What Wants to Emerge in Your Life Right Now?
/The Universe is in constant communication with us. But we are the last to the party. We are the ones who are asleep. We don’t hear what is already speaking. We have filled our ears with the junk of conventional thought and limited ideas. We have let our eyes be seduced by the pornography of a commercial of a marketplace vision that is all illusion and no substance. Awake, oh sleeper, and rise from the dead.
Do you think you know what your life is about? Do you have a set of beliefs that allow you to function well in this world? Think again. Most of us are settling for so much less, even if we live in mansions and seem to have the American Dream locked up in our bank vaults. But life is so much more than this. When you learn to listen to your life, and let go of the assumptions you’ve been basing your decisions on, there is a vast untapped mystery that calls you, like a lover calling you to the intimate wilderness of communion with the ever expanding, ever evolving Life Force that we often call God. This is the evolutionary imperative of the spirit. You are greater than you yet know, richer than anything you can imagine, more powerful than any power you’ve yet tapped into, and more dazzlingly beautiful than a thousand diamonds strung like stars around an elegant woman’s neck.
I propose to you that there is something within you, a spiritual reality that you have passed by, ignored, or forgotten. This is a greater intelligence that holds a larger story than the one you have been living by. It holds out a hope more miraculous than you yet realize. You can discover clues to its existence, learn to find ways to access it and make it real in your own life.
Imagine what it might feel like to experience the heartbeat of grace. In that moment all comes together, and a river of grace carries me. I am surrounded by light, and the light illumines everything. Anything is possible, and the creative life force pulses in my veins. Even the most mundane object is suffused with heavenly beauty, and an ecstatic perception of order and unity allows me to know that “all is well and all will be well and all manner of things will be well.” The glory infuses me with creative ideas, yet at the same time I am immersed in an ocean of peace. I see wholeness, perfection, and completion where I once saw brokenness, imperfection, and fragmentation. I am in the flow of grace, and every cell of my body is alive with it. Every thought I think and every action I take partakes of this heavenly gift. “Earth’s crammed with heaven and every common bush is afire with God.” I taste heaven on earth and eternity in this moment. I unfold like a flower and the heart of the rose reveals its golden treasure…
I believe you don’t have to travel to a mystic mountaintop or sail across the seven seas to find this treasure. I believe it is already within you and accessible in the life you already lead. The heartbeat of grace is the underlying Truth behind appearances. Enlightenment is not limited to ascetics, saints, and yogis. It is within. It is a deeper knowing that a homemaker, an office worker, a farmer, an artist, a mechanic, or a sales clerk can discover, if they are willing to ask, seek, and knock. The door will be opened.
Know however that asking is only the beginning of your own hero’s journey. That path may lead within, but it will nevertheless challenge your assumptions about yourself and how life works and what is supposed to be. Though you never pack a suitcase or board a plane, you will travel farther, fly higher, descend lower, and move deeper into the heart of reality. If you are willing to live with the questions, enter the silence, listen with all your senses, and surrender to grace, you will discover that there are no ordinary people, no ordinary places, and grace is at the center, a hidden presence that is available to all.
Scientific theory and the implications of quantum physics tell us that all is interconnected, yet each part is a hologram reflecting the whole. Poet William Blake said, “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is—infinite.” Spiritual masters and ancient mystics tell us there is an infinite wholeness of which we are just a part, and that what we choose, what we think, and what we are resonates and reverberates and returns to us, like the word that does not return void, but reaps what has been sown.
I’m here at home, sheltering in place during the corona virus pandemic. I am using this time to go deeper, to meditate, to read, to pray, to contemplate the mysteries I have been exploring tor many years. I believe that this time of outer emergency is an opportunity to allow something beautiful, luminous, and untapped to to emerge within all of us. I will be sharing my insights with you on this blog. And on Facebook posts and other social media. And I am working on a new book right now, as my contribution to the evolving consciousness. For those who are interested in exploring their own inner resources, I invite you to come join me.
There are many teachers and spiritual leaders sharing wisdom. I sense that I, too, have something unique to add to the conversation. Questions I have been contemplating, quotes I have been gathering, and my own spiritual progress over the last few years may offer insights that encourage and inspire you. It encourages and inspires me to focus my attention through writing, photos, and other means of communication. We are all in this together, and learning what we truly mean when we say we are all interconnected. Now, together, let us discover the inner spiritual resources we have not had time or opportunity to explore.
Plant a Seed Prayer
A tiny black seed holds the potential for leaves, flowers, and fruition, when it’s planted in rich soil, watered and cultivated. A simple prayer holds the same creative power, when you plant it in the soil of faith and tend it with love. When you have a mountain to move, start by planting a seed prayer. It doesn’t have to be complicated. Make your request known to God. Then thank God that the answer is coming, even though you may not yet know how. Make a marker in your garden of faith and then give it time to grow in God’s grace.
I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “Move from here to there” and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
Matthew 17:20 NIV
• Create a prayer journal where you can keep track of prayer requests and prayers answered.