The Parable of the Stream

Kahu Fred Sterling
Senior Minister, Honolulu Church of Light

In this commotion called the world, we have a chaotic experience that vibrates into a system of particle lights that formulate themselves into a magical source of creation.  In that creation, everything is taking place on multiple levels simultaneously.  Hence, when we have a goal in mind that we want to achieve, we send a stream of particle lights out toward that goal.  In other words, we start to do the journey to address the completion of that goal.   If we don't reach what we want to reach, do you think there's a possibility that we didn't empower the stream as fully as we could have or maybe should have? 

On the other hand, what if where the stream stopped is exactly where we're supposed to be?  What if the stream - this beautiful line of particles, which are like a laser beam - stopped short of getting to what you believed to be its final result because you only set up that final result so you could get to exactly where you stopped, just short of your destination?  Maybe that's what it took to get where you are. 

Though you might have set a goal, and though you might not have achieved it in the proper moment in time, don't be discouraged, be thrilled by the possibility that where you are is going to take you to your ultimate goal.  What if that goal is different from the one you set out upon?  Well, how bad would that be?  It wouldn't be bad at all.  When you've got your goal set, stop worrying about it.  In the simplest of terms, once you decide on what you want, set your mind on the journey it's going to take to get there. 

You see, the journey is going to stop along the route.  Set your goal to get to the end of the stream, and then follow the stream.  Let's say the stream is about ten miles long.  It starts out as a nice little bubbling brook and your goal is to get to the end of this stream that turns into this great big river where there's a brand new boat for you and millions of dollars lying in the boat's hull.  Well, you've got to get to the river first.  So you jump into this little stream and float along. 

As you're floating down the stream, you're just entranced with getting to that river and that's all you're focused on.  Now, the Creator, and the guides and the angels are going, "Pssst, hey look over here.  Hey look over on this side," and you look off to the right and there's this little inlet and you say, "All right, wait a minute.  Let me take a little journey into that inlet."  If you haven't honed your sixth sense so that you can't hear your angels and guides, you may experience it as a sudden lack of movement in the stream, no wind, nothing and you look over to the right and there's that little inlet. 

So you steer your little boat over there, and you head into that inlet where you meet the most beautiful person you've ever met in your whole life.  This person spends time with you and gets you to refocus your thinking a little bit, and you are just so excited about what you learn from this person.  After a while, this person has nothing more to say to you and you find yourself floating back out on the stream again, moving along at a good pace and you think, "Wow that was lucky.  Wasn't it lucky I ran out of wind?" 

What if it isn't luck?  What if it is the journey unfolding exactly the way it's supposed to?  What if that is what you were supposed to do?  You met this person that changed your life and you're moving on.  You're going down the stream again and it's going at a good clip.  You can almost see the river coming up at the end of the stream and you're getting excited because your goal is in sight.  Suddenly the water stops again and there's another little inlet.  You enter that inlet, even though you're frustrated.  This time you feel the presence of an angel or a guide in there and you find out that there's more to that goal than you were searching for.  In fact, you find out that way back up the stream, all the friends and all the people that you were supposed to meet while you were on this adventure, are up in all the other inlets you passed because you were in such a great rush to get to the river. 

What you'll find yourself doing is going back out and paddling up the stream.  You'll see the pain and the hurt you caused yourself and you'll think, "Why am I hurting myself like this?"  You're not hurting yourself.  You've discovered there's something on this journey that you didn't complete and you're forcing yourself to go back and complete it.  Now you've got a choice.  You can grumble about why you're not getting what you want or you can simply paddle up the stream and get it done and get back down the stream again. 

The world as we see it has been fixed by a history that has almost no reality base to it.  You see, our world is shaped by our experiences and our perceptions and they can change if we just do the journey in the fullness of the adventure.  There are so many things that we will miss if we rush down the stream.  Whether it's to have a baby or to get married, or to get rich, or to become a full-fledged spiritualist, if we rush through the journey, we're going to be sent back up the stream to experience the things we've missed. 

Don't grumble about what's working and what isn't.  Recognize that everything does happen in absolute perfection.  All we have to have is the courage to search the perfection out.  You've probably got a friend that's got this really positive energy, everything is just perfect in his world, and sometimes you just want to shake him and tell him, "Don't you realize you're not living in a perfect world?  There are people dying all over the world, there's a war going on and your tax money is being swallowed up by a government that doesn't care and people are dying because they believe in something that everybody else doesn't believe in.  How dare you say that this is a perfect world?"  Well, I've had that said to me a number of times, and I still think it's a perfect world. 

In this perfect world, there are young souls and old souls and your experiences will give you the opportunity to age your soul or not, it's your choice.  If you go out this evening and get rip-roaring drunk and drive your car anyway, then you're not very old in soul age, because killing somebody or killing yourself is not what old souls are here to do.  If you're going out there this evening and you're going to hurt yourself in any shape or form, then, you're not much of an aged soul.  On the other hand, if you're out there right now thinking that what I'm saying makes a bit of sense, then you're aging your soul.

After you've journeyed to different levels of consciousness, or different dimensions, or worked with all sorts of different possibilities, you start to age in your soul.  I think you're going to find out that to be a young soul on this Earth is not going to be very comfortable.  There's a Great Shift in Consciousness happening and it is unfolding at an unprecedented rate.  If you're traveling down the stream and you're not taking time out to stop and smell the roses maybe you're going to miss too much and maybe that's not how it's supposed to be.

I'll put it in one last perspective.  The younger your soul age is, the quicker you're going to get to win the lottery.  As your soul ages, as you begin to see the real beauty in life, you'll realize that it's not about winning the lotto; it's not about how much money you have.  It's about whether you can look out the window and see the beauty in a big old grandfather tree.  It's about looking into your life mate's eyes and seeing the fear and loving him or her anyway.  When you start to see those things, you'll find out that the money is a natural by-product of the love that you express.

That's the truth and the wisdom that I share with you today.  You can call it truth or wisdom; you can call it lack of truth and lack of wisdom.  I don't care.  When you recognize that there's nothing as important as what you see when you look in the mirror, when you recognize that you're here because of the result of a great beautiful energy called the Creator and that it loves you for everything that you are and this great Creator holds you in the highest of esteem because you're here doing the journey, then you'll recognize it isn't getting to the river that's important.  It's the journey down the stream that's important.  The river's a bonus at the end and it will always be there if you go down the stream, because the Creator is this giving, loving energy that would never ask you to do a journey for it without rewarding you at the end.  Do the journey, do the stream, don't worry about the river at the end.  It's there; you'll flow right into it and, you know what? The moment you get into the river, you're just going to look for a bigger river until you can find the ocean; it'll always continue to evolve. 

Do that journey.  Look into your mate's eyes; take a good hard look.  See the fears and love him or her for the fears.  Don't just look your mate to hold you up, be your prop.  Look into his or her eyes and see the fears.  See if you can't help your mate understand that they really aren't even fears, they're just energies that need to be evolved through, and you'll both do that journey regardless of how long it takes to have the full experience.

When you're traveling down that proverbial stream of life, remember to stop along the way and smell the roses, meet the people you're supposed to meet, and learn the lessons you're supposed to learn.  You'll find that journey is where your focus is best served.  It's designed to age your soul, filling it with the wisdom of experience, and when you reach that goal you thought you were focused on, that pot of gold waiting for you in that boat in the river, you'll realize that was just the icing on the cake, the thing that got you to do the journey.