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PARABLE OF THE CAMEL TRADER

11 October 2008

Beloved and holy and only Child of our heavenly Father,

Child of the one Source, Child of Light, divine. That is who you are. Take it

deeply within the consciousness and contemplate what that means.

I am the one known as Jeshua ben ph, Jesus you have

called me, and it is in great joy that I come to abide with you this evening in

your timing as you have chosen once again to call me forth.

Great joy of reunion; great joy of remembrance, for truly,

all of you have walked with me in that lifetime that is so famously written

about. All of you have known me throughout the ages in one way or another. That

is why you feel resonance with my love, with my words, and with the rest of the

grouping of family so gathered here. All of you within the sound of my voice,

you have been with me as well. Otherwise, this would be as foreign to you, but

it is not. It resonates within the heart.

You are a great ray of light sent forth from the one

creative Source before time began. You are a great ray of light, of energy,

that thought itself to expand; to ask of itself, "What can I create?" Because,

being the extension of the one creative Principle, creativity is your nature,

and so you create and you experience and you express, and you change your

world.

Right now your world is changing. There is much that you

have felt of vibrational change. As you have gone through even the past few

days, and definitely within the past month, you have felt a change, a shift.

Your news media will bring to you many suggestions of

duality. You are seeing within your political grouping a great clarity of the

belief in duality. Ones have asked, "Why is there such divisiveness within this

country? Why is the country so divided?" And ones have often pointed fingers at

this one or that one or this cause or that cause.

But truly, it is the holy Self of you that is showing forth

the duality in great clarity, even in what you call your politics, in the

choices that are being made, in the voices that are being raised. It is showing

you most definitely the long-held belief in duality.

And yet the holy Child is One. The holy Child, as a great

ray of light come forth before time ever was thought of, is One. You are a

great ray of light. Even as you claim an individuality of body, of personality,

of experiences, you are the great ray of light, and that great ray has come

forth to shine upon everything that is unlike itself, and you are seeing much

right now in your world that is coming to light.

We spoke of this some years ago, that there would be a time,

in a process of time, when many things would come to light. That which had been

swept under the carpet and ones felt was going to never come forth into the

light, never going to be known, you have seen in the last few days much that

has been uncovered.

You have asked, "How did this come about all of a sudden?"

because seemingly what has been happening with your news media reporting it to

you, it seems like it came out of nowhere. But in truth, it has been a process

that has been well on its journey for a long time with ones who thought that

they could live in their power, temporal power of the world, and that other

ones would not know what they were doing, or that they were above anyone else's

calling them on the carpet, to lift up that corner of the carpet to see what

was under it.

Well, now the carpet is being rolled up, taken outside and

dusted off, and the floorboards are seeing the light. You have wondered, "What

part do I play in this?" You play a very big part in this. You are the light

that has come forth into this time and this reality in order to be part of a

collective consciousness that is changing, that is demanding change. I am not

speaking on a political platform when I say that. I am only saying that you

have agreed that what you have been experiencing is not heaven, and you have

wanted heaven on Earth, and in order to have heaven on Earth, some things must

change.

And so at the soul level you have chosen to be part of the

great change that is sweeping not only this geo-poliical grouping, this

country, but other countries as well. But as we have spoken recently, there is

a globalization that is happening. It has been in process for most of your

lifetime. It goes back to previous centuries, and there is no longer any space

in the collective consciousness for isolationism. You are tied to the brothers

and sisters through your technology, your world-wide web, and your workings of

the various companies which have outsourced the work to various geographical

locations.

And so ones of you gathered here this evening, and also

those within the sound of my voice, you find that you may be dealing in your

employment with someone who is halfway around the planet of our holy Mother,

the Earth. There are ones who have to adjust their time clock in order to be in

sync with ones who are working for and with the same company.

