Roles

Picture a gathering of your dearest friends. You might call them your soul sisters and brothers. You are of like mind. There is only love amongst you. There is no judgment and no competition, only acceptance and understanding.

Now imagine that for the group’s growth and learning you will put on a play. It may be entertaining, but unlike most dramas, that is not the main point at this time. You all agree to take on various roles and to enact these roles to the best of your ability for the advancement of each of you and for the group as a whole. All will have plot lines complete with challenges.

With this agreement, the play begins. You enact your roles quite well, stopping every so often to check in with each other and compare notes. Because of who you are, there is great joy in this experiment. There is no advice or judgment, simply the realization of the initial goal of growth and learning. This goal does take place, and as a result, the love between all of you grows ever stronger.

Perhaps with this analogy we share with you today, now you have a greater understanding of the role you play here. At another level is your soul group watching this play you are enacting in human form. How is it going for you? If it is no longer enjoyable, you may have made the common error of thinking you are the role. With that comes pain and suffering. With that comes judgment and competition with the other actors, who at the higher level are still your fellow souls who love you dearly.

Are you the soul or the role? For a while you are both, but when you identify solely with the role, you have lost the big picture in the Moving Picture you call Life.