December 15, 2025

• Seek God in as many ways as possible

God, the Spirit Center, the Creator, and all that has been created and is being created, accompanies you on your spiritual journey.

You are blessed whenever you become strongly aware of the sacredness of something outside of yourself. It may be the sacredness of people. It may be the sacredness of nature. It may be the sacredness of beauty in whatever form you experience it. Being aware of sacredness is fundamental to organizing your life in ways that serve others.

So often we speak of the sacredness of all people and the need to engage with others nonjudgmentally. That can only take place when you sense the presence of God in someone else, but you are asked to be heightened in your awareness of God everywhere. It could be in the sciences that explore a vast reality beyond the earth, or that exploration could be directed to the smallest particles that you are aware of. In short, you find God wherever you look. That is not to say that you find God when you observe great suffering, but when you look for God in such circumstances, it is not so much the suffering itself but the resilience and sacredness of those who are suffering.

We have asserted in the past that it is not God’s will that people suffer. It is not a kind of moral punishment. It is not a blight upon human life that originates with the intentions of the Spirit Center. Suffering happens. Sadness occurs. Injustice can be seen everywhere. The frequency and widespread application of pain occurs at all levels of life, but although God is not ordaining that pain, that suffering, it is God’s loving heart that can provide strength and endurance, courage, hope, patience, forbearance, and yes, comfort. That is where God is found when all seems so ungodly.

So, you find God not in suffering but through suffering just as you find God not in joy itself but through joy. You find God through gratitude. You find God through all conditions that are encountered in human life, but the true objective for your life must always be to look for God, for in the looking there is a seeing. Through your search for God’s presence there comes a recognition of that very presence. When we challenge you to live without judgment, we are in effect suggesting you look for God in that person that you wish to judge. You look for God in the pain you may experience. You look for God through the suffering. Look to the people. Look for their sacredness, and in that acknowledgment, you are also aware of God in the midst of it all.

Yes, there are many on earth who are celebrating important holidays related to their tradition of worship. Each religion has within it times that are seen as sacred. There is no one right way to view God in the world, but in the organized religions that have come together into a common identity, there is an acknowledgment of what is felt to be sacred.

That approach to viewing something as sacred is akin to recognizing that God is present. The many religious and spiritual traditions all have a sense of what is sacred, what is fundamental to their beliefs, and all of those beliefs contain within them a portion that is a valid interpretation of part of who and what God is.

There is no group, no specific religion or tradition of worship, that is more valid than another. Rather, what is important is that they seek God. They attempt to see evidence of God described in one way or another. The bottom line for them and for you is to seek. Look for what is sacred. Hold close to the heart an understanding of God’s presence in whatever capacity that may be viewed. God is, and therefore God is visible, not as a figure in a robe, but visible as a presence, a presence that is comforting, a presence that falls upon human beings to act in ways that are in concert with the belief that all is sacred.

If you consider items that are not animal or in some way exchange life processes, they, too, are sacred. They, too, are evidence of God’s presence. Animals in your world other than human beings seek safety, seek nourishment. There is a hierarchy that delineates those with power as opposed to those with little or no power. That power can be destructive or not, but the whole mechanism of life follows a process that is in the largest perspective, evidential of God.

With all that exists, there is an interaction with whatever exists in a surrounding area. We have touched on this before, but the fact that there is interaction, that energy that elicits such responses belongs to all that God is. You cannot escape that presence. You cannot somehow hide from the Spirit Center, from the energy that creates and recreates and again recreates. All are part of that process, and so all have within them a component that you with an open heart can see as evidence of God’s presence.

There are countless people who pray for the cessation of hostilities between nations and societies, between communities and individuals. Without the existence of God, there would be no energy present to pray, for prayer and concern are two ways of acknowledging that God is a part of all that happens. At this time of year, you think of a biblical figure who traditionally stands for peace, for reconciliation, for unity. That individual is a reminder for all to look for God, to look for that divine presence, to acknowledge what makes for peace, to acknowledge what makes for love.

The search for God is lifelong, but it is never an empty search. Just the searching itself becomes part of the acknowledgment. When you are moved to find God when you see it as being so unlikely, you are drawing apart the curtains of judgment, and you are devoting your energies to seeking out what is good, to seeking out ways of being loving, and in that seeking, you become more aware of the loving response of others in that effort.

All human beings have the capacity to see God. They may not identify what they see as being God, but they become aware of what happens when God is visible. It is possible to see God and not recognize God, for recognition comes with a sense of identity, a kind of labeling that you don’t necessarily have to identify and label in order to see God’s presence.

In the midst of such turmoil as is prevalent in your life, in the lives of human beings, pull back from despair. Pull back from a sense that nothing can be done, and concentrate your efforts, your attention as it were, on seeing evidence of God, however that may be experienced. Perhaps that is the kindness offered to you by someone, even when that person is not a close friend or family. It could be a stranger, but that kindness, that readiness to listen, that openness to hear your own needs is God in your presence. Experiencing kindness is not random or something to be taken lightly. When you are grateful for it, the feeling of gratitude becomes part of your heart vision of God.

Seek out as many ways as possible to find God in the mundane. It could be in a great work of art, but it could also be in the patience and understanding smile in someone else. It is moments like those that you see God, but to see you must look. This effort is, of course, more in attitude. You want to be open to God’s presence, seeing God in what is small as well as what is magnificent. In seeing God in this way, your life takes on greater purpose, and you can feel more fulfilled knowing that in the seeing, you are welcoming God’s presence with open arms.

As your guides, we see God constantly. We not only see that Spirit Center, but we recognize it and acknowledge it, and feel strengthened and directed by that. Yes, there is much in human life that brings pain and causes great concern, but look beyond just that pain. Look beyond just that word to find God in all corners everywhere.

You are blessed in your seeking. You are blessed in your seeing, and you are blessed as you recognize God’s presence.

Amen.