Claire received a call from a mutual friend who reported a missing child. The 16-year-old boy had disappeared a couple of weeks prior, and attempts to locate him had been unsuccessful. Our friend asked Claire to pass the concern on to Helder—as she knew he would be speaking with the Spirit later in the night—and perhaps he might inquire about the boys’ whereabouts. Helder was awakened by the Spirit at midnight, as was their custom, and retrieved his T-shirt and shorts from the bedroom chair. Pulling them on as he went out into the courtyard.

Warm for an April evening, he knelt in the grass, raised his arms and face, and looked into the deep Cobalt Blue of a clear moonless night. Stars immediate, softness, surrender, a wave of pleasure, and he fell in Love all over again.

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Rabbi Jesus and Helder were standing in a field of flowers (perhaps the same meadow they stood in when Rabbi first addressed him as Prophet) when He asked Helder, “Would like to see where David is?” Well…yes. Helder was then standing in a darkened room. Three narrow windows near the ceiling provided a faint glow. Enough to make out a squarish room of painted cinderblock walls 10 feet high. As his eyes adjusted, he could see outlines of reclining human figures against the walls. Apparently asleep.

“There he is.” Rabbi indicates a small figure crouching in the far corner. On either side of the boy, also crouching, were oily and nebulous figures which Helder knew to be evil.

Jesus said, “Our Mother’s Love is established by Her in the right and authority to choose. We must—or rather are privileged to—choose our response to Her offer of a Loving relationship with us. Without the privilege of refusing Her Love, there is no Love. (As you have heard me say many times. It is our prerogative to refuse her Love. It is our no that makes our yes valuable to Her.) If no is not a possibility—Love isn’t either. There must be a choice, or it is slavery or something else, but not Love.”

“Here is the problem. Those evil guides who have the boy cornered have convinced him that he has no choice but to remain here. “His family wouldn’t want him now. He will never live this down. I could never bring myself to tell anyone the truth, and they would never forgive me. They wouldn’t want me back if they knew. What will the other kids in the youth group say?” They have successfully separated him from the right to choose that was given him by the Holy Spirit because She loves him. Without choice, we feel that we are unloved because, again, Love only exists in human-kind when we are able to accept or reject it [Her].”

“First, I want you to confront the evil ones and demand, in my name, that they leave the boy alone. Then, You must prophetically restore his right to choose.” Helder did that. Our friend reported to Claire that David had returned home a week later. “Pass on our thanks to Helder.”

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While there are, Helder said, many more stories that might be told, he thought these were adequate to demonstrate Her compassion. “We must not make too much or too little of these things. While what She does through us is very sensual and winsome, it is in no way the purpose for which She created us. It is sometimes just the task at hand.