the similarities and common threads which flows throughout all humanity. As we recognize our habitual ways of thinking and doing have not served us, it becomes clear we must step into the new by opening our hearts.

                    While many are teaching the world is entering into the brink of unprecedented catastrophe, I believe there are prophecies and predictions revealing we are being pressed into a great era of transformation. A transformation which is not taking place firstly on the outside, but in the very center of our being! Just as the Presidential candidates are calling for 'change'....the very Be-ing of mankind is calling for inner transformation! Why....because now is the time predicted for the universal awakening spoken about for thousands of years!

                    Christ said two thousand years ago, "Destroy this body and I will raise it on the Third Day." We have entered the Third Spiritual day of an eternal plan. This prophecy is unfolding before our very eyes. Humanity embodies the very Christ Spirit which is destined to arise in this day. Within humanity is the stirring of an infinite life force, a seed which has been germinating for thousands of years now ready to produce its fruit! Its fruit is the very energy flow and life of the Divine! Christ came to demonstrate the power and potential of the Spirit within man to bring forth a consciousness in harmony with its Source - God. He came to show death was only an illusion of a mind separated from its eternal Beingness. Though his life demonstration we realized our own ability to bring forth things from the unseen realm of Spirit into manifestation.

                    His voice echoes down through the centuries and enlighten us today. We embody The Christ and now is the time for it to arise! A fully awakened Christ within our Being is what all humanity has been waiting for. Christ said; "I have overcome the world." Within this statement is your very purpose! We have the ability to walk over all these false concepts and beliefs which have kept us in a realm of limitation and separation.

                    His words spoken 2,000 years ago inspire and encourage us in this 21st century. They predict a time of a corporate consciousness arising and ascending time, space, and matter limitations. This is the greatest of times because we are entering a place of timelessness! As we enter, we will begin walking in the fulness of our divine eternal potential!

                    As we listen to the reports of a failing economy, war, poverty, and diseases are we able to ascend this type of thinking? Can we enter the place of trust and knowing that the words spoken so long ago still ring true in our Spirit? What remains so remarkable are the many other cultures and people which have similar stories, teachings, and myths pointing to the great transformation of this day.

                    Let's examine a few. Have you heard the many stories about the year 2012? If you haven't I will be most surprised. They are interwoven and held sacred by many elders around the world and are best understood through an open heart.

                    In Egypt, the stone calendar of the Great Pyramid indicates that the present time cycle ends in 2012. This points to the world entering a new and more enlightened cycle in 2012. The Incas refer to this time as the "Age of Meeting Ourselves Again." The Hindus write of this Kali Yuga as the end of time of man and the coming age of Many Enlightened Ones. The Hopis predict this period of turmoil and purification is the sign of the ending of the 4th world and the beginning of the 5th world. The Mayan's call this period the "end of time." The Zulus believe the whole world will be turned upside down. The Cherokee's ancient calendar ends in 2012 just like the Mayan calendar does. The Maoris say that the veils will dissolve and there will be a merging of the physical and spiritual worlds.

                    Just as Christ, many of these people had a mystical view of our day thousand of years ago. They predicted a wonderful time where this cycle of consciousness would enter a new, more expanded cycle. Christ also said he would be perfected on the Third Day! Another wonderful glimpse into the universal expansion of our true Being which is happening as I write!

                    Our choice is how we will react to all the changes. Will we choose fear and "try to turn the clock back" to the old ways or respond with trust, love, and embrace new opportunities? The choice is one of releasing old beliefs and energies which no longer serve, in order to open ourselves to expanding beliefs and energies. It is a choice of focusing on the turbulence in the outer world of creation or anchoring inwardly to our divine peace.

                    When we know Spirit is Eternal, Universal, Omnipresent, and Omniscient we can see how there is a common thread running through the wisdom of all humanity. God does not love one people more than another! Divinity embodies all. Some may still be unaware of the Light within, while others have tapped in and heard the same words Christ uttered so long ago. They may have heard it in different terminology, in words which resonated with their culture and beliefs, but nevertheless it was a divine word!

                    All these ancient predictions, along with the words of Christ, point to this day...this time in the history of mankind. They let us know we are indeed in the midst of great transformation which will forever change man and his world. The Good News is we need change, we must have a shaking so the stone walls which have kept us captive and in the darkness of a death mentality are able to come down. As they do, we see the arising of a new consciousness. One which leaves the darkness of beliefs which could only produce death, and walks into the enlightenment and freedom of Eternal Truth!

                    Loving Life and ALL Humanity,

                 Mary Lou Houllis
                Pastor