In my last newsletter I emphasized the value of measuring our spiritual intentions and their impact on us. Measuring them helps us realize their real importance. I imagine, however, that the value of intentions remains hard to grasp because at lunch today I had a discussion with my wife about our intentions and how they are what form our character.
The key to a deeper understanding of the effects of messages is our intention. A spiritual intention is our commitment to act in a particular way in a particular situation for a particular spiritual purpose. For an intention to be meaningful, we need to be able to deliver on what we have committed to doing.
My first messages like the leaf falling in my hand or the drunk urinating in the subway while asking me for money (as described in Chapter 1) were quite unexpected and a little shocking. They caught my interest and got me moving. They overcame my spiritual inertia.
In the next series of Newsletters, I will show you how systematic analogies to the way forces work in the material world works can help you analyze the effects that spiritual forces have on you. Before modern times, people thought that things acted the way they did because it was their nature to do so.
The Source of my messages taught me how important my intentions were through situations like the one I described on page 15 in my book where I planned to give money to the first needy person I met that day but couldn't bring myself to do it when he turned out to be a drunk urinating in the subway station.
The way spiritual messages awaken us to the existence of a spiritual dimension seems quite magical and beyond our understanding. We feel motivated to know more by using the ways of one or another religious or spiritual tradition as reference points in relation to which we decode our messages. Messages then help us know if we are applying the theory we have learned correctly or not.