It has taken a bit of adjustment of the collective

consciousness to find its way through the technology that creative ones agreed

to in their contract, that they would come and make it possible that you could

work with brothers and sisters halfway around the world and that the technology

would prove to you in an outer way the Oneness of the brothers and sisters who

yet think themselves to be individual, individual points of light, and yet you

are a great ray of light: one ray come forth to make this reality and to change

this reality, to play in this reality, and yet to know, even as you sit in this

reality, there are many other realities that are happening within time and

outside of time.

In your meditative quiet times you have had visions that

have surprised you, because those visions have expanded throughout what you

know this reality to be and have suggested other realities, and have suggested

ways that you can be, and are, part of other realities. There is coming a time,

not too long from now, when there is going to be evidence of other realities

that have and do exist side by side with this reality, even within this reality

in another dimension as you call it, another level of this reality. Very soon

there is going to be the "evidence" that you have asked for.

Many voices have been calling out, "I want to know who I

am." Many voices have been asking, "Why am I here? What is life all about? Why

did I choose certain parents? I have been told that I chose my parents. I don't

think I did. They are very different than I am. They believe differently that I

do."

And yet, you did choose your parents. "Well, if I did, why

did I choose those parents?" You chose them in order to interact with them so

that you could be an opportunity for them to love, to serve, and perhaps to

remember who they are. And they chose you in order for you to see also how

everything comes from love.

As you served them, they served you as you were little, you

gave them opportunity to serve, and you served them in that opportunity. You

loved them; they loved you in their own way, and through that, there was

opportunity to remember. I've heard many asking, "Why is this reality so harsh?

This is not the reality," ones will say, "that I wanted to live in. I expected

that I would be surrounded by love. And even with the parenting that I have

had, it was very difficult, very harsh."

It was for you to know with clarity the duality of this

reality, to know how it feels to be loved. All of you have found love,

sometimes in the most surprising places, and all of you have felt the harshness

of life. And all of you have felt and heard the voice of separated ego that

would say, "You chose wrongly. You should not have said what you said, did what

you did, come at the time that you've come."

But everything, beloved ones, has been in divine order, and

your soul knew this before the incarnation. Your soul knew that there would be

journeying that you would be doing, and your soul knew that you would meet up

with other ones who would have the same questions, who would have some of the

revelations to give to you, some of the answers that you were seeking.

Your soul knew that you would make trek to many far

countries, and yet you would find family wherever you went. Your soul knew that

this was the divine time for you to be here as the extension of the great ray

of light from the creative Principle to be here, to change that which you now

see changing.

What you are standing upon now in your reality is very much

like an earthquake. You are not quite sure what is secure, because everything

is shifting and changing daily, hourly, and sometimes you feel a bit insecure

with it, because you're not quite sure that the old paradigm, the old beliefs,

are serving you.

"What I used to think was true and what I thought was secure

is no longer there. The body speaks to me differently. The friends, sometimes

they say to me things that surprise me. They act in ways that I didn't think

they would act. Why do they do that?'

They give you opportunity to look past the action and to be

in love with them as part of the great ray of light that they are as well, to

look past their choices of behavior and see the Christ of them. That is why

sometimes they act in ways that are un-understandable.

Where you stand is in a place of great divinity, and yet you

sometimes feel that you are at the end of your rope wondering what you can hold

onto. As advice that was given to one this week, when you reach the end of your

rope, what do you do? (Aud: You let go) No, you tie a knot at the end and you

hold on (Laughter) You tie a knot at the end of that rope and you hold on until

you know that it is safe to let go.

All of you have more support than you recognize. You do not

walk this path alone. You cannot walk this path alone, for there is, in truth,

no separation. There are many in your unseen realms who are present in this

room right now who walk with you day by day, encouraging you, whispering in

your ear, holding you in their arms and telling you how beloved you are,

because you are beloved. You are love itself.

That great ray of light is love pouring forth to change

anything that is not like itself. And what happens in the change is a shift in

the perception, where you move beyond what seems to be an appearance to the

place where you see the Christ at work.

