Tree of Life, "Endless Light"

         A new study by 279 scientists, led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

Kew, updated the understanding of the flowering plant tree of

life by analyzing genetic data from over 9,500 species. 

                (scitechdaily.com/biologists-construct-groundbreaking-tree-of-life-using-1-8-billion-letters-of-genetic-code/)

There are so many creation stories stemming from ancient times, before and after that great deluge. In fact, every culture, country and community on earth has a creation story - ranging from the first family members to come to the U.S. from their country of origin to the stories of the forming of the nation of Israel in 1948,  the United States, and even Rome. But, in the most well-known creation story is that of the story in Genesis of the creation of life on earth which begins with the tree of knowledge of good AND evil, set in the center of the garden. The story may be a revisionist version from the ancient Sumarians. Regardless, it offers - including an understanding of the Sumerian* account - significant ideas toward healing our times and rediscovering how we might once again live in a garden of paradise, which our divine and most loving creator so ardently wants for us.

In the beginning of creation, after our creator made humans . . .

"The Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A river watering the garden flowed from Eden . . ." Genesis 2: 8 - 10

Then, in the end, after we have destroyed creation . . .

"Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever. Revelation 22: 1- 5

The Tree of Life is among four of the world's most revered symbols of the Divine and is expressed in many religions through stories or myths. In Judaism's Kabbalah, it represents the ten Sephirot, or divine emanations of God's creation, the nature of revealed divinity, the human soul, and humanity's spiritual path of ascention. It is understood as a full model of reality and a map of creation by connecting humanity with God. Its interconnected circles also represent the universe’s structure, divinity-issued energy, and man’s path toward spiritual enlightenment.

The tree cultivates a deeper understanding of the relationship between the physical and spiritual realms - the outer and the inner dimensions of life, which might be seen as the yin/yang, the divine feminine and divine masculine.

I often think of Judaism's hexagram (Star of David) as shorthand for the Tree of Life's deeper esoterism. Its design is one triangle facing up overlaid one facing down. The one facing up might be seen as the divine masculine and the one facing down as the divine feminine (or spirit and materiality). One opens to heaven, and one to earth. Spirit and matter. Overlaid, they reflect our Father/Mother God in perfect balance and harmony. It is also a template for a healthy world and an enlightened consciousness for us individually and collectively. Each of us might be seen as a cell in the great body of humanity. How we reach that state of perfection, of harmony and balance, is reflected in those 10 sefirot.

Kabbalists believe the tree of life is a diagrammatic representation of the process by which the universe came into being. On the Tree of Life, the beginning of the universe is placed in a space above the first sphere (named "Keter" or "crown" in English). Universally, it is referred as Ohr Ein Sof (Hebrew for endless light).

It is comprised of three columns. The two outer polarities refer to the opposing forces symbolized by its Three Pillars. The Right Pillar of Mercy (Hesed) is expansive and outward-flowing, and the Left Pillar of Judgement (Gevura) is constrictive and inward-flowing. The Middle Pillar (Tiferet) represents balance and the harmonization of these opposing energies, illustrating how tension between polarities can lead to strength, growth, and new understanding. 

That balance might be the primary and essential key to healing our broken world, today.

Too much of Hesded (Mercy), the right pillar, leads to weakness and loss of vitality, and too much of Gevura (Judgement) leads to control, and an overabundance of strength is oppressive. Again, these might be framed as feminine and masculine, or, in Jungian terms, as Anima and Animus. Just as Carl Jung called for a balance of the anima and animus within individuals, adding that one is often more dominant in an individual regardless of their gender, this most ancient Tree of Knowledge (Wisdom) calls for a balance among people, all being equal and valuable in that effort. It is also a call for Gevura to serve a protective role for Hesed.

Alchemically, when these two polarities intersect and overlap, they form the vesica piscis, a fish shape, which the circumference of each circle touches the center of each other. The core of each becomes the core of the whole. Might that resonate with the line in Genesis that says the Tree was planted in the center of the garden?

In sacred geometry, it represents creation, the union of opposites, and is seen as a fundamental "seed" from which other geometric forms sprout. It is also a symbol of the feminine, which we will see in our next post is the fundamental teaching of both Christ and the Tree of Life. But, what, in an honest look at our world today, would it look like?

