October 25, 2011

• Relationship between God and humans

• Qualities of God

• Life does not begin at birth nor end at death

• Human identity transcends death

• The unity of God with All That Is

God fills your space with love and the quest for peace. God fills your lives with others. God fills your lives with beauty. God fills your lives with the surprises of loving expression offered by others. God fills you with a vision of the Spirit Presence, the Center of Creation, even when that vision is not constant or thorough. All that God is can be experienced by each of you.

At our last gathering, we spoke much of our relationship to you and your relationships to us. But it is the wish of the Spirit Center that is God that you understand more about your relationship to God and God’s relationship to you.

Human beings are always prone to a description of God in human terms. You talk about God’s love. There has been much written that talks of God’s judgment, God’s anger, of the weakness of humankind, of the ultimate strength and power and force of God. Much has been written about a God who is loving to a select few. There has been much written about those who are in some way saved at the expense of others. So much has been said of God. So much has been written about God, written as if the author had full and perfect knowledge of who God is, filled with human characteristics.

We are here to explain in terms that are designed for you that God is not a human being who looks out upon creation and says it is good or it is bad. God does not select some to be saved and others to be damned. There is not in reality a God that sits in judgment. You will not be brought before God as a human-like presence for the purpose of evaluating whether you deserve the goodness that is God or the punishment that is a lack of God. There is no judgment in God. God is not about being disappointed or pleased, as these characteristics are so human in their form. God is beyond a sense of human characteristics.

God is a power, a strength, a presence. The closest that human beings can understand of what God is is for us to reiterate what you have heard countless times: God is love—not God is loving—God is love. To the extent that you become love, you become a part of what God is. This love is in fact a connection to all that has been created. It is a power that unites everything together.

When you acknowledge a tree in the woods, and you acknowledge its beauty, its power, its size, its resilience, its importance to your environment, its importance merely because it is, you are loving that tree for what it is, not for what it isn’t. You are not loving it because you can take from it as you wish. You are loving it merely because it is. You feel in that moment your connection to that tree. If you can feel such a connection to a tree, can you not also feel a close connection to every human being that you encounter?

Somehow humankind is selective in what it considers important, worthy of being loved. There is no selectivity in the sense of God’s relationship to All That Is. There is no selectivity between a blade of grass and an animal across the globe. Both exist, both belong. You belong, the animals of the field belong, the grasses of the world belong. It is this connectedness of All That Is that is reality, a presence that you seek as you call out to God.

God exists, not just in the fact that everything exists, for everything needed to begin. Everything has a sense of evolution. Human beings are part of that evolution. They’re not necessarily at the top, but they are a part of the process. You are a part of the process. This process of evolving means the process of growth. Evolution is merely growth and adaptation and reconciliation.

We ask you to reconcile with one another, to find common ground, to find what unites you, not what divides you. What unites you ultimately is a part of the reality of what God is. God is love, but love which is a power which unites everything together. When all recognize such unity, there is only peace. There is only a sense of continuity. There is only a sense of belonging. Life always continues, and life always evolves.

As people prepare to enter our life-form, you often refer to it as a transition, and that is what it is. There is no end; there is only change. You experienced transition in birth; you experience transition in death. But birth is not a beginning. Birth is merely a physical incarnation of change that is taking place. Life begins long before conception. Life continues after what you perceive to be death. Consciousness, when understood as an awareness of all that is around you, continues. There is no change that stops such awareness, but merely transforms and expands that awareness. That awareness really is a sense of being One.

We do not see you as something far separate from us. You do not see your hand as a separate entity from who you see yourselves to be. God, the power of love, the communion of love, does not see you as being separate and needing to be deserving of love. You belong to All That Is. You belong to all that continues.

When you were mere young children, you were not different in terms of the essence of who you are. You were not different from what you currently are. You have changed, of course, but you are the same person. You have an identity which continues beyond childhood, and that identity remains with you in adulthood. That identity is also a part of what you bring to our level, our phase, our stage of life. Yes, you go through changes from childhood to adulthood, but you are really in essence no different. You have evolved. You have become deeper. You have become more understanding, but you are what you were, and you are what you will be.

