Neighbors

Do you ever wonder about the people in your neighborhood—or why certain types of people surround you? We may be more prone to wonder why if the people in question are difficult to love.

Spirit says: Every neighbor in your orbit has been carefully selected to reflect aspects of you.  The neighbor you like, the neighbor you envy, the neighbor who is arrogant, the neighbor who is crazy, the neighbor who doesn’t talk to you, the neighbor who gets what he wants regardless of what it does to others… You can love those aspects of yourself and then you will love your neighbors or you can love your neighbors and then you will love those aspects of yourself. You need to recognize your unity with God—meaning that spark of Light within yourself—and then you need to see your neighbor’s spark.  You will then know your unity with each other. Envy comes from focusing on things you feel you don’t have. Everything you think you need is inside of you. Focus on your inner Light, because everything you need is there. 

The same holds true for those neighbors who you esteem—those neighbors who are courteous, generous and empathetic. They too are carefully selected to reflect aspects of you. Sometimes it is just as difficult for us to accept our “Golden Shadow” as it is to recognize and accept our less attractive qualities.

See yourself expand beyond the boundaries of your skin, beyond the boundaries of your house, your property lines, the telephone poles, your neighborhood—beyond all of the man-made boundaries. Pull back your pride and walk through the gates of heaven.

No matter what the question, the answer is LOVE.