2. The Challenge
    As we flow forth to speak with you for the purpose of assisting your own ever-expanding consciousness to
reside within those frequencies which will allow you greater freedom in such exploration, there comes forth the
word challenge.  By challenge, we mean that there is a portion of that which you are that has lived within the
cause and effect, that has struggled within the cause and effect, and also that has discovered ways of living that
have brought a semblance of ease within such living.   Such ways, developed through the experience of striving to
reside within that which you have always known to be - ease of living - have functioned in several ways.

    One way your developed and practiced way of living has functioned for you is it has given you a framework
within which to reside and you have found such familiarity to be of comfort.  Even within the great difficulties, you
have found a way to accept those difficulties and then to expect them.  You discovered that if you expected great
difficulties you were then not surprised by their appearance; and it was the surprise, you concluded, that caused
you stress and unhappiness.  You learned to place your magnificent all-knowing into the future and to filter
through the many wondrous possibilities until you discovered what could be a great difficulty; within the discovery
you found relief.  Why?  Because it would no longer be a surprise; you could prepare for what you call the worst.

    And when there came to your awareness those teaching which directed you to focus on the positive, on the
wondrous possibilities, you began to change.  Some of you who read these words changed to such a degree that
you found yourselves light-hearted and feeling the beginnings of joy.  Yet within the teaching you did strive more
and more to squeeze from your positive focus more fulfillment.  This was a natural progression in your journey
into your own expanded consciousness.  Yet the striving rested upon the old patterns, the now hidden patterns,
which said to you that if you tried very hard, you might be able to make it through the difficulties.  The old patterns
changed as you changed.  The old patterns contained the same frequency yet the words transformed to fit your
new focus.  They then said, if I continue to remain focused on the possible good, I will hold back the difficulties.  
While this new rendition of an old pattern served you well for a while, the taste of struggle remained and those
light-hearted feelings began to fade within the greater efforts to refuse to recognize some of the great difficulties
that continued to appear within your lifely cause and effect.

    Other teachings found their way to your attention and you then learned how to discover a blame for the
difficulties.  You learned and practiced discerning certain beliefs that had the capability of causing difficulties, of
what you called sabotaging your own fulfillment.  Again, while this journey delivered to you another new way of
expanding your consciousness, by the very presence of blame and responsibility for, did you continue to hold the
frequencies of the old patterns.  And also again, we would be clear that there is no criticism within these
observations; there is simply a statement of your own journey toward expanded consciousness.

    There came the moment when you decided that you would simply give up all the efforting.  Within such
resignation there resided a fear.  The fear told you that you might, if you did not continue to effort, return to the
old ways, the old struggles, the old great difficulties.  In some instances the fear caused many to return to even
greater efforting.  Because such actions were founded upon fear, however, what had previously invited joyful
experiences into your journey now such a process no longer produced what you had hoped.  This has caused
you not only disappointment but a turning ‘round and ‘round, as we have previously spoken, not knowing what to
do as everything seemed to be for naught.  Such a journey brought you to what we have referred to as the in-
between.

    Now we begin to speak of the challenge, your challenge.  Your challenge within your own invitation to your own
self to enter further into expanded consciousness, is an invitation to cease from such efforting and to reside within
a different, new way.  You might be wondering how exactly you can cease from efforting when fear makes its
appearance within your consciousness reminding you of the consequences of such ceasing?  The answer to your
wondering resides within Truth and within the discovery of the bending of Truth to fit the needs of the
unconscious struggle.  

    When you began to believe that you could prevent difficulty by focusing on the possible difficulty and avoiding
painful surprises, you began to bend Truth to fit the needs of the moment, to fit the needs of your limited
awareness of Truth itself.  Now you are ready to release not only the need to bend Truth into such distortion, but
also to release the foundation upon which such action was birthed.  The foundation resides within the belief of
separation from the whole.

    Some of you have heard those words before, yet the words are not the integrating within the consciousness of
the Truth of the words.  As we speak with you now, as you read these words now, the frequencies of Truth, which
have always resided within you as you are of the whole, are invited to not only activate but to sweep clear such
bending and distortion.  What does that mean?  It means that while you read these words, Truth - as it resides
within what could be called its pristine manner - floods your entire system, including those beliefs within which you
have resided as you journeyed toward this moment of expanding consciousness, of your expanding
consciousness.

    Your challenge is to allow such a process, such a clearing.  What can you expect?  What will your experience
be?  A million beings will experience a million different ways of such clearing and presence of Truth; yet within the
one experience there resides elation, feelings of freedom, joy, and more, a disconnectedness from what used to
be, a disconnectedness from previously developed avenues through which you experienced a limited expression
of your full magnificence.  Some might interpret this disconnectedness as not caring, which would then be an
interpretation of the absence of your own life force energy within the previous limited and limiting ways.

    Your continued challenge is to firstly listen to your own invitation toward the continued journey within your
expanded consciousness, and secondly to dare to respond to your invitation by participating with that which
initially appears as the unknown and, with your participation, begins to be the known incarnating within your
daring.  The more that you dare to participate within the seeming unknown which feels to be a delightful invitation,
the more you will be stepping from the in-between and placing your presence within the magnificence that you
are.  This stepping is necessary; it is your next experience within your journey and it is the avenue through which
the fulfillment, which you sought through the previous ways, [will] be made manifest and to envelope you with
those frequencies which invite Truth to continue to reside within your consciousness.  Such continued residing will
automatically lead you toward increased joy, delight, peace, fulfillment, and creative endeavors which can and will
provide avenues within which to know your true self.

    Reflection upon these words will benefit you as the frequencies placed herein continue to participate with that
which is you.
Expanded Consciousness