A Story of Life - for children of all ages

Originally channeled a version of this in 1989, with the help of one of my primary guides, Bernadette. She helped me do a little revising recently, and suggested I share it here, for our children perhaps, or perhaps for the child in each of us.
It's copyrighted, but you are welcome to share it as Spirit moves you.
Love and peace,
bill
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A STORY OF LIFE - for Children of All Ages

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 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 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, still part of One Light.

Each ray could see and know the other rays, and could see and know the One Light which expressed them all. They all loved One Light, and were grateful that One Light branched out like that, making it possible for them to shine and share the Light with all the other rays One Light expressed. Though each new ray was unique, they were all part of One Light, and One Light enjoyed being all those different rays—all shining One Light and all loving with One Love.

So One Light continued to branch out more and more rays, and each new ray was also able to branch out more rays of light. And all of them were connected to One Light and to each other, and they all loved One Light in all its many branches.

For a very long time, One Light and its branches created more 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 dancing, shimmering Light show.

But then something very sad happened. Some of the individual rays became quite impressed with themselves, and with the idea that they could keep branching out new rays, in any direction they wanted, and 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 started putting so much of their attention on how important they were that they began to think of themselves as ‘separate.’ 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 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 manifested didn’t automatically know they were all connected to One Light and to each other. The new rays were taught that they were separate, and they were led to believe that their identity was only about their shapes and colors. 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 became lonely, jealous, and afraid. They did not know the happiness of Oneness and Love.

They fought and competed, each trying to be more important than others. Many tried to control others. They made up definitions about which shapes and colors were better than others, and about themselves, and about everything. They believed their own definitions about what was true and what wasn’t, and then they tried to force other rays to agree with them. And worse, they tried to make other rays even fear them. And they fought wars over such silly things as who was right or wrong, and about what shapes and colors were better than others.

Deep inside, they were all really the One Light, manifesting in a zillion different rays. But now, 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 get 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 manifesting 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 for them, OTHER rays did NOT forget their Real Connections in the ever-expanding web of Light. These were Loving Rays, and they still knew One Light’s Love, and they wanted to help their confused and lonely brother and sister rays to remember who they were. To help them 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 get the lonely rays’ attention. They shined One Light’s Love upon them, and in them, and all around them. They tried to use their Light to penetrate that thick cloud of illusion, to help the lonely rays to see more clearly. Tried to help them see that they were not alone. To help them see that they were part of a family. To help them see that ALL rays are connected.

Tried to help them see that separation is a great big illusion. Tried to help them see that the Real Light was still right there inside them, and that it was only their loneliness and fear that prevented them from seeing and knowing this. Tried to help them see that the Real Light was still waiting patiently to shine through them again, as the One Light of Love that is really Life itself.

Over time, the Loving Rays did awaken more and more of the lonely rays, and the Light that began to shine through the lonely rays grew steadily brighter and brighter. They began to shine this brighter Light on each other, too, and on the world around them, illuminating it like they’d never seen it before. And the most wonderful thing happened. One by one, they began to realize that they were not ‘separate.’ They began to let go of their fear. They were no longer afraid, no longer lonely, no longer jealous. As the cloud of illusion became thinner and thinner, the lonely rays became Loving Rays.

Eventually, there were enough Loving Rays sharing and shining the brilliant Light of Love that the cloud of illusion disappeared completely, and all the rays Realized deep in their hearts that they were all One Family. Now they really knew that they were One with each other, and with the One Light of Love that is truly Life Itself.

And, of course, they lived happily ever after.