Posted by Roberta Grimes • September 13, 2025 • 0 Comment
Jesus, The Source, The Teachings of Jesus, Understanding Reality
With a song in my heart,
I behold your adorable face!
Just a song at the start,
But it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells,
I’m touching your hand.
It tells that you’re standing near, and …
At the sound of your voice,
Heaven opens its portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you!
– Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) & Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), from “With a Song in My Heart” (1929)
After our last week’s blog was posted, I heard from a number of people who wanted to know how they, too, could make this their last necessary earth-lifetime. I really loved that! And I meant it seriously when I told you then that, wow, if I can do it, of course, my dearly beloved friend, for you this ought to be a much easier life-objective to achieve. When I was young, I was self-absorbed to an absurd degree; and in general, I was highly un-promising. I can assure you of that! So, you are starting now from well above where I was. The great trick to rapid spiritual growth is that you have to decide that you want to achieve the fifth astral level in this lifetime, even more than you want to partake of idle pleasures while you let one more wasted lifetime slip away.
You will have to want it now more than you want to hang with the guys over beers on Friday nights, or go out shopping with the girls on Saturdays. Even more than you want to watch scary movies, or enjoy tennis matches or baseball games; and even more than you want to make money, or just be lazy, or simply think a lot about other things. You will have to really, really want it enough to throw away your whole past life! You will have to want it badly enough, in the beginning, to make it the center of your life, because our minds are unbelievably lazy. They resist like mad any efforts we might make to change whatever are their current habits. Soon, that mental laziness will be a plus. Once you have your stubborn little mind re-trained, you will be able to allow it to coast upward toward ever greater spiritual perfection. But for now, in the beginning, this process is going to be a fierce struggle of you against your mind’s stubborn laziness, and its reluctance to change any of the old habits that you yourself long ago negligently trained into it. This first part is only a transient phase, but just be warned about it. This first part is not easy!
Our overall task is to raise our mind’s vibration away from all the negative emotions and toward just pure and perfect love. And since the only person that I ever have taught to do this is myself, I will tell you how I taught myself to do it. I wasn’t keeping notes, because I had, I swear, no idea at the time how amazingly well this was going to work! But as I recall, I did the core part of it over only a year, maybe forty or more years ago. That was all the time that it took to get me well-started in the right direction. And it was amazing! Once my mind had given up on fighting for its old, wrong habits, and it had reluctantly fallen into forming the right habits, my spiritual growth became just a matter of tending a vigorous and healthy, pretty rapidly-growing spiritual garden.
For you, I have done a lot of hard thinking over the past few days, trying to recall my whole history in detail. And my first surprising realization was how long ago I took these first steps, and just how awful in the beginning I really was! But, confession can be good for the soul. So, here goes. There was a time, when I was in my thirties, when I was the worst driver in the history of the known universe. Not just always speeding, but also aggressive and bossy. It’s a wonder that I didn’t kill someone! Then at last came the day that made me take a good, frank look at my entire life. I was driving along in my usual maniacal way, speeding in the extreme right lane, so some frantic driver, maybe late for work, had to cut right in front of me to barely make his highway exit. OMG, he could have killed us both! And it was my self-given, absolute duty back then to manage everybody’s business as I policed the world, so I shot off at that exit right after him, and I rode his bumper through several turns. Of course, my acting in this crazy way was a form of acute insanity. I can recall having in some small, sane part of my mind the cogent thought that I didn’t want to be doing this, and I wanted him to get us both out of it. Which he soon did, by driving into the parking lot of a police station. I sensibly sped away.
But this was the incident that at last made me realize that I no longer wanted to be the person that I then was. I hear often now from people who have just achieved that same sort of Eureka moment in their own lives; although their moments usually are not so extreme as mine was. How ever it comes for each of us, these moments when reality finally grabs us by the throat are such a wonderful gift! In short order, over the next year or so, I did perhaps eighty percent of the mind-retraining that I needed to do to set myself on a rapid course toward the much later moment when, quite unexpectedly, I would hear my dear Thomas say, “This is now your last necessary earth-lifetime.” OMG, and he said it so matter-of-factly! But even without his confirmation, I knew that I had made tremendous spiritual progress since my final day of being technically insane. You clearly can feel your healthy spiritual growth, as it is happening! And for you to very efficiently retrain your mind so you can rapidly raise your spiritual vibration, and so you can thereby make this your last necessary earth-lifetime, you won’t need to hire a guru. You won’t need to chant mantras, or go on retreats, or really disrupt your present life at all. You will need just to make very efficient use at first of a single modern invention which is so perfect for this role that I think God may have invented it entirely for this one purpose! You will only need to very often and in specific habitual ways drive your car.
This car-trick works so magnificently well at carving away every low-vibration mental habit that I really think that God may have invented cars with this one purpose in mind. Back when I was still a lunatic driver, I was driving thirty miles each way every day to law school; and then after that, I developed a law practice in which all my clients were closely-held businesses, so I would drive considerable distances on many weekdays to visit those businesses and their owners on-site. In the very beginning, I had to fight my mind hard each time I drove to try to change every detail of the way I managed all of those drives. But then, God intervened, and redesigned my whole driving procedure.
