A Lighter Way Week Three: Held in Divine Unity
Jun 07, 2026All is One
John 17:22–23
“…that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity.”
Reflection
I once had an experience somewhere between waking and sleeping. I found myself in a vast darkness where two spheres appeared as rings of light—one larger than the other. A tragic event occurred, though afterward I could no longer remember its details. Yet this event caused the smaller sphere to open, and the two spheres began to merge.
In that moment, I realized that I was the smaller sphere, and God was the larger. As we merged, all boundaries disappeared. Everything in creation felt as one. Everything felt like love. All that was, all that is, and all that is yet to become existed together in complete unity—and it was all LOVE.
This experience profoundly shaped my understanding of God and creation. Often, especially when I am in nature, I can reconnect with this deep sense of oneness with all that is.
Even trees within a forest live as one. They exist in community. Beneath the surface, trees communicate through vast underground networks of roots and fungi. Scientists have discovered that they share nutrients, send warnings of danger, and even support weaker neighboring trees, helping to sustain the whole forest.
Trees do not merely grow beside one another; they live in continual relationship and communication. Once we begin to understand what is happening beneath our feet, we can never see a forest in quite the same way again.
Practice
- Where do you feel most united with God?
- Where do you experience true community?
- When do you feel a sense of oneness?
- Can you become fully present with Presence itself?
Blessing
Into This Storm-Washed Morning, We Bathe in the Light
by Bob Holmes
I run outside into the shelter of the morning sunlight,
With the anthems of forest birds stirring our souls,
Cricket songs rising into the canopy of trees and sky…
Who can fathom such glory but children of light?
Awake into the wonder, O my soul, O my soul,
To the dew that rests like a galaxy of stars
Upon these sun-washed fields of grass.
Before the forest, she dances, sways, and sings,
Laughing in the glory of the breaking morning—
Such a quiet and healing wonder
To breathe in this dew-cast light.
O come, take my hand and walk with me
Out into the misty wonder,
Out where our hearts intertwine as one,
Out where our feet are washed in the sun.
As we walk together in each other’s light,
Finding one another in this life.
Higher up and further in,
We walk into the mystery of light.
This third reflection comes from Wendy Shafer, who serves on WTC's Leadership Council and is one of our Guardians of Financial Wellbeing. She is also a 2023 cohort alum of WTC's School of Spiritual Direction.
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