Why Me?

0:00Welcome to Truth Transforms. Join in for spiritually enlightening discussion and the practical application of new thought principles. Here's your host, Reverend Gaelin McDowell. Welcome to Truth Transforms of Reverend Gaelin McDowell. I am your host, Reverend Gaelin McDowell, and I am the Executive Minister, Senior System Minister and the Director of the Johnny Coleman Institute at Christchurch University Temple. So first of all, I want to say I know I haven't recorded a podcast for a while. We were in the process of doing some backdoor stuff on the website that hosted the podcast, and I was trying to let that process finish itself before I started doing some new episodes. But now I'm back and we're going to have a good run at making sure you get this hardcore metaphysics because that's what I do. Today I want to talk about a subject that comes across my desk a lot as a minister and it's

1:00normally in the form of a question and the question is why me? People are always looking at trying to understand why they are going through a whatever the particular situation, the circumstance that they're in. Why they got sick, why they lose lost their job, why they got divorced, why this, why that, etc, etc. And obviously as a minister, you know, you can give some general information, but you don't know what's going on in totaling in anyone's life, including your own. And what we try to do is guide people back to the principles of truth that can help empower them, get them in contact with the truth within themselves. But today I want to just play with the thought why me and just look at it just from a pure metaphysical, new thought perspective and just see what I can come up with. And if it benefits you, great.

2:00If it's something you feel is though that you can't work with, great. Free to use it, free to leave it be. But we're going to work with this concept called why me. And I broke it down in the basically three steps and we're going to go with it. So starting with the why me, the first why me that I'm going to talk about is that it's a part of your soul growth. That it's a part of your soul growth. I want to read something from a book called The New Thought Christian by William Warch in the newer edition of that more than one edition of this. The newer edition is found on pages 48 and 49. You want to read this in totality within a going to double back to talk about a little bit more. All right. He wrote, you must direct the energy flow of your God given gifts. To bless someone is sending forth, excuse me, to bless someone is the sending forth of spiritual loving energy.

3:02When you do this, you're actually directing the flow of energy intelligence. By accepting love, you are directing, loving energy through your receptivity. You are constantly sending and receiving spiritual energy by what you think, say and do. There are, however, certain areas in your consciousness where you are more developed than others. Perhaps you are very loving yet not very patient. This means you lack in your awareness of inner strength. Perhaps you have an active imagination, but like discipline, you are low in your awareness of order. You have a tendency to lean heavily on your God given qualities in which you are highly developed. In the areas where you sense weakness, you resort to emotions. To attain the Christ consciousness, you must seek to develop your awareness of the rest of them. Your subconscious will constantly draw opportunities and challenges so that you may develop your

4:03spiritual gifts in which you feel weak. If you are impatient and intolerant, you will continually be confronted with challenges asking you to grow in your awareness of inner strength. If you are willful and manipulating, you will draw your opportunity to become more willing. If you are angry and unforgiving, you will draw love challenges constantly. Actually, everything that comes to you in life is asking you to find perfect balance. This perfect balance brings with it in the peace and the conscious realization of your divinity. Everything comes to you for your good. Let's deal with this. Part of your soul growth. I am going to start off with the part where he says, there are however certain areas of your consciousness where you are more developed than others. In other words, we lean on our strength.

5:05He says, perhaps you are very loving but not patient. You are like an awareness of strength, etc. When he gets to the point of saying, your subconscious will constantly draw opportunities and challenges so that you may develop your spiritual gifts in which you feel weak. The key here is subconscious will constantly draw. In other words, you are not necessarily consciously aware that this is happening. For your soul to develop all of his qualities properly, you have to draw experiences to you that will help cultivate and develop them. Hopefully that makes sense. So, where those areas and consciousness where you are less developed, your soul, your subconscious aspect of your soul will draw opportunities, draw experiences, draw people to you. To help you cultivate, develop, grow, mature that particular quality or aspect of consciousness.

