Remember The Child By The Sea    By Sandy Jones

The world seems to be getting more complex and tumultuous. Yet right here and now is an all pervading, illimitable Peace and Stillness that never leaves or forsakes us. Right Here Divine Presence stands Silent and Pure, Immutable, Undisturbed and always with us. More than just 'available' to us, this Presence is our very being.

We are the Living Awareness of God.

William Samuel wrote a 400 page book about the importance of the Child in our search for Truth. The book is titled The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics.

Over the years I have come to understand what this Child is. Williaim was right, the Child place is where we connect with God/Reality/Truth.

This Child is very much the same child we were as children. When we remember the days of our childhood, that remembering reconnects us to an inner spirit of joy and delight where we rediscover the unbound wonder that we once lived in the world.

This Child Spirit/Soul is as close to Truth, Knowing and Reality as we can get while here in this time-space world. This Child that is within all of us, sits at the right hand of God.

I grew up at the beach in Southern California. I loved the water, I loved being at the beach. When summer came along, I'd spend every day at the beach.

From the time I was a little toddler my mother took us to the beach almost every day of summer. When I was perhaps 8 years old I was allowed to go the beach by myself.

I remember that in early June there was often a low overcast sky in the morning, but I knew the sun would come out by noon. It always did.

Such wonder that child was; so eager with exuberant anticipation of another day at the beach. Beach towel and barefoot the little girl heads out, with unbound spirit of freedom and anticipation of a great and glorious Summer day ahead.

I loved the ocean, I loved the hot glistening sand, the gentle sea breeze, the sunshine and the sparkling, glimmering, flickering rays of light dancing on the water, sounds of screeching gulls mixed with the lull and swish of the waves braking and washing on shore.

I would spend hours in the water riding the waves. Sometimes I could catch the perfect wave, the ride was so smooth and exhilarating.

Sometimes I'd get crushed and tumbled, tossed and thrown about. When that happened I would just let go and not fight the wave, I would let the wave take me and eventually the surge would lift me up and spring me back to the surface; the power of the turmoil freed me from it.

But, it was those dives beneath and beyond the pounding of the waves that I found to be so marvelous and wondrous. I would dive under the waves to avoid getting caught in the churn of the crushing power. Under the waves, beneath the wave, I would be suddenly and instantly steeped in a vast deep calm of silence and an immense swaying stillness. A sanctuary from the tumbling throws of the pounding crushing waters exists just beyond and beneath the mighty waves above me.

Life is Wonderful. Life is Good. Life is like that deep crystal-blue ocean and those magical waves and summer days at the beach.

The child we are lives on the very edge of God, next to, up close, near and dear to Thee.

Now these years later, I know for certain that there is a Divine Child within everyone of us and it is much the same as the little girl or boy we used to be. This Child is Real and is untouched by age and unhurt by the losses that come with time. There is a bright and tender Child that walks with God and that Child is within us. This Child knows the Truth intuitively she knows God's Grace is the very Heart and Wisdom of our Soul. The Spirit of the Child is our Eternal Identity, and Its Presence is Right Here, Now and Always and never dies.

The Child knows and the Child is known. Love does not ever leave us or forget who we are; God knows us, God knows each and everyone of us--God will always know us; God and His Child are One.

So, maybe the story of matter and time is all about our return to the child we once were which is a return to living nearer the Truth. We come back to the Child that lives with God; the child that lives within every one of us. Even those who think they have lost the child entirely, you still always have a tiny seed of the original child you once were. When we begin to water that seed we find the child is ready and waiting to be up and out again, to come alive again and live again.

I anticipate Joyful Days ahead. There is a Spirit within us that is not lead by the news, by the agendas of governments and education or by any 'out side' so called authorities or controlling groups. No human system or organization can stand between you and your Child Light and God. There is Light in us. This Light is yours and mine. It belongs to each of us alone and It is given to us by God. There is Light within you and this Light needs no instruction on how to shine.

No government or religious authority can snuff out your Spirit, nor can another take the Spirit from us.

We know very well, for our self, all the answers we need.

Trust Your Self. Life is between You and God alone.

You will hear the answers and they will come to you in a language your heart understands.

Happy Summer Joy and Sunshine to all, Sandy

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