NOT IN TOUCH WITH SPIRIT
When someone you love won’t believe you, denies your experience and talks down to you like you are beneath them, feel the hurt and realize that they are not in touch with their spirit. If they were, they would give you the opportunity to tell them the truth, give consideration to your experience and treat you with respect despite their opinion of you. Their behavior clearly reflects that their egos are in charge and there is no room in their heart for anything other than what they ‘believe’ has happened. They have forged a wall of beliefs that are so rigid and unmoving because if they allowed any other possibility to exist, it would shatter their comfort zone.
Pray for their peace, understanding, love and joy. Let them go and know that you have lived in honesty and have done what is right. Their hurtful words are designed to make them feel better and not you at all. What they don’t realize is that their emotionally charged opinions, attitudes and beliefs don’t take the experience of others into account. Someday they might grow up and come to know that it was them who chose to build those walls and NOT you.
Come to know that the pain you feel from hurtful words is because you truly love the person who is hurtful to you. Trust in the Divine to implement and unfold Divine order; it is your job to discharge the hurt and replace it with Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE LONG JOURNEY
It takes thousands of years for one photon of light released from solar fusion to make it to the surface of the Sun. During that time it refuses with hydrogen recreating helium and releasing more photons ad infinitum. Finally after its journey from matter to energy and back, it gets released from the confines of the Sun and takes 8 minutes to get to the Earth. It arrives as pure light or plasma in the solar wind or from a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection). It arrives on Earth and again converts from energy back to matter when it is absorbed through photosynthesis or heat creation.
It is the same photon changing states over and over again and continuing the process of life; much the same with our spirit. We all share the same Spirit of God and when that spirit flows through our individual bodily chemistry we express it as our individual souls. We release that spirit upon the death of our bodies and it never dies. It is eternal and will embody someone else someday.
We are all connected from spirit to energy to matter and back. Why not be thankful for that experience and share the gift of Divine love with all every day? Why not be the beauty that we were created to be? Why not? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
THE EMBODIMENT OF LIGHT
Every molecule in your body is the embodiment of Light. It is energy in a denser form that expresses itself in union and in tandem with other molecules to produce the necessary chemical interactions that release themselves as thought energy. This thought energy projects itself to move more molecules and create an environmental expression that creates a cause that the environment reflects back to you. Your emotions then react to that ‘effect’ and move more molecules within your body. It is an ongoing electro-chemical process that is ‘moved’ by the transference of energy from one state to another.
We are immersed in our environments and they are a part of us as we are a part of them. The transference of energy is impersonal and continues without our participation at a molecular level. When we become aware that we can affect the motion of molecules from within through effective prayer, meditation and service, we begin to transcend our awareness of the confines of molecular interaction into the freedom and healing of the experience of being Light.
We are beings of Light learning to unlearn what we have been taught in order to experience the freedom of reality from the inside out and not from the outside in. Breathe in the environment and breathe out your Light. We are all connected from the Light within. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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STICKS AND STONES
Where were you when your heart needed mending? Were you there in that moment or were you blaming someone else for putting you there? Were you taking responsibility for your actions or inactions or were you looking outside of yourself for the understanding of why it was happening?
Expending mental and emotional energy in dwelling on the past or being unsure of the future is NOT the answer. Being here in the moment and being thankful for your experience transcends the pain in your heart and opens up the flow of love to your being.
Allow the greater part of you to guide the lesser part of you and feel the healing of Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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SERVICE IN PRAYER
Elizabeth and I would like to invite you all to our site ‘Service In Prayer’. For many months we have been led to offer a way for our online friends to have a forum to share our prayer needs with each other.
The purpose of this website is to connect with one another and share our needs for healing in whatever areas we feel we need. Please visit the website or go to the Facebook forum to post any public prayers on the Wall or PM us for private prayers.
We will pray for you or help you to find Prayer Partners to assist you in healing and realization of your Divine purpose and the unfolding of it in Divine order.