I will continue to discuss what the Tree of Knowledge is as myth, and what it may still mean today that might help us heal ourselves and our world.

The ancients typically used images (parables, symbols, and myths) to convey deep meanings, especially of a divine origin. If you are reading this, this is not new to you. Almost everyone knows the creation story from Genesis, and understands the story suggests that God told Adam and Eve NOT to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. So, what does the Tree of Knowledge mean, and, why would God ask us not to eat from this tree?

Further scriptures about the tree of life and our return to that perfect original state:

"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God. Revelation 2:7

Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”Ezekiel 47:12

She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed. Proverbs 3:18

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise. Proverbs 11:30

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates. Revelation 22:14

And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book. Revelation 22:19

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*This Tree of Life was said to originate from Sumeria and is very much like the "sacred tree" that has been seen on early Mesopotamian cylinder seals, the same seals that mention the Annunaki or "the people who came from the sky."  

https://www.attainablemind.com/2009/12/sacred-geometry-and-symbols-of.html

Restoring Eden

Today, our once beautiful world is broken, shattered like an antique Chinese vase and scattered into a million little pieces across the planet. Yet, like puzzle pieces, these separated fragments point to a profoundly intelligent and sophisticated whole, a civilization from a time when our world was a paradise. 

It was a high civilization, an enlightened age with contact with other civilizations among the constellations in the cosmos, with direct communication and relationship with our divine creator, astounding healing and creation abilities of which we can barely imagine. It was a time when illness, war, poverty, and crime were rare, when there was one global language, and a sophisticated educational system that trained children in advanced astrology, sacred geography, herbal medicine, cultural arts in music, and art. In meditation, they opened windows and doorways into extraordinary multidimensional realms, built and supported loving communities, and developed interrelational skills that supported an advanced spiritual life. 

They created whatever they needed through visualization and chanting, and so much more that anthropologists are still discovering as they translate ancient writings and uncover  ancient sites. Then, the people knew how to tap into universal frequency for energy sources rather than exploit the planet's natural resources. They honored the earth as their mother, lovingly nurtured the land, water, air, planet, and animal life. There are reports in ancient writings indicating people actually spoke to and understood the animals, plants, and especially flowers. They lived in an almost perfect communion with the earth and cosmos in ways we are only now realizing.

But, despite our advances in technology, science, psychology, medicine, political science, economics, and even spirituality, our world has lost its way.  That beautiful time may have been before the Great Cataclysm that archeologists and geologists suggest was about 11,800 BC.  It was "the great flood" we hear of in the Biblical story of Noah, of the Babylonian Gilgamesh, and other flood myths around the world. The Hindu flood story in the Mahabharata (Book 3, the Vana Parva) tells the story of Vishnu as the Matsys avatar. In this epic text, a divine fish warns the righteous Manu of an impending deluge and instructs him to build a great boat to save humanity, a role that in the Puranas is more clearly attributed to Vishnu.  

There is also an ancient story of the Mayans that also rode out the global deluge. In small boats they found their way to Central America from North America where it is reported the thinning ice shield from the Ice Age was broken by a series of comets, plunging coastlines 450 feet below water, sinking temples, pyramids, whole city states, and almost completely destroying an entire civilization until, like saplings after a raging forest fire, life slowly began to return over the following1000 years.  Graham Hancock (https://grahamhancock.com) says the trauma of that global catastrophe remains buried in the deep collective psyche of the human race, and, in my opinion, is the very unhealed trauma that has poisoned and broken our collective heart on this once beautiful planet.

We need to heal that trauma, but first we need to understand just a bit more. Among the clues that point to that once flourishing civilization are those that might help us now.

This discussion follows next in Healing the Nations: Tree of Life.

 

Genesis of Change

"This is the genesis of change,

 right before our eyes, and it's inspiring."

- Jim Whitlock 

Originally published on Oct. 20, 2011

Today we are being graced with a look at the Occupy Buffalo experience by Jim Whitlock, who is well known among Buffalo's peace and justice community for supporting a variety of peace initiatives. 

