Light Candles              By Sandy Jones

I love to light candles. I love candle light.

Candles are symbolic of the Eternal Light of Truth. Candles remind us of the Divine Light within our heart. The Flame of Truth that never goes out.

I will light my candles for me and for you.

Do you remember all those votive candles glowing and flickering in the ancient churches of Europe? I am taken back to a few past lives lived there, knowing all that, seeking God.

I light candles on the birthday cake for happy party celebrations. Nothing like a good birthday party!

Candles sparkle and glow, warming the heart.

I will light candles.

I will shine in the Light of the Flame in My Heart.

There is only God’s Light from which all things, all matter, images, thoughts, ideas, arise.

I am the Light, right now; Life is Light and I Live! Life does not go out, the Light is without beginning and without end.

One day I realized I had to simply stop predetermining what 'enlightenment' looked like.

I had to be it, to just be myself--to see what 'enlightenment' looks like. It looks like me as a little 7 year old girl. Oh yes, I know her. And this sweet, real, genuine, authentic Child is what enlightenment looks like.

I gave my self a chance to be my self, to be true to my self. I uncovered my True Identity. It does not look like what I thought ‘enlightenment’ would look like. No, it is much better than that, and a million times more real than that.

I laugh at the audacity of the "old man's" limited thinking and his arrogance, such an adult, such an intellect.

As the 7 year old, I am already enlightened. That is the Truth. Now I live It, right now, where else and who else can be Here, but this Eternal Light of God’s All Inclusive Identity.

It did take getting here to be here. That is true. The climber climbs and then he gets to the top and sees there was no climb and is no climber.

What a delightful Journey God Is. I am back to being a little girl again. This is marvelous, this is the one I was looking for.

So, yes, it is a simple realization that I was already here.

"Enlightened" simply means I am who I always have been.

That's It. It is not much more than that, but it is more than anything I could have ever dreamed or hoped for.

And now this realization opens a door to a new world, and wonders upon wonders come dancing into my life. I am the Child in the Meadow. This little girl can see Heaven on Earth. Wonder of wonders.

No more questions. This is It.

God is Light, God is the Ineffable being the Eternal Light that is Thc Child, That Is This Life I am.

No other Life can I be.

"Love Your brother like Your own soul, watch over him like the apple of Your eye." As Awareness, everyone is an aspect of My Self,

But I do think we create our own trap if we decide we know what ‘enlightenment’ is supposed to look like. Then we try to live up some imagined idea. We forget how very close and real the Self is and there is no thing and no other to live up to.

It is certainly not what I thought it was. I thought I was to be very silent and perhaps a bit like Jesus Christ, or Buddha or Gandhi, or Einstein---but no, I only have to be me, the self I was before time, the one whom I have always been.

What a joy and pleasure this is.

All I had to do was throw away the “enlightened" mold that I was trying to make myself fit into. I just could not bend myself enough to fit into it--- Now, I let myself free.

I realized that the Infinite All will never fit inside a mold. Life is certainly not supposed to fit into any mold. Life will not be bound to any frame wor or container of any kind.

This Awareness I Am is uncontained, Unbound, Infinity.

We find the Child and Live again.

I suspect there are as many unique, distinct, wild, unbound 'looks' or 'kinds'of Child's Spirit expressed as there are people!

I am throwing out the word 'enlightenment'.

Any time I hear there is something I have to attain, some kind of idea I am to achieve or fit the description, I know it is not true.

God does not hold me to some precept called ‘enlightened’. No, He does love me to be me, His adorable Child. And I love this little girl. I am the one God knows before the world was. I know who I am and God knows who I am, He knows my name as eternity.

No, I do not have to get or gain or figure out anything before I can be me.

I will bow to no man, to no false authority; be it government, church or some philosophical system that wants to see my enlightenment credentials.

Neither the church or the government has power over this Child I am, this Light I am.

"Preach from Your rooftops that which You will hear in Your ear. For no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, nor does he put it in a hidden place, but rather he sets it on a lampstand so that all who come in and go out will see its light."

These grand visions of Truth come to me free and without rules or restrictions on what I am do with them. The heart knows what to do with them and does it.

It is remarkable that when I give, I find it given back to me ten fold and pouring out, running over the brim.

So much Love and bounty and happiness I cannot hold it all.

I am the Child I am. I just be me, this original Self and that alone is the way to light candles in the world.

 

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