Reconnecting with the Divine
Embracing Imperfection and Community
In this message, Chrysta explores the loneliness epidemic and its deep roots in societal structures, such as education and hierarchical systems, which prioritize competition over collaboration. She argues that these structures disconnect us from each other and from the divine, emphasizing that true connection with the divine emerges through meaningful relationships with others. Chrysta calls for a new approach to relating—one that embraces imperfection, fosters community, and recognizes the divine as an embodied, human experience rather than a distant, flawless ideal.
Transcript
This is a time of deep change. Truly, the old ways of being are broken. And as we come into what is new. It is of the utmost importance that we reflect on how we have built the infrastructure on the deepest level. Truly the old ways of knowing no longer serve us. If we think we can come to the “truth” just by a knowing, then we are incorrect.
Indeed, we must have a merging of logical structure; so sound mind, and a resonant soul, in order to bring the pieces together so that we can move forward and transmit, indeed share the messages (but it's also the love) that we wish to connect with in this lifetime.
The biggest struggle in the world right now is loneliness, and it is no tool. --It's like people are pointing to social media or they’re pointing to these reasons why. But it's not the medium that makes loneliness an issue.-- It's a structure of learning that that we've prioritized learning from a book and have not prioritized learning to connect.
Indeed, look at small children, --they're showing like in schools-- we allow children to attach to each other and kind of cling to each other because they don't have anyone else. So, they're clinging to someone their same age. And In fact, we're meant to coexist within mixed age groups teaching each other. Not with one leader and a bunch of students. That that structure supports this hierarchy and supports a way of thinking, that is, “I'm looking for the one person who knows things”, rather than I'm able to kind of blend --It looks like someone making a quilt-- I'm able to blend and stitch pieces together.
And it's like you're asking a higher power outside yourself, rather than that higher power outside yourself being a teacher. That relates to this attachment to complete and stable hierarchy. We can get to that later. They're saying, remind me to come back to that because this is important.
But they're saying what's of utmost importance today is to understand the significance of the loneliness of the heart. That most commonly, we were in the container --where they were showing the kids clinging together-- and then we kind of pull them apart and tell them to be detached. So, we're in a place in which we really care about attachment, so that people are happy like this. You know, happy on the outside that you have friends therefore you'll be happy. And not, providing young ones with tools of understanding, navigating complex relationships, choosing who you connect and disconnect with, rather than a forced thing outside of yourself.
This teaches young ones to not build a community, but receive a community based on where you're dropped in and what you're supposed to do that we have this image that we're just going to --kind of looks like a ball-- like drop a child. We’re dropped onto this path. Rather than a deeper understanding, --looks like roots growing through, it's like we're co-creating. Well, not co-creating we're writing-- We're writing a path with the divine.
And we're writing a path in which it's like connecting deeper and deeper becomes of the utmost importance. We've said to this one that if you want to learn to connect to the divine, yes, first you must learn to connect with yourself. But there's more powerful, deeper lessons in learning to connect with others and learning to connect through disconnection.
I'm like, what does that mean? Connect through disconnection is when -- looks like a path is rocky, like a little car bouncing down a road, or like the connection somehow misses each other-- How do we understand people here –Chrysta is touching her heart-- when we're not understanding? Or, what we also struggle with as a mankind, as a humankind is how do we connect emotionally when we're not in the same spot? And, in fact, we're not required to be in the same spot emotionally in order to connect.
I'm like, well, how do we connect then? There's deeper connection than emotion. We've become enslaved to emotions as well; that in a response to a culture that told you “it doesn't matter how you feel.” We've now become enslaved to how we feel and have convoluted, and at many times, we've convoluted an intuitive feeling with an emotional feeling, or we've kind of enshrined this emotional feeling. And allowed the divine feeling to get smaller and smaller. And it's like we've allowed the divine feeling to become less divine. The human is not the divine, and yet there is a divinity in all human beings. Yes, this is a paradox, and both are true.
In searching for the divine within self. We also fully see the divine in others around us. How do we learn to appreciate that divine and kind of boost it up? --I get-- See it, kind of treasure it, it looks like crystal that I'm seeing and I'm admiring this crystal thing in front of me. Without feeling this nature of competition. This nature of competition gets in the way it's another big piece that gets in the way of the connections which are essential in this world. Yes, it is very important to connect and to learn to connect.
