The Power of Jude
Inner Joy
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Every teacher tells us we can be whatever we want to be. We can make our life into anything we want to make it into. The decision is ours to make. Do what you want to do! Be what you want to be! The money for food, clothing, and shelter for you and your dependents will be there if we do what we want to do. If we really want to do it, we were destined to do it, and you will receive the food, clothing and shelter sufficient to meet your destiny.
The goals we set for ourselves must be our own, not somebody else's goals, not society's goals—only our own goals. An individual's goals are, by definition, very personal. They are God given. Your goals dwell in your soul. They are as much a part of you as your brain and your consciousness.
Goals are part of the Love. They are part of what makes us human, and in the image of the God that created us. Our true goals come from God. A goal that is not integrally related to Giving and Loving is unlikely to be your true goal. If you desire a selfish and a taking goal, it is something other than a true goal. It is not from the soul. The soul, which was created by God, is incapable of hoarding and taking. If we are unhappy it is because we have not looked inside ourselves to our God for our goals.
The Teachers point out that all too often we feel we must "keep up with our neighbors." We are pushed and pulled by outside forces that may or may not be consistent with our inner selves. We get mired in the economics of outside forces and feel so trapped that we began to doubt our ability to do that which we want to do. Stress, anxieties, ill will, failure of marriage, bad health, all are the by-products of our inability to believe in ourselves, in St. Jude, in the Power within us.
The Inner Joy is in the Love. It is in the goals. It is being in sync with our soul. When we have discovered the Inner Joy, we have unleashed a Power which, with St. Jude, can move us to any place in life we want to be. St. Jude causes it to happen all the time. It is not unusual, and yet, it is so incredible in its simplicity it feels as though it is rare. That Power is there. The Power of Jude is there. You won't learn it until you experience it. Believe us! Try it! The Power of Jude is there! It is always there.
The Power is ours for the asking, if we Love.
Humans are not born with love. Humans are born to survive. Through the wonderful mechanisms of our brain we have miraculously survived the jungle against elements that rage and destroy, and animals that were faster, quicker, stronger, and whose sole motive was to catch and leisurely eat us.
We survived, not by love, but by secretions in our brain that created anger, fear, stress, and anxiety, all designed to sharpen our senses, and increase our speed and strength against the perceived danger. That's what our brain has done, and still does for us. It is our weapon for survival which, according to the brain, is done through taking, grabbing, keeping and storing.
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, do not resist one who is evil. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other; and if anyone would sue you and take your coat let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.
The brain's logical mechanisms do not conclude that we receive by giving. The brain accepts love as the way to happiness and joy only because Jesus and the other Teachers told us so. Then, when with love and with St. Jude, we experience the Power, the brain will, albeit reluctantly, accept that giving and love, and St. Jude can solve our problem. But, the first indispensable ingredient to calling on the Power and on St. Jude is love, and, say the Teachers, love must be learned.
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