September 22, 2025

• The life force belongs to everything

• Fear in the animal and plant kingdoms

• Try to understand others who are perceived as threats

You are all blessed through the loving presence of the creative force you identify as God. That presence is an energy that supersedes all other energies. It is an energy of direction, of movement. It is the energy that propels you. It is in part the energy that you refer to as “life force.” This life force permeates all that exists whether identified as living by your measurements or not living. That life force belongs to everything.

If you consider any substance that exists, especially those that are nonliving, that seem inert, that do not grow, they do not visibly change according to availability of nourishment. The most inanimate, seemingly inert item ever created contains an energy. That energy may be at an atomic or subatomic level. It may be at an energy level that is below all current means of measurement, but that energy is still there. The smallest particle, the smallest entities that exist contain energy. There is nothing that is without any energy. That is essential to all that exists, and it is that energy itself that is part of what God is. The energy that is God belongs to everything.

That energy can be seen as a physical energy. It can be interpreted as a physical energy. It can be felt as a physical energy, but it can also exist psychologically in the thought processes of the animal kingdom. What you think on a daily basis is in part the energy, that creative energy, that you identify as God.

We say human beings have a soul. A rock may not have a soul, but that does not mean that a rock has no value. A rock contains an energy that belongs to God every bit the equal of the energy that belongs to human or animal life. The energy is the energy. The presence of God is the presence of God.

All that is created is not only a creation of God but is an extension of God. One of the most difficult lessons for human beings to fully accept is that concept that everything is an extension of what God is. That is far more comprehensive than merely saying that God created all, and that is the end of further consideration.

When you feel fear, that feeling is an energy, and that energy is a function of what God has created and is part of who God is. Are we saying that fear is in part what makes God God? We can say, in a sense, yes. It’s not God’s intention that you be fearful but rather that what comprises you as a human being contains God’s energy, and as a human being you therefore can feel fear. It is not an experience outside of the vision and creativity of God.

It is not unusual when you are consumed by fear to forget God’s presence, to feel momentarily, perhaps, that you are alone. If you were diagnosed with a serious health condition, fear can take over, and in those moments of great anxiety, it is not unusual to wonder where God is in all of this. In so many ways, it is almost like asking that eternal question of why bad things happen to good people. The obvious answer is “bad things,” as you identify them, happen to all people. There are not good people and bad people. What creates anxiety, what creates fear is experienced by all in one way or another.

It is because of your nervous system as a human being that you feel fear. It is because of the nervous system of other animal forms that they can feel fear. There is a unique form of communication in the plant world where plants can respond in their own unique ways to threats, to “fear-producing” events around them. The nature of fear that humans experience is obviously different from that kind of environmental response exercised by trees and other plants, but the mechanism, although different, is a shared mechanism, that being a sensitivity to one’s environment. Human beings experience fear for the very reason that you are aware of your environment. If you had no awareness, what would there be to fear? If you had no awareness of self, preservation of self, there would be no need to fear.

Part of the presence of God that is shared by all human beings is an identity at some level of self. That can be thought of as an identity of what God is within you. No, God does not want you to suffer, but God wants you to be aware of what is around you. That awareness allows you to reach out to others lovingly, but that same awareness allows you to feel fear when there is a threat of some kind of loss or uncontrolled change. When human beings experience a feeling of personal existential threat, that is precisely because of a sensitivity that belongs to human life. When life-forms other than human life experience the need to respond to a threatening element around them, that ability to respond is part of this life force. It is part of that God energy that permeates all.

When you feel fearful, you are anything but alone. You are not abandoned. You are not forgotten. You are not insignificant. You are not in spiritual darkness. When you experience fear, that is a time to acknowledge that your emotional awareness is possible only because of the energy that is God being part of your own life.

