July 21, 2011

• Be open to glimpses of God

• All life is sacred

• How to help your guides

• God Is and therefore you are

God is the wellspring of all that you seek that is noble, that is loving, and that connects you with All That Is. Each of you has the potential to connect. This connection is to life around you and all that your senses bring to your awareness. This connection also includes everyone whose lives are now purely spirit. This connection includes all of us, your guides.

Every human being has the potential to experience firsthand a moment of infinite peace. Your discussion this evening included some personal experiences, each offering a quick image of what it means to be fully aware through spirit. In experiencing such views, there is no requirement or necessity to think consciously, “This is God.” You may consider that after such moments, but the beauty of the moment is in being within that moment and being surrounded by that moment.

There are times when you experience joy and peace. These moments are not in anyway unique, but they reflect a kind of shawl or umbrella of peace, the feeling of being connected with All, that we feel and that is the essence of a spirit life. Such moments are never planned. They may be sought after, but there is no way to consciously prepare. They don’t just happen randomly, since that reality is already there. Rather you are momentarily open to see what is and not merely what appears to be.

Our lives as your guides, indeed the lives of all spirits, may be characterized as a constant openness to what is. We have referred to God and the reality of God simply by saying, “God Is.” There is nothing more profound yet more simple to state than that reality, and when you experience these glimpses of what is, you are actually experiencing a glimpse of God.

You’re asked always to be open—be open in spirit, be open in intention, but not necessarily to be active in your seeking. How is it that you can avoid seeking and yet be open in intention? Seeking is an active pursuit of something beyond yourself. Being open in intent is meant to suggest that it is your objective to be aware, to be vulnerable to what is already inside you and not necessarily outside you. The peace that you described is not so much a peace existing in something you seek, but rather a peace that belongs to a part of what lies within.

All that you seek is really contained within you. Being prayerful means being open to potential, but this is not a potential that lies beyond you. It is the potential that is you. You and the potential are one. You and the peace you seek are really one. When you are open to your own potential, you are open to experiencing deep within and very personally that which you seek—the peace, the love, the compassion, the sense of light.

We ask you frequently to open your eyes to light, but the light that we refer to is really a light that resides within you. When you feel yourself to be in a dark place, you are merely blocking your view of what is bright within. You have not been created by God for the purpose of seeking what lies beyond you. You are not being given life merely to be a mirror of what is beyond you, but rather to be the very reflection of what is within.

All life is sacred, and therefore every human being is sacred, and if each one of you is sacred, you are sacred because of who you are, what is within you. You are not sacred because of something that lies beyond your grasp, that lies somehow outside of you, whether at great distance or nearby. You are sacred because of the Spirit Center that is within you. That energy, that light, is already there, and you have the potential to reflect that light outward.

That reflection is not just as a mirror reflects. Think of your life as a kind of lens or magnifying glass. A lens takes light and transmits it, focuses it, helps provide its energy, its intensity, its brilliance, and its warmth. Therefore, consider your lives as an effort to take what is within, the light within, and focus it outward.

Of course there are times when you need to replenish, to refuel, to receive nourishment. That belongs to the human experience, but when you are replenished, when you are refueled, you then have the potential of refocusing what is inside to help illuminate what is beyond you.

The illumination you seek, therefore, comes initially from within and is transmitted outward. It is not a matter of just receiving this illumination from elsewhere. A magnifying glass and a lens let light pass through in both directions. It is so in your lives. The brilliance that surrounds you is in part the brilliance of others, and as that brilliance is disseminated, you absorb it. It comes your way. Your lens focuses that brilliance within. Then you are strengthened and enabled to reflect that light outwards, to focus that light, to pass it on to others.

Your lives in fact are not passive. Your spiritual development is not merely a passive act of taking what comes. Your development is directly related to your ability to focus that spiritual light, to act as a lens, to act as a magnifying glass.

The question is raised of how you can help us. You help us when you allow yourself to focus the spirit energy within so that it may be disseminated to all around you. It is by what you do that we are nourished. It is by your effort, your awareness of your spiritual core that we are given assistance. Part of that effort on your part can be through prayer—prayer that acknowledges with total commitment that God Is, and because God Is, you are. That acknowledgment of your connection to what is godly is the nourishment that feeds much of our development. When you pray for us, we grow, not because of what you say, but rather because you acknowledge through your own spiritual awareness that God Is.

Ultimately the purpose of our guidance is to bring you to an acceptance that God Is and therefore you are, that you are connected directly to God. Is there a more important insight to be gathered in life than that? Absolutely not, for it is in that recognition and your commitment to that reality that all that you do flows naturally. It is in that recognition that you become the peace you seek, that you become the compassion that you wish to exercise. All comes from that simple reality: God Is and therefore you are.

What is difficult for all human beings is to accept that reality fully and not to doubt it, regardless of what transpires, either in your lives or the world that surrounds you. That recognition is your rock. It is your foundation. From that foundation, all else grows and expands. That recognition is the center point of human existence. There is a difference between hearing and somewhat believing in that reality, and a total acceptance of what that means. It takes much time, it takes much thought, and it takes a willingness to be open. If this were easy to accomplish, there would be little need for continuous thought and consideration on your part of that reality. You would hear it, and you would say, “Okay, that is it. I know the ultimate truth,” and the need for such gatherings as you experience would vanish. But the human condition is one that requires great effort to come to that point in your lives when that ultimate reality is fully and totally embraced.

Our work as your guides is devoted to your acceptance of that truth. You know it, but you must now become that acknowledgment. That acknowledgment must be who you are. There is a difference between knowing a truth and being the truth, and we, your guides, ask you to become what it is that you know. You know what faith means, but you must become faithful—full of faith. When you are full of faith, there is no room for fear, no room for anxiety, for you become entirely faithful. There are many who claim to be faithful, when what they mean is that they are committed to seeking faith, seeking a commitment to the reality that God Is and therefore you are. But being in the process of seeking, you are not faithful; you are a faith seeker.

We ask you to shape your lives so that your faith seeking may bring you to becoming faithful. It is a process that is lifelong in its development. No human being is absolutely faithful, but there are many who commit their lives as faith seekers—seekers of the truth. This truth is all-inclusive. There is no one who is left out of “therefore you are.” It is not “God Is and therefore some are.” All are because God Is. All contain within them a part of what God is, and it is for that reason that you are godly, that you are loving, that you are faith-seeking.

If you accept that this is a process, the central process of life, then you acknowledge it is the central process of all human beings. It is something you share with all human life. There are those further along in their seeking, but there are none who are separated from that effort.

In seeking understanding, it is of course important to experience your own sense of space. You cannot give without replenishment. The well runs dry unless there is a source of water. The well must be refilled in order to provide nourishment, but the purpose of the well is not merely to be filled. The purpose of the well is to nourish, provide sustenance, for those who draw from it.

Do not make the mistake of perceiving your lives as just supplying water for another, but allow the spring to fill the well. Give yourself an opportunity to be in your own space, to be replenished, so that you can continue to reflect and to focus the spirit life, allowing spiritual flow to occur. You grow through your exercise of space—space to be replenished, space to give. Allow yourself to be the receivers of strength so that you can commit yourself to be a reflection of that strength.

We are always with you as you serve to transmit what is within to all who are beyond your own physical space. We are with you as the light within erases that sense of separation. We are with you as that light tears down the barriers that separate you from another. And we are with you as you seek to become the reality that God Is and therefore you are.

Amen.