All of your postings are magnificent, but this one resonated intensely! I wrote myself a note about a month ago:
I remember the lightening bugs on summers night. The magic of flickering lights in the dark. We are lightening bugs of magic for the future. Shine bright and connect with other beings of light to share the magic of innocence, love and joy.
What a beautiful image you have conjured, Meredith! Flickering lights in the dark. We are all beings of light, but we have the choice wether we wish to shine or not. That's the magic of this realm - we get to choose. I think that's why we come here to play. At a soul level, we are all things, all the time, all at once - but in this realm, we can choose. We can choose to be the light, or we can choose to stand in the dark. How beautiful this experience would be if we all remembered to tend our light while we played. If we could remember our divinity within our humanity. That's our task now - to shine bright, as a reminder to others that they can too. One light after another, we can illuminate the world. xx
My favorite: Our light is the piece of God we're carrying. And remembering that is what keeps it burning. Stunningly beautiful and so true. Thank you once again for your light.
Ann, you did the thing I am not skilled out - you distilled all these words down to its essence. Thank-you. Because, yes, what I was trying to say is remember who you are, remember God within you, remember you are not seperate from the divine, but you are divine, and that is what powers your light. Keep shining! xx
Wiz, you’ve done this historic moment true justice. You’ve named the spiritual depths of this moment, which as you so poignantly observed, “the universe has engineered with surgical precision.” (Chills!) I hope this piece is studied and pondered far and wide. There’s so much here I love but I want to call out this one excerpt:
“That’s what this moment demands of us - not fear-disguised-as-rage, but the kind of fire that comes from clarity. The kind that isn’t lashing out because it’s terrified, but standing firm because it’s plugged in. Not the cheap thrill of “finally they get what’s coming,” but the deeper force of courage, discernment, and luminous defiance. A refusal to let darkness decide the kind of people we become.”
You named precisely where even the good-hearted tend to lose their Light: the cheap payoff of retribution.
We have to think about that payoff of feeling right., of feeling some notion of “winning” when someone else loses. What’s that giving us? And at what cost?
A million thank you’s for calling us to remember the Light we’re truly made of. 🙏🏼🤍
With everything I write, I always wonder who will land on the bit that resonated most with me - the part that I think is the heart of what I was trying to say. Today, that was you. This section you quoted really is the essence of it. We are living through a moment where it’s really easy to reach for retribution - to really punish those who have seemingly dragged us into darkness. But this is where we must pause, for there is a difference between asking people to take responsibility for their actions, and plunging them into darkness because that’s what we feel they did to us. We must pave a path made of light for those who abandoned their own light so they may find their way back. Fear says “Don’t trust them, they’ll hurt you again, they’ll mess up again, they’ll ruin everything again.” Love says, “You have nothing to fear.” This moment requires us to transcend our own humanity and reach into our divinity - our human nature wants revenge, punishment and retribution, but those things are borne of fear, and fear contains no light. If we wish to leave the darkness, we cannot entertain such notions. Yes, life asks each of us to face consequences for our choices. Yes, it is fair that each of us take responsibility for the things we have done, and it is right that we hold one another accountable, but we must do so from the place of love, not the place of fear. We must do so while holding the light, not standing in the dark. And it’s hard - really hard, as most meaningful things are. Less human, more divine. That’s what’s needed right now.
I *think* I am not dissolving into the dark and yet, the thought of buying a bottle of champagne and toasting the ultimate demise of the orange one is such a happy thought to me.
So I will try, try, try to do better. To be better.
I also am going to focus on choosing the lumination from a place of joy, and not fear.
Here’s a thought that’s worth pondering - at a soul level, we are all small parts of the same consciousness, drops of water floating in the same ocean. Spiritually, we are all one. So even those we may despise - the orange one you speak of, for instance - they are us and we are them, deep down, at the level of the soul. Each soul comes here to play their part in this human drama, and some do horrific things, violent things, terrible things, but at the level of the soul, we are still all one. We may be glad when they depart the human existence, for it makes our human experience less fraught, but at a soul level they have gone nowhere. We are all still one. It just depends which way we want to look at things. Many of us are so tuned to our human experiences that we think that’s all there is - but the truth is, this human game is just a small part of our whole experience as a soul. We make it everything, but there is so much more. So yes, it’s true - those who create chaos in the physical realm may not be missed when they are gone, but at a spiritual level, they are never really gone. We are all one, always. Something to ponder….
