The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven, Lessons for the Living

by Laura Lynne Jackson

We can love someone’s soul and at the same time understand that we are not meant to stay with that person. Sometimes the end of a relationship isn’t a failure at all, but rather a release for both people so that they can travel on their own true paths. Some relationships are only meant to teach us lessons about love.

Our capacity to love and forgive—to accept fallibilities in another and in ourselves—is our greatest strength.

Sometimes that inability to forgive follows us when we cross to the Other Side—until we realize our relationships continue past this life and the need for forgiveness never goes away. If we don’t learn this lesson, we are prevented from following a true path of light and from becoming our best and truest selves.

There are no “right” or “wrong” paths—just different lessons we learn on different paths.

Sometimes we make decisions that lead us down a path of fear rather than a path of love. When that happens, we can veer off course and become lost. But we must never forget that we all have the innate capacity to honor the pull and get back on the true path.

I believe that when we question and explore how we fit into the universe, we can overcome the fears and doubts that keep us from discovering our highest path.

What I see is that we comprise the massive field of light—it cannot exist without us. But neither can we individually exist outside this field. Our existence is primarily defined by our place in this grand constellation of energy, not by who we are individually. We may appear to exist separately from anyone else, and we may perceive the boundaries that describe us and feel we are autonomous. But our energy, our consciousness, is inexorably entangled with the energy of others.

To the world you may be one person But to one person, you may be the world