July 27, 2005
God greets you with love and especially with peace.
Your concerns are ultimately about peace—peace within and the resulting peace beyond your realm. You pray for friends, for parents, for others whom you know who have now joined us. You must know that their spirits are with you at this time. They know of your prayers. The parents for whom you pray also join you and are warmed and strengthened by your loving thoughts and prayers.
You wonder what you can do to help them. In asking such questions, you are really asking what can you do to provide them greater peace, for as they grow in their peace, they become more empowered by the knowledge of God’s presence. You can help them the same way you help one another. All must ultimately know what it means to be peaceful, to be spiritually at peace, for in that state of peace you are able to hear and see in your mind’s eye God’s presence. When you pray on behalf of anyone—for their health, for their success, for their happiness, for their fulfillment—all that is positive for which you pray is answered in a state of peace. You hear us in this group, and each of you is aware of your guides alone when you are peaceful.
It is difficult in human life to achieve moments of real peace, for you are occupied by concerns of the moment, by regrets of the past, and anxieties about the unknown that lies ahead. All of these—what’s past, what’s present, what’s future, in your terms—are really collectively in the present. By allowing yourself the opportunity of being calm about the present, you are strengthened in your ability to deal with what you perceive as the past and the future as well as what you call “the present.”
You are all asked to be listeners. We encourage you to listen to others, to understand what they have to say, to understand what they are trying to express, to understand how what they express reflects what is inside. Listening is central to your human lives, and yet precious few allow themselves such a luxury to listen.
If you wonder about how to help those who have joined us, by listening with a peaceful heart you will know, for you will sense beyond doubt your absolute unity with the one for whom you pray, for you and the soul of one who has joined us are not separated. You are connected. We have spoken about our closeness to you. The souls for whom you pray are equally close. It is almost as easy as turning to your neighbor to speak. When you are at peace and you offer a prayer to a soul who has joined our lives, you’re connecting to that soul in a conscious way. That soul is no closer because of your conscious effort than before that effort, but the connection that you experience is more immediate. By thinking of another, you are given the ability and direction to aid another.
Each of you has recent experiences of encountering those other lives that have very specific needs. These are not necessarily needs in a physical way, but needs of the spirit, needs of the soul. Such encounters allow your soul to communicate with another through the channel of your own openness, your desire to help. God speaks to each of you in such circumstances. When someone expresses a profound need, even nonverbally, by praying to be at peace within, you will be led to a response reflective of God, and you can be assured that that response is the best of all possibilities.
It is difficult to have faith in what seems to be intuitive rather than rational, but your spirit center, your soul, does not communicate with your consciousness through rational processes. There is, therefore, importance in placing great significance on intuitive behavior that you are aware of as the result of being peaceful and listening. It’s that nudge, that hunch that this is what must be done now, that inner urging. There is a difference between that and a kind of “knee-jerk” reaction, as you might call it. Such immediate reactions often come at a time of stress, fear, worry, anxiety, anger, discouragement, a sense of failure. What we speak of, rather, is an intuitive feeling that is approached prayerfully and with a peace within that blocks out the noise of conflict and indecision and allows the light of insight to come pouring in.
Opportunities for being at peace take effort for each of you. James is able to hear us because he is at peace. Each of you can hear us if you allow that state of calm to pervade your lives. There is a physiological component to this state of peace, of inner calm. It can be measured, it can be documented. The body does slow down. The mind dispenses with activity that creates the “fight or flight or freeze” that was referred to [in earlier group discussion]. To help yourselves, to help others in human form, to help others who live in the spirit requires the peace of which we speak.
We have urged you in the past and we urge you again to find a place, a time, an environment regularly that provides the calm that is so necessary. Often you wonder how you may become aware of your guides. It is such experiences that provide the window of recognition, the acknowledgement that gives you courage, that gives you strength, that gives you a clear vision of a path.
Human life is filled with the challenges of which you have all spoken. Concern was raised about the place of God in the system of a life containing such challenges. You have been given human life because it was in God’s purposes that you experience this spiritual activity in human form. It is God’s desire that you experience human life, for it is God’s desire that you learn from this activity. God is fully aware of the meaning of human life, for nothing is created, nothing occurs outside the Spiritual Knowledge that is God. It is not God’s intention that life be painful and full of anxieties and what you call “negative,” but it is God’s intention that you learn and grow from experiencing what is contained in human life.
If you wonder about the omnipotence of God, we can tell you that since all is created by God, nothing happens outside of that creativity. It is God that has brought you to life. It is God that has created all that life embraces. It is humankind that takes God’s creation and distorts it, creating pain and suffering, but it is also God that provides the light that you need in dealing with what is created by humankind. It is God’s empowerment that allows you to live with the rhythm of God’s creation.
Yes, God created the world. God created many worlds. God created many entities that are unknown on the sphere on which you live. There is a rhythm that results from the interrelationships of all that God has created. Occasionally that rhythm brings pain and anguish to the human life-form, but that all belongs to the evolution, to the rhythm, the development of the universe as God has created it. It is not that you are unimportant in the vastness of creation, for all that has been created is important. There is no hierarchy. You cannot say that humankind is more important than a stone or a bush or a piece of wood. All are equally important and all have their own cycle of reality. The small stones have not always been small stones. Small stones will not always remain small stones. The earth did not always exist; the earth will not always exist. There is nothing that maintains its state of energy, of form, permanently.
All that God has created evolves, transforms, interacts. As a result, there is much energy and that energy interacts. You interact with the energy—all that has been created interacts with that energy. The fluidity is unmistakable. It is this fluidity, it is this evolution, it is this transformation of form, this transformation of energy that is most clearly evident of God’s omnipotence, but it is not God’s purpose to step in the way of that energy, but rather to allow the energy of creation to continue to transform. You live in the midst of that and therefore are an important part of that evolution. This may seem very grand in scale and yet have little meaning for you as you live from one day to another, but if you accept that you are a part, an equal part, of a vast and limitless creation, then you are more able to accept the flow and rhythm of that creation, even when it brings pain.
You live in a physical body that is constantly changing, constantly being transformed. Occasionally, that transformation brings pain or worry, discomfort. Perhaps that transformation creates emotional as well as physical stress. Such stress is not random…it belongs to the operation, the transformation of your own bodies. It is fully natural. It is as it should be.
We suggest you always look at life as part of the totality of creation. You are not so unique that you can feel as if you own your own lives, as if you own your own environment, as if you own the hearts of others. No part of God’s creation is so unique or so powerful. Being given a spiritual center to your lives—your soul—provides a more profound and meaningful interchange with this divine rhythm. When you pray to God and you are peaceful, you will experience a greater sense of connection to this marvelous creation and you will lose your sense of I, me, mine, you, yours. There is no mine and yours. There is no you, no them…only us, collectively.
The balance that you seek in your life is a balance with creation. It is a balance achieved through peace, a peace that is gained through prayer. When you are at peace, you will feel not only in unison with life around you; you will also sense fully this unity, this harmony with all life on the spiritual plane. You will then know of your companionship with family and friends, their souls who experience spiritual life exclusively.
You can help us, you can help the souls for whom you pray through your peace, through your state of listening…just being, not judging, not worrying, not impatient…only peace.
It is this peace of God that we always wish for you.
It is this peace of God that is our work.
It is this peace of God that is our love.
It is this peace of God that is our sustenance.
It is the peace of God that binds all of us together.
Embrace that bond that unites and let it inform your lives every day.
Amen.