The Little Soul and the Sun: A Children's Parable

When I first read the book Conversations With God a few years ago, I was deeply touched. Much of the insights presented in this unusual conversation were a wonderfully fresh way of seeing All is One and that All is Love. A year or so later, I was browsing the children's section of the bookstore and came upon The Little Soul and the Sun: A Children's Parable Adapted From Conversations With God. I read it right there and it brought tears to my eyes.Here it is some years later, and I've just bought this delightful book for my son as a Christmas present. This beautiful story is illustrated in lavish pastels by Frank Riccio, and features a parable about Little Soul--one who wants to experience itself as Who I Am. You see, Little Soul knows that it is Light--but feels that knowing isn't enough. So Little Soul asks God if it can actually feel what is means to be the Light. So God asks Little Soul how it can experience the Light when it is already as a candle in the Sun, along with the other billions of souls who make up the brilliance of the Sun? Little Soul entreats God to think of something--some way in which it can experience what it feels like to be Light.God answers Little Soul "Since you cannot see yourself as the Light when you are in the Light, we'll surround you with darkness." Little Soul asks "What's darkness?" and God replies "It is that which you are not." Little Soul asks God if it will be afraid, but God says "only if you choose to be...there is nothing, really, to be afraid of, unless you decide that there is."One of the central themes of Conversations With God is that in order for God to experience Itself, It had to be contrasted with something else--something "other". You cannot experience dark without light, up without down, now without then, fast without slow. The purpose of duality is to experience parts of the God-self in all Its glory. In a sense, we are all a part of God, and God exploded into a million Souls to experience Itself.However, when We made the journey Earthward, We forgot where We came from--and Who we were. Little Soul and God continue the conversation, and talk about how everyone is special in their own way--each manifesting a different part of "special". Some parts of special include kindness, creativity, and patience. Little Soul decides that the part of "special" it wants to experience is the part of special known as forgiveness. A multitude of Souls gather around God and Little Soul to hear this extraordinary conversation, and God sweeps an arm towards them: "There is nothing to forgive" God says. Little Soul could hardly believe what God said. "Everything I have made is perfect. There is not a single soul in all of creation less perfect than you. Look around you."Little Soul grumbles that this wasn't fun at all! How would it experience itself as One Who Forgives if there was noone to forgive? Just then, Friendly Soul offers to help him, volunteering to come into Little Soul's next lifetime so it can do something for Little Soul to forgive. Little Soul was incredulous, and aks why Friendly Soul, who was such a magnificent Being of perfect Light, would want to become dense and dark--slowing it's vibration in order to do this bad thing for Little Soul to forgive? "Simple", The Friendly Soul replies. "I would do it because I love you." Friendly Soul goes on to explain that both it and Little Soul have been male and femaile, good and bad, victim and villian--All of It. "Thus have we come together, you and I, many times before; each bringing to the other the exact and perfect opportunity to Express and to Experience Who We Really Are."In being the "bad one" this time around, Friendly Soul will give Little Soul the opportunity to experience itself as One Who Forgives. Friendly Soul becomes serious and confirms that it will have to become dense and dark to do this act--and that both it and Little Soul may forget Who They Were. Friendly Soul asks Little Soul a favor: to remember, in the moment that it strikes and smites Little Soul--doing the worst that it can possibly imagine--that Little Soul will remember Who Friendly Soul Really Is.An agreement was made, and Little Soul goes forth into a new lifetime, excited to be the Light--and to experience that part of "special" called Forgivness. "...whenever a new soul brought joy or sadness--and especially if it brought sadness--the Little Soul thought of what God had said. 'Always remember', God had smiled, 'I have sent you nothing but angels.'"My favorite passage of the book, which is the major theme of the New Age, is "And so", God concluded, "when you are surrounded with darkness, do not shake your fist and raise your voice and curse the darkness. Rather, be a Light unto the darkness, and don't be mad about it. Then you will know Who You Really Are, and all others will know, too. Let your Light so shine that everyone will know how special you are!"

Which an amazing story for anyone struggling. My mentor had me read it once and I have gifted to any friends that have struggled with others. Every household should have it!

I accidentally picked this children's book up (I am 42 without children) and read it - I had a friend lose somebody dear to her a week before and it really resonated with me. I sent it to her and she (and I for her) both felt a sense of release. With that said, this book isn't only for children, but for people of all ages!

I was most impressed with the excellent service given when I had problems with a book that was defective. This seller went out of his way to make right the wrong done and then some. Highly recommend buying more products from this seller. Good to communicate and please the buyer.This book is so beautifully written and easy to understand. In my own personal opinion, this is not just a 'children's' book. I gave this book to my sister and she told me "she just couldn't put the book down!" The story behind this book gave her better insight into the beauty of how Love and Joy explode in your soul when giving your Creator praise. (Like king David dancing through the streets of Jerusalem and filled with ecstasy and praise and absorbed in God alone.) A freedom of the soul that is hard to explain. The conversations between this little angel and God were soft and not complicated to understand. Simple language produces great results. ALL souls are created equal and 'special' in the eyes of God. He is the Sun behind the sun allowing His divine grace to come forth and flooding your soul with happiness. For a very brief moment, the cares of this world disappear and you are found absorbed in a story divinely given. We all have a purpose in this life and how we handle this life, depends solely on us. You see it in the stars at night (God's nightlights) and in the song of a bird or the birth of a baby or the joy of just BEING children regardless of your age! Excellent book for seniors too! Would highly recommend the book regardless of your age. "The Little Soul and The Earth" is a good companion book too. Love it, Love it, LOVE IT! God bless.

This book is great for adults and children; the message is timeless and the illustrations are beautiful!