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04/26/2025
Dear Light Group,
After Jesus was resurrected from the dead, his disciples didn’t recognize him. Mary Magdalene was weeping outside Jesus’ sepulcher when she saw a man who asked her, “Woman, why weepest thous? Whom seekest thou?” She, not recognizing that it was Jesus who was asking the questions, thought it might be the gardener. She told the “gardener” that if he was the one who had taken Jesus’s body away, she would like him to tell her where he had put the body. But when the “gardener” called her by her name, telling her, “Mary, touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father….” she knew it was Jesus.
Similarly, when disciples spent the night fishing in the Sea of Tiberias and caught nothing, in the morning they saw a man on the shore who told them to cast their net on the right side of their ship. They did not initially recognize that man as Jesus. It was only after their net suddenly was full of fish that John the Beloved told Peter, “It is the Lord.” (A side note here: there is always impulsive Peter to make us feel that there is hope for us, too. He had been fishing naked, but seeing that it was Jesus who was on the shore, he quickly put on a coat and then jumped in the water. If he could make it as a saint, there’s hope for the rest of us.)
There is an insight for us in these disciples not initially recognizing Jesus. Isn’t that what many of us do? We’ve been told to recognize the Christ in others, but is that how we see them? Do we see them as the Christ, or do we judge them? Do we judge them as good or bad people, as people we want to be around or people we want to avoid? Do we see them as the Christ, or do we judge them as being a certain type of person?
When we judge or categorize others, we freeze the situation. We are no longer open to working with the person as he or she is. We are no longer open to viewing them compassionately as another soul, just like us, seeking to emerge from our cocoon, to shed the shell that blocks us from knowing our Divine selves.
In the spirit of Eastertide (the fifty days starting Easter Sunday), we might consider our own inner resurrection. It could start with the same words Jesus spoke to his disciples after his resurrection: “Peace be unto you.” The same evening of the day that Mary Magdalene saw the resurrected Jesus, the disciples, out of fear of the mob that had called for Jesus’s crucifixion, had gathered behind closed doors. Evidently knowing the disciples’ fear, Jesus told them, “Peace be unto you.” If we feel the peace within, we’ll feel freed of our own fears, freed of our own worries, freed of what binds us, freed of our judgments – of ourselves and of others. If we feel the inner peace of the Christ, then we’ll feel free to be the Christ. If we feel free to be the Christ, then we’ll be free to see the Christ in others. Seeing the Christ in others, all will be uplifted.
If you’d like to get into the spirit of your own resurrection, you might try this prayer: “The Christ in me is the same as the Christ in everyone else. That Christ is Divine Love and Peace. That Divine Love and Peace resides in me. That Divine Love and Peace resides in everyone. Lift us all, Lord, that we may recognize that Christ of Love and Peace in each other. Lift us all, Lord, that we live this spirit of Love and Peace in all that we think and do. Lift us all, Lord, that through this Christ Spirit we may merge with Thee and become Thy creator on Earth. Lift us all, Lord, that in being Thy creator on Earth, we may create a world of Good, a world of Peace, a world of Love. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
04/19/2025
Dear Light Group,
After Jesus had been crucified, he was put in a sepulcher. Jesus had said that after three days he would rise from the dead. The priesthood of the time was afraid of Jesus, even in death, and remembering what he had said about rising from the dead, they had a stone rolled in front of the sepulcher to block him leaving.
That did not stop Jesus. The Bible tells us that Jesus did rise from the dead and that he appeared before his disciples in physical form on multiple occasions.
We can take several things from this. It tells us that the Christ is unstoppable. The power of the Christ cannot be blocked. By connecting with the Christ, our powers are unlimited.
It also tells us how Jesus fulfilled his Divine mission. He had said that he came to bring us eternal life. Through his Resurrection, there was proof of that truth. In that consciousness of eternal life, there is no fear. There is only oneness with the Divine and a full commitment to fulfilling our Divine mission.
As we celebrate Easter this weekend, let us remember that we have been given the promise of eternal life. Let us remember that in eternal life there is nothing to fear. Let us remember that by tuning into the Christ, we, too, have unlimited powers. Remembering all of this, let us fulfill our Divine mission.
