Good. What would you like to talk about, dear one?
I’d like to know more about my father and his wife, and how they’re doing now. Why they were a part of my life, and I was a part of their life?
Yes, Good. Mother and father are on a mission which they don’t fully comprehend. All mothers and all fathers are substitute parents because all beings who come into this life require earthly mothers and fathers to take on some of the earthly roles. But the true father and mother of all beings is God.
Every time a soul is born into a body it adopts its parents. It chooses who will best meet its earthly needs according to what it needs to experience, not according to what it needs to best grow or best develop, but according to what it needs to learn in this life for lessons. This choosing happens in a state of all-knowing. One knows looking into the world exactly which ones are right and goes to them.
They do not know who is coming. From this end of the world, it is a happy surprise what soul comes into birth through parents. The role of the parents is to be God. For the little one, they are very real form of God. They give the life. They give the food. They give the love. This is all God does. For the little ones who are just learning the parents are very easy to perceive as God. And so, the little ones perceive their parents properly.
As the little ones grow, around the age of seven or eight for some, up to eleven or twelve for others, they begin to see their parents as human beings, and they begin to knit together their own relationship to God. Before that time, they saw God through the parents. After that time, they see God around and with the parents. They see God as a separate entity from the parents. And they begin to feel their independence.
This is very difficult time for parents because parents— mothers and fathers, become familiar with the feeling that their children have that they are God. They become, without even knowing what the feeling is sometimes, comfortable with the feeling. They feel the truth of it in them. So, when that awareness shifts from themselves to God, there is a loss. Parents sometimes feel that they wish to get that back or they may feel angry that the child has somehow become distant or turned off. They have not. It is that the child has turned their awareness away from the vehicle for God directly to God.
It’s a natural transition. But difficult for parents, very hard. And this difficulty usually carries on then into the ages of adolescence. Pre-adolescence, adolescence, post adolescence. Very trying times for parents. They are wanting the relationship with their children, where their children are now founding many relationships in the world in a new way. Setting the stage for how comfortable they will be in relationships in their adult life.