I remember when I was a very young child, my mother teaching me a little prayer when we prayed together to Jesus each night.
What I remember most is the wonderful feeling of being held lovingly by him (or a presence) whenever I said or heard his name. I attended Sunday school when I was young, although I don’t remember a lot about it except the connection I felt to Jesus.
When I was in first year at High School I was peripherally involved in an inter-school Christian fellowship, attending a couple of camps, where most of my memory is of the lovely bush walks we did in the area. And still the name Jesus resonates with me as a huge part of this memory.
As I grew up, married, and had children, I was not active in church attendance. Our first child was baptised, largely so he could attend a private Christian college that required pupils to be baptised before starting at the school.
When our second child was born we were living in an area a long way from the rest of the family and never got around to a baptism. It did not feel important and still doesn’t. I have never really felt tied to the dogmas of the institutional churches.
It is since meeting Serge Benhayon and attending Universal Medicine events that I have again given some thought to remembering the way my body felt when I prayed to Jesus – or even just on hearing his name.
I know that Jesus was one of the very great world teachers that brought through to humanity the amazing LOVE OF GOD. I now know that this Love of God is the basis of my feelings that completely resonate right through my body, especially when I speak Jesus’ name.
Through the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I now understand the absolute beauty of building a body of love that Jesus talked of, appreciating that it is within me and I can access it at any time.
Building a body of love begins with ‘Gentleness’ – being gentle in the way I move and do things comes before I can begin to feel the Love that is already there within me. By connecting to this during my day, to the best of my ability, I feel such a huge expansion of love throughout the whole of my body. This is a wonderful way to live, and that love is building evermore as I develop.
I do remember the word ‘gentle’ being in the little prayer I said as a child and it is so relevant to how I am now feeling gentleness in everything I do. However, this way of being and doing goes even deeper for me as a woman – it also encompasses the word ‘Delicate’.
Throughout my day I can feel the delicateness that is in me, from the tips of my fingertips to throughout my whole body. Just expressing and feeling Jesus’ name makes my whole body surrender and expand with love.
And the amazing thing is that the other word that now comes through for me is ‘Powerful’. To me Master Jesus is, and always has been, very powerful – as demonstrated by the way I felt so held by him as a child – and even more so now as an adult. Jesus showed us that we too can be powerful; we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.
I am gradually putting this into practice: the more I live lovingly towards myself and towards others, the more I feel deep within an amazing Power that is also coming to the surface.
With deep gratitude to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for all the wonderful support and love that I have received over the past 9 years. If I had not met Serge, I would not have known how to access the amazing love that I have found within myself.
By Beverley Croft, South East NSW
Further Reading:
Outpourings From Heaven
From Giving Up to Reclaiming Myself as a Son of God
When we connect to the same divine source as the Master Jesus did we are in truth no different than him.
Building a body of love we can love back and which loves us back. Delightful to say the least.
Reading your blog Beverley, reminds me too of a prayer about Jesus that I learnt as a child, and hearing stories about him and the warm and lovingly held feeling that I had when I heard them. They had a quality that was very different to mainstream religion as we know it, which was very unassuming.
Being powerful in life is so simple. We do not have to study, doing exams or post graduate. Everything is already in us, we only have to let the love we are from to come out and lead us in our way here on earth.
It is beautiful to not just see master Jesus as a figure out of the history books I had to learn when I was growing up but as someone who brought through a set of teachings and a way of living that can still be applied right here and now.
What is to be re-discovered is our inside. Inner-most also called.. Our deeper part where we feel and know everything.. To choose a way of living that says yes more and more to what we know is true, even though that means letting go of things that have made no space for that. In his way we can live more accordingly to our inner-most which is connected and One connection with our Soul. Sweet and simple.
‘building a body of love’ to live the truth of who we are in essence. To let go of any hardness which is a process I can be sometimes disempowered by but not when I feel what my values truly are, to be delicate and precious in this womanly body.
And I can testify Annelies, that the preciousness and delicacy you live is a blessing to be around with.
What I love about this, is that no matter how many versions or different understandings there are of who Jesus is or was and of the meaning of his life for us all today, his warmth and his presence can still be felt by everyone. His light is here for us all just as all the other masters too, with no regard for race, culture or nationality. His love is constant and, in my view, bears no affinity to any religion other than that of the inner-heart, which is timeless and deeply truthful.
There’s something so lovely and wholesome about your blog here, I love how you describe your relationship to Jesus, it makes me ponder if I am too focused on just what is physically in front of me at the expense of having a deeper relationship with the world.
The “feeling of Jesus” can be deemed somewhat abnormal, we may be called weird, some may even assume we’ve lost the plot. Yet every single one of us is aware of energy and that this world is not just a physical reality.
The words; “building a body of love” resonates so very gently through my body when I read and I when I speak them out loud. It feels like as they are spoken they are awakening something deep within me that has been waiting for the gentle wake-up call for such a long time. And I can feel that from that awakening, a sense of purpose is activated in my body and from that purpose the power that is mine to live in every moment is offered to me once again.
Once we have felt that holding presence of a Divine Master, such as Jesus, it is never forgotten. Unfortunately we think that we have to ‘get it’ from outside ourselves, when in truth it has always been within us, we feel the essence of the Divine Masters so strongly and clearly, because, inside we are the same.
Gentleness is such a great place to start to build more love in your life. And you can start super simple if you’ve had a history of choosing hardness – you could choose one daily activity and bring a focus of gentleness to it, be that opening a door, cleaning your teeth, cooking a meal, driving your car, going to the toilet, walking etc….and see what happens.
I remember feeling a similar way when I read/heard stories about Jesus and his life as a child. I remember sensing what a great life he lived but could not work out how or why so much harm was done in his name by organised religion. I remember feeling that the man Jesus and how he lived and the Christian religions were not in the same league. And as I grew older I realised that actually there were many world teachers over the years all actually presenting the same message to humanity and that Jesus was just one of them and that I could still connect with and honour what they lived and brought to the world without being in a major so called religious organisation.
It’s such a simple concept but so profound: that we already have, within us, unfathomable access to love, and it’s just a matter of discarding a few layers of protective behaviours and tuning into what’s underneath. Discarding the layers can sometimes feel like an arduous process, because we think that they’re part of who we are.. but slowly, as we connect more and more to what it feels like to be underneath the turmoil of our emotions, and start to see them as layers – not an intrinsic part of who we actually are – we start to see the layers more clearly as just that, and they lose their grip without us even trying.
I don’t think if it were not for Universal Medicine that I too would not have found the amazing love that is within me (and each and everyone of us).
“we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from the LOVE” – this so resonated with me.
“The more I live lovingly towards myself and towards others, the more I feel deep within an amazing Power that is also coming to the surface” – this reflection offers others the opportunity to be the same.
Gorgeous to read Beverly, about your connection to Jesus from a young age and how that love resinated throughout your body. As our gentleness in the way we care for ourselves grows so too does our body of love grow, we can feel the expansion of this love throughout our bodies.
The interesting thing about Beverly’s experiences throughout her life with Jesus is how she held that connection with him regardless of any Christian upbringing or teachings. This proves how we all have full access to Jesus and other masters throughout history when we surrender to the love that is within us and connect to them, beginning with gentleness as Beverly has shown.
I could really feel the holding love you spoke of when you heard Jesus’ name. This is a far cry from the often traumatic experiences kids have with religion. I like the way you have realised that it’s not about Jesus or anyone else to provide this loving feeling. We need to build a body of love ourselves. I have also found gentleness to be an amazing way to become more feminine, delicate and tender with myself and others.
Awareness of the power of love, offers an awareness of the power and responsibility to feel and share our Divine love with all.
No mistake I came across this blog this morning. I only just started to read the article bout Yeshua | Jesus that was just published on Unimed Living last night http://www.unimedliving.com/ageless-wisdom/the-lineage/yeshua-by-the-christians-known-as-jesus.html. I have not completed reading it because I went to sleep. I tell you what an absolutely amazing story to read on embodying love. As Beverley expresses, I too felt held and the warmth of Jesus’s love. Jesus is with us more than we realise – I sincerely love how he makes his presence known – a glorious servant of love.
Building a body of love is a responsibility we all have to do on our return path to Soul – and all that we are.
One of the best gifts I gave to myself was giving (and allowing) myself support – and in the knowing that I had much clearing and healing to do – I attended the workshops and presentations of Serge Behayon and Universal Medicine, which hugely supported me to make different choices, as I came to understand myself and my old ways and habits were no longer serving me – thus it was time to change.
Yes we do need to let the love out that is within us, but I’d like to add a point that we also need to let the love in. This can be challenging when you’ve put up walls of protection if you’ve been hurt before. This is where, gentleness can be the perfect antidote to that hardness, to support letting the love in and out.
“Building a body of love begins with ‘Gentleness’ – being gentle in the way I move and do things comes before I can begin to feel the Love that is already there within me.” When I feel the delicateness of my touch it reflects to me a true confirmation of where we have come from and who we are and that is truly divine. Our movements hold a quality unto which we can express our true connection to the divine and that is truly incredible.
The master Jesus demonstrated to us that we are all powerful when we build a body of love to work as vessel for the divine.
There is something about connecting to Jesus that brings for me a great deal of humbleness.
I spent most of my childhood going to church and hearing about Jesus but never feeling any connection to him in anyway. It wasn’t until I started attending Universal Medicine presentations that I really began to feel the truth of Jesus and then naturally I began to build a loving and true connection with him.
Beverly you raise such a great point that Jesus holds power and that what he showed us is we too hold such power. Thanks to Serge we are shown in such a practical way how to live this power and that it resides in all.
With all the many religions in our world how many serve to confirm the light of God we already are within? For the true message that Jesus shared with us through his Livingness was that we are here to embody who we already innately are, as Sons of God, and live our divine Light on Earth. As you have beautifully shared Beverly, in building a body of love through developing a relationship with our gentleness and our delicateness, we allow our ourselves to be moved by an inner-quality that emanates from the love of who we are, our Soul, the Lightness of our being.
It’s interesting for me that I grew up in a catholic faith, went to church, a catholic school and all the trimmings and yet I didn’t really take in or understand who Jesus was. I knew he apparently did a lot of things then died and then came back again was pretty much my understanding. I knew the way I felt about him was something external to myself. It was like he was no human but a special person, a special man that could never be repeated again. I have more understanding for who Jesus truly is from Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, he was indeed a man but a man like every other man and like all of us, he chose to live a way, live a quality of life that supported everything and everyone around him. The miracles as I understand it was that there were people around him that also chose to live this quality and their lives changed miraculously. Jesus and how he was now make sense because I have a living experience of what it was he was doing, he was truly living the quality we all are.
After reading your comment regarding your Catholic upbringing and the disconnection you felt with Jesus even within the Catholic faith, I could feel how that is possibly an intentional thing designed to maintain the dependence of the follower of Catholicism in needing the Church to understand Jesus and find God, as compared to the simple and direct approach of The Way of The Livingness which shows that God is within us all the time and we are all Sons of God, just like Jesus. In this way we know everything of Jesus, his teachings and Way and there is no need for the Catholic Church whatsoever. They are ‘out of business’ in this model of living, which is why they do not foster a deep connection with Jesus, in Truth.
A very beautiful connection!!!! A very beautiful place to surrender to!!
What a beautiful blog Beverly, every time I think of Jesus I get this sense of “it’s okay, you are okay”, it’s soothing and very, very loving.
All so beautifully expressed Beverly, I had goosebumps reading your words. Building a body of love, in a very human and practical way, allows us to see, feel and know the Kingdom of God that resides within us all. This is simply due to the fact we are no longer encumbered with movements that take us away from the essence of who we are and that have shrouded the truly glory we all hold deep within. The absolute truth here is that light of the Christ is within us all regardless of whether we choose to follow a religion or not. As you have so gorgeously stated: “…we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.”
A beautiful reminder, Beverley. A body of love needs no cultivation, it comes alive in connection.
I have been praying in the church or late at night in my bed when I was a young child but never truly felt connected with myself and my body, it was always a kind of a story that I played out in my mind. Now I know that it is about my connection with my body, to love my body and to feel that inside me is the love of God. We are Sons of God.
It is through gentleness that we connect through our bodies to the same level of love and awareness that many many masters have walked with in the past, for our particles naturally resonate to that which is divine and living against this is an attack on our bodies and a resistance to the pull of evolution.
I remember reading about Jesus in the bible, his tender love, care and compassion for mankind was in stark contrast to the way God was portrayed in the old testament. this was when I thought he was God, today I know him as the Master of true brotherhood holding all mankind with an enormous amount of tender love.
“Through the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I now understand the absolute beauty of building a body of love that Jesus talked of, appreciating that it is within me and I can access it at any time.” How wonderful Beverley that you have come to this understanding for yourself, and have started to bring this quality into your life. What is so gorgeous is that everyone gets to feel that quality in you whether they realise it or not, and then have the opportunity to take it further for themselves if that is what they choose to do.
I have never prayed, I had no real relationship with Jesus either growing up, as I was not religious. I do remember as a child building a baby manger at Christmas time and loved the idea of a special baby, I would play games around the concept. Later when I met Serge Benhayon I realised that we are all special babies and special people. I love that Serge explains the true history of Jesus and that he was just a man, a carpenter and a philosopher and that there were many more like him, I could really relate to what he shared, unlike the walking on water Jesus that I had seen on the cross.
I too as a child also loved hearing the name Jesus- I got the impression of a very humble and loving man – very fatherly in his way and very holding of others. There is a warmth and very personable feel with Jesus that I felt was very accessible – very different to how God and Jesus are portrayed by the church. If God is love then that is totally accessible by anyone.
It’s wonderful and powerful to connect to what we know is true for us. To say yes to what resonates and no to what doesn’t, supports my connection and openness to more of what is true and divine in my connection to God and the love of Master Jesus.
My experience growing up was very similar David. I believed that suffering was very much a part of Christianity. But what Beverly has shared is the pure joy of an unbroken connection that does not rely on a belief and even going to church and that this connection is not for a devoted few, but for all equally who simply ask.
When we have those experiences of connection with someone from history, you can’t help but wonder and feel that there is so much more to life and living life that what we physically see and experience. The familiarity with a place never visited or a person never met and we could swear we know them. The truth is we do.
