Being the Light; Loving our Neighbors as Ourselves
We are in such a powerful time. It has been difficult, but very, very prosperous in the ways of spiritual growth and discernment.
I have had to learn a lot in a short period of time. Mostly, it is about letting go.
I learned a lot from one of the American Idol, contestants, Danny Gokey. He is a very pure soul and he speaks a lot about trust and letting go. It is so easy to hang on to bitterness but harder to release. I feel it is imperative that we don’t let dark thoughts take hold and that we continually forgive and forgive. It requires consciousness to honestly look at what we allow to take root.
Are we looking through the fear, or instead, can we turn to love?
Love requires admitting where we fell short and it also requires deep empathy. Empathy is simply the ability to feel, to really feel. It is easy to fall into the temptation of running around with a caffeine high and be busy, busy, but to me, that is not real life. Real life takes time and it requires deep listening and loving and really feeling each other in communication. Can we listen with our hearts?
As Danny states, little children are very good at this. They are open, they listen, and they love. I spent the weekend with my brother’s dog and I was just amazed by his high level of alertness and awareness. His sensitivity was enormous. I know animals are empathic and I know that they can feel. Tuning into them, we truly know when they are hungry and when they need to be let out! We are communicating all the time on the sub-atomic level. Tuning into the sub-atomic level, is where are our hearts are. If we can continually listen and tune in there, we can feel again.
Back in Atlantis, we got into heavy technology and began ignoring the signs from the earth. The dolphins and the whales were always in tune with the bio-rhythms of the earth. They emit a sound that is highly advanced. If we are willing to “be as little children,” we can empathically listen and tune into the needs of the earth and our own bodies. When we shut off this intuitive voice, we become stale, hard, and cold. Drowning out our own inner voice, we no longer know what is true or what is real.
I would head the advice of Danny Gokey. He says, “Be as a child.” He lost his wife very early and yet didn’t hold onto the resentment and anger of losing her so young. He went deeply into the grief, felt it and then recovered to be the change we wish to see in the world. It does require stamina, but I will tell you, that without Christ, it is hard to get anywhere.
I rely completely and totally on an inner strength, but it doesn’t come from me, it comes from God. This is what it means to “be as a child.” It requires listening, obedience, and not ignoring the inner call. Being in tune to the Christ, is being in tune to Love.
I have been shown God’s grace and I believe that if we continually trust, we will find the way to truth. I know God is a mystery and each and every human being holds this rare mystery. Being as a child is simply that; being love.
In Love and Innocence,
Michele Denman