With unlimited empowerment, let us fearlessly declare, “I, too, am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I, too, have eternal life in the Divine. My mission is to radiate Light and Goodness to everyone and everything. May I learn to give and give and give of this Light and Goodness at all times and in all places. May I be centered in this Light and Goodness at all times and all places. May this Light that I Am radiate Light and Goodness for the upliftment of all people. May it be so, that all may be brought back to the Light and Goodness and Truth and Love of the Divine. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
04/12/2025
Dear Light Group,
Jim Goure said that, “Easter is a very important time on Earth. The thoughts of one billion Christians are on the Christ. Earth is surrounded, permeated with these thoughts. You can tune into this consciousness. It is an opportunity to enhance yourself, to move into a higher state of consciousness.”
Let’s see what we can do to take advantage of this opportunity to “move into a higher state of consciousness.”
Jim also told us that, “When Jesus realized he had one week left on Earth in a physical form, he became aware that there was a lot he hadn’t said yet. He had to make one last effort to communicate the things his whole life existed for. In every word and every act, it was essential that he get across his message. So we should pay special attention to ‘the week that was.’”
During “the week that was,” Jesus was saying to everyone, “Call me friend.” There is a big difference between Messiah and friend. In that vein, he also said, “The things I do, you can do and greater.”
When he whipped the money lenders in the Temple, he was essentially saying, “Don’t make money a god.”
When he cursed the fig tree, he was telling us that the real source of all things – food or otherwise – is God.
During this week, he also gave the commandment of love: Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself.
Our friend Jesus came to Earth to bring us the message of eternal life. In transforming our consciousness, we need to look to God – not money or food or other external things. Above all else, we need to love God, love our neighbor, and love ourself. In fulfilling our mission of love and Light, we feel great joy.
Shall we enter into a prayer to do just that? If so, you might want to try this: “Thank you, Lord, for the joy of this physical life. Thank you, Lord, for eternal life. Thank you, Lord for reminding me that, no matter what happens in this life, I have eternal life with Thee. Let all the days of my physical life be ones filled with love. May I love Thee with all my heart, mind, and soul. May I love myself and my neighbor with all my heart, mind, and soul. May I be at peace, knowing that I am one with Thee. In this peace and love, may I extend compassion to everyone and everything. Thank you, Lord, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
04/05/2025
Dear Light Group,
The Last Supper is a mind-blower. What Jesus says and does during that event is incredible, and its meaning still reverberates for all of us.
Let’s start with an act of humility and cleansing. Jesus gets up from dinner, pours water into a basin, and starts to wash his disciples’ feet. Washing feet was a task normally performed by the lowest of servants. At that same dinner, Jesus says, “Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well, for so I am.” That the Master and Lord would perform the lowest of tasks is a sign to all of us of how much the Divine values humility.
Washing the disciples feet served another purpose: the cleansing of the disciples’ consciousness. Feet symbolize understanding (that upon which we stand). By cleansing the disciples’ feet, Jesus was enabling them to awaken to their true, Divine nature.
During that Last Supper, Jesus tells his disciples again and again to love: “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you….” “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” “As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you. Continue ye in my love.” “This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you.” “These things I command you, that ye love one another.” He was saying over and over: love each other, not with just human love, but with a high type of love.
Beyond loving each other, the disciples were given the key to receiving love from the Father: “He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.” “If a man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.”
Having started with an act of humility that combined a cleansing of consciousness and then commanding the disciples to love one another with a high type of love and beyond that to follow his commandments and thereby be loved of the Father, Jesus tells his disciples that they can step up to mastership: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do….” And they did! We read in Acts how the disciples healed people. Peter even raised a person from the dead!
Perhaps foreseeing that it would not be easy for his disciples after he left, Jesus told them, “Ye are my friends….I have called you friends.” And to those friends he promised comfort and peace: “I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you.” “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever.” “Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God….In my Father’s house are many mansions….I go to prepare a place for you.” “…the Comforter…I will send unto you from the Father….” “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
The call to mastership is still there for us. The call to step up to our inherent mastership is still there. The call to do the works that Jesus did and greater is still with us. The way to that mastership involves humility and requires that we cleanse our consciousness. In so doing, we open ourselves to the abundant, ever-flowing love of the Divine. Receiving that love, we extend it to each other. In so doing, we live the commandment Jesus gave us two thousand years ago. The going may not always be easy for us, but we have been told not to be afraid, that the Divine Comforter has been sent to us, and the peace of the Christ has been given to us.
