Dear Gloria,
it is about the last sentence of the first paragraph ... in particular about why not to be persuaded or dissuaded .... Is this correct? Or is it a sentence construction I am not familiar with?
In love,
Theophil
The Lion and the Mouse
Heavenletter #5413 Published on: September 19, 2015
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God said:
You may be a very High Being who has habits and mannerisms and ideas that do not reflect you as the High Being you are. This is how it can be said that the beggar at your door could be Christ. Outside phenomenon do not tell you the whole story. This is one very good reason why not to be persuaded or dissuaded by looks or by wealth or poverty or by anything at all.
Information may be one thing or another, may be valid or invalid. Appearances may be one thing or another. Good manners or poor manners may vary. We are speaking of your concepts and your percepts and what they mean to you.
The poorest may be the wealthiest. The wealthiest may be the poorest. Where are you looking, and what is it that you look for?
The most ordinary-seeming personage could be extraordinary. The most extraordinary-seeming personage could be a flash in the pan.
The wisest could be the most foolish. The most foolish could be the wisest, as seen in fairy tales where the know-nothing youngest son is the wisest of all and wins the day because he is innocent and truly sees what is before him. And so it is said: “Out of the mouths of babes.”
A most avid reader could be less aware than someone who does not know how to read. Someone who does not know to read may be better able to see for himself.
Yes, be very careful about getting caught up in judgment. Too often judgment – the conclusions judgment comes to – deny you the great favor of expanded awareness.
It has been said that nothing is what it seems. Hmm, I don’t go that far. Sometimes things are exactly what they seem. What I am doing is making a case for open-mindedness over closed-mindedness.
Truly there are many possibilities between truth and consequences. Be leery of too few choices. The concept of either/or lowers your chances. Be careful of being so sure of what constitutes goodness or what constitutes anything at all.
Remember the fable wherein the lion was about to eat the mouse? The mouse squeaked: “Some day I could be valuable to you.”
The lion roared: “How can a mouse be useful to a lion?”
While the lion roared, the mouse escaped.
Sometime later, the lion was caught in a hunter’s snare. Bound by rope, the lion couldn’t get away. The lion’s helpless roar echoed through the jungle.
The little mouse heard the roar and ran to help the lion. With the mouse’s tiny teeth, he ate through the ropes and freed the lion. Even the tiniest can help the mightiest.
No one knows everything. No one can be sure he is right in every instance. It is possible in the world to be too sure. Who is the lion in the story? He is you.
It is more than the mouse’s teeth that freed the lion. The mouse believed he was not too small to save a mighty lion.
Had the mouse believed he was too small, he might not have run to save the lion. And, of course, had the mouse not escaped the lion, he would not have been alive to save the lion.
Stranger things have happened in life in the world, have they not?
What is not possible in this world when you are open to the possibility? What is not possible even when you may not be open to the possibility?
You do not even know what miracles you may have been part of heretofore. How do you know with certainty that you have not walked on water? Everyone can be a miracle-worker with or without belief.
My human children are very quick to notice their size and to go by it. In fact, animals may not even consider the concept of big or little in the same way as they do not think of wealthy or poor.
Open your heart and mind to greater, and then, guess what, you are greater.