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 theLight."
The Little Soul was so happy, for it had figured out what all the soulsin 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 feltstirrings inside, and now wanted to be who it was. And so the LittleSoul went back to God (which is not a bad idea for all souls who want tobe 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, andanother thing altogether to actually be it. I want to feel what it'slike 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. Youalways 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 nothingbut what you are; and so, there is no easy way for you to experienceyourself 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 candleswho 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 theSun at all; for it would not shine as brightly. Yet, how to knowyourself as the Light when you are amidst the Light -that is thequestion."
"Well," the Little Soul perked up, "you're God. Think of something!"
Once more God smiled. "I already have," God said. "Since you cannot seeyourself as the Light when you are in the Light, we'll surround you withdarkness."
"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, tobe afraid of, unless you decide that there is. You see, we are making itall up. We are pretending."
"Oh," said the Little Soul, and felt better already.
Then God explained that, in order to experience anything at all, theexact opposite of it will appear. "It is a great gift," God said,"because without it, you could not know what anything is like. You couldnot know Warm without Cold, Up without Down, Fast without Slow. Youcould not know Left without Right, Here without There, Now withoutThen."
"And so," God concluded, "when you are surrounded with darkness, do notshake your fist and raise your voice and curse the darkness. Rather be aLight unto the darkness, and don't be mad about it. Then you will knowWho You Really Are, and all others will know, too. Let your Light shineso that everyone will know how special you are!"
"You mean it's okay to let others see how special I am?" asked theLittle Soul.
"Of course!" God chuckled. "It's very okay! But remember,'special' doesnot mean 'better.' Everybody is special, each in their own way! Yet manyothers have forgotten that. They will see that it is okay for them tobe special only when you see that it is okay for you to be special."
"Wow," said the Little Soul, dancing and skipping and laughing andjumping with joy. "I can be as special as I want to be!"
"Yes, and you can start right now," said God, who was dancing andskipping 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 beingspecial has a lot of parts to it. It is special to be kind. It isspecial to be gentle. It is special to be creative. It is special to bepatient. 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 waysto be special!" the Little Soul then exclaimed. "It is special to behelpful. It is special to be sharing. It is special to be friendly. Itis special to be considerate of others!"
"Yes!" God agreed, "and you can be all of those things, or any part ofspecial you wish to be, at any moment. That's what it means to be theLight."
"I know what I want to be, I know what I want to be!" the Little Soulannounced with great excitement. "I want to be the part of specialcalled '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 beforgiving. 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 asthough 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 nota 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 theword had gone forth that the Little Soul was having this extraordinaryconversation with God, and everyone wanted to hear what they weresaying. Looking at the countless other souls gathered there, the LittleSoul had to agree. None appeared less wonderful, less magnificent, orless perfect than the Little Soul itself. Such was the wonder of thesouls gathered around, and so bright was their Light, that the LittleSoul 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. "Iwanted to experience myself as One Who Forgives. I wanted to know whatthat part of special felt like."
And the Little Soul learned what it must feel like to be sad. But justthen 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 nextlifetime and do something for you to forgive."
"But why? Why would you do that?" the Little Soul asked. "You, who are aBeing of such utter perfection! You, who vibrate with such a speed thatit creates a Light so bright that I can hardly gaze upon you! Whatcould cause you to want to slow down your vibration to such a speed thatyour bright Light would become dark and dense? What could cause you ~who are so light that you dance upon the stars and move through theKingdom with the speed of your thought--to come into my life and makeyourself 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 samething for me. Don't you remember? Oh, we have danced together, you andI, 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 justdon'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, thegood 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 bringingto the other the exact and perfect opportunity to Express and toExperience Who We Really Are. And so," the Friendly Soul explainedfurther, "I will come into your next lifetime and be the 'bad one' thistime. I will do something really terrible, and then you can experienceyourself 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 ofsomething."
Then the Friendly Soul seemed to turn serious, and said in a quietvoice, "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 thisnot-so-nice thing. I will have to pretend to be something very unlikemyself. And so, I have but one favour to ask of you in return."
"Oh, anything, anything!" cried the Little Soul, and began to dance andsing, "I get to be forgiving, I get to be forgiving!"
Then the Little Soul saw that the Friendly Soul was remaining veryquiet.
"What is it?" the Little Soul asked. "What can I do for you? You aresuch an angel to be willing to do this for me!"
"Of course this Friendly Soul is an angel!" God interrupted. "Everyoneis! Always remember: I have sent you nothing but angels."
And so the Little Soul wanted more than ever to grant the FriendlySoul'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 Soulreplied, "in the moment that I do the worst to you that you couldpossible 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 rememberyou as I see you right here, right now!"
"Good," said the Friendly Soul, "because, you see, I will have beenpretending so hard, I will have forgotten myself. And if you do notremember me as I really am, I may not be able to remember for a verylong 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 alongand 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 toexperience myself as Who I Am.
" And so, the agreement was made. And the Little Soul went forth into anew lifetime, excited to be the Light, which was very special, andexcited to be that part of special called Forgiveness.
And the Little Soul waited anxiously to be able to experience itself asForgiveness, and to thank whatever other soul made it possible. And atall the moments in that new lifetime, whenever a new soul appeared onthe scene, whether that new soul brought joy or sadness--and especiallyif it brought sadness--the Little Soul thought of what God had said.
"Always remember," God had smiled, "I have sent you nothing but angels."
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