Di: I wonder if there is a part who would like to make your presence known to Martin and meet us. What is your name?
Bright Light: Bright Light.
Di: I’m pleased to meet you Bright Light. Thank you for the good job you’ve done in helping Martin through his life. How do you particularly help him?
Bright Light: I helped Martin with school work when he was little.
Di: Bright Light, would you like to meet Jesus?
Bright Light: Yes. Oh, he’s giving me a hug. He really loves me. He likes me. But the hug is the major thing. I feel good and accepted.
Di: Bright Light, will you listen while I ask Jesus a question? "Jesus, will Martin be safe if Bright Light releases the memory in the first person to Martin?"
Bright Light: Jesus says, "Yes."
Memory: My grandmother died. I went to her place for lunch and she wasn’t there. I was about 5. There’s a feeling of confusion. She was always there and now she’s not. It’s frightening.
Di: Is there more to the memory?
Bright Light: Yes.
Di: Would the part that shares this memory come forward? What is your name?
Goody Goody: Goody Goody.
Di: I’m pleased to meet you. How do you particularly help Martin?
Goody Goody: I must always be good, particularly when I’m under observation.
Di: Would you like to meet Jesus?
Goody Goody: Yes. He’s big, tall and strong. He looks a fine man, I’m impressed by him. His eyes are kind and I feel comfortable with him. Martin would get growled at when he wasn’t good, so I helped him.
Di: Goody Goody, will you listen while I ask Jesus a question? "Jesus, will Martin be safe if Goody Goody releases the memory in the first person to Martin?"
Goody Goody: Jesus says, Martin will be safe.
Memory: When Martin was being good he didn’t always think he was good. A boy stabbed him with a pencil and the lead stuck into his head above his left eyebrow.
[This is a memory Martin knows about but he isn’t feeling it.]
Di: Is there more to the memory?
Naughty Boy: I share the memory with Goody Goody.
Di: I’m pleased to meet you. Would you like to meet Jesus?
Naughty Boy: I’m frightened of meeting Jesus.
[Coaxed nearer. Naughty Boy is crying and saying sorry.]
Di: Jesus, why is Naughty Boy crying?
Jesus: Naughty Boy you can come to me.
Naughty Boy: He’s comforting me, it feels good.
Di: Naughty Boy, will you listen while I ask Jesus a question? Jesus, will Martin be safe if Naughty Boy releases the memory in the first person to Martin?
Naughty Boy: Jesus says, Martin will be safe.
The memory Is not an event. It’s a picture of the edge of a cliff which is crumbling. I’m frightened at the edge and it’s making me feel sick.
[This is a new memory.]
Martin: I’m frightened, it feels like I’m on a rocking chair, everything is moving.
[Not getting more.]
Di: Is there a demon? No.
Di: Is there more to the memory?
Little Imp: Yes,.
Martin: Little imp has a sense of humour and just does things that Naughty Boy, for instance, doesn’t expect.
Little Imp: I know Naughty Boy, but he doesn’t tell me what to do. Martin (a part) tells Little Imp what to do.
Jesus: I can come to him
Memory: I’m looking at my baby sister. I love her, but sometimes I don’t. There’s a memory locked away about doing something that isn’t good.
Di: Is there a part that holds a memory about Josephine?
Little Imp: I do.
Di: Thank you for releasing more memory.
Memory: She was being pesky, and he was being annoyed. She’s very little, so Martin is 2 or 3. She wasn’t doing anything, just being there was pesky. He didn’t have his mother’s undivided attention. Feeling loving towards her, then not. This is confusing.
Jesus: Jesus loves naughty little boys too. Good and naughty, he loves them.
Naughty Boy: Did you hear that? Yes, he loves Naughty Boy. This is very good.
Memory: Brother about 5. I locked him out of the house and got into trouble. There was a powerful feeling of immense satisfaction when I did it. [Not a new memory.] Naughty Boy felt it too but was worried about the consequences. Naughty Boy carried the fear.
Martin: It wasn’t always fair. Graham was treated differently from Josephine and I. I felt self righteous and not at fault sometimes. Graham was the favourite of us all. I was extremely cautious, Graham was extremely adventurous.
Martin (the part): I plan for Martin. The plans aren’t always good, like locking Graham out of the house. That involved Little Imp, Goody Goody and Naughty Boy. Little Imp had an idea, or Martin (the part) did, and Little Imp acted it out.
Di: Do you know other parts?
Martin (the part): I instruct 12 parts. I don’t know Bright Light. Other parts are Study and Untidy (who tries to be tidy).
Di: Martin, I wonder if you’d like to meet Jesus?
Martin (the part): Yes. Now it’s calm. It wasn’t calm before. The parts are calm. [Martin is rocking.] Jesus is there and the parts are not fighting with each other. They’re not pushy now. They’re in a circle holding hands.
Di: Martin, will you listen while I ask Jesus a question? Jesus, will Martin be safe if the part, Martin releases the memory in the first person to Martin?
Martin (the part): Jesus says "Yes.".
Memory: When I became a Christian in a way all the parts knew about Jesus then. The memory is of becoming a Christian. Mum had warned me against, for example, going forward at the Billy Graham Crusade. She said I was too young. But I wanted to go, but I didn’t do it. [Ambivalence.] I have difficulty realising Jesus would accept me. I had tried to confess my sin but I was unsure of forgiveness. I had experienced the Holy Spirit through the study of Acts. Confusion left.
Naughty Boy: I know that’s true and the person Martin knows. I am part of him.
Jesus: All the parts are safe. He accepts Martin completely. Even when he’s not obedient. But is very pleased when he is. Jesus thinks it’s funny that Martin thought he needed to be perfect, as he isn’t!
[Lift off all the years of thinking that goodness earned him favour, of striving to be good enough and knowing he wasn’t perfect.]
Martin: I’m still in a boat but it’s not rocking.
Bright Light: I’m feeling happy and light. I’m joining the others with Jesus. I don’t know any others and none give me instructions. I don’t give instructions to any others.
Di: Are there any other parts that would like to meet Jesus?
Little Hidden One: The four of us all work together. Jesus met them as they are shyer.
Di: Martin, all the parts are ready to go with Jesus. Tell us what he does with them.
Martin: All the parts are together with Jesus. They’re walking with Jesus through fields into the distance. They are happy. Going a long way away. They are OK.
CPR.