March 31, 2011

• The origin and qualities of guides

• Other intelligent life, other earths, other universes

• Value life; resist its termination

• Seeing with the heart

• The unity of all that is

God bathes your lives with the light of which we speak so often. You are joined by all of your guides. You are joined by the conscious presence of all for whom you pray and all whom you love. You’re joined by those guides whether they are associated with those who have transitioned to our life or remain with yours. You are guided by all, not just your own individual guides.

The guidance you seek is in reality a collective guidance. Each of you has an individual guide, a “spiritual lamp” so to speak, but in addition to that spirit presence, your lives are incased and enfolded in an enormous collection of various forms of spirit entities.

You often think of your guides in human terms. Indeed, you are frequently guided by those who have themselves experienced human life-form as you know it, but you are also guided by spirits who have been part of an entirely different kind of life, a different quality, a different energy-form. In fact, if these other energy-forms could be seen with the human eye, they would not be recognized.

Occasionally we speak of other life-forms, but these life-forms are not of the nature of science fiction. There is nothing fearful or sinister or in any way negative. If you could see other life-forms, you would be overwhelmed by their beauty, their warmth, their loving compassion, their deep sensitivity, their sense of spirit.

Human life is not to be measured as the most highly developed of life-forms, for the truth is that there are many life-forms with many characteristics that are different from human beings and yet are acutely aware of the Spirit Center you identify as God. Your vision of what it means to be alive is clearly limited, but this is not an indictment of sorts to the value of human life, for you grow as you need to grow. Your level of understanding is what is appropriate for you, for your soul, at this moment.

Just as there are no life-forms on earth that are more important than others, there are no life-forms in all of creation that are more important than others. Human beings see themselves at the top of a column of life, and yet that column of life that you identify is only one column of many that supports the far greater structure of all that God has created.

The earth is not the only location for life. It is not the only house within which are forms that know God. There are many such earths. There are many such universes. You know that there are many suns, for there are many stars. You also are aware of the possibility of many life-forms, but your knowledge is one of theory. It is not a complete knowledge of understanding.

God has created. God is creating. Creation continues. Renewal, recreation continues. You are a part of that vast progression, that vast transformation. But despite being a part of such a large collection of souls, no human being is insignificant. No human being is truly superfluous to the designs of creation. You have your part to play. You have your sense of reality that helps govern what you do, that helps determine who you are. All that is has meaning. You meaning within all of creation is unique. It is not special in importance, but it is unique. The place of the rock, the place of the stone, the place of the grain of sand is important. Nothing is just something that exists. Everything exists with purpose.

Your human lives do not have a set design, a set goal you must reach in your human life, but you nevertheless live for good reason. You live because you are learning. You live because you are contributing. What do you learn? What do you contribute? You learn you are a part of God, and you contribute to that knowledge through how you live, through how you exercise your understanding of who you are.

When you acknowledge that you have been created by God, that is an acknowledgment of a Creator. In such acknowledgment, all that you do is subsequently informed. If you acknowledge you are created, if you acknowledge all has been created and nothing just exists by accident, then you accept more readily your responsibility toward all else that is created. If it is created, if it does exist in your awareness, it is important, it is essential. When you accept this, you accept the importance of all human beings. You accept the value of life, and you resist its termination. If you resist its termination, you resist such actions as executions. You resist all that is contrary to life, and you live on a plane of awareness that values and therefore loves everything.

We say you are asked to become loving. What we are asking in simplest terms is that you uphold the value of all that you encounter. You uphold the value of human life. You uphold the value of animals, of stones. You uphold the value of weather patterns. You uphold the value of the earth, of the ground, the soil, the nutrients, the air you breathe, the wind you feel in your face. You affirm that all belongs, that nothing is of no value.

Living a life with a full recognition that you are as you must be, where you must be, that you are evolving as you must be evolving, that you are encountering what you must encounter, you are then able to resist that sense of life being random in some form. No life is random. Despite those who suffer from the forces of nature, there is no randomness. Those forces of nature don’t just happen. They happen because of other forces that led to an event, to a power, to a presence, to a strength, to a light, to an energy that is essential.

