Dear Readers of thelivinglight:
I wanted to share this important message from Julie Redstone on behalf of Response of Light.
With Love,
Matthew
SPIRITUAL FIRST RESPONDERS
Response of Light
Beloved Ones,
In the wake of the recent explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, a tragedy in which 11 ‘first-responders,’ mostly fire-fighters, lost their lives, we have the opportunity to ask: What does it mean to respond, and what does it mean to respond first?In this situation as in many others, it means placing the needs of someone else’s life above one’s own and the necessity of helping them above concerns for one’s own wellbeing or safety. This is a moral imperative that one is called to by the requirements of the heart. It cannot be compelled. It cannot be directed. It must be awakened.Similarly, to respond spiritually to the needs of others at critical moments, moments when one’s own life may be chaotic, or busy, or oppressed, involves a similar awakening of the heart that is willing to place another’s needs before one’s own, to hold the other as one holds oneself; to love another as one loves oneself. This is what it means to be a spiritual ‘first-responder,’ and it must be awakened within the human heart whether it leads to outer action or not.It is in this light that we have an opportunity, today, due to our growing understanding of the unity of all in the oneness of God, to respond collectively to the tragedies that befall others, to respond through prayer, through meditation, through the calling of the heart. It is out of this growing possibility, this growing awakening, that Response of Light was born. It calls to the increasing capacity of the human heart to identify with others, to love others as oneself, to hold all as children of the One.In the presence of tragedy and in the presence of quiet when life seems to be about ordinary things, the ‘Response of Light’ is to be ever ready to offer itself to all as the need and occasion arise.Please join us to serve this noble calling of the human and Divine heart of all. It is an effort whose time has come and whose purposes are blessed.Julie Redstone
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