Author’s Note: The bulk of this blog entry was first shared with the Standing in the Light® community at the August 2025 Monthly Energy Transmission. Since August, the political landscape in the US has continued to be very divisive. Situations in the nation’s capital and in individual states are still evolving, or perhaps in some people’s perspective, are devolving. I have been able to look out at these situations, for the most part, and see through the illusion to the farce that the situations look like and to see my mirrors for what I still need to heal. In this blog entry, I write about the Bible quote of “Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s”. I believe this is a good reminder for all of us as we go into the new year of 2026. Here is another quote that might be good for us to remember with political drama playing out in our country. Quoting William Shakespeare, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The Bard was trying to convey that the essence of something doesn’t change with a different name. We simply need to remember to look for the mirror as to why we might think that it does or ask for other issues that we need to clear. Enjoy this remastered Energy Transmission introduction.
This blog entry starts with a story from when I was at university in the 1980s. The events here were definitely driven by 3D beliefs and ego centric expectations.
Forty years ago, I went to Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. My sister and her, now, husband went there 6 years before I did. While he was there, Jeff had an internship with the Republican Senator from Kansas, Senator Dole, in Washington DC. I thought that sounded interesting, so I wanted to do what would make my application look acceptable to be an intern too.
This was when Ronald Reagan was President and gold lame’ was at its height for sophistication.
To bolster my application, I registered to vote as a Republican. I signed up for the College Republicans and thought if I could get elected to a leadership role in the Kansas College Republicans organization, that it would look good on my resume. I was elected as Parliamentarian. I also was elected twice as a K-State Student Senator from the Business College.
The strategy paid off. I was an intern for Senator Dole when he was the Majority Leader of the Senate between my sophomore and junior years at K-State.
In the spring of my junior year, I knew my focus for the next year needed to be to pass the CPA exam, so I did not plan to run for Statewide office of the College Republicans at the State Convention, which was held at a hotel in Topeka, one weekend.
At this point, K-State College Republicans had dominated the Statewide offices of College Republicans for probably a decade. This year, the University of Kansas delegates made a concentrated effort to be more represented at the conference. There was, however, some sort of technical difficulty for the KU delegates and the outgoing officers needed to vote to see if the KU delegates were going to be allowed to be seated at the conference. The vote to allow the KU delegates came down to a few votes and mine was one of the votes that swung in KU’s favor. This meant that KU had a few more delegates and would be able to vote a block to have KU delegates more represented in the Statewide Offices of the College Republicans. Needless to say, my fellow K-Staters were not pleased with me.
After all this drama, the tone of the evening turned to farce.
It just so happened that a fraternity from K-State was having their Spring Fling Dance at the same hotel in Topeka. There were plenty of registered College Republican members in this fraternity with many of their dates also being members. As you can guess, one of the K-State delegates rounded up enough of the party goers to come sit with the conference with the narrative that they wanted to be able to attend both events. The incongruity of 1980s party dresses at a political convention was not lost on the KU delegates but the rules had been bent for them earlier in the evening. So, as night follows day, the farce was complete. K-State delegates held the majority of the State Offices of the College Republicans for another year.
Fast forward 40 years. Similar power dynamics, rule massaging and manipulation, are being played out in state legislative bodies and in global politics every day in the outer world.
When I asked my soul for advice on what to clear or what to do given this energy, I heard, “Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s”. Obviously, this is a Biblical reference to when Jesus responds to a question regarding paying taxes to the emperor. Mark 12:17, “Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s, give to God what is God’s”.
For our purposes, “Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s” reminds us that Spirit wants us to NOT be consumed with the details of how the 3D governments operate. They are part of the illusion. Whether the governments are democracies or authoritarian, they are part of the illusion of separation. Yes, some governments help their members to stand in their power more than others. But again, some of this is just the illusion of power. True Power comes from within, not from a document that says we have rights and purports to tell us that we have power.
Some states may be changing who can vote and considering redrawing the lines of their congressional districts. From the perspective of the Spiritual Hierarchy, all these nuances of government and representation are truly just rearranging the deck chairs on the Break-Down-for-Break-Through Titanic.
It may not seem it, but the effect of policies with a few more of one party in congress vs the other party in congress really is the same as 5 K-State College Republicans and only 4 KU College Republicans holding State Office than if it was the other way around. The only reason that we think the stakes are higher nationally or internationally than at that 1980s Topeka hotel conference room is because we are feeling victimized by giving our power away and judging the consequences.
By all means, if you are guided to vote, demonstrate, write a letter, donate or make calls in order to take a stand one way or the other, than do it. Ultimately, however, working to know ourselves as Source, to Trust and Surrender to Ourselves as Source will have a much more powerful outcome than how many blue members vs. red members or vice versa are on the chess board.
Let’s look at the second half of the Bible quote. “Give to God what is God’s.” We want to strive to stand in our power as Source in order to not be at the effect of any aspect of the government or any other conduit that we believe our power comes from. We Are Source because We Are Source.
In the SITL August Newsletter, Ginger lead us through a meditation to feel the power of I AM THAT I AM. That is what we are encouraged to do every day. Know that we are our Source of Power. We do not rely on a government to give us power. When we see machinations in the outer world to change institutions, we can give to the government what is the government’s. We can detach from what the government is doing and remember that I AM THAT I AM. WE ARE THAT WE ARE. WE ARE SOURCE.
When I first heard my guidance regarding this topic, I was guided to focus on the power aspect of the “Give unto Ceasar” quote. Ginger shared with me that when she heard another translation of the quote, “Render unto Ceasar”, she focused on the surrender piece. “Surrender to the 3D Paradigm what is rooted in the 3D Paradigm.”
What other interpretations or mirrors does your guidance tell you about this quote? Let this awareness come to you.
Take a few minutes to embrace Divine Self-Empowerment and Authority. Remember that WE ARE SOURCE.
Gratitude to Leo/Kyraxys with Pixabay.com for the image above.