Two thousand years ago angels appeared to shepherds announcing the birth of the Messiah. Why shepherds? Why not kings or holy men, dowagers or priestesses?
What is it about angels that attract them to the most common of humanity? And what is so important about the everyday people that angels find it necessary to show up in their lives? Frankly, it's because we're so wonderful. Truly.
What is it about angels that attract them to the most common of humanity? And what is so important about the everyday people that angels find it necessary to show up in their lives? Frankly, it's because we're so wonderful. Truly.
If the stories in this book do nothing else, they remind us of the stunning power of recognizing the Divine in the most simple, acknowledging our blessings, showering our blessings on life around us.
Two thousand years ago the angels gave a message to shepherds: Peace on earth. And once again that same message echoes through the chambers of our collective hearts as the angels foretell once again of a world of peace.
Who can deny the changes flowing across our world? As before, we have the choice in seeing those changes as catastrophic or monumental. To those in power, the birth of the Christ child loomed as a threat; to shepherds, it was a blessing for the ages.
Because of my writings, doors have opened to me allowing me to visit and discover some of the most spiritually gifted people on our planet. And I am here to tell you what they tell me: Once again the promise of peace shall be given to humanity. And once again, we will have the choice of accepting that gift in the living of our lives or rejecting it through the choices we make around, through, and within ourselves.
Change has never come through governments or nations, princes or generals. No, change has always come through grassroots movements. It is the shepherds of the world, not the powers of the world, which foster and spread change.
What war has ever changed a mind? What nation has ever forced another into truth? Wars have never solved problems. They inevitably cause new ones.
Throughout history, real change has come from and through individuals. A small babe brought more change to this world than all the legions of Rome. And the angels fully understood that the truest way to insure the coming changes would be through simple shepherds.
Now, like never before, we posses the opportunity to manifest a New Christmas, a new birth of Christ Consciousness. And like the shepherds, our simple everyday world is the key to this monumental change, this new chance at world peace. And how? you might ask. Quite simple, really.
The very pages of this book hold the answer. The truths brought forth by these stories of human experience tell us that each of us holds memories or the capacity of remembering what it takes to foster peace, to live peace.
You see, it's not enough to talk about peace. It's not enough to wish for peace. Peace must be lived one life at a time. And you, dear reader, are that one important single life. To recognize the truth in this idea is the first step.
The second step is to do what the people who've shared these stories have done: Share your story, your experience of peace.
The third step is to go beyond the sharing of a single Christmas event, to either foster or create a New Christmas event. And one of the best ways of manifesting such events is to reenact them, pass them on.
Many in these little stories have simply passed on the goodness, the caring, or the peace-making once given to them. And now that they have passed on their New Christmas event to you, why not discover the real power in this book by passing the event that meant the most to you on to another. Too simple? That's what makes it so powerful.
Once one of us furthers an act of kindness, mercy or peace-giving by passing it on, we send forth a spark which eventually blazes into a bonfire in the common heart of humanity. The light we initiate continues ever higher like a funeral pyre releasing us from a deathlike trance, allowing us to see the real message of Christmas: We are the peace on earth.
We are the echoes of goodwill harmonizing with the choirs of angels, singing forth the New Christmas.
May this New Christmas be yours. Pass it on.
May this New Christmas be yours. Pass it on.
With love from my heart to yours.
G.W. Hardin
Co-Author, ON THE WINGS OF HEAVEN, and THE MESSENGERS
G.W. Hardin
Co-Author, ON THE WINGS OF HEAVEN, and THE MESSENGERS
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