If you would like a prayer for your mastership, you might try this: “Thank you, Jesus, for your friendship. Thank you, Jesus, for lighting the way for all of us. O Lord, let me step into the shoes of the Christ, knowing that the first step is one of complete humility, knowing that it is not my will but Thine that I must do. Open me to Thy love, O Lord, that I may be free to give of this love to one and all. Help me to stand strong, O Lord, in Thy love. Free me, O Lord, into the knowing that there is only Thy love permeating all creation. Immerse me in Thy Love, O Lord, and that I may be freed of all fear. Help me to stand tall, O Lord, and be Thy presence on Earth. Help me to stand tall, O Lord, and be Thy Love and Thy Peace on Earth. And so it is. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
03/29/2025
Dear Light Group,
The Gospel of Thomas was discovered in a cave in Egypt in 1945. It was written on papyrus between 60 AD and 140 AD and contains 114 sayings of Jesus. It has not been accepted as canonical or authoritative by any Christian churches. Nonetheless, it contains statements that you may find inspirational.
In one saying, Jesus shows his deep compassion and his reason for coming to Earth: “My soul ached for the children of humanity because they are blind in their hearts and do not see….”
Jesus tells his disciples, “If they say to you, ‘Where have you come from?’, say to them, ‘We have come from the Light….’”
Jesus says, “I am the Light that is over all things. I am all. From me all has come forth….Split a piece of wood: I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.”
The Gospel of Thomas tells us that, “His followers said to him, ‘…when will the new world come?’ He said to them, ‘What you look for has come, but you do not know it.’” And we are told this: “His followers said to him, ‘When will the kingdom come?’ ‘It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, “Look, here it is,” or “Look, there it is.” Rather, the Father’s kingdom is inside you, and it is outside you.’”
And there is this: “I am one who comes from what is whole.”
As we round the bend towards Easter, you may find it comforting to remember that the Christ is everywhere – in all things and all people: “Split a piece of wood: I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.”
It might also be helpful to remember that we, too, come from “what is whole” and that we, too, “have come from the Light….”
Rather than being distracted by what is going on in the outer world, we can remember that “the Father’s kingdom is inside you, and it is outside you,” and in that spirit recognize that the “new world” has come, and it is inside us.
Putting all this together, you might want to experiment with a prayer such as, “How joyful it is, Lord, knowing that the Christ is in me and in everyone and everything. How joyful it is, Lord, knowing that Thy kingdom has come and that it is inside me and inside all that exists. How joyful it is, Lord, knowing that I come from what is whole and complete, that I come from Thee. How joyful it is, Lord, knowing that I come from the Light. Let the radiance from my heart bless everyone and everything. For all who are blind in their hearts and do not see, let the radiance of Light from my heart touch them. Let this radiance of Light from my heart touch them with Thy Compassion and Thy Love. Let this radiance of Light from my heart bring them the Peace and Love they seek. Thank you, Lord, for opening the hearts and minds and souls of all beings to Thy kingdom. Thank you, Lord, for helping all to see and know Thy kingdom on Earth. Thank you, Lord, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
03/22/2025
Dear Light Group,
Even the super-greats have moments when they need strengthening. On the night before his arrest, Jesus went to the Mount of Olives (a hill on a ridge on the eastern side of Jerusalem) and to the Garden of Gethsemane, which is at the foot of the Mount of Olives. There he prayed. Did he ever pray.
He had told his disciples, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful.” He reached out to them for help, saying, “…watch with me.” He walked a bit further, and then, evidently still feeling “exceeding sorrowful,” he fell flat on his face. At that point, he prayed, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as Thou will.” It must have been one intense prayer: “And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
But after he said “as Thou will,” an angel from heaven appeared, strengthening him.
What we can take from this is that earnest prayers are answered. We can also take from it that help is available for us on other dimensions, whether that help comes from angels, spiritual masters, or directly from the Divine Itself.
If you would like a prayer for strength this Saturday, you might try this: “Heavenly Father, give me the wisdom and strength to know and do Thy will. Let me not be distracted by the things of this world. Keep my focus on Thee and Thy goodness. Let not the temptations of the flesh distract me from Thee and Thy glory. Keep me focused on Thee and Thy will. Give me the strength to face what life presents. Give me the knowing that it is Thy goodness in all things. Make me an instrument of Thy Peace and Harmony, that all may be lifted up to Thee and Thy glory. Not my will, O Lord, but Thine be done. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
03/15/2025
Dear Light Group,
Through it all, let us remember who we are.
