Mary on Free Will & Love& Empathy-extracts from Moments with Mary

To care with you,
to share with you ;
to live and laugh
and love with you....
always.
Maureen

This is taken from Chapter 3 of Moments With Mary- Mary is talking to you through Maureen.

So Mary talked to me increasingly about Love and Peace and Happiness. I began to understand that She was trying to let me see this in a very clear way so that I could begin to offer this understanding to other people. She explained to me that if I could do this then I would be working with Her in a very beautiful way to help Her in Her enormous task of bringing the World into a simple understanding of God's Love and His desire to save it from everything that was making it unhappy. So each day Mary would talk to me about Love and about Goodness and Happiness and Peace, gradually I understood that Mary was giving me a very clear picture of what Life should be and what Life was not achieving and what people were not achieving. She explained to me that people were really making a mess of Life, that Life on earth was becoming extremely unhappy, people were becoming extremely unhappy and the World was losing its sense of direction and balance.

She asked me to understand that God is understanding all of this and God wishes to help people but God, because He has created people to be perfectly free warns that He has to allow them to make their own mistakes- He is allowing them to develop their own Life in a free way. I was really puzzled by this because I know that God has given  people free Will but my worry, if you call it a worry, is that God must have been able to organize people in some other way than this. Mary explained to me though that God really understood this to be the best way, because within this whole idea of Free Will God knows that people would eventually understand that they could use their Free Will in a perfect way and if God had created people without Free Will then they would never come to this understanding and they would never really fulfill themselves. Mary explainsed that God has allowed people to be very free because He Loves them  very deeply and He Loves them so deeply that He wants them to understand for themselves the real meaning of Love. If He hadn't given them this freedom then they would never really come to an understanding of Love by themselves because it would be something that God was imposing  on them. And Mary explained that finally people would understand very clearly why all this terrible mess that people have got themselves into had had to be. She also explained to me however that if people would only begin to look at Life in a more simple way they would begin to understand this mess and they would begin to make inroads into sorting the mess out.

Mary was explaining to me that very few people in the world  were really able to Love.And She explained that Love really did require a full understanding of empathy. She explained that empathy was so involved in a very deep understanding of oneself in relation to other people and other peoples relationship with oneself that unless one could really begin to move into Life in a way that allowed one to feel in a deep way, in a sensitive way- in a way that really was feeling then there simply would be no understanding of Love. And She further explained that many people really do think that they are loving people when the Love that they are understanding themselves to be and showing was built on a real misconception because they were simply feeling in a way that centred on themselves.

So for example if somebody professed to love his family and gave his family all the goods and possessions that he could to provide them with security and thought this to be Love, which in fact was simply a desire to show himself that he was able to give people something that he felt was important and therefore he was assuring himself of his own importance- and in so doing he was completely deluding himself- because as he gave his family this sort of attention all he was doing really was bolstering up his own ego- and the feeling part of the whole transaction was very shallow because had he considered his family in any real and true way he would have realized that security can only be gained by a real interaction of loving feelings.Love is the whole way of being bound to goodness and kindness and caring and sharing in a way that gives of oneself rather than material goods. Now this to me was a very deep understanding of Love which really had to be entered into if I were to feel that I was progressing, if I was progressing in any realistic way. And increasingly I began to see that certainly this empathy gave an understanding of Love which goes way beyond a shallow understanding- a shallow explanation and it really does require one to think of the other person in a way which is very concrete and physical, and things like suffering take on a new meaning because one understands that if one can really begin to enter into the suffering of another person in a real way, one which is actually allowing themselves to experience a dimension of Life which is very acute, because one is beginning to understand that suffering happens because people are not interacting with each other in a positive way, and if one begins to interact with the other person in a way that is really loving and beautiful and true one sees that suffering should not be,- suffering should not exists because if each person is giving to the other  everything that is good and beautiful of himself the other person is able to uplift himself by this interaction and the whole development would be completely positive. Mary assured me that this is the case and when She suffered on earth and Jesus suffered on earth their suffering was not brought about by themselves or their interaction with each other - it was brought about by the negativity of other people.

From Moments with Mary- You can listen to Maureen speaking this part of Love and Empathy on the Audio Clip  of the same name on the Menu.

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