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Once upon no time there was a Little Soul who said to God, "I
know who I am!"
And God said, "That's wonderful! Who are you?"
And the Little Soul shouted, "I'm the Light!"
God smiled a big smile, "That's right!" God exclaimed. "You are
the Light."
The Little Soul was so happy, for it had figured out what all the
souls in the Kingdom were there to figure out. "Wow," said the
Little Soul, "this is really cool!"

But soon, knowing who it was was not enough. The Little Soul
felt stirrings inside, and now wanted to be who it was. And so
the Little Soul went back to God (which is not a bad idea for all
souls who want to be Who They Really Are) and said, "Hi, God!
Now that I know Who I Am, is it okay for me to be it?"
And God said, "You mean you want to be Who You Already
Are?
"Well," replied the Little Soul, "it's one thing to know Who I
Am, and another thing altogether to actually be it. I want to
feel what it's like to be the Light!"
"But you already are the Light," God repeated, smiling again.
"Yes, but I want to see what that feels like!" cried the Little
Soul.
"Well," said God with a chuckle, "I suppose I should have
known. You always were the adventuresome one." Then God's
expression changed. "There's only one thing..."
"What?" asked the Little Soul.
"Well, there is nothing else but the Light. You see, I created
nothing but what you are; and so, there is no easy way for you
to experience yourself as Who You Are, since there is nothing
that you are not."
"Huh?" said the Little Soul, who was not a little confused.
"Think of it this way," said God. "You are like a candle in the
Sun. Oh, you're there all right. Along with a million, ka-gillion
other candles who make up the Sun. And the sun would not be
the Sun without you. Nay, it would be a sun without one of its
candles...and that would not be the Sun at all; for it would not
shine as brightly. Yet, how to know yourself as the Light when
you are amidst the Light--that is the question."
"Well," the Little Soul perked up, "you're God. Think
of something!"
Once more God smiled. "I already have," God said. "Since you
cannot see yourself as the Light when you are in the Light,
we'll surround you with darkness."
"What's darkness?" the Little Soul asked.
God replied, "It is that which you are not."
"Will I be afraid of the dark?" cried the Little Soul.
"Only if you choose to be," God answered. "There is nothing,
really, to be afraid of, unless you decide that there is. You see,
we are making it all up. We are pretending."
"Oh," said the Little Soul, and felt better already.
Then God explained that, in order to experience anything at
all, the exact opposite of it will appear.
"It is a great gift," God said, "because without it, you could not
know what anything is like. You could not know Warm without
Cold, Up without Down, Fast without Slow. You could not know
Left without Right, Here without There, Now without Then."
"And so," God concluded, "when you are surrounded with
darkness, do not shake your fist and raise your voice and curse
the darkness. Rather be a Light unto the darkness, and don't
be mad about it. Then you will know Who You Really Are, and
all others will know, too. Let your Light shine so that everyone
will know how special you are!"
"You mean it's okay to let others see how special I am?" asked
the Little Soul.
"Of course!" God chuckled. "It's very okay! But remember,
'special' does not mean 'better.' Everybody is special, each in
their own way! Yet many others have forgotten that. They will
see that it is okay for them to be special only when you see
that it is okay for you to be special."
"Wow," said the Little Soul, dancing and skipping and laughing
and jumping with joy. "I can be as special as I want to be!"
"Yes, and you can start right now," said God, who was dancing
and skipping and laughing right along with the Little Soul.
"What part of special do you want to be?"
"What part of special?" the Little Soul repeated. "I don't
understand."
"Well," God explained, "being the Light is being special, and
being special has a lot of parts to it. It is special to be kind. It
is special to be gentle. It is special to be creative. It is special
to be patient. Can you think of any other ways it is special to
be?"
The Little Soul sat quietly for a moment. "I can think of lots of
ways to be special!" the Little Soul then exclaimed. "It is
special to be helpful. It is special to be sharing. It is special to
be friendly. It is special to be considerate of others!"
"Yes!" God agreed, "and you can be all of those things, or any
part of special you wish to be, at any moment. That's what it
means to be the Light."
"I know what I want to be, I know what I want to be!" the Little
Soul announced with great excitement. "I want to be the part
of special called 'forgiving'. Isn't it special to be forgiving?"
"Oh, yes," God assured the Little Soul. "That is very special."
"Okay," said the Little Soul. "That's what I want to be. I want to
be forgiving. I want to experience myself as that."
"Good," said God, "but there's one thing you should know."
The Little Soul was becoming a bit impatient now. It always
seemed as though there were some complication.
"What is it?" the Little Soul sighed.
"There is no one to forgive."
"No one?" The Little Soul could hardly believe what had been
said.
"No one!" God repeated. "Everything I have made is perfect.
There is not a single soul in all creation less perfect than you.
Look around you."