When we are rushed we can become rough and hard in the way that we move – and this can cause a ripple effect that kind of flattens everyone around us with its momentum. But when we are gentle it allows a grace founded on respect and harmony that on so many levels tenderises the harsh world around us.
Jesus taught that love is simple and how we are all the same, not one of us is more, bigger, more powerful than another, we are all Sons of God, there is no one special or chosen. And we are all very capable to rebuild a body of love.
Yes, and it’s a shame just how his teachings have been bastardised to create the exact opposite in the world today. With mainstream religions making it all about somebody else saving us, completely taking away our power and responsibility in everything that “happens to us”.
So beautiful to re-read your blog Beverly. I recall a picture of Jesus on the wall at school, that I felt a close connection with. “Jesus showed us that we too can be powerful; we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE”. So simple really!
The power of the love of Jesus the man is still felt every day by many. Is this not a moment to pause and ponder on why this is so? And why are we not in full acceptance that we can feel it so clearly because we are also of the same Love and power?
Delicateness and power are certainly qualities that are there in abundance for anyone when they connect to their soul. We love so much less than this, yet it is there in our breath and at our fingertips.
As Master Jesus taught us, we have everything within ourselves to do more than what we could ever imagine and it is only through the constant appreciation and embodiment of that vibration that we know ourselves that true sons of God.
Appreciation of gentleness comes alive when we choose to be and live this for ourselves first. Not something to be saved for good or others, it is a foundational quality that has all the depth you share Beverly. It simple takes our choice to allow this quality of gentleness that is innately in us to come out and be lived in full, and then we natural reflect this, the same as Master Jesus.
A gorgeous sharing Beverley of the power of love that can be reflected from our bodies movements and the expansion of light and divinity that is within us always. Thank you.
When we look around us sometimes it is hard to imagine or understand that every single one of us has the capacity and the potential to be this body of love that is spoken of, and yet, it is true that this is the case.
Jesus came alive for me too as I read your blog, such is your/our connection. Thank you Beverley. His message of Love and Brotherhood is here “Jesus showed us that we too can be powerful; we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE”. This is a true love with no attachment, investment or any conditions at all.
Dear Beverly, thank you, you brought the origin of Jesus back to life by expressing the truth. Hence it makes a lot of sense that he was a messenger, showing us that we are equally important and can serve in the power of God. That is us. And so, all that which is not that falls apart. And one thing will never change, even if we run away, we are part of God.
‘Jesus showed us that we too can be powerful; we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE’ Life becomes so much simpler when we drop all the stuff that we have allowed to get in the way of letting the Love out and it is so supportive to have the reflection of Jesus and other masters whose lives were/are lived from Love.
Thank you for sharing your appreciation of how Universal Medicine has supported you to re-connect to Jesus and build a body of love that then reflects to others the expansiveness of the love that we all are.
History is full of messengers, or prophets if you like – men and women who have lived a level of integrity and love that inspired many. However, what history did not record is that these men and women never held themselves above humanity, but lived the potential that is all of ours to behold. And so, whilst it is always important to appreciate and be inspired by such people, we are robbing ourselves of their true message if we don’t then realise that the reflection they offer is actually are own.
Such a simple yet powerful reminder Beverly ‘we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.’ Very true and letting go of hurts has been key for me in deepening love for myself and the ripple effect this has had on all my relationships has been beautiful to feel.
“Building a body of love begins with ‘Gentleness’ …… By connecting to this during my day, to the best of my ability, I feel such a huge expansion of love throughout the whole of my body.” Beautiful – and so simple! Something we can all learn from, from a very young age.
I too feel Jesus was an incredible leader. He showed how we are all sons of God and through our livingness we too can walk that love on earth. It is with gentleness and delicateness we can build a body of love in order to be in service. The support for us to connect to that is ever present should we choose it.
I love how you speak about Jesus and your natural connection with this master. And the connection with the master who lives now on earth has re ignited the amazing love that you are, by letting go of ideals and beliefs of how we should be we re discover the love that lives inside and we reflect this and more to the outside world, true power indeed.
Thank you Beverly for beautiful sharing of the love of Jesus and that through what Serge Benhayon has presented you have come to build that same love in your own body by the tender way you hold that love for yourself.
Hi Beverley. So many of us lost our connection to the love we are within but as you have shared this connection is and has always been something known to us. Serge Benhayon has opened the way for many to access this amazing love and I too, deep appreciate all that he has shared. Thank you for sharing your experience with us all.
Great blog Beverley ‘If I had not met Serge, I would not have known how to access the amazing love that I have found within myself.’ This is so true for me too.
I like the Jesus man too Beverly and feel a connection to him as well. The feeling he conveys is deeply harmonious and loving – and gentle as you say. Yet the power in him is apparent too. An extraordinary ordinary man, and an awesome role model.
“Through the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I now understand the absolute beauty of building a body of love that Jesus talked of, appreciating that it is within me and I can access it at any time”.
I now understand this also Beverly; how blessed are we. Thank you for this beautiful sharing.
Gentleness is the door to tenderness through which the path back home to our true sacredness is found.
I too feel held by Jesus, what I have not fully appreciated, though is that I am the same. As I understand appreciation more and more, I learn it has nothing to do with patting myself on the back. What it is for me is honoring the grace I hold, and as you say Beverly, slowly but steadily building my body so it can hold this love ever more as I live my life.
I absolutely love this blog. I have often herd the words ” building a body of love” and these have been knowledge to me, but now I know them, understand them and feel them in my body, because I am beginning to live them, though not as yet fully.
Yes building a body of love is the key to feeling what love truly is. From my experience it is forever evolving, for what I once thought was gentle, tender and loving now feels harsh, rough and not very pleasant! Forever evolving therefore forever a student!
Thank you for this Beverley. I too can really feel the power there is in love as you share your experiences here. Yes, love is so much more than the emotion we have commonly reduced it to be with our ideals and beliefs. Love is a living power we all have absolute and direct access to equally – and Jesus was and is a living example of this power at work.
I love when people speak openly about Jesus in the way that you do Beverley!
Building a body of love begins with ‘Gentleness’” Beautifully said Beverley, I can feel the power and commitment to being all that we are in embracing our own innate gentleness.
Our expression of love is reflected through our movements and from here we are equally held as one. Our movements expand our livingness and reflect the light of God far and wide for all to see.
I can feel how I have deepened my relationship to myself since reading the blog the first time because I can feel a beautiful, strong connection to Jesus which was always there but I had chosen to disconnect along the way in my reaction to the church. I have since healed this reaction and I feel like a child again where I can feel the love of Jesus and know that he is and always has been by my side. Thank you Beverley for sharing such a beautiful blog.
Thank you Beverly for this gorgeous sharing. It is through re-building our body of love that the Light of our Soul will freely emanate, and with this union we return to living as the Sons of God we are.
Thank you Beverley, beautiful reminder of the teachings of Master Yeshua for it is our responsibility to build a body that holds the grandness of the universe.
Jesus is one of those words like a lot of words that has been grossly re-interpreted, we get so many images with the word ‘Jesus’ – good man, long hair, beard, giving, breaking the bread, a soft man, kind, never angry etc etc – but the stories of Jesus have been sold to mask the truth, in fact Christianity has been modeled to mask the truth, they sell their version and if you don’t believe in it you’re wrong, that’s how it makes you feel.
‘We just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.’ Brilliant Beverley, so simple and powerful. I am re-learning to express the amazing love that is in my body too and this feels amazing, choosing to express love is what we are all here to do.
It’s delicious to read about a formless feeling, rather than trying to define something as huge as this divine relationship. It reminds me of that connection that I also have, and leaves me to consider my own relationship with that.
It is so delightful when we discover that words have a resonance, almost as if they were alive, and this is not a metaphorical reference , or an allegory, but a tangible experience that reconnects us deeply within
Power in love, expressing love…”Jesus showed us that we too can be powerful; we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.” To go gently in life, expressing how we feel is an amazing freedom and something I am learning is a truth, power in gentleness.
Beautifully expressed Beverley. By re-building a body of love, a great kingdom is once again revealed beneath the rubble of all we have lived in its place.
Thank you Beverly for a gorgeous declaration of love! Jesus does not have to be some fictitious blonde haired pale man from the Christian religion, in fact he did exist and he likely looked completely different. But more important than his looks was what he would have brought with him: a love so deep that it would surpass the depths of the deepest oceans. And this is what you felt and connected to! So beautiful – thank you!
I agree – Thank you to Serge Benhayon for reminding us that life is first and foremost about love and for teaching us how to build a body that can always express and live that love.
I personally didn’t have anything to do with religion growing up so I really didn’t understand what religion was really about as I had never heard anything that made any sense to me and if I walked into a church something just didn’t feel right to me. It wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon and I was introduced to the Teaching of the Ageless Wisdom that religion made sense to me.
This was deeply beautiful to read Beverley. It is extraordinary that through your connection to yourself first that you can allow your body to surrender and expand just by expressing and feeling Jesus’s name. I love that you have held onto this since childhood and have allowed it to begin with gentleness and then expand to delicateness and now being powerful, enabling you to truly recognise and embrace all that you are.
Beverley whenever I read your sharing the depth of your love shines through and ignites the love within me for the Master Jesus and the wonderful Serge Benhayon. And the blessings we receive through him and The Way Of The Livingness now in our Era.
One of the most powerful statements I know is that the Kingdom of God resides within. It’s very reassuring and very confirming.
‘Jesus showed us that we too can be powerful; we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.’ By re reading your blog Beverly I felt the connection I have with Jesus but not appreciate enough, to feel what he presented, how we are equal and sharing the same love within us all is something we still don’t accept and for sure not live.
Jesus brought through the understanding of love and brotherhood so that we had a reflection of this in a world that was then so far removed from the true meaning of love. His teachings were lost due to the Catholic Church and all the many religions making him out to be hero who died to save us from our sins…which was the opposite to what Jesus was here to do. The teachings that Jesus brought to us over 2000 years ago are still not being lived by the majority of the world because of the bastardisation by the church of his teachings.This is why I love how your mother rekindled the love that he truly represents and that this never left you.
I’m struck by how gorgeous the feeling is that you describe, to be held in an energy as a child… in a knowing of what Love is. And then the counter of how so much of the world lives at odds with its religion, whether the torture of their own personal relationship with God, or the troubles it causes between different factions who have a different version of him. How twisted we can make such a simple and profound connection.
It seems to me that much of the Christian religion we now have today has put Jesus on a giant pedestal but it is one that he would not have put himself on. Far from it. To me, Jesus’ life was an example of living in the knowing that we are all absolutely equal – all made equal in the image of God. When we return to our true feelings rather than the mental constructs we have created around his name, we get a truer sense of this.
Thank you for this Beverley Croft. There is a clear sense of integrity in the name Jesus – if we allow ourselves to feel it. To me it is a feeling of great tenderness, openness to and equalness with all, absolute transparency and beholding Love. Very beautiful to be aware of. Jesus is quoted in the bible as believing it ‘not robbery’ to be equal with God and I feel this very equalness in him, with us all – and that it is not robbery for us to know our equalness with him either.
Beverley, it’s amazing what we deeply know and feel as children, and how gorgeous is it to understand and expand on that knowing as an adult. And I love how you bring the teachings of what the Master Jesus represented back to a simple practicality of building love in the body, and that as we do we connect more deeply to what love is a living out of the love inside us.
Your connection with Jesus is inspiring Beverley. In school and religious studies I never felt connected to the Jesus they were speaking of – but reading your understanding makes me feel that I am part of and with Jesus too. When I was young I remember wanting to believe and feel God – I tried to pray but felt really silly because I was always asking the air for things, it was an outbound call. Now I realise that God is within and that prayer is an honouring of that fact.
When living in the mind (a small part of us in comparison to the rest of the body) we sell ourselves short of the grandness that entertaining, exploring, delving onto and playing with the qualities we can express from being present with our whole body. God is not out there or sitting on the clouds watching us, he is within us. If it where not for Serge Benhayon presenting this fact by showing everyone how living with a greater level of gentleness to start with brings this fact into our reality, and my own willingness to put this to the test I would still be in reaction to the lies that have been portrayed about Jesus rather than the truth that he lived and represented. A truth and level of love that is always there for us should we choose to feel and be in relationship with it.
It is so important to build this body of love, as otherwise we can’t acces the love of god, not knowing that we are this too. It is a great experience to get to know the qualities, and see that it is nothing more than our true nature.
‘Throughout my day I can feel the delicateness that is in me, from the tips of my fingertips to throughout my whole body. Just expressing and feeling Jesus’ name makes my whole body surrender and expand with love.’
Wow simply gorgeous Beverley, what a beautiful reminder of the joy felt when we allow our body to surrender to this divine love.
Thank you Beverly, this is so beautiful to read, I remember as a young child feeling the love of Jesus. I too, am now building a body of love, through the gentle breath and with tenderness and loving care I bring to myself and every thing I do throughout my day.
I agree David, a child naturally knows God and expresses the joy of this. Jesus did not represent a life of self bashing but one of evolution and love.
The events of the Catholic Church of late I find quite disturbing. I grew up a Catholic and was encouraged to believe that priests had a higher connection to God or were representatives of God. The God I know is not what the church represents today.
Also reflecting on Victoria’s comment, many are happy to keep this image of Jesus as the martyr because then it doesn’t ask us to be responsible. It separates us from Jesus and allows his story to be one that ‘only someone special can achieve’ and we can only try to live like Jesus so its okay for us to have these pockets of unloving behaviours. When what Jesus lived is something we are all capable of- it is a choice to be love or not.
I agree, from who I feel Jesus to be I can’t imagine him going, yeah put me on a statue showing me dying and get people to worship and pray to this. Jesus’ strength and the reflection he offers us is in the warmth and love he was with people. It is an inspiration to go forward with not repent on.
“How come we lost the very essence of what life is about and the great wisdom of the teaching of Jesus?” Great question David! Could it be that the bastardisation of the life of Jesus by institutionalized religions and others was used so that humanity would further separate and divide and be further removed to ‘not’ know who we really are, – the very antithesis of the brotherhood and unity which Jesus lived and reflected here on earth.
I love what you have shared here Beverly bringing the teachings of Jesus alive and sharing how applicable and easily accessible they are to us today.
