November 5, 2019

• Suffering, vulnerability, and faith

• Various forms of fulfillment

• No chance encounters of people or events

• Redemption

• No separation between you, your guides, and God

The Spirit Center that you refer to as God or Spirit or Loving Energy is with each of you as you encounter the many difficult challenges that are always part of human life. Being alive is never easy. Being sensitive to the suffering of others never comes with ease and comfort. The potential that is held in human life is the most powerful when you are in a place of discomfort, when you experience fear, when you observe close up the true impact of suffering and grief. Part of the reason your souls are given a connection with human life is to encounter all of these vicissitudes. If life were always a matter of comfort and ease, there would be little to reach out for and grasp as a kind of support.

One of the most difficult lessons for any human being to learn is the recognition and acknowledgement of one’s vulnerability. You do not have all the answers. You do not see clearly what life contains. You do not have full understanding of your own existence, let alone a full understanding of the life of any other.

Human life requires a great measure of faith. The faith we speak of is not a firm belief that something will happen in specific terms. Faith, rather, is a conviction that the presence of a loving spirit that is contained within each of you can dominate and be victorious in the end. It is essentially a belief in light, not a reliance on shadow. It is a confidence that somehow in some form the Spirit Center can be fully realized.

When you pray for peace, you often pray for specifics—peace between nations, peace in relationships between people, peace in relationships between groups of people or ideologies—but that is only part of what peace really is. For peace to be truly experienced, one needs to exercise faith, faith that the Spirit Center can be fulfilled and will be fulfilled. That is not to say that peace means your prayers will be answered according to the terms you provide, for sometimes such peace is really offered or conceived of through self-interest. When you pray for peace, pray that the power, the strength, the love of the Spirit Center will dominate in its presence.

Your relationship with others comes down to issues of communication. This is not communication in words but communication in being, just being. We have spoken of the energy of the silence of listening. That is an important part of communication. When you feel empathy towards another, when you wish to reach out in your thoughts, actions, and prayers, that is a communication that occurs between your spirit and the soul or souls for whom you pray. You love through your ability to communicate.

Silent prayer is a form of communication. That silent prayer can be an expression of love. For such a prayer to be loving, it does not dictate outcome. Rather it offers openness as an option. Whether you pray for peace or pray on behalf of another, you are praying for openness. Without openness there is no communication, and without communication, the experience of human life is truncated. It does exist, but to bring all of the lines together to a single point, it must find some kind of fulfillment.

Your communication as it is offered to another is a kind of prayer for fulfillment. If you pray for your own peace, you are praying for fulfillment of a sense of peace. If you pray for healing, you are praying for a sense of fulfillment that healing has indeed occurred. When you pray for understanding, it is the fulfillment of that condition of listening and being. All that you pray for is an issue of fulfillment.

Your relationships to others is fulfilling the potential of openness, the potential for the expression of a loving spiritual embrace of another. Certainly, the majority of your contacts with others are not characterized by your desire to fulfill an expression of love. You encounter others, and that encounter may be positive or filled with negative thoughts. When you encounter that negative energy, step back and ask yourself how the communication that is so essential between you can be fulfilled in such a way that the Spirit Center is evident to you. You cannot will that another senses that presence, but you can be open to your own sensitivity in that communication.

Your lives interact with others in ways that require there be some spiritual exchange. As you have observed, there are no encounters with others that are accidental. Somehow and for some purpose the paths are conjoined. The paths share a light. It does not necessarily imply that both individuals will sense the sacredness of the other, but that sacredness is nevertheless there. There are no chance meetings between people. There are no chance events, even when those events bring suffering and loss. It is not by accident that encounters occurs.

It is not God’s wish that human beings suffer. It is not God’s wish that you can be filled with dread, grief, pain, for God does not create those characteristics in life. But God does provide for an exchange of energy between human beings that ultimately brings all into a closer relationship with that loving Spirit Center.

When many suffer through accidents, through issues of health physically or emotionally, there is an energy that is released. That energy contains within it the ability to heal. There is the power to bring a recognition of the sacredness of all. There is the opportunity to find forgiveness, forgiveness directed outward, forgiveness directed toward the self. What is guilt but a lack of forgiveness? When there are encounters that create great pain and great loss, it is through the experience of that pain and loss that one can find true redemption of self. The redemption lifts one out of grief. The redemption forgives. The redemption affirms the sacredness of all including self. For all experiences between human beings, for all forms of communication, whether that communication is physical, verbal, or emotional, redemption and affirmation are always, always present.

No human being experiences life through perfection, for all life contains loss, anger, bitterness, guilt, grief, joy, gratitude, love. All of this belongs to being human. It is how you communicate with these experiences that ultimately provides the redemption of which we speak. Your soul is in the process of becoming more fully love. It is a process. It isn’t automatic. It isn’t quick, but it is certain. Without the issue of time, there is no importance to whether that certainty occurs soon or not.

You become more than you are as human beings through the human experience. You learn what love means when you experience all that seems to lack love. You learn the true meaning of healing when you experience the reality of imbalance. You learn the real meaning of peace only when you’ve experienced its lack. This balance between what you seek in contrast to what you experience requires this communication, this link which brings both your sense of where you are and where you wish to be into view. That relationship between what you seek and where you see yourself is essential. As you traverse your pathway, the communication, this link between where you are and where you wish to be, is extraordinarily important, for in seeking ways of fulfilling what you pursue, you connect and communicate with your own spirit reality, and in that communication, in your seeking, you’re lifted up. Your life is transformed. There is a lifting of spirit. There is the granting of peace. There is the embrace of true love.

Each day in your life is essential and vital. Each day holds within it your own opportunities to transcend what you see as difficulties into a clearer vision of that Spirit Center that embraces all.

You are loved for the simple reason that you are love. You are offered peace because you are peace. You become in full measure all it is you seek. The communication, the link, between what you seek and who you are is strengthened, and in that strengthening there becomes no difference. We can say that in the presence of Spirit, you are already that which you seek. If you seek clarity, you are clarity. If you seek peace, you are peace. If you seek to be loving, you are loving. If you seek a view of God, you are God. There is no separation. There is no true separation between you and your guides, for in a sense, you are your guides because you are part of the single reality of Spirit, and it is from that single reality that you are served and guided by Spirit.

In your seeking, be open to acknowledging this truth: you are what you seek.

You seek balance; the balance is within you.

You seek forgiveness; the power to forgive is within you.

You seek to be compassionate; the strength of compassion is within you.

You seek to reflect God, and you are a reflection of God.

The communication, therefore, that we speak of between where you are and where you wish to be is in its fullness a clear view of your own loving essence. Be comforted by the understanding that you are fully all that you seek. The seeking is merely being open to what is there, to who you are, and to all that you encounter.

Be blessed as you find yourself. Be blessed as you see yourself. Be blessed as you see others, for you are the other.

Rest in God’s peace. Rest in the peace that is yours.

Amen.