We are individualized rays of Spirit. Our purpose is to attune ourselves with this Spirit. As we do so, we realize that our bodies – and the entire world – are not soul-imprisoning but instead are part of the great Light and Consciousness of Spirit.
We come to this Consciousness of Spirit by following what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” We purify our hearts by abandoning greed, anger, hatred, fear, grief, condemnation, aversion, and attachment.
Once our hearts have been purified of these bondages, we are free not merely to reflect the Light of Spirit but to actively manifest that Spirit. We are free to turn inward toward Spirit and align our will, thoughts, actions, and life with Spirit. United with Spirit, we recognize the entire human family as our family. We recognize everyone as a manifestation of God. Our love has expanded to include all. We are united with Spirit in all by loving all.
The glory of Spirit spreads over the stars and wheeling galaxies, shining in every atom and particle of material existence. We can talk to that Spirit, and It will respond. God answers every sincere prayer and blesses every spiritual aspiration and endeavor.
In talking with Spirit, our mission is to help all beings (including ourselves) harmonize – harmonize with each other and with Spirit. Let us do so this Saturday.
If you would like a prayer for this, you might try: “I am one with Spirit. This Spirit is infinite Love. This Spirit is infinite Light. In my heart this Spirit sings Its song of Joy. In my heart, this Spirit sings Its song of Beauty. In my heart, this Spirit sings Its song of Peace. In this Joy, Beauty, and Peace, my heart expands to include all people and all things in its Love. There is one harmony of Joy, Beauty, and Peace in everyone and everything. Thank you, Lord, for harmonizing us with Thee and Thy Joy, Beauty, and Peace. Thank you, Lord, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
03/08/2025
Dear Light Group,
The poet William Blake wrote,
How do you know but ev’ry Bird
that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight,
clos’d by your senses five?
Earlier this week, I stepped out on the second story deck of my house and watched a lone bird, with mountains and blue sky as background, cut a path through space, floating through air and then swooping to a new path. As I watched this, I was reminded that we live in an “immense world of delight.”
This experience also brought to mind the words of Yogananda, who said that, “The Lord is painting glorious scenery in the ever-changing clouds and sky….In everything and everyone – friends and enemies; mountains, forests, ocean, air, the wheeling galactic canopy overarching all – the Christ-devotee sees the one blended Light of God.”
Let us take a few moments this Saturday to appreciate this Light of God and the “immense world of delight” in which we live.
In doing so, you might want to try a prayer such as, “Thank you, Lord, for this world of delight that you have created for us. Thank you, Lord, for the world of nature – for the forests and the birds and the sky and the clouds. Thank you, Lord, for this precious human birth and for the opportunity to experience the beauty of Your creation. Thank you, Lord, for Thy beauty in me. Thank you, Lord, for Thy beauty in my heart. Thank you, Lord, for the rhythm of my heart being aligned with the tune of Thy Love, Harmony, and Joy. Thank you, Lord, for helping me to know that I am one with this world of delight. Thank you, Lord, for helping me to know that I am the world. One with Thee and one with this world, let the Love, Harmony, and Joy ever expand, all for Thy greater glory. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
03/01/2025
Dear Light Group,
One of the most frequently used words in the Bible is “peace.” We have yearned for it for millennia, and yet it has eluded us.
In Psalm 85, David connects peace with righteousness: “Thou has forgiven the iniquity of Thy people….Thou has taken away Thy wrath; thou has turned Thyself from the fierceness of Thine anger. Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Thine anger toward us to cease….Wilt Thou not revive us again, that Thy people may rejoice in Thee? God…will speak peace unto his people…let them not turn again to folly….Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other….Righteousness…shall set us in the way of His steps.”
The word “righteousness” in this day and age sounds quaint, like something from a bygone era. And yet, in the interim, has not “folly” (another word from Psalm 85) increased tremendously?
Could it be that “righteousness and peace have kissed each other,” that peace comes from righteousness?
“Righteousness” might conjure images of a rigid, self-righteous, Bible-thumping type of person. It needn’t be that off-putting. It can be articulated in a more benign way: “Look, you have free will. You choose what you want. If you want to live your life in a frivolous manner, or if you want to indulge in greed, anger, and sensuality and then blame others for what you see lacking in your world, have at it. But if it’s peace you want, you’re going to need to heed what Jesus said, ‘Enter ye in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat…Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.’”