I love that you write with depth. I make time for your writing. Today’s was especially powerful. I loved how you wove, wicked, and Lord of the flies as the container of this unbelievable time that we’re in. You’ve captured it so eloquently -reminding me to keep holding the light, keep holding the happiness and to discharge all the heaviness that I’m here to hold space for/to witness, but also to mulch into the Earth..allowing that darkness to be transformed into light. It’s really wonderful and an honor to be a part of this group filled with light.
I'm marvelling at the moment about how frequently The Wizard of Oz keeps throwing up analogies relevant to this moment. It's as if America's greatest fairytale was almost purpose written to guide us through this moment. And yes, keep tending your inner light, and remember that the light is not always just happiness - it's also the fire of truth, and that blaze can be righteous anger, it can be joy, it can be a vast range of emotions. We often mistake the light as only "good" emotions - the truth is all emotions are valuable when powered by our connection to Source. It's only when we untether ourselves - when we detach from truth and love and go wander off into fear - that those emotions can lead to consequences that are not desirable. Tend to your connection, tend to your light, and then feel what you feel, guided by the remembrance of who you really are. xx
"Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars." --Kamala Harris's concession speech. I heard those with Indian heritage say it was a reference to Diwali.
'We are the light of the world' is a Christian hymn (not to impose a worldview but the idea).
Many expressions of wisdom depicted light and dark, and that without one we cannot fully understand the other. However, when they are terribly imbalanced do we see what we now see.
I often quote “We are the light of the world” though I have no attachment to Christianity - it’s just true, so it’s worth repeating. And yes, only when it’s dark do we see the stars. That one has so much truth in it. We live in a realm of polarity, where we get to choose what we will be. We cannot stand in the dark while holding the light. In our world of opposites, we always get to choose. For a long while we have chosen darkness, getting increasingly darker, but the darker it gets, the more appealing is the light.
Everyone can be. But don’t worry about the other 7 billion souls here right now. Just shine your light. That’s enough. Even a single candle in the dark can light the way. xx
Evocative of the Statue of Liberty and the compassion it is meant to portray. Beautiful.
Feeding the hungry, sheltering the unhoused, healing the sick...these are things we should be doing for everyone so everyone can stand in their own light. When I see people react to the cruelty of the domestic policies of recent times by helping others, it gives me hope.
In a way, the cruelty of the current administration has allowed the truth to rise - there has always been state-sanctioned cruelty, but never so blatant, never so obvious. Now, it is unmissable - truth revealed - and in the light of the truth, people can more easily decide where they stand. In some ways, this has been a terrible time, but in other ways, it has been a time of truth rising. Now we can see more clearly than we ever have - the question is, what will we do with that clarity.
This is magnificent. Every word reminded me of what’s true: no matter the chaos of the world, no matter my passing feelings about this or that happening, there is a solid center within that can never be destroyed. Call it a light, call it Love, Source, whatever, it is indestructible and every time I lose my focus, then return to it, I am lifted up again. That’s what happened as I was reading this divinely inspired opus. You reminded. I remembered. Thank you for that gift.
Well, this made me have a little weep, Lynette, because in writing it, I was hopeful that it might call readers back to that inner truth - that when we step out of the noise of the world we can remember the only thing that really matters. When we anchor in the divinity of who we actually are, we transcend all of this chaos and step into our actual power. We’re not here to fix things with action, to rage against the machine with our bodies or even our words, we are here to restore a frequency. That’s our work. Thank-you for remembering. xx
Thank you for this amazing composition...so much to unpack and yet so much that is familiar. Helps me to continue navigating finding my way along this spiritual path manifesting love ❤️ and light ✨️ with every step. Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for finding you...thanks be to Spirit.
Dear Cecelia, that familiarity is remembrance. Not mental remembering, but soul remembering. And finding this writing was a kind of remembering too. All that exists here exists within you too - we’re all drops in the same stream. Glad we’re floating along together!
You always know exactly what we need for support, when we need it. Living between two worlds isn’t easy in this fraught time. My biggest problem is patience with the process. It is hard to witness all the suffering around us and just know that things are unfolding as they are supposed to, in the timing that is ordained.
There are many lessons we incorporate in life, and some of them tend to collide. The one where “God helps him who helps himself” is a stickler right now for me. In this current bigger than life experience we all are suffering through, it’s hard to simply just sit by and shine. I guess joining a protest or two might be a good recourse, but I really just want the show to speed up a bit.
