Obstacles = Progress

From "The Personal Program" - Servers of the Divine Plan

It is a fact that the closer one gets to one's spiritual goal, the steeper becomes the path leading to the mountain top, and the more insurmountable will life's obstacles at first appear. Such signs illustrate progress and are inevitable; they constitute an important aspect of the Law of Karma. Spiritual progress indicates greater readiness to resolve past karma and to pass more challenging trials for the sake of speedier spiritual advancement, and divine Agents will see to it that karma is apportioned to each soul perfectly appropriately in order that it may be balanced at the earliest and safest opportunity. To the esoterically-aware, therefore, difficulties and challenges along life's road are recognized for what they really are: benevolent opportunities, and are thus happily welcomed (even if sometimes only after the event!).

Therefore, if pain or struggle are known at all, and if afflicted Servers wish to learn and so obviate future educational hardships, they should seek to uncover the important lesson that is always nested within their reaction to life's spiritual opportunities.

It may be remembered that Servers incarnate to play the drama of human life at all levels, and they are ultimately destined to reawaken later into the relative perfection of their true Nature, and to realize that their temporary roles as, for example, criminals, prostitutes, tramps, etc., were assumed as a part of their program so that they could experience, learn, transmute and thus serve at that level.

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It is not the individual events of our lives that are of critical importance, it is our reaction to those events that matter most. If one gives it a bit of thought, this truth should become apparent. Stay above the fray. Measure your reactions to EVERY situation to determine if the reaction is in line with the divine Will. With practice, one will learn to think before one acts or speaks. Eventually, one's acts should come to reflect the Will of the Logos.

Your personality is a temporary role (persona is Latin for "mask", "character") that the Individuality, the Ego, has assumed for a temporary purpose. No moment is wasted in your life, know this. Every random situation, every chance encounter, every repetitive occurrence is a miniature test, custom-designed and staged for your benefit. Each moment should be lived consciously, with the foregoing in mind always. There's a reason for everything. There is always a cause that precedes the effect. Before lashing out or lapsing into self-pity when something happens "to" you, take the time to trace backwards from the effect of the current moment until you locate the cause. Revelations await you there. Please note that a little honesty will be required for this method to work properly.

As this cycle winds down, everything is moving so much faster. It is said that to have a lot of adversity thrown one's way is a sure sign that karma is quickly presenting itself for one to clear, as part of the purification and preparation that we must all go through in these times. In order to move on to the next step, we have to clear our auras of the low-vibrating baggage that we no longer require. Take advantage of these opportunities. Agree to undertake whatever lesson is being offered and learn it. Agree to allow the balancing of old karma and resolve to avoid creating a new batch. Lighten the load in preparation for what is just around the corner.

If life were easy, Man would not learn a damn thing. No Ego takes incarnation with failure in mind. If there are difficulties (so-called) in your life, you can be sure that the Lords of Destiny placed them there with the full knowledge that you would have what it would take to triumph over them

...if you so chose to do so.

~ g