The Smallest Things in Life
What is [happening] is a general disbelief that any single one of us can make a difference . . .
. . . and what's needed is a crystal clear understanding that it's going to take every single one of us to make a difference if we are to strive to make the very best difference that we can, if we are to improve our situation, if we are to genuinely analyze our current global status quo and fairly and evenly evaluate exactly where we are, exactly what we're up against, exactly what the pros and the cons are in our ammunition arsenal [as it pertains to spiritual warfare.] And I'm not talking about . . . I should say "toolbox" and not (laughung) "ammunition arsenal." Let's just move along to a better idea and call that "in our toolbox;" because even I need to get out of any type of mentality that's going to bring a hinderence to the creative process - and just to be clear, anyone who says "Yes, well we have the struggle of good and evil in life, so what about that process which creates destruction?" In a situation like that we have to look at everything for what it actually is; and in order for one to create destruction [that desire] lends itself to that specific element of creativity which was bourne out of the goodness of our One True God. More specifically to pinpoint that - evil is wholly, that's "w-h-o-l-l-y" wholly dependant upon good for its very survival whereas good has no handicap like that. [Evil] needs to be clutched onto in order to attain or sustain fulfillment, [whereas good freely flows.] There must be some type of target for evil to exercize itself [upon.] For good, there doesn't need to be a target, there is only opportunity; and so therein lies the difference.
What we want to come to grips with is the fact that every single one of us can make a difference. Not meaning that any single one of us has the burden of trying to change the world for all of us to the better - but in reasonable form, with reasonable thought, reasonable deduction and [with] reasonable action taken, it is (again) those small things in life that are going to make the difference. It's caring just that little bit more than what any one of us used to - that's what would be the spark that someone else will receive. The light, the energy, the positive presence that is available in the world can only be benefitted from by those people who knowingly put themselves into a place to receive that energy from that good presence. Otherewise it's just like wearing sunglasses in a movie theatre, you see . . . . I see you right now . . . (he puts sunglasses on) and yeah, I can still see you with the sunglasses on but it's not what it was, it's something else . . . and so in like principle, we want to take off any type of spiritual blinders that we're wearing (he takes them off) and try to take more of a fair-minded look at things, everything for what it actually is, for how things actually move, and what actually is beneficial and what actually isn't; and the fertile ground to plant those seeds in has to come from a perspective of open-mindedness and again with a fairness, and [in the process of] an even-handed invitation, a knowing invitation:
Take compassion upon innocence, take comapssion upon the mundane, contribute.
It takes so very little to help so very much - and it is within our grasp to reach out into each of our small, little worlds, or for those peope who are in a position of higher audience - OK - some people can just (he snaps his fingers) make a gesture and they have mass attention. (pause) How little it would take for any one of us to make something better for someone else, and in so doing heal ourselves in the process. It's that type of Divine healing that is available in all of us since all of us have a Divinity within us that is dormant until awakened [though] only as valuable as we make it out to be, and likewise only as available as we make it out to be. This is thoroughly outlined thoroughly in the book of Hebrews in The Holy Bible; and it's true whether one is addressing principles of religion or any other facet of life - what you . . . put your faith into . . . becomes your most trusted set of values; and so religion or not, what you trust the most becomes your faith and your faith become your truth. And . . . that's . . . universal . . . for anybody around, and it's [true for] you personally and it's the same thing for me. And so for here, for today, for now, we want to realize our opportunity through the smallest of things that can help. After all, (gesturing to a brick wall) this wall, for example, is not one peice of material. It's made out of many different peices of material, different bricks. And they're held together with an adhesive, and in this case it's the concrete. That's what builds the wall, that's what gives this wall its presence, its power against the elements, its stablility, its duration, and ultimately its value against whatever it is measured. [Our "glue" is our compassion].
It's not too late. It's really not too late to begin now. It's never too late. Many people will agree with me that as long as you're still alive, there's still hope. There's still hope. And as long as we can reach each other and do something helpful, no matter how small, even if it's opening a door for somebody who has their arms full, or picking something up off the ground that somebody didn't know they dropped, whatever it might be, it genuinely is the very smallest things in life that make up every day that we live, every moment that we live, every year, every journey, and ultimately every lifetime. And this, only a beginning to what comes after.
I don't think heaven occurs in only one place; and so until then, peace.
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