I never used to pray or feel very much for the Master Jesus as a child I think the bastardisation and the portrayal of him during my school years made me question if he was real, but Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have renewed my love for him and given me a much greater understanding of what he brought to the world. While I very rarely pray just feeling his name brings an expansion and stillness to my body as I feel the deep love he has for humanity
It is fascinating and somewhat revealing that something as simple as loving and respecting your body was presented so clearly, so long ago and yet we as a race seem to have done our utmost to ignore it. Today more than ever our bodies are asking us to heed the wise teachings of Jesus you share here Beverly. Beautifully written.
I have always love Jesus and have felt his presence throughout my life consciously and for periods unconsciously. I have chosen to numb myself in this life but the connection to my divine origine has always been strong and has given me a foundation that brought me where I am today.
I love feeling the depth of your awakening David and the appreciation you hold for Serge Benhayon. I share both and I am committed to deepen the awakening further guided my Soul. Accepting glory as Jesus did, is our way forward.
Words can have such power grace and beauty that they transform and reconfigure, and it is now up to those who truly understand this to live their lives in such a way that their expressing vehicles namely their bodies radiate and resonate with the inherent truth that will give true power to the words.
Absolutely same for me :… If I had not met Serge, I would not have known how to access the amazing love that I have found within myself.” Thank you Beverly.
This really strucks me because it feels so true: ..beauty of building a body of love that Jesus talked of, appreciating that it is within me and I can access it at any time”. This is what makes me truly believe in Jesus, as I believe it will always be about connection that is possible to make wherever we are and or whenever we want. Love can not be institutionlized in any way. It is accesable from all sides or places in the world – because it is inside our very hearts.
I also remember having that feeling of connection when my Sunday school teacher spoke or we sang about Jesus. I wasn’t really interested in anything else but there was something special about the stories of Jesus that I couldn’t get enough of. The funny thing is when I was about 8 my parents put up a huge tapestry in our dinning room of Jesus, and it’s eyes seemed to follow you around the room, but I knew this wasn’t him and it seemed to make the room feel oppressive, and for the best part I would avoid it. Just writing about this I can feel that there was more going on with that tapestry, and I could feel it as a child.
The true simplicity of Jesus’ message and the truth of who he was became buried in the aftermath of myth and political manipulation.. No wonder young children can connect to who he was so easily, as they have a natural gentleness, delicacy, and simplicity, and have not yet been tainted by the impressions of the adults around them. They only have to say the name and feel it and they know, for they feel it in themselves with the whole of themselves. Like you Beverly, I always had a beautifully warm and true feeling for Jesus when I was little, before I was led away into the mystical. Why do us human beings always want something simple to be more than it is? The mysticism seems to be a replacement for a lack of being able to feel the true energy — that of the Soul. Once that is felt we do not look for anything else to embellish it.
Thanks so much Beverly, you reminded me that I also as a child had a close connection with Jesus. I was brought up a Catholic and attended church all the time and a lot of it made no sense what so ever, but Jesus did, and was easy to relate to.
‘Building a body of love begins with ‘Gentleness’ – being gentle in the way I move and do things comes before I can begin to feel the Love that is already there within me.’ – So simple and yet very powerful Beverley. I know the more I stay connected to my body and build the stillness within I experience a deeper connection with God.
Absolutely right, Serge Benhayon , has offered me all the tools to come back to my body and feel that I have a body of love, that I have been holding contracted small and far away from its purpose: being itself- being love. It is with all the incredible service of Universal Medicine that I have found my way to connect to my body and feel that love again. Just like you Beverley, I am everyday growing my connection with my body so I can let out all that love. Everyday I connect to God, as he is my principal.
Great blog Beverley – and I felt to add to this line – “we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE” – that we also need to let the LOVE in.
Victoria, the love you’ve reclaimed is palpable in what you’ve written and I love how you say it ‘ from here, this only but deepens …’
And so it most definitely ‘is’ Monicag2. Everyone needs to know and be reminded that it’s there for us all.
It is about accessing the love that is within us. Thank you Beverley for reminding me that I am building a body of love and that moving in gentleness and grace will allow me to build on this. I am also very grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for teaching the way back to love by their amazing example.
Beverley, reading this today I’m stopped by the words, building a body of love, and can feel how relevant that is to us all, and right now particularly for me. I’ve lived a lot of my life in my head with great understanding but without a lived love in my body; I ignored my body as much as I, could treating it in a very perfunctory way. Over the last few years I’ve learned to be more gentle, loving and tender with my body and it’s changed my life, and now I feel the call to go deeper with this – to look at how I move, how I am, is this from love, is this tender, is this loving; in others words take it deeper to allow more of the love I am out. I can understand much, but without allowing more love it’s not truly felt by me or others. As you put it ‘we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.’
Growing up a Catholic- this was not something I ever heard ‘building a body of Love’. Love and the expression of Love was not talked about in a practical way. It was only seen as a deed to be exhibited towards those who are less fortunate, this I didn’t feel was loving, as it created operation and viewed others as less.
MW that’s such a great point, that love was only seen as a deed to do to others, something you bestowed almost, and somehow you were being benevolent doing so ( I can feel the ugliness of this as I write, as you say, it sees others as less, and it comes with a huge arrogance that says I am more so I am honouring you by doing this for you. I too grew up in catholicism and at no stage did it talk about or consider the true quality of how we live and that our lived quality affects everything. It was more about doing good deeds, but in fact as I now understand if we’re not loving in our bodies, then what good can those deeds do. And yet while I understood and often questioned it and knew something was off, I held many of it’s attitudes (doing good deeds and being good for instance) and today I can feel the residue to that doing good and how easy it is to slip into a way of being that is about how things look on the outside but not taking care of the quality in how things are done. And what woke me up, Universal Medicine did, and today I feel a huge appreciation for it and for me in allowing and experiencing it’s teachings in my life – I would not have the understanding I now have without it. And I can now more deeply understand why I did good deeds, I was well intentioned, but I did not want to feel the deeper responsibility I was called to, which asked how I was with me, how I lived and to know that everything I do matters, every thought, every movement, and without love and care with those, anything I do out in the world might look good, but lacks the quality I can bring when I am love. It’s that simple, and while it entails huge responsibility, it is empowering to know and understand that in each minute I can choose and that choice is love or not. Thank you MW, you’ve allowed me to understand and unlock another part of where I’ve been and to appreciate how far I’ve come and the loving choices I now make.
Beverley, just so loved hearing how you connected with Jesus as a young girl, how that felt in your body. Then to reconnect to what is in your own body, knowing and feeling that love is within us all. Being able to live that love, is now what we are all here to come back to.
The body of love is that what supports us in our everyday. And the connection we can feel with Master Jesus is improving our sense of love.
Beverly when I was young I too had this feelings in my body if I said or heard the name of Jesus. Therefore I love what you shared because it remembered me of how I felt about him. Today I am re-discovering Master Jesus again and I have to admit that the more I chose to feel him the more I can feel the power and love inside of me – it is like I am a reflection of him.
When I was younger, I questioned why God would only send a messenger to one privileged section of humanity. Then as I got older I started to realise that the truth was many messengers have been sent over time, from Jesus to Siddhartha Gautama, from Pythagoras through to Socrates. Yes, their teachings have been forgotten and misunderstood, but if you delve deep enough you start to find the common thread that binds them all. It is a lineage that has been unbroken through time – saying the same thing for different times.
And that is the beauty of God’s love Adam, through time it has always have been there for us to physically reconnect to if we where ready to do so and through this physical presence on earth the lineage of the messengers remained intact and kept our history of where we come from alive and available to be considered as the root origin where we all belong to.
A great point to highlight Adam – it really starts to bring an understanding that we are never truly alone and of the support that’s available to us in reconnecting to the truth that we are from.
To put delicate, powerful and gentle into the same sentence could be seen as a contradiction in terms but as I have discovered through Universal medicine the true essence of these words naturally resides within and when lived there is a harmony that I never knew was possible.
I can relate to this too Nicole. I previously would not have imagined these qualities together, but only because I realise now that I associated the word power with the bastardised version and experience we have of this word in society – which has to do with dominating, imposition and control. True power has none of this imposition and is simply a natural expression of authority and lived truth and love, and therefore a perfect complement to delicateness and gentleness.
So true Angela and I have felt what it is like to be able to communicate from this place; there is an unwavering commitment to love but also complete openness happening at the same time, the feeling is pure, and there is a sense of equality.
Me too. One experience I can tangibly remember with Serge Benhayon many years ago when I first came to the Esoteric work is that I felt a deep gentleness in him and this feeling at the time reminded me of the gentleness, love and inclusiveness I attributed to knowing Jesus to be. It was not a feeling I had physically felt before this life from any other human being. The quality of Serge at that moment and consistently for every moment following has been of that be holding love that I felt from master Jesus.
I second that with bells on Lee.
Serge Benhayon is that man to day- a simple loving man showing us the grandness of our love through his lived way and presentations. He is a man who us all about relationships. True Relationship with self, god and others equally so.
The other part to this Johanna08smith is that Serge Benhayon has a family just as Jesus did, what is shown here is that life and love is very simple and practical. Each member of Serge’s family are amazing in that they live a very full and simple loving life. A truly inspiring reflection for all of us.
Great point Elizabeth. We each have this powerful love and it is all about how much we choose to live it and express it.
I will remember this today.
Me too- I am with you on this . . .
‘the fact that were it not for Serge Benhayon, I would be lost as to how to truly live this Love – to know it as a reality in my body, my relationships and every aspect of my life.’
This is a gorgeous sharing Beverley. Thank you. What you share about being held in a love when you said your little prayer and said Jesus’ name is really super powerful. This just shows that the truth and love that Jesus lived far surpasses any reinterpretation or religious dogma that his life has been made into and that in fact all children and people are held with his be holding love. It is lovely to hear your connection to this be holding love as a child and I can relate to it. Being brought up catholic way which felt quite imposing, I could feel as a child the purity of God’s love and Jesus’ love and I saw these as very different to what I was being taught. Because of this, I questioned a lot about religion that did not feel inline with the be holding love I felt from God or Jesus.
Beverley, such a beautiful humble and heart felt piece, I feel that connection you never lost with Jesus and how you’re now building a body of love and I recognise that is what I am also doing. The delicateness you speak of as a woman is so important and as I learn to embrace that more, I feel more of a fullness and power in power – odd for me as in the past I would not have seen this as true in the past but the more I embrace the love I am the more I get to feel this which is amazing and awesome. Thank you for for sharing your story, it touched me deeply and allowed me to feel the journey I’ve also been taking.
Agreed Meg building a body that can deeply support us and talk to us clearly through impulse and feeling is the key to living simply in today’s world.
I grew up not really into any religion and I was never really comfortable with the word god or Jesus but it is through the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom presented by Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon that I have started to realize that I never liked the words because I had a warped definition in my head and didn’t know the true meaning or who Jesus really was. It seems crazy to me how it is so easy to hear one story and then you just assume or believe that is it and you go along for a whole life believing it and never questioning further. I love what I have learnt from Universal Medicine on how to discern things for myself and how to be open that there may be another way and what has been presented to me in the past may be part of a story, but not in fact the whole story or truth.
That’s very true, once you begin you to consider the quality of your body, it’s so apparent that we are so much more that what we are brought up to believe, and what is possible suddenly becomes infinite.
I can relate to the presence you feel when you connect with Jesus. Even though I denounced being a catholic in my teens Jesus was never included in this as to me he has always felt like a world teacher for us all, not just one religion.
Building a body of love and living lovingly towards yourself is so important, for how can we love another if we don’t love ourselves first?
Beverley, I love how you could feel the connection to the Master Jesus as a child and were able to hold it throughout your life until you connected deeply back to this love within yourself through the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
True Lee. Jesus inspired through his living way the simplicity of living a life of love and Serge Benhayon is once again inspiring us all to remember our natural way.
This is beautiful Beverley. Building a body of love is indeed what has allowed me to allow the love that we all are be my natural way.
Thank you Beverly for this beautiful sharing. Your connection to self through and with love is tangible and lovely to read.
This is beautiful Beverly. It shows that the way to truly know Jesus and how he lived is not through knowing of him as a study but actually to live the love that he lived all the time. And why not? It’s always possible and available for us all not just Him.
I can feel your love and gentleness in this blog Beverly. Thank you for sharing.
Beverley, I love how you point out that the love that we feel from and towards any of the great teachers that have come before us is the same love that we have inside us and the same love that we have to give to ourselves everyday.
For decades, I’ve searched for Love in whatever way I could find it. Now I see more and more each day, that I had given up on the Love within me and so went for the very poor substitutes of niceness and being liked and accepted by others. However more and more I am feeling an enormous Love and warmth within my own body and as I surrender and let go I also feel the Love within my heart more and more. I will keep letting go of those poor substitutes as increasingly I see that they do not compare in the slightest. This IS what Jesus came to teach us, that ‘The Kingdom of God is inside of You’.
This is the same for me also Doug. I was intrigued by Jesus but went on to reject him as all the stories I heard did not add up for me. My family was not religious but I was curious about this man during my childhood. None of what I came across felt true and I then rejected him until recent years when Universal Medicine presented something different and something that felt true.
And in those 2000+ years the vast majority of society believe we have evolved.
Jesus gave us an example of how to live and showed us what is possible. Whilst not religious, the stories of Jesus such as walking on water and performing miracles stuck in my head and I put him in the category of something other than a normal human. It is Universal Medicine that has broken that down for me and shown that Jesus was a human who made choices. We all have choices as to how we live no different to that of Jesus.
Thanks nikkimckee, it is true that the “story” of Jesus turned him into this supernatural being, someone bestowed with great powers unavailable to the common man. True to that Universal Medicine has peeled away the story and made the magic of god accessible equally to all…the kingdom of god is truly within.
Yes indeed. Jesus didn’t have any great powers that you and I and every other human on this planet is not capable of. We are all powerful and all have the kingdom of God within us.
Yes, I’d agree Aimee and Lee, Serge Benhayon shows a way of living that is an antidote to the misery that many lives are locked into and he most definitely has proven to me that he can make sense of a world that by and large is confusing and clearly not working for the good of all humanity, and ultimately shown us how to live in the world and prosper for the betterment of everyone.
