The Graveyard

In the back alley of the lives of many there's a graveyard sated with the unmarked graves of lost visions.

Many go to this place to bury a vision which turned out to be impossible.

At least, that is what they have come to believe.

The pain over this loss is so great and intense that many seek to suppress it with anger, bitterness and blame.

As they carry their vision to the graveyard to bury it, they bury the essence of their hearts, and that is what makes it so painful.

Part of themselves stays in the unmarked grave.

After visiting the graveyard where their vision now lies in an unmarked grave, they visit the local store next to the graveyard.

This shop sells new visions to replace the old one they carried to the grave to help them forget and overcome the painful memory of burying their original vision.

The new replacement is not born in their hearts, but it is presented by opportunity, carved out in practicality, and installed in their minds as a new vision for their lives.

The old vision which they buried did not turn out to be practical.

It had a magnificent beauty and a radiant splendor which made the loss of this vision such a painful experience.

Their lives simply did not provide accommodation for the vision to grow and become a real painting of their lives.

Instead, where they sought to make the vision come true, they encountered obstruction of the most inane kind.

All the avenues where they travelled in pursuit of the original vision turned into dead ends leading nowhere.

And so, finally one day they looked at their lives and noticed the disparity between their vision, and what their lives turned out to be.

All the time and effort they invested in pursuit of the vision had brought them nothing but hardship and frustration.

All the doors they tried to open turned out to be locked, and the wall they faced did not provide a window that they might get a glimpse of what lies beyond, and how to get there.

What else can a sensible man or woman do then but to adapt to the 'reality of life'?

With a different and more moderate vision, life becomes easier, especially when the reality of circumstances accommodates this vision to a far greater degree.

Money pops up where formerly it remained out of reach, the obstructions vanish, and life becomes easier and more pleasant.

It now feels like a walk downhill instead of trying to struggle uphill while carrying a heavy load.

So, they make the choice to walk downhill.

The choice to let go of their original vision unlocks doors which used to be shut and opens up avenues where they were unable to venture.

In short, the choice makes life easier for them.

Everything seems to turn out better as a result of the choice, except for one thing: there's a constant aching pain in the recesses of their minds reminding them of their decision to abandon the colorful vision of their hearts.

Instead of applying different colors they now are painting their lives in the shades of dull grey of the practical pseudo-vision dictated to them by the reality of their circumstances.

Most of them do not realize that beyond the reality of circumstances there are forces manipulating the circumstances.

They shape reality and create obstructions to the visions of color because they live in a world of shades of grey: the shadow world.

In the world of shadows color is an obscenity and a threat to the uniformity of this netherworld.

Any vision displaying colors must therefore be eliminated and buried in the graveyard of colorful visions so that it can be replaced by a monochrome grey vision blending in with the tones of the netherworld of shadows.

The powers pulling the strings need to create a situation which will cause the puppets to conform to the monochrome grey existence in the world of shadows.

After all, a shadow can move about freely only in a dark world painted in dark tones of drab grey.

A world filled with colors is a place where the shadow cannot come and move about freely.

And so, the powers begin to shape the circumstances of the marionettes so that they obstruct the pursuit of their vision.

They shape and manipulate the reality of their lives to such a degree that the circumstances of the puppets do not allow for the expression of the colorful visions.

Furthermore, the circumstances are shaped to maneuver the marionettes towards a pseudo-vision painted in drab grey.

This is how one day the marionettes wake up and make the decision to accept 'reality' for what it is, and abandon their vision.

They carry it to the graveyard to pursue a pseudo-vision in the shop of practicality.

The practicality consists of nothing other than a manipulated reality where the marionettes are maneuvered to an open door which allows them to adapt to this manipulated reality by walking through the door towards a different destiny.

It presents itself as an opportunity, but this opportunity is designed to lead the puppets away from the graveyard where they buried their vision.

With pain in their hearts the marionettes see how the doors of their lives are shut to the pursuit of their original vision.

They see in the mirrors around them scorn and ridicule for their original vision reflected back at them.

As they move about, they stumble and fall time and again in pursuit of their vision.

With each passing year they notice how they seem to be running around in smaller and smaller circles until no room is left for them to move anymore as long as they hold on to the vision.

By far most of them are not aware of how unseen powers have pulled the strings of their marionette costumes to force them into a different direction than their hearts wanted to go, unaware of how avenues were closed off by the shadows scurrying to and fro on the stage of life.

They fail to see how the mirrors lie to them because they show a distorted image.

Their eyes could not see they were maneuvered like rats in a maze with moving wall elements in order to lead the rat to exit A.

Exit B was the door to the realization of their original colorful vision, yet the shadows kept moving the wall elements of their lives around in such a way that they were not able to move towards exit B.