As you will listen to various friends, sometimes they speak

to you in a place that resonates and you feel your heart open. Sometimes they

will speak to you from a space where you feel you have to be armored, and you

stand back from them, and as you have practiced, you give them their space to

have their own opinion, but you sometimes don't want to be with them too long

because it doesn't feel all that good.

What you are doing is moving past the place of the belief in

duality, moving into the space where you know Oneness with them as the Christ,

as that great ray of light. You see them as the individual that they are. You

see the choices that they make. You see their behavior.

Separated ego comes rushing onto stage very quickly and says

with judgment, "This is not…whatever." And then there is a shift that happens.

Because you are willing, you can look past what is going on in appearances and

look to the Christ of them and look to how they are effecting a global change

that in time—and it will not be all that long a time—will bring about harmony

and respect, that harmony and respect that you have been praying for not only

in this lifetime, but in many other lifetimes as well.

This is a most divine time to be here upon holy Mother Earth

and to be in touch with all of the brothers and sisters and to give them their

space and then to look beyond it to the true heart of them. As you do that, a

most miraculous thing happens. You find that there are more and more of ones

coming to you who speak the same language, the language of the heart, who are

as friends.

You have been gathering to yourself, through this lifetime

and other lifetimes as well, friends who are truly of your own nature, the

nature of love. More and more of the ones who come and are in your space are in

love with you, courting you, guiding you by whatever they say, if you

will have the willingness to stand in that place of beholder.

Sometimes you are right in the face with one. "Ah, this feels

good." And sometimes you are right in the face with someone and they say

something and it takes you back a bit, and literally you can stand back from it

and say, "I know that there has to be another way to see this. I am determined

to see things differently." That is what I am speaking to you about now,

speaking of the Christ of you and the Christ of everyone.

You have much of turmoil that is going on right now. Many

are suffering, for their houses are crumbling; sometimes the physical houses,

sometimes the financial foundation of the house. But their houses, their

dwelling places, are crumbling, and this is good, because they have to now look

for a new dwelling place. I do not speak here of a physical dwelling place. I

speak here of a dwelling place within the heart, within the consciousness, that

is willing to change, to look for a new dwelling place.

You have many who are "homeless" and they feel, in some

cases, that they don't know where home is. In other cases, by being homeless

they have found home. They have found others in a certain grouping where they

are at home. Even though they have no physical dwelling place perhaps above

them and over them, they have found home, and so they are homeless, and yet

they are at home.

That is the most miraculous happening, and that is happening

for many who have had the attachments to the physical, material comforts. They

are finding now that that is not where their dwelling place is, and they are

lost for a time. Sometimes you are the answer that comes along and smiles at

them, offers them a hand, perhaps, or a word that gives them a new way of

looking at things.

You are the great ray of light. You have agreed that you

will be here in this time to share that light, to share the support, and to

find ones who are homeless in the emotional sense and show them that they have

the dwelling place within, and that they can come home any time they choose to

recognize that home within themselves.

You are the teachers. You are the ones who have come through

the fire of the challenges. You know how it feels to be homeless. You may have

had the physical dwelling place, but you have known times when you felt

completely estranged from anything that would be supportive. You have felt far,

far from home, and yet there has been the homesickness that you have felt.

I have heard you as you have called out and you have wanted

to know, "Where is home? How can I find home once again?"

Many times ones will feel that if they return to the place

of their physical birth they can find home, or if they go and connect up with

the biological family they will find home. Oftentimes it is a disappointment,

because that which has been imagined or even hoped for is not there.

But you carry home within you all the time, and you carry

the remembrance of home with you all the time. That is why there has been such

a yearning to have change upon this plane, to have ones come through whatever

needs to be in their perception and in your perception of the turmoil.

So right now you are in the midst of a great earthquake.

There is much that is being turned upside down, and there are many who are

suffering because they have attachments to the past, to the past that they

thought was their security, their salvation.

