You are part of God’s stream of light energy.

May 28, 2024

It is always with God that you live. It is always with God that all exists, both in human energy and in other equally vital forms of existence. You pray for vision. You pray for that lit candle to be a presence in your life and in the lives of others. So often we speak of your openness to God, but we would like to focus your understanding at this time on the passing of light to others. 

It is, of course, understandable that you cannot be present to give light to another at all times. For everything that exists, everything, there are moments when you are impacted by other energy forces, and there are moments when you become that force, that evidence of God’s presence in your life. 

As was noted, part of our communication with you most recently was as it relates to intention. Expressed briefly, your loving impact on others requires intention. This intention is not just that you wish to serve others but that you wish to be open to the loving presence that is yours to receive. Both the receiving and the giving require an open heart. It is this that we refer to when we speak of intention. You cannot intend to help others without recharging your own energy resources, and that recharging does require intention. 

In order to serve others, first you must be served by others. It is for each of you to become more vulnerable, more willing to ask for help, more willing to be receptive to the help that is offered, more willing even to recognize that there is help, there is strength, there is the light of that candle next to you whose energy is available to be given to you. That intention, that commitment to being open is essential. Without your ability to open your spiritual heart vision, you are never fully filled with the light. First comes the intention to be open. It is through God’s presence that you learn of and feel from others that you are filled with an ability to pass on that presence and to be a giver of light. 

What does it mean to give that light? How is it given? What happens when one who is offered such light turns away and is unreceptive to that gift of love? 

First, how is it given? It is more poignantly offered, the giving of God’s presence, through the simple act of listening, listening not to what is being said but to what is being meant. Many are reluctant to share their needs, but those needs are present, and if you listen, truly listen, you will be more open to the needs for the light that is yours to give. It all begins with listening. 

What follows that listening depends, of course, on your capacity to respond in one way or another. If your response to another is guided by a loving concern for what is best, then that response, whatever it may be, will be the correct response. But if you overlay your own expectations of need, you can miss what is truly the need.

Your neighbor may complain about something that is felt very deeply, and there may be anger that belongs to that feeling but remember that anger grows from fear. So when you hear an angry outburst when you are trying to be loving, you may first respond by thinking such love as you can offer is being outright rejected, but what is meant is not anger. What is meant is based on fear, and your ability to serve as a candle that is lit in support of another can only be fully given to another when you listen to what is meant and not to what is said. 

This is why we say the first step and the most crucial step in your commitment to serve others is to listen, to be present. Being present in itself may seem to be supportive, but that is just the surface. The deeper presence, the deeper expression of God’s presence, is in the listening, is in the knowing of what is being meant. 

Words are so often misconstrued. Human beings place far too much emphasis on the words that are chosen and precious little effort on what is truly being expressed far beyond the words themselves. For some who cry out in need, the basic need is really one of wanting to feel heard because in feeling heard, one feels valued. One’s life takes meaning when one feels they are being truly heard, for someone else cares enough to listen. 

You serve one another through your listening. You respond to one another through your listening. You reflect God’s presence in your own lives through your listening, but your response to another is not limited to the intention of listening. Rather, your response is given meaning because of what your true listening moves you to do, to be, to say. Your response then is offered in the true sense of being loving toward another. There is no pretending. There is no wish to appear to be attentive. Rather, it is a commitment to that attention and intention. 

You have experienced moments when you have reached out to another and felt there was either no response or it was a response you interpreted as rejection or negative energy. Just as words can be misunderstood, actions are equally clouded from a clear vision. You’re always asked to be nonjudgmental, and yet when you are committed to reaching out, when you are committed to a cause, when you are committed in your beliefs, and the response of another is mutual or hostile, it is easy to judge and be critical. That criticism may be directed toward another. It may be directed toward self with a feeling of inadequacy. “I tried all I could, and I failed.” Such responses are familiar to you, but we feel that it is important for you to carry the message of being nonjudgmental into the dynamics of your intentions to give light to another and the response of another to your intentions.

 You can neither judge yourself nor another. There is nothing that you will ever do toward others when motivated through love that will be entirely lost upon another. If you look for ways of giving light, believe that the act of giving is an act of love directed outward to another. No act of love is empty of God’s loving presence. What you do in response to the needs of another always reaches the soul. There is nothing that is lost. There is nothing that is wasted. 

What you offer is the response, your response to being present and listening with an open heart. Difficult as it is for humans to accept, it is nevertheless essential that you have faith in your capacity to be God’s light and eliminate judgment of self or judgment of others in the process of giving. You give because you are committed to that. Your commitment is given energy through your own vulnerability. In simplest terms we could say your strength becomes the result, the outcome, of witness. The strength to give emanates from what is received when you are open, when you are vulnerable, when you are willing to express even beyond words what is deeply needed for the spirit. 

Of course, there are needs of society. There are needs of the mind. There are needs of the spirit, for there are times when you feel you are separated in some way from that loving presence of the Spirit Center. Even when you know you are not living in the shadows, it may feel that is the reality. When you see yourself in the shadows, be open with your heart vision. Know that there are others who care to be present and to listen. There is no fault in being vulnerable to the help of others, and there is no reason for righteousness of self when you know you are giving to another that spirit light that is within. 

The intention to give in spirit starts with the intention to what is offered by others. Be strengthened through the giving heart of others, and then commit yourself to use that strength with an open heart so that you may listen to the true needs of another knowing that in your loving listening, whatever response is forthcoming is the best response, and it is unimportant whether you sense the benefit of your open heart toward another or not. The offering of spirit is the offering of spirit, and in such offering, there are no grounds for judgment either of the giver or the receiver. 

You are given human life in part so that you may be strengthened in your own loving connections to others. Allow that flow. Allow that passing of light to be offered to you, and allow yourself the blessing of recognizing how you can most beneficially offer God’s light to others. The chain of light is truly unbroken. There is no point where the light is snuffed out. It is the natural condition of the energy of light to expand. God’s light has its own intrinsic energy, its own loving presence, and that presence can never be stopped. It is a river, a stream of that energy, and you are a part of that stream. 

There will be times in the future, as there have been in the past, where you are carried along the river by its own energy, and you come up against a stone and are temporarily unable to flow beyond that stone. Yet while you are being held by the stone, you are embraced and encircled by that oncoming energy. The time will always come when you are freed from that stone, and you continue on your journey of the soul, the journey of spirit, the journey of sharing that energy with others whose paths are joined with yours.

Be comforted by that flow of God’s love. Allow it to enfold and embrace you and allow that loving presence to carry you toward others that you may give, and you may be the spreading light of God’s constant presence. 

Amen.