What you are describing, Mary, is our very human frustration with things that really cannot be effectively addressed physically. What we see playing out right now in our world is a physical symptom of something deeply spiritual, and our human impulse is to go and address the physical symptoms - go yell at someone, or protest something, or make a banner, or post online - and all of those things are valid in their own way, but none of them are us really standing in our actual power. They’re us being bound by our own humanity more than we are anchored in our soul. At a soul level, nothing “bad” is going on right now - in fact, it’s quite the opposite. This realm is being upgraded, flooded with a forgotten frequency, called back into coherence, back into alignment. How that plays out in the physical is hugely disruptive - we built our world in the old frequency, and it’s all going to fall apart a bit while we adjust to the new. Yes, that means there will be human suffering - and at a human level, that is painful to experience both for those of us who are suffering, and those of us looking on. The only way for us to witness and experience this transition is to be deeply anchored in who we are spiritually, yes we are human, and yes also divine. When we know we are both, it allows us to walk this path with purpose - yes, awake to the physical pain and hardship, yes, understanding the deep spiritual significance, and knowing that none of us can be harmed at the level of the soul. The saying “God helps those who help themselves” can be countered with the understanding that each of us is God manifest in human form - we carry within each of us the spark of the divine. God - the energy of all things - is not seperate from us, not an external force who helps us, but it is the very essence of who we actually are. Therefore, when we anchor in that knowing, when we lean into that understanding, we can face this moment deeply rooted in the place of our own real power. Anchor in the truth of who you are - that is our work for this moment, that is the way we navigate what comes next. xx
All of your postings are magnificent, but this one resonated intensely! I wrote myself a note about a month ago:
I remember the lightening bugs on summers night. The magic of flickering lights in the dark. We are lightening bugs of magic for the future. Shine bright and connect with other beings of light to share the magic of innocence, love and joy.
What a beautiful image you have conjured, Meredith! Flickering lights in the dark. We are all beings of light, but we have the choice wether we wish to shine or not. That's the magic of this realm - we get to choose. I think that's why we come here to play. At a soul level, we are all things, all the time, all at once - but in this realm, we can choose. We can choose to be the light, or we can choose to stand in the dark. How beautiful this experience would be if we all remembered to tend our light while we played. If we could remember our divinity within our humanity. That's our task now - to shine bright, as a reminder to others that they can too. One light after another, we can illuminate the world. xx
Meredith, I agree that this post had an exceptional resonance.
My favorite: Our light is the piece of God we're carrying. And remembering that is what keeps it burning. Stunningly beautiful and so true. Thank you once again for your light.
Ann, you did the thing I am not skilled out - you distilled all these words down to its essence. Thank-you. Because, yes, what I was trying to say is remember who you are, remember God within you, remember you are not seperate from the divine, but you are divine, and that is what powers your light. Keep shining! xx
Wiz, you’ve done this historic moment true justice. You’ve named the spiritual depths of this moment, which as you so poignantly observed, “the universe has engineered with surgical precision.” (Chills!) I hope this piece is studied and pondered far and wide. There’s so much here I love but I want to call out this one excerpt:
“That’s what this moment demands of us - not fear-disguised-as-rage, but the kind of fire that comes from clarity. The kind that isn’t lashing out because it’s terrified, but standing firm because it’s plugged in. Not the cheap thrill of “finally they get what’s coming,” but the deeper force of courage, discernment, and luminous defiance. A refusal to let darkness decide the kind of people we become.”
You named precisely where even the good-hearted tend to lose their Light: the cheap payoff of retribution.
We have to think about that payoff of feeling right., of feeling some notion of “winning” when someone else loses. What’s that giving us? And at what cost?