One day they wake up and find themselves facing gate A.

Gate B is nowhere in sight, and the suggestion pops up in their minds more powerful than ever before: 
'Let go, and adapt to the circumstances, seize this opportunity.

Let go of hardship and open the door to the good things in life'.

'You have invested all of your time, your effort,  your energy, your money, and what has it gotten you?

A dead end where you do not have enough money to make your vision happen, you lack the access to the gate which will make your vision come true, you tried and tried and all you got in return is fatigue in your soul for all the obstruction you encountered.

Why don't you abandon this ridiculous notion of yours which got you nowhere and which produced nothing but heartache and suffering, and pursue a different vision presented to you by gate A.

Leave your original vision in the unmarked grave, and give your heart to a different vision which does not suffer from the obstruction of your original vision.

Make life easier for yourself, and go with the flow of your circumstances.

Take that new vision and watch your life unfold in ways you deemed impossible'.

Many marionettes fall for the trick and carry their original vision to the graveyard.

They visit the shop of practicality and buy a new vision for an easier life.

The downside is that they will never excel in expressing any vibrant colors, because their pseudo-vision is devoid of the abundant colors of their original vision.

But, that vision was torn up by unseen powers pulling the strings on the marionette costumes and maneuvering the wall elements of their lives around.

The best they can hope for is becoming good at bringing out the shades of grey of the pseudo-vision, blending in with the crowd and finding affirmation of having made the right and sensible choice in that crowd.

The guardians of the theater brought obstruction in the lives of the cogs, shutting off all opportunities.

Thus they sought to inspire discouragement, disappointment, anger, frustration, and an aching heart.

In the minds of the cogs these negative feelings were associated with the pursuit of their original vision, thus creating a strong impetus to accept a different vision, a vision for which the forces of darkness had created opportunities to manifest itself.

After all, why pursue a vision which brings nothing but misery, failure, frustration, obstruction, a vision which seemed to have no practical use or value in the world of the theater?

Why bother to suffer and deprive yourself from the elixir of life by chasing after wind?

Thus the marionettes were pushed into a situation where they could replace their original vision given to them by YHWH with a vision born from belief in the lie of what their circumstances told them: 
'Your original vision must have been a trick of your mind, or else YHWH would have brought opportunities on your path.
Look around you and see opportunity knocking on your door with a new vision, the one you were destined to embody'.

The moment they accept that vision as the answer to a manipulated stage reality, evil begins to paint their lives in the drab shady colors of its own pseudo-vision.

Life becomes easier for them now that they have fully abandoned their original vision, and submitted to the vision presented to them by circumstances.

They may not excel the way they could have, but at least they have their bed made and their place carved out in the system of cogs in service of the big wheel of lies.

They forsook the bright colors of YHWH's vision in favor of a monochrome vision ordained by practicality, painted in the image of their circumstances.

Once they had faith in the vision of their hearts.

That faith served to draw the vision for their lives, which was born in the heart of YHWH, into the physical world.

But then the circumstances of their lives in the physical world contradicted that faith by bringing a constant stream of obstruction on their paths.

Unseen powers were at work to manipulate their circumstances to manifest a lie, yet they failed to detect the nature of the manipulation.

These unseen forces of the shadow world had a plan set up to force the puppets into compliance with their monochrome grey visions.

The strategy was to create obstruction and animosity in the environment towards the vision of color.

This was not hard to do, since the other puppets who were part of the scenery of their lives had already traded in their original vision for an inferior drab grey pseudo-vision, and the presence of a colorful vision in another puppets was as much a threat to them as it was to the unseen forces of the netherworld.

The purpose behind the obstruction and the animosity was to create a pattern of emotional reaction in the marionette with the colorful vision.

The emotional reaction consisted of a memory in the brain of the puppet together with the release of chemicals in the body which create the physical reality of the emotion attached to the memory.

The elements of obstruction belonging to the memories of the hurt they experienced would be connected to the emotional reactions, thus consolidating the 'reality' of their situation on their minds.

This reality of pain and obstruction was associated with the pursuit of the original vision, creating a situation where it seemed as if this original vision was causing the pain and obstruction.

By repeating the same type of inane obstruction over and over again, a negative belief system was installed in the mind of the target.

'After all, if the yesterdays produced the same patterns of obstruction time and again, they will turn up tomorrow as well'.

Thus, faith in the negative obstruction further empowered and consolidated the very obstruction they yearn to be free from.

This negative belief system now hinders and works contrary to faith in YHWH's purpose and vision for their lives.

After a few years a large body of brain cells in the mind of the marionette is formed as a mechanism of conditioning, a lever, connecting the pursuit of their original vision to pain, misery and obstruction.

