May 23, 2013

• Birth is not a beginning but a continuation

• Multiple lives—human and nonhuman

• There is no guilt nor judgment

• Spirit has a shield around it and is fully protected

God ignites your souls. God sets them ablaze with intention, with light, with love, with understanding. In addition to being ignited by God’s light, you are given a capability for great insight. That insight is related to your vision of God, but most importantly, your vision of others and a view of self that belongs to the vision of others.

We see each of you very clearly in terms of your energies or lack of energy. We see you as you are, but we also see you as you can become. We see you as both fulfillment and potential.

You seek direction in your lives, but frequently we experience that plea for help as if it were being offered not having had direction, not having had a sense of presence. The reality is you’re not being redirected, but rather you are continuing to be led from your earliest consciousness. There is a direction in your lives as individuals and as a part of a collection of many souls. You grow because you live. You don’t live and then suddenly become aware of the need for growth. Growth and life occur simultaneously, but the nature of your ability to grow and the kind of life you lead is not exactly linear. Both are not parallel courses or paths. There are times when you grow enormously in your understanding, but there are many times in your life when that understanding seems to you to have been halted, and you feel you are seriously engaged in an activity that has within it little direction, little focus, little energy.

Each of you evolves. You do not start....you continue. At your birth, it was not a beginning. It was in truth a continuation. Your development in spirit does not begin at birth but rather precedes it through immeasurable means. Your human lives are simply part of that growth process, a necessary part but only a part. You seek direction, but you have direction. Your direction—all of you, every human being—is pointed toward a full unity with the force that you call God. There is the direction. It is laid out for you, and it is also laid out in spite of you. No human life is predetermined in its specifics, but every human life is predetermined in the ultimate goal that shall be achieved.

We have spoken in the past about the reality of multiple lives. No one escapes that reality, but few have a recollection or feel or understanding for their own prior life experiences, yet all of you are a product of those experiences. There is no time, there is no space, but figuratively speaking you are where you are as a consequence of where you have been. You are who you are as a consequence of who you have been. You feel as you feel because of what you have felt. There is a continuum to human life to which each belongs.

No one exercises spiritual growth to completion as a result of experiencing a single life, but some experience life before their current life as very different forms of energy. This does not mean that you were some kind of insect or rodent or tree or flower or bit of earth, and that you have evolved. Your evolution is very real, but it is an evolution of spirit. It is not an evolution of form. There are other life-forms that you may have experienced, but those life-forms are not in some way inferior or superior to your current life-form as a human being. Those life-forms are simply different—no better, no worse, no more valuable or less valuable than your current experience in human form. It is in these frequently other life-forms that you do experience spiritual growth, that you do experience greater insight into the reality of what life really means.

At birth you are merely entering another level of life. It is no more, it is no less—it is merely a continuation. If you think of a circle and place yourself on it, you recognize there is no beginning, you acknowledge there is no end, but that there is a sense of moving ahead. You grow in your spirit through such movement, and what you produce is a kind of closed circle that leads forward but also approaches from behind. Your energies can be used in this process to uplift and support, but they also come full circle in that you are also being renewed, uplifted, supported.

You’re given life to give life. You’re given love to receive love. You’re given wisdom so that wisdom may give you strength. You’re given human life because you have received the reality of life before your current life. You express love because you have been loved. You express warmth because you have benefitted from warmth. You achieve vision because it is through your vision that you have gotten to where you are. This is a continuum of life that never suggests being shown the way, for you are on the way, you are on the path. You may be given vision to more clearly understand your path, but you are currently engaged in that journey, each of you in your own ways.

We encourage you to be loving, but that does not imply that you are not being loving. Rather it says to use the love you have been given. You do not initiate love—you transmit love. You do not initiate the support of another, but you transmit it. You do not initiate light—you transmit it. You do not initiate warmth, but you allow that warmth that exists to pass through you. We say at times that we are a kind of lens that focuses God’s wisdom upon each of you. But you are likewise lenses that focus the energy that you have been given outward to others.

You’re on a path that has direction. That direction is completeness, fulfillment, but there was no first step on that path, for you have always been a part of this growth, this development, leading you to a full union with the energy, the loving presence you call God. You are the product of what you have been, and you are in the process of traveling toward what you shall become.

The question was raised whether it is for each of you to resolve what has not been resolved. Is it a goal for every human being to right the wrongs? The answer to this is there is no scorekeeping. There is no entity in the creation that is God that says you owe because of what you have spent. There is no requirement to owe to God what you have spent in the proverbial shadows. There is only the need to keep growing.

You are human. As human beings your lives can be characterized by what is light and also what is dark, but you are not expected to eliminate one hundred percent of the darkness by spending more time in the light. You are instead asked to follow and become. You’re asked to create the light that you seek. For many, this creation requires multiple human life. For others, it is a requirement to experience different life-forms as part of the growth that carries you forward. Just as you are not judged by what you don’t do, just as you are not judged by what you have done, you are not expected to erase what is negative, to undo. You’re merely asked to follow the light. What is done is done. The spirit is not damaged by what is done. The spirit is only nurtured through light. You evolve through your nurturing. You’re not held back when you perceive a failure of some sort.

You’re often asked not to judge, not because that is required of human beings, but rather that is the nature of God’s creation. There is no judgment. There is no weighing in the balance the value of human life. There is a weighing of behavior but not value. Behavior can be punished. The spirit, never. Your spirit is fully protected. Your spirit has a shield around it, the shield of that force, that energy, that entity—the Creator.

Your spirit is the consequence of God. It is not something simply started and set out on a path. It is a consequence of God that all benefit. No one escapes the consequence of being light. No one escapes the consequence of being the power of light. The power of light is not to get rid of darkness. The power of light is to illuminate, for light is an energy with direction, direction that leads ahead. It is not an energy that erases. It is not an energy that seeks a balance to the darkness.

Light is light. Your lives are your lives. You make of them what you make of them. You learn as you learn. If there is more to learn, you are given opportunity. The purpose of life is not to undo something of the past. We say to you there is no guilt, there is only growth, for guilt is an anchor. Guilt weighs you down. Guilt holds you back. There is only intention. There is only commitment. There is only vision toward God’s light.

You are urged to follow that light, to become that light, to transmit that light, and in so doing find the complete peace and love that all seek. Live your lives with a vision of the path. Don’t be guided by the wish to begin the journey to be given an indication of where you are headed. You are where you are, and where you are is where you ought to be. You can see from where you are. You can look out. You can absorb the light. You can absorb the love, and in absorbing it, you become in your own way the very path that you pursue.

You are blessed on that path. You are blessed as the path. You are blessed as you seek the light, and you are blessed as the light.

Amen.