Keep your lights on -Carlos Santana with Everlast

                          To my soul brother who loves God and loses himself in the Nightsky

 Many years ago I read an amazing book. It is called 'Tramp for the Lord' by Corrie ten Boom. She is a
Dutch lady, who with her elder sister and Father were incarcerated in Auscwitz for harbouring Jews. She survived this hell, but her sister and father died there. She subsequently became a 'tramp for the Lord' and preached her message of forgiveness all over the world. All her belongings were in a suitcase and she lived in Faith and Trust in God.
One day, after bringing her message of forgiveness, she was confronted by her tormentor. The man that tortured her 82 year old Father to death.  He stood in front of her, tears streaming down his face, begging her forgiveness.  And right there, she realized that she couldn't do this. The irony of her preaching forgiveness and her own unwillingness to do so, did not escape her, and she asked the Spirit of God to help her. Her arm eventually lifted (not from her own volition) and she greeted him and waited for God to speak the words that she couldn't utter. God helped this faithfull child of his, and the words came......and the last of the poison left her.......and she was free..she was walking in the Light..

Another of her experiences stayed with me as well. She told of how the women were lined up every morning, early...and made to stand on the parade ground in silence for hours... Women died and fell down and was taken away to be dumped like garbage. They were officially in Hitler's Hell and there seemed no way out. She prayed fervently through out this early morning humiliaton and begged God for Relief.

 One morning, very early,as the group of miserable prisoners stood in silence, they heard the beautiful song of  a Nightingale. The bird swooped and sang in the blue sky and one by one the women looked up....up ....up.....away from the misery and deprivation.....away from the hate and the pain........their souls soared with God's creature and they felt His Upliftment and Care.  This Nightingale came back every morning to entertain and sustain the souls of the women  .Their collective Spirit was lifted and every morning from then on was spent in deep meditation and wonderment.   It became a Holy time of the day and God made His presence clear to all.   Death became a Graduation.   They knew where they would go to and they knew that what was happening to them was temporary.

We don't all land up in a concentration camp, but we sure go through our own hell at times. Living in South Africa is a stressfull experience to many. (Come to think of it, living in this world is very stressfull ) Our crime statistics are incredibly high, we have become the rape capital of the world..The Spirit of this nation is troubled by violence and phobias.

And of course not everyone in South Africa wants to kill and rape, but it would sure help if we could recognize the Spirit of people that cross our paths. Again I pray for the Spirit of discernment.

This leads me to the title of this blog. The deep,haunting- husky sound of Everlast combined with the wailing guitar of Carlos Santana playing 'Keep your lights on' Yes!       (Somewhere here I can hear children singing 'This little Light of Mine)'
Would it not be awesome if we all kept our Lights on?

 Show who we are so we don't waste time having to rifle through our psyche to unearth that which are kept in the dark....all the lies and the deceit out there.... taking ownership... 'In order to shift from Duality to Unity, all that has been held in the dark must be brought to the Light'         (@Nilini)

'Lovers keep your Light on, Killers keep your Light on, Children you better keep your Lights on'
'There's an Angel with his hand on my head, saying I have nothing to fear....Let your Light shine into my home...'

I share a love of the Milkyway and the Northern Lights with my soul brother. I have looked at so much footage of Aurora Dancing in the Night Sky, sometimes with a stray meteor in the picture and a spectacular Milky Way for good meassure, altogether a Cellestial Light Display that makes me thank God for Keeping His Lights on for us. We need to know that He is there if we have difficulty seeing him on earth. He makes me look up.....up.....up....away from  sadness and cruelty and makes me want to join in the dance of the Northern Lights lighting up in the sky.....contemplating the fleeting time spent on earth and Eternity ahead.

It is because our time here is fleeting that I want to preserve and live each moment, I want to see people loving each other, caring for each other and strengthening each other on  our individual  journeys.

Could we not have 'An interplanetary Party? (great song by the way, Mr Santana) Yes, a party where all 'God's children will live in Peace with no boundaries'


Doing the Celestial Shake.......and Keeping the Lights on**
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