It’s a simple message: Don’t be distracted by the folly of the world and by your own ingrained habits. Do everything you can to stay focused on the universal Christ. That is your true nature. In it you will find the peace you seek, along with the joy and love of the Divine.
At the end of his physical life, Jesus told his disciples, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let now your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” And “These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.” And, after his resurrection, “Peace be unto you….Peace be unto you.”
The peace we seek is within us. We access that peace by staying focused on Spirit. The world outside is filled with folly. We attain the peace we seek by turning within and by eliminating thoughts, habits, and emotions that distract us from that peace. “Narrow is the way” for doing that, but righteousness – a moral grounding and a focus on the Divine – enables us to stay focused and pass through the narrow gate.
If you would like a prayer to accompany this perspective, you might try this: “Thank you, Lord, for keeping me focused on Thee. Thank you, Lord, for keeping me focused on Thy Truth and Thy Love and Thy Light. Thank you, Lord, for the gift of great masters such as Jesus, who have shown us the way. May their spirit reside in my heart, that my heart may be pure. Let me live all the days of my life in Thee and Thy Peace and Thy Truth and Thy Love and Thy Light. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
02/22/2025
Dear Light Group,
There was a Tibetan meditation master who had migrated to the U.S. and who frequently said to his American followers, “Cheer up. PLEASE cheer up!” People had gotten so serious about themselves and about their meditation practices that they had lost the point of what they were doing. They had been taught that through meditation their egos would dissolve, their suffering would dissipate, and they would see the basic goodness of life and how vividly wonderful it is. But they had gotten so aggressively wrapped up in pursuing various meditation practices that they were blocking the very happiness their meditation was supposed to produce.
Whether we are Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, or some other religion, it is easy to get lost in the details or the philosophy or the practices of that religion and forget the joy at its core.
One morning, the Tibetan meditation master, after having worked through the night, went outside and sat on the grass with Bill, one of his followers. He said to Bill, “Grass is green. Sky is blue. It’s a beautiful world, don’t you think?” At first, Bill thought it was a trick statement, one of those obscure Buddhist sayings designed to confound a person and demolish their ego. Then Bill realized, no, the Tibetan meditation master was simply saying that when we calm down and allow our discursive thoughts to dissipate, what do we see? We see that we live in a beautiful world. It is full of vivid colors and sounds. And it’s all there for us. It’s all there to help us move forward. Even the things we may not like are there to move us along. The rain, the snow, the cold, the heat – all of it is working with us: the universe is continually giving us messages and nudging us forward.
So perhaps we could benefit from taking a moment to cheer up, to be still and give thanks for the basic goodness surrounding us and the universe that is working with us and within us to bring us to that joy that is the essence of all creation.
If you would like a prayer to draw you into this joy, you might try this: “Behind the veil of illusion is the Joy of Spirit. This Joy is the essence of Spirit. This Joy of Spirit permeates all that has been created. The Creation is an ongoing act of Joy. Let his Joy fill my mind, that I may know Thy joyful presence at all times and in all places. Let this Joy fill my heart, that I may realize that I have need of nothing but Thy presence in me. Let this Joy fill my heart, that I may radiate this Joy to all with whom I come in contact. Let this Joy fill my entire being, that every cell and atom of my body may radiate this Joy. Let this Joy fill my entire being, that every thought and emotion I have may be filled with Thy Joy. Let this Joy fill everyone and everything, that Thy Creation may expand and expand Thy Joy, all for Thy greater glory. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
02/15/2025
Dear Light Group,
There is an ache in the hearts of many people. The world appears to be drifting further and further into dark, turbulent waters. People feel dismayed and helpless.
But if we flip this around, then we see opportunity. The world situation is an opportunity for us to double down on our spiritual commitments and see what we can do to make this a better world.
Top of the order for our spiritual commitments is to contact the universal Christ that is deep within us. If we do that, others will be awakened: it will strengthen them so they lose their fears, and if they lose their fears, they will be less prone to engage in destructive behavior.
We contact the universal Christ by reminding ourselves that we are not the stories we tell about ourselves. We are not that bundle of anxiety, dissatisfaction, and self-condemnation that may be the theme of the story we are telling ourselves. Nor are we a different kind of story: that we’re special and entitled to special treatment and special comforts and that others should recognize how wonderfully special we are.
