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Today’s Notes:
I – “By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light…”
(Ephesians 1:18 – AMPC)

II – “I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can see something of the future he has called you to share…”
(Ephesians 1:18 – TLB)

III – “…that you may receive that inner illumination of the spirit…”
(Ephesians 1:18 – Phillips)

IV – “I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light…”
(Ephesians 1:18 – The Passion Translation)

V – “…the eyes of your heart (the insights and perceptions of the core of your being) having continued being enlightened (or: being progressively illuminated into a state of enlightenment)…”
(Ephesians 1:18 – JMNT)

VI – “What you want is already here, in the unified field of pure potential. Everything you need to fulfill your greatest desire is already part of your being. But it can’t come out until you align with it, let go of the obstructions to it, and raise your vibration to the level at which it already exists.” – Derek Rydall

VII – As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. – William Blake

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Today’s Notes:
I – “Indeed, I am now saying (or: I am truly saying now) that whoever may say to this mountain (or: in this mountain), ‘Be picked up, and be cast (thrown) into the midst of the sea,’ and may not be undecided or be divided in his discernment or judgment within his heart, but to the contrary, can (or: may; would) continuously trust and believe with confidence that what he is speaking is progressively occurring (or: birthing itself; coming into existence), it will proceed being [thus] for him (or: by him; to him; in him; with him).”
(Mark 11:23 – JMNT)

II – In the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics, two different observers are entitled to their own facts…in other words, according to the best theories of the building blocks of nature itself, facts can actually be subjective…multiple realities can and do co-exist…reality manifests (or realities manifest) in the Multiverse…the glass is simultaneously half-full AND half-empty…the phrase in Genesis in the original Hebrew isn’t “In THE beginning, God created…”, it’s actually “In A beginning, God created…”…Moses sends 12 men to spy out the land of Canaan, and 10 of them come back with a completely different story than that of Joshua and Caleb, and yet they are all telling the truth about what they saw there…on the Day of Pentecost, Peter stands up and sternly rebukes his audience for murdering an innocent man, and in the very same breath says that the crucifixion happened according to God’s plan…the worst thing that ever happened to you can be the best thing that ever happened to you…

Multi-dimensional reality is an important part of ancient wisdom…Jesus spoke of the manifestation of a 30fold, 60fold, and 100fold return of the same seed that the sower sowed…Paul talked about the “good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God” being the proof of the renewed mind…the Tree of Life has infinitely more branches than does the limited, binary choices offered by the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil…

Observers are powerful players in the quantum world, and this goes deeper than just the “perception is reality” piece…perception is undoubtedly important, but the reality is that “reality is reality”…according to a certain theory in quantum physics, particles can be in several places or states at once…this theory is called a superposition…oddly, this is only the case when the particles aren’t observed, however…the second you observe a quantum system, it picks a specific location or state, which breaks the “superposition”…the fact that nature behaves this way has been proven multiple times in the lab, as the subatomic world is studied…”if any 2 or 3 of you agree as touching anything” simply means “if any 2 or 3 of you see and agree on the existence of the same reality”…
Keep turning the dial until you find your right reality today…everything is everything…let him/her who has an ear, hear…
―Jim Swilley

III – “Being present is being connected to All Things.” ― S. Kelley Harrell

IV – “Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.” ― Blake Crouch

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1-5-20 – OPEN THE EYES OF MY HEART: Meditation and 20/20 Vision for 2020, Part I

Today’s Notes:
I – “But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. I was attending a service this past weekend, where I was challenged to list the top ten happenings that occurred in my life in 2019. As I began the process of pondering, second on my list was that we chose to get involved with Metron’s Meditation weekends. One after the other, we were pulled into a positive energy vortex in which we have no regrets. It is with high expectation and resolve that I begin year 2020, living in the now, looking forward to connecting with the optimistic people of Metron. As I was writing this, I was thinking what a Wonderful World I live in and as synchronicity would have it, from my TV Louis Armstrong begins to sing What a Wonderful World. Jim, Ken and Metron family, we thank you for allowing us to do life with you.”
– John W Brock

II – “I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him, — since the EYES OF YOUR HEART HAVE BEEN ENLIGHTENED…”
(Ephesians 1:17, 18 – NET)

III – “The fact is, inner peace isn’t something that comes when you finally paint the whole house a nice shade of cream and start drinking herbal tea. Inner peace is something that is shaped by the wisdom that ‘this too shall pass’ and is fired in the kiln of self-knowledge…” ― Tania Ahsan

