Sharing one of my favorite stories, one last time... as we leave the need to learn thru polarity and step into the oneness. May we be blessed.
Once upon no time, there was a little Soul who said to God, "I know who I am."
And God said, "That's wonderful! Who are you?"
And the Little Soul shouted, "I'm the Light!"
God smiled a big smile. "That's right!" God exclaimed. "You are the Light."
The Little Soul was so happy, for it had figured out what all the souls in the Kingdom were there to figure out.
"Wow," said the Little Soul, "this is really cool!"
But soon, knowing who it was was not enough.
The Little Soul felt stirrings inside, and now wanted to be who it was.
And so the Little Soul went back to God (which is not a bad idea for
all souls who want to be Who They Really Are) and said,
"Hi, God! Now that I know Who I am, is it okay for me to be it?"
And God said, "You mean you want to be Who You Already Are?"
"Well," replied the Little Soul," it's one
thing to know Who I Am, and another thing altogether to actually be it. I
want to feel what it's like to be the Light!"
"But you already are the Light," God repeated, smiling again.
"Yes, but I want to see what that feels like!" cried the Little Soul.
"Well," said God with a chuckle, "I suppose I
should have known. You always were the adventuresome one."
Then God's expression changed. "There's only one thing..."
"What?" asked the Little Soul.
"Well, there is nothing else but the
Light. You see, I created nothing but what you are; and so, there is no
easy way for you to experience yourself as Who You Are, since there is
nothing that you are not."
"Huh?" said the Little Soul, who was now a little confused.
"Think of it this way," said God. "You
are like a candle in the Sun. Oh, you're there all right. Along with a
million, gazillion other candles who make up the Sun. And the sun would
not be the Sun without you. Nay, it would be a sun without one of its
candles...and that would not be the Sun at all; for it would not shine
as brightly. Yet, how to know yourself as the Light when you are amidst
the Light -that is the question."
"Well," the Little Soul perked up, "you're God. Think of something!"
Once more God smiled. "I already have,"
God said. "Since you cannot see yourself as the Light when you are in
the Light, we'll surround you with darkness."
"What's darkness?" the Little Soul asked.
God replied, "It is that which you are not."
"Will I be afraid of the dark?" cried the Little Soul.
"Only if you choose to be," God
answered. "There is nothing, really, to be afraid of, unless you decide
that there is. You see, we are making it all up. We are pretending."
"Oh," said the Little Soul, and felt better already.
Then God explained that, in order to
experience anything at all, the exact opposite of it will appear. "It is
a great gift," God said, "because without it, you could not know what
anything is like. You could not know Warm without Cold, Up without Down,
Fast without Slow. You could not know Left without Right, Here without
There, Now without Then."
"And so," God concluded, "when you are
surrounded with darkness, do not shake your fist and raise your voice
and curse the darkness. Rather be a Light unto the darkness, and don't
be mad about it. Then you will know Who You Really Are, and all others
will know, too. Let your Light shine so that everyone will know how
special you are!"
"You mean it's okay to let others see how special I am?" asked the Little Soul.
"Of course!" God chuckled. "It's very
okay! But remember,'special' does not mean 'better.' Everybody is
special, each in their own way! Yet many others have forgotten that.
They will see that it is okay for them to be special only when you see
that it is okay for you to be special."
"Wow," said the Little Soul, dancing and skipping and laughing and jumping with joy. "I can be as special as I want to be!"
"Yes, and you can start right now," said
God, who was dancing and skipping and laughing right along with the
Little Soul.
"What part of special do you want to be?"
"What part of special?" the Little Soul repeated. "I don't understand."
"Well," God explained, "being the Light
is being special, and being special has a lot of parts to it. It is
special to be kind. It is special to be gentle. It is special to be
creative. It is special to be patient. Can you think of any other ways
it is special to be?"
The Little Soul sat quietly for a moment. "I
can think of lots of ways to be special!" the Little Soul then
exclaimed. "It is special to be helpful. It is special to be sharing. It
is special to be friendly. It is special to be considerate of others!"
"Yes!" God agreed, "and you can be all
of those things, or any part of special you wish to be, at any moment.
That's what it means to be the Light."
"I know what I want to be, I know what I
want to be!" the Little Soul announced with great excitement. "I want to
be the part of special called 'forgiving'. Isn't it special to be
forgiving?"
"Oh, yes," God assured the Little Soul. "That is very special."
"Okay," said the Little Soul. "That's what I
want to be. I want to be forgiving. I want to experience myself as
that."
"Good," said God, "but there's one thing you should know."
The Little Soul was becoming a bit impatient
now. It always seemed as though there were some complication.
"What is it?" the Little Soul sighed.
"There is no one to forgive."
"No one?" The Little Soul could hardly believe what had been said.
"No one!" God repeated. "Everything I have
made is perfect. There is not a single soul in all creation less perfect
than you. Look around you."