A million thank you’s for calling us to remember the Light we’re truly made of. 🙏🏼🤍
With everything I write, I always wonder who will land on the bit that resonated most with me - the part that I think is the heart of what I was trying to say. Today, that was you. This section you quoted really is the essence of it. We are living through a moment where it’s really easy to reach for retribution - to really punish those who have seemingly dragged us into darkness. But this is where we must pause, for there is a difference between asking people to take responsibility for their actions, and plunging them into darkness because that’s what we feel they did to us. We must pave a path made of light for those who abandoned their own light so they may find their way back. Fear says “Don’t trust them, they’ll hurt you again, they’ll mess up again, they’ll ruin everything again.” Love says, “You have nothing to fear.” This moment requires us to transcend our own humanity and reach into our divinity - our human nature wants revenge, punishment and retribution, but those things are borne of fear, and fear contains no light. If we wish to leave the darkness, we cannot entertain such notions. Yes, life asks each of us to face consequences for our choices. Yes, it is fair that each of us take responsibility for the things we have done, and it is right that we hold one another accountable, but we must do so from the place of love, not the place of fear. We must do so while holding the light, not standing in the dark. And it’s hard - really hard, as most meaningful things are. Less human, more divine. That’s what’s needed right now.
The simplest things are always the toughest.
I *think* I am not dissolving into the dark and yet, the thought of buying a bottle of champagne and toasting the ultimate demise of the orange one is such a happy thought to me.
So I will try, try, try to do better. To be better.
I also am going to focus on choosing the lumination from a place of joy, and not fear.
Thanks for holding that mirror up today.
Here’s a thought that’s worth pondering - at a soul level, we are all small parts of the same consciousness, drops of water floating in the same ocean. Spiritually, we are all one. So even those we may despise - the orange one you speak of, for instance - they are us and we are them, deep down, at the level of the soul. Each soul comes here to play their part in this human drama, and some do horrific things, violent things, terrible things, but at the level of the soul, we are still all one. We may be glad when they depart the human existence, for it makes our human experience less fraught, but at a soul level they have gone nowhere. We are all still one. It just depends which way we want to look at things. Many of us are so tuned to our human experiences that we think that’s all there is - but the truth is, this human game is just a small part of our whole experience as a soul. We make it everything, but there is so much more. So yes, it’s true - those who create chaos in the physical realm may not be missed when they are gone, but at a spiritual level, they are never really gone. We are all one, always. Something to ponder….
Wow..I’m speechless and I’m so thankful for your wisdom ..just so enlightening..powerful and magnificent
I did find some words! But still ..wow
I love that you write with depth. I make time for your writing. Today’s was especially powerful. I loved how you wove, wicked, and Lord of the flies as the container of this unbelievable time that we’re in. You’ve captured it so eloquently -reminding me to keep holding the light, keep holding the happiness and to discharge all the heaviness that I’m here to hold space for/to witness, but also to mulch into the Earth..allowing that darkness to be transformed into light. It’s really wonderful and an honor to be a part of this group filled with light.
I echo this 💯
I'm marvelling at the moment about how frequently The Wizard of Oz keeps throwing up analogies relevant to this moment. It's as if America's greatest fairytale was almost purpose written to guide us through this moment. And yes, keep tending your inner light, and remember that the light is not always just happiness - it's also the fire of truth, and that blaze can be righteous anger, it can be joy, it can be a vast range of emotions. We often mistake the light as only "good" emotions - the truth is all emotions are valuable when powered by our connection to Source. It's only when we untether ourselves - when we detach from truth and love and go wander off into fear - that those emotions can lead to consequences that are not desirable. Tend to your connection, tend to your light, and then feel what you feel, guided by the remembrance of who you really are. xx
The luminous tower. Keeper of the flame. Source energy.
I know what I am. Thank you for validating my knowing.
You are a leader in times of darkness. Thank you. 💜🔥
You are me and I am you and we are all one, made from the same light, drops of water in the one ocean. Thank-you for remembering. xx
"Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars." --Kamala Harris's concession speech. I heard those with Indian heritage say it was a reference to Diwali.
'We are the light of the world' is a Christian hymn (not to impose a worldview but the idea).
Many expressions of wisdom depicted light and dark, and that without one we cannot fully understand the other. However, when they are terribly imbalanced do we see what we now see.
I often quote “We are the light of the world” though I have no attachment to Christianity - it’s just true, so it’s worth repeating. And yes, only when it’s dark do we see the stars. That one has so much truth in it. We live in a realm of polarity, where we get to choose what we will be. We cannot stand in the dark while holding the light. In our world of opposites, we always get to choose. For a long while we have chosen darkness, getting increasingly darker, but the darker it gets, the more appealing is the light.
This is one of my favorites. So enlightening and hopeful, I wish that everyone could be the light❤️
Everyone can be. But don’t worry about the other 7 billion souls here right now. Just shine your light. That’s enough. Even a single candle in the dark can light the way. xx
Evocative of the Statue of Liberty and the compassion it is meant to portray. Beautiful.
