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Does one negative action delete all the good ones?

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Notes From Neale Donald Walsch

My dear friends... 

I want you to do an exercise with me today. A mental exercise. I want you to imagine that you are Mark Foley. Or, at least, your version of Mark Foley. 

I want you to imagine that your deepest, darkest secret, the thing you are most ashamed of, has just been revealed to all the world on television and in newspapers everywhere. What would that secret be? What is the most shameful thing you have ever done? I want you to imagine that you have been exposed, that your secret and your shame have been uncovered, and that there is not a place in the world, not one place on the entire planet, where you can get away from it. 

Think about it now. 

No, really think about it. 

What IS the most shameful thing you have ever done? 

Have you ever done anything shameful? 

Of course you have. Now I want you to think about that, and think about that being revealed to all the people who matter in your life, all the people who really count...and to everyone else in the world as well. I mean, to everyone in the world, not just a few people here and there. Everyone. 

Okay, now I want you to think about all the good you have done in the world. There's a lot of that, I know. So think about that for a moment. Just let your mind dwell on the good you have placed into the world, the nice things you have done, the better side of your nature. 

Good. 

Now...I want you to think about all of that, every bit of it, being erased, negated, blotted out by the bad thing you have done. I want you to imagine that the shameful behavior you thought of just a moment ago has taken all the good you have ever done in your entire life and rendered it null and void. People now treat you as if it didn't happen; as if nothing good you have ever done took place. 

I want you to imagine everyone in the world thinking of you as worthless--an utterly worthless object of scorn. 

You got that? Can you feel that? 

Good. Good work. Now I want you to imagine what you would give if one person -- just one person -- would love you again. What would you give them? How would you feel toward them? 

I've been thinking a lot about all of this the last two days. My mind had been focused on the subject of "loss" anyway for the past week or ten days...and then this Mark Foley thing comes along and I am watching a man's entire life disintegrate right in front of his eyes. And ours. And my heart goes out to him, and all I am feeling is compassion. 

This does not mean that I condone his behaviors. That's not what's being said here -- and I am sure you are not so shallow as to think that. This means, simply, that there is a part of me that feels so badly for this man and what he has done to himself. And this has caused me to examine mySELF, and to take a deep look at all things I have done to mySELF to make myself smaller in my own eyes than I ever thought I would be. And it has made me ponder what I would do if every one of my transgressions was "aired out" in full public view... 

Most of my shameful behaviors have been sexual. I mean, in my life I have cheated and I have lied and I have double-dealed and I have been on occasion utterly unscrupulous, simply in order to have a sexual experience with someone. Can you believe that? That makes me ask myself, when did sex become so important to me? When did forbidden sex become so alluring that I would give up my very conscience in order to experience it? 

Phew. 

What IS it that makes this energy so powerful that some of us are willing to gamble everything, to risk everything, to lose everything in order to experience it? It is only an energy, after all. When everything is said and done, it is only an energy, a feeling coursing through us, a primal force, to be sure, but nothing, really, compared to The Essence of Who We Really Are. This energy was given to us, to use as a creative, dynamic, joyful force. How is it that it has caused so much destruction? How is it that it has created so much sadness? 

And how would it be with me this day if all of the times I misused or mishandled or misdirected that energy in my life were revealed to the whole world? 

And what about greed?   How would I feel today if the world knew, down to the tiniest detail, everything about every time that I allowed greed to run my life or create my moment or influence my personal choices and decisions? 

And now about anger?   How would I be feeling if CNN did a continuously running story about all the times that I really misused anger and hurt others -- yes, including children and under-age boys and girls -- by my misdirection of this life energy? 

Mark Foley is a human being who has been dealing with his personal demons for 40 years. Humanity's judgment today is that he has dealt with them in an inappropriate way. Yet I am reminded today of this statement from Conversations with God : 

"Nobody does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world." 

And so, on this day, let us judge not, and neither condemn. Not Mark Foley...and not ourselves. 

With Love, 

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© 2014 ReCreation Foundation - http://www.cwg.org - Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. His With God series of books has been translated into 27 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.

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