Losing Something We Love
Whether what is lost is valuable or not, the answer is just the same. It is a very easy thing to lose something. I have heard it said in Spiritualist circles that children steal things and hide them. I haven't found this to be the case, I have found that when children come they are invariably accompanied by an adult and are brought only for a specified reason, not allowed to run amongst people and interfere with what they have.
If they are brought up in the planes of consciousness higher than the earth, they are trained by very loving people and very rarely go astray. In fact the buildings they are in are so placed that no one could get out, although windows just look as if curtains are hanging at them, all of different colours like we see some time in the summer, outside a door when people want to protect the paint, beautiful to look at. These are over the doors, there are no actual doors, just the colour. This colour has such a mental persuasion with it that a child will get right up to it and then turn round and go back again; they will not attempt to move them or to go out. (A mother may see her lost child, when not breaking down at the mention of them.)
Very rarely does one hear of duty and discipline
When they come out to play they find the animals that they love waiting for them. This is the only time that the animals are awake and able to play; otherwise than that they invariably sleep. When
they sleep they mould themselves to the earth and anyone looking would not see an animal in sight, but when the children come out to play they know the one they wish to find and that one finds
them.
There is a wonderful feeling of oneness between an animal and a child, and real love is present. They have to look after their animal, cause it to be glossy and their coat shining. Should it not be, they would know that the child is neglecting his duty or neglecting to love their animal more so than duty, which is not a word used in the spirit world. Very rarely in fact does one hear the words duty and discipline; these things are not registered in the worlds unseen, it is mostly doing things with love and with peace in the heart and blessing. This is in the higher planes of life not anywhere near the Astral. The mother pleased to see the child happy can trust what she sees.
So there are all those children being loved by their parents; some might be mourned badly and when it is so, they are put into a cot and go to sleep, so that the mourning of the parents does not interfere with the growth of the child. The child will be taught and its consciousness will receive, even when they sleep, the lessons the tuition that can be given to them so that when the time comes the young children that have been lost become teachers, who teach all who want to learn. This can be done when people sleep that one can have a teacher that has grown up in the Spirit and knows more or less about everything where love, living and life are concerned.
The loss of articles
What we are mostly talking about is not the loss of people, we have invariably been into this with the symbol of the loss of a limb in a previous paper. This time I am thinking more of the loss of
articles. One might say this can be a test of what one would do if one should lose something that one loved. It does not have to be valuable to be talked about.
One should not think of revenge for the one that picked the article up. When one loses something the possibility is that somebody just took it in to a lost property office. I have never been to a lost property office to try to find whether what I myself lost - five things in one year, most valued to my life and living. All I thought about was giving what I had lost and saying to myself, "Well, I hope whoever finds it needed something like that and would bless it." Such a blessing upon a lost article would bless me and I would be thankful for that.
I do not think I have yearned after it. From time to time it has come to mind, but only in a cursory manner giving me no anxiety because of the loss of it. When losing an article, do not condemn the self or condemn somebody else because they lost it. Should condemnation be given that might not be truthful, for no one would lose someone else's article deliberately. It would be an accident, it would not be the will of God, as some people might say.
Enjoying everything one does
Now since getting elderly I can give myself fully to the service of blessing, not yearning after entertainment, but enjoying everything that I do, no matter what; by so doing, because I enjoy
everything, I do not harass myself about loss. I now look back and see for myself the fact that I was perhaps getting emotional, saying and doing things that I should not have done and did not
serve that which I wished to do, and I must forgive myself. Perhaps I treasured things too much, that could have been a cause for loss, but I hardly think that that might be correct. So we will not
give thought to it.
What I did notice is the fact that when the period had finished and I no longer was really thinking about it, not really missing the articles, I was given some gift, something of the modern day, different and better to that which I had lost which was old-fashioned. Then I was delighted and am still using it. I am very pleased with it, lasting a long time.
I found myself better off
Until I looked for the other article that I had lost and realised that they were not appropriate for what was necessary, and what I had in return, either picking up cheaply or in some way having
friends who gave to me, I found myself better off and ready to be most thankful that it had happened to me. For my giving I received, and the reception was much better than otherwise.
It is wisdom to realise that our behaviour after loss can either restore what has been lost or bring something that may be more suitable than that which had gone. I say this because there are so many things that one can lose in the house, little thing, like small pairs of scissors, earrings, broaches and small things that could sort of hide themselves, or appear to do so.
I find that after losing something, especially something that shines, even after the floor has been cleaned and nothing found, one sitting and looking on the floor may see something shining near the feet. Bending to pick it up, one finds that it is the lost article. One can then bless the loss as unseen friends are happy in restoring them and pleased at the appreciation given them. Sometimes one is having to laugh, for earrings and other small things have been found in boxes that one goes through rather frequently, knowing the article was not in it when going to it previously looking into it the last time and now see what is lost. Someone must have put it there.
It is from the way we act ourselves, whether someone will smile upon us, finding our lost articles for us and putting it where we can see it In this way it can be known that it has been lost and found because we would never put the thing in that particular place, like one earring was found in the pin box where nothing but pins go into it.
The brain will lead us astray
And so we had to smile. It is good to understand and to realise that it is more often than not according to how we think and feel ourselves, what actually happens to us. We can even feel
rejuvenated in ourselves, according to that which we hope to do in the future and yet know that one is beginning to feel aged, but time can be cut down. We can lose age, and I know that it is
possible because I myself have proved it.
These things need proving, no one else can do that for us, we have to do it for ourselves. It is from our behaviour, our ideals and ideas and so on that we think about and let the brain ruminate upon. The brain will very often lead us astray, which does not do us much good, it certainly does not return to us anything that we have lost.
To be loving and kind all the time, having lost something or not, makes all the difference to the time that is yet to be and what can happen during that time in accordance with what is necessary. Happiness need not be broken and lost, it can indeed bless if we ourselves bless it, and pray that whoever finds what we lose needs something like it and will use it with gladness in their heart and thankfulness at having found what was lost.