It was then that the Little Soul realized a large crowd had
gathered. Souls had come from far and wide ~ from all over
the Kingdom ~ for the word had gone forth that the Little Soul
was having this extraordinary conversation with God, and
everyone wanted to hear what they were saying. Looking at
the countless other souls gathered there, the Little Soul had to
agree. None appeared less wonderful, less magnificent, or less
perfect than the Little Soul itself. Such was the wonder of the
souls gathered around, and so bright was their Light, that the
Little Soul could scarcely gaze upon them.
"Who, then, to forgive?" asked God.
"Boy, this is going to be no fun at all!" grumbled the Little
Soul. "I wanted to experience myself as One Who Forgives. I
wanted to know what that part of special felt like."
And the Little Soul learned what it must feel like to be sad. But
just then a Friendly Soul stepped forward from the crowd.
"Not to worry, Little Soul," the Friendly Soul said, "I will help
you."
"You will?" the Little Soul brightened. "But what can you do?"
"Why, I can give you someone to forgive!"
"You can?"
"Certainly!" chirped the Friendly Soul. "I can come into your
next lifetime and do something for you to forgive."
"But why? Why would you do that?" the Little Soul asked. "You,
who are a Being of such utter perfection! You, who vibrate
with such a speed that it creates a Light so bright that I can
hardly gaze upon you! What could cause you to want to slow
down your vibration to such a speed that your bright Light
would become dark and dense? What could cause you ~ who
are so light that you dance upon the stars and move through
the Kingdom with the speed of your thought--to come into my
life and make yourself so heavy that you could do this bad
thing?"
"Simple," the Friendly Soul said. "I would do it because I love
you."
The Little Soul seemed surprised at the answer.
"Don't be so amazed," said the Friendly Soul, "you have done
the same thing for me. Don't you remember? Oh, we have
danced together, you and I, many times. Through the eons and
across all the ages have we danced. Across all time and in
many places have we played together. You just don't
remember."
"We have both been All Of It. We have been the Up and the
Down of it, the Left and the Right of it. We have been the Here
and the There of it, the Now and the Then of it. We have been
the male and the female, the good and the bad; we have both
been the victim and the villain of it."
"Thus have we come together, you and I, many times before;
each bringing to the other the exact and perfect opportunity to
Express and to Experience Who We Really Are. And so," the
Friendly Soul explained further, "I will come into your next
lifetime and be the 'bad one' this time. I will do something
really terrible, and then you can experience yourself as the
One Who Forgives."
"But what will you do?" the Little Soul asked, just a little
nervously, "that will be so terrible?"
"Oh," replied the Friendly Soul with a twinkle, "we'll think of
something."
Then the Friendly Soul seemed to turn serious, and said in a
quiet voice, "You are right about one thing, you know."
"What is that?" the Little Soul wanted to know.
"I will have to slow down my vibration and become very heavy
to do this not-so-nice thing. I will have to pretend to be
something very unlike myself. And so, I have but one favor to
ask of you in return."
"Oh, anything, anything!" cried the Little Soul, and began to
dance and sing, "I get to be forgiving, I get to be forgiving!"
Then the Little Soul saw that the Friendly Soul was remaining
very quiet.
"What is it?" the Little Soul asked. "What can I do for you? You
are such an angel to be willing to do this for me!"
"Of course this Friendly Soul is an angel!" God interrupted.
"Everyone is! Always remember: I have sent you nothing but
angels."
And so the Little Soul wanted more than ever to grant the
Friendly Soul's request. "What can I do for you?" the Little Soul
asked again.
"In the moment that I strike you and smite you," the Friendly
Soul replied, "in the moment that I do the worst to you that
you could possible imagine ~ in that very moment..."
"Yes?" the Little Soul interrupted, "yes...?"
"Remember Who I Really Am."
"Oh, I will!" cried the Little Soul, "I promise! I will always
remember you as I see you right here, right now!"
"Good," said the Friendly Soul, "because, you see, I will have
been pretending so hard, I will have forgotten myself. And if
you do not remember me as I really am, I may not be able to
remember for a very long time. And if I forget Who I Am, you
may even forget Who You Are, and we will both be lost. Then
we will need another soul to come along and remind us both of
Who We Are."
"No, we won't!" the Little Soul promised again. "I will
remember you! And I will thank you for bringing me this gift ~
the chance to experience myself as Who I Am."
And so, the agreement was made. And the Little Soul went
forth into a new lifetime, excited to be the Light, which was
very special, and excited to be that part of special called
Forgiveness.
And the Little Soul waited anxiously to be able to experience
itself as Forgiveness, and to thank whatever other soul made it
possible. And at all the moments in that new lifetime,
whenever a new soul appeared on the scene, whether that new
soul brought joy or sadness--and especially if it brought
sadness--the Little Soul thought of what God had said.
"Always remember," God had smiled, "I have sent you nothing
but angels."
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