Today's Call: Reach Out

by Eliza Bloom

Today, let us reach out to someone who is sad.

It's best, usually, to simply be there for those who suffer. To be ourselves and to be open to their thoughts and feelings and sadness and rage. To stand unwavering in the face of whatever comes and to send them silent blessings through it all. To offer only love and a peaceful presence, not advice or admonishment. To sit at someone's knee and be. That is enough.

When we give the gift of our presence, we help people more readily sense their indelible connection to others, which girds the universe. And so we reinforce our own connection to the sacred, to the healing force that is always there, all around us. We get through each moment, and so do our friends, by letting the divine presence envelop us.

When we are fully present with another person, we naturally absorb their dark, negative thoughts, taking those thoughts out of this world forever. And we send forth torrents of loving, positive energy so that the people we meet once again recognize their own radiance and their own natural state of peace and love.
It is up to us to wordlessly bring the truth of the divine presence into the room, so that those who are momentarily distracted from their spirit by emotions have no choice but to recognize it, to be surrounded by it, to surrender to it.

When we give someone the gift of our presence, we help them regain their right mind--the mind where they transcend their identification with a small, separate self. The mind where they can see the larger picture once again.

It is with this mind that we recognize our own radiance and helps others to see their own, over and over again. We sit quietly and shine. We recognize the deep peace that resides in our center. This is what I invite you to do today.