If there is a universal Christ, then that means that we, too, are It. That universal Christ lives in us, as it does in everyone and everything else. That universal Christ knows no fear. That universal Christ is humble. That universal Christ is pure Love. Radiant Love. Joyful Love. Blissful Love. Non-stop Love.
Our job is to stay centered in that universal Christ and its radiant Love. That’s our mission, and if we stay centered on our mission, then others will calm down and change for the better. But we need to stay focused on our mission.
So, to help us stay centered on that mission, you might want to try a prayer such as, “I see the universal Christ in everyone and everything. I feel the universal Christ in everyone and everything. Everyone lives and moves in this universal Christ. Knowing that there is this universal Christ and knowing that this universal Christ is radiant Love, I feel compassion for those caught up in the ways of the world. Knowing that this universal Christ resides in everyone, I see the Christ in them, and I hold to this knowing, no matter what they do. This universal Christ that resides in my heart radiates Love to one and all. I am a mere vehicle for this universal Love. Centered in this universal Christ, I radiate Divine Love throughout my being. I radiate Divine Love throughout my home. I radiate Divine Love throughout my loved ones. I radiate Divine Love throughout the United States. I radiate Divine Love throughout all nations and all peoples. I radiate Divine Love throughout planet Earth. I radiate Divine Love throughout all creation. I give thanks to Thee, O Lord, for the universal Christ and for bringing Thy Love to this planet and to all of creation. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
02/08/2025
Dear Light Group,
Continuing our theme of healing, Jim Goure frequently reminded us that Jesus had said, “The things I do, you can do, and greater.” With that in mind, Jim said, “After two thousand years, I don’t think anyone should be sick on planet Earth.” If Jesus healed, and if Jesus basically said, “You can do it, too,” then all of us should be healers, and if all of us had become healers, then everyone on the planet would have been healed. And if that had occurred, then, according to Jim, “It would allow us to get on with greater things and not be stuck at the level of having to heal anymore – so that we…can get on with Life, with Joy, with creativity – with finding creative ways of helping man elevate himself.”
With that as a vision, how do we heal?
According to Jim, “The way healing occurs is that we are One. There is no separation. There is an energy flow that is Oneness. There is an energy flow from your mind to your liver or your kidney or your knee. That type of energy flow can awaken energy in another person. That is the healing that takes place. As you experiment with healing others, you will find that it is like healing yourself….The energy flow is what awakens the energy in the other person. That is the healing that takes place….healing…is an energy exchange.”
Last week we put our healing powers to use for one of our own Light Group members, Leslie Loveless, who has undergone heart surgery. Let us continue doing so.
In your prayers for Leslie, you might bear in mind what Jim has said, that “there is no separation” and that “healing is an energy exchange.” We are not separate from Leslie, and our prayers for her are an opportunity for us to engage in an energy exchange on her behalf.
To do that, you might want to use a prayer such as, “I am in a bubble of Light. Leslie Loveless is in a bubble of Light. These bubbles of Light are merged as One. We are one Light. This one Light fills and surrounds Leslie Loveless. This one Light fills and surrounds Leslie Loveless’s heart. This one Light heals Leslie’s heart. This one Light heals Leslie’s whole being. Leslie Loveless is complete. She is whole. She is One. Thank you, God, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
02/01/2025
Dear Light Group,
Jim Goure was emphatic that “Every one of you should be healers.” The ability to heal is in our Christ-nature, and Jim wanted us to make continual use of that ability.
He gave us several prayer techniques for doing so: “The Creator in [the person to be healed] fills them with Light, heals them, and directs their life to Light.” “[The person to be healed] is in a bubble of Light, and only Light can come to them and only Light be with them.” Jim told us to place every body part in a bubble of Light and name it Christ or Divine.
Jim told us that Jesus healed people by increasing the Creator in each person – and where there was the Creator, there was no ill health. How do we increase the Creator? We declare with authority within us, “The Creator in you fills you with Love. The Creator in you fills you with Light.”
It is time for us to put our healing abilities to use. One of our Light Group members, Leslie Loveless, has been sent to a Charlotte, North Carolina hospital for heart surgery.