     As an active member of the Inter-Faith Peace Network, IPN; Riverside-Salem UCC, and serves on the Board of Governors of the Network of Religious Communities as the voting alternate for IPN, with Rev. Pierre Albrecht-Carrié as primary IPN representative, he is deeply committed to social justice. He has also been serving on the Coordinating Board of the Western New York Peace Center for eight years. 


"I took a Russian graduate student down to our own encampment last night. They all drew her right in and even across the language and culture differences she was struck by the spirit of the group. Indeed, that's what impresses me most of all, their spirit. More than with most such ad-hoc groups, I see God's light shining brightly in each and every one of them.


We're not so numerous in Occupy Buffalo as they are in Portland, OR, but we seem to be following similar paths with regard to marshalling non-intrusive support from those of us who have already been around similar blocks.

In Buffalo we have a lively background network of old-timers who are working on recruiting and coordinating local union leaders, legal support volunteers, and people to help with food supplies, a porta-potty and shelter support. I stopped down yesterday afternoon, for example, to donate a decent propane heater and a few 20 lb propane cylinders, after making sure that we would likely have organizational support for ongoing propane costs. It's just lovely the way one after another union and benevolent association is falling-in behind the folks out there in our public parks and squares.

When I participate in the consensus-model assemblies and discussions, I'm struck by what seems to be a clear throw-back to the Greek city-states, archetypes of democracy, vital thriving town-square democracies, except that what we see in our town squares today is far more egalitarian, property ownership not being required to cast a vote. If you're there and can raise your hand, you're a citizen with not only full voting rights but even the power to completely block a motion with nothing more than your own solitary blocking vote!


Oh, I know, what a nightmare of confusion and endless debate, you might say. But no, they're also marvelous with a generosity of spirit and a surprising maturity that allows them to converge reasonably once all relevant points have been heard and considered. If our futures are in their hands, we have good solid reason to remain optimistic.


I'm also struck by the number of new faces, especially during the daytime general assemblies on weekends. They include a complete cross-section of ages, including young moms and dads with infants in papoose-carriers right on up to old dinosaurs like me. And in Buffalo, at least, about half the crowd (based on my random sampling) have never before been involved in any sort of political activism at all! So who cares that it's taking time for such an ad hoc group to forge clear objectives and messages? The folks who have never been out before have taken a first small step and they like what they feel. They'll be back. And I believe in social momentum -- bodies in motion tend to stay in motion, accelerating as they go. This is the genesis of change, right before our eyes, and it's inspiring.


We're touching people -- one on one, person to person and heart to heart -- the only deeply meaningful way. They're clearly affected. The rest is in Gods hands and cannot be bad. Besides, the most precious wisdom I've been given the last few decades is that outcomes are not our department. We only get to do the legwork and if it's good legwork with good people then we'll make progress and the world will be a little bit better when we stop to rest."

Top and center photos by James O. Whitlock

Americans must stand together, put aside political differences

     Almost prophetically, in this Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech he thanks his audience for coming despite a storm warning. That storm is among us today!

     There have always been those wise and courageous ones who lift us up out of our dispirited struggle in a world of war desperately in pursuit of peace. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was such a person. His dream ignited a national and global dream for peace.

     Dr. King’s vision is timeless. It still speaks, leads, inspires and guides us forward, calling us to unity. He called us, as he was called, to dream a much bigger dream for our lives, our communities, our nation, and our world.

     Among Dr. King’s closest friends were people like Thich Nhat Hanh who inspired him to help shoulder his banner for peace. They ignited a passionate vision for peace and global healing that continues today among those who hold a lighted lamp in these dark days.

     While our nation is a house divided against itself, polarized by strongly held views which are sometimes incomprehensible to the opposing side, NOW would be a great time to begin healing that divide, rebuilding our nation based on Dr. King’s dream and step together into our brighter future strengthened by our unity as one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for ALL.

     Together! We can do this! Today! We must do this!

     If we honor our nation’s founders who courageously stood up against an oppressive empire only a couple short centuries ago, who bequeathed to us a responsibility to protect and preserve their dream of a free nation, one for which they fought and died, we must heal the enemy within our borders, and mend our own divisiveness.

     Sadly, there are those in our government who are leading us astray, pulling us further apart by fanning the flames of division. We need to stand together in opposition to anything that divides us or attempts to defeat us. We are strong, and even stronger united together.