Joy is essential to human life, but so is concern, so is jealousy, so is fear and anxiety. All are essential. The conflicts that you experience between individuals and communities, cultures, nations are essential. Does it mean that such conflicts that create pain and suffering are essential? Yes, but when we talk about all being essential, we’re not saying that all must be looked forward to, that all must be enjoyed and welcomed, but merely that your contact with all is part of what it means to be alive and to have been created. It belongs to the human experience.

In our lives, we do not feel anger or jealousy. We do not envy or covet. We don’t experience bitterness. All we experience is the desire to increase our own abilities to be loving, because we know that our development belongs on the same path as yours. In the end, all that is really is love. All else is an interruption, a kind of diversion from the path. You leave the path, and you may be injured, but the path remains. You still know the path leads on. You don’t know what adventure lies before you on that path, but nevertheless that path seeks to draw you along.

So it is with all you experience. You may be pulled off the path, but you always know the general direction of that path. It is not an east/west direction. It is a direction of evolution to becoming love, to becoming fully God. God is not a figure in the sky. It’s not really a human in appearance. God is an all-consuming light of pure love.

For you, it is difficult to completely grasp what it means to be pure love. You cannot fully comprehend what you haven’t seen, but you can fully comprehend the nature of what you haven’t seen. You know what love is. You know what love means. That is a simple acknowledgment, for love is upholding, affirming, supporting, uplifting. Love is sacrifice, a sacrifice of self in order to affirm another. That sacrifice takes many forms, but a sacrifice it always is.

God is pure love. That love is all-encompassing. When one transitions to our life, God is not readily seen, but God is undeniably felt.

We see through the heart, so to speak. We see through love. We do not see in a visual sense. None of us know what you look like, for what you look like is transitory and ultimately has no meaning. We do not see whether you are male or female, black or white, have any cultural identity. Those are the differences that you place on one another, but such humanly identified differences are invisible to us.

We do see the heart, so to speak. We see kindness. We see loving compassion. We see gifts of the heart but never gifts of toil. Our vision is not limited, despite our not seeing the physical you, for the simple reason that the physical you really doesn’t exist in any meaningful way. We relate to one another on our plane of life by who we are, not by what we did or what planet, what universe we were earlier identified with. That has no meaning.

When you meet a stranger, you relate to the stranger in the present. You don’t wait to determine whether you will find a friendship only after learning what this person does, what this person did, where this person is from. You relate to your immediate experience. To the extent that that person shows compassion, that person exercises a loving, nonjudgmental relationship, that then is what is most essential. You can find friends for whom you had no understanding of their past.

And so it is with us as we communicate with each other, as we communicate with you. It is not a matter of the past. It is not a matter of appearance. There is nothing of importance other than the heart, the spirit, the soul that you exercise.

For this reason, you must seek opportunities to relate to everyone as an absolute equal, for they are you. The person next door is you. The person on another continent is you. The person who is older or younger, male, female, or seemingly of a different race—that person is you. There is nothing that distinguishes you from any other human being. We see that. That is our vision. Human beings often fail to see that, for they see with their eyes. You must see with your heart. You must see with your spirit. Try to encounter life with a vision that we share. In doing so, you affirm all. In doing so, you bring the reality of the totality of creation to an infinitesimally small point, to a place along the continuum that not only occupies a small location but is in reality the entirety of the continuum.

You are all that has been created, and you are a part of what is created. You are both what has been created and the Creator. You are the Creator because you are in no way separated from God. You are in the light because you are the Light. You belong to the Light. You are the Light. You are the neighbor. You are the sweet fruit on the tree. You are the tree. You are the nourishment from the tree. You are the oceans that provide the moisture that feeds the tree. You are the smallest drop in the ocean, and you are the entire ocean.

You and we are joined by the same Spirit. Your soul evolves and our soul evolves, but we are all a part of the Spirit-Center, and therefore we are all the Spirit- Center. We speak to you at this time about unity, for so much of humankind loses sight of that unity in order to strengthen one component of that creation over another.

Rejoice in that unity! Seek out evidence of it. Affirm your unity by greeting your experience with an open heart and with a loving hand.

We bless you with our love. We bless you with our connection to you. We bless you with the energy of Spirit, the same Spirit that you share. It is an energy of warmth, of love, and of light. Rejoice in that light!

Amen.