Feeding the hungry, sheltering the unhoused, healing the sick...these are things we should be doing for everyone so everyone can stand in their own light. When I see people react to the cruelty of the domestic policies of recent times by helping others, it gives me hope.
In a way, the cruelty of the current administration has allowed the truth to rise - there has always been state-sanctioned cruelty, but never so blatant, never so obvious. Now, it is unmissable - truth revealed - and in the light of the truth, people can more easily decide where they stand. In some ways, this has been a terrible time, but in other ways, it has been a time of truth rising. Now we can see more clearly than we ever have - the question is, what will we do with that clarity.
This is magnificent. Every word reminded me of what’s true: no matter the chaos of the world, no matter my passing feelings about this or that happening, there is a solid center within that can never be destroyed. Call it a light, call it Love, Source, whatever, it is indestructible and every time I lose my focus, then return to it, I am lifted up again. That’s what happened as I was reading this divinely inspired opus. You reminded. I remembered. Thank you for that gift.
Well, this made me have a little weep, Lynette, because in writing it, I was hopeful that it might call readers back to that inner truth - that when we step out of the noise of the world we can remember the only thing that really matters. When we anchor in the divinity of who we actually are, we transcend all of this chaos and step into our actual power. We’re not here to fix things with action, to rage against the machine with our bodies or even our words, we are here to restore a frequency. That’s our work. Thank-you for remembering. xx
Thank you for this amazing composition...so much to unpack and yet so much that is familiar. Helps me to continue navigating finding my way along this spiritual path manifesting love ❤️ and light ✨️ with every step. Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for finding you...thanks be to Spirit.
Dear Cecelia, that familiarity is remembrance. Not mental remembering, but soul remembering. And finding this writing was a kind of remembering too. All that exists here exists within you too - we’re all drops in the same stream. Glad we’re floating along together!
You always know exactly what we need for support, when we need it. Living between two worlds isn’t easy in this fraught time. My biggest problem is patience with the process. It is hard to witness all the suffering around us and just know that things are unfolding as they are supposed to, in the timing that is ordained.
There are many lessons we incorporate in life, and some of them tend to collide. The one where “God helps him who helps himself” is a stickler right now for me. In this current bigger than life experience we all are suffering through, it’s hard to simply just sit by and shine. I guess joining a protest or two might be a good recourse, but I really just want the show to speed up a bit.
What you are describing, Mary, is our very human frustration with things that really cannot be effectively addressed physically. What we see playing out right now in our world is a physical symptom of something deeply spiritual, and our human impulse is to go and address the physical symptoms - go yell at someone, or protest something, or make a banner, or post online - and all of those things are valid in their own way, but none of them are us really standing in our actual power. They’re us being bound by our own humanity more than we are anchored in our soul. At a soul level, nothing “bad” is going on right now - in fact, it’s quite the opposite. This realm is being upgraded, flooded with a forgotten frequency, called back into coherence, back into alignment. How that plays out in the physical is hugely disruptive - we built our world in the old frequency, and it’s all going to fall apart a bit while we adjust to the new. Yes, that means there will be human suffering - and at a human level, that is painful to experience both for those of us who are suffering, and those of us looking on. The only way for us to witness and experience this transition is to be deeply anchored in who we are spiritually, yes we are human, and yes also divine. When we know we are both, it allows us to walk this path with purpose - yes, awake to the physical pain and hardship, yes, understanding the deep spiritual significance, and knowing that none of us can be harmed at the level of the soul. The saying “God helps those who help themselves” can be countered with the understanding that each of us is God manifest in human form - we carry within each of us the spark of the divine. God - the energy of all things - is not seperate from us, not an external force who helps us, but it is the very essence of who we actually are. Therefore, when we anchor in that knowing, when we lean into that understanding, we can face this moment deeply rooted in the place of our own real power. Anchor in the truth of who you are - that is our work for this moment, that is the way we navigate what comes next. xx
Thank you! I know all of this…but, needed to hear it as you explained it. 😊
Wow, just wow!
This is perfect. Thank you for keeping us focused on the light as it is so easy to get dragged into the darkness.
You are the light of the world. Shine brightly. xx
Great news: no more pharmaceutical commericals!
Yes, buried amongst the madness every now and then something marvellous emerges.