A Step Beyond Forgiveness
Last week I had a conversation with Source and the Angels that has changed my life. I matter of factly told them I was done with illusion that I only wanted to live in Divine Truth and to – Bring it on!!!
I’ve been warned that I might want to use a little caution with this kind of enthusiastic statement – however, I am not a very cautious Spiritual Seeker 
Well Source said, “O.K.” and it has been a pretty wild ride ever since!
This next story is a teaching about how we can take a step beyond forgiveness with the people that have hurt us most in life.
I was a fly on the wall observing a meeting most of us are unaware even occurs. Here in this room sat my Higher Self, Source the Archangels and my Guides discussing life lessons and hiring participants with whom I would dance in my current incarnation. The candidates were reviewed according to the level of complement for what each Soul was working on – and that turned out to be quite the detailed process.
“What am I observing?” I whispered to Archangel Gabriel. He simply smiled and said, “The truth”.
I returned my gaze to the meetings before me and a Soul I recognized came forward and was asked if he would be willing to play a role in the life situation displaying before him. His gaze was cast toward a screen – I turned to watch with him and saw his beautiful Soul willingly take on a negativity that instantly transformed him from the very presence of beauty to something slinking in the darkness.
“Are you willing to play this part?” he was asked by the council. “Are you willing to take this job in order to help the One before you evolve during it’s incarnation?”
“Yes.” he said gazing at me with such Love that my heart nearly burst – tears wet his eyes and with this answer he accepted the mission.
I began to cry tears of gratitude – it never occurred to me that we could be so loved and so supported by other Souls that they would be willing turn themselves into something despised by others in order to help move us toward our Highest Path and Purpose.
“Gabriel” I said, “is this the true Nature of Darkness.” “Yes.” He said, “Even the Dark Teachers work for the Light – they simply take a different path to get there.”
When I consider the Dark Teachers in my life (the people I’ve encountered who’ve pushed me to grow with the energies of pain or fear) I’m now grateful for the lessons they taught me – because I understand what it must have taken for them to move themselves out of the Light and into extremely low vibrational energy in order to aid me with my life lessons. Only the greatest kind of Love and Authority can produce Courage of this nature – and I find myself wondering if I have what it takes to make that kind of sacrifice? I’ve certainly changed my mind about a lot of things due to this experience and I now know that Dark Teachers are more evolved than most of us believe 
I’ve also come to recognize that along the way I made the decision that I no longer wanted to learn through darkness in my life. I realized that I had an option and that I was drawing negative learning experiences to myself because at that time – I believed that I needed them. That all ended when I chose to create positive learnings instead.
When we as a collective decide we no longer need darkness as a vehicle through which to receive our lessons and experiences – the Dark Teachers will be able to take off their costumes and return to the Light
Maybe it’s a strange idea that they are here because we want them to be here – but I think it makes sense…afterall we ARE that powerful!
Image by Aelle.
Making the decision to live through your spiritual heart is the first step to inviting your wildly loving, passionately creative and truly free self into the world. It takes courage to be revolutionary and make the shift toward spiritual consciousness, which is why I'm passionate about helping people develop a relationship with their Inner Knowing through their Angels, Higher Selves and Spirit Guides. When we see our life from their perspective we develop the courage to be who we REALLY are!
Comments
By Winnie on October 14th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Thank you for sharing the Truth with us. This Truth is what I have been embracing and it is nice to receive some affirmation.
The beauty of the Light is the strongest and clearest in pitch darkness.
By Kara-Leah on October 15th, 2008 at 12:22 am
AWESOME explanation of dark & light. Follows on beautiful from you last post too (no surprise there!)
I LOVE this article.
Thanks Paula!!!!
KL
By Jenny Mannion on October 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Hi Paula,
Truly beautiful. When I learned how to be GRATEFUL for the darkest times/situations/people in my life for the lessons learned it gave me SUCH an expansion of feeling powerful. The last part of your post struck a chord because I feel in some ways my ego still tells me sometimes that I NEED to struggle to learn and grow….. I am going to do some “Detachment” from that idea now that I know it is there…. I believe I can learn all my lessons through light and there is no need to be calling darkness to myself! Thank you Paula!
Love, Jenny
By Paula Kawal on October 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Winnie,
I am so glad I could provide you with affirmation – I seem to be doing that a lot lately and it is wonderful! Thank you for being able to recognize this truth
Kara-Leah,
I had to type out your name because there is a delicious balance to the way it feels on the fingers and the keys! I am so glad this spoke to you and yes this post and the last are VERY connected. Thanks for commenting and I LOVE your new site!
Jenny,
You are such a sweetie – I love the direction you are headed in and I’m so glad that you noticed that little ego action around struggle – isn’t it an absolute kick???
Love to you all and thanks for commenting!
PK
By Albert | UrbanMonk.Net on October 19th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Hey Paula! Love this post. I’m starting to see that yes the people that hurt me the most truly are blessings in disguise. It’s almost like I look forward to the next one, so to speak. Beautiful words, thank you.
By Paula Kawal on October 21st, 2008 at 10:10 am
Hey Albert!
Isn’t great? This is the kind of thinking that allows me to be the biggest Pollyanna in life! Fearlessly loving – defiantly trusting – and absolutely certain that good is always coming my way – how’s that for freedom?
Love ya and I’m sending vibes of effortlessness to you for the upcoming exams
PK
By Ariel - You Are Truly Loved on December 20th, 2008 at 2:01 am
oooh, Paula, what an amazing experience! The part about the Soul taking on the dark energy and lovingly looking at you while doing so was deeply moving. Just reading that I could feel my eyes well up as well.
Understanding this, it makes way for a much deeper level of compassion and love for the darkness in our lives, doesn’t it?
Thank you very much for posting about this!
By Paula Kawal on December 24th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Hi Ariel,
I agree that it does – darkness is vastly misunderstood – and is truly beautiful when viewed outside of the lens of fear.
Thanks for reading!
Love,
PK
By Everything Counts on July 10th, 2009 at 5:21 am
I think because of darkness we are able to understand and differentiate the light. It is basically like two sides of the same coin.
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