Surrendering To The Light

In the fall of 1972 as I began my sophomore year in college, my sister joined me as a freshman, sharing an apartment near campus along with 4 other friends.  Janice & I had grown up very close, being only one year apart in age.  We were so excited to be together again at school, though we were far from our home in Tennessee.  Mother told me later that Daddy cried all the way across that 2000-mile drive home, feeling the loss of leaving his two little girls so far away from him.

I recognized my father’s feelings last week as I attended my two youngest—my baby girls—going off to school, leaving my husband and I to what is commonly known as an empty nest.  While my drive home was only a little less than 6 hours, the loss and recognition of the changes were very real.

I had feelings of tenderness, leaving my youngest daughter so far away, knowing that she is brilliant beyond compare, and yet she never liked to be very far from home.  How was she going to make it without the loving comforts of home we had shared for these 18 years?

But as I drove out of that small college town towards home, I only made it a couple of miles when I stopped my car along the road and called her.  I realized that my tender heart and feelings of doubt would not serve my incredible daughter, who had just graduated valedictorian and was attending on a presidential scholarship—good grief, my thoughts turned to this girl can totally rock that campus all by herself if she chooses. Everything she had ever touched had turned to gold, and this new experience would only give her another chance to do it again in a slightly different way.

So I called her, and told her a different opinion of how I saw her—one of being incredibly capable of making her new life just as successful and wonderful as anyone ever possibly could.  I told her that if she was having her doubts and feelings of concern, what did she think the other thousands of freshmen without her power skills were going to do and feel?  As I released my own feelings of loss, shifting my perspective to a more truthful one of potential and success, and sent that message out to her on the waves of love, I believe I gave my beautiful daughter a much better going away gift:  As I surrendered to the truth–the light–I gave her my support for a beautiful and comfortable life of empowered living all on her own.

I recently had another opportunity to remember first hand this concept, as I guided a client on a meditation where I was able to re-experience with her what it truly means to surrender to the light.  (Interestingly, as the same lesson shows up in several different modalities in a short period of time, I know it is to be the lesson of the day.)

If the light is God and all the creations of God, including you and I, and if light is the essence of what powers our lives here on earth, and all the truth that includes, then light is what and where we must put our focus. In this guided vision, the light showed up like a big cloud of pink, like a giant cushion, catching my client as she let go of everything about herself in the physical or material realm and became one with spirit.

The material world is what we see, feel, and experience, so it becomes very easy to forget ourselves as beings of spirit or light. Yet we know that when we let go of that feeling of being of this world, we feel completely free, which is the risk we take when surrendering to the light.

Letting go is like taking a leap into a black hole—we don’t know what will become of us.  We think we will possibly fall forever, that nothing will catch us, and we don’t quite know what we will find there if we are finally caught.  We hold onto what we know.  We are comfortable with the physical, if that is all we know.

Yet letting go and allowing that feeling of surrender is the required path to get to the light.  Christ represents the friend we all have who will take care of all our physical needs and responsibilities while we exit to the light–surrendering, and He also represents the light that will catch us when we fall.  As I have come to know Christ more intimately, I know He is always asking us to surrender to Him, and I know it is an incredibly safe place to be!

In her meditation, my client was instructed with the following words (which were given through spirit)—I invite everyone to allow this experience to bless you as well, as you get a glimpse of what it might be like to surrender your own lives to the light:

You will be surrendering everything that you are, everything that you think, everything you have been given, everything you have learned.  Total surrender is required if you accept this calling.  Surrrendering is the equal partner to the light.  It’s the code word that is required to enter into such a place of light, because you have to go willing to obey the light, which means you surrender your own agenda.

So just allow yourself to feel what that feels like to fall into surrender now.  Imagine where you go when you surrender.  And to surrender your own will and your thoughts and your own personal power to God, you now know this is what makes you become one with God.  Later, you can return to embrace all things material from a different perspective, with different eyes, but for now, you must completely surrender to the light.

Once totally immersed in the light, you become the partner of the light—one with God, as if you are living inside Him, in His presence, and all that represents.  There is a great amount of love in you now.  In fact, the love in you now is so big, you want to give it to the whole world, and if you did, it would almost consume the whole world, it is so powerful, being one with God.  Your love is so strong, so much stronger than anything this world could throw at you.

So bring this world with all its trials, troubles, and people—all of this world—allow it into your heart, and heal it with the grace of God, through you.  Just love it and love it and love it and love it, until each part of the world also surrenders, gives up, gives in, lets go of thinking they are alone and have to do it by themselves.

Now the whole world is embraced with love—every person, every part, consumed with magnificent light—the great healer, truth, the bringer of joy and light, just continue to watch as everything you touch also surrenders to the light—and as you breath, just notice how much lovelier the world is when you are one with the light.  When you realize this is who you are—one with the light—a beautiful essence of purple light—pure love—let it fill your physical body now, consuming your body, any part that feels any resistance, any struggle, any part that is stressed—allow it to be consumed by the love of God—and breathe that in.  Let it cycle and course through every system in your body, intricate and complex, including communication with all other parts, in divine order, which it always has been, but now you are aware of it, a part of it, consciously aware and loving it.  Now your engines are really going, because your spirit and intellect are one—the exquisite state of harmony.  Let it course through you, cycling in the direction it wants to go—correcting and aligning every part of you with spirit—with all the elements of contentment that brings, the ultimate of which is the state of joy.  Allow that joy to settle deep within.

This spiritually guided meditation continued to show my client certain instruments she possessed which would guide her and enlighten her.  Guardian angels were there and made themselves known.  Messages were given that brought additional clarity concerning her mission.  Peaceful comfort was promised as her constant companion. It became clear that she alone did not do anything, but by surrendering herself to the light, the light could do magnificent work through her.

The lesson I want to leave with everyone is that such a vision is true for all of us.  We are all children of a loving God who has not left us to fend for ourselves in a material world that is often full of violence and lacking in truthful living.  Just knowing these truths gives us hope.  If you allow such hope to circulate through your body, you can literally feel how such hope fills us with courage!  Armed with such truth and courage, we can live the empowered life we came here to experience.

Life is perfect: we are perfectly divine beings—literal offspring of God, perfectly and unconditionally loved, and remembering this, we can succeed!  Trust Spirit Now!