[Spirit Guide Sparrow]

Originally Posted by janielee

Sparrow,

May I ask a question. How do you get over hurt of injustice, of doing that which was right, with integrity and responsibilty, but getting crucified over that.

Thanks,
JL

Dear Janielee,

Is it not more noble to be crucified for defending values born from love than defending actions born from ignorance?

Each person is their own captain of their ship of morality, and must navigate right from wrong through the compass of their own heart wisdom.

What is right and just for one may not be true for another. Morality is an observance of values born from empathy which expand as awareness expands. Those with little or no empathy towards the experiences of another have little or no awareness of Self, and act without morality. Yet, there are those who claim meritorious morality in deed, but yield no empathy for those deprived of the values that form it. Indeed, the true test of a persons morality is their ability to empathise with those who would, in deed, seek to crucify them.

Within your civilized societies you adopt this belief that if you do good things then good things will happen to you. As such, good people expect good things to happen to them and become angry and frustrated when it does not. This causes them to react and respond in a state of victimhood, where they interpret the experience as unjust and undeserved.

My message to you is that not all good things that happen are going to be experienced as good by you, because it is what you identify as "bad things" which facilitate change.

The crucifixion of Jesus Christ was certainly not a good thing at the time, but it facilitated a change so profound that it is still experienced two thousand years later.

You experience hurt through the persecution of your ethical deeds because of your own capacity for empathy towards what others think and experience. If you felt no empathy for anyone you would not care what they thought or felt in regard to your words and actions. The fact that they cannot, or choose not, to identify with your course of action reveals they experience the circumstance from a completely different perspective. There is no universal law that dictates which perspective is right and which is wrong, for everything is determined by who you are choosing to be. Sometimes however, bad things will occur, both to remind us who we really are, and to facilitate someone letting go of who they are not.

Know then, that those motivated by other values are not inherently wrong, they merely gravitate to values more aligned to what they think they need at that time. It is for you then to provide perspective that may be better for who they aspire to be. Not by changing them by force, but by leading by example, even if it results in persecution.

When another seeks to persecute you for being that which you are, you feel their conflict with your sense of self-worth. It hurts to be rejected for being who you are and having to justify your values to the judgement of others. Yet, you do not have to be.

Should you act always, in all ways, in the name of love there will never be a need to justify your actions. Love can speak for itself.

-Sparrow