Give me liberty or give me death!

Give me liberty or give me death! has been my motto, my War Cry, for many years........'I will fight to the death before I surrender and accept the limitations!' I have courageously carried on this battle for peace and freedom for over 500 years. The result in each incarnation was the same.......... I executed one hell of a battle 'against the forces of darkness', but, in each, I failed to obtain peace............ or freedom. My energy was matched, blow for blow, by the opposing forces. I would win a skirmish, then lose a battle in a give and take, ebb and flow, back and forth into perpetual fighting and war. There was death and destruction, heartache and pain.......... and the anger, the sadness, the guilt and shame of failure of each incarnation were silently carried into the next ....... a crippling burden....... yet, an old friend. With each incarnation I came to the field of battle better prepared......... a Warrior, traveling through time, to strike a blow 'against the forces of darkness.' At times I became that which I railed against nearly loosing myself to the darkness......... For the darkness is within us all....... of us all....... waiting to be acknowledged....... and released. For it is the acknowledgment and acceptance of the darkness within that strips it of all power over us. It simply IS...... a part of who we are....... a part of the One..... a part of the Divine power and knowledge available for our use. I became a slave to the battle. The harder I fought the harder the battle......... After 500 years of battle I NOW understand that fighting and war can never beget Peace and Freedom. I now understand that our outer reality is a direct reflection of what is within. If we have fighting and war in our hearts fighting and war is what we shall attract to ourselves for fighting begets fighting; war begets war, and........ Peace begets Peace! These past weeks have seen the splinters of my soul rise to the fore of my awareness to be acknowledged; for the release of the trauma, pain and sadness carried through from each incarnation and re-integration of the knowledge gained and that piece of the soul back into the whole. On several occasions over the past couple of weeks while taking a walk I found myself looking around the neighborhood with a whole new eye. I began to see the neighborhood from the eyes of a homeless man, picking out 'prime' sleeping locations. This happened repeatedly over a 10 day period until it had me questioning the Universe. Was this a sign or something? I know things look bad but, WTF? On one such walk I 'became' that homeless man. As I walked I was able to experience this homeless past life in another dimension while still enjoying the birds and trees. The one thing that struck me was the feeling of absolute peace. I was homeless, living in a box, all of my worldly goods in a bag I used as a pillow....... yet I was at peace. I realized that in that lifetime once I had stopped railing against the poverty and injustice......... once I had surrendered to life, the poverty and injustice no longer held any power over me. Through my surrender to life and allowing I found the true treasure in life.........peace. I have been a Warrior throughout time and as each awareness came forward to be acknowledged I made peace with the darkness...... I surrendered to the fighting and the war........ I filled the heart of each Warrior with Divine Love, peace and prosperity and welcomed it into the One. I now know that I can not only have Liberty, peace, abundance and prosperity through the death of the old ways, but through allowing the old ways to die and fall away I can once again BE Liberty, peace, abundance and prosperity. May you find peace in the Warrior's heart