Even the ones who go unto your religious edifices and maybe

go every day and say the holy words, they maybe are not finding the security

that they want to find. You are the friends who are making the changes for

them.

You are the collective consciousness that feels that it is

in the minority, and yet you are not. You are truly the majority. All of the

brothers and sisters will come home in time. Many of the brothers and sisters

feel the same desire and longing that you have felt and that you do feel, that

you want to know, "Who am I? Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing in

putting these pieces together? How can I find food for my small ones? How can I

find a physical dwelling place for my family? How can I live in peace? How can

I live in chaos around me and yet find peace within?"

Many of the brothers and sisters are finding, as a most

miraculous process, that they can find the peace within even though the noise

and the chaos is all around them. They are teachers, and yet they would say, "I

am just doing what I have to do. I am doing the best that I can do." And they

are, and you are.

This is a time when you have wondered, "How can all this be

happening. I was brought up to believe," many of you, "in a God outside of

myself, in a Savior known as one Yeshua, one Jesus, and that there would be a

divine emissary that would come at some time and make everything right."

Two thousand years ago there was an expectancy of a messiah

who would come and put everything right, who would send the Romans packing and

would set the Jewish hierarchy on their ears, and set everything in a place of

love. This messiah was greatly waited for, expected, and I came.

I spoke of love. I spoke of seeing things in a different

light. I spoke of the Father's love, that one creative Principle, and I called

it Abba, meaning Father, in the sense of a loving Father who would protect,

nurture, guide, and care for his children. In the language that I spoke there

were many different words for father. I chose the word Abba because of the

nuance of meaning, the nuance of the caring father; not the strong patriarch

who would lay down the law and say this is how it has to be, but the loving

father who would always be there for you, and is always there for you.

Many of you heard my message, and you began to look at

things differently. Many of you—after I physically left the scene and then came

back again in a most unexpected way—many of you in the next century remembered

my words, remembered the miracles as they seemed to be, and you remembered and

had such a great belief that many of you were the martyrs who stood up for

their belief to the point of releasing the body.

Many of you carry yet within you that memory and you have

said, "I don't want to go through that again." And many of you have said, "I'm

not going to say certain things if I don't feel it's safe, because I remember

what happened in other lifetimes."

I have assured you that that will not happen in this

lifetime. You will not be asked to release the body in a horrific way. When it

comes time and you want to release the body, it will be a choice, a choice that

you make, and it will be a free choice, for truly no one can take the body from

you.

Sometimes they have given you motivation that you thought

you had no other choice to make, but it will not be that way in this lifetime

for you.

So many of you are speaking your truth and finding that

there are others who believe the same as you do. You are, in truth, the

majority; not the minority that you have felt yourself to be, but truly the

majority that wants goodness in your life and goodness for your family and for

the small ones, and to raise up the small ones with love and caring and

guidance that allows them to move into the realization of all of their divine

potential.

This is a most wonderful time to be in this reality. It is a

changing of the guard. It is a changing of the collective consciousness. It is

a changing of the Age. And it is not the first time that you have been at this

point, for truly you have ushered in a new Age other times, because you are the

masters who remember the light. You are the masters who are in

this reality walking in the world, but knowing that you are not of the

world, that the world is of your making.

And if that be true—take that deeply within your

consciousness—if the world be of your making, what then can you do? You can

change it. If you have made it in the first place—and you have—you can change

it, and that is what you are doing right now. You are changing it with the

brothers and sisters through what seems to be great turmoil, and yet the most

powerful change that you make is within yourself as you make that change in

perception, to look for the Christ at work in all of the upheaval, in the old

carpet being taken outside, hung over the rope, the dust beaten out of it, and

looking at the floorboards and saying, "These floorboards…good wood, but needs

a polish, needs a good cleaning."

That is what is happening right now. Count all as good, for

it is. Even when ones will leave a relationship, there is a feeling of

attachment, a feeling of loss sometimes, a feeling of, "What did I do, or what

didn't I do, that this one that I was in such a relationship with would see me

differently than I see them? What did I do?"

