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Once there was a little soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul, and so
anxious for experience. "I am the light," it said. "I am the light." Yet all the knowing of it and all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it. And in the realm from which this soul emerged, there was nothing but the light. Every soul was grand, every soul was magnificent, and every soul shone with the brilliance of God's awesome light.
And so the little soul in question was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light -- of which it was a part --it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who and What it Really is.
Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that one day God said,
"Do you know, Little One, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours?." "Oh, what, God? What? I'll do anything!" The little soul said. "You must separate yourself from the rest of us," God answered, "and then you must call upon yourself the darkness." "What is the darkness, oh Holy One?" the little soul asked. "That which you are not," replied God, and the little soul understood.
And so this the soul did, removing itself from the all, yea, going even into another realm. And in this realm the soul had the power to call into its experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did.
Yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out,
"Father, Father, why has Thou forsaken me?"
Even as you have in your darkest times. Yet I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready, to remind you of Who You Really Are; ready, always ready, to call you home.
Therefore, be a light unto the darkness and curse it not. And forget not Who You Are in the moment of your encirclement by that
which you are not. But do you praise to the creation, even as you seek to change it.
And know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph. For the experience you create is a statement of Who You Are -- and who You Want to Be.
... There are those who say that life is a school, and that these things which you observe and experience in your life are for your learning. ... but I tell you again you came into this life with nothing to learn -- you have only to demonstrate what you
already know. In the demonstration of it, will you function it out, and create yourself anew, through your experience. Thus do you render it holy.
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