(for Children of All Ages)

by

Bernadette

Channeled through Charbern (Bill) 1989

  Once upon a time, there was One very bright Light.  It was the brightest light anywhere, and it shined everywhere.  This One Light, also known as One Love, was very happy, but had no one to share Its happiness.  This didn’t make the Light unhappy; but One Light decided that it would be nice to have other lights, too, so they could all appreciate each other and shine their beautiful light on and for each other. 

But One Light was the only Light.  In fact, One Light was all that existed anywhere.

 So One Light began to branch out in individual rays of Light.  Each ray was a different expression of the One Light.  Each was an individual ray, and was yet still connected to One Light.

Each ray could see and know all the other rays, and the One Light which expressed them all. They all loved One Light, and were grateful that One Light branched out the way It did, making it possible for each of them to exist and shine and share the Light with all the other rays One Light expressed.

Though each new ray was unique, they were all part of the One Light, Who enjoyed being all those different rays—all shining One Light and all loving the One Light of Love that gave them life.

So One Light continued branching out more and more rays, and each of these was able to continue the process.  Each new ray of Light was able to branch out into more and more rays—all connected to One Light and to each other, and all loving One Light in all Its many branches.

For a very long time, One Light and its branches created new branches, new rays, in all different directions.  It was like a glorious spider web of Light that kept growing larger, shining ever more beautifully in all its variety and detail.  One Light and all Its rays Loved being this wondrous Light show, dancing and shimmering throughout creation.

But then something very sad happened.  Some of the individual rays got carried away with the idea that they could keep branching out new rays, in any direction they wanted, in any color they wanted, and even in any shape they wanted to express.  Some of these rays began to think that they were more important than some of the other rays, and they started to brag about the lights they could make.

They began to forget that they were connected to One Light, and that they were part of One Light, and that it was One Light that they were really shining and expressing.  They began to forget that all of this whole, glorious spider web was really none other than the One Light of Love that is Life Itself.

In other words, some of the rays began to forget who they were.  As they continued to branch out, the new rays they expressed didn’t know they were all connected to One Light and to each other. The new rays were given the impression that their identity was only about the shapes and colors in which they were formed.  They didn’t know they were the Light Itself that formed those shapes and colors.

They were SEPARATED FROM KNOWING THEIR CONNECTION to One Light, and to all One Light’s expression, in all shapes and colors.

They started to compare themselves to each other, and to say things like, “I’m a better shape than you are,” or “I’m a better color than you are.”  They felt more and more separate and disconnected, and they experienced loneliness and fear.  They did not know the happiness of Oneness and Love.

They fought and competed, each trying to feel more important than others.  Many tried to control others. They decided what was truth, and tried to force other rays to agree with them, and worse—to fear them.  They fought over such silly things as who was right, and which shapes and colors were better than others.

Deep inside, they were all really the One Light, continuing to express, branching out in a zillion different rays.  But so very many of them just didn’t know this, and had never been told of their connectedness.

They were filled with so many different ideas about who and what they were, and about who and what all the other rays were, that the light they did shine was a very confused version of One Light—such a confused version, in fact, that they no longer bore much resemblance to that Light which is known as Love.

When One Light cannot shine as the Real Light that It is, Its expression becomes cloudy.  Individual rays distorted through selfishness, loneliness and fear.  Worse, they get farther and farther from knowing and sharing One Light’s Love, which was the whole reason in the first place that One Light began expressing them.

These self-centered branches and rays didn’t know what they were missing, or how confused they were.  They didn’t know the joy and love of sharing the One Light that was really still part of who and what they were.  They only knew separateness, loneliness and fear.

Fortunately, other rays did not forget their connections in the ever-expanding web of Light.  They still knew One Light’s Love, and wanted to help their confused and lonely brother and sister rays to remember that they were so much more than just the shapes and colors of their forms.

These Loving Rays tried many times in many ways to shine One Light’s Love upon the lonely rays.   Tried to share the knowledge that all rays are connected.  Tried to help them see that their loneliness and fear clouded the One Light that was really still there inside them, patiently waiting to shine through them as the One Light of Love that is really Life itself.

 This is not a fairy tale.  It’s a story of life.  Real life.  God/Goddess/All That is IS the One Light.  All of creation - all the individual rays and branches of Light everywhere, in all their many shapes and colors - are really connected to God and to each other through God, the One Light of Love that is Life Itself.

The planet Earth is one of those places where the individual rays got mixed up in selfishness and fear a long time ago.  A place where Light has become hazy with notions of separateness.  A very lonely place for many, because there is so little love and so little sharing here, compared to how beautiful and happy it could and still can be.