The truth: you did nothing to send them away. Everyone is

free to make choice. Everyone has their own journey to come to that place of

awakening, that place where they say, "You know, none of those little things

really matter. I see you now in a new light."

Relationships come and go. They change. You bring them

around because you want to know the various nuances of relationship. And you

have found that no matter how securely you thought you held onto a

relationship, you cannot, but the thing you can do is to love. If one leaves you

and they are still activating the body but they want to be with someone else or

they want to move somewhere else, you let them go. You have to. You also let

yourself go, because you don't need to be attached to the past.

If ones whom you have loved have laid down the body and

deceased the body and you feel like you don't know their telephone number and

you can't call them up and they never send a postcard, they are with you

always. They are right here next to you. They walk with you, and they are still

interested in what you are doing; more so now than perhaps they were when they

were incarnate, because they had their own focus of things that they needed to

attended to. Once they have released the body, they are freer to see the whole

picture, and they are free to walk with you and to offer advice, counsel, love.

And they speak to you.

So sometimes when you feel their presence, you do not deny

it. You say, "Yes, I hear you." And sometimes they will get powerful enough

that they will do physical things in your dwelling places that give you the

"evidence" that they are still around, still the powerful energies that they

have been when you knew them in the incarnate form.

For those of you who haven't felt that physical evidence of

the loved ones around you all the time, it is there, and you can trust it,

because you will have a feeling. They will come to mind, or you will have a

dream, and in that dream they are very much with you. Then you wake up, and you

have for half a second or so the remembrance of them, and oh, that's so

good…but they are no longer here. Yes, they are; otherwise, you would not have

had that dream. They are very much with you, and they want to be recognized and

they want to be energy that is being used in this time of change. Call upon them,

because there is much that they can do from the other side.

Allow yourself to take advantage of all of the energy of

that great ray of light that came forth from before time began, and allow

yourself to know how powerful you are; not in the way of the power of the

world. That, as you have seen, changes. It shifts and changes, sometimes very

quickly, as you have seen in your past weeks.

But the power of your divinity, the power of the great ray

of light that you are…allow yourself to feel how you have shaped your world,

because you have made…the world is of your making. And yes, I know there are

times when you feel that you do not have the power to change it, or that if you

do have the power, it sure is taking a long time.

Yes, but that, beloved ones, as you have felt, is speeding

up. You have seen the evidence of how quickly things can change. You have

agreed that you will accelerate the time that it takes to have new experiences.

Other incarnations, other centuries you would live a whole lifetime in a certain

mindset. In this lifetime you can look back to when you were the small one,

when you were a bit taller, and when you are now where you are, and you can see

how your perceptions of things, your belief system, has changed.

Other lifetimes you were in just one path, one belief

system, and it stayed there. This lifetime you have changed partners, you have

traveled, you have had perceptions that have turned upside down so that you

could see everything from the top and from the bottom and from each side. You

have seen in this lifetime how things are not static. Your world is not static.

That you have seen in the past week.

But I say unto you now, take that one step further and know

that the world is of your making and that what you hear about the happenings

that seem to be far away from you, and yet they touch your lives, they are in

your consciousness and you are changing them. That is how powerful you are.

I want you to know two things from this time we spend

together and to take these two things deeply within the consciousness. The

first is to recognize how powerful you are and how you are changing the world.

The whole globalization of experience is changing rapidly, and you, because of

your consciousness, are changing it. You are that powerful. So envision what

you want it to be. Believe in your power. Look back in your lifetime to see

what you have changed, because you have changed much in this lifetime.

The second point I want you to remember and to take deeply

within the consciousness and to wear it as raiment around yourself, is how

deeply loved you are, how deeply loved you are. You walk in a bubble of love

always. From before time began, you were that love, you have brought it into

this reality as you, and you are loved with a love greater than anything the

peers have told you, the parents have told you, your teachers, your rabbis,

your ministers, your pastors, your authorities; greatly, greatly loved.

