Things are changing around us everywhere we look. There are so many different things
happening around us it can literally make our head spin. We tend to worry about where our world is heading since the happenings
in the middle east and even in our own backyard. We worry about our financial safety, our jobs, our families, our friends
the list goes on and on.
At times we have so much going on in our lives we think about everyone’s needs
but our own. How often have you sat down and said what do I need? In this moment at this second what do you need? I’m
not necessarily speaking of material things or things our bodies need. Our most basic needs are taken care of without giving
much thought to it. When we are hungry we eat, when we are tired we rest. What
about our needs as spiritual beings? What about our journey here, and how can we improve the quality of our life? How can
we make ourselves truly happy?
Challenges will always be present in our lives. Once we accept that, we can start
to work in better unison with our soul. How often have you told yourself that you will be happy when? I am sure every one
of you have fallen into this trap or will fall into it someday. It’s the trap that says I will be happy when I have
a significant other in my life, or I will be happy when I get that new job, or I will be happy when I have a baby. It’s
easy to fall into this trap and really believe that your happiness comes from outside sources.
In order to be happy we need to have a greater knowledge of ourselves, our strengths,
and what makes us the unique and special spark of the divine we all are. It’s time to see you and everything around
you the way God sees it.
Spiritual beings need love; it can be expressed and felt in many different ways.
When you think of love you may think of your children your spouse your family and even your friends. These are all wonderful
ways to share and express love, but if you thought of only these you are missing a very important person, YOURSELF. True love
begins inside of you, where god resides and it is where you should look first.
What do you love about yourself? This question sadly does not cross our minds often
enough, right here and right now I want you to take moment and think of one thing that makes you feel great about yourself?
I will give you my answer to this question. I love the compassion and nurturing that I give to others, not only does it benefit
others, but I feel that great love that is me every time I give that part of myself.
Have you thought of what you love about yourself? It may not be quite as easy for
you to answer that right this minute, but, I would like you to think about this as you go about your day to day life until
you think of at least one thing if not many.
Its easy to look at ourselves and see our humanly flaws, but much harder to see the
beauty inside of our souls. If you stripped away everything to do with this life such as worry, negativity, or even what you
perceive to be your flaws, what would be left? This would be the essence of who
you really are. Gods wonderful perfect creation a soul who is both timeless and loving to its core.
We all have a magical tool we can use which I call, soul glasses. I would like to
show you how to use them. Please close your eyes and allow me to introduce you to gods most treasured creation.
Picture in your mind yourself. Take a deep breath and hold it, as you exhale imagine
all your fears, worries, guilt and doubts traveling on this breath to be absorbed by gods white light. Watch as this leaves
your essence. Feel the weight lifting from you as you rid yourself of these unnecessary burdens.
Now take another deep breathe and hold it this time as you release, imagine all the
imperfections you feel you have, all perceived flaws, travel on this breath out of you and into gods white light. Before you
stands your beautiful and timeless soul. A soul that has no fears, for fear does not exist in gods perfect creation, a soul
who has no worries, no needs, and has only pure love for all of gods beautiful creations.
It does not matter to this soul the mistakes of the past, the suffering and the loneliness
do not matter because at this level, the soul understands it was all for the advancement and evolution, for the greater good
of you. Can you see and feel the beauty that is you? Can you feel the love radiating from your very being? Now you see the
being god created in all of its beauty and splendor. Now you see you how god sees you.
You may open your eyes now.
Taking time to do this strengthens self-love, and helps to put things into perspective.
You will find your strengths when looking through these soul glasses and when you look at others through them, you will see
everything in a brand new light. When you are faced with difficult situations, slip these glasses on and see how it will dramatically
improve your interactions with others as well. Truly you will be looking upon your brothers and sisters the way that god does
and only then will you understand gods infinite patience, understanding, and all encompassing love.
Spiritual beings also need understanding. Not only do we need to give understanding
to others, but also to ourselves. We are souls having a human experience. We all make mistakes, everyone of us, in fact, they
are anticipated, it’s apart of this life and why we are here.
Whenever we feel we have made a mistake or done something wrong, understand it was
put in our life for a reason and see a flagpole come up to remind you that there is something to learn in this. You can gain
a much greater knowledge in making your self conscious of the lesson before you. No longer will you spend time feeling bad
about yourself, because you will see the opportunity to learn and grow and focus on this.
