How Can You Help?

In the middle of the night sometimes I am awakened with a feeling that someone needs my help. I look around at the room and I can see without lights on because there is so much light, interior light, in the room from years of devotion and prayer and meditation. My room is a sanctum, a holy place where no darkness can enter. But I am available to help and be awakened by someone who is troubled who is calling out for help. That call goes out to those who are trained to help or who have enough love to be willing to help and it reaches their ears and their hearts. It awakens in them a compassion to care and rise up and be actively supportive and helpful. I listen inside and get where it must be coming from and I go to them in mind and give blessings and aid as the case may require. It does not take much and it does not take much time, but it is necessary for that person in that moment. Maybe they were being assaulted by someone, maybe they were in pain, maybe they were fearing for their life, maybe it was a spiritual crisis, maybe they were in despair or contemplating suicide. Whatever it is I will register the need and then pray and ask God, Jesus and Mary to fly to them to help in their struggle or bless them if they are moving more deeply into a relationship with God. Everyone can use prayers. Everyone has need of help to be more loving, more patient, more thoughtful of others, more clear in their minds, more courageous in their hearts. Since no one is completely perfect at this point in their development, everyone can use blessings and prayers and help from God. In this impossible world, people are so jaded and shut down that they barely feel they can take care of themselves let alone everybody else. But in blessing others and giving to others, you gain a great blessing. As Jesus said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Try to imagine you being useful and helpful to others. Visualize yourself being that "on" and see how it feels. Then try it yourself.