Remember how loved you are, how fortunate you are to be

alive, breathing, walking in this time in this reality. Do not curse this

reality. I have heard ones feel very upset. Do not curse this reality. Know

that truly you are so deeply loved that never can anything be outside of you

and outside of the love that you are. Wrap it around yourself as you would take

a shawl around; love in physical form.

Wrap yourself in it first thing when you wake up in the

morning. Take those covers that are on the bed. Wrap yourself in those covers.

Wrap the whole self in those covers, every bit of you, in love. Know that it is

my love that I give unto you, but it is your love, because truly I have nothing

that is apart from you.

I give unto you my love, but it is your love, and give it

back to me, please. As you are wrapped in that love, you have so much love to

give that you give it unto other ones (Laughter as Jeshua wraps the shawl

around 's head and shoulders) There you are, all wrapped in love. That he

is, definitely. Most cool, wrapped in love.

Remember your power. Remember how you have changed and how

you are changing things, and remember how loved you are. Never can you

walk in any day without love. It is who and what you are, and it surrounds you,

it permeates every cell of the body. It permeates everything that you think and

that you say and that you share with other ones.

That is why ones are attracted to you. They feel

instinctively that they are safe with you, that you love them, no matter what

they're going to say, no matter how "wrong" their choices might be. They know

that you love them, and you will love them through everything, no matter

whether they are next to you or whether they are miles away or if they are in

the unseen realm.

Those ones who were of the parents and relatives who may

have allowed the body to be deceased, love them, forgive them for whatever you

might have felt when they were with you. I know that all of you have called

unto yourself challenges of lifetime with parents.

All of you have come through the rough times of the parents

not knowing how to love this package that came to them most surprisingly. They

sometimes would look at this small package and they'd say, "But we were only

having an evening's fun, and look what came." (Laughter)

Other ones you have prayed for, you have worked to have them

come consciously into your life, and then you have said, "Now what do I do with

them?" So many of the parents—it is most humorous, in a way, to watch—bring

home the small one, lay it on the mat, and then say, "Now what do we do? Where

is the guidebook?" And so they do, as they have been brought up, the best that

they can do.

And when your small ones have come to you and you have

looked at them, "My goodness, what do I do with this one? How do I raise this

one up?" And I say unto you it is very much a two-way street, because the small

one that comes unto you does not come perfectly innocently, as has been said to

you in order to make the guilt upon the shoulders that perhaps it was all of

your doing if they go one way or if they go another way.

They come as masters in order to be the catalyst to work

with you as they are remembering who they are. And so they come with their own

set of remembrances and their own set of self image from other lifetimes and

their own inclination to a certain way. So you work with them. It is a journey

that you share with them for a time period. And then, off they go or off you

go.

Changes; life is about change. But you now stand at a most

wonderful place of change. You will see in the next few months of your timing,

as we have spoken earlier a few months ago, we spoke that in the next six to

twelve months of your timing you were going to see much of upheaval, much of

change, and it is because you are ready for it.

You collectively have asked for change, that you want to

clear out all of the dross, the old bits that no longer serve heaven on Earth,

that no longer serve the self image of the divine One.

And so you are going to see upheavals, and you are going to

sometimes reach out to another one and say, "Hold my hand while we go through

this, because I'm not quite sure what's happening." And so you will do this

physically. You will do this by your internet of corresponding with ones. You

will do it on your most wonderful technology of the telephone or the little

blue tooth—most wonderful.

You will do this, sometimes reaching out to another one

saying, "Help me for awhile. I've almost…not quite, but almost lost my

understanding of what's going on here. Give me a word, a little guidance. Show

me a little light." And the other one will, because you are all of the same

great ray of light. Remember that.

