February 9, 2006

• The nature of the universe

• All That Is embodies God

• The system of guidance

Your God, who embraces your lives, does so with great love, with great caring, with boundless compassion, with a deep understanding of who each of you is, and an understanding of what is most needed for your continued growth and for the expansion of love within your human context. It is not our objective in any way to belittle God’s care for each of you, but we would like you to understand more about God’s loving care, yes, even God’s loving service, to all that is created.

God is of course concerned about your growth, and that is why you are given life. But God is also concerned about the steady march of all that is created toward a condition that is ultimately identifiable solely as love. We mentioned to you the progression of all that is created toward love, and we would like to speak more about this development, for all human beings are in no way separated from this development, but are rather an integral part.

It is not new knowledge for you to recognize that the elements that make up your physical selves belong to all that is created. You are aware of the importance of minerals in your body. You are aware of the existence of those minerals in other forms —plant forms, inanimate forms. The tree and the rock are comprised of minerals just as you. The relationship of those minerals, one to another, is not fundamentally different from the relationship of the minerals, one to another, found in your own human form. You also know the various bodies from space that encounter your planet contain minerals, some identical, some similar to the minerals found on earth, and that they become a part of the food that you consume. Those asteroids, those small entities that cross unimaginable distances far beyond what science currently can identify, are really the same as what is found on earth.

All of the heavenly bodies, including the earth, share the same genesis. They share the same beginnings. Those beginnings do not coincide in time, as you measure it, but they coincide in substance. These minerals that were formed from the coalescing of gases were formed from an energy far different in appearance and character, but all emanate from the same Source.

The universe as identified by human beings is vastly larger than was imagined by scientists living within your own lifespan. There is a continuity to the growth of your understanding that relates directly to the apparent growth of the universe. When all the research is considered, you are only contemplating the known universe, that part of the universe whose footprints can be recognized by means that have been developed by other human beings. But there is universe that cannot be measured, that cannot be detected, that exists in forms of energy beyond any human understanding, and those forms of energy are as real as your own experiences and observations. The universe as human beings perceive it is but a mere fragment of what God has created. Your understanding of its dimensions may continue to deepen, but it will not provide a full understanding of all that belongs to the totality of God.

None of what exists, exists alone. None of what exists is merely accidental. None of what exists is independent of God. God’s vision, God’s awareness of the totality of creation is all-knowing. It was God’s intention, if you wish to humanize it, to create all that is. There certainly is no beginning, and as you know, there is no end, but the forms of energy that are the result of God’s wisdom, God’s guiding hand, continue to evolve, to permutate, to take on new identities.

There are countless human beings who cannot accept our reality, who cannot accept that there is a loving life-form beyond what is perceived through the human senses, but that lack of perception has virtually no impact on our reality. It is merely an issue of that limited perception. We exist. We exist beyond what is normally seen, what is normally felt, what is normally heard. The fact that we lie outside the senses does not change that reality.

You have been given much insight, and you will continue to be given insight about the nature of the spirit, its impact on human life and the impact of human life in turn on the spirit. But your vision, nevertheless, is clouded, is limited. It can never be complete as human beings, and so it is with your vision of other forms of life, other forms of energy that God created which are equally real, are equally important. Those life-forms, those energy forms contain a consciousness whose traits you share in part. These other forms of life are in no way greater or lesser than your own. A tree is no more important than a blade of grass. Both are necessary for life. Your life-form, therefore, is merely a part of that totality.

Is it only human beings that are provided with guides? The answer is “no.” There are guides who care for, nurture, communicate with other life-forms beyond your own awareness. The system of guidance is an integral part of God’s plan of transformation from a variety of energy forms to pure love. That is what we do. We guide you in your quest, in your struggle, in your hopes for a God-living style, a God-lifestyle, a God-loving style, a God-centered existence, a God-acknowledging existence, a God-nourished growth. But it is important that you accept that such guidance is also directed elsewhere. There are many guides at many levels who serve to support all that has been created.

The rock does not have a guide per se that communicates with the rock, for the rock does not have a human-like consciousness. But the rock does have a guide that serves to organize its energy and to slowly transform that energy. The transformation is as real and as necessary as your own. You are not special because you have guides and nothing else does. There is in fact a connection, a spiritual connection, that bonds all that is to God. Because everything that exists is connected in some fashion to God, there is an undeniable kinship between you and all life that you know and all life about which you cannot even dream. As a result, this kinship, this connection, this common bond with the Creator means that you must conduct your lives in a way that responds to everything as an embodiment of God. The smallest plant, the smallest animal, the smallest grain of sand, the smallest particle that makes up an entity are all an embodiment of some portion that you call God.

When you give of yourselves through respect, through love, in a way that acknowledges the God in everything imaginable, then you are acknowledging the very reality and essence that is God. You are acknowledging the force that gave you life. You are acknowledging the energy that is identified by your senses as human. You are acknowledging the energy that created the earth, the energy that has created all forms of reality. You are acknowledging the entity that provides for transformation, for change, for growth, expansion. You are, in effect, affirming all that is good, all that is love.

You are in no way insignificant within the context of total creation. You are extremely important. You are central to it, but so are all other entities, all other forms of energy, crucial. Your lives cannot continue without a heartbeat. That heartbeat is your connection to God.

The smallest stone would cease to exist were it not for electrical and magnetic energy forms. The stone would no longer be a stone. If you change the form of energy that comprises the stone, you change the stone into something new. You know this when you see minerals melted, when you see what happens to organic material that is transformed into a diamond. It is the transformation whose evidence you see. But without the energy, without minute particles, gases, such forms as you are aware of can no longer exist. It is God that organizes, it is God that creates, it is God that transforms, it is God that forms an evolution of one energy into another. Life is one form of that energy; love is another. Your lives transform your human condition to pure love. Your relationships to others must be guided by that understanding.

Human life is to learn. It is for the soul to evolve, but in that evolution of the soul, the transformation is finally realized, and your soul becomes totally at one with the God Center that is the basis of all that is. You all share that spark of divinity, but so do all in that creation. The divinity is everywhere. The divinity is equal. The divinity is unifying. The divinity provides relevance and meaning.

We ask you to increase your mindfulness of your divinity, but also to allow yourselves to expand your concept of what God’s total creation can encompass. In so doing, you share the feeling of unity. The differences of which you are aware become virtually meaningless, and all that you are left with is love.

Rest in that love, be refreshed in that love, be renewed in that love, and be strengthened in that love.

Amen.