“Jesus showed us that we too can be powerful; we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.”
Yes, this is so true- by reconnecting to our stillness by gently breathing or doing Esoteric Yoga we can feel the limitlessness of Love that we come from. When we live from this quality outwardly true strength and power is felt, and experienced.
Wow yes what an amazing love and dedication Jesus has for all of us. Over the years I have to admit sometimes the word Jesus has made be cringe due to its religious associations but when I truly feel what this great man brought to humanity and the love he holds us all in, this overrides any propaganda and manipulation used in his name and instead I can feel with clarity the love he simply is.
Thank you Beverly for a very beautiful sharing, of the love of Jesus which dwells in our hearts. I loved the stories of Jesus as a child and wanted to live the love that he reflected in his life and teachings. Today I acknowledge him as a master who walked with love on this earth, but also as my brother, whom I love deeply.
Thank you Beverley, I really loved hearing your description and connection with Jesus. I find it fascinating how we all re-develop our own relationship with the love of God, as well as our own delicateness and gentleness, as you have described. We all end up in the same place, but it just goes to show we each have our own path, and this is quite magical.
What a beautiful sharing Beverley. There is a sense of feeling powerful when we connect to someone like Master Jesus and also letting love in. This is something only we can allow, it can’t be done by anyone else. Letting the love in and loving out.
Yes Melinda and Jessica, it is incredibly unfortunate that we have not chosen to follow Jesus’ example and simple message of how to live as equal Sons of God. That we squander and reinterpret the wisdom of all the sage world teachers through the ages, but still the Ancient Wisdom remains, consistently available for all to choose and consistently calling us back from our forays into the realms of separation. That is worth appreciating as is the point whenever any one person finds their way to truth, love and brotherhood. It is worth celebrating us.
I agree Katinka that the manipulation by religious institutions, which has been violent and loathsomely separative, has tainted our history and is going on till this day. And I agree that this is a very serious state of affairs – Islamic Sate being a glaring example of how far from the original impress of love and brotherhood that Jesus modelled to us. It is important to appreciate the gloriously committed pockets of humanity, for example Serge Benhayon and the student body of Universal Medicine, who choose to live, or aspire to live, the love that we are despite the historical pull towards the widespread, ingrained religious separation.
Yes Jessica, it feels like we didn’t want to accept that simplicity and had to make something big of it which of course added major complication. Jesus showed us that we could live the love we are, unfortunately humanity did not accept that simple message. We are love, we can live that love.
I remember attending Sunday school when I was younger and could not stand going there. On reflection it was because I could feel how untrue everything was and consequently I did not go near churches or bother with religion as I knew it to be. Coming across Universal Medicine I have become aware of how religious I actually am and have always been. It is in an intimately personal yet deeply known way of living true to who I am with the all. A synchronous harmony that shows me when I am in tune and when I disconnect.
Beverley it was beautiful to feel the connection you have with Jesus and to feel into it myself. The moment I feel him, my shoulders drop and my body surrenders.
I had a very different experience with Sunday School. I wanted to go as I was curious about Jesus but I was not allowed to. In a non-religious family I grew up with a curiosity around Jesus and I even read a bible at one point as I wanted to know about all those religious stories. My curiosity was never satisfied as I never found an account of the stories that seemed real. Reading the bible was no different that reading another piece of literature.
That’s a really good point Melinda – while it is important to note, that through time love never wavers, it is also vital to consider why it has taken us this long to even consider putting this into practice in our daily lives
Letting the love out and living from it. Living from what is already there, no effort needed. Simple and yet so powerful and life-changing.
Its true fionacochran01, there can be such a difference between how we might feel about a religious figure like Jesus and how the churches have changed that relationship.
Since reading this blog I’ve been thinking about and coming accross Jesus everywhere. It’s like this blog opened up the door to reconnect with Him. Last night I heard a song where Jesus crucifiction was mentioned and I couldn’t help but cry a lot. It felt like the hurt of so much Love being killed for nothing other than comparison and jealousy which are ideals and beliefs based on things which don’t have anything to do with Truth. I have still carried that sadness since then. It’s like I felt sorry for Him, where as, I actually felt sorry for myself, missing Him and also had given my Power away to Him. I can feel how much Grace there actually is when His name is mentioned. Even typing, my feelings and contemplations are filled with Grace, Strength, Love and Understanding. There’s so much more to connect to. That will unfold.
How lovely that you have returned to where you felt it most as a child that connection to Jesus. Many of the things we felt and remember as children hold the greatest joy for us.
I love rereading your blog, Beverly, as it brings back memories concerning my childhood and the connection we lived as a family to God and Jesus. I also had times where I felt the presence of Jesus, but in my teens I was caught up in religious groups and from there I developed a resistance against religion and threw everything overboard. Meeting Serge Benhayon 5 years ago I found back to the divine love residing in me. Through his reflection of love and harmony, I was able to heal the hurts I had accumulated concerning the church and found back a true connection to God as well as to Master Jesus and other Masters.
I feel deeply thankful and blessed to have Serge Benhayon in my life now and I am thankful for every correction he is giving to me or others through his deep love for humanity. When I first met Serge Benhayon, I felt truth and made the choice to stick to truth to the best of my abilities. I never met a person like Serge before, whose life emanates nothing but truth and love.
It’s so wonderful to be aware of the presence of God in every day. Our lives are then so much more than the mundane. There is a reason for everything, and if we are willing to read what it going on our lives are then rich with wonder and a deeper appreciation for all that is.
As a child, I was intrigued by the story of Jesus. I knew then that the life of this man was very familiar to me even though I didn’t understand how.
The first thing that came to me was, I’ve got to stop using Jesus name when something goes wrong… As I read through I got to feel the power it actually holds.
Thanks Beverly
Lovely to read this for a second time. I feel a warmth and stillness from reading it. As child I remember a feeling of confusion as what I was told about and felt about God did not fit with how I experienced what people said and did. By the time I met Universal Medicine and the Way of the Livingness I had given up on ‘finding’ God though I knew there was more to life than just this life. With meeting the Way of the Livingness it is the feeling of coming home and it is deeper and more expansive than anything I had imagined or dreamed.
Beverley, thank you for sharing with us this beautiful presence you have always felt throughout your life with the sound of the the name Jesus. It is as if you carried with you the living presence of this love that can never be erased. And now the presentations of Serge Benhayon have been there for you, and all of us, back to living that simple love. We are well looked after.
Well said Oliver – in fact there is an article here (written by yours truly): http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/truth-in-words/exposing-the-evil-behind-the-bastardisation-of-words.html – with the catchy title: Exposing the evil behind the bastardisation of words – that expands on this very topic and in particular looks at the words RELIGION and EVIL.
As you say Danna, “the connection . . is awaiting’, and is always there when we are ready to feel the deep stillness we all hold within and in that space to feel our connection to Jesus, God and the Universe. Reconnecting to the feeling of the Christ can be as simple as saying his name.
It is beautiful how you write about your relationship with Jesus, and the knowing that you have a body of love within.
As a child, I had a deep connection with, God, Jesus and Mary, angels. I felt them always with me. I went to a catholic school and they weren’t connected in the same way that I was.What Serge Benhayon presents is the teachings of all that I felt and knew as a child. Thank you Beverly for your beautiful blog.
It is amazing how people from the past, through how they lived their lives, their living way can still inspire us today. When I hear the name Jesus I get the same feeling of warmth and of a very community man who lived a simple but loving life.
Beverley it is a great reminder to be gentle and delicate with our bodies in showing this love we are to ourselves.
‘If I had not met Serge, I would not have known how to access the amazing love that I have found within myself.’ This is deeply beautiful Beverley and a statement that many of us that have met Serge Benhayon would completely affirm that this is the case for us too.
Inspiring to read your words this morning Beverley. As you say surrender is the key and for me is an ongoing theme to me recovering a truer and deeper connection to my body. Each time I surrender I can to a little deeper and surrender feels like it is a very expanding and evolving experience that is infinite. My understanding of surrendering has also evolved – in the beginning I felt it was a ‘once and for all’ experience but as time has shown me each time I surrender it opens me up to deeper and more amazing level of understanding that is always available when I am open to the Ageless Wisdom.
Beverley I love how you have claimed the fact that you have accessed the amazing love that lives within yourself. Yes we are supported to feel this through healing sessions and presentations from the Ageless Wisdom through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, but at the end of the day we have to choose to feel it and live it for ourselves which you have claimed you are choosing in your own life – inspiring!
I too felt this same kinship and connection with Jesus as a child – I could feel the quality that he lived and called humanity to. Over time I let this connection go as I did not connect with Christianity – however at any time I could re-connect to my connection with Jesus – bang he was just there! The way he lived is still felt here on earth and his presence feels stronger as I say yes to love and can let love in more.
And that attention to being gentle feels very in line with the quality Jesus brought to life. His every move, thought, word was gentleness and beyond and I feel the respect for him and myself when I choose gentleness in the way I am.
The power and sweetness of how you have described that feeling of being held by Jesus is very beautiful and confirming, Beverley. I have always known God but it was not until I met Serge Benhayon that I chose to bring that knowing into my everyday life. As a child it was a secret that was confined to time I spent alone. It is now emerging into everyday with everyone.
I can totally relate to what you have shared Matilda. My knowing of God had always been kept secret. I played and felt God with me but I wouldn’t share this with anyone. I didn’t even know at the time that I was keeping this to myself, it was just something I didn’t dare talk about.
In a way it is so revealing that I now can allow myself to talk about God and Jesus as an absoluteness in my life as it was more of a concept, a story with false elements around that made it not factual but anecdotal for me in the past. This because that was the way God and Jesus where presented to me in the past through my parents, church and school. It always has felt so restricted in my body, to only have the concept of God in me instead of the confirmation and the full acceptance of the absoluteness that my body is factual connected to the grandness that God is.
Beverley I have just read your article for the second time. It’s a incredible piece of writing as what you are in fact describing is how you are living the way back to Jesus. You lay the steps out clearly as to how you’re doing it and are in no doubt that you, Jesus and God are one.
Alexis, that’s what I love about Beverley’s piece too, the simplicity of what you felt as a child Beverley, being brought back to life in your everyday ways. Until I met Serge Benhayon I had blocked out the possibility of Jesus being anything more than the stories we were told at Sunday School. Those stories were not the Jesus I knew as a very young child. However when I heard Serge present I was left with no doubt that there was a truth called Love – and this is how I had known Jesus to be.
Thank you Beverley, I too feel the power of what Jesus has brought. And although bastardised by many, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has brought back the true teachings and Truth of Jesus…who to me is a complete inspiration, and I too am building a body of love, and expressing love more and more deeply and it is the ‘home’ and truth I have been searching for.
Indeed, the more we take loving care of ourselves, open up and become honest and responsible, the more we will let go of concepts or expectations we have had concerning life. By that we will rediscover a power inside of us that is stronger than everything and not afraid of anything: true love.
The gentleness that I have served my body has rolled into a deep love. It is now very immediate when I don’t treat myself with gentleness and it feels like I am abusing myself. It is incredible how it has evolved and interesting how it has exposed various levels of self love, self regard and abuse that I thought was ‘normal’. Everything we do can be re-imprinted again and again.
‘Everything we do can be re-imprinted again and again.’ This is such a wonderful reminder and confirmation that it is never too late to change.
Well said Susan Lee, I know many people who are very cynical about Jesus, but for me, I realised that it’s people’s interpretations of Jesus’s life that were wrong; and not Jesus’s life. But I was not sure what exactly was true, as I cannot remember being there : ). and feeling I was in the same boat as the rest of the world, nobody really knew exactly what’s true and what’s not. That was, until I heard Serge Benhayon talk about Jesus. I could not hear enough, because of what and how Serge shared about that time and about Jesus, I could feel very close to what it would have been like, and I was – and will be forever – deeply touched by the depth of understanding and wisdom Serge presented with on the time and life of Jesus and the Apostles; that’s how true History should be taught!
“Through the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I now understand the absolute beauty of building a body of love that Jesus talked of, appreciating that it is within me and I can access it at any time.” I love what you are sharing here Beverley, thank you so much for expressing what you have been able to re-connect to, within yourself, thanks to what Serge Benhayon is presenting non-stop. Me too, I am forever grateful for his life and work.
I have come back to this blog Beverley because it is so real to me. Feeling Jesus in my life, the sense of being held by someone who will allow me to live how I choose, but that I feel when in his presence I am going to make choices that are loving for me and for everyone else. That sense of support, no matter what, is the presence of Jesus I have felt forever and don’t want it to ever stop.
I love how you share Beverley of the feeling in your body on hearing the name Jesus spoken or written, that even through the falseness it was presented in, you were still given such a sense of love and of being held. I can relate in part in that I felt very close with Jesus as a child, despite christianity making no sense to me at all. I remember loving hearing that Jesus was quoted as having said ‘let the little ones come unto me’ – which made me feel held and seen for who I was inside – and later could not reconcile in myself (as I reacted to and walked away from christianity as a whole) – if it was possible that Jesus had never said this. I love that you have reclaimed the support of such a grand holding loving presence in your life Beverley, and enjoyed your sharing very much.
I too felt a very strong connection to Jesus growing up, it was intimate and like no other relationship I had experienced at that point in my life. Although I was very confused as what I was being taught at school did not line up with what I was feeling. Now I know to trust what I feel above and over what anyone else tells me.
I didn’t have any connection with Jesus growing up, but it is so lovely to hear your experience Beverly and how you trusted and maintained that connection from a place of pure knowing. That thread that has continued throughout your life seems to have only grown stronger as you connect to what religion truly is. Thank you for sharing this.
It is so lovely to share this feeling experienced by so many, of being connected to something loving and true, deeply familiar to us even as children and represented in the figure of Jesus.
And Raymond, just as you say that about Jesus we can also say that about Serge Benhayon as he is also, ‘a simple man that live(s) and walk(s) in a way that truly support(s) himself and everyone’.
The power of Divine Will has to be expressed through a body that reflects its kinglyness; and to nurture a body to express its kinglyness, we have to connect to the power of the Divine Will.
A body when is nurtured in gentleness, the love that we are is deepened and could thereby be expressed in more fullness out through our every movement in gentleness; this body is developing to be the vehicle to express God in all that it does.