God, the Spirit Center, the Center of all consciousness, the Center of all harmony, of all peace, is aware of your own continuity. God, as the Spirit Center, is aware that you are precisely the same as you were at birth, as you were before birth. It is your perspective that changes, but you are what you have always been, and you must believe you are what you will always be. There is no beginning. There is no end. There is just change, balanced with the continuity that you are what you are. This continuity is characteristic of God.

God seeks balance. God means balance. God assists in balance—balance emotionally, balance spiritually, balance physically. All that you seek that you perceive to be good is precisely a descriptor of what it is that you and we refer to as God. You are elevated through God. You’re uplifted, you’re supported because God is the creative power, the creative energy that has given you human life. The nature of your lives may change, but the nature of the creative spirit, of the peaceful presence, of the uplifting support that is God does not change in substance. But God does grow as you become more compassionate, as you become more loving. As you resemble more and more what it means to be love, you are increasing all that God is.

You cannot destroy God. You can deny the existence of a Spirit Center, if that is your choice, but that has no effect on the reality which is God Is, and therefore You Are. You Are because God Is. You are in a state of becoming so that you may be God. It is not a statement of arrogance to assert that each of you is God. It is a statement of fact. The hand that you see is a part of you. You and the hand belong together. Your feet and your hands have different purposes, but they belong to the same organism, the same entity, the same reality. The context may be different, but in reality the totality is one person. Your feet, your hands, your heart, your brain all are differentiated, and yet all belong to a single entity.

You belong to the entity that is God. You belong to all that is created, and you belong to all that belongs to the Creator, for all that is created is the Creator. God does not just create what you see with your senses. God is you. God is what is created. God is the force of creation. God is the continuity of all that exists. You are a part of that web of unity.

When people claim that they have been chosen by God for a particular purpose, those may be arguments that have validity for those who hold them. But in fact, there is nothing that is chosen, that is somehow exclusionary, for God does not exclude, but rather includes.

All That Is belongs—all that you see and hear and taste and touch. All that you are aware of belongs. But also, all that you are not aware of—other life-forms that you have spoken of. All belong. All are a part of God. You are in no way separated from a living entity somewhere else in the heavens. You may not be aware of one another, you may not sense another’s existence, but you and the other both belong to the web of creation. You are therefore both a part of God. You both have a capacity to be loving, as we define loving to be totally accepting without judgment and with mutual concern for the uplifting of another.

All That Is is in part God. That simple statement means that each of you belongs to one another. If you treat another with abuse, you are abusing yourselves. You are abusing the whole concept of God. You cannot turn your back to God, therefore you cannot turn your back to your fellow human being. You cannot turn your back to your environment that sustains you. You must always acknowledge, and in acknowledging, you are reaching out and touching God.

God’s compassion is not a compassion of human form, but rather is a caring for All That Is. You sense God’s caring because you exist. The more aware you are of your lives, the more of God you can perceive, and you will soon recognize that God is all around you. God is not in a kind of heaven that is above you. We are not in a kind of heaven that is above you. We are inside you, we are next to you, we are looking down upon you, we are looking up to you, we are looking inward to you. There is virtually no space between you and us, and as a result, since both you and we are part of the creation of the Spirit Center, there is no distance between you and anything you perceive in your lives. Distance, the concept of distance, of separateness, has been created through your brain as a way of orienting one part of your evolutionary life. But the reality is there is no separation, either between you and your surroundings, or you and us, your guides, or you and God, the Spirit Center.

God comforts because the natural state of everything is balance, and balancing and being balanced are the antithesis of pain and suffering. So seek balance. Seek an acknowledgment of what is. Seek a vision that includes you as an equal partner in what has been created. In so doing, you will see God more clearly. You will hear God more clearly, and you will find yourselves transforming from being loving to Love.

You are blessed in that vision. You are blessed in the unity with God and with one another.

Amen.