6:16In other words, it is helping you grow. It is helping you grow. I love how they explained it. He said, your subconscious yet again, your subconscious will constantly draw opportunities and challenges so that you may develop your spiritual gifts in which you feel weak. If you are impatient and intolerant, you will continually be confronted with challenges asking you to grow in your awareness of strength. Let's just stop there for a moment. Because these people are testing my patients. Why do these people always try to, in my face, aggravating me? Why do people always testing me? Because you haven't gotten a lesson yet. Because you haven't received the lesson. You haven't had your aha moment when it comes to that aspect of you. So, it has to keep showing up. Reverend Coleman, Reverend Dr. Johnny Coleman used to say that you'll keep getting the lesson

7:18over and over again until you pass. He used to use the analogy of being in elementary school. She used to say, you'll be sitting in that third grade chair all being uncomfortable until you learn the lesson. Why are you going through it over and over again? Because you haven't gotten a so lesson out of it. There's no other way for me to say it. But then when the author goes on right yet again, if you are well for women, manipulating, you will draw your opportunity to become willing. Try to control and dominate everything. Guess what? You'll have your opportunities to where you have to become willing. You might have to surrender. And sometimes that shows up in ways that you might not necessarily like. He wrote, if you're angry and unforgiving, you will draw love challenges constantly.

8:18Why can't you get this thing right? Because you haven't received the lesson. This is why we need more time in prayer, more time in meditation, more time in study, more time in reflection. So, we're making sure that we are clear about what God is trying to do through us. Because it's asking us to have perfect balance in the soul so we can properly express our Christ nature. We don't have the peace that passes human understanding because we're out of balance. Our souls aren't in divine order. So, therefore, the subconscious will constantly draw opportunities and challenges so that you may develop your spiritual gifts in which you feel weak. And this is why the author wrote, so everything comes to you for your good. And I know it doesn't seem like that. Now, I know somebody is going to say right now they're going to go to some worst-case scenario

9:21of, you know, murder, attempted murder, sexual assault and things of that nature. So let me be clear what I'm saying. I'm not justifying anybody's choices for bad human behavior. And we're going to talk a little bit about that in the second step that I'm going to be talking about shortly, the second, why me very shortly. So, I'm not justifying anything on a metaphysical level. What I am saying is, I want you to be in a space where you recognize that even in the worst-case scenario, was it a moment or a time where you receive that, don't go out there today. Don't go over there today. Don't do this today. We have an early warning system within the so-called intuition. And we often drown it out because we're not paying attention. And we're functioning often unconsciously to our own spiritual gifts unconsciously to

10:22that intuitive nature unconsciously to that whispering of a still small voice within unconsciously to that divine guidance and those feelings of that show up often in the body as being uncomfortable when we are not supposed to be around certain people or doing certain things or going certain places. So we find ourselves in a situation in circumstances yet again because of underdeveloped qualities of the soul. So why me? Why me might be a part of your soul growth? Why me? Why me? And part of that soul growth could be even before you showed up here if you're open to that to where like, okay, and this is a carnation, I'm going to learn these to you something. I'm not saying consciously, but as a soul, you know, some people might show up here with limitations and that might be because the soul needed those lessons.

11:25I don't know, but is it possible? Yes. It's something to think about. So we might ponder and wonder why this, why that, what I'm recognizing that you are in the process of becoming you an eternal soul. And if you can accept it, it's possible that these soul lessons have been going on in more than one body. Something to think about. Now moving on to the next one. The next one is why me is what some older metaphysicians used to call the law of averages, the law of averages. Also Murphy talks about this a few others, but I don't want to get into detail who taught it. And the law of averages just means that as a human race, we have a collective consciousness, Charles Fillmore called it the race consciousness, that we're all a part of a collective consciousness,

12:27all the thoughts and feelings of beliefs, etc. And part of this collective consciousness that we're all a part of. And in that collective consciousness, so many things, different things happen that impact all of us because we're all a part of it. We contribute to it and we're impacted by it. So many people have it car accident. So many cows are set on fire. There's so many earthquakes. There's so many whatever. Good bad and indifferent in the world. And part of just living life at a normal level of human consciousness, at the being a part of the regular race consciousness, being a part of the regular collective consciousness of the human mortal human belief system is that you are impacted by the dominant thought culture of the human race. Not just your nation, not just your family, not just ethnicity, not just your gender, not