One of the lovely things about my life is the fact that I have so many wonderful longtime friends that I never have met! I just hear from them every so often, whenever they have a question or a comment. And a few days ago, an older friend that I have known for a long time but never have met who lives near where we used to live, in the Boston area, emailed and told me that he wanted to try to make this his last necessary earth-lifetime; but meanwhile, he would have to spend the next two weeks driving to Boston for medical treatments every day, and he was such an impatient and awful driver that he really was dreading that! Did I have any advice? He lives maybe 30 minutes from the city, depending on traffic. Here is exactly what I emailed back to him:
My dear lovely Kevin, I used to be an insane lunatic of a driver, so I know just what you mean!
Here is my advice:
1) Always, from now on, get up a little earlier and read the 23rd Psalm and then the Lord’s Prayer before you even get in the car.
2) Always leave with at least an extra 30-45 mins for the drive, above what you are sure you are going to need. (Yes, really!)
3) Always, whenever you drive, have soothing music that you like playing softly in the car.
4) Never, ever drive above any speed limit, no matter what!
5) Always have a spiritual book you will enjoy, a tablet with Liberating Jesus, or anything else that is spiritually healthy for you to read when you arrive early and have to wait, so you can keep your calm and gentle mood at the hospital as well.
6) And whenever someone tailgates you or cuts you off, immediately and eagerly move over and wave him on ahead of you with a big smile, because you know for certain that he has just had an awful kitchen accident, and now he has five bloody fingers in a bag beside him on the seat, and you just hope and pray that he can get to the hospital in time to have them sew those fingers back on! Of course, if he shows you just his middle finger and he frowns big-time as he passes you, then you’ve got to make your smile of encouragement even bigger, and your wave more loving, because he is showing you that he has only one finger left on that hand!!
When I finally decided to shape-up my life, I began to do precisely this whole routine every time I got in the car. I did it for months, even including the bigger smile and wave at two or three wise guys who gave me their middle-finger salute; I guess they did that because I didn’t move over fast enough. If my memory of this period of my life is right, it took only perhaps a couple of weeks before I had begun to so transform my whole attitude toward driving, and then even toward life, that thereafter, it took me less and less effort to keep reminding myself that every detail of that God-ordained driving routine was essential! Soon, it all became automatic; and then before long, driving became the happiest and most eagerly anticipated part of my day. Driving was my pleasant and private me-time, never rushed, when I could think, and maybe have a chat with Jesus. And, wow, what do you know? Before long, my mind began to approach everything else in my life the way that I was dealing with driving! By retraining my mind to stop being pushy and bossy, but to become instead always extremely careful, courteous, and polite about driving, I found myself just naturally becoming more and more that way about everything that I did. And as my children grew, I think this deliberate mind-training even made me a more thoughtful, respectful, and loving parent. If driving a car is a regular part of your life, and if you decide today that you are going to use driving to take control of, and to completely retrain your mind, you can make a substantial beginning toward pruning the worst spiritual negativity from your life in just weeks.
Dropping all the rest of the negativity from your life is also thereafter so much easier! Within months, if my memory is right, I realized that I was finding all forms of television more and more irritating. TV was too jarring, somehow. It was too rackety, after the peaceful and lovely pace of my driving days, from that ugly canned laughter and the sped-up talking to the news solemnity and the commercial alerts. So, soon thereafter I gave up TV. I had already given up scary and action-type movies. I never had played any video games. So, then it was easy to also give up movies altogether. No bigs, and I can always go back; but to this day, I never have missed any of it.
Once you have done away with all the negative training of your mind that once had been dragging you down, and your mind is happily retrained to respond to the world in only positive ways, you will find your spiritual vibration rising naturally. To vastly assist and speed up that process, all you will need to do now is to encourage the flourishing in your heart of a boundless, joyous love for every person with whom God has graced your life! And this part is so laughably easy, because it is what your mind is literally created to do. Simply choose a very happy love song, and for these purposes I have found that today’s frame-verse works best. Then from now on, whenever you see the face of anyone in your life, whether it might be a family member or a co-worker or close friend, or a neighbor that you often encounter; or for me, it’s the members of my Wednesday-Thursday class; whenever you see any of these familiars, really look at each person’s beautiful face. Feel the special love and joy of having each of them in your life! And sing your special love song to each of those people in your mind. And mean it.
There is no limit to love! Jesus told us that. He said, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets” (MT 22:37-40). And as you ever more perfectly train your mind to love each of these beautiful ones who are closest to you in this lifetime, you are lifting your own vibration so rapidly, and by miles and miles, and so joyously! Then, whenever you feel ready for this, my darling, with a laugh of God’s own pure delight, you can spread your personal, beautiful love to encompass all the world.
At the sound of your voice,
Heaven opens its portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you!
– Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) & Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), from “With a Song in My Heart” (1929)
(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)
