Spiritual Awakening: GOD’S Knocking, Are You Answering?
Just as GOD answers the knock on his door we must answer the knock of GOD at our door. This part of the spiritual awakening process is very important as it helps us to act upon the message that GOD is sending and thus allows us to take the proper action to further our quest to create a oneness consciousness that will propel us to step into our power so as to achieve greatness and shine our light so bright that the entire world is illuminated. I am always amazed at how many times GOD knocks on my door and I am not aware or I am not awake or enlightened enough to move with the message. How many times do we go about our day to day lives in the human existence and we do not take the time to sit in reflection and hear the messages that GOD is sending us? How many times do we get caught up in the what ifs that we do not act on these messages? How many ties is the message right in front of us but we are so distracted by other things that we miss the message?
I was at The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of West Boca Raton and I was introduced to speak about the mission of relay and The American Cancer Society and I stated Hello I am Jonathan JDOGG Lederman and I am on a Mission from GOD. Since that moment things flowed well at Relay. later in the day I delivered a presentation for The Survivors/Caregivers Ceremony and when someone came up and told me what a great speech I replied I am but the messenger GOD gave me the words. Aa I acknowledged GOD I began to remember the idea that when two or more are gathered in GOD’s presence he is there. GOD is with us at all times and when we acknowledge him some amazing things happen.
This has become very evident as today (5/6/2015) I have received 2 calls about emceeing events. One came from someone I worked with several years ago and the other from someone I reached out to about emceeing events a few months ago, As I continue to answer GOD’s knock on my heart and understand the messages that he is sending some great things are unfolding. I have created a habit of acknowledging GOD daily and showing gratitude and as a result he keeps knocking on my door and I continue to answer.
For years I have watched The Kentucky Derby, The Preakness, and The Belmont Stakes all 3 together known as The Triple Crown in hopes that there would be a triple crown winner as the last triple crown winner was Affirmed in 1978. Affirmed battled Alydar in one of the closest Belmont Stakes in the history of horse racing. I always get excited when I hear the announcer say and down the stretch they come as the horse enter the final stretch of the race knowing that in the homestretch os where many a race is won or lost. As The Kentucky Derby approaches and will take pace on May 2 I find myself thinking about the homestretch in the spiritual awakening process. On May 2 a horse, a jockey, a trainer, and an owner will be forever immortalized in the sports history books. This got me to thinking how will we become immortalized in the spiritual history books as we enter our very own homestretch in discovering who we are and what we are meant to be. A racehorse is bred to race and to give pleasure to the fans and then when their career is over they are put out to breed and through breeding they pass on their lineage and their legacy for more horses to race and for more fans to enjoy. This lead me to ponder what happens when we reach the home stretch of any project or development in our personal or professional life how will we create a legacy and pass the legacy on? One way to do this is to become spiritually aware and awake and to take action to develop our spirituality and share ourselves with the world.
In 2013 Orb was a longshot and sat in 17th place but rallied to win The Kentucky Derby. The spiritual lesson I learned that day was that it is not where you start that really matters it is that you start and that you give it your best in all that you do and finish what you started. Orb would finish 4th in The Preakness and 3rd in The Belmont and then be retired to Stud. Orb’s legacy now is in the horses that he sires. In the spiritual awakening process it is important to understand what your legacy will be and how people will speak about your home s retch run. How will you be remembered? ORB will forever be remembered as a Kentucky Derby Winner. In the spiritual development process it is important to be aware and awake of the positive impact you are making and how your coming alive is having a positive impact on the community where you live, work, and play. 
Today we mark Good Friday and The 1st Night Of Passover. The coincidence of this is the fact that The Lat Supper was actually a Passover Seder showing us that we are more alike than we are different and that we are all spiritually interconnected. Through the spiritual awakening process we begin to see that we are all divine children of GOD and no one way of thinking is better than the other. In taking action to show reverence to GOD we come together for the betterment of our community. On Passover we eat Matzah as The Israelites did not have time to let the dough of the bread rise but it also marks a time when The Israelites rose up to take on Pharaoh and escape slavery. Easter marks the great rising of Jesus Christ, The Savior, who became the ultimate lamb to erase and forgive our sins helping those who believe to be redeemed.