     Over the years, we have stood up against oppression as we identified it in our midst in the many forms it showed up and weeded it out. We seemed to find the strength, vision, and courage to come together to preserve the soul of our nation.

     Today, together, we must dream of a reUnited States, and mend the great and terrible divide that is tearing us apart.

     In honor of the late Dr. King, we must put our differences aside. The list of what can divide us is long, insidious, and wicked (political, religious, ethnic, economic).

     There is a much bigger dream awaiting us, if we can stand up against the enemy within our nation that seeks to destroy us, even seducing us to combat our brothers and sisters with whom we share this precious country. There are many more important things we as a nation can do for ourselves and the world than fight a civil war of the heart here. Let’s hold Dr. King’s dream closer to our hearts and have the courage to face down whatever attempts to divide us.

     The future of our nation is in our hands.

A Divine Invasion of Love

The nativity of Jesus is an extraordinary and radiant account of divine intervention into the dark world of humanity at a time that typifies all of human history throughout all time, all cultures, generations, centuries as far back as recorded history reaches.

Originally, I considered the Jesus story a "living myth," one that actually occurred but one that has an archetypal iconic depth of timeless meaning that speaks to us on almost every level of our common existence. It seemed like a parabolic unfolding with incredible depths and meaning.

After further reflection, I began to see the Jesus story as more than that. While it may have happened historically as reported in Matthew and Luke, it is a sacrament itself - an expression or revelation of a divine reality within our dark oppressive culture of death. It has catalytic power to change us, to move the mountains that stand in our way of living authentically, guiding us into the divine/human beings we were meant to be.

As I read it again after some time, it seemed the sparkling radiance of the Star that lit up the night sky, terrifying shepherds who were watching their flocks, was a sign of a divine penetration into our "dark night." Then, a heavenly chorus of angels, divine messengers, arrived as accompanying ambassadors from another realm, announcing the arrival of a king, whose arrival was quite normal - through birth.

The birth of the divine infant was in stark contrast with the way humans typically announce the arrival of a dignitary from another country with all the fanfare, red carpets, even military display - uniformed men marching in perfect step to the orders of a commanding officer to display a nation's power.  Military might versus angels from heaven is a startling contrast of the intersection of heaven and earth. 

One can almost hear heaven saying to the people of Earth, "Hush thy noise, ye men of strife, I've come in peace to heal and help you."

Heaven sent angels.  We send tough, power-crazed military leaders threatening to nuke the world.  Heaven's king came as a vulnerable infant born to a young woman in a remote cave where animals were stabled, wrapped in soft cloths and placed in the animals' feeding trough of hay - a manger.

The infant king, unlike a Saudi leader staying in a Trump tower, needed nothing more than the love he came with. It was powerful enough to speak to a world in dire need of the gift he brought us.

He simply brought the love he came from. He was the message and the messenger.  Human beings since, have worshipped and idolized the messenger but may have lost or forgotten the power and value of the message. 

This precious baby, this gift from heaven brought heaven to us. He was a jewel of great price clothed in a human body.  He was the pearl of great price - precious, powerful, efficacious; yet, he was a jewel we failed to understand and rejected.  Perhaps, it was because the false human leadership felt threatened because His love couldn't be controlled or corrupted.

The pearl of love he was and brought us is self-less, surrendered to life itself, nonjudgmental, accepting, honoring, compassionate, caring, fearless, and courageous, informed and driven by a rare and unique wisdom through which He was able to connect with a greater source of universal intelligence, consciousness, compassion, and power.

The love that he was is magnetic, electronic, transformative with the ability to change matter, rearrange particles on a cellular level with the single stroke of thought.  His power emanated from the love with which he thought and projected according to his intention which was only love.

He was living love by Being Love and Doing Love. He was thoroughly saturated with perfect love which he revealed as the creative life force itself.  

He instructed us how to become as he is, and thereby be free and powerful.  He wore our humanity infused with the essence of life itself - Love. We learned from him love is a power stronger than death even transcending every limitation we could think of - including torture and death. 

He was the essence of love, the perfect emanation from the universal creator.  His love came here to teach us how to love.  