This lever is the tool by means of which the shadows reverse the polarity of faith to their advantage.

Emotions are used to strengthen the strings on the marionette costume.

They are levers by means of which the manipulated reality becomes a part of our belief system.

This is how a child grows into the image of a worthless bum after having been told by his parents and his environment that he is a bum hundreds of times.

The rise of emotions caused by the tag internalizes the tag as part of the child's belief system, and because of his faith in the manipulated reality he becomes the manipulated reality.

His faith has been reversed.

But, surely the reality of experiencing pain and suffering in the physical world is something you cannot deny as if that is not real, can you?

Or, CAN you?

The unseen forces orchestrated the circumstances of the marionette's life to such a degree that the circumstances LIED.

Carve this in your mind: physical circumstances, including your body, can be used to manifest a lie.

Question is: will you accept the lie and belief in it as your reality, or will you hold on to knowing a greater spiritual reality and reject the lie?

Accepting the lie is to reverse your faith.

Rejecting the lie in the name of Yahshua is to have faith in YHWH.

The circumstances told the marionette that the colorful vision was worthless and produced nothing but pain, and if the vision truly came from YHWH to express His vision for the life of the marionette, YHWH would have made sure that life would accommodate the realization of this vision.

Surely YHWH would have made life easier.

Yet, the truth is that the physical reality of the marionette's life was the result of manipulation, a situation set up to draw the marionette away from its mission and its purpose into a bogus purpose.

The physical reality lied.

It was not real, it was orchestrated.

It had become a tale of fiction manifesting on the stage of the puppet, a tale designed with the sole purpose of making the marionette into a vessel shining monotone grey unto the stage of life, a perfect cog in the big wheel of lies.

The more the marionette got involved with the stage reality, the more it forgot the reality of life outside of the theater.

Life beyond the theater was a mixed collage of colorful visions because life was not sabotaged to the extent where people would abandon the vision they were created to embody.

Outside the theater, life reflected truth and not the fiction of an evil writer bringing lies into existence.

But why then would YHWH allow lives to be manipulated to such an extent that the pursuit of the original vision is connected to obstruction and suffering?

Surely that does not make any sense?

It DOES make sense once you bring the image of a bodybuilder to mind: to develop the muscle tissue, the bodybuilder needs to apply the stress of weights.

To be able to draw the original vision from the spiritual into the physical, the marionette needs to have faith, and to build faith it needs the stress of that which contradicts the reality of faith.

Through the contradiction of the reality of faith by means of a manipulated physical reality, the marionette is given an opportunity to grab hold of faith in YHWH by rejecting the lie manifesting in the physical world.

To reject the lie, the puppet needs to grab hold of faith in YHWH's spiritual reality even though it does not yet manifest in his circumstances.

When he grabs hold of YHWH's reality and rejects the lie in his circumstances, this faith is strengthened and it draws the colorful vision, created by YHWH in the spiritual domain, into the physical domain.

Furthermore, the strings on the puppet are weakened and the puppet gradually ceases to be a puppet, and the powers of darkness lose their grip on the puppet.

So, there's a clash between two realities, one manifesting on a physical level embodying a lie, and one on a spiritual level which cannot be seen yet with the physical senses, but which can be grasped through faith and believing in YHWH.

When these realities clash, the marionette finds himself faced with a choice.

The choice is to accept the stage setting as his reality, or to accept the setting of life outside the theater as reality.

The moment the marionette chooses to accept the stage setting, he locks himself into the theater, unable to ever find the way back into real life outside of the theater.

The vision for his life is dictated by the dark powers within the theater and they watch his life unfold in shades of monochrome grey entirely in harmony with their nature.

And so, a man stands at the brink of the grave where he is to bury his colorful vision, a man wrapped in the costume of a marionette.

What does he believe, what does he have faith in?

The man, whose soul and spirit are still connected to the real world, remembers the world outside, aware of the discrepancy between the fictitious, manipulated world inside the theater, and the real world outside.

He has had his share of adversity and obstruction.

Pain and sadness have become familiar companions in his life.

If he now chooses to believe in what his circumstances tell him, he believes in a lie and builds his identity on a lie.

The world outside the theater will become a threat to him because he will be an extension of the lie, where the outside world is founded on truth.

Believing in the lie switches his faith around so that instead of faith in the reality of the world outside, he has faith in the manipulated reality of the lie.

Yet if he now chooses to believe in the truth of his colorful vision and he does not bury it in an unmarked grave, he believes in truth and builds his identity on truth.

The world inside the theater will remain a threat because he now carries a vision of color within him which clashes with the shady stage of life.