13:30just your political affinity, but the totality of human consciousness that is creating experiences. And that's what they call it the law of averages that happens to people randomly. So many people get sick. So many people, so many people win the lottery. Law of averages. So when we are teaching people how to turn with them in many we, many metaphorsicians, new thought people who are teaching this type of principle, they're telling people turn with them and raise your consciousness, work with these principles. We're trying to have you live above the collective. So some of the stuff that's touching people on a day-to-day basis misses you because you're living above it in a consciousness of grace and the consciousness of love and the consciousness of supply. So some of these calamities that are touching people on a day-to-day basis miss you because you are living in a different vibration.

14:31You're living in a different level of consciousness. You're living in a different context. You live in a different paradigm. So it's touching people that you know and it's not touching you because of where you are in your spiritual growth and consciousness. You're living above the law of averages. So you said that as anything to do with me. Well these people are broke or these people don't have money to do this that another. That has nothing to do with me. Well everybody in your family got this disease or this illness. That has nothing to do with me. What people who look like you, your race, your gender, your orientation, your whatever, these things happen to you. That has nothing to do with me. I'm a spiritual being living in a spiritual universe, governed by spiritual law. What is that to thee? Follow thou me. That's what Jesus told Peter. What is that to thee? That's the old King James version. Another one is that have to do with you. You should be following me. Why you have your attention on what's going on with them? Follow me. This is what the Christ in you is telling you.

15:33What does all that stuff have to do with you? What grandma in my head? Follow me. What difference does it make? What the president is doing and not doing? And I'm not saying that be good citizens and vote and do all the other stuff. I'm talking about as a matter of physician. A thousand can fall in my hand. A thousand am I, excuse me, fall in my feet and 10,000 am I right hand? I have a description says in Psalm 91. And it shall not come near me. Hmm. Why? Because I'm living above it in consciousness because I know the Lord of my being. I'm living above the law of averages. I'm living above regular just what comes around goes around energy. I'm living above so many people have to have certain situations going on because it's a part of the collective consciousness that's coming in the form. Remember consciousness produces form. So that's not just you individually, but that's us collectively. So the collective consciousness produces these war.

16:36Not just individuals and famines and not sharing food and all this other stuff that we see in the world is not right. It's part of the collective consciousness. And leadership in these countries emerge from the collective consciousness. That's why those who know truth have to practice truth because we're impacting the collective. So I want you to start thinking about why am I affirming and denying, denying the error and affirming the truth. Why am I visualizing? Why am I visioning? Why am I praying? Why am I meditating? Why am I studying this stuff? Why am I listening to these podcasts? Why am I reflecting? Why am I being mindful of what I'm thinking? Because you want to live above the law of average. You want to live above the normal race consciousness. There's no other way for me to say that. You want to live above. Now it's about time for my break. So doing the break, I want to remind you that this Facebook page has,

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21:01I'm in the process of teaching why me, why me. What's happening to me, why me. So the third reason for why me that I'm going to teach is my choices, my choices. And I want to go back to the scripture found in Galatians chapter six, verse seven, where the Apostle Paul wrote, do not be deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever man souls, social he read. So my choices is reaping what you sow. All right, but let me be clear. What do I mean reaping what you sow? What you thought, what you felt, what you said, what you did, how you reacted, what you did, sometimes what you didn't do. What beliefs you attached yourself to, what beliefs you did not allow yourself to attach to.

22:02Who you attached yourself to and their beliefs that you were living out, not your own thoughts and feelings, but just somebody else's script. People often don't want to take responsibilities for their choices. And when that choice has come back to them in ways that they don't want you to be mindful of that. I want you to be mindful of that. Are you looking at the choices you made and you don't recognize? Are you looking at the choices you made? Excuse me. So when you are looking at your choices, it's a different conversation. Why? A watermelon seed doesn't look like a watermelon.