Thank you for discussing the importance of “building a body of love” here Beverly. I continue to work on expressing more of the qualities I naturally am – like love, delicateness, power and strength – in my life. Part of this, has been working on expressing these qualities while building the physical strength and “fitness” of my body. By connecting with areas of my body that may be weaker than others, or that I may not have remembered existed (!), I feel how I am more aware of what my body is communicating to me. It has become easier to feel what is loving and what is clearly not!
Our kingly body deserves to be treated with such deep gentleness and care, for it to express the absolute love that we are. A body of pure love is open and needs no protection, it loves in and out, openly and freely. With a body nurtured in kinglyness, we let the world in, in kinglyness.
Our kingly body can express in kingliness when we allow for it. When we care for our bodies in all ways, then it can express in the way it was designed to. For me, this is a new concept as I spent my life having no idea I had the kingdom of God inside me, nor that my body was kingly.
It is cool how you could recall the feeling of Jesus from your childhood Beverly. Although I attended a religious school and heard Jesus’ name many times – I cannot remember the feeling in my body. From how I feel the energy of words now in my body, I can certainly understand what you mean. Words are so powerful and feeling the quality that each one holds, in its truth, can be a healing. There is a great article about the energy found in words here: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/truth-in-words/energy-in-words.html
I love your beautiful sharing Beverley. My appreciation and understanding of the love and wisdom that the Master Jesus brought to this world has deepened since listening to Serge Benhayon’s presentations on the subject. Before then I felt the beauty of what Jesus represents but it was more of a concept or a model of what we should aspire to, and I felt that it was unobtainable. Now I realise he was talking about allowing the love that already is inside me to blossom. It is a beautiful embrace to feel.
This is revelatory Liane. As I sit with it the depth of the truth you have shared is spreading out before me and in me.
Interesting what you say, coleen24, I agree, I feel that deep down we know the truth, we know we should be living Love, and living in Brotherhood. The other detail regarding my short time attending the church, was the fact that I was there at the time we in the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational Churches were asked to vote on whether we would want the church to combine with the other 3. I was one at the time, about age 19, who definitely voted to combine, it was as if I just knew we were supposed to be living in Brotherhood, not all living in isolation from one another. The church I attended voted overwhelmingly in favour, and now is regarded as part of the Uniting Church.
‘Building a body of love begins with ‘Gentleness’ – being gentle in the way I move and do things comes before I can begin to feel the Love that is already there within me. By connecting to this during my day, to the best of my ability, I feel such a huge expansion of love throughout the whole of my body.’ Thank you for bringing my awareness to this, Beverly. A beautiful way to start my day, being mindful about how gentle I am in each and every movement, with me.
It’s amazing that this is not presented is schools and for us all…
Gentleness is the foundation of true religion, for without it we have no basis to build connection to ourselves, and therefore God.
I know what you mean, James, I could feel the hypocrisy also in so many of the so-called religious people, they did not live the love that Jesus was talking of. There was much jealousy, back-biting, pettiness and exclusiveness with some of those highly active in the church, and quite a number were there purely to be seen, to build their reputation and business. I don’t remember anything of the sermons or teachings etc., just the energy that I felt around the words Love and Jesus stands out. I give thanks that we had a minister who did live in a very loving way, who was very supportive of the needs of the teenagers who attended. I never felt a judgmentalism from him.
I totally agree, James, I had a very similar experience growing up. I was fascinated hearing the stories from the bible about Jesus, he felt like such a down to earth, practical and very kind man. Yet whenever I went to a church, it felt so cold and oppressive, there was something that just felt off. It didn’t feel joyous to be there and I never wanted to go. I always had a strong connection to God, without needing to go to church to show him I cared, instead I loved going for walks and feeling him through nature. This felt true and honest, not someone in church telling me how God felt about everything.
I had never realised until now that as a child and later, as an adult, I felt a deep connection to Jesus, but not to God. God had become so tied up in the ‘church’, which to me was just so full of hypocrisy that I rejected it entirely – also rejecting God in the process. But I didn’t reject Jesus and now, knowing another world teacher as I do, I can feel it was his relatability and love in expression that I was feeling, and it is through this love that I have now found my way back to God.
Hello Liane Mandalis and you are right on. Words like ‘delicateness and tenderness’ have had their meaning altered over the years and now don’t reflect what they truly are. I agree ‘delicateness and tenderness’ are true power, yes as a man for me this is true. Don’t see these words in their current meaning because they are much more grander then we give credit too. As I have seen with many things, the world is upside down and these words are another example. Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have turned ‘my’ world on it’s head only for me to realise it was me that was upside down in the first place. Thank you Liane.
Hello Liane Mandalis, that would make sense as there would be no room for anything else in the ‘body’ of love you speak of. You hit on one of the keys for me, in this example of love ‘we’ would tend to focus on moving out all that is not love from our body instead of appreciating what is love. I have found that if you focus on the things you are not then it tends to build things that way, you will see more things you are not and eventually this will own you. There is another way, appreciate what is there, no matter how small you think it is. Again in this case, appreciate the love you are or you have in your body and be consistent this way and eventually you will see that and you will own it. As I said it just makes sense. Thank you Liane.
This is very beautiful to read. You connected to the truth of the love you felt in Jesus that was also in you and now to be able to keep expanding this true way of being is part of your daily expression, how lovely Beverly. Developing that gentle and delicate way of living and being with yourself, is as you say amazingly powerful.
Brilliant comment felixschumacher 8. I felt the same too. It is inspiring what you’ve shared. I am appreciating that so many of us are choosing to walk in Master Jesus’ footsteps. It is incredible to feel and to be part of this amazing family, coming together to build our body of love and sharing it with all.
Beautiful Beverley, what a powerful connection you have with yourself and the Master Jesus. I too am building a deeper connection with myself and to God. The expansion I feel in my body when I feel the presence of God is incredible. I don’t always feel like this but I know if I continuously practice moving in gentleness, delicateness and in preparing my body to connect to the love of God I will be able to feel connected to everyone and feel the expansion in my body.
I have known darkness and the only antidote to that I have found that really works is love. Letting the love out and letting the love in. And gentleness is a really practical way to access that love.
Oh my Beverley. You have brought back a gush of memories I also felt as a child around connecting with Jesus. Each time we sang a hymn or psalm at school or in church, this feeling totally enveloped me in a warmth of love that was indeed so deep and powerful. I love to still feel this and it is fabulous to start my day connecting to Jesus and his expression of the deep love of God. The quality of Jesus’ expression of love is so dear and so sweet.
I love the awareness you are offering here Beverly. The building a body of love is very important and wonderful (if somewhat a little bumpy at times). However a deeply more purposeful light shines on this and gives true meaning when the Master Jesus is included. It is a body of love that offers true service and healing to Humanity, and the riches of this is that we get to live and share this everyday.
Love what you have shared Beverly – you present things with such simplicity and the fondness of your memories and what you feel today with the word Jesus is palpable and infectious. I too hold an appreciation for all that Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have presented and shared with us and how this has allowed me to transform my life and bring so much more appreciation, delicateness, power etc. – qualities I would not have considered to be such an integral and natural part of myself if it were not for the support of Serge Benhayon and the Universal Medicine team.
Cherise it’s so beautiful to read both your comments and feel the truth of them. Thank you for such a beautiful reminder of what we’re here to be and do.
It’s really wonderful reading all the comments about how people connected to Jesus regardless of all the falsehood and miss-interpretation surrounding him. I don’t remember feeling this way growing up, only angry that what was being preached wasn’t love in my book – was I reacting to who I knew Jesus to really be but then throwing the baby out with the bath water and rejecting all I heard about Jesus and God.
Hearing Serge Benhayon’s presentations and the teachings of Universal Medicine has helped me reconnect to the love of Jesus and the truth I’ve always known. The more I accept myself and the fact that I rejected love and therefore myself, the less I react to false systems and beliefs. Serge Benhayon and those associated with Universal Medicine have shown me it is possible to live in a world riddled by ideals and beliefs and remain unfettered and free to be love.
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Similar to you, Karin, I threw the baby out with the bath water after attending some camps like Beverley, ” … inter-school Christian fellowship, attending a couple of camps, … “. I saw the (unconscious) hypocrisy of the people purporting to be good christians, rejected it all and thus cast myself adrift in life … only now (decades later!), thanks to the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, am I coming back to true religion, thank goodness.
It is true, many think that delicateness is something that is fragile and weak, the word power would not come near delicateness but yet as you say “our true power lies in delicateness”.
Beverley, your gorgeous blog reminds me that the only memory I have from the brief time I attended Sunday School was of Jesus. I was particularly taken with a picture of Jesus that was in the small pictorial bible we were all given at that time. However institutionalised religion was not my family’s ‘thing’ and after a few years of attending church when I was young, they were never regular church goers. Although I never prayed regularly to Jesus while growing up, I always felt his presence in the background and during ‘bible studies’, which we had as part of the curriculum at school. Like you, “it is since meeting Serge Benhayon and attending Universal Medicine events that I have again given some thought to remembering the way my body felt when” I remember that child-hood picture of Jesus – “or even just on hearing his name”. Now, Jesus and God are my constant companions when I choose to be connected and feel the love that I have within myself. Like you say, “If I had not met Serge, I would not have known how to access the amazing love that I have found within myself”.
Beverley this is a beautiful account of your re-connecting to the love that you are through feeling your gentleness and delicateness. Serge Benhayon has inspired me too, with his immense love and wisdom.
I love the way you have described how you have built a body of love through gentleness and delicateness Beverley, connecting you to Jesus and to the love of God that we all hold within. Serge Benhayon has inspired me also, with his immense love and wisdom.
Beautiful Felix, we are all part of Jesus’ family. Jesus is no different from you nor me, we are all one and the same. The only difference is in the choices that we make.
Hi Caroline you raise a great point here, some of the topics that have come up in group discussions literally make me stop and question why I have chosen to play along with so many “rules” whilst others seem to be more free, I love what Beverly has said about building a body of love, it is not new it is as old as the Ageless Wisdom.
Beverly I can so relate to what you are saying. However the way Jesus was presented in church made me contract a little. In knowing and having a relationship with Serge Benhayon however, who presents on exactly the same things as Jesus did with the same grace and wisdom, I get the same effects in my body when I say his name as you do when you invoke the name of Jesus. There is an immediate connection to an ever deepening stillness, an expansion of breath in my body and a warmth that spreads across my chest and out through the rest of my body. When we feel a connection to someone who expresses in full the love of God, that connection allows us to feel the same divinity within us and in that moment we know we are equals in that too. How super blessed do I feel because of this!! It is simply a matter of choice for me then to remain connected to what I know and to live it.
Beverley, I loved your words about buiding a body of love, appreciating this and being able to access this Love at any time. It is all a matter of choice and reconnecting to this deeper part of us.
Having grown up in the Jewish religion, the word Jesus was held in a very different energy. Th way religions separate world teachers from one another makes no sense, in fact you can imagine mohamad, Jesus, Buddah etc all sitting round talking about what is needed next to support humanity and NOT at all focused on who was ‘more’ right.
Absolutely Joel, my feeling is Mohammad, Jesus and Buddha are all preparing the next wave of the Ageless Wisdom presentation for Serge Benhayon!
Thanks for this Beverley – really useful reminder on gentleness and delicateness – the power really is in our finger tips when we remember to connect to them 😍
Its crazy how the systems and beliefs we have held encouraged us to do things we knew deep down were not true, in order to ‘tick the boxes’ to fit in. Universal medicine has freed my mind too Caroline, many of the boxes are now in the bin, and I am regularly discovering more to dispose of.
I can relate to that too James, feeling confused because of the ‘church religious stuff’, so much of which did not feel loving to me. It really put me off for a while, but when I heard Serge Benhayon describe the word ‘religion’ from it’s origins, -return to our true self, my whole body knew that this was truth. This article talks about the word, and it’s true meaning which is very beautiful: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-religion.html
Me too Laura, it made total sense when Serge Benhayon described where the world religion came from. Rather than it being something outside of me, something I have to go out and attain, it is within each and everyone one of us.
Absolutely Liane, and everything about life is about becoming tough and hard to be successful or even just survive – life is a struggle or a competition that you have to beat others or be beaten down, or for many it’s just plain overwhelm and powerlessness. All this is the biggest smokescreen so that people do not have a chance to experience their own true strength and power that comes from the delicateness, tenderness and love that they can live from every minute. What if the world could learn this truth and experience it for themselves. – and imagine how our lives and communities might shift from the misery of self-absorbed struggle to survive into a way that was loving, open, without fear, and embracing of all.
Thank you Cherise, you have nailed something powerful and that I am only just beginning to appreciate. That once we connect to the delicateness and power within, then we naturally will nurture and cherish ourselves in confimration of what we truly are.
Thank you Cherise and Annie. I felt myself come to a stop reading both your comments. So obvious really but as is so often the case, we can’t see something that is right in front of us until another reflects it back to us from the way they see it. Beautiful.
Beautiful Beverley. I too have found it is a living way. It is not gained through reading or thinking my way to understanding, but rather living in a way that deepens our connection until we see and feel the love that was inside all along holding us and waiting for us to connect back. And gradually I am beginning to understand the beauty and power that we naturally are, and feel the deepening connection as I allow it to be within
As I read through this blog I could feel the building of the kingly body, surrendering to gentleness and delicateness and then feeling how powerful we are. Jesus never kept any of this for himself as he shared it with all. How simple is that to share the love we hold within is the answer to building a body of love, no institution, building or dogma needed.
Great comment Sally. ‘How simple is that to share the love we hold within is the answer to building a body of love’. This is so true, for me, I am beginning to learn to do this, to share the love I hold within. I know I have been holding it back for most part of my life and now I feel I am able to let it out and express Love more so than ever before. I am deeply grateful for Serge Benhayon, his family and Universal Medicine students for showing me the way to connect back to who I am and to God.
What an amazing gift Serge Benhayon brings forth through his way of living the Love we all are on earth – a reflection of Divinity that is accessible to all if we so choice.