In contrast, Herod and his minions - the illegitimate chief priests of the temple, must have intuitively sensed his cosmic power.  They must have felt threatened. Their limited, fear-driven power was the insanity that ruled this world - and still does - enslaving and slowly poisoning everyone and everything.

He allowed us to see his Radical Love in all its brilliant power and beauty on the same stage as their dark, manipulative, selfish, secretive, psychopathic exploitation of the animals and the poor, reducing the lives of the people to bare subsistence.  His message to them is his message to us today.  Love.

His love wept, felt compassion, and yet was unfailing, uncompromising, relentless, courageous right up to the end when his love forgave those who falsely accused him, whipped him, and hung him up to die.

In the end, as in the beginning, they couldn't kill his love.  The power that he was so far surpasses anything we could ever imagine. It transcends everything we've ever known.  As life itself, it is still here.  He said this love is who we are.  It is who we were designed to be. 

In his prayer, he offers us an idea on how to get back to who we are. In an act of our free will, we pray, "Thy will be done," we pray to our divine creator.  We surrender and submit to love, who is the creator and creative force for our lives and our world. 

still  under construction . . . 

Peaceful Paradise

I wrote the following on November 26, 2011, when I lived in Portland, Oregon.  It was a powerful time in my life for many reasons.  I share this again because I still feel and believe it as much as I did then.

Our magnificent Earth, spread out before us like a rich banquet, was always meant to be a lover's playground, a paradise in which we would sense and feel the Great Lover's presence, who also shared with us His own love, wisdom, and perfect union with our own souls.  

This beautifully diverse planet was meant to be our home, with challenges to our survival to teach and evolve us spiritually and with gifts of food, companionship of the animals, beauty from the flowers, rivers, mountains and valleys.  The ecstatic beauty around mirrored the passion and joy of our own love embedded within us, the greatest of gifts from our Creator.  

Our life here was always meant to be about love, the spiritual essence of the Great Lover, who with His love courted our love and was overjoyed with its return. Whenever we loved another, the Great Lover felt His own love returned to Him. We were created to love. We were made into material form from spiritual substance, to be a container for the Great Lover's own love, to experience in the deepest regions of our eternal souls the greatest of loves, borne first on the wings of our very ordinary human love - the love of two people.  

It was always meant to be simple.  Love is simple.  It flows like a river, as the I Ching says and as Jesus says to the woman at the well.  Are we not all like that woman at the well, seeking eternal truth in a world now flooded with deceit?  But are we all willing to offer a cup of water to a stranger?

When we open our hearts, we are lifting the stone rock that covers the well.  When we sing in joy; dance in free abandon; selflessly hold another's secrets or wounds or hands or embrace another in love to share that great love the Great Lover has placed within our own beings, we draw from the great well.  

When we look into the eyes of our human lover, we see into his or her soul with our own. In that moment, we are the most honest, the most holy. In those moments, we are drawing from that well. 

When we love another, our minds are freed from our ego, own fear, competition and greed.  Love breaks the bondage of the ego.  It is the ultimate freedom from a world of judgment, criticism, selfish consumption, punishment.  

When we are drunk in love, we can sing in the rain, push through winter's stormy ferocity without feeling the cold or wet. That love makes us courageous and free.  In those moments, we move beyond our own limited humanity and are connected with our truest, most sacred nature, our divine nature, our most human nature.  In those moments, we touch God in the flowing of His love through our own inner wells into the heart of another.

                                   

                                   There is no salvation for the soul

                                   but to fall in Love. 

                                   It has to creep and crawl

                                   among the lovers first.

                                  Only Lovers can escape 

                                  from these two worlds 

                                  This was written in Creation.

                                  Only from the Heart

                                  can you reach the sky

                                  The rose of Glory

                                  can only be raised in the Heart.

                                                        - Rumi

When fear or trauma closes our hearts, we can sink into the darker layers of our human experience, a den of thieves where the ego reigns, oppressing, hungering to feed itself until it grows into a dragon, frothing in fiery hate and anger, preying on others with its lies, which are a mockery, a broken mirror offering only shards of love. 

