The experiencer or the experience

Little Soul

There once was a little soul who knew itself to be the light.
"I am the light" it said. "I am the light"

Yet all the knowing of it and all the saying of it, could not
substitute for the experience of it. And in the realm from which this
soul emerged, there was nothing but the light. Every soul was
magnificent and every soul shone with the brilliance of God's awesome
light. So the little soul was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of
the grandest light, of which it was part, it could not see itself,
nor
experience itself as Who and What it really is.

The little soul yearned and yearned to know itself. So great was it's
yearning that God one day said, "Do you know little one, what you
must
do to satisfy this yearning of yours?"

"Oh, what, God? What? I'll do anything!" the little soul said.

"You must separate yourself from the rest of us" God answered, "and
then you must call upon yourself the darkness"

"What is the darkness?" the little soul asked.

"That which you are not" God replied and the little soul understood.

God said to the little soul, "You may choose to be any Part of God
you
wish to be. You are absolute divinity experiencing itself. What
aspect
of divinity do you now wish to experience as You?"

"You mean I have a choice", asked the little soul.

God answered, "Yes. You may choose to experience any aspect of
divinity in, as and through you."

"Okay," said the little soul, "the divinity I want to
experience myself as is that aspect of God called forgivness,"

Well this created a little challenge, as you can imagine. There was
no
one to forgive. All God had created was perfection and love.

"No one to forgive?" asked the little soul, somewhat incredulously.

"No one," God repeated. "Look around you. Do you see any souls less
than perfect, less wonderful than you?"

At this the little soul twirled around and was surprised to see
himself surrounded by all the souls in heaven. They had come from far
and wide throughout the kingdom, because they heard that the little
soul was having an extraordinary conversation with God.

"I see none less perfect than I!" the little soul exclaimed. "Who,
then, shall I have to forgive?"

Just then another soul stepped forward from the crowd.

"You may forgive me" said this friendly soul

"For what?" the little soul asked.

" I will come into your next physical lifetime and do something for
you to forgive," replied the friendly soul.

"But what? What could you, a being of such perfect light do to make
me
want to forgive you?" the little soul wanted to know.

"Oh," smiled the friendly soul, "I'm sure we can think of something."

"But why would you want to do this?" The little soul could not figure
out why a being of such perfection would want to slow down it's
vibration so much that it could do something 'bad'.

"Simple," the friendly soul explained, "I would do it because I love
you. You want to experience yourself as forgiving, don't you? Besides
you've done the same for me."

"I have?" asked the little soul.

"Of course, don't you remember? We've been All Of it, you and I.
We've
been the Up and the Down of it, and the Left and the Right of it.
We've been the Here and the There of it, and the Now and the Then of
it. We've been the Big and the Small of it, the Male and the Female
of
it and the Good and the Bad of it. We've been the All of it."

"And we've done it by agreement, so that each of us might experience
ourselves as the grandest part of God. For we have understood that…

'In the absence of that which You Are Not, that which you Are, is
Not'.

'In the absence of cold you cannot be warm, in the absence of sad you
cannot be happy. Without a thing called evil, the experience you call
good cannot exist'.

'If you choose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that
has to show up somewhere in your universe to make that possible.' "

The friendly soul then explained that those people are God's Special
Angels and these conditions God's Gifts.

"I ask only one thing in return," the friendly soul declared.

"Anything, Anything," the little soul cried. He was excited now to
know that he could experience every divine aspect of God. He
understood now, The Plan.

"In the moment that I strike you and smite you," said the friendly
soul, "in the moment that I do the worst to you that you could ever
imagine – in that self same moment…remember Who I Really Am."

"Oh, I wont forget!" promised the little soul. "I will see you in the
perfection with which I hold you now, and I will remember Who You
Are,
always."

Authors Details: Nenald Walsch
from Conversation with God.