December 10, 2000

• Relationship between humans and guides 

• Represent godliness in your actions 

• Guides serve as prisms 

God joins you together in a bond of faith. What unites you is so much stronger than you can imagine. Each of you brings concerns as well as gratitude. Each of you is sensitive to the needs of one another and your own families, friends, acquaintances, even to the needs of those whom you have never met but know of. Your guides are assembled much as you are. 

Your guides pray for your growth in vision, insights, understanding, love and compassion, just as you pray for this. It is the exercise of prayer combined with a shared spiritual unity that binds you together. Your prayers benefit not only those for whom you pray but each of you individually. Those prayers are not supplications to God, but they open up your capacity to receive God’s blessings and to issue them outward to the world about you. 

We would like to talk to you at this point more about your guides and your relationships with us. It is important for you to understand more about how this relationship works, for you will be asked to draw upon that understanding in the years ahead. You are not guided by one guide. You are guided by many, but you have the closest contact with one particular guide. This close contact, who you might think of as a guardian angel or personal guide, is responsible for helping you to grow, broaden, deepen, and become more sensitized. This principal guide is the guide whose influence you are most able to recognize. 

Every person is guided. Each has the capacity to know the appropriate direction to follow, to feel the nudge, to acknowledge the light, to sense a kind of hinting at some activity, some belief, some process. 

The principal guide is the one whom you are sensitive to when you receive these messages. It may come as a new awareness, but we must tell you that everyone has the capacity to receive such messages, to be channels, if you wish. Everyone can choose to be a medium, to be a channel, to be a receiver in a manner that is clearly identifiable and more than just a sense of knowing what to do, where to go, how to behave. All are empowered to receive the guidance through their chief guide in such a manner. 

There is, of course, an understandable reluctance. For some, the process initially may be easier than for others, but you must accept the fact that all are capable of serving in such a capacity. The guidance that you receive from your guide may be audible. It may be visible. It may be a physical sensation to write or to speak. You are reached through your senses. Each individual can then receive in his or her own way. 

But your guide, your chief guide, is not the only source for inspiration, for direction and help. You have many guides. These spirits have served you in the past and remain with you at all times. Other spirits will take up the torch, they will carry the light, the truth, to you in the future. There are other guides who are added to the assembly. It is helpful then to think of yourself in the company of many spirits, all dedicated to your growth and development. You are hardly alone. 

Each of the guides in the collection of spirits surrounding you contributes to your growth, contributes to your understanding, for each guide brings unique strengths. Each guide has a different but equally valid perception of God. It is, of course, God whose wisdom and understanding are passed through us to you. 

You may think of your guides as many prisms, each of a different shape, each reflecting a slightly different color of light upon your soul. That light is passed finally through your chief guide and then to you. But what passes through the chief guide is a combination of many different colors, many different strengths, many different perceptions, all of which are valid, all of which contain truth. Your guides work together. No guide is alone, for each spirit is nurtured by the presence of all other spirits just as you are nurtured by our own presence. 

There is no real mystery to the process of guidance. It is natural, undeniable by anyone. There is nothing you can do to stop the process of being guided, for there is nothing you can do that shuts down your spiritual energy completely. There are, of course, times when you are more spiritually sensitive than others, but you cannot fully close the power of your own spirit. It is always open; it is always receptive. 

What you receive is what is transmitted by all the guides and focused by one. That single guide changes from time to time as it evolves yet higher. With the continued evolvement of that chief spirit, there is always an awareness of you. You are never separated from that chief guide. That chief guide, although no longer serving in such a capacity, reflects an understanding of God directly to you, and that reflection is added to the reflection of many. 

Your guides transmit knowledge. They transmit emotions. They transmit characteristics—not physical, but spiritual: compassion, giving, loving. All of this is transmitted to you. The longer you live, the more spirits become a part of this guiding influence. 

We are indeed flexible in our growth. There is no rigid system that determines our advancing from one level of spiritual attainment to the next, just as there is no rigid timetable that dictates your own spiritual development. All that is assured is that you will develop. It may take one lifetime, it may take more, but your development is assured. 

It is no different on this side of the divide. We develop, we grow, we evolve, we become more sensitized to God’s brilliance. We become more effective and dedicated in our commitment to the spiritual growth of human beings. Although much of our growth is not related to human life, we can draw upon that growth and enhance your life. 

You might say it is a large network that exists. What is important for you to recognize is that you are a part of a great collection of spirits, all of whom are devoted to your development. When you are faced with challenges, you are not exercising your response alone or with one guide. There are many who support you. There are many who are dedicated to your development, your growth, affirming your value as a living human being encompassing real spiritual living entities. We are as real, as actual as you. In fact, our life is more intense, fuller of giving and receiving love. We have a greater compassion and an ability to exercise that compassion. The spiritual network that binds you together also ensures our presence in your life. 

You express frustrations about political, diplomatic, and military initiatives. The human life is extraordinarily complex. The need for growth is strong, but the growth itself is imminent. By grappling with what disturbs you, you grow in your understanding and in your compassion ultimately. Frustration is certainly at the center of some of your life, but you are given the tools to greet that frustration constructively, to turn disappointments into a clear sense of direction, clearly guided by God’s light. 

You must allow yourself the ability to accept and acknowledge your place in the total faith and spiritual community. You are not asked to preach every day. You are not asked to proselytize about your faith every day, but you are asked to live your faith every day. You are asked to direct your life in a manner that reflects outward the inward understanding you have of God. You are asked to be representatives of what is godly. It is not easy to accept these challenges, and there are times when you will be more successful than others. Regardless of your perceived success, you must try. You must make whatever efforts are possible to move toward a more godly life. 

The reward is rich. The more you gear your life toward your perception of God’s will, the closer you will feel to God. The closer you feel to God, the more sensitive you will be to your guides. It is as simple as that. If you reject what you know to be godly, you are rejecting the presence of your guides. You are rejecting the impact of their presence on you. There is nothing gained by this rejection. Therefore, eliminate it from your daily life. 

You are asked to embrace God in every corner of your existence. 

Embrace God in every relationship, whether it is an easy or a difficult one. 

Embrace God in every challenge, that it may lead to growth. 

Embrace God in your growth, that such growth may lead to action. 

Embrace God in your actions, that it may lead to greater evidence of God’s kingdom reigning on earth among humankind. 

You are blessed in your efforts. You are blessed in your abilities to receive guidance. You are blessed by the collection, the assembly, of your many guides. And you are above all blessed by the loving, warm, embracing brilliance of God’s light upon your life. Rejoice in those blessings in all ways! 

Amen.