Blessed Are the Merciful
John L. Waters
October 05, 2005
Brian, blessed are the merciful! Although you apologize in your article "Homeless: Beaten, Hungry, And Faithful," it's not wrong to document your empathy, your kindness, and your generosity. You don't need to keep your empathy a secret, and apologize for being such a generous person!
You have to admit, though, Brian, that each day school children are educated to keep their thoughts and feelings private, so that any urge to help a poor student on a test is blocked, and a child who shares answers is punished along with the student who accepts help on a test. And present school life is, of course, a test. So you see, Brian, our culture of traditionally educated persons rejects the teaching of empathy, kindness, and thoughtfuness. The "good" child concentrates on distinguishing himself or herself by rising above others and by outperforming them. To be a "good" child is to be "better" than most other children, as when you say, "Johnnie is a good speller," and "Jill is a good swimmer," and "Jennifer is a good violinist."
So Brian, in your article you are talking about a new sociocultural paradigm! You are talking about the paradigm of Christ The Messiah!
Now reader, which article am I referring to? Well, it is the article "Homeless: Beaten, Hungry, And Faithful" by Brian Michael Barbeito Sept. 14, 2005 posted at the website
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article216.html
Please copy this url and paste it on your web browser window and read the article. In Brian's article The Christ is being expressed!
Indeed, in many places today a poor person will ask passersby for a little spare change. Some people give freely. Most people don't. Many people who are wealthy give freely but only to a legal charitable organization. Many suffering poor receive little or no aid. So Brian, in your writing your kindness shines like a beacon. Just write WHO you are. Don't hide your light under a bushel!
Now reader, wherever you may be, the faculty of empathy takes away a person's skill and will to achieve for himself or herself alone and makes the person weak-willed in competitive striving and endurance. To kill or injure others is not the skill or the will of an empath. Indeed, the empathetic person is caught up in the needs of others, and lives to help others.
Imagine, then, a new culture in which good children are empathetic and each day at school the most empathetic students are rewarded and recognized! Sure, in this new school there still are games and sports, and there still are language, mathematics, and all the other subjects. But the NEW subject, empathy, is studied and rewarded as well! Brian, your empathy and your writing help us understand The Christ is already here!
Just let your light shine and keep the candle burning.
I will say, that I received CHRIST in 1971 from an itinerant minister while riding on a Greyhound bus traveling from Arcata to Los Angeles. On this trip I was opened up to the compassionate heart that forgives and forgets. My own forgetfulness helped me accept in myself a higher faculty than memory and reason, and I began to question the virtue of surpassing others in performance. This kindling of the sacred fire in me helped me forgive myself for failing to perform as well as people expected me to perform. My hands relaxed in the warm glow of my MASTER Jesus Christ, and the warming healing power in my relaxed hands began to flow much better and shine much brighter. This is how I, myself, became a more radiant healer.
I am far from perfect, and I still have difficulty at a social gathering, or even with one person in conversation because as a small boy I never learned to think, listen, talk, and use eye contact and other body language all at once the way most children do. This handicap now would be called called pervasive developmental disorder or infantile autism. Although I was intellectually bright, I wasn't able to communicate easily and effectively with people. Consequently what I knew was mostly kept private.
I still ride the bus and I like to ride the bus and use my healing hands to draw and write the way I'm writing now. This writing helps people know what I know. I also give personal presentations so that people can understand the new social paradigm of personal integration and salvation. An autistic person needs this paradigm to be cured enough to communicate better and better with persons who never met Jesus and saw Jesus in action.
Some people say that Jesus Christ is a myth. Even if that's true, the healing energy in healing hands and healing saints truly exists. This healing energy is liberated with the help of vibrations felt in persons' bodies. Riding the bus and writing in a vibrating bus helps me feel that indeed, the healing Christ is here.
Sunlight also is intense vibrations. Also a hot tub or a sweat lodge adds vibrations to your body. Drumming and other sounds add even more vibrations. All these vibrations help you feel the empathy and compassion that Brian expressed in his article.
