We all question what we cannot see

We all question what we cannot see, which is why perhaps it is important to be in touch with how we feel.  Whether you were born of Earth or landed from some other place means that you are in no way separate from God.

Who are we that love you, offer you comfort and sometimes guidance?  We are souls that constantly, incessantly, heartfully did not cease from reaching for God, from diving within, becoming not only the drop but the entire ocean.  Keep reaching, beloveds.  Little in your world will make sense these next months perhaps, but as Shams says, it does not mean you cannot have a good time.  That is why it is so important to care for and love yourselves enough to do what you love.

Oh, the eternal question, what is love?  We have all experienced what love is not.  Perhaps that is the place to begin to answer such a question.  To understand love look to the sun, become that sun, rise into that sun and know that it is the pathway to the cosmic Christ. 

You can feel love if you are secure enough in overcoming your pain and suffering.  We can all ask question, but do we all love?  I believe we try and we must be conscious of the need to befriend what is less than Christ, what is less than love.

Go to God, never doubt that there is such a being.  There is.  You will know love when you know, grow and accept the God within you.  No matter what befalls your planet, your race, God will always bear you up and raise you into her embrace.  Remember, look to the sun, the answers you seek are there.  Ask permission and enter.  It is where we live.  And the truth is, you live there also.

Rumi

Below the ice, there is flow underneath

Below the ice, there is flow underneath.  Could that not be the metaphor for your lives?  The tiredness, the appearance of approaching illness, the aches and pains, the imperfections: the ice of your life.  Yet beneath it flows your dreams and desires, emanates the warmth of God.  Ice occurs when change befalls a life, and ice is not forever.  Eventually it warms and flows to nourish the new growth of spring.    

You might ask, oh Rumi, but could we not all do without so much ice?  You would grow bored and complain of the constant heat and warmth supposed perfection provides.  If you seek such perfection you’d best move on to someplace else to find it because it is not here.  What is here is the joy of the quest for such a thing.  It is all in the trying and wanting to. 
Rumi

You could be humble and you could be brave

You could be humble and you could be brave.  You could be frightened yet emerge victorious.  You can do whatsoever you please when you wish to do it.  But you cannot lie to yourself and expect God to agree with you.

Oh yes, we expect God to do many things, but God’s love does not support a lie.  Of what do I speak, my precious ones?  Insecurity.  Remember, your ego personality serves you and not the other way around.  Never, ever was that so!  The dervish would say I sound serious.  Serious I am not.  Loving I am.

Lahiri Mahasaya

We struggle so with feeling

 

We struggle so with feeling.  The new flower pushing against the earth; the stem breaking a hole, breaking thorough, only to find layers of ice and snow.  Awakening the heart of feeling can be like that, and we as human interpret that as struggle and not as a blessing.

We attempt to build bridges that circumvent, rise above and beyond the ill feelings that struggle presents.  We waste so much energy in doing so.  Why do we encounter struggle at all?  Simply because we are breaking through.  We are breaking through resistance, denial, and coming to the door of fear.

Being human this is not easy, yet it is eventually where we all end up, forcing the door of fear.  Some might say, life does not move quick enough for me—that is, so little has been accomplished in so long a time.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  When we welcome God into our life, our experiences, our every breath, perfect order, harmony and manifestation is created.  It is not how others judge and perceive that is significant.  It is how we perceive love and forgive ourselves that matters to God.

My children, let the world build its bridges but come with me, with us, into the dark of night and see it for what truly it is, the road back home.  The chill of morn can be as invigorating as it can be anesthetizing.  Go into your darkest places and discover who you are.  Do not fear.
Rumi

There are a thousand thoughts that we can construe as problems

There are a thousand thoughts that we can construe as problems.  With our talent as God awakening we can create almost anything.  The winter light is deceiving.  It is a deep blessing, not a curse.  Forced to stay within the confines of home, we might know ourselves better.  More than this, we might find the courage to discover what no longer serves as a truth. Spend your waking hours bemoaning the lack of warmth, but this holy time forces the soul to create warmth from within and to banish anything that stands contrary to that end.

These are not easy times; they are not meant to be.  You might think of all of this as calisthenics for the soul, a strengthening.  The opportunity here, my beloveds, is immense!  But it will take work, dedication, commitment.  Rise above the frost.  Your temples are warmed with creativity.  Do something with that; use the winter light to your advantage.  Love your work and work your love.

We show you the lessons of pain and suffering that you might better know your place, your potential, your abilities as teacher, healer and soul.  Always give yourself the kindness you would give others.  If you do not, you rob your soul of the food of joy.  Grow strong, work at loving, but not too hard. 
I am with you always.
Shams

Where is the me that you seek?

Where is the me that you seek?  It is in the opulence, in the strength of your wanting.  It is within the seed of dignity that you plant in every field of life that God provides. 

Seek me first, my children.  I am within thee, and within thee forever I AM.
Divine Mother

Mercy is the countenance of God

Mercy is the countenance of God.  Life, depending on how you view it, is a series of ascending or descending flights of lights.  The open heart drinks from the well of the subtle love, the pure and crystalline light that is the Creator.  The fearful heart, the sheltered heart thirsts, sips from the mire that is the world.

We are the angels of reiterance.  To those who would listen we will help you overcome forgetfulness.  At the crux of any message of self-help is love, self-love, love of the self, love of the god-self; identification with the god-self as the god-self.

To overcome years of familial-implanted belief systems takes a committed focus on everything that is not external, but within.  It means befriending our self.  Befriending, that is interesting; to befriend that which imbues us with life.  How ironic!
Shams

The struggle to make sense, to grasp the meaning of life is something that haunts every soul

The struggle to make sense, to grasp the meaning of life is something that haunts every soul at one time or another.  You ask why am I here at all?  I can answer that through my own discoveries.

We are here to share the love of the Beloved despite all appearances to the contrary.  As souls, the experience of being human is akin to writing a book.  Such a book is placed in a magnificent library.  We are blessed to share this book with God, with one and all.  The struggle to make sense out of life is overcome only by the conscious shedding of resistance.  Aside from love, forgiveness, compassion and kindness, there is no right way, only a way.

I wrote of God as the symbol called Shams.  I wanted to believe, to know, and with the earthly passing of my beloved Shams I did exactly that.  I knew that God was eternally loving, eternally committed, eternally joyful, eternally mischievous, eternally irreverent, eternally Shams.  This is how I know God.

My children, how you know or will know God is entirely up to you, to your level of resistance; because to know God is to know God in all things.  How difficult it is, perhaps impossible at times, to see beyond the personality.  That is why it is of such great importance to foster, acquire and be at peace with a sense of self.  A true, loving self, untarnished, unstained, unmolested by need, by fear, by the resistance that bears the wounds of so many incarnations.

Take heart, beloveds; there is no mountain, but it is your right to believe there is.  The infinite mercy of God provides everything we need to see ourselves as others see us.  Life is but an infinite mirror, a pool of clear water into which each of us might gaze to see our reflection.  So few of these pools are devoid of waves; from whence do they come?  From our resistance, from our insistence on holding tight to the division we call heaven and earth.
Rumi