A beautiful testament to the power in gentleness – when we master our movements and our intention to be gentle in what we do our bodies can surrender and deepen to the love we are. Feeling inspired to regather what I can feel to be true about this and connect with the energy of Jesus. I also feel sad as I have lived most of my life with my back turned to Divinity, within and without.
how lovely that someone is writing about the experience of feeling the love inherent in the name of a master. This is a profoundly beautiful experience, and it is like finding a hidden treasure, hidden but in the open for everyone to see but no one does. Words can have such power, and this experience in itself restores trust and connection in this amazing power of expression.
I was raised catholic and remember that love and jesus they talked abut did really touch me, but the way they expressed in church felt heavy and draining. I missed the joy of the beauty they talked about. It was all about guilt and atonement. Having met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine showed up a new way of living truth to me, that I can absolutely relate to. Universal Medicine brings in what none of the “world religions” can bring – it is for the all and everyone. No one is excluded. Because it is simply about living love. Expanding truth. Appreciation and acceptance. That is universal.
Thank you Beverley for such a beautiful article. I know what you mean as I feel in my heart a warmth and gentleness whenever I mention the name Jesus and have felt his presence as a beholding gentle wisp of love passing through me.
Thank you for sharing the strength of your connection and the power and beauty this holds. It is gorgeous to read of the love you are forever developing and expanding and now choosing to live.
Thank You Beverley Croft for sharing your experience here and I agree with you that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have also given me the true support to access the Love that is already inside me but I had no idea how to connect to it.
On another note – you mention the word ‘gentleness’ and I have been asking around for years to see if there is a meaning for this word in my second language and the nearest we got to is “slowly slowly, pay close attention”. How interesting that there is no word yet for gentleness in the indian language and is it any wonder I had not an ounce of gentleness for myself when I met Serge Benhayon 10 years ago.
Thank you Beverly for a beautiful tender blog about love. I, too have the deepest gratitude to Serge Benhayon whose deep love for himself and humanity has been my greatest inspiration to return to love too.
How beautifully both of you have expressed Katinka and Sandra. I read your comments several times and felt such love with your words.Thank you both.
I too felt very held and deeply loved by Jesus as a child, like yourself Beverly, I experienced a beautiful feeling of love throughout my body and a deep feeling of being truly loved for just being myself. I was never able to feel such a love from another being, until I met Serge Benhayon, I have no doubt he lives and expresses the Christ on earth at this time.
What is fascinating, Beverly, that you, as a child,did not develop a dependancy with the christian religion, but a relationship directly with the Master Jesus and when meeting Serge Benhayon, he reminded you of the warmth of this relationship and brought your understanding about it to a deeper level.
That is truly the beauty of your connection you have felt from child on till today. A connection we all have, but everyone has learnt more or less to ignore that fact. That we are love, tender and powerful beings, independent fact from gender, family background or nationality.
“our true power lies in delicateness – our ability to dissolve the darkness with our love”. I love this sentence Liane, Thank you!
Beverley, thank you for your sharing. I too have a recollection of Jesus during my childhood, especially being held by his love.
I also agree cheriseholt re the word Christ, it feels so ultimate and definite, I love this. When I very first came to Universal Medicine and met and spoke with Serge Benhayon, I remember having such a strong feeling of Jesus through Serge; that to me he felt so ‘very Jesus’ – I now know that what I was feeling was what you describe here Cherise which is Unity and Brotherhood, and that this is what I was re-connecting to, registering and feeling in Serge – both he and Jesus/Yeshua bring the same energy of The Christ. And teach by their lived reflection the beauty of this available in us, humanity too. I know this as the absolute truth.
Yes I agree, Cherise and Zofia. When I met Serge Benhayon it felt like coming home, because the quality of love you describe was strongly felt and reminded me of something I knew so well but had dis-connected from for a while. To meet someone who is living this love with every cell of their body is a blessing for all, and calls us back to our true nature.
Yes, I agree Zofia and Cherise…and we know this Unity and Brotherhood so deeply, it really feels like coming home.
I agree Beverley, Jesus or Yeshua’s name moves me deeply also, and so too do your words: “I know that Jesus was one of the very great world teachers that brought through to humanity the amazing LOVE OF GOD” – which is everything.
Gorgeous to read this Beverley and be reminded of how powerful saying Jesus’s name is. It is felt throughout my whole body. I too said a prayer my granny told me about gentle Jesus and to really get to feel what I was connecting to then as I do now is amazing, thank you. I know in my heart there is so much more for me to unfold to and feel about him within me, as I build my own body of love. Sometimes as I rest I ask for a healing from him and the energy that I feel come to me is amazing.
Your blog took me back to a time when I was very little and like most kids back then, had to go to Sunday School which I loathed. But when you mentioned the word ‘gentle’ in relation to Jesus, it somehow resonated and I can still recall a strong feeling of known trust, tenderness and kindness when used in connection with him. In other words, gentle, delicate and powerful – a great reminder of the qualities of a body of love.
Amazing how no matter what deeds have been done in his name, what interpretation people have put to his teachings, or what idols, images or symbols have been created in his likeness, the name Jesus still feels beautiful as you say Beverly. How is this possible? What if no matter what others do or say in life, your name carries with it the absolute quality with which you live life? Jesus lived with such love for people, and boy you can feel that still today. What will your name hold for people in time to come?
Beverley, a very gracious sharing that brings the simplicity and truth of what Jesus taught through his Livingness, that God is Love and the Kingdom of God is within. Building a body of love is a beautiful and gentle way to present these teachings for the world. Thank you.
A very beautiful and powerful blog, thank you Beverly. I remember being taken to Sunday School, I didn’t want to go, it all seemed like a fairy tale to me. And yet there was something special about Jesus, that could be felt in his name, and that held so much more than what was on offer.
The Master Jesus was and is a great teacher. When in situations where I feel I have lost connection to me and allowed something to separate me from what I know to be true, I often find myself asking ‘What would Jesus do?’. The power of the loving embrace I feel in those moments are profound. The teachings of Love, the ‘Love’ we are and that we have within us the choice to live ‘Love’, is accessible because of a man who walked on this earth a long time ago made those choices. Thank you to Serge Benhayn and Universal Medicine for reminding us all that we too can make that choice. Beautiful Blog Beverley.
This blog proves the fact that there is no dogma that can be attached to the true meanings of words because the energy that Jesus presented us all with is still here today as clearly felt in this writing by Beverly.
Thank you Beverly for this deeply beautiful and powerful sharing. As a child I also felt the presence of Jesus around me. I remember feeling so strongly, when I looked at the sun that i could feel the same sun was inside me.I knew that this feeling of immense fullness of warmth and light was Christ and that this was what Jesus was really talking about. Although, what I was experiencing was completely contrary to what I was learning from the Catholic school I was going to. But now have been graced with the return of a true religion, The Way of The Livingness, that simply reflects that we are all in fact the Son of God and that we can live in connection to this love within as we live our lives with all.
So many people have bastardised Jesus’ teachings. It is beautiful that you have connected to the simplicity of it being about living the true love that is in us all.
Bringing in gentleness in every movement connects us deeply to our bodies. It is so simple but so powerful. Beverly I really felt your gentleness in this blog, thank you
I love how your blog weaves the past and the present together Beverley. I have such a strengthened feeling (trust) and appreciation of the lineage of world teachers after reading about Jesus presenting gentleness and building a body of Love, which Serge has continued to build on in our lifetime. Blessed to be a part of something so real.
Your connection with Jesus is very powerful Beverley, and is felt without any doubt in this article.
The work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, has too taught me about building a body of love. It is not just a lovely figure of speech, it is meant in the very literal sense. For love held in the body is the most powerful thing I have ever known.
Hi Beverley, I used to attend Sunday School when I was 5 and I remember vividly being given a book. As I stared down at it whilst travelling back home I remember looking at the front cover – it had Jesus on it. I looked at it for what seemed like a very long time. I was not interested in the inside of the book, the words meant very little to me, I had a feeling they weren’t accurate, but the picture of Jesus meant everything, like I knew him personally. That connection to Jesus returned when I went to one of the first Universal Medicine courses and I knew then that I had returned to what I knew to be true.
Beverley such a delicate and powerful blog. Thank you for the reminder of how when we say or think someones name we feel the energy of their livingness. Master Jesus serves humanity still, for when ever his name is thought of, muttered, whispered, spoken out loud, yelled you received a blessing, this is something that we also offer each other. The more we live the love that we are, then when our names are expressed others received the blessing of our lived love.
Thank you Beverly for sharing this recollection with us all. Your own delicateness is tangible in the way you have written this piece and a reminder that we All hold this within ourselves.
I wouldn’t have always associated delicateness with power but now I most definitely do. When I connect with delicateness it’s like it helps me to really embody the love that I know is me and make it something real and felt that I can then share with others.
Such a beautiful blog. “the more I live lovingly towards myself and towards others, the more I feel deep within an amazing Power that is also coming to the surface.” Is this not you living the teachings of Jesus for real – a blessing and a reminder to us all to continue to let the love in – and let the love out.
So beautiful to feel your connection with Jesus and how you live what he inspires in your every day. Your writing has given me a greater appreciation of Jesus and how to live what he inspires. Thank you, I never thought I could feel this for myself before.
So beautifully written Beverley in how you have felt Jesus to be with you all your life. What I love and is so refreshing is how you’ve shared how you feel in your body when you say Jesus’ name, and feel the quality of him. It’s refreshing because so much of what is said about institutionalised religion is around dogma and what you can and cannot do, not to mention all out wars in the name of religion or relgious beliefs.
I too felt a very strong connection to Jesus when he was taught about at primary school, but I openly struggled with the way he was presented as the only son of God. It made no sense to me then as it makes no sense to me now. The corrupted recording of history has ensured that we do not know the full truth about such historical figures such as Jesus and the Buddha. We would be naive to think that the same games of political spin that go on today in our media were not already at play back then, designed to twist and bastardise the most likely very simple and empowering messages of love that Jesus would have taught to create a body of teachings that had a much more sinister and political agenda. It is most convenient for us to belief is a messiah who will save us from the world and our own sins, for it not only shifts responsibility away from our own selves, but also ensures that we give our power away to an external source rather than realising that true connection to the divine comes always from within.
I too feel that as pure magic Ariana. To know and understand that no matter how far we stray and become wayward in our choices, the love of God is forever within and that it is in us all equally.
By your blog Beverly you bring back my memory how I as a child felt connected to Jesus, how I loved it when my teacher was telling about the life of Jesus. I did not allow myself to feel him and my connection with him when I grew up. I will sit with this and let myself feel deeply my connection with Jesus, the love and the power which is in me equally. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this Beverley. I have found that the more I am loving towards myself then the more I can be loving towards another. There is an inner strength and power that comes from being loving and gentle with ourselves and others. It is very powerful the feeling that you shared of being connected and held by Jesus.
Thank you Beverley for sharing the innocent, tender love you have obviously been connected to throughout your life, a quality that has evidently flourished since meeting Universal Medicine. I too have always had a strong knowing of the loving power of Jesus but had never been able to connect to that within myself until meeting Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. Your blog demonstrates how much this is a quality that is embodied first and then expressed in all we do. Learning to treat oneself and others with absolute truth is crucial in order to build a body of love, it is the essence of true religion.
Isn’t it amazing that from a body of love, love communicates to another body of love, in other words it is from our love that we can feel love. What a beautiful realisation it is to have that love is within us all equally, as love is who we are.
I love the simplicity and power of this blog. Understanding and knowing that there is this incredible love within me that I can connect to at any time is beautiful and as you say, a wonderful way to live. I didn’t have a connection to God growing up as I didn’t believe what was said from the Church and lost my own knowing of what was true because I didn’t live this love in my body. It is really amazing to be reconnecting to God, the hierarchy, myself and to humanity with an absolute knowing that what I know and feel is the truth. Building a body that allows the love that is already within me to be known and felt is a path that brings so much joy and truth. Recently I’ve been stopping and truly appreciating this path and being ever so grateful to be on it.
When we are children it is so simple to connect to the truth of things by feeling. And we remember that feeling forever. Like you with Jesus, like the prayers and the being held in the enormous love of God. That has been reawakened for me through the esoteric healing and the presentations of Serge.
Thank you Beverley. I loved reading about your developing relationship with Master Jesus, inspiring us to all to have an ongoing relationship with the Masters and the power that can be expressed via our physical bodies.
Beautiful Beverly how Jesus and his energy carried you your whole life and that you didn´t get influenced by any other religious dogma, what Jesus stood for. What an amazing connection to truth and energy you have!
I love how you make Jesus so tangible and human, like he is your close friend. Most of the time Jesus is portrayed as somebody who is out of reach and not from this world. I know now that this is what we have made of him. Jesus reflected to us love and how this love is in all of us. Jesus is always here, just like love is. It is up to us though to connect to it.
Power feels so simple! We are almost taught in church and school in a way that puts Jesus on a pedestal for being so great and dont get me wrong he certainly was, but are we not also shunning the fact that the great power of Love he lived is available within us all equally.. all we have to choose is Love.
I also connect with ‘we just have to let the love that is in our body out’. The accessibility of the love is through the tender self care and love that nurtures our body. It really is that simple.
Beverley this blog is so lovely and your love and gentleness shine through your writing. I remember ‘searching’ for Jesus when I was a young teenager, attending different churches but never finding the Truth that I was seeking until I found Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and once again connected to my inner heart and the Kingdom of God that resides there, just as Jesus taught.
What a great truth to know and embody…’building a body of love and appreciating that it is within me and I can access it at any time’.
Beverley this is beautiful, I found your final line quite touching for it’s profound truth… ‘If I had not met Serge, I would not have known how to access the amazing love that I have found within myself.’ This is a line that struck me as most of us speak of people of great influence predominantly for THEIR greatness, rather than the greatness that recognised within you. Inherent in what you express though is the understanding that the greatness was equal in Serge. This is true greatness… and is the love the Master Jesus lived and walked also.
I have found that saying the name of one of humanity’s teachers can bring such a beautiful and supporting feeling to my body. It is one of many proofs to me that we are more than just the corporal body we inhabit, and that we are not ever alone. These teachers who have gone before us down the path we are all walking are there still to be a guide and a friend when called upon.
Thank you Beverley. I too know Jesus so very well that as a child I would always claim to myself that what they taught us about him at school wasn’t it and recall that inner sense of what he represented to me. In The Way of The Livingness Jesus and religion itself is the truth that I always knew. And through reawakening my relationship with reincarnation I understand why that is.