It was then that the Little Soul
realized a large crowd had gathered. Souls had come from far and wide ~
from all over the Kingdom ~ for the word had gone forth that the Little
Soul was having this extraordinary conversation with God, and everyone
wanted to hear what they were saying. Looking at the countless other
souls gathered there, the Little Soul had to agree. None appeared less
wonderful, less magnificent, or less perfect than the Little Soul
itself. Such was the wonder of the souls gathered around, and so bright
was their Light, that the Little Soul could scarcely gaze upon them.
"Who, then, to forgive?" asked God.
"Boy, this is going to be no fun at
all!" grumbled the Little Soul. "I wanted to experience myself as One
Who Forgives. I wanted to know what that part of special felt like."
And the Little Soul learned what it must feel like to be sad. But just then a Friendly Soul stepped forward from the crowd.
"Not to worry, Little Soul," the Friendly Soul said, "I will help you."
"You will?" the Little Soul brightened. "But what can you do?"
"Why, I can give you someone to forgive!"
"You can?"
"Certainly!" chirped the Friendly Soul. "I
can come into your next lifetime and do something for you to forgive."
"But why? Why would you do that?" the
Little Soul asked. "You, who are a Being of such utter perfection! You,
who vibrate with such a speed that it creates a Light so bright that I
can hardly gaze upon you! What could cause you to want to slow down your
vibration to such a speed that your bright Light would become dark and
dense? What could cause you ~ who are so light that you dance upon the
stars and move through the Kingdom with the speed of your thought--to
come into my life and make yourself so heavy that you could do this bad
thing?"
"Simple," the Friendly Soul said. "I would do it because I love you."
The Little Soul seemed surprised at the answer.
"Don't be so amazed," said the Friendly
Soul, "you have done the same thing for me. Don't you remember? Oh, we
have danced together, you and I, many times. Through the eons and across
all the ages have we danced. Across all time and in many places have we
played together. You just don't remember."
"We have both been All Of It. We have been
the Up and the Down of it, the Left and the Right of it. We have been
the Here and the There of it, the Now and the Then of it. We have been
the male and the female, the good and the bad; we have both been the
victim and the villain of it."
"Thus have we come together, you and I,
many times before; each bringing to the other the exact and perfect
opportunity to Express and to Experience Who We Really Are. And so," the
Friendly Soul explained further, "I will come into your next lifetime
and be the 'bad one' this time. I will do something really terrible, and
then you can experience yourself as the One Who Forgives.
"But what will you do?" the Little Soul asked, just a little nervously, "that will be so terrible?"
"Oh," replied the Friendly Soul with a twinkle, "we'll think of something."
Then the Friendly Soul seemed to turn serious, and said in a quiet voice, "You are right about one thing, you know."
"What is that?" the Little Soul wanted to know.
"I will have to slow down my vibration
and become very heavy to do this not-so-nice thing. I will have to
pretend to be something very unlike myself. And so, I have but one
favour to ask of you in return."
"Oh, anything, anything!" cried the Little
Soul, and began to dance and sing, "I get to be forgiving, I get to be
forgiving!"
Then the Little Soul saw that the Friendly Soul was remaining very quiet.
"What is it?" the Little Soul asked. "What can I do for you? You are such an angel to be willing to do this for me!"
"Of course this Friendly Soul is an angel!"
God interrupted. "Everyone is! Always remember: I have sent you nothing
but angels."
And so the Little Soul wanted more than
ever to grant the Friendly Soul's request. "What can I do for you?" the
Little Soul asked again.
"In the moment that I strike you and smite
you," the Friendly Soul replied, "in the moment that I do the worst to
you that you could possible imagine ~ in that very moment..."
"Yes?" the Little Soul interrupted, "yes...?""Remember Who I Really Am."
"Oh, I will!" cried the Little Soul, "I promise! I will always remember you as I see you right here, right now!"
"Good," said the Friendly Soul, "because,
you see, I will have been pretending so hard, I will have forgotten
myself. And if you do not remember me as I really am, I may not be able
to remember for a very long time. And if I forget Who I Am, you may even
forget Who You Are, and we will both be lost. Then we will need another
soul to come along and remind us both of Who We Are."
"No, we won't!" the Little Soul promised
again. "I will remember you! And I will thank you for bringing me this
gift ~ the chance to experience myself as Who I Am.
" And so, the agreement was made. And the
Little Soul went forth into a new lifetime, excited to be the Light,
which was very special, and excited to be that part of special called
Forgiveness.
And the Little Soul waited anxiously to
be able to experience itself as Forgiveness, and to thank whatever other
soul made it possible. And at all the moments in that new lifetime,
whenever a new soul appeared on the scene, whether that new soul brought
joy or sadness--and especially if it brought sadness--the Little Soul
thought of what God had said.
"Always remember," God had smiled, "I have sent you nothing but angels."
by Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God