IV – “Relax…
Relax right where you are…relax, right in the middle of the chaos…relax right now, no matter what is happening around you…relax, in spite of anything you’ve just heard…relax, regardless of anything you’re dreading…relax and take back your power, because you are the master of your own emotions…there is great strength in learning to relax your mind and your spirit, and in refusing to be motivated by stress and anxiety…William Burroughs said, “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”…it’s absolutely true…you already know deep inside what you need to do, you just have to settle down and listen to your Highest Self, and believe your own truth…
Peace is a decision…peace is a state of mind…and peace is possible, right now, right where you are…stop blaming yourself, or shaming yourself, for whatever you think you did that is causing all the feelings of being unsettled…exhale all the negative, and inhale the positive…
…and relax…
If you got ahead of your skis and made grandiose public declarations about what you’re going to do and be in the new year, and now you’re already feeling stressed about how you’re going to do and be all that, just take a deep breath and let it go…you can still accomplish great things this year without stressing yourself out about the specifics and the details…you can still hold yourself accountable without painting yourself in a corner, and making yourself unnecessarily miserable by your own well-intentioned words of faith…you can still speak amazing things into existence without being legalistic about it…
It’s all good…just relax, and let it unfold however it’s going to unfold…
Find the balance between being a creator and a control freak…the sweet spot is somewhere there in the middle…
Intention with detachment is the more excellent way…
And…breathe…
Inhale…
Exhale…
Inhale…
Exhale…”
– Jim Swilley

12-29-19 – ‘IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE!: Freeing Yourself from the Ghost of Christmas Past to Follow Your Star into Your Future’, Part IV

Today’s Notes:
I – “Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.”
(Isaiah 43:18, 19 – The Message)

II – ”Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.”
– Charles Kettering

III – ”You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

IV – ”It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

V – ”Life is changing. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”
– Karen Kaiser Clark

VI – ”The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
– Socrates

VII – Prophetic word from Doug Wentz
2020 prophecy and the sign of Bishop Jim Swilley
Due to YouTube limitations on the length of the description, this is the beginning of the prophecy. For the full prophetic word, link here: https://www.bishinthenow.com/dec-2019…

I honor the passing of Reinhard Bonnke. Ten years ago this month another great general of the faith passed on, Oral Roberts. Reinhard Bonnke passing marks “the surprising power” of oppressed peoples taking their equality. The power of partial revelation passes away that greater clarity and 20/20 vision will come.

It will be a time of spiritual opposites…instead of the oppressed dying away the “spirit” and disposition of the oppressors will die away. Equilibrium will bring up all marginalized peoples, but I will use Oral Roberts’s son to stand in proxy as an example.

Oral Roberts son Ronnie was gay, as is his grandson Randy. Oral Roberts and the culture he cultivated, dehumanized the gay community to the point where Ronnie committed suicide, and Randy almost did as well. I prophesy that the passing of Reinhard Bonnke is a sign and a wonder that the oppressed will rise up and take their place of equality and it won’t be through militancy but it will be due to the anointing shining through the eyes and it will be exactly as when the soldiers came for Jesus and he said “I AM he” and they fell back.

The powerful spiritual army that is being raised up through Bishop Jim Swilley and his meditation weekends are the beginning of things to come, things that will change the world’s understanding of reality and orientation and equality and what it means to be “of God.” ~excerpt, 2020 Prophetic Word by Doug Wentz

Find the full transcript here: https://www.bishinthenow.com/dec-2019-prophetic-word

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I – A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, 1st published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 & illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley & the spirits of Christmas Past, Present & Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring & re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols, & newer customs such as Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth & by the Christmas stories of other authors, including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens had written 3 Christmas stories prior to the novella, & was inspired following a visit to the Field Lane Ragged School, one of several establishments for London’s street children. The treatment of the poor & the ability of a selfish man to redeem himself by transforming into a more sympathetic character is the key themes of the story. There is a discussion among academics as to whether this was a fully secular story, or if it is a Christian allegory.

A Christmas Carol captured the zeitgeist of the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens had acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of Christmas & later inspired several aspects of Christmas, including family gatherings, seasonal food & drink, dancing, games & a festive generosity of spirit.
– Wikipedia

II – 4 And they shall rebuild the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former desolations and renew the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.
(Isaiah 61:1-4 AMPC)

III – “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” – Charles Dickens

IV – “Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.” ― Kevin Michel

V – Dr. Wayne Dyer’s famous quote, “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” is absolutely true…it’s been proven in the world of quantum physics & is explained as ‘The Observer Effect’…Jesus said, “Unless a person changes his/her mind (μετανοέω: metanoeó), he/she cannot enter the Kingdom of God”…and, ideally, the Christmas season is all about changing the way we look at things…You don’t have to jump off of a bridge, & have Clarence the angel jump into the icy water after you to save you, to show you that you’ve really had a wonderful life…you can realize it right now, & change your present by changing the way you look at your past…you don’t have to have 3 ghosts visit you in the middle of the night to scare the bejeezus out of you, & cause you to have a completely transformational paradigm shift about life, about money, about relationships, & about yourself…you can have that paradigm shift right now, right here, in the light of day, & enjoy the season for what it is…you don’t have to steal Christmas from the people of Whoville, only to realize that Christmas is something more, & then have your heart grow 3 sizes bigger…you can look at someone differently & experience rapid heart-growth right now…you don’t have to witness a massive angelic choir serenading shepherds out in the middle of nowhere, in the dead of night, for no apparent reason…you can embrace the concept of “peace on earth, good will to the people” in your own relationships right now, right where you are…you don’t have to wait for eastern magician-astrologers to be led by celestial light to a foreign country to worship an infant King…you can follow your own star right now, into another dimension, & worship your God in your own way… Today is a great day to connect with the nexus for the visible and invisible realms, where a virgin can somehow conceive, &, inexplicably, the Word can actually be made flesh & dwell among us…today is a great day to allow Him to appear, and to allow your soul to feel its worth…you need a little Christmas, right this very minute…you need a little Christmas now…” – Jim Swilley