Beverley, it is beautiful how you felt as a child as if you were being held in love. This love wants nothing for itself and the name Jesus does symbolize the power and humility of true love and its all-embracing quality which holds everyone as equal. I used to love Jesus’ simple sayings which brought me back to the innocence of the child and took away the need to be someone. Serge Benhayon shows us how it is possible to be love in a world that is far from love. Let us not look up to someone else but live with gentleness and love and bring that to everyone we meet – in that sense, Jesus lives.
Beverley, reading your blog about your childhood memories of how you felt about Jesus reminded me of how I loved going to Sunday school and hearing about Jesus and his unconditional love for all mankind – no matter what colour, race or creed. The interesting thing is one of the songs we used to sing popped into my head
“Jesus loves me—this I know,
For the Bible tells me so;
Little ones to him belong,—
They are weak, but he is strong.”
And it struck me how disempowering these words are. I can’t remember what I felt at the time but it feels so awful now.
I can feel the warmth, connection and joy there is when you write the name, Jesus. There is such support and a feeling of being held, in the relationship that you reflect.
Gentle and Powerful, together in harmony, when we connect with our bodies and express from them. I have felt this power and expansion as I have practiced being gentle, we are told the opposite so often, power is to push and force, and yet true power is divinely gentle.
What a beautiful story Beverly I can feel the loving warmth you felt through your faith and connection to God as a child and throughout your adult life. Sitting pondering on what you have shared reminds me of my father and has cold atheist approach to life. What you experienced is truly beautiful. I always knew deep inside of me I would be ok because there was times when I could feel a powerful strength and resilience that no-one could take away from me.
It is such a great feeling to be in connection with myself and my tenderness. At time I do things without connecting and it feels pretty awful in my body being now that I am used to a gentle way thanks to Universal Medicine.
Beautiful how you share your connection with Jesus, and what he was sharing ages ago to build a body of love that always has been in us, and come to relearn and feel how to live with it everyday.
I feel I am walking alongside you Beverley in all your realisations and it all began with my connection to the Master Jesus when I was a little girl in Sunday school too. I knew he was showing us a way we all could live but I did not feel the confirmation of this until I began to attend The Way of the Livingness sermons. The Way of the Livingness is a religion I feel I have always known in my heart and this is what I was connecting to through the Master Jesus as that little girl in Sunday school.
Sometimes I just feel an immense love within me and it has an emanating quality, which in activity has a quality of grace. Somehow this blog has offered me a connection between these two aspects of our divine nature, our being and our doing.
Beautiful sharing, thank you Beverly. Jesus always felt to me like a very wise and old friend. Just that bitter guilt attached to it from the religious beliefs around his life makes him something what he is not. His main message was to say that everyone is a son of god and that there is the kingdom of god inside of everyone. We are all coming from love, and that we all return to it in our own way.
Beverley, this is beautiful, especially your description of the word ‘Delicate’. It is not a word I have ever applied to me, in my old, hard way of being, and only recently understood the delicate systems of balance and how our bodies work inside, so it is a word for me to play with and explore as my whole way of being, thank you. Not weak and flimsy but powerful in its beauty.
Thank you Beverley, I struggled with the hypocrisy I came across in my relationship with the church but I never felt anything more than deep love when I heard Jesus’s name. I feel the same with Buddha, there is a foundation of love. Where I get stuck is when I am told my relationship with and to them has to be a particular way. I have found a great freedom through reconnecting with religion now as relationship. I have no doubt it will deepen and develop in the future.
“Through the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I now understand the absolute beauty of building a body of love that Jesus talked of, appreciating that it is within me and I can access it at any time.” I recall when I was young my father used to say “you don’t need any one to tell you what is right or wrong. You yourself are the best person to know, all the answers are inside you”.
I was curious when I attended a Christian boarding school from my early teens, that amongst the many scary and oppressive ideas such a wrathful God, hell, damnation and purgatory, there was also a somewhat familiar talk about Kingdom of God being inside you. This latter always seemed quite beautiful but I had no idea what it was talking about. I am grateful that Universal Medicine has brought so many things in life together for me and this is one of them. I now understand that the Kingdom of God is indeed within us all, it always has been and always will be as we are one with God. We have however masked and put many layers on top of what is already deep inside so that we can live a life that is dishonest to that inner awareness and wisdom. The support and understanding that Universal Medicine provides so that we can appreciate this, deepen our responsibility with our choices so we have a greater connection to this and to express it more in our daily lives is a blessing to ourselves and to the rest of the world.
Beverley, this is beautiful. I wish I had that connection as a child – my strongest memory is of feeling lost without the anchor you are describing.
I can relate to a lot of what you have shared, when I was a child I always had a feeling of Jesus as a man who was deeply loving, very practical and engaged in life- a man who loved simplicity, nature and people. He was part of the community and everyone knew him. This was always the sense I got. When I went to school, which was a Catholic primary school, what I was taught did not fit with what I felt about Jesus.
In the teachings at school there was this feeling that he was above others, that he would condemn those who made mistakes and that he was untouchable.
A lot of those teachings in religious classes never quite made sense to me and would at times contradict each other. I enjoyed reading your sharing as I feel many people can relate to this.
So simple and lovingly expressed. Your writing is palpable with love and through it can feel that your connection with Jesus is not something external of you but is lived and embodied in and through you. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. What a stunning blog Beverley about your love and the Master Jesus, without all the usual politics and fake religion I might add. It was simply a delight to read. Thank you deeply.
Thank you Beverly, I know Jesus is with me everywhere I go. What I love about Jesus was that he lived his life, people came to him. He was a deeply honest, humble, gentle, fun and loving man, people really loved him.
Beverley it is lovely to hear how you felt when you heard Jesus’ name. I felt that way about God but because of the way Jesus was described at school, the stories seemed to be more like a fairy tale so I dismissed them and in doing so I dismissed Jesus and all he was here to truly represent. It was only through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I have re-ignited my inner knowing of Jesus and all that he brought through. For me knowing that we are all equal, lovingly so and Brotherhood is our way forward has brought a level of understanding I had not connected to before. Jesus represents so much more that the Bible and what all religions depict of him, learning to feel him, a resonance I can feel in my body, and say his name is a great way to get to know him. When I do I can feel a warm glow throughout my body, a warmth that says’ welcome home.’
Beverley I love what you have shared here , I also remembered Jesus as a little child and much later had an awesome experience of his love which stays with me always as a deeply profound marker of the love that I am. And thanks to Serge Benhayon I am able to understand this.
Having grown up a Catholic, I too had a relationship with Jesus, however, it wasn’t until Universal Medicine that I came to understand on a very practical level the teachings of what Jesus spoke of. As a child, it was all theory, yes I heard the word love and brotherhood, but I never really understood what that actually meant. Through Universal Medicine I have come to know a way of living that is honouring of myself and of others and through this I now know for myself in my body the love that Jesus spoke of.
Beautiful that you felt that connection with Jesus from such a young age, and that it has confirmed in you that you can also be the love that Jesus brought and taught all those years ago.
Thank you Beverly for this beautiful article, sharing your loving awareness of your connection to Jesus (Yeshua). I too have a sense of connectedness to this divine being who has reflected the love of the ages, of the age-less wisdom that surrounds us all. I do not know why, but I am aware that Yeshua, as the name, feels more familiar to me. It is interesting that I recently spent some time with many folk and their families on a day out, most of whom were connected by their familiarity and connectedness with what some may see as a slightly fundamentalist style of institutionalised religion whose central figure in their daily connection to the divine is Jesus as Lord. What I found interesting is the amount of alcohol they readily imbibed in, and the noticeable body language of separateness where I was concerned as I mingled and openly shared my natural love for my fellow human brothers and sisters. Your blog has reminded me of the very simplicity and naturalness of our connection to that divine love that is innately within us all. One has to wonder why man has chosen, or allowed the influence of an apparently imposed choice to be in connection with that divine place within us all to be so very complicated and separative. I thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for showing us, reminding us, that there is another way, The Way of The Livingness.
Just as I read this my whole body relaxed and I reach for a cup of tea, feeling sacred and deeply content. The feelings around saying Jesus name and feeling it within the body is something that I also know. It is amazing to feel so met and so content that a sacred feeling comes through me. It’s amazingly beautiful. Thanks for sharing such deep a personal relationship with The master Jesus and no doubt you’re re-membering how delicate and powerful his presence was and is if his name is called upon.
Beverly, this blog exposes the absolute lie that is propagated through some Christian religions that we are to subjugate ourselves to God and Jesus and that they are great and wrathful beings quicker to punish than to confirm or love. God and Jesus are in fact equal to us and all can access their love and be held in their presence.
Very true Beverley I also wouldn’t of felt the amazing love within myself if I hadn’t of met Serge Benhayon, his love and guidance is a true gift.
Beverley this is so true! My goodness if I hadn’t of met Serge Benhayon I wouldn’t have touched the power of Love that is within us all. For a long time I have avoided this powerful Love, doubting it, questioning it, thinking that it’s too much but increasingly as I connect more and more to my body and am gentle with myself (in thoughts and in deeds) this incredible power just wants to burst out, particularly in song. Thank you for sharing your wisdom as it’s really important to remember that we don’t have to go to church or be Christians to connect with the Love Jesus brought as it was for and is in everyone.
Hi Beverley, I could really feel in your words the holding energy of love you felt when you said your prayer or even with the mention of Jesus. It came through your words to be felt.
I can relate to having a connection to Jesus as a child and felt like I had always known him, but then I was introduced to a Jesus I didn’t recognise when I started to go to church, but deep down I knew there was more than what was being presented.
I find it interesting that within the church there are parts of what is presented that feel true yet there is as you say Beverley so much dogma that seems to cloud what is on offer. I attended church as a child and would feel quite distant from a lot of what was taught, yet there was something there that did hold true and Jesus and God were real, just not in the sense that it was presented.
Thank you Beverley – I have felt the same about Jesus all my life and it feels beautiful to be able to claim this connection without the imposition of Christian religion.
Thank you Beverley. What stood out for me when reading your blog is how powerful the presence of somebody is who has lived soulfully. There have been so many false claims in the name of Jesus and yet his true presence can always be felt and can’t be tainted.
Beverley its lovely to read about the Master Jesus from someone who speaks with clarity, unaffected by the many institutional re-interpretations and allowing anyone who reads your blog to feel the truth. Understanding the body of love that Jesus spoke about building for ourselves and how with the support of Universal Medicine this is something that everyone has a choice to do. It cuts through religious separation and instead reminds us that truth and love are what our real foundation can be built on and the quality of life that occurs thereafter.
Absolutely beautiful Beverley. Thank you for sharing your connection to Jesus throughout your life and your childhood memories reclaimed now within you expressed so lovingly.
This sharing allows a connection within us all to be felt and lived and expressed, also from our own childhood, and now equally and honouringly.
Beverley this was so beautiful to read. What has been presented to us by true teachers through the ages lives on in our bodies, if we choose to make what is presented part of our living way. To live a life based on love turns everything around and offers a way of living that is the opposite of what is out there in the world today. Staying true to ourselves is the key, and what we have on offer from the current world teacher Serge Benhayon is practical ways to live life from truth.
Well said Jo. What we have on offer by the current world teacher In Serge Benhayon is remarkable yet simple practical ways to live from the love that is within our bodies. To make choices so we can let that love be felt and then expressed.
When I read “Throughout my day I can feel the delicateness that is in me, from the tips of my fingertips to throughout my whole body. Just expressing and feeling Jesus’ name makes my whole body surrender and expand with love.” I could feel myself surrendering deeper into my body. I Love how you describe Beverley of how you could feel His presence when praying as a child. As being brought up with parents that chose not to associate themselves with God or Jesus, this is touching on a something I deeply missed and am still missing. Because as a result I’ve chosen not to feel God inside me as well. It’s like I know it’s True, but I hide it inside of me, too afraid to let it out. Your ease and lived way of connecting to Jesus is a Healing for me to read – to the point that I also dare to speak up loud that I love Jesus dearly. And still have to refound my relationship within. Thank you Beverley for your writing.
Thank you Beverley for sharing the amazing gentleness and power that is encompassed by Jesus and open to all of us to feel.
There is a real knowing that can be felt in your writing here Beverly, it is amazing to read. I am left feeling no doubt at all of God and Jesus, only a sense that there is more I want to feel.
Exactly Lisa, that knowing of who Jesus was, what he represented and how Beverly presents it is just pure grace. It reminds us of the truth of what Jesus presented and I especially love how Beverly has made it real in her living of gentleness and delicacy. Thank you Beverly.
As a kid I never really believed what the church was saying that God is outside of us and the many more things they carry on with. There was always a sense that we couldn’t possibly be alone, the idea of this grandness being outside of us clashed with a knowing that just wouldn’t go away but remained buried for some time until recently now coming across Universal Medicine which has simply confirmed this feeling. Knowing that such a support is there has been far healthier than pretending or believing that it is up there in the heavens and we are somehow not connected to such presence.
Thank you, Beverley. It is amazing to hear and feel that Jesus has been a connecting and confirming presence in the lives of so many, in spite of the various misrepresentations in organised religion. The power of love knows no bounds.
Yes indeed janetwilliams06, it feels like the true intention of this love of Jesus is being reclaimed – on that is equal for all and one that is true love – and in every day real lives.
Janet this is so true, and thank God for that.
Throughout my own christian upbringing there were many things that didn’t really make sense to me about what I was hearing and witnessing in church. But, there has never been any doubt in my being that Jesus was and is indeed a true world teacher – it can be felt in his name. Thank you for sharing this with us Beverley and for expressing your awareness that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine continue these true teachings today.
Here in the UK, every weekday morning on ‘Radio 4’ there is a 5 minute ‘slot’ called ‘Thought for the Day’. It is where a (generally well known) religious person shares something for the listeners to ponder on for the day. This Blog to me is a perfect and complete ‘Thought for the Day’. In its completeness it would be a blessing. Listeners would able to recognise and fully access its themes. This blog speaks to all.
What a great presences of self that you have held on to from being young Beverley. I, as many have long ago walked away and forgotten that connection we have always had with god. Serge Benhayon has been the person who is just a reminder for all of us to remember who we all truly are and is a bell ringing truth in the darkness so we can all return home.
