Salvation as a process is that which enables our becoming full participants in doing the will of the Father – helpers in the Father’s work. The Father’s command is eternal life; and the Father’s will – that which he commands – is to be fulfilled, completed, accomplished on this earth as in heaven. Salvation as process is the turning point, that which enables us to see…
The way – Love one another as I have loved you… if all-inclusive love is not present in the process, all-inclusive love will not be present in the outcomes,
And the truth – My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and accomplish his work… we are fed by doing the will of the Father and accomplishing his work.
And the life – Earth was created as a place for life to enter into the working of the universe… the Father’s intent is eternal life – on earth as in heaven.
We – each and all – came into life having embedded within us, the essence pattern of intent… the essence virtue enfolded, intended to be unfolded/manifested within the one river of life on this earth, through the taking up of our work and role. Each and all have a calling, our gift, the work of our heart, the essential truth we are intended to make present and real on this earth. The process of salvation makes possible the taking up of our work; salvation not being the completion of this work, but the putting of everything in its place for the work. Christ came into this world to save the world, to save life on earth – all of life, the whole of life. He came to bring us back to the garden of original intent where we are/were intended to take up the eternalizing life work of the Father of life.
While in the garden, the path we chose was knowledge over life and reason over the wisdom of the Father – the Source of life, the Life –; and we chose self as source, turning our backs to the Father. Christ put everything in place – all-inclusive love and the holy Spirit available forever and to all – such that we could return to our work, if we would freely consciously choose this path… our intended work being the building of soul and the manifesting of spirit – feeding the Source and fully and truly becoming helpers in the Father’s work, the eternalizing of life on earth as in heaven. Such work calls for a radical change in what is leading our thinking, turning to wisdom and Thy will, and away from reason and my will… calls for our becoming seriously intentional about joining with the Father. This – serious intent – is the entry point for Loving God – worshiping the Father in spirit and truth.
Carrying out our work ongoingly calls for the working of the way of love and the truth of life within us… calls for our becoming vessels of all-inclusive love, becoming instruments for truth entering, and for taking up our unique work and role in the intended unfolding of life – the Father’s work – on this earth. When we have work and are receptively prayerfully open, the Spirit of truth flowing into and through us ongoingly provides gifts of wisdom – wisdom relative to the intended way of working of life; wisdom of intent not accessible through reason, but through the intuition of wholeness and the mind of essence; wisdom intended to guide reason such that we become intentional participants in the unfolding of life on this earth. All-inclusive love as the way of our heart is essential to our – humankind’s – way of living life as intended, as an instrument of love through which all-inclusive love enters into the working of the world, making possible the taking up of the Father’s work. We return to life, return to the Source of life, by and through the way – all-inclusive love – and the truth – wisdom truth of the intended way of working of life – and the life – being seriously intentional about living life in full participation with the Father’s command – eternal life… on earth as in heaven.
And so, we are all the woman at the well; all called to see and to hear the truth: Our food is to do the will of the one who sent us – sent us into life, love and truth – and to accomplish his work. This is the way of worshiping the Father in spirit and truth.
The process is kept alive by our opening our hearts to all-inclusive love, becoming vessel through which all-inclusive love enters into the life processes of earth; drinking the truth of intentionality, the truth of the intent of the Source; answering “Yes” to our work, the work for which we were created, the work to which we are called; and taking up our cross, willfully carrying our load in the intended upward unfolding of life on this earth. This is the way of building soul; this is the way of manifesting spirit; this is the why we came to this earth: from the Life into life, intended to return to the Life. This is the way of returning to life and to the Life all that we have been given.
True forgiveness is not only “wiping the slate clean”; true forgiveness makes possible our turning away from the path of death to the path of life… makes possible our entering into the river of life. Everything is in its place for our fully, wholly and truly joining with the original intent, the intent of the Father for living earth and for humankind, a particular member of life, before we turned our backs to the Father, to the Father’s work, way, truth and love. We are being given ongoing access to all-inclusive love and to the wisdom of the Spirit, essential to taking up our intended work in the unfolding of life on this earth; we are welcomed into rejoining original intent, the forever intent, the intent on which we turned our backs in the garden. When Christ cured the lame, the blind, the deaf, the wayward, he said, Go and sin no more, knowing full well that this would be possible through processes he put in place, answering “Yes” to the work to which he was called, the processes now possible: our becoming vessels of all-inclusive love, instruments of truth, and intentional participants in the Father’s work and command – eternal life on earth as in heaven… the process of sinning no more now possible. Reflection tells us that this potential, having been actualized by Christ – made actual – has yet to be realized. We have a choice: Remember me… or not. Our hour has come. Everything is in its place for our taking up our intended work; everything is in its place for our taking a role in the work of Thy Kingdom coming, Thy will being done on this earth at this time. The processes of salvation and forgiveness are actualized; now is the time for their realization.
Sandra M. Smith, Philosopher of Potential