Maybe the world has forgotten there is or ever was a well in the heart. We could slay that ancient foe if we were willing to open our hearts, risk the scorn and ridicule of fear.  Are we willing to open that dark den of pain, where our soul has been languishing a lifetime?  Are we willing to hold our own self, our "inner child," separated for a lifetime from the source of its life by our own betrayal, our own self victimization? It takes great courage to open our hearts - maybe first to another and then to ourselves, where we can encounter our own divine child.  

In each chance to love, we are given a gift from the Great Lover to try again, to love again, to enter into the great marriage, the divine love relationship. 

This great love, is what it was always all about.  It may be the essence, the center, of the teachings of the very earliest church, the one I see as the only authentic Christian church, which met secretly centuries before the formation of the Roman Church with its popes, male hierarchy and magisterium, which came to rule the western world like the oppressive monarchies with which it once kept intimate company.

The first of Jesus' miracles was the wedding at Cana, a living parable of what real love, a wedding of our selves with the Great Lover, would be like.  It transforms us from ordinary beings into spirited beings.  It changes our dull lives into lives of so much joy, so much vitality.  It lifts off the stone that covers our inner well, where the light of love, the sacred substance of God flows freely, unrestrained by any of the dark powers of this world. 

When we accept the invitation life gives us to love another, despite our simple, flawed, frightened and broken human lives, we meet the divine lover, the Beloved, in the eyes of another simple, flawed, human being.  I truly feel that God would rather we reach to love another than live in fear's dark pit.  It may be the most courageous thing we ever do, but to live with a closed heart is not to live; it atrophies our soul, diminishes our light and wastes our precious time here doing nothing.

                       Those who don't feel this love

                        pulling them like a river,

                        those who don't drink dawn

                        like a cup of spring water

                        or take in sunset like supper,

                        those who don't want to change,

                        let them sleep.

                       This love is beyond the study of theology, 

                       that old trickery and hypocrisy.

                       If you want to improve your mind that way;

                       sleep on.

                       I've given up on my brain,

                       I've torn the cloth to shreds

                       and thrown it away.

                       If you're not completely naked,

                       wrap your beautiful robe of words around you,

                       and sleep.

                                                         - Rumi

Our Ascension

As you search your mind, your soul, your heart, you may find that you've been living in a dark dream for most of your life, or maybe you haven't.  Maybe you've been living a life of great joy, of on-going enlightenment, one day after another and are now so full of the power of light and love that you could lift up to the highest heights.

Did you know that we were born to fly, to soar spiritually, and become powerful enough to change matter and create - maybe even the great pyramids? Maybe we really once did - maybe a million years ago - during an ancient golden age that is long lost from our collective memory.  Hopi (Native American) sages say that the human experience on Earth has had five rounds and each one has somehow self-destructed.  We are now in our fifth round. This time we won't self destruct.  We are going to make it.  I believe it.

We will each begin to spread our wings when and as we access our own power, our own self-determination to pursue our own dreams, our own blueprint, which I discussed yesterday. Until we do that, we are locked down, tethered to the cave, by our fear.  When we become free and filled with the joy of life, the power of our own creative spirit, we will begin to extend our spiritual wings.  Fear is an anchor, a cage, a dungeon.  Liberty and freedom open us to our own power and creativity.  The world needs each and every one of us to extend our wings as far as they can reach and then lift up, feel the power throughout our selves, our lives, our bodies and allow that power to extend through to the tips of our great magnificent spiritual wings, filling us completely with the power of God's light, love, and life.

Then, we will restore our beautiful Earth. We will reduce our populations by honoring the dignity of each person which includes limiting our population.  We will honor all of life on this precious planet. We will remember how to be kind.  We will ensure that every child has clean water, nutritious food, education, and love. We will grow spiritually until we are so full of God's great spiritual light and love that we will all become like angels in our ability to create, heal, and love - love as we've never loved before. 

This is my prayer for all of us.  My prayer, my blueprint on my own internal vision board, is that we would all be filled with the light of heaven. It's there if we would open our minds, our whole selves to it and be very intentional about what we seek for our lives individually and collectively.  I pray and envision that we would all become joyous, loving, great beings of light.  I pray that we would all unfurl our tightly bound wings and spread them until all their tips touched and we wrapped the globe with our light and healed our beautiful Earth, a perfect home for us.  And, in that great celebration of life, light, and love, I pray we would all ascend to a higher dimension while still on the Earth.