One day I was playing a game. I asked myself, “If I was God, how would I expand my Kingdom?” As I sat in contemplation an idea came to me and on its heels a story.
This is that story.
It’s about Value and it’s about Meaning.
Those of us born with sight have a certain value for it. Most often we don’t even think about it. We take it for granted. Like having two arms and two legs. We Value being able to see but it’s subliminal most of the time.
But a man born blind has a different value for sight. It’s not something taken for granted. The value he gives it is expanded, it is greater then what a sighted person would give it on a day-to-day basis. He feels its lack but cannot really miss it, for he never had it. His Value for it is made greater through it’s lack.
Now imagine a man born with sight that loses it. This man KNOWS what he’s missing. The Value to Him becomes even greater for the fact that he had it.
Taking it a step further, let’s say this man was miraculously healed and could see again. How much greater is his Value of it, since he spent so much time missing it?
How much greater his appreciation for it? His feelings of Gratitude? How much does he Value it now?
To “value” means to Love. Expanding the Kingdom is adding greater meaning to it.
Instead of cursing ourselves for being blind..
Imagine the day when we will all see!
S.E.
KoraKaos
I am thankful your love exists. May it attract more and more love. That’s all...
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November 30th, 2007 - 6:17 pm
So is that the point of the blindness? To appreciate sight as never before when it is restored.
November 30th, 2007 - 6:39 pm
Does the experience create a DEEPER and GREATER sense of meaning and Value for Sight?
Even if it isn’t restored?
And if it is, then how much GREATER and DEEPER is the Value and meaning, then before?
God deals in supernal values. Values of meaning. Values of depth.
Like how much could we appreciate and value human life if we’d never been one?
December 1st, 2007 - 10:03 pm
For some reason, I’m reminded of that scripture that quotes Jesus as saying, “those who have been forgiven much, love much.”
It’s so easy to take so many blessings for granted. But let one of them be taken away, and then we know what they are really worth.
You always come up with the greatest thoughts!
December 2nd, 2007 - 12:24 pm
If I could describe the Awakening process as anything, it would be as a journey of discovering and realizing deeper and greater meaning and value for every aspect and experience of our lives.
It is a boon, a favor, a Gift, to receive experiences that inspire us to turn inward, instead of outward. For in turning inward, is where the blind can see.
I understand {{Simon’s}} questions. I also know the ‘when’ this story came to me, was 15 years ago. I do not intend to be insensitive to our plights but, to illuminate possible reasons.
I had surgery for gangrene in my intestines at age 2 1/2. Running, playing, jumping…were not for me. It made me an inward directed person. My youngest son was born with hearing problems. He’s inner directed, too.
When one door closes, another always opens. And it is through our inner doors that Love flows.
An ‘angel’ lets say, that stands before the Presence, that has only known the Presence, has a certain Adoration for that Presence. But would be unable to comprehend or in any way experience, the magnitude of our Adoration and Love for that same Presence, simply because we’ve experienced what it feels like to have been seperated from it.
December 2nd, 2007 - 12:41 pm
(pssssst) I’ll describe what’s it like…deep listening…2 weeks ago I sensed an ‘urge’ to go look up something in one of my books. I read it, several times. Then let it rumble around like a pin ball. NEXT, I sensed an urge to go look up something else. Found what I was looking for.
‘Behind the scenes’ is something coming together that just might be a new slant on the 12 days of Christmas. It’s in progress.
This is the kind of thing I ‘do’ with all the ‘free time’ I have, since I don’t go to any office or ‘work’ for a living.
But that’s another story…the story of the talents.
December 3rd, 2007 - 6:49 pm
This was beautifully said! And it’s lovely to imagine the day when we all do truly see…
see the beauty that exists before us, all the possibilities, see the day that hatred and envy are replaced with love and peace…
One person at a time, so I’m working on me. Thanks for writing this encouraging post.
December 4th, 2007 - 11:51 am
Hi Sue Ann!
We stroll the same bloghood you and I…and, you gave a gift to a common wolve-sister the other day that I would like to re-create with your permission. Could you please email me at cony@rogers.com, I can tell you all then!
peace and shakin’ the tree,
Lil
December 4th, 2007 - 8:26 pm
Hi To All You Grand Masters of Your Own Life!
If you all do not know Sue Ann lives in the area of the Pacific Northwest. There has been much wind and flooding in her area. Expand those loving feelings.
Love all ways,
Debbie
December 6th, 2007 - 11:41 am
Jumping up & down, jumping up & down…
Hi {{lillithmother !!}}
Thank You for leaving me a link to your place! I don’t know what happened but the ones I tried before wouldn’t work.
Of course I will email you!
I’m catching up on my backlog of communications…tsk, tsk, no electricity can be such an inconvenience…lol…but my lights are on now!
(and the plumbers are under my house…and the heating guy is suppose to show up today, too.)
If you’d like to email me before I write, just send it on, to
essenceofgrace@msn.com
December 6th, 2007 - 12:05 pm
Ohhhh {{{{Sis}}}}
It’s getting so where would you expect me to be except in the middle of all of it!
The ‘new’ energy is working like clockwork. I have power, most around town and the county, still don’t. The Property Manager I work with, still has no power in her own home and their office furnace went out this morning.
I Imagine my heat and hot water in operation by the end of today. I won’t dissolve like a sugar cube; I can still be sweet after a shower.
And because of the kind of work Bill does, we’ve remained ‘employed’ and working, all the way through this.
I know one of the things I’ll be doing, is downloading the form people need to fill out for private damage. Just so I can give copies to those who need it. We don’t have any property damages to report. We did joke around this morning about hauling off the broken down ford and parking it under a fallen tree but…we were just amusing ourselves. Our apple tree is leaning sideways but we’re going to use the truck to pull it upright and stabilize it with some supports.
{{{{{{hugs to you Sis}}}}}}
During all of this I get an image of one of those toys we used to see at Christmas with a clown face. It’s made out of vinyl with a weighted base. You punch the clown’s face and it always pops back up. It simply rolls with the punches.
Grinning.
December 10th, 2007 - 11:46 pm
That is a great story. Perhaps that is why we incarnate in the first place, so we can “forget” who we are, then rediscover ourselves and end up with that much more love and appreciation for ourselves and existence.
December 11th, 2007 - 11:04 am
Bingo! {{Ryan}} It’s ‘expanding the Kingdom’!
How much MORE do we Value the Light & Love of Heaven after having a tour of hell?
November 2nd, 2009 - 1:05 pm
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