Arc of humanity bends toward love.
March 6, 2025
The light that you seek dwells within you. It is the light of God, the light of the Creator. It is the light that is focused so lovingly by your guides. You seek solutions.
You seek resolutions. All that you seek has within them a sense of timeliness, not timelessness. What you seek, what you pray for, what you envision is encapsulated with expectations of time. This context of time is its own worst enemy, for you’re concerned that such resolutions as you pray for should find their completion within a timeframe of weeks, months, years, even your own lifetime.
You have concerns about domestic issues, but you are also filled with concerns about other cultures, other ways of living being threatened, being devalued, being destroyed, and you ask yourself how long must this continue? Why does it have to go on?
Such questions are embedded with an overlay of time. If you didn’t care so much about these pressing issues, you could easily dispense with the urgency, but you see all around you the devastating effects of such energy, effects that terminate human life, that threaten ways of living that are based on love and understanding. You are only too aware of the negative impacts of this energy, so it is natural to ask in so many words, “When will this be over, and how can I assist in that effort?”
When you are consumed by concerns within the context of time, you experience a fear that is not totally unlike those who feel there is much to be gained as a result of the current turmoil. That perspective is also given strength through the combination of fear and time. There is a common rally chant, “when do we want it,” and the response, “now.” Of course, that expresses the frustration that now never ceases to arrive. It may not arrive in the lives of many, but being restricted by time does not mean that resolutions beyond those restrictions are either impossible or meaningless.
The arc of humanity bends always toward love. You have heard that expression of it bending toward justice, but justice can be a stopgap measure. It may respond to perceived needs, but it is not as lasting as bending toward love, for out of love, justice is ultimately given true meaning. Such concepts of justice imply retribution, punishment, and accountability, but love does not contain such characteristics. There is no retribution, no accountability. There’s no getting back or evening the score.
Therefore, the truer statement is that the arc of humanity bends toward love. It is not toward love in the next month or the next year. It is not bent toward love in your lifetime. It may be one of each of these, but it is not a condition. It is not the nature of God to say you must become loving while you are engaged in human life. It is enough to say you must be engaged in becoming loving.
When we talk about heart vision, there is no part of that conversation that contains within it any implication of time. Time is not absolute. It exists in theory, but it also changes. It is not something you can accurately measure and know that it holds for an eternity, and yet the concept of time as it relates to your human life serves a purpose, but it is not an absolute principle or concept. Time is never perceived the same either between individuals or for any individual engaged in other activities. Time carries many different characteristics. Sometimes time appears to move quickly, and other times it seems painfully lethargic.
We emphasize this presence of time in your own frustrations, in your own anxieties, because a central theme to heart vision and to applying a principle of nonjudgmental living is in the abandonment of time expectations. We do not mean to imply that you should feel no urgency, no necessity for action, thinking that it will ultimately work itself out and then become engaged in other activities that interest you independent of those concerns. On the contrary, if you feel an urgency to respond in a meaningful way, first of all, view the crises as a condition or conditions existing before you were aware of them and conditions which will continue to exist countless years ahead.
Human beings belong to the process of spiritual growth. There is no starting point. There are no milestones. There’s no stopwatch. You grow as you grow. Of course and rightly so, you are appalled at the consequential and seemingly unnecessary human suffering that has been experienced because of the negative energies of others. Your system of values and lives is increasingly based on an affirmation of one another. That affirmation is part of the human response outside the restrictions of time. You don’t want suffering to continue. Your loving heart reaches out to those who are in great need. Those are loving energies that come forth from your spirit.
When we speak of reducing or even eliminating the requirement for time, we still underscore the importance of standing and speaking and living according to your own orientation toward your relationship to God. You hear often proposed “speak truth to power.” That is not a literal instruction, for what is truth other than your understanding of that truth? Truth gains in validity as your understanding gains, but the growth of your understanding evolves directly and indirectly and is given life directly and indirectly.
What can you do when you are confronted by forces that you in your awareness of God’s presence find offensive? You must act as a reflection of your beliefs. What are those actions? They depend upon each individual, each entity. For some, it is most important to pray to God to be open to find a pathway. For others, it is a commitment to speaking out, to talking with others, and especially to listening.
What can you do? You listen. You listen through the heart to those you disagree with. You listen to the voice of God within. You listen to your own needs. You listen to the implication of time in your expectations. You pray to act. You pray to know what to do.
What is appropriate for one is not so for another. Whatever your own individual route or pathway is, how you respond has everything to do with your understanding. It has everything to do with a commitment to what you perceive the truth is, knowing that your perception may change considerably. You respond in a way that clearly demonstrates to others, even without description, your understanding of a God of forgiveness, a God of total acceptance, but nevertheless a God whose light is present, not just because it happens to be present but because it is directed to show the way, to show the pathway, to show a direction that leads to that arc of love and not retribution, punishment, getting even.
There are no simple solutions, but there are ways of being engaged in the process. Listen first to God’s presence. Listen to others with whom you disagree. Listen to the voice within. Listen to know yourself best in order to determine how you become part of the resolution.
Human life is difficult. It is filled with what you see to be injustices. It is filled with tragedy. It is filled with regrets, but it can also be filled with a sense of purpose, a purpose grounded in a reflection of nonjudgmental love in whatever way is appropriate. Committing yourself to listening to God, to listening to others, to listening to yourself is not a negation or a rejection of the reality of the injustices and sufferings of human beings, but it is rather using deepened skills of listening to replace the domination of time.
The goal of your life is to be more loving, however that is expressed. Void of the restrictions of “we want it now,” it is supremely difficult in light of what you observe to remove time from the equation. Nevertheless, focusing on a response through listening as a means of becoming more loving is a response that is in keeping with God’s presence, God’s light, God’s strength. As new ways of responding in love become clearer, that clarity will be undeniably strength-giving. You don’t listen because it makes you stronger; you become stronger because you listen.
It is not for your benefit that you learn these lessons. It is for the benefit of others through you, and as others benefit, you will be strengthened. The strength is a result of your giving. It is never the purpose of your giving. Be in God’s time, not a time measured in seconds, minutes, years, centuries, but rather a time delineated only through growth.
You are in that stream of God’s presence, a stream which has its own energy and direction, not limited by time. Work to become what it truly means to be loving and then feel affirmed and strengthened as a consequence of that light.
Amen.