VI – (Genesis 28:16, 17 – The Message)

VII – “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!” – Ebenezer Scrooge

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12-8-19 – ‘IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE!: Freeing Yourself from the Ghost of Christmas Past to Follow Your Star into Your Future’, Part II

Today’s Notes:
I – “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is a song by songwriter Johnny Marks based on the 1939 story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer published by the Montgomery Ward Company. Gene Autry’s recording hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts the week of Christmas 1949.
– Wikipedia

II – “Being an atheist is okay. Being an atheist and shaming religions and spirituality as silly is not okay. Being a Christian is okay. Being homophobic, misogynistic, racist, or otherwise hateful person in the name of Christianity is not okay. Being a reindeer is okay. Bullying and excluding another reindeer because he has a shiny red nose is not okay.”
– Author Unkown

III –
“All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games…”

To everyone who has ever been marginalized, ostracized, or made fun of because something about you is different, or considered to be odd by the mainstream, let me encourage you to embrace the ‘Gospel According to Rudolph’ and be inspired to celebrate the very thing that sets you apart from the herd…the uniqueness or eccentricity that made the others laugh at you, or make you feel less than, is the very thing that the world needs, even though they don’t know it yet…and when the right time comes, the thing that they thought was weird about you will be exactly what makes you so special and valuable, and will cause you to lead the pack…

When the lyric says,
“Then how all the reindeer loved him,
As they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nose Reindeer
You’ll go down in history”,

It always makes me think of when Joseph’s brothers finally realized how amazing his gift was…it was a long time coming for him, but his latter was most definitely greater than his former at the end of Genesis…so hang on…your “foggy Christmas Eve” is coming…
– Jim Swilley

IV – “You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are—no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.”
(Matthew 5:5 – The Message)

V – Meme (cartoon of Rudolph)
They used to laugh and call him names. Now they call if Bullyin

VI – Meme (see thumbnail)
Photographic evidence That Rudolph Wasn’t Allowed to Play Reindeer Games…

VII – “Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
(Proverbs 22:6 – AMPC)

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12-01-2019 – IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE! Freeing Yourself from the Ghost of Christmas Past to Follow Your Star Into Your Future, Part I

Today’s Notes:
I – “The Little Drummer Boy” (originally known as “Carol of the Drum”) is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer and teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. First recorded in 1951 by the Trapp Family Singers, the song was further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry Simeone Chorale; the Simeone version was re-released successfully for several years and the song has been recorded many times since.

In the lyrics, the singer relates how, as a poor young boy, he was summoned by the Magi to the Nativity of Jesus. Without a gift for the Infant, the little drummer boy played his drum with approval from Jesus’ mother, Mary, recalling, “I played my best for him” and “He smiled at me.”
– Wikipedia

II –
Come they told me,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
A newborn King to see,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
Our finest gifts we bring,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
To lay before the king,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
Rum pum pum-pum, Rum pum pum-pum

So to honor Him,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
When we come

Little baby,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
I am a poor boy too,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
I have no gift to bring,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
That’s fit to give our King,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
Rum pum pum-pum, Rum pum pum-pum

Shall I play for you,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
On my drum

Mary nodded,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
The ox and lamb kept time,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
I played my drum for Him,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
I played my best for Him,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
Rum pum pum-pum, Rum pum pum-pum

Then He smiled at me,
Pa rum pum pum-pum
Me and my drum

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11-24-19 METRON Thanksgiving Celebration with The Bridge at The Chapel of Love

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Today’s Notes:
I – ‘In A beginning, created by the Alueim were the heavens and the earth. Yet the earth became a chaos and vacant, and darkness was on the surface of the submerged chaos. Yet the spirit of the Alueim is vibrating over the surface of the water. And saying is the Alueim, “Become light!” And it is becoming light.’
(Genesis 1:1-3 – The Concordant Literal Old Testament)

II – “Jesus said to them, ‘A little while the light is with you. Walk while you yet have the light so that darkness will not overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he goes. While you yet have the light with you, have faith in the light, that you will be children of enlightenment.’ Thus spoke Jesus and went off and hid from them. ‘I came as enlightenment unto all men so that whoever completely believes will not stay in darkness. If anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I will not condemn him, for I came not to condemn men, but to save men.'”
(John 12:35, 36, 46, 47 – Khaboris Manuscript)

III – “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson

IV – “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.
(Matthew 5:14-16 – The Message)

V – “To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.”
― Roy T. Bennett

VI – “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
― Jim Carrey

VII – “The more light you allow within you the brighter the world you live in will be.”
– Shakti Gawain