I thought we were past the killing of doctors who provide abortion services, but apparently not. Today, Dr. George Tiller was killed in Wichita, Kansas while he was at church serving as an usher, presumably because he provides abortion services. It looks like we stepped right back to 1988, when Dr. Barnett Slepian was murdered in Buffalo, New York, because he was an abortion doctor.
Sad. Very sad.
I can’t stand it when a person is so passionate about their particular issue that they step over the line and impinge on somebody’s (or everybody’s) world and demand that things be done their way. Killing a doctor because you’re against abortion is one the most extreme examples of it.
My prayers go out to the people around and about Dr. Tiller who are now suffering due to their loss.
My prayers also go out to the murderer, whoever he or she is. Not prayers of compassion or sympathy, but prayers of action. This person needs help, desperately. They already have a lot of problems coming their way, courtesy of the Law of Cause and Effect, whether they know it or not. I hope they are caught well before they murder another doctor and cause even more suffering for everyone else, and in the long run of eternity, themselves. I pray this person wakes up and realizes the consequences of their actions, and then turns themselves in peacefully.
Do people have a right to be “evil”, possessed, or otherwise negatively influenced? It’s an interesting question. Lately, I’ve been working with someone who has a family member that seems to have slid into some type of negativity. Some of the indicators are a personality change, being withdrawn, fascination with darker types of things, and some possible physical phenomena. Nothing very clear-cut, but there might be something going on.
Put yourself in this person’s shoes for a minute. It’s your family member, what do you do? Talking to her doesn’t seem to work. She says that she doesn’t care about your concerns. You confront her on her behavior and recent behavior changes, and she says she’s happy the way she is. You can’t take control against her will, as she’s an adult who’s capable of making her own decisions and appears to be otherwise functioning normally. She’s not breaking any laws or doing anything else that might bring enforceable action.
Tough spot to be in, no doubt. I’d call it a hard lesson in not-liking something that you have to accept.
My view is that people are “allowed” to make choices, including ones that I might consider to be negative or evil. I may want to talk them out of it, and the Law of Cause and Effect may take care of it in the long run, but ultimately, they make their own choices, no matter what I say, or how I feel about it. And it’s me that has to let go and “allow”, more than the person of concern.
“People can choose what they want.” It is very easy to say this about people in general and think nothing of it. It’s lip service, just a cliche. But when you apply it, a new reality surfaces. You discover that the more you care about the person, the harder it is to maintain this type of detachment and acceptance. And when it’s family, it is harder yet.
I’m a Facebooker. A friend of mine posted her Facebook status, and she said that she didn’t know what men want from relationships. Several of us responded, and it went into a long and rather detailed conversation, which was quite good. Eventually, the conversation got around to the spirtual aspects of relationships, and I said that at times it’s important to let go and let God. For the most part, we were referring to letting go of things she’s doing that aren’t working.
Mediums can find themselves in the same situation as my friend, but with their spirit folks. Sometimes we continue to do things that aren’t working, or worse, are working partially. Sometimes we are afraid to trust them.
This happens more often when you’re first learning mediumship. You don’t know your spirit folks yet, and aren’t sure that you are receiving, so you’re afraid to speak up. The first rule of student mediumship is “if you have something to give out, give it out”. It’s the best way to learn. In the context of a learning environment, you don’t have to worry about making “mistakes”, it’s ok. It’s better to speak up and chance a “mistake” than it is to sit there quietly and not say anything. You can not learn everything by observation alone – you have to participate. If you want to progress, you have to “give it out”.
It takes a little faith and trust, especially in the beginning. Relationships with your spirit folks develop over time. Your thoughts and ideas about mediumship and spirits have considerable impact on the relationship – you are more a part of the process than you think. Your relationship with the spirit folks is uniquely yours. It will never be exactly the same as any other mediums’ relationships with their spirit folks, nor should it be.
Mediumship involves letting go. You let go of yourself and open up, so that the spirits can communicate through you, often to bring a message from their world to ours, to the seeker.
“Let go and let Spirit”.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, was also quite the Spiritualist. A number of his works are on display at the University of Michigan libraries. The exhibit is titled “Clues Beyond Sherlock Holmes: The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at Michigan.” The exhibit items range from rare editions of his early books, to photographs, pewter statues, audio recordings, and a plush dog dressed as Sherlock Holmes.
If you’d like to learn more about Sir Arthur, you should check out this site – it’s concise, very descriptive, and easy to read.
