Conflict

My dear siblings, if you could feel the joy and love that we your older siblings experience as we intermingle with you, you would have some small consciousness of the grandeur of a cosmic family of the brotherhood/sisterhood/personhood of all freewill universe intelligences. You see, you have struggled valiantly to retain your cohesion as a functional family unit and you have succeeded excellently. In this struggle you  have heard many viewpoints divergent from your own. You have seen sides of each other you never even imagined were possible. You have discovered aspects of yourselves in deep recesses and dark corners which you knew not before. And in so doing has your universe of reality expanded to embrace the diversity of each other and yourselves as well.  

You have tasted a small portion of the larger reality of the true cosmic
unity in diversity of God the Supreme.  Just a small taste of the flavor of
the whole.  And yet has this sampling been so grievous and difficult that
you would withdraw from the table of our Creator Parents and leave the
banquet feast of fellowship with your brothers and sisters?  No, none of you
would.  In fact, you have all experienced an expansion of your own souls.  

It is not the purpose of conflict to divide and destroy.  Conflict, that is,
that is the result of growth expansion.  Your experience of conflict has
been of this nature rather than of destructive and unspiritual dimensions.
You see, we live in an incomplete and imperfect creation which is evolving
and developing towards the final goal of perfected status.  That is why we
know that without conflict and struggle, without insecurity and unsurety
there can be no real growth, but rather the opposite ? soul stagnation ?
which, if it continues long enough may result in spiritual death.  

And so, on the one hand I say to you welcome to the real world, where
conflict results in growth.  And congratulations on letting your experience
of love surmount all obstacles and difficulties.  You came upon a large
boulder on the path.  You wished to move around it, but it blocked your way.
You had to find a hand hold and a foot hold and scale it and come down the
other side to complete your experiential triumph.  As I have taught you in
the past, every accomplishment results in a brief period of rest and
rejuvenation ? but only for a short while until the next task commands your
attention.  

When I first began teaching you seven long years ago, I told you that we
were about change - that the essence of my teaching would be to dig around
the roots to fertilize and to water so that you might grow up to be strong
oaks bearing many branches, able to hold your living system of branches and
leaves, trunk and root, a whole ecology of life.  And indeed have our
efforts together been successful.