This Week’s Quotation:
You are the light of the world. This is merely a statement of truth about yourself. It refers to you as you were created by God. This is a beginning step in accepting your real function on earth. You will want to think about this idea as often as possible today. It is the perfect answer to all illusions.
~ A Course in Miracles, Lesson 61
Radiating Light
Terri McCartney, Soul Care Facilitator
War, disease, and unspeakable tragedies make it difficult to keep the faith that all is well in our world. It’s challenging to navigate the chaos, pain, and suffering without fellow travelers that support us in remembering that we are the light of the world!
After all, what would sailors do without a lighthouse to guide them through precarious situations? What better way to honor the inherent dignity bestowed upon each of us than to be a light-bearing navigational aid for others lost in fear and forgetting? All that is necessary is to radiate our light.
Yes, it’s challenging to trust in Divine Intelligence and avoid fatalistic thinking that disempowers. Yet, like any dark night of the soul, before there is peace and healing, that which is in the dark must come to the light. The energy of pandemics and war has been on our planet for as long as we have been alive, encouraging fear and reinforcing the idea we are separate. We know better.
So, let us turn up our voltage, remain heart-open, and radiate our light—like lighthouses glowing all over the continent, illuminating what is veiled by the illusion of separation. We can honor our spiritual purpose and be bastions of grace, compassion, forgiveness, love, and light wherever we find ourselves.
May the Light remain strong in you!
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We hope these weekly quotations and meditations speak to your heart and soul.
Yes, we are the light of the world, and how essential that we remember this and practice it during a time of intensifying darkness on earth, now emphasized by what is happening in Ukraine. How true your statement: before there is peace and healing, that which is in the dark must come to the light.
All of the distortions of love that have been buried in the subconscious mind of humanity over the ages are now rising to the surface of consciousness because of the light we are shining. Though this occasions a good deal of destruction and suffering, it is now on the surface where it can be cleared by the purifying light that we are shining.
Dear Terri – We hope these weekly quotations and meditations speak to your heart and soul.
They absolutely do!! Thank you so much…..
Thank you Terri. Yes, great to be the light together and thank your so much for your thinking and great spirit. If you’d like to see another great lighthouse image, go go TomCooper.net and click on “musical” … Love, Tom