Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

Be Translucent: Let the Light Through #substack #shorts

13 May 2026 · 2 min

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In this short, the speaker shares a contemplative spiritual teaching that frames human activity as an expression of divine will. He explains that the proper stance is not to be transparent—allowing the divine to pass unnoticed—but to be translucent, so that God’s light can shine through the individual. Drawing on Kabbalistic ideas, he notes that every person possesses a soul that reflects an aspect of God and also a unique earthly role that only they can fulfill. He illustrates this with a recent encounter with a person suffering chronic pain, describing how guiding that person toward spiritual work lets the light of the soul illuminate a broken, bitter heart, thereby also brightening the physical world. The monologue culminates in a vision of an imminent redemption where divine love, not a specific messianic figure, will flood the world like an ocean, and each individual contributes a fragment of that divine illumination.

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know that there's something that's bigger that's also part of the picture, that everything that I'm doing in the world on a certain level is God's will. And my job is to not be transparent to it, but be translucent so that it comes through me. Because I'm still here. You know, there's this beautiful expression in Kabbalistic writing that everyone has an aspect of God above. And that's the soul. And that's very famous. People talk about it a lot, you know, whatever. I won't go into the linguistic stuff, but, but we also, every one of us has a unique portion in this world down below. And like, there's no one else who can meet that. And that could be the work that I'm doing in the world. It could be the deep emotional pain that I had about something that happened, you know, that the person I met this week with horrible chronic pain, who's really suffering, who's starting to open up to do spiritual work with it and starting to bring the light of soul into the place in the heart that's so broken and bitter. He's illuminating that darkness and the brokenness of his heart with the light of his soul. And so he's illuminating the physical world. And we have this idea that, okay, there is a redemption that's coming to the world. And in that redemption, you know, like put all away, like who's the Messiah and who's like all the sort of religious stuff. Like, no, there's going to be godly light flowing into the world and knowledge of God, whatever that is. It's not this God, that God. It's God. It's divine love. And it's going to flow into the world and cover the world like the ocean covers the sea. And each one of us has a piece of that.