Today I am having a very difficult time with being here. It all seems so hard. I feel as though I’m being crucified by being in this painful, sleeping world again. Karen’s working at a new job seems, in some ways, absurd. It doesn’t use her true capacities and subjects her to a lot of stress.

You seek the Resurrection and Ascension, and long to return Home. The time for this will soon arrive. The way to the Ascension is the descension of the soul into the heart of matter. The way out is through. You are getting close. Remember. Allow and surrender; then the path is easy.

Yes. I understand again. Anything that pulls me out of my center is another opportunity to see where I am bound in illusion. It is OK.

The "Fun in the Dark"—an amusement park ride that was a scary favorite when I was a kid. When three or four of us had been strapped into a little car, we entered the pitch-black haunted house. Suddenly a witch flew right at us and we all screamed. Then a big swinging blade seemed as though it would surely slice us in half. A Frankenstein popped up to grab us. We screamed again and again in terror, until magically we emerged once again into the light. Walking away, we talked excitedly about how scary and real it had all seemed.

I understood what Jeshua meant. Every crisis comes upon us as a surprise, filling us with terror, just as the Fun in the Dark had. But we always pass beyond each crisis—even death—unscathed. Sooner or later, either upon leaving the body or when we simply awaken from our sleep, we emerge out the other side of this often-scary ride and realize it’s all been a dream.