You are all sisters and brothers under the skin; the same

one heart beats in all of you. So you will weather the storm, and there will be

storms. You will weather the storm. You will take yourself to a higher place to

look upon what is happening.

Now, I know, first of all, you may get caught up in what is

happening and in the, "Oh, my goodness." But then you will step back from it

and you will say, "I know that this has to serve the atonement." And it does.

And there is a pony in there somewhere. I saw you smiling at that—the horse

people.

I would share with you a story. This used to be called a

parable, but it is a story. Once upon a time, as you would understand time to

be, a little boy was born. And this little boy was born into a family that

raised animals. They had their sheep, they had their goats, they had their

camels. The father of the family carried on what had been, within the

generational lineage, the family business of raising, breeding, and trading

camels.

This family was fairly well off, because camels would demand

a good price. They were on a certain caravan route that went to a very busy

seaport, and so there was much trade that the father did.

Over the years, as the father grew older, the family

business passed to this little boy who was now a grown man, and because he was

the oldest of the family, he was chosen naturally to carry on the family

business of the camel raising, breeding, and trading. It was a good business that

he knew. From the very beginning, he saw how it provided for the family, and

more than that, he had a fondness for the animals.

He enjoyed being with the sheep. He enjoyed being with the

goats. He saw how it was an exchange, that the sheep would give the wool for

the garment making and the goats were there for their milk, for the meat. The

sheep also gave of their meat, and the camels brought in a good price when the

caravans would come by and would need some new camels to carry the burdens of

the trade that they were taking to the seaport.

As a young boy he was able to spend time with the animals to

the place where he had a common language with them, an instinctive language.

There was much that he shared on a level that went deeper than just the words, and

there was great love.

As he became a man and took over the family business, he

took to himself a wife and began a family of his own, and the camel trade

proved for them a good livelihood, and he felt very good about being able to

provide for his family.

But as is the way of the world, the caravans found a new

route to a new seaport, and the new seaport was busier than the old one. And so

the caravans started going a new route, not where he was raising his camels,

where his family had lived for many generations, and so the business, the gold

coins, dwindled.

He wondered, and he cursed the new seaport and the new

business and the ones who would be attracted to the new seaport. After all, in

his thinking, what was wrong with the old seaport? What was wrong with the old

trade route that went by his village? He became very bitter; so bitter that his

friends didn't want to be around him. His brothers and sisters who were raising

their own families didn't want to be with him.

He was very unhappy, so he reached a decision that he would

have to take a group of his camels across land to find the new route of the

caravans and to set up a new business somewhere else. At first he said to his

family, "I will set out and I will see what the new route is and I will see how

the trade is, and when I have established a place, I will send for you."

None of them were happy about this, because they liked

living in the village where they had known the father, grandfather,

great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, etc. and all of the cousins and

aunts and uncles.

So he set out with a group of his camels to see where the

new trade route was and to see how business would be. Along the way one evening

during the nighttime, robbers came and stole all but three of his camels, so he

was left with only three. He became even more embittered. Why had this happened

to him? Life had been good up to a certain point. Why had things changed?

He railed against his God, and he railed against the

caravans that had changed their route, and he railed against the new seaport,

and most of all he railed against the robbers, the thieves who were very good

at setting upon a solitary person traveling. That is why the caravans traveled

in caravans, as protection.

He went on with his three camels to the seaport to have a

look at it to see what he could do to set up a new business there, but he found

that the land around the seaport was not to his liking. It was too busy, and

too many people were living on the outskirts of the seaport, and they were as

bad as the robbers on the way. He did not feel happy being there.

His idea was to set up a new place where he would breed more

camels and establish a new farm, but he knew that he was not going to be happy

there, and it was not a place where he wanted to bring his family. The more he

thought about his family and he thought about his village, he knew that he did

not want to be in that new location at the new seaport.