We can only truly connect when we're not in competition with others, when we are holding each other to become, for the highest good. Rather than feeling like God has a finite number of seats around a table. --Like there's 21 seats at the table. There's not room for anyone else. So, I have got to make sure I get there-- Is recognizing that the more God energy that is on earth. (The more divine energy, whatever you want to call it). The more God energy that is here, the more God that is in our lives, the more we can reflect this divine to others, and the more --it looks like a mirror-- you see the god in someone else it reflects back to you.
So indeed, to get back to it. There's a lost art of loving people and that is what we are here to remind people how to do because it's part of the divine nature. It's kind of swept out the door by our schooling system, by how we treat children, by how we value each other --it looks like through a list—okay, you check these boxes. Instead of recognizing the other I'm looking at is this watercolor. That's a little, that’s fuzzy I don't really know, you know. It's not that things aren't there like on a list. --So, to me, that's interesting. There's the comparison of the checklist with a watercolor, in which both convey information. It's not a spilled puddle of painting, it's painting, but it's kind of fuzzy around the edges-- That's some of how we should recognize imperfection. Not that I’m either good enough or not, or perfection or imperfection. It just is.
And in that, --it's like this ball-- we can continually be rolling forward, or, kind of not rolling forward. It's more of well, part of it, they're saying, is rolling forward. Part of it is an expansion, so that we're continually striving to emulate God, not in the God way up here, but in the embodied God. Like the Son, Jesus, it's very human in form and in fact in many ways deeply flawed. That gets into more of the “truth” of the Jesus story that they're not going to get into today. There’re truths that have been unwritten. The human construct --well, they're calling it -- the devil's construct is that God has to be perfect. We're perfect in the imperfection. That's the love of God of which people speak. And it's like we're perfect in the imperfection, not when we're rigid in “but this is who I am”. I can be a lot of it. But when we're, you know, a little more effervescent and moving to more clearly reflect the Spirit of God. In truth and untruth in darkness and light, in “mistake” and “correct”. That gets us into the subject of what it means to correct, because indeed we have a fixed idea of “there's a correct way forward”. And while, sometimes it's clear what the moral way is. Often, again, we're looking for simple solutions to complex problems.
I'm like, is this relevant to what we're talking about today? And I'm getting, yes, because, indeed, this is what we find in relationships. It's that it's a four dimensional situation that we're trying to understand with a linear two-dimensional solution. It's a complicated art of navigating connections. Which is why people openly talk about the energetics of connections between people, recognizing that that's there. But maybe have more discomfort in talking about, or in discussing the connection with the divine or with “God our Father”. --I think, purposely using some loaded language there-- it's that it becomes an energy of like, God has a checklist you're supposed to do. That there's a right way forward that then in thinking that --not all because there's a lot of trauma there that's 45% of people's resistance to God-- it boils down complex situations into a simple checklist like, God wants me to do the right thing here. And the right thing is XYZ. When we add humans into it, there's an understanding that situations are complex. that someone may fill the role of both of both villain and lover at the same time. That these identities can coexist in one being. In fact, all the world, the divine included, is enveloped in the complexities of these energies.
And we're here to help cause an expansion in people, so that this multitude of layers can coexist. We're hoping that this is helpful and we'll continue this story with more information.
Meaningful Quotes
"This is a time of deep change. Truly, the old ways of being are broken, and as we come into what is new."
This quote emphasizes the necessity of transformation, highlighting that traditional approaches are no longer effective and signaling a shift toward new ways of being.
"It is of the utmost importance that we reflect on how we have built the infrastructure on the deepest level."
This statement stresses the critical need for introspection and a thorough examination of the foundational systems that shape our lives, suggesting that meaningful change begins at the core.
"The old ways of knowing no longer serve us. If we think we can come to the truth just by a knowing, then we are incorrect."
Here, the speaker challenges the adequacy of traditional knowledge, urging a reevaluation of how we seek and understand truth in a changing world.
"We must have a merging of logical structure, so sound mind, and a resonant soul, in order to bring the pieces together."
This quote advocates for a balanced integration of rational thinking and emotional or spiritual awareness, presenting it as essential for a complete and cohesive understanding.
"The biggest struggle in the world right now is loneliness, and it is no tool. It's like people are pointing to social media. Or they pointing to these reasons why."
This quote identifies loneliness as a major global issue, implying that its roots go beyond superficial causes like social media and require a deeper exploration of societal dynamics.
These quotes collectively reflect the speaker's core message: the urgency of transformation, the importance of self-reflection, and the need for a holistic approach to address modern challenges like loneliness.