Chief Joseph Newsletter
Conversations With Chief Joseph & John Cali
October 26, 2010
When It's Bad It's Good
I know this is another of our crazy-sounding titles, but bear with me
and it will make sense.
John Cali
Last week I had an intensely challenging time with technology breaking
down.
First my phone quit working. Then my internet service decided it
needed a break, and worked only when it felt like it. Then my main
computer also decided it needed a break and completely froze up. I was
in technology hell.
I contacted my phone company, my internet service provider, and my
trusty tech guru. Handling all that of that took up big chunks of
another couple days.
During the first day I had some time to, well, just do nothing. My
backup computer was sort of working, but not well. I managed to listen
to a radio show on meditation during one of my internet service's up
times. But that lasted only about five minutes.
I've been meditating over 30 years and consider myself pretty good at
it. But during that five minutes of the radio show I received a huge
new insight -- something that has dramatically improved the quality of
my meditation, and in such short time. I'd have never listened to that
radio show had it been a normal working day. And I'd never have
received that insight.
My tech guru found a serious problem with my computer. It could have
crashed and burned had the problem continued any longer.
In short, a couple really good things happened only because I'd had a
couple really bad days.
Here's Chief Joseph.
Chief Joseph
You've heard us say before (although it contradicts the mass
consciousness) there is no good, there is no bad. There is no right,
there is no wrong.
Everything just is. Seeing it from that perspective, which is your
higher selves' perspective, will bring much peace and joy into your
lives.
So, if everything just is, why do you judge it good and bad, right and
wrong?
Well, generally because the "bad" and the "wrong" are not what you
want. But that's a short-sighted perspective. You cannot really know
in the present moment what tomorrow will bring. You cannot live in
tomorrow but only in the present moment.
You really don't need to know what tomorrow will bring. You often
torture yourselves endlessly by fretting over what might happen
tomorrow. Of course, your fretting is based on fear -- fear that what
might happen will be "bad" or "wrong."
When John was going through his "technology hell," as he put it, he
was imagining all sorts of negative experiences lurking in the shadows
waiting to pounce on him.
But none of that happened. What happened was all good. The
frustration, fretting, and fear were useless and needlessly painful.
One of John's favorite American writers is Mark Twain who once said,
"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of
them never happened."
Friends, you have only this present moment, whether we're talking
about today or tomorrow. You can live only in the present moment. The
present moment is where all your power is.
Good and bad, right and wrong don't matter. They just don't matter.
All that matters is the experience you're having in the present
moment. All that matters is consciousness -- being aligned with your
higher selves.
Then even the "bad" stuff turns out to be good. It's all good. It's
all God.
http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org/weeklymessages.html=========================================================
Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a non-physical
entity called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this
spirit
was incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe
in what is now the state of Oregon in the northwestern USA. These
messages are a blend of information from Joseph, other spirits in the
"Joseph group," and John.
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2010 by John Cali. All rights reserved worldwide.
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