Let us conduct healing prayers for Leslie now. Building on the prayer suggestions Jim made, you might want to try a prayer such as, “The Creator in Leslie Loveless fills her with Light, heals her, and directs her life to Light. Leslie Loveless is in a bubble of Light, and only Light can come to Leslie and only Light be there. The heart of Leslie Loveless is in a bubble of Light, and only Light can come to her heart and only Light be there. The Creator in Leslie Loveless fills her with Love. The Creator in Leslie Loveless fills her with Light. The Creator in the doctors and nurses treating Leslie Loveless fills them with Light. All of the medical staff treating Leslie Loveless are in bubbles of Light. Light fills the operating room. Light fills the recovery room. Light fills the hospital. Thank you, God, for healing Leslie Loveless and for directing her life to Light. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
01/25/2025
Dear Light Group,
Knowing that his time on Earth in the physical was short – he would be crucified the next day – Jesus had one last supper with the disciples, at which he gave them comfort. He was to return to the Father, “having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.” But before he returned to the Father, he gave them comfort: “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” and “I shall pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever” and “…the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceeded from the Father” and “the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
At a time when many feel anxiety and when some have a sense of hopelessness, it is good to remember that the Comforter is still with us. What is that Comforter? It is the “Spirit of Truth.” What is Truth? It is the Truth of the Divine, which is with us “unto the end.” It is God’s Love, in us, around us, in everyone and everything.
Strengthened by that Comforter, strengthened by that Truth, we can sense the wisdom of the Apostle Paul, when he wrote, “Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of all mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewithal we ourselves are comforted of God.”
So, by remembering that the Divine Comforter is with us at all times, we turn from our own anxiety and hopelessness to give comfort to others, and in so doing, “we ourselves are comforted of God.”
If you would like to join this spirit of receiving and giving comfort, you might try this prayer: “We give thanks, Lord, for Thy Comforter, which is with us at all times and in all places. We give thanks for Thy Comforter, which brings to us Thy Peace. Centered in Thy Comforter and Thy Peace, we give and give and give of this Comfort and Peace to everyone and everything. Centered in this Comforter and this Peace, we are free to live as Jesus admonished us to live, loving one another ‘as I have loved you.’ Centered in this Comforter, Peace, and Love, we are free. We are free to know that it is Thy Love, Peace, and Joy that permeates everything. We are free to know that there is only this Love, Peace, and Joy. We are free to know that we are that Love, Peace, and Joy. We are free to be that Love, Peace, and Joy. And so it is, all for Thy greater glory. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
01/18/2025
Dear Light Group,
Around 1980, after having been in Black Mountain, North Carolina for a decade, Jim Goure reflected on his experience: “My ten years here – and people have come from all over the planet – we’ve had about 18,000 people who have come here – and we don’t advertise, because we felt that if we radiated out Light and Love to everyone, that it would bring people, that it would also help solve the problem of the planet. But in looking into the souls of man, these some 18,000 people who have come, it narrows down to all these problems they all bring, and they all have problems: it narrows down to the fact of, wanting to be loved; wanting to love someone; and knowing there is a God but not knowing how to love. In all three cases, there is a lack of love, of knowing….Seeing people and their souls and their problems, hardly anyone has loved themselves. I have not found any who truly love themselves. We focus on our mistakes, and everyone makes mistakes….Everyone wants to love. Everyone wants to be loved….The greatest need in everyone is the feeling that you are loved, truly loved. Once you know that you are truly loved, you are free, totally free.”
To help free us, Jim communicated his love for each one of us. He also told us, “I know the Love is in you.” In loving us and in affirming that the Divine Love is in each of us, he wanted us to be free – not just free of our problems but also free to Be Divine. In Being Divine, we would connect with the Divine Love within and we would connect with our individual Divine Mission. In recognizing our Divine Mission, we would connect with Creative Spirit, and we would, in our individualized way, Create Good for the wellbeing of all.
