Staying transparent to World Events

The following text is channeled material. The author, my guide, has the name Ophir. This text was channeled on November 11, 2016 in Chicago. This was Ophir's advice to me about how to stay transparent to world events. The text was edited and reposted on November 6, 2024.

There’s an opportunity to choose to be transparent when the world doesn’t go your way. There’s also the opportunity to choose to connect with the people whom you regard as being on the opposing team—to let yourself feel the ways in which their divinity is the same as your own. You’ve heard the expression “namaste” — I bow to the divine in you. When you lose a contest, most especially one in which you don’t like the victor, the benefit of bowing to the divine in the opposing team is even stronger because it is harder to do. It is easy, of course, to love those who are lovable. It’s much more difficult to love those who are not lovable. Yet learning to love those who are not lovable brings even more rewards. Among other things, it allows you to learn to love what you think of as the unlovable parts of yourself.

You can choose not to despair that the people you disagree with have prevailed, and instead choose to feel love for them—as challenging and difficult as that may be. If you can master that, you will have learned a great deal from earth life, where the opportunities for growth are great because of and not despite the drama.

Recognize that whether the day is sunny or rainy, whether the times are good or bad, whether you’re rich or poor, sick or healthy, it is you and not the circumstances you’re in that control how you react. You can choose to react to anything with joy, with compassion, with faith that the world is a perfect teaching machine. And even when you have classes that seem quite difficult, you can count on the fact that at some point you’ll graduate.

Let yourself be responsible only for your own choices. Sometimes you may feel responsible for the choices of others, as if what others have chosen to do, the policies they enact, or the hatreds they express, are somehow your fault—because you didn’t do enough to oppose them. But how much wiser it is to just let your feelings be a reflection of your own actions and not a reflection of the actions of others.
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You can sail your own boat through fair weather and through storms by simply adjusting your sails to react to the wind and the weather that you encounter. The journey through earth life is challenging by design. For it is through these challenges that the lessons of self-love are learned.

--Ophir

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