Rose- What is faith?
Spirit- The concept of faith is one which is not fully understood upon your world. It is indeed the belief in things that are not yet revealed nor dependant upon forms of proof. It is also the practice of belief. One who is in faith does not do so only in the mental fields but exerts as well a living presence of acting as though their belief is but the only reality in their physical life. They do not hesitate to act as if the reality of it is in their moment of now time but also as if it has been thus for all times.
It is why it was given to be written that faith alone without works was as the dead, as those who no longer produce in the world of physical living. It should be the same for all forms of faith, should it be faith in ideas, cultural forms of living, even faith in other humans. The man who says that he has faith in your ability and yet prepares for the calamity of your next actions does not indeed show faith in its fullest form. Faith is not only to be about believing but as well about the doing, as if there is nothing other than what one has faith in. Faith with belief and proper actions is core to the manifestations of what many upon your world call miracles.
Rose- Now that you mentioned miracles, can you tell me something about the nature of miracles?
Spirit- Miracles are truly not that which is of oddity to the world of non- physical living but rather exists as something unique and odd only within your world of physical form. The limitations of human thinking and human understanding upon the foundational frameworks that have been established feeds the circumstances that often require what appears to your world as miracles for c the correction of the circumstances generated.
In the realms whereby human physiology is left by the wayside, and thus so too the brain and all taught limiting beliefs, miracles appear only as a logical extension of combined forces from the frameworks of the structures of creative energy. These structures are as pertinent upon your world as they are upon these non-physical worlds, but the understanding of them are altered by the majority of humans. Thus, when they witness something that is to them miraculous, they are given a glimpse into a world they have forgotten where knowledge of the use of energy in its purest form is not diluted nor misunderstood.
Miracles then for your world would be when humankind meets that which they truly are, and truly know, without the limits placed upon them by various forces such as societal, parental, educational, religious teachings and even the inexperience of working with these frameworks in the material realm. Miracles indeed are-- but they are not oddities upon any world but your own-- but this is the nature of play for those of you who have chosen to enter the playground of physical living.
Rose- Okay, so why do we choose to enter the ‘playground of physical living’?
Spirit- The will of you, as you are without the body, is not one to be long with nothing to do or to learn. It is the same with all whom you might look upon while in the physical body. Various reasons are known for wanting to try new vistas of existence, but it is at core the desire to be once again about something challenging and expansive.
Could a child learn everything while within the same four walls or would their opportunities for growth and expanded knowledge be aided were they allowed to go forth and experience the diversity of others, new vistas, new toys, and even a few skinned knees? Of course, those who are all of you, when you are within my folds without a body, desire to be given new toys and new opportunities to expand your own horizons. It is but your choice to stay within my folds or to venture forth into playgrounds of your choosing. Experiencing the diversity of being physical rather than without form is highly desired by most, and so it is that a choice is made and thus comes the time of choosing where, when and why.
Each sojourn (of physical living) is as a time to be about both forgetting and remembering, being and doing, being aided and being of aid, and is tended to with great care as to place, time and surrounding influences of many variables. The choices made are never identical, though may be of similar vein. Your choice to come to be of service and to be as a teacher was wrought solely by you and is what you are giving rein to in your evolutionary stride forward in this sojourn. Such it is with each person that may be seen in physical body, for they too sought to come play upon the playground known as classroom. Some are as the teachers, others as the students and in fact the roles are interchangeable with but a mere thought of self as being one or the other. There are indeed many classrooms other than your world that you know now, but those who join you in that classroom are there for resonating fulfillment or they would be found upon another realm or dimensional space of learning.
The answer, then, is that you are where you are for you chose to join others in certain lessons, various forms of service and you were eager to experience what it is you have come to know as your life thus far through. It is a mighty gift of free-will choosing to be once again birthed into that world.
Rose- Hey, why is it that we have to be birthed into this world as babies? Why not just materialize as full adults when we want to come to the playground? Why go through all of that re-learning to walk, talk, eat and use the bathroom again? It seems a bit of a waste of time, even if there is eternity to deal with.
Spirit- The raising of one from infant to adulthood is the imbuing of the being with cultural and parental forms of vision. It is as well an opportunity for the being to experience both the stages of helplessness, reliance upon another, learning communication skills of other forms than previously known, and ultimately the reliance on no other for fulfillment or existence. It is a learning of love and trust and the various forms that it may take. It is the time from infancy that the spirit desires so that full immersion can be had into a state unlike its true nature, whereby all things are known, all things can be had, there is love of self, and strength unto its own being.
It is, as well, that each spirit births into your world as a time of lesson and renewal for those who have already gained adulthood. The entrance of an infant alters the adults around it, and is it not true that most upon your world value an infant with high regard for protection, gentleness, and nurturing? Do you not see how it is a system that fosters growth for all involved-- besides the infant who arrives as one who is new to everything? It allows the aspects of the adults surrounding the infant to be about practicing many skills such as teaching, patience, being about prioritizing time, and even the joy of love of someone when they are not able to return much back to them. Infants truly are great teachers upon your world and should be seen as such.
Even the value of re-learning skills as a child growing is of value beyond measurement. An example for you would be the mother who teaches her child to tie a shoe in a way that was not taught by any former mother that the spirit may have had in former sojourns. Each time an old skill is re-learned it is done so with differing measures of variables from other times and so new connections are made for growth. The absolute best vehicle for growth is to arrive at the playground as an infant and to navigate the various structures found to be played upon in vastly differing ways. Is this not of logic?
