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Good morning, MarVeena.Your apprentice email today was about Mother Teresa and how she spent her life in selfless giving. It immediately brought to mind my life lessons with boundaries and setting them. Was she so evolved that she no longer had those types of issues? When did she stop and care for herself?? Just confusing when I think of how much I give and how little I give back to me and yet for me, that seems to be an issue and a learning of balance. See my confusion? Isn’t there a blessing in giving? But, where does one draw the line? Lordy, this lesson is a tough one for me.
We incarnate at different levels of soul refinement and Mother Teresa was a highly evolved soul. Just reading about her life can give you a sense of just how committed she was to giving through her own creative energy. The results history has recorded are great indeed.
She has had a lot of incarnations where she was just as caught up in the physical plane as we are now. In her last life time she was a magnificent creatress. However, even from a place of that creative energy, she discovered times in her life where she questioned herself and her motivations. About midlife she described her own changing views as “the call within the call.” It was through her own inner recognition of her changing views that funneled through new energies that thrust her toward new directions.
It was from this pivotal point in her life that she changed gears from working within the formal structures of religion and began working with the people directly. She put together from scratch several orphanages and rescue centers. She set into motion financial support for all of them. She accomplished many great things from within her formal years of service, but it wasn’t until she started walking and living the life of the disadvantaged that she was able to channel that great creative energy that brought about miracle accomplishments among famine, disease, and poverty.
Her life is example after example of helping people through her creative energies. However, don’t forget, among her great outward accomplishments, still required great inner work for that outer strength. She walked her talk, so to speak. We are no different as our inner work must be refined to perfect our outer work. Giving to oneself is that building up of energy that gives us gusto to tackle any act of loving giving.
She really channeled the Mother Goddess energy and flowed that love to all who came into her space. In much the same way that she is an example of unconditional love to others, she can also be an example of unconditional love to our own selves, by allowing us to see life in different ways, allowing ourselves to change a direction, or look at situations from a different point of view, even if it might come from an opposite perspective or a surprising recognition of needed change. This allows us leeway to adjust when we feel stagnant in our own energies towards helping others and, just as importantly, helping ourselves.
Mother Teresa put in daily inner work and it showed greatly in her outer work. Through her own inner work, she developed great trust in following her path she set forth for herself. So, don’t forget to give yourself some charity as well, as such self love can bring about recognition in the self of new paths available.
When love is given without attachments as to how or when it comes back to us, whether to ourselves or others, by Universal Law it will come back. At difficult times in our lives, if we can love ourselves, take that time to nurture our own inner growth, and have the strength to allow ourselves different views, and even the will to walk a different path, we can often find that our own ability to help ourselves is what gives us great power and energy to help others. The ability for us to outpour great love in the future to others will be just that much easier when its cultivated from the self within our own Goddess energy. Mother Teresa shows us that even in great effort of giving comes realizations of redirection for the self. Her miraculous work is example of that.
Give to the world and by and by that love will flow back to you. Give to yourself as equally, and the world will show you other options for outpouring more love in different ways. Nurture that Goddess energy within and it will guide you to greater options for outward love.
You can connect to Mother Teresa to find ways in which you might be able to see options for self-love that leads to greater outward expression. She loved herself so much that she trusted God to guide her in all she did, even guiding her to change.
Self love takes practice, but when it is cultivated, we can bring about our own Mother Teresa from within, and watch our own miracles manifest right before our own eyes.
Bright Blessings
MarVeena Aug 2014 (C)
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