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
LINKS
My website at Humboldt State University
My search for a publisher
My letters of recommendation
You have to admit, though, Brian, that each day school children are educated to keep their thoughts and feelings private, so that any urge to help a poor student on a test is blocked, and a child who shares answers is punished along with the student who accepts help on a test. And present school life is, of course, a test. So you see, Brian, our culture of traditionally educated persons rejects the teaching of empathy, kindness, and thoughtfuness. The "good" child concentrates on distinguishing himself or herself by rising above others and by outperforming them. To be a "good" child is to be "better" than most other children, as when you say, "Johnnie is a good speller," and "Jill is a good swimmer," and "Jennifer is a good violinist."
So Brian, in your article you are talking about a new sociocultural paradigm! You are talking about the paradigm of Christ The Messiah!
Now reader, which article am I referring to? Well, it is the article "Homeless: Beaten, Hungry, And Faithful" by Brian Michael Barbeito Sept. 14, 2005 posted at the website
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article216.html
Please copy this url and paste it on your web browser window and read the article. In Brian's article The Christ is being expressed!
Indeed, in many places today a poor person will ask passersby for a little spare change. Some people give freely. Most people don't. Many people who are wealthy give freely but only to a legal charitable organization. Many suffering poor receive little or no aid. So Brian, in your writing your kindness shines like a beacon. Just write WHO you are. Don't hide your light under a bushel!
Now reader, wherever you may be, the faculty of empathy takes away a person's skill and will to achieve for himself or herself alone and makes the person weak-willed in competitive striving and endurance. To kill or injure others is not the skill or the will of an empath. Indeed, the empathetic person is caught up in the needs of others, and lives to help others.
Imagine, then, a new culture in which good children are empathetic and each day at school the most empathetic students are rewarded and recognized! Sure, in this new school there still are games and sports, and there still are language, mathematics, and all the other subjects. But the NEW subject, empathy, is studied and rewarded as well! Brian, your empathy and your writing help us understand The Christ is already here!
Just let your light shine and keep the candle burning.
I will say, that I received CHRIST in 1971 from an itinerant minister while riding on a Greyhound bus traveling from Arcata to Los Angeles. On this trip I was opened up to the compassionate heart that forgives and forgets. My own forgetfulness helped me accept in myself a higher faculty than memory and reason, and I began to question the virtue of surpassing others in performance. This kindling of the sacred fire in me helped me forgive myself for failing to perform as well as people expected me to perform. My hands relaxed in the warm glow of my MASTER Jesus Christ, and the warming healing power in my relaxed hands began to flow much better and shine much brighter. This is how I, myself, became a more radiant healer.
I am far from perfect, and I still have difficulty at a social gathering, or even with one person in conversation because as a small boy I never learned to think, listen, talk, and use eye contact and other body language all at once the way most children do. This handicap now would be called called pervasive developmental disorder or infantile autism. Although I was intellectually bright, I wasn't able to communicate easily and effectively with people. Consequently what I knew was mostly kept private.
I still ride the bus and I like to ride the bus and use my healing hands to draw and write the way I'm writing now. This writing helps people know what I know. I also give personal presentations so that people can understand the new social paradigm of personal integration and salvation. An autistic person needs this paradigm to be cured enough to communicate better and better with persons who never met Jesus and saw Jesus in action.
Some people say that Jesus Christ is a myth. Even if that's true, the healing energy in healing hands and healing saints truly exists. This healing energy is liberated with the help of vibrations felt in persons' bodies. Riding the bus and writing in a vibrating bus helps me feel that indeed, the healing Christ is here.
Sunlight also is intense vibrations. Also a hot tub or a sweat lodge adds vibrations to your body. Drumming and other sounds add even more vibrations. All these vibrations help you feel the empathy and compassion that Brian expressed in his article.
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
LINKS
My website at Humboldt State University
My search for a publisher
My letters of recommendation
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