One evening it came to him that what was most important was

his family, the friendships that he had turned his back on, the happiness that

he had felt with the sheep, with the goats, and with raising of the camels, and

the simplicity of life; not the business of the seaport; not the unscrupulous

business way that they would deal and try…he had sold two of his camels for

much less than what they were worth, and he was left with one old camel. She

was very old. That is why no one wanted to buy her. She was too old for

breeding, and she was too old to do much heavy work. She was his companion.

So he spoke to this camel and he said, "Let us return unto

the village. I see now that what I was looking at, what I was chasing after, is

not where my treasure lies, but it is with my family and with the village and

the villagers that I have known." And with that, his heart opened; the heart

that had been closed, tightly armored for a long time as he saw his camel

trading dwindling and as the caravans no longer came near his place.

And so with this one very old camel that had been his friend

for many, many years and had bred for him many small young camels that he then

sold for a good price, with his very old friend he traveled back to the

village. He didn't know what to expect, because when he had left, everyone was

happy to see him go.

But a most miraculous thing happened. His heart had opened.

He was in joy with the stars of the night, with the sun in the daytime, with

the grass that he would see, the flowers, the birds, every little bit of life

in every different form. He began to see in a new light.

The camel, his companion from the time he was a little boy,

spoke to him and pointed out to him the treasures of life itself. And because

he had this communion with the camel, his old friend, when he arrived at the

village there was a feeling around him that was new, that was expansive.

He did not care if others didn't speak to him, but he loved

them. And so, of course, they spoke to him, because they could see that there

was a smile upon his face, and they welcomed him home. The family was very

happy to have him back home again, and he found that there was enough of the

goat milk, of the meat, of the wool, and he had left a few of the camels at

home that he could start a new breeding program with them, so that he could

give camels to the rest of the village.

He lived out the rest of that life as a great-grandfather,

loved for his wisdom. He had come through generational thinking into the family

business. He had broken with the family, turned his back, cursed everything

that had been near and dear to him, and left. He had gone afar, had everything

taken from him except for the old, old camel that was his dear friend, and

everything changed for him.

So when he returned to the village, he was no longer the

bitter man who had left. He went on to father some more children who loved him

dearly. He had great-grandchildren who loved him and villagers who came and

spoke to him about, "What is it like out beyond the village?" And he would say,

"It is a grand adventure, and if you want to go, go. But if you have everything

that is near and dear and important to you right here, then you do not have to

travel abroad to find happiness."

So some of them, being adventuresome, set out on their own,

and many of them returned to the village. But most of them stayed in the

village and are there yet to this day, raising their camels and their sheep and

their goats and being very happy in the sunshine and in the rain and in the

caress of the wind and in the storms that show great power, appreciating all of

the variety of life.

Now, if you want to draw from that story any parallels into

this day and time, you are free to draw your own conclusions.

Oftentimes two thousand years ago, I would sit with you and

I would tell very simple stories, because nothing was written down in those

days. It wasn't as you had a certain paperback or hardback book to take with

you. You didn't even have the papyrus to write on, usually, because you were

traveling. You were simple folk.

It wasn't until much later that my stories were written

down, but they were simple enough, as this one is, that ones remembered them

and passed them down generation to generation until finally someone decided

they would write them down and they ended up in your holy collection of biblos,

the Bible. And so you have in this evening the parable of the camel trader;

not unlike your investment traders of this day.

Now, beloved ones, it has been my great joy to speak with

you of the changes that are happening, of the earthquake that is happening in

your world right now; of the homeless ones who are finding home within; of the

newly homeless ones who are quite bitter; to speak to you of your light, the

great ray of light that you are and to remember that great ray of light; to

remember your power that you have made the world, and so you can change it. And

you are very much changing it very quickly.

Remember first, foremost, and last, how beloved you are; how

greatly I love each and every one of you; how always I travel with you, I laugh

with you, I joke with you; I love you; I support you. Allow yourself always to

look upon the glass that is half full as opposed to half empty, and to count,

simple as it sounds, your blessings, for this is a good life. Beloved

ones, I am in love with you.

So be it.