Believing in truth will confirm and strengthen his faith.
Ultimately truth will destroy the manifestation of the lie in his circumstances, and change them to reflect the reality of life outside the theater.

Either he conforms to the theater, or the theater will ultimately have to conform to him.

Accept the distorted and manipulated reality of the theater and thereby deny the reality of life outside, or reject the fake reality of the theater because you have accepted the truth of life outside the theater.

Realizing this truth, the man spits in the grave to show his contempt for the pitiful attempts the unseen powers of darkness make to manipulate his reality.

He knows, and his knowing destroys the purpose of what the shadow masters tried to achieve.

Although he still is forced to see through the eyes of his marionette costume how his circumstances contradict his faith in the truth of the vision, he rejects this manipulated reality as a fake reality, and acknowledges the unseen reality of the world outside as the reality for his life.
He grabs hold of faith and sees his life and his circumstances throug the eyes of faith.

Whether it is tomorrow, or next month, or years later, the reality of his circumstances WILL have to conform to the reality of life outside the theater and accommodate the colors of his vision.

The theater is about make-belief and the depiction of false realities as trapdoors designed to change the polarity of the man's faith, and turn him into a full-fledged puppet identifying with the strings on his costume.

The theater is the house of lies contrasting with the truth of life outside of the theater.

Accepting the lie causes the lie to become part of us, and we grow into the image of the lie.

Our faith in the lie, as if it is truth, gives the lie the fertile soil to produce fruit after its kind.

Our faith in the lie is what causes our lives to become hollow shadows painted in shades of grey.

It creates and perpetuates a reality of the lie for our lives.

The man realized this when he remembered truth.

He took hold of faith in truth and rejected the validity of the stage reality of his circumstances.

He even shouted his rejection into the world, disbelieving the circumstances of his marionette life as being the reality for his life.

This man took once again possession of his soul and became a threat to the unseen masters of the shadow.

Because he, as an extension of truth through his faith in the truth, stood in contrast with the lie reality of the stage.

His faith will destroy the manifestations of the lie on the stage, so that the circumstances of his life on the stage of life will become a reflection of the Truth he believes in.

Circumstances will change as a result of the man's faith, where it was the intention of the dark powers to change the man's faith through his circumstances.

But he recognized the deceit and grabbed hold of his faith in truth, renouncing the validity of his circumstances.

And the darkness lost where the light began to shine.

If you have invested your time in reading this lengthy post, then make sure you bind this advice which I give you on your heart, and carve it in your soul: NEVER abandon the original vision for your life, NEVER allow adverse circumstances take hostage of your faith.

It does not mean that you cannot take a detour for a while when you notice that the road is blocked, but never mistake the detour as the purpose for your life.

The moment you bury the vision for your life, you LOSE the PURPOSE for which you were born.

When you lose your purpose, you never will find true happiness.

At best you will be able to achieve a pseudo-happiness which is the result of drugging yourself with external sensual distractions.

To maintain this phony world of distraction requires that you constantly block any memory of what you could have been, if only you had not carried your original vision to its grave.

The grave of your buried vision may be unmarked, but you know exactly where the grave is because part of you resides in that grave.

You may distract yourself and run from the sadness of this memory by wallowing in the lies you tell yourself, but the true, deep happiness which comes from abiding in the colors of your vision will be out of reach for you, because YOU chose to exile it from your life.

If you have buried the original vision for your life, return to the grave where your buried your vision.

Dig it up again, and bring it to life with your faith.

As children of YHWH and believers in Yahshua you have been given the power and authority to do so.

Do not say 'I am too old, my life is wasted'.

If you are 80 years old, it may be that YHWH has determined the number of your earthly years to be 110.

What are you going to do with the remaining 30 years on your counter?
Look back at the past and wallow in self-pity for the wrong choice you made?

All it takes is one choice to believe to change things around.

Visit that grave, dig up your lost vision, and in the authority of Yahshua speak life into it.

Isn't that a much better way to spend the 30 years you have left on this earth?

Age is just a by-product of the physical dimension, an illusion in the face of the reality of eternity.

Remember that when your thoughts try to tell you that you are too old, that you missed your opportunity.

THAT is just another LIE, a set-up designed to keep you trapped.

Regardless of what may happen, NEVER let the forces of evil steal away this purpose, this colorful vision.

Building on the foundation of this vision WILL give you a true and lasting joy in your heart, despite the circumstances, a joy which helps you transcend your circumstances.

Plaster this vision on your minds and never allow the monochrome grey world of shadows to overcome and replace this colorful place in your soul.

Darkness will vanish where light begins to shine, that's the way it is, that's the way He made it.

All you have to do is let the Light in, and believe in it.