Each of us has and will always have an impact on other people. We can’t live in any society and be otherwise. “No human is an island unto itself.” God created us to need one another. And in this state of needing each other, we will impact each other.

It absolutely behooves us to try to be as awake as possible to how we live our life impacting others. Not as a law, but as a person living alongside others in our life. We already have unknowingly added to others pain and sorrow or unknowingly added to others joy and peace. We cannot have a perfect tally, but we can work to be aware of ourselves. We can be aware of when we love someone or when we harm someone, because within ourselves, we do know our intention and motivation when we act and relate to others – when we’re willing to be honest with ourselves.

Waking up to our place in the Earth is not for laying blame or guilt onto others or ourselves. Nor is it to require ourselves to be perfect. Nor is it to be rewarded or punished by spending eternity in one place or another. We are infinite beings without even knowing we’re infinite beings. For the most part, we’ve lived and died in physical bodies many times. We’ve come and gone in this Earth enough times to say, that we’re getting more and more used to being born and eventually dying because we’ve done it plenty of times already. With each time, we add another full experience of human life, and we add another experience of existing and living in between lives.

With that being said, the purpose of addressing areas of our lives where we have or someone else has taken harmful actions is not to blame or lay guilt upon ourselves or others, but rather to wake up to the impact we have on other people’s lives from here on out – that being how we can add to their joy and healing or how we can add to their pain and suffering – and then how to be alert to just how easy it is to choose one, the other, or both of these. If we’re asleep to our impact, it is easy to be unaware of any harm or suffering we cause. If we’re awake to our impact, it becomes easier to be aware of any spectrum of our impact. Being ignorant of how we affect people, is not an excuse to have. Being aware of how we affect people, leads us to ever more kindness, compassion and empathy for all.

When we decide to open our hearts, OR when we decide to not bother with opening our hearts – it is worth it to be aware of these two differences in our decisions, because we don’t make the decision to love while being unconscious to ourself and the others in our lives.

And any of us who chooses to harm others while staying asleep to our harming others, cannot use any excuse to justify the harm we inflict.

Cain’s excuse to God, when God asked Cain where Abel was – “Am I my brother’s keeper?” was a very empty excuse, when Cain and God both knew exactly the harm Cain had done to his brother. Cain sought to have God think of him as uninvolved with the harm which came to Abel.

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Maybe we’re not able to be aware of every impact we have on others, but we are very aware of how others’ actions impact us. We’re very aware of the pain, sorrow and suffering we feel when receiving these types of actions from others. We’re also very aware of the joy, peace and comfort that we feel when receiving these types of acts from others. Stating this is simply a reminder then, of how easily others are aware of their experience of us and their experience of how we impact them.

Even when we’re not aware of just exactly what our impact may be on others, we are aware that we all impact each other. This is not to say that we’re here to make others happy. This is not the case. Instead, we are here to be aware of ourselves. We are here so we can work to be kind, merciful, patience, compassionate, empathic, understanding, etc. when the call comes forth for healing. There is no excuse for us putting no effort into this, because all of us, without exception have the capacity and capability within us to be kind, to be compassionate, to show mercy, to forgive, and to manifest love in all the various forms love can come into this world.

Jesus was asked by a man, “How is it possible for us to change our natures if we are not kind or compassionate or merciful, or loving? It is impossible.” Jesus’ reply was, “Yes. For mankind it is impossible. But with God, All Things are Possible.” With God, all things are possible – even our examining ourselves and awakening to our calling of bringing love in to the Earth in whatever forms Love can manifest. (Matthew 19:26)

It is one thing to be awake to how we impact others, and then to try, try again, fail, drop the ball, try again, fail, try again and again to be awake so that we have an impact which can add better experiences to others and our own lives. But, it is another thing to say this is not my responsibility, this is too much, this is just WOKE policy, and then decide to not even bother/concern ourselves or try by saying Cain’s words to God after he killed Abel – “Am I my brother’s keeper?” with our own answer to God being displayed through our actions to say “No.”

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It is a calling to take up the banner of saying “We are our brother’s keeper”, regardless of the quality of our trying. Trying and failing is one thing, but to not even bother to try is something else altogether, because it is every day of our lives that God asks us, “Where is your brother?” and all we have to remember is that with God, all things are possible. With the Infinite Consciousness of the One Life Force – the Infinite Consciousness in which the Infinite All-Life exists – all things are possible.

(This can be very difficult for our finite human minds to comprehend or wrap our minds around.)

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It is few and far between – those who take up the banner to wake up – and with them, some successes and some failures happen. With each failure comes the awareness that we can stand up, dust off the trying and then try again, one day at a time. With each kindness, with each act of compassion, comfort, patience, and willingness to offer awareness of the need for better acts from us, comes a healing instead of sorrow.

And many is the number of those who choose to stay asleep, and make little to no effort to ponder their impact on others. But, by our effort and trying examples, they, too, will one day, in some life, in some future, be the soil in which the seeds we plant, can take root. How do I know this? Because that is how it has been done for those of us who recognize this, today, in our lives now. Seeds were planted within us, in our past, and they have been growing.

The question will always be, for every one of us, as individuals, do we seek to be awake – to be good soil for the seeds planted yesterday or long ago – with the challenges of being part of a community of every size, which we give ourselves, as well as the possible worthwhile results, that could, in all truth, help change the world, or do we seek to be asleep with little challenging of ourselves, and with no healing results?

With all sadness and sorrow, there are some who could not recognize this today if it was demonstrated in front of them, just like many could not recognize Christ if He was standing in front of them. To recognize Christ, we must love beginning from within our own heart. When we love, and know we love, then we recognize love pouring forth from our own heart. Christ is the embodiment of Love, and if we don’t have this love within our heart, giving it, sharing it, meaning for it to come forth from within our hearts, then we won’t recognize it when Christ is standing in front of us. We can only recognize love when we’ve given it through our efforts – manifesting it through kindness, compassion, empathy, unselfishness, mercy, forgiveness, patience, humility, etc. etc. etc. Then is when we know it from the inside out because it is a part of us – and as Christ has said, “The Father is within me, as I Am within you.”

God/Christ/Love/Allah/Buddha/Jehovah/I AM/the Infinite Consciousness of the One Life Force is within us, waiting for us to Love, so that It/He/She can come forth into this Earth.

Pray to be taught the Truth.
Pray for help for us to be honest with ourselves.
Pray for all life.
Pray – “Lord, help me be good soil.”

May God Bless Us, Everyone.