I love how you say Serge Benhayon is ‘a bell ringing truth in the darkness so we can all return home’. How true and how amazing it is to be a part of.
Beverley, it is beautiful to read about the connection that you have always had with Jesus, what you have written here is very simple and feels very powerful, it is a wonderful reminder for me of the importance of the quality of gentleness; ‘Building a body of love begins with ‘Gentleness’ – being gentle in the way I move and do things comes before I can begin to feel the Love that is already there within me’.
A beautiful and very sweet and tender contribution from an equally as beautiful, tender and sweet woman, thank you.
There is an awe that comes when I hear adults recall the different ways that they felt the truth of a deeper connection as a child. These experiences have a purity, an untainted knowing that can be drawn on in adulthood and shared with others as a reminder – just like it is here.
I too have felt this connection to Jesus and know that he is always there for me if I let times get tough. I’m sure childhood prayers are listened to even if they are tainted with some religious dogma or other.
Wow Beverley, I love this. I can really feel your love in your words and I love your description of how your body feels when you think of Jesus. Gentle, delicate and powerful – yes you are.
I also loved Jesus as a child/teenager but could not find what I felt with him in the church. His name stood for a longing which I felt in me and in the world. By the work and presentations from Universal Medicine I find an answer to this longings.
I find it so amazing that despite the Church bastardising the teachings of Jesus, people still to this day can connect to the truth of what he presented and lived.
A beautiful gentle blog, thank you Beverley. ” This sentence shone out for me today; ‘we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.’ So simple yet so true. Reading your blog I was reminded of a verse about Jesus I used to recite as a child and also taught to my children.
Beverley, I love how you share building a body of love in order to be one-with-love more fully. From bringing awareness to bring the quality of gentleness to everything you do and now going deeper with being aware of delicateness within.
“Throughout my day I can feel the delicateness that is in me, from the tips of my fingertips to throughout my whole body. Just expressing and feeling Jesus’ name makes my whole body surrender and expand with love”.
I so relate to your connection to Jesus. When I hear his name I feel an inner smile of having known him always.
Me to Katinka, I feel a glow within me.
Thank you Beverly, this is so beautiful and reminds me too of being a young girl and the love and divinity I would feel with Jesus, as I grew up these feeling were replaced and instead I would almost cringe when I heard the word Jesus as I was then associating him with the different religious institutes that claim this and that that and yet felt so cold in my body and so far removed from my originally feeling. Now thanks to Universal Medicine I am letting all that go and again remembering the pure divinity that Jesus offers to all no matter what faith or religion one has chosen to align to.
This is an absolutely exquisite sharing Beverly and it gently nudged me to remember that, although I was not brought up in a religious family, I always had a fascination with Jesus, but it wasn’t until my introduction to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine 10 years ago I began to understand why. Your beautiful words sum it all up for me: “Through the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I now understand the absolute beauty of building a body of love that Jesus talked of, appreciating that it is within me and I can access it at any time.” Wisdom that I cannot deny and wisdom that I take with me every day as I make the choice to build a body of love.
” Jesus showed us that we too can be powerful; we just have to let the LOVE that is in our bodies out, and live from that LOVE.”-
Such a beautiful revelation and truth that I am learning to embody more each day.
Growing up I had mixed feeling around master Jesus- at times I recall feeling his presence very deeply- knowing his love to be within us all. But as a teenager and into my adult life I started to question the institutionalised version of Jesus from the Catholic church’s perspective. What a God send gift meeting Serge Benhayon was- I finally understood and felt the truth of what master Jesus represented here on earth – the power of true love which lies within us all equally so.
I too used to ‘question the institutionalised version of Jesus’ – it never felt right to me that people put someone on a pedestal and worship them or that they make him special for performing amazing miracles. The real miracle is that Jesus was an ordinary man who lived an extraordinary life inspiring others to find love within themselves. We are also blessed to have such a man walk amongst us. Serge Benhayon has inspired us to be gentle and self-loving and open our hearts to let love in.
Hi lorettarapp. I was so blessed to not be brought up in the Catholic Church. When young, I attended a Presbyterian Church, with a minister who was much more open and broadminded than many of the time. He allowed much more freedom and gave much more trust than many would at the time. I don’t remember too much dogma, much more emphasis on love and responsibility. I remember happy times with a church youth fellowship for some years, with many social occasions with the group. But I grew away from that as I married and had family, and lost that wonderful connection for many years. But I sense that I always knew underneath everything, that I was supported and held by that love of Jesus. His name still resonated right throughout, and I always sensed that all the religions IN THEIR ESSENCE connected back to the same being I now realise is God.
I love this. That simplicity of the feeling and presence, the connection to the beauty. There is Religion in all its true glory. Nothing less and nothing more than that absolute knowing.
Powerful!
In the face of what the word religion has had falsely thrown at it this blog is very powerful.
Great Article. Thanks Beverly.
Thank you Beverley for sharing your religion of the way you live with gentleness, delicateness and power in connection to God and the love that is within. The way we live is the same message that has been brought to us all over the ages as way to reconnect to God. Serge Benhayon presents this in the divine simplicity of The Way of the Livingness, a religion in a way of living that re-unites us all with ourselves, each other and with God.
Yes , Mary, The Way of the Livingness is the religious way of living in union with ourselves, with each other and with god, knowing that we are all from the same source and our inner connection is the door to this re-union.
Yes, Mary, this is true religion, as you say, “a religion in a way of living that re-unites us all with ourselves, each other and with God.” Thank you.
A beautiful sharing Beverley and one that sent tingles through my body. I had many moments in my early years when just looking up into a star filled night sky or just lying in deep lush green grass watching the clouds and letting the warm rays of the sun filter onto my body. Just lying there in my stillness appreciating that feeling of a connection to something so amazing, of not being alone with a knowingness that I was surrounded with love. A feeling of being held. That stillness disappeared over the next few decades as I got a little lost in the busyness of life. Slowly but surely due to the fact that Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon came into my life I started to open up once more to that ‘gentleness’ and connection again. In your words Beverley “Building a body of love begins with gentleness” this then has opened us so much more through self loving choices.
Yes, Marion, I have always felt a huge connection to the natural environment. I have always felt such an awe of the amazing beauty of it, and knew there had to be something much more behind the fact that it is here with us. I love how you describe the star filled night sky, and lying on the grass watching the clouds. Yes, I can recall that stillness I used to feel. I too lost that stillness in the busyness of life for many, many years, until I met Serge Benhayon and so much came flooding back to me. It all made such a sense to me, and I felt such a strong sense of responsibility to be truly living from that space. Yes, the self responsibility is so huge, but that is how we can help humanity in the end.
Thank you Beverley for this is a lovely sharing, I feel it is such an amazing opportunity I like many others have been given to be able to connect to the love within us and to feel the power and healing for us all.
So true Francisco, finding that we do not have to become something, but in fact already are everything and that our task is simply to life this to be a reflection for others to remember that we are all equally amazing.
Beautiful Beverly, you have taken me right back to my childhood and the sanctuary I also found in the name of Jesus. “Through the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I now understand the absolute beauty of building a body of love that Jesus talked of, appreciating that it is within me and I can access it at any time.”
Yes I quite agree. Thank you for sharing yourself so generously.
I have also found key words or names that resonate for me, that when thought of or spoken, fill my body with the knowing of the love we naturally are inside. Being able to feel that connection also reminds me that we are all one and are always held in that shared love.
One of the great travesties of life is that we tend to think that it is natural to outgrow the delicacy and tenderness that we had as babe – not realising that it is because of this that we lose in time the tremendous connection to all of life we had as a child. We cannot feel love if we have a body that is not receptive to feeling love.
Well said Adam – it is such a travesty.
Very true Adam, this is such a strong belief that we have to grow into something and with this outgrow our sensitivity, tenderness and delicacy. This sensitive young boy who finally got it together and became the strong man he is supposed to be. From day one we are pushed to be someone, someone who is not who we truly are and to be this someone we learn to disconnect from our body.
Very, very true Adam. It is one of the greatest lies we, as a humanity at large, have sold out to and hurt ourselves so, so deeply in the process. we’ve cut ourselves off from our terns and sensitivity and in so doing cut ourselves off from us, from life in a true a way and we experience loneliness, a craving for intimacy and all the damaging behaviours and vices this emptiness brings. And we then wonder why the world is in the sorry state it is currently in….
I have always felt familiar and resonated with Jesus too, even when I let the Catholic Church I still knew to my bones that the love of Jesus is the real deal, inclusive of all.
I never did feel familiar with Jesus. I even didn’t like him very much. Everything I got to know of him during my childhood and continuing when I grew up, was someone who was hanging on a cross, suffering very much and that I was the one for who’s sins he died 2000 years ago. Oh no, I just could not get any connection to him and the story told by bible. This changed with the ageless wisdom teachings presented by Serge Benhayon. The way I got to know Jesus, as a normal man with family and a prophet with incredible awareness of what was needed to bring at that time to the world in teachings and living it by himself and those around him, changed my whole perspective about Jesus. I can now feel the importance and love he brought through as a foundation for all humankind to walk on. In the same way as other world teachers did through the ages.
Thanks Beverley for sharing this beautiful blog, I too grew up being able to feel the presence of Jesus I was not taken with religion as was offered but always had this innate wanting to meet Jesus. After meeting Serge Benhayon 6years ago I was left with a knowing not that I had met Jesus but had certainly met all that Jesus was – the world teacher, healer, philosopher, a bringer of love and light a simple family man that made sense.
Beautifully described here Paul … “not that I had met Jesus but had certainly met all that Jesus was”. For a long time I had this ideal of Jesus being something ‘out there’, unreachable and something I could never live up to. But he like many world teachers, where just normal everyday people who lived simply and lovingly; and through their own inner love changed the lives of thousands.
Me too, paulmoses39, I knew so strongly straight away when I met Serge Benhayon that here was another world teacher, like Jesus, a simple family man that made such sense to me. And yes, I could really feel the connection back to Jesus’ time with the group around him.
Beverley, wow what a beautiful piece of writing. I could really feel the love you had as a child and your connection with Jesus. I too remember this as a child. I remember just before I turned 13 I had a dream about Jesus. The feeling of it was so profound I never forgot it. All it was, was me walking (I was about 8 years old in the dream) on the beach with Jesus holding his hand as we walked and talked together. The love I felt in me when I woke up I never forgot. I have always felt Jesus with me through my life and there is not one cell in my body that doubts this.
What a beautiful dream, Donna, I sense that something like that happened when I was younger too. I forgot about it all for many years in between, but since I met Serge Benhayon, I have been realising that I have always felt very religious, but certainly not in the institutional manner, or following their teachings. I can see now that I have carried that strong knowing within me.
I love how you have bought Jesus into your daily living, Beverley, and He is not someone you are adoring on the outside. The latter is how Jesus had been portrayed in my upbringing- someone whom we worshiped from afar and who was greater than we could ever be. I now know that he is showing us love and that we can be all of that love- no less or greater than himself.
Anne totally agree, the picture of Jesus painted by the church I was bought up in was someone above us, to be prayed too, not felt as an equal and in that we are reduced to followers rather than the truth that we are equal to Jesus and other great teachers, it is convenient as it gives us an excuse to not be all that we are.
I can relate Anne to having been taught at school to worship Jesus and his teachings as something out there. It never did feel right to me, the same as with how religion was taught — as something outside of us that may forgive or bring retribution for our sins.
To connect to the love that the Master Jesus brought on our early plane is to connect to the equalness of this live within ourselves, and to build our body up so so lovingly and tenderly so that it embodies the love. Jesus inspired with his teachings what we can do also — all of us. It has never been about the man himself as it were, or something outside of us, but a divine reminder of what we have within.
You have been blessed with this connection with Master Jesus in jour life Beverley Croft. Your knowing of building a body of love is the key for all of humanity to go, as Master Jesus has been and now, Serge Benhayon are presenting continuously.
Reading this blog has caused me to take a moment to reflect on my own Christian upbringing. As a child my sense of ‘Jesus’ as a representation of an all encompassing love and of my own gentleness, delicateness and innate power, was buried under all the heavy religious dogma I was being taught at the time. I haven’t fully regained an ease with God and Jesus but reading your blog has added another dimension for me to expand my growth just that bit further. Thank you!
Gilesch I get a sense that you have felt the difference between the religious dogma and the truth of what Jesus was here to bring for us all; and the fact that you could feel that underneath all that conditioning and dogma is the part of us that is to be deeply cherished, the part that could never be tainted or corrupted in anyway. Our Divine Essence that knows truth forever and ever … AMEN!
We are powerful indeed – when we are connected to Love within us. A great teacher will be the One who reminds us of this truth not take it away. Jesus and Serge Benhayon are fine examples of great teachers.
this is true True Gem, we can recognise a true master by the fact that they lead the way back to ourselves and our power instead of asking for our power to be given to them as most religions do, as well as in how much they walk the talk. The power of the love of Jesus was in his connection with God within and the livingness of this connection.
And how true this is Carolien, and building on our own connection and strength is an important part here. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have supported me to deeply work on this and hence the word committed is an important part of this unfoldment with ourselves.
So true Carolien. A true world teacher lives their teachings and demonstrates through their connection that we all have these qualities within us.
Carolien I absolutely agree that ‘we can recognise a true master by the fact that they lead the way back to ourselves and our power instead of asking for our power to be given to them’. The Master Jesus brought the message through that everything he did we could do and more … and Serge Benhayon shows the way this mastery Jesus had developed is lived as an everyday experience as we go about our daily lives.
Yes, Carolien. Jesus and now Serge are the role models for us all, as we who have been blessed to know them both now need to become role models for humanity to know and live the livingness of this wonderful connection.
Exactly how I feel, great teachers bring truth and a way to live that is a reminder of what lies within, which is equally powerful in all.
An excellent way to reveal the aim of a great teacher: is it for themselves or do they really make it about people and empowering people? Jesus and Serge Benhayon both remind us we know it all. We only have to connect back to it and they are teachers in the true meaning of the word.
Beautifully expressed, great teachers show us through living example that it is in us too, and all we have to do is live it, the love in us.
A beautiful sharing Beverley…your love and strength of connection to Jesus, and to yourself, can so clearly be felt in your writing – it is very inspiring, thank you.