23:08Your thought sees, feeling sees, words sees, actual sees and reaction sees, create experiences that don't always easily show their origin and consciousness. In other words, you don't recognize your stuff when it shows up back in your face. You don't recognize you when you show up at someone else or some other experience at the job who you're dating, who you're married to, your money, your health, your situations, your experience. How are your choices creating different types of experiences? How? And be honest enough with yourself to be able to say, okay, how am I showing up in this?

24:11How am I the common denominator in these situations that I keep showing up over and over again? How are my choices contributing to the life that I have? I might be stressed out, frustrated, angry, whatever, whatever looking at the choices. How did my money irresponsibly show up as my stress today? How did not pay attention to my exercise? The drinking water show up as ill health today. How is my emphasis on focusing on everybody else's stuff and what they're doing and not paying attention to my own business showing up in my life today? How is trying to be right about everything showing up in my life today and my relationships with others?

25:13My choices. My choices. You know, it reminds me of how sometimes you watch the news and you see these mothers crying on TV and they have these gang-banging killer children and you know, and they cry and say, not my son was something happens to the son that was out there doing all the criminal behavior. I'm devaluing someone losing their life or going to jail or whatever, but people out not my son, my son would never do that and I realized that they have a literal, you know, sometimes killer living in their home and they don't even realize it. And they don't realize sometimes the way they raise their children is producing the results they see in their behavior of their teenage and adult children. My choices.

26:15My choices with my money. My choices with my time. My choices with what I say to people. My choices are how I act. My choices are what I choose to focus on. My choices. My choices. My choices. Remember, do not be deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever man so means a person. Social he reaped. The sea doesn't look like the fruit on the tree. So you might not recognize the energy you put back when it comes back to you looking a different way. Why me? Look at your choices. Look at your choices. As with them. So without. Reverend Ike used to say I mean no one but me. Tom Johnson wrote a whole book called You're Always Your Own Experience.

27:20My choices. And I know we don't like me included when our consciousness shows back up as something we don't like. I get it. I don't like it either. But it doesn't change the truth. When I take my finger off the pulse when I'm not paying attention to the details. I was watching something on a tick-tock the other day. And it was a divorce lawyer. And he was talking about sometimes the divorces when he's talking to some of the wives who are divorcing their husbands for infidelity. He was talking about often when he's talking to these wives. They'll say something like they had sex with their husbands in five years. Okay. And you didn't think anything was wrong with that. You didn't think eventually that if that didn't get fixed that his eye might wander and do something else.

28:22You just going along paying the bills, living the life, living in the same house without any level of physical intimacy and think that that works. That's delusional. And then how did we get here? I can't believe he did that. Really? That's foolish to me. And I'm not justifying the behavior yet again. But I'm smart enough to know that some things just don't add up. And if you're not doing things to make a thing right, then you're making choices to make it blow up and get worse. And it don't make a difference what the thing is. I hope you hear what I'm saying today. You don't want to budget. You don't want to pay attention. You want to be an impulsive spender. And then when life hits you for real with the law of averages, the car or something happens

29:26to your car, something random, storms of Chicago, the tree falls on your house or whatever, something random happens. Now you don't have any money. Because you never put anything aside because you were just living impulsively and spending every dollar you receive and spending money that you didn't have and going on trips and not paying bills. But now you need something. And now your emergency has to become somebody else's urgency. So why me? Pay attention to your choices. A watermelon seed doesn't look like a watermelon. And we often don't recognize our stuff when it shows back up to us. And I face it, I'm going to leave that there. Why me? I hope that this podcast will help you this particular episode would make you think about

30:32your life and ask yourself some questions. Is this a part of my soul growth? Is this the law of averages? Is this an aspect of my choices? What I did or didn't do coming back to me? And see if it makes sense. You do your own investigation. You do your own prayer work and see what the spirit of God and you will reveal. I'm just a messenger. Your friendly neighborhood hardcore metaphysician. And I hope that this lesson has been beneficial to you. I'll be with you next week with True Transformers of Reverend Gailor McDowell. God bless you.