It is a long line, stretching from the past into the future, this Pathway of Light. Embedded in love, sunk in a foundation of Knowing, it is a touchstone and a lamp for others to follow. We leave bread crumbs behind for those who would follow us, as we ourselves follow in the footprints of those who have gone before.

It is not a solitary path, as some would have us believe, but a walk with many that guide and support us along our way. Sometimes our teachers appear robed in masks of adversity and pain, other times they reflect gentle love and encouragement. Yet, always, we are guided.

 Sometimes we feel the fine hand of love and compassion, other times we feel utterly alone. Our teachers come with bodies and without; and at times even the Universe itself seems to nudge us along our path. And yet, even when we appear to be stalled, we are never alone, our learning and growth never delayed.

For it is indeed to hone these skills of living and loving that takes us on this path, and it is impossible to learn of such things without entering into the raging stream called life. So none of us receives special dispensation that allows us to walk above the chaos, for it is IN the chaos that we begin to know Self.

Yet this is not some test, some torture to see what we will endure for the sake of perfection, but instead a living example, burned into our being, that allows us to find those choices that open the path to our heart, to Self, to Knowing.

Discovered in this way, to the very core of our being, the way becomes clear in every strand, every sinew.  

We are Love.     

copyright 2005 - Jacque Dempster