Roberta Grimes - The Fun of Growing Forever

The Fun of Growing Forever

We Cant Transform the World Until We Transform Ourselves

By
Roberta Grimes

The Fun of Growing Forever
by: Roberta Grimes

Copyright 2016, 2018 by Roberta Grimes

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Names: Grimes, Roberta.
Title: The fun of growing forever : we cant transform the world until we transform ourselves / Roberta Grimes.
Description: Madison, VA : Sage Wisdom Publishing LLC, [2018] | Series: The fun of | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: ISBN 978-0-692-73674-6 | ISBN 978-0-692-73702-6 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Christian life. | Jesus ChristTeachings. | Self-actualization (Psychology) | ChangeReligious aspectsChristianity.
Classification: LCC BV4501.3 .G75 2016 (print)| LCC BV4501.3 (ebook) | DDC 248.4dc23

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ISBN: 978-0-692-73702-6

Cover picture and design credit: Ratha C. Grimes

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This book is gratefully dedicated
to each of the thousands of unsung scholars
whose wonderful work made it possible.

Roberta Grimes is a business attorney who spent decades figuring out where the dead are now, and then she did something important. She sat at their feet and asked them why it is that we even are here at all. The answer they gave her led her to attempt to live the Gospel teachings of Jesus Christ, and then led her to announce in this book that not only have we at last discovered the meaning and purpose of human life, but buried deep in the Christian Bible are what may be the simplest and most transformative spiritual teachings ever found. Roberta calls it tragic that more Christians arent following the teachings of Jesus. She tells us that his teachings, when followed, actually transform us internally, and she shares the enticing suggestion that if even as few as ten percent of us will fully live the teachings of the Gospels, we can begin an era of universal peace and understanding over all the earth.

The reason why we can transform the world if enough of us will transform ourselves is tied to a dawning understanding that reality is consciousness-based. Quantum physicist Max Planck discovered a century ago that matter arises from consciousness, and that, as he put it, mind is the matrix of all matter. We are learning now that consciousness exists in a vibratory range, of which the highest vibration is love and the lowest is fear. Roberta plausibly claims that the rise of fear and hatred on earth is our fundamental problem, so for enough of us to instead choose love is our best solution to the worlds problems.

That being the case, how can we help as many people as possible to raise their spiritual vibration away from fear and toward more perfect love? What Roberta calls those we used to think were dead have told her that the answer lies in the Gospel teachings of Jesus. What a liberating thought! I believe that humankinds greatest need is unconditional love and equality, and Jesus Christ exemplified both these qualities. But before Roberta would recommend his teachings to others, she first set out to try them herself.

Watching her attempt to do what she claims that few people have ever really doneactually live the teachings of Jesusmakes for a light and enjoyable read. Watching her arrive at a spiritual place that she had never imagined existed is heart-lifting. She claims now that the teachings of Jesus are a system that works by helping us remember the spiritual perfection that already is ours, so we really arent learning anything new. We are just revealing it to ourself. Watching her so easily accomplish what should be and can be natural in all our lives makes you realize just how off-track we have become. No wonder so much of our civilization is a mess!

Roberta begins with gratitude, which she says must come first. I tell people that what you think about and thank about, is what you will bring about, and she echoes that point. As Meister Ekhart Tolle has said, If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. Roberta insists, however, that gratitude is just the indispensable beginning.

Next she tackles forgiveness, which I also agree is essential for spiritual growth. As she says, forgiving others is something that we do for ourselves! Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping your enemies will die. Quite the opposite, it slowly kills you. You cannot control the economy, the government, or anything else that is external, but you can control how you respond to these things; and if your habitual response becomes love and peace and not fear and resentment, you can totally transform your mind. Thankfully, she then shares a method for learning to forgive everything once and for all. Its powerful, yet simple to doand it works.

Roberta claims that we cannot even love in a way that transforms us spiritually until we have learned universal forgiveness, but once we are forgiving at that level then love comes as naturally to us as breathing. She tells us that it is this automatic, instinctive love for each person on the face of the earth that truly raises us spiritually. In my view, our whole wellbeing is dependent on our expressing love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out! Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and it offers you more joy than any material possessions ever could.

As Albert Einstein said, The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Ultimately our salvation comes when we begin to think more loving thoughtsthoughts that transcend fear. Since everything you want in life lies on the other side of fear, and nothing is going to change until you change, now is the time to transform your life and as you do, you also begin for all the world the long-delayed advent of universal love, kindness and perpetual peace.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Gandhi in India, and Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes. Roberta Grimes is telling us now that the transformation that has become essential to the future of humankind was begun two thousand years ago by the greatest individual of them all. And now it is up to each of us to stand up and embody that transformation. The future of the world is up to us. The path is clear; we just need to walk it.