You can respond to that fear in many ways. You can respond by turning it into compassion. You can respond to it by acknowledging that God belongs to all that you are. You can respond with gratitude that you’re sensitive to others, for that sensitivity leads you to reach out toward another. You respond compassionately because you feel a connection. A connection is not necessarily an agreement but rather a shared existence, a shared equality with another. When you experience fear, that is a time to acknowledge that an individual inculcating that fear in you also experiences fear, also experiences uncertainty and insecurity. All human beings seek paths that are free of pain and anxieties, free of being threatened, free from illness, free from making wrong decisions.

The journey of life force is a journey of interaction, and that interaction allows a deep exchange of emotions. Those emotions belong to the life force. They are felt very personally because human beings have been blessed with that ability to feel in response to what is around them. When that fear becomes existential, and you label another whose actions may be ultimately threatening as being inhuman, you are in effect cutting off that true link that you have with another.

If you feel personally threatened by someone’s actions, it is, of course, natural to preserve what feels normal, be it a life, a way of life, or ideological belief. It is natural to stand up and insist that what is feared must be defeated completely. That is part of the process of preserving self, motivated out of fear. That effort is not inappropriate, for you are giving value to your own life. The challenge is to give equal value to someone else, even if that other intends harm.

It takes what you would identify as courage to stand for what you believe in, regardless of the consequences. Such an action stands for what you see as a moral position of certainty. It is equally important to acknowledge that another may have the same commitment to what feels to be morally correct and therefore exercises courage and commitment.

When you are confronted by a different perspective that offers direct or personally felt threats, step back even briefly to acknowledge that your awareness of those threats is precisely because God’s life force is yours. One moves through human life always with a recognition that there will be events in life that feel profoundly threatening on many levels. Try to be thankful for that recognition, and then ask yourself what is the most God-reflecting response that you can offer? It may not be a quick offer of understanding, for you may still deeply oppose a perspective. But perhaps your response can reflect an effort to understand how another comes to a particular point of view that can be expressed in profoundly disturbing ways.

This is how one should engage the justice system in societies. There may be punishment that is due, but the most important life force effort should be devoted to understanding what brings another to a given perspective of rightness. We are suggesting that you should in part try to walk in the shoes of another. Of course, you cannot do that with full understanding, but just the gesture of wanting to know more about what motivates extreme disagreements is a way of acknowledging the sacredness that lies always at the center of another.

Life force is God. Sensitivity at whatever level it is felt when directed toward others is a life force from God. Anytime you work to understand another, you’re reaching your own hands to God. You are not condoning the actions of another but seeking to understand the why.

By avoiding condemnation of another, the necessity of avoiding condemnation of self follows equally, for that is experienced as guilt. The feeling of guilt is not constructive. In your attempt to walk in the shoes of another, in your attempt to affirm the value of another existing as a life force of God, you must first acknowledge your own seeming shortcomings and not be bathed in guilt but in understanding, realizing you are on a journey, and what is experienced on your journey has purpose and meaning. That purpose, that meaning also belongs to others. In seeking to understand self, you become strengthened in your understanding of others.

We urge you not to be hard on yourself, to not indict yourself with unforgiving labels. Avoid indicting others with similar unforgiving labels. When you experience the labeling of others, the labeling by others against you or what you believe, understand that is their way of attempting to resolve their own feelings of pending loss. See yourself as being part of another. See another’s response as being somehow possible for you. You are not asked to emulate them but rather to acknowledge that the capability of responding inappropriately lies with you as well as others. Stand firm for what you believe, allow others to have opposing beliefs, and when those differences create fear, commit yourself to seeing God in the conflict, seeing God’s life energy as belonging to all participants in this experience of being human.

We could say that if you feel physical pain, it is because the body is responding as the body is intended to respond. It is not that the pain should be welcomed, but rather your ability to experience it is an indication of the body functioning as it should. All pain, whether emotional or physical, belongs to the experience of being human.

Find God in your experiences. Welcome the light, as it can illuminate your pathway, and be grateful for your ability to see that path through God’s presence.

We, as your guides, surround you with the life force of God’s creative energy. Allow it to strengthen your own energy. Allow it to strengthen your responses. Allow it to provide a vision that is capable of changing, of evolving. Let God’s light forever be yours.

Amen.