May 4, 2004
God’s love greets and embraces each of you as you gather once again to learn more about what it means to be alive, to be human, to be a conscious part of the totality of all creation. You are a part of that creation—you are not the center of it. Human beings are no more important than any other element of God’s creative work.
You are important to one another and you are important to us, your guides, for human beings have an ability to contemplate the reality of God. There is no other form that has been created on earth that shares that same conscious awareness. That awareness is always accompanied by choice. You can choose to lift your thoughts to the reality of God. You can choose to remove your thoughts from that reality. The reality exists nevertheless, but each of you has within you the capacity to find the connection. Each of you has the ability to succeed in forming a bond that connects your awareness to a greater reality of your interconnectedness with all that is created…to God.
You conversed at this time about the interpretation of balance and expressed differing opinions about the impact of the circles that we have referred you to. Balance, circles are of course theoretical. They are symbols which are offered as a way of understanding your relationships to yourselves and to others. Balance is central to those relationships. Balance is essential to all that is created. Note, we say “all that is created,” not “all that was created or will be created,” for that creation exists in the now of which we have spoken.
Balance can easily be understood when you look beyond the human condition. There is balance in nature. Were there no balance, storms would persist unendingly. Were there no balance, only a few species would survive. Ultimately if there were no balance, no species would survive, for survival of individuals, survival of the environment depends on balance. There are checks and balances in government. There are checks and balances in nature. There are checks and balances in human health. Those balances are chemical and emotional, spiritual, physical, even spatial balance. It is gravitational balance that maintains the orbits of countless bodies. It is the same kind of balance that is essential to the chemical foundations of all that is created. Every molecule, every atom, every subatomic particle depends upon balance.
Each of you prays for physical and emotional balance, for such balance you are keenly aware of. When you are physically out of balance, the effects are far reaching. If you are not in balance in your relationships to others, whereby one dominates over another—one individual, one group, one culture, one nation, one religion, one set of beliefs, one philosophy—then there is conflict.
So balance is essential. It is the natural state of all that is created. We underscore this…it is the natural state. But life brings with it events that serve to upset that balance. That influence may come from within the self, it may come from others, but it is part of the life experience to deal with imbalance, to do what you can do to seek balance in whatever form may be most appropriate for you. It is seeking that balance, in a way that is personalized, that is so important for every individual.
For some, the dedication is to help others achieve emotional, physical, social balance. The achievement of justice is the achievement of one form of balance. Seeking health is seeking one form of balance. Whatever you do in the pursuit of balance, regardless of the type that is sought, is an act reflective of God. It is a gift, and in the giving of that gift you are presenting an image of the Ultimate Giver of Life. All efforts therefore to achieve balance are blessed by God, for what is balance, other than being affirming, supportive, loving, nonjudgmental, being compassionate, being a good listener? Despite the many types of balance that can be achieved, they all in their own way reflect these kinds of relationships.
You are asked to be supportive of one another, not because it is seemingly the kind thing to do, but because it affords a balance. In seeking this balance, you are strengthening that presence of the inner circle that we have spoken of, for the inner circle is a circle that is fully aware of its spiritual center because it is balanced. You organized your lives to achieve a sensitivity and a view of that inner circle, that balance. From a position of being balanced, you are better equipped to see through life to the reality of an encompassing love of God that is the outer circle. It is God that gives meaning and relevance to the awareness that all souls are united as a single entity. All souls are one. You can only recognize all souls are one when you are in balance. When you are not balanced, you are aware of the immediate conflict that surrounds you. You are aware of the storm of life. You are aware of the storm of relationships. Becoming balanced, moving to that place in the center, the inner circle, you see the common thread that unites all that has been created, for all spokes in a wheel ultimately come together at the hub, and it is the relationship of those spokes and the hub that gives meaning and purpose to the rim, the outer circle. One cannot exist without the other. Both are essential.
Your lives therefore need to be governed by an acceptance of the essential quality of that inner circle, the hub. It is where you are all united. Each spirit, each soul has differing needs, and yet in spite of those differences they form the union that is all souls. It is for that reason that you are all the same. No soul is lost because no soul is alone. It is not merely avoiding being lost because the soul is in the view of God. The soul is never lost because the soul is in the view of all other souls.
Human beings, the rocks and the earth, the celestial bodies in the universe all function ultimately with that grand balance. It is not by accident, it is not coincidence that balance is necessary on the smallest scale and on the grandest scale. Your relationship with others is the testing ground, is the proving ground, is the forge out of which this balance we speak of is achieved. This balance cannot be achieved by the soul alone. It is for that reason that human life is so essential. You cannot go through your lives with no conflict. You cannot go through your lives with no pain, no fear, no anxiety, no illness. But it is through meeting these challenges that you develop the skills that provide for this balance of which we speak.
We know the nature of your souls. We know the needs for balance. Indeed your souls, before joining your human form, were also aware of the needs for balance, and it is in acknowledging those needs that your souls choose human life. Balance is ultimately achieved. When that becomes a reality, all can be described as a unifying, loving presence.
Souls develop at different rates. There are souls who do experience life one time. There are souls who experience life many times. But the souls whose human life was experienced only once remain committed to the growth of all souls. We, your assembled guides, experienced human life—some many times, some only once. But we are committed to the importance of your development because we are all united. So that engagement with growth is constant.
There is no soul that is no longer engaged in the growth of another. That never happens. God is never uninterested and unengaged in the growth of other souls. Engagement is permanent. It is for that reason that God is often identified as pure love, for love is never disengaged. It is constant. You are never separated from God because you are never separated from that engagement in your growth. It is as simple as that. Love is always nurturing. You may have many definitions for love, but the common element shared by every definition is supportive, is engaged.
Go through your lives engaged, committed to others. Go through your lives engaged with the belief that what you do does matter. Go through your lives engaged in the knowledge that growth is not only achievable, it is unavoidable. The balance that is achieved through that growth is the common denominator. It is the shared future of all creation.
You are blessed in what you share. You are blessed in your commitment to be engaged. You are blessed in your journey to the inner circle of balance and to your vision of the enfolding love of God—a permanent state, a commitment from God, a permanent state of support and nonjudgmental care. You are blessed as all creation is blessed, by that commitment originating from God, perpetuated through that spiritual union that connects your souls with all souls.
Rejoice in that blessed connection!
Amen.