We all have our good day and bad days, let’s give ourselves understanding and
acknowledge that we can make mistakes and its ok. It will never change who you really are, it will enhance your soul for the
better.
Naturally forgiveness comes next in this. This is a hard thing to do sometimes to
forgive. You always have free will so we make the decision to forgive or not. When someone has wronged us in someway, sometimes
it’s hard to forgive, and still other times it feels impossible. In a situation like this, try looking at the situation
with your soul glasses on. If still you find it hard to forgive then you should give it to god and send them on their way
with positive thoughts.
Any thing less than positive thoughts
for them, only hinders yourself and is not inline with what your true nature is. It will not help you in anyway to hold these
feelings inside of you.
We also need to forgive ourselves. Too often we don’t forgive ourselves, and
too often we push it out of our mind without dealing with it. Forgiveness is so important especially when it comes to our
own selves. Forgiving yourself is saying, “Yes I know I have done something wrong and I feel awful about it, but I love
you and next time we will better know how to handle a situation like this”
The next time you fall short of your own expectations, or feel you have done something
differently and start to feel all of these mixed emotions, tell yourself its ok. I am a strong light of gods and I know that
I have learned a valuable lesson. It does not change who I am, or what I stand for.
No one will ever be able to take away who you are. Stand strong and face this, and all else will fall into place.
The biggest thing we spiritual beings need is god however we as an individual perceive
him. Whether you call this unseen force Shiva, or Vishnu or god they are all the same being. All views of our creator should
be honored, for all paths lead directly back to him. When we look around we can see god in everything
He is in every little aspect of creation, from the pebbles in the stream to the majestic
mountains; he is even inside of every person you encounter throughout your days. He lovingly created every creature, every
tree, and every sunset. When we feel the need to be close to god we can see him in all of his creations including his greatest
creation, you.
Please
understand that god is not found exclusively in a church, or on a throne in heaven, he is inside of us we are one with him.
There’s not a minute that passes that god is not with us. We all feel alone at one point or another in this life, but
truly we never are, for god is you and you are god forever entwined in our very being.
There
is nothing you could ever do to change how he feels about you, and I believe god would rejoice if we could all look at ourselves
the way he sees us. When god looks at us he sees only beauty, he sees this because everything else is not apart of who we
truly are. The challenges we face are only apart of our earthly existence.
Negativity, fear, sadness, does not exist in gods realm, therefore when we pass we
leave all of the unpleasantness here. It is in god’s realm, our home, that we experience the true essence of everyone
with clarity. The challenge is to see it in this realm as well in every person we pass each day.
Spiritual beings also need a sense of peace inside. This peace works in conjunction
with love, forgiveness, understanding, and god. When we feel a sense of peace within ourselves, nothing can shake us. When
life challenges arise, as they always do, this peace gives us strength, and the certainty that we will make it through this.
It helps us to see things differently.
When you are upset about something, do you react first with emotion, or do you think
about it before you react? Now think of that peace inside do you think it would make you react differently? It most deffinantly
would, because you would feel the emotion, but it wouldn’t shake you so much that you would react on that before thinking.
I have noticed that when I am at the top of my game, when I feel that inner peace it makes me stop and think about it for
a moment before I react.
How do I get this inner peace you ask? Inner peace comes from being true to your
self, and being at one with god. It may sound difficult to attain this inner peace but it truly is not. You need only treat
yourself and others with love, forgiveness, understanding, and acknowledging that god part of us and it will naturally lead
to inner peace. This inner peace will help us weather any storm, we can draw strength from the peaceful knowing inside that
all will be ok.
Taking the time to take care of your inner needs is what improves the quality of
our life, it improves our happiness, and it improves our journey we have undertaken here.
There are so many other ways in which you can be true to yourself. Think about this, what can you do in your own life
to perhaps give yourself more recognition, more love, more understanding, and more forgiveness?
Neale Donald Walsch sums up in his book Conversations with god perfectly what we have heard
today. This story is called the little soul and the son.
There once was a soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul and so, anxious
for experience.
"I am the light" it said. "I am the light"
Yet all the knowing of it and all the saying of it, could not substitute for the experience
of it. And in the realm from which this soul emerged, there was nothing but the light. Every soul was grand and every soul
was magnificent and every soul shone with the brilliance of God's awesome light. So the little soul was as a candle in the
sun. In the midst of the grandest light, of which it was part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who and What
it really is.
Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself. So great was it's
yearning that God one day said, "Do you know little one, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours?"
"Oh, what, God? What? I'll do anything!" the little soul said.
"You must separate yourself from the rest of us" God answered, "and then you must call
upon yourself the darkness"
"What is the darkness, o Holy One?" the little soul asked.
"That which you are not" God replied and the soul understood.
And so this the soul did, removing itself from the ' All ' going even unto another realm.
And in this realm the soul had the power to call into it's experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did.
Yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out, "Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken
me?"
God replied: "Even has have you, in your blackest times. Yet I have never forsaken you,
but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are; ready always ready, to call you home.
Therefore be a light unto the darkness and curse it not. And forget not who you are in
the moment of your encirclement by that which you are not. But do praise to the creation even as you seek to change it.
And know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph.
For the experience you create is a statement of Who You Are - and Who You Want to Be.
Part 2
God said to the little soul, "You may choose to be any Part of God you wish to be. You
are absolute divinity experiencing itself. What aspect of divinity do you now wish to experience as You?"
"You mean I have a choice", asked the little soul.
God answered, "Yes. You may choose to experience any aspect of divinity in, as and through
you."
"Okay," said the little soul, "then I choose forgivness. I want to experience myself as
that aspect of God called complete forgivness."
Well this created a little challenge, as you can imagine. There was no one to forgive.
All God had created was perfection and love.
"No one to forgive?" asked the little soul, somewhat incredulously.
"No one," God repeated. "Look around you. Do you see any souls less than perfect, less
wonderful than you?"
At this the little soul twirled around and was surprised to see himself surrounded by all
the souls in heaven. They had come from far and wide throughout the kingdom, because they heard that the little soul was having
an extraordinary conversation with God.
"I see none less perfect than I!" the little soul exclaimed. "Who, then, shall I have to
forgive?"
Just then another soul stepped forward from the crowd.
"You may forgive me" said this friendly soul
"For what?" the little soul asked.
" I will come into your next physical lifetime and do something for you to forgive," replied
the friendly soul.
"But what? What could you, a being of such perfect light do to make me wnat to forgive
you?" the little soul wanted to know.
"Oh," smiled the friendly soul, "I'm sure we can think of something."
"But why would you want to do this?" The little soul could not figure out why a being of
such perfection would want to slow down it's vibration so much that it could do something 'bad'.
"Simple," the friendly soul explained, "I would do it because I love you. You want to experience
yourself as forgiving, don't you? Besides you've done the same for me."
"I have?" asked the little soul.
"Of course, don't you remember? We've been All Of it, you and I. We've been the Up and
the Down of it, and the Left and the Right of it. We've been the Here and the There of it, and the Now and the Then of it.
We've been the Big and the Small of it, the Male and the Female of it and the Good and the Bad of it. We've been the All of
it."
"And we've done it by agreement, so that each of us might experience ourselves as the grandest
part of God. For we have understood that...
'In the absence of that which You Are Not, that which you Are, is Not'.
'In the absence of cold you cannot be warm, in the absence of sad you cannot be happy.
Without a thing called evil, the experience you call good cannot exist'.
'If you choose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that has to show up somewhere
in your universe to make that possible.' "
The friendly soul then explained that those people are God's Special Angels and these conditions
God's Gifts.
"I ask only one thing in return," the friendly soul declared.
"Anything, Anything," the little soul cried. He was excited now to know that he could experience
every divine aspect of God. He understood now, The Plan.
"In the moment that I strike you and smite you," said the friendly soul, "in the moment
that I do the worst to you that you could ever imagine - in that self same moment...remember Who I Really Am."
"Oh, I wont forget!" promised the little soul.
"I will see you in the perfection with which I hold you now, and I will remember Who You Are, always."
Seeing it from a souls perspective, puts a lot of things
into place for us. Beauty is in every single creation of gods you need only slip on your soul glasses to see it.
As you go about the rest of your week, picture yourself as we have done here today,
the perfect creation of god, reinforce the idea that you are a brilliant spark of the divine, and see how your outlook will
start to change little by little.
When you are out in public, look around at others and see them in this way. If we
could all look at others in this fashion, a lot of things that used to bother us, wont seem to matter anymore. You see by
giving yourself understanding, love, forgiveness, and peace, it enables you to spread this around to others. This is a wonderful
way to spread peace and love across the land. It truly only takes one person to make a difference. Are you ready to be that
one person?
