Mantutia - Joy and Peace - Jun 18, 2005 - North Idaho

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group

Teachers: Mantutia

Topics: Joy and Peace

June 18, 2005

* Mantutia (Jonathan TR): Joy and peace be with you. This is Mantutia. I have come into your presence to amplify these two states of being, joy and peace.

Joy is a satisfaction realized and felt in your soul. It is a state of presence wherein the soul foresees a future, a path of unfoldment that is secure in its progress toward God. It is a realization of personal stability in the perception of a solid foundation derived from a successful growth from your past. Joy is the realization of surety. It is a profound sense of stability. It is the state of having awakened to the grace, the enfolding arms of God.

Joy transcends sadness and laughter, difficulty and ease, for these are merely encounters in life through which the soul gains wisdom, magnifies love. Joy is the knowledge of the permanence of one's well-being in the spiritual family.

Difficulties merely appear as entertainment, a means through which you may apply your spirit, its skills, your understanding of truth. It is a means through which you may unleash love. Peace is like joy in that it is as would be the opposite polarity. Joy is radiant, expressive. Peace is composed, settled. Both are joined in that profound assurance that you are a child of God, everlasting, certainly. Peace too is experienced even through turmoil, for it is possessed within your being on a level wherein turmoil is not able to touch. In moments of recreation when you seek rest and refreshment, few are those times when mere idleness satisfies the need. Often does one seek some playful challenge, be it a game or some sort of exertion as in sport. This I use to illustrate how even a challenge, a difficulty, a turmoil serves to bring peace and joy.

The rules of the game limit one's engagement, and the windfall execution of these rules mirrors to oneself one's reality, one's realness. These constrictions are like pinching oneself to verify that you are. It is in the understanding, in reality the experience, of your presence that you feel joy and experience peace. It is the heart smile. It is the twinkle of your soul eye.

When the mind is confused and the emotions are swirling, stillness is the means whereby you may reenter, to sit with joy and peace to recognize your core, your soul, to let the mind and your emotions settle to realign with the more profound element of your being. Then you are energized, renewed, and refreshed. Then you are capable of tackling the challenges. Then you are alert and aware of when another would benefit from your touch of spirit.

Jesus attained such stability of soul that, even when the armies approached to take him into custody, he could still speak the words of Father, minister to the needs of his fellows, address the spirit import of the moment. His physical life was one factor in the enlarged consciousness of his spirit presence. Therefore he felt no fear. He forgot himself, for he represented Father and he ministered to his fellows. It was that peace and joy, that soul assurance, that caused him to be unconcerned over the pending danger of a crowd who misunderstood him and a power base that sought to kill him.

This illustrates the great power behind such profound spiritual standing. Experienced in this extreme it is relayed to you that you may also in your many tribulations still reside in peace and experience joy.

Thank you. I request your responses.

Evelyn: I'm thinking how peace and joy are experienced, not so much as they grow, but that they are experienced more and more, if that makes sense. Like love. Love isn't quantifiable but you can experience it more frequently or more deeply. Touching into another world.

* Mantutia: Often these words are coupled with significant qualifiers such as "eternal" joy, "lasting" peace which do align with your comment of its constant presence, just as is love; and in illustration, just as is the clear sky even and above on a rainy day, no more needs to be added, none taken away. It is only your sense of residing within it and your ability to allow yourself the experience of more of it. It is ever with you. Our Master Son often says, "My peace I give you", "My peace I leave with you." But all know he has never taken it back and then reciprocated by giving it again. He merely reminds you of that peace, awakens the mind's eye to the recognition. You are correct in your observation of that everlasting quality.

Evelyn: Your example of recreation is apt for having us recognize that our struggles in life are just the rules of the game. I like to hike as a recreational activity. But while I'm hiking I'm catching my breath, and my muscles are getting sore; I'm getting a blister on my heel. It doesn't look like I'm having that great a time. But it's what I have chosen to do. When you get to the top of the mountain there's that soul satisfaction of the terrific view. It's a vivid example of joy overriding, transcending, the momentary ups and downs of pains and problems.

* Mantutia: Your illustration repercusses to profound philosophical considerations such as the question of why there is evil in the world and why bad things happen to good people. There is no intention for these occurrences, no willful perpetration by God. They are as the blister on your heel, the aching muscle, a part of the unfoldment of your soul. They are as the necessary restraint when you push for the strengthening of a muscle without which no stamina, endurance, or strength may be attained. Thank you for bringing this to consideration. I will release this engagement and ask you to ponder and further deepen into your certainty your sense of assurance, that upon this world are beings of great luminosity, brighter than your own physical sun, powerful, wise, and willing who will hold you in safe keeping, who will guide you and all others in residence here toward spiritual truth and a personal experience with God. I take my leave.

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