Thank you all for your support, kindness and for blessing us with your ongoing friendship. Peace and blessings to all of you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

DOGMA AND PERSECUTION
To all those races, sexes, and Gentiles who have had to put up with the dogma and persecution of the various sects of Christianity come to know one thing; it was the followers of Christ who committed those atrocities against you and not the Christ.
It was those who chose to live in fear instead of the love of Christ. He spoke with love and authority and no one listened to what he truly said. They heard what they wanted to hear to control, dominate and manipulate you to their own end. They are living in pure hell and they don’t even realize it.
Become one with the Christ within you. All of the great religions have spoken of this reality and it is called by many names. The names don’t matter; what matters is that you realize that you are Divine love and that the Spirit of God lives within you. Live from that spirit every moment of your life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
HELPING OTHERS
When you expect others to fulfill their potential it is incumbent upon you to help them to understand the tools that are available for them to become fulfilled.
Posturing about their opportunities and abilities without realizing that they might not have your vision is assuming that they have had the same type of experiences you have had. It is NOT demonstrating Divine love; it is living form without substance.
Anyone can learn what to do to unfold their Divine purpose in Divine order but in order to traverse the path they need the support of Divine love from those who do understand the form and share the substance. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WALKING IN THE LIGHT
Walking in the light doesn’t mean that the path you traverse is always well lit; it means that no matter what path you are on you will be guided safely to your perceived destination by Divine love.
It means fine tuning your inner ear that perceives Divine silence and listening for the thoughts and images that direct you forward. Being internally perceptive as well as externally perceptive requires daily immersion in the well of Divine love.
Swim in the pool of consciousness where stillness is expressed into the realization and actualization of your Divine purpose in Divine order. It is always there; just a breath away. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
ACT ACCORDINGLY
What you express to the world identifies your awareness of your connection to spirit.
Express all that is supportive, encouraging and uplifting. It is your acts of Divine love that define you.
Act accordingly and share the blessings you have been so graciously given. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
KNOW YOU ARE LOVED
With each and every breath know you are loved. Feel the presence of the Spirit of God and listen for Divine guidance from within.
You are the facilitator of the living word and it is up to you to live from the presence with every thought you think, every feeling you feel, every belief you accept, every word you speak, every action you take and every behavior you express.
There are NO excuses except what your ego manufactures to protect itself from sharing its perceived power with the Spirit of God.
The true and only power is the Divine love from within. Don’t you think it’s time to allow the Divine to fulfill your Divine purpose in Divine order?
If your ego is all that, then why hasn’t it accomplished that already? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
TO LIVE OR NOT TO LIVE
To live, or not to live (and adaptation from Hamlet 3/1)
To live, or not to live: that is the question
It is nobler in the mind to rejoice
The peace and love of the Divine,
To not take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by letting them go end them? To live: to awaken;
Evermore; and by an awakening to say we are eternal
No more heart-ache and thousands of natural shocks
That spirit is heir to, 'tis a fulfillment
Devoutly to be allowed. To live, to awaken;
To be One: perchance to dream: ay, there's the satisfaction;
For in that awakening what dreams that come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us joy: there's the respect
That makes an understanding of so long life;
For who would bear the rejoice and release of time,
The supporter’s uplifting, the wise man's encouragement,
The tingles of unconditional love, the law's fulfillment,
The fulfillment of office and the praises
That patient justification of the worthy takes,
When he himself might his inner voice heard
With a bare soul? who would the collective bear,
To relax and be at peace under a fulfilled life,
But that the embrace of something after death,
The undiscover'd country that we rediscover
Every traveller returns, and informs the will
And makes us rather rejoice in the spirit we have
Than fly to others that we know is the truth within?
Thus conscience does make heroes of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution and understanding
Is felt within with the glory of thought,
And enterprises of great form and substance
With this regard their currents turn in our collective favor,
And gain the peace of tranquility. – Be here now!
The blessed spirit within, in thy fulfilled being
Be all my blessings be remember'd.,
Dean A. Banks, D.D.