Source 6  Ask God for Help

•   Salvation

».  Opening
     What is salvation (to you)?  Within the Practice salvation is journey-path-life-Soul.  You move through time (here) and towards your salvation (of the Soul).  Constantly moving towards your salvation, even when it’s not going well, especially when it’s not going well.  There are no mistakes there are no failures on the path of salvation.
       Judged by man (S5. Lifestyle, » The System) and the Universe (S12. Prayer of Forgiveness, » Karma) you may get it wrong, you may suffer consequences, you may suffer yet you are on path (salvation).  This doesn’t make the mistakes ok it just makes them so.  You don’t need to make the mistakes, there is another way that is of your will.  You can ask why, you can try to figure it out and you can live… that is (your) choice.  The path of the Soul.

.».  To Practice
» What is salvation to you?
       The Practice looks at Salvation as the path out of pain, a path which may transcend life times.  Will you contemplate (E1. Expressions) salvation as a path, specifically the path out of the pain.  Alternatively you could contemplate what salvation is to you.  
       Pain in the Practice speaks to both emotional and physical.  Regretting is a form of pain (is painful).  Fear brings on pain that can be internal and external, emotional and physical. 
       Note:  When I think about how I have made that same mistake over and over again the pain of that mistake is an example of the pain referred to here, the pain we are to transcend.
       Sometimes it’s as simple as a big deep breath to pause and saying yes (to life, relationships and love) rather than no.

» You can ask why, you can try to figure it out and you can live… that is (your) choice.
       Live… that’s the meaning of life.  Of course spend some time doing the work yet live, a sentiment which is echoed throughout the Practice.  Do, be the work yet live.  What’s the balance, you will know (S4. To Know)…  
       The awareness (S3. Awareness) can be you realizing the quality (difficulty) of your journey and choosing to change.  The work you do can assist in improving the quality of your path to salvation.  Eventually you evolve past this question of balance.  The Exercise action is to seek out the balance and beyond… through creating the space (S11. Space).

.».  Expressions
Pain:
» Don’t use pain as a way to feel, don’t look to pain as your salvation (path).
       When there is something we want (S10. Need to Service) we want to feel it.  When we can’t we look to pain as a way to feel.  Don’t use pain as a way to feel, don’t make pain your salvation.
» Pain as salvation is to look for the way out, love as salvation is to look for the way through.
       There is no way out only through.  You can’t avoid the life (living).  So pain or love, love or pain is the way out or through, through or out (S4. Love as a way To Feel, S2. Using Pain to Feel).  The common theme here is the path to salvation does not have to be stepping from pain to pain.  It is possible to walk this path (to salvation) another way.

Them:
» and God said be not sad for the suffering of the living as that is their salvation.
       One day seeing a Deer in town navigating it’s way amongst the streets I felt this was not this animals natural environment.  With the cars driving close I felt sad for the animal and in that moment the above Expression came through.  For me it elicited a bit of hope for the animal, for mankind, humankind, us, them, her, him, we, me.
       Note:  I say the Expression came through, I could say and this is what I wrote down.  I’m not trying to proport that this work has come from anywhere.  These are the ideas I have written down, where they come from I leave to you to decide.
» Don’t make others issues (problems) your salvation, excuse.
       Salvation here like path, don’t make their problems your path to salvation.  You don’t need to as you (and them) are worthy.

Actions:
» Faith is your salvation, faith is your center.
       As your faith grows the path deviates from pain to love.
» Be in gratitude with your actions (eating, relationships, etc…), this is the path to salvation and happiness.
       Start with gratitude for your base dependencies (S1. Dependencies) and on from there to all your life.  Take a big deep breath here, slow inhale, exhale.  Notice what a gift it is to be alive, to be this moment… gratitude.
       Note:  In the Practice we look at a shift away from seeing them (breath, water, food, shelter, love) as basic needs to dependencies and the basic mechanisms of the Universe for the evolving of Beings.
» Empathy is a path to salvation?
       Empathy is salvation.  You empathetic here advances your Soul (there in a sense).  
       Note:  I previously thought of being empathetic only when witnessing a negative situation.  Imagine a grandmother watching her grandchild playing and that smile of pure joy on her face in seeing how happy the child is, is this not empathy too?  How well can you share the empathetic feelings of joy witnessed by another?  When true empathy you feel it in your heart.
» The evolution of the Soul prayer (S8. Evolution of the Soul) is a way for you to acknowledge and pray for your Soul.
       A good first step is to acknowledge your belief in your Soul.  From here on to knowing, feeling your Soul.
» I promise salvation in the work, I hope that’s true.
       + You promise nothing, the work promises nothing, only shows the path of possibility.  You can’t promise something they are to do, be.  It’s all up to them, you only show the path, way, through the work (this work I have received).  Salvation occurs through their action.
       You start to see the peace associated with the intention of salvation.  As you live all the actions of salvation the peace follows.

.».  Examples
        The intention of living is not the car, boat, person it’s you.  You will never be with those things until you are with you.  So wait until you are perfect (which can be fear)?  Of course not, get the boat now, spend time with the person now yet allow a little latitude when you are not perfect with them, it.  Don’t forget to live now, live through all your imperfections.  This is the path to salvation.
       The hiding is the path to hopelessness, what living looks like is unique to you.  Don’t put pressure on yourself that it should look like this or that, that they should be like this or that.  Simply live, possibly live simply at times yet live (as time is moving).

.».  Summary
       The intention of the life is you (S11. The You), live this intention for the advancement of your Soul.       

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