May 18, 2026

• Recognizing sacredness

• Faith is a way of life

God, who is the mother, father, creator, and center of all that is loving and good is with you and is with your guides, both those who speak to you and those who support. The presence of God in human life is truly a network of many souls.

You ask for guidance because you feel that guidance is necessary and appropriate. When you ask for such presence, you are really asking to be open to the presence that is already there. You pray for understanding and a vision of others that brings with it an awareness of that sacredness into everything, but as you identify that sacredness, you will also recognize how that sacredness is different, how that sacredness in others is actually expressed.

The loving presence of God, the sacredness that is in others, is to be experienced in many different ways. The sacredness is not observed only as what is seen to be good in another, however that good may be described. The sacredness takes many forms. Sometimes that sacredness is dedication to another or to a cause that promotes the value of others. Sometimes that sacredness is sensed through a receptivity to others.

You have encountered particular people who you characterize as being good listeners, for in that listening is a granting of acceptance of another. So, for that person being a good listener is sacred. For others, being sacred means sacrificing all one has in the pursuit of the betterment of others, a kind of self-sacrificing of energy and presence. That is sacred. For others, the demonstration of being sacred is most readily seen as compassion, for compassion is only possible when one offers significance and meaning and purpose to another. That sacredness can be seen in countless ways.

If you are looking at someone with an expectation that another must show goodness toward others to be sacred, that implies the goodness is something which can be seen, but there are many forms of God’s presence, that sacredness, that are invisible and yet real. Concern for others even when you have not met them is not always observed, and yet it is an important presence for another that is sacred that misses a sense of “what is goodness? What evidence do I see in the goodness of another?"

It is because of examples like this that recognizing the presence of God in another is not on the basis of what is concretely observed, so what is required of you as you reach out to be more affirming of another?

First of all, this affirmation of value, of worth, of God’s presence has to be pursued only on the basis of faith that it indeed exists in another. You observe the sacredness of another through your understanding, your beliefs, not necessarily what you see in concrete ways. There is much that you do in your life directed toward others in supportive, loving ways that many around you have no awareness of. And so it is that those who seek evidence in their encounters with others are in a way looking for proof when such proof is really meaningless.

All human beings deserve to be embraced. All human beings deserve to be loved. All human beings deserve to be acknowledged that they are sacred, even when such sacredness is invisible. You are acting, then, in faith of the reality of what is godly and godlike in another. Living a life that has purpose and meaning is, in fact, living a life with the faith or belief in the sacredness of all that exists.

You are too often enmeshed in a process of judgment where you move toward a denial of the presence of God in another because you are unaware. You see, moving in faith is not implying that the good life is one who has faith in God. Of course, that is important, but the other part of that pathway is living in faith of God’s presence in another and therefore, embracing another lovingly when there appears to be nothing to love.

Living in faith means having faith in another and not just faith in God. Faith, therefore, is more than a belief, a maxim to be followed. It is, indeed, a way of life. It is a cornerstone to all that you do. It is a cornerstone to all of your encounters with life around you. We are in a sense asking you to live in faith rather than living by faith, for when you live by faith, you are living according to a recognized principle of what that faith might mean. Living in faith means that you are experiencing all with faith at the core. All that you do is accompanied by faith whether that be a profession, an occupation, or some kind of interaction with others. It is everything. Living in faith means faith belongs at the center of all that you experience. It impacts relationships. It impacts health. It impacts all matters of balance in life. It impacts your connection with all life around you. It impacts your connection with the physical universe. It involves the connection of you to the universe of spirit.

Faith, then accompanies every step. It isn’t just a principle to be followed such as “you live by the laws; you live by the faith.” We are saying, in effect, you do not live by the faith. You live as the faith. You are the faith, and when you live your life as the faith, as one sensitive to this unity of all with God, you are living a life that is a true fulfillment of what is needed for the growth of spirit, your spirit, the spirit of others. Acknowledging God’s presence through faith, even when it is not seen, reveals God to you.

You are asked to be faithful, that is, being full of faith. Being full of faith is inherently different than trying to follow an external principle. You become ultimately what it is you seek. If you seek nonjudgmental love, when you live as faith, you are living fully as being nonjudgmental. You are then truly faith full.

That term of being faithful to something too often implies you are following rather than being. Of course, it is good to be faithful to your understanding of God, but the central component of life is being full of faith. You are filled completely with faith, and you are therefore being what it is you seek. The difference between following a principle and becoming what it is you wish to follow is an effort to bring reality of God’s presence into the existence of all that is.

We ask you to strive to become, not strive to follow. Be what it is you seek. We have said in the past if you seek peace, be peaceful. If you seek compassion, be the compassion you seek. If you seek loving relationships, be that loving relationship. All that you seek is present within you, and that presence provides you with the potential of becoming, of being. You are asked to live in faith. You are asked to be faith full.

Human life, of course, has its challenges. It has its moments of great pain and sense of loss. Human life has within it the negative energies that heighten your awareness and even create fear, but in the midst of all of that, the spirit within is what provides you with all that is necessary to be full of faith.

Being faithful does not justify turning your awareness and understanding away from what creates pain, anxiety, and fear, but it allows you to interact with negative energies, committed to what is seen, felt, and understood in faith. If you are encountering moments of great pain, as an example, being filled with faith does not make the pain disappear, but it prevents you from being consumed by that reality, for you are filled with a faith that affirms God’s presence at all times. It affirms you are not left alone. It affirms that what is truly important exists within you and within all that you experience.

The frustrations and concerns that you have of matters around the world are very real, and the issues that concern you are indeed present, but being filled with faith, being full of faith allows you to perceive God’s presence, God’s loving centrality to all that is happening. It is not God that creates the pain, but it is with God that such pain can ultimately be given meaning and a conviction that no matter what, God is because you are, and that you are because God is.

Having faith and becoming faith belong on the pathway of all people. Some choose not to pick up that presence and embrace it and make it their own. Others find that it strengthens for the journey.

You are asked to be full of faith, to strive to become the faith you seek, to allow what is already a part of who you are to embrace and enlighten and refresh. It is the search for this that provides the blessings you seek. No human being will be fully consumed by faith anymore than a human being can be only love.

The major religions of the world often personify the fulfillment of love in a single individual, but no individual in human form is filled only with the faith that comes with love. It is important to acknowledge the many who exist and have existed who personify the sacred search.

Embrace that search yourself. Find inspiration from others who share the same quest. Seek evidence in your own life when, even for a moment, you are truly filled by faith and love.

Amen.