If you would like a prayer to tune in to the spirit of Jim’s message, you might try this: “I know the Divine Love is in me. I know the Divine Love is in everyone. Knowing that Divine Love is in me and in everyone, I am free. I am free to create Good. I am free to Be Divine. I am free to know my Divine mission. I am free to know that special attribute of the Divine that God has placed in my heart. There is a special attribute of the Divine that shines in my heart. My heart is luminous, brilliant. clear, and spacious. This luminous, brilliant, clear, and spacious heart of mine radiates that special Divine quality that is me. This luminous, brilliant, clear, and spacious heart of mine radiates this Divine quality from my heart to the hearts of my angels. This luminous, brilliant, clear, and spacious heart of mine radiates this Divine quality to all the spiritual masters helping me. This luminous, brilliant, clear, and spacious heart of mine radiates this Divine quality to everyone and everything. There is only this Divinity, radiating from the luminous, brilliant, clear, and spacious heart of mine. My heart and the hearts of all beings are one. We are one Light, one Love, one Peace, one Joy. Let this Light, Love, Peace, and Joy go forth for the good of all. Thank you, God, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
01/11/2025
Dear Light Group,
At the end of his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus had this to say:
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
It can feel as though our world is one in which the winds are blowing hard (as they are in Los Angeles now) and the floods are overwhelming (as they were in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene). It can also feel as though the national and international geopolitical winds are blowing hard and threatening a flood of bad outcomes.
Where to turn in the midst of this turmoil?
Jesus’s answer in the Sermon on the Mount was to hear his words and do them. Shall we give that a try?
Some of Jesus’s most powerful words were, “I am the resurrection and the life.” This is what Jim Goure had to say about that statement: “It’s the most fantastic statement! When he made that statement, it was just like in the very beginning when God said, ‘Let there be Light.’ Similarly with Jesus: it was the words coming directly from the Divine. When he said, ‘I am the resurrection,’ he was saying it not just for self, but for the world. With this statement, he instantly changed all of the atoms and cells within his own body to a more fantastic body than he had before. Far more than that, though, when he said, ‘I am the resurrection,’ he was One. We tend to think of him as a separate individual in a two-by-four body, but he wasn’t. You must think of him as universally present. When he said, ‘I am the resurrection,’ it was declared through every atom of the planet and through everyone on the planet. It was the most fantastic statement, stated with such power and beauty.”
If we are to think of the Christ as “universally present,” and if that Christ reverberates to this day “through every atom of the planet and through everyone on the planet,” then that Christ is within each one of us, and the “power and beauty” of that Christ also is within us.
As we confront a world in which “the rains have descended and the floods have come and the winds are blowing,” let us resurrect that universally present Christ within ourselves and thereby ensure that our “house,” our consciousness, is one that “falls not, for it is founded upon a rock.”
If you would like a prayer to accompany your personal resurrection, you might try this, “The Universal Christ is resurrected within me. This Universal Christ is my rock and my salvation. Upon this Divine Rock I build my consciousness. Whatever storms may come, this Universal Christ is always present within me. This Universal Christ has power and beauty. Let this Universal Christ be resurrected within me, that I may stand strong in a turbulent world. Let this Universal Christ be resurrected within me, that I may hear this Universal Christ and live the life it guides me to lead. Let this Universal Christ be resurrected within me, the I may remain focused on It and not on the turbulent world around me. Let this Universal Christ be resurrected within me, that I may radiate Its glory and goodness to all. Let this Universal Christ be resurrected within me, that I may bring peace and harmony to all. Let this Universal Christ be resurrected within me, that I may know Its joy and beauty. Thank you, God, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
01/04/2025
Dear Light Group,
The world is not always what we think it should be. Last year, 2024, was turbulent, and this year, 2025, is off to a rocky start.
But through it all, we need to remember who we are: “Ye are the Light of the world.” So said Jesus over two thousand years ago. It remains our North Star. The fuller version of what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount is: “Ye are the Light of the world. A city that is on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your Light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
In the midst of all that is going on in the world, we needn’t cower in our cocoon (“put our Light under a bushel”). Instead, we should “give Light unto all that are in the house”: our “house” is the world, and we are the Light of the world. Staying true to that is our mission, no matter what is going on in the world.
If you would like a prayer to accompany being the Light of the world, you might try this: “Joyful it is to be the Light of the world. Joyful it is to know that there is the Light. Joyful it is to be centered in this Light. Joyful it is to know that the Light is my essence. Joyful it is to know that Light is the essence of all that exists. This Light is Creative Spirit. I merge with this Creative Spirit. As Creative Spirit, I am solely focused on creating Good for everyone and everything. There is a super-abundance of this Good. It flows in unending waves for the benefit of one and all. There is only ever greater, unending Good, ever expanding Good, all for the glory of God, all for the Joy of God. In the midst of turmoil and darkness on Earth, I stay focused on the Light. This Light is my true nature. This Light is my essence. From this Light I came; in this Light I am now; to this Light I return. All is Light. All is Love. All is Peace. All is Joy. Thank you, God, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully