Stubbing Ones Toe

No one lives life perfectly. No one is at peace or serene constantly. No one is energized or at their best every minute. Just as the tides rise and fall so does our energy levels, our peace and serenity. Everyone has their moments; the question is what we do when we have them. Consider: everyone stubs their toe, even the Pope. Granted he probably doesn’t utter an expletive (and if he did it would probably be in Latin and everything sounds cool in Latin) when it happens, the point being that everyone stubs their toe, having nothing to do with our spiritual condition. Now if we blame someone for putting or moving the table there or start in on the unfairness of the universe for bringing this calamity or better yet think that for some reason we deserved to stub our toe and the pain is the universe's way of reminding us of our place, it then becomes a spiritual matter. If we are constantly looking for tea leaves to read, we will always find them and amazingly the news is routinely bad, the forecast dark with more dark and a chance of scattered woe later in the week. In truth, usually a cloudy day is just a cloudy day, nothing more.

Everyone takes a turn in the barrel, you, me, the Pope, Dalai Lama, everyone. Living on the Spiritual Basis though we keep our eye on the ball, God, and by doing the work He would have us do, we meet calamity with serenity, with the occasional expletive, for God knows stubbed toes hurt.

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Now Be Here, Be Here Now

Where were we before we were conceived? One moment we didn't exist and then by an act of love, we did. In that single cell, the fertilized egg, everything about us was there: our eye color, the shape of our fingernails, hair color, final height, sex, our blueprint of freckles, everything that makes us, us, all in a point of protoplasm so small as to be invisible to the naked eye, pretty amazing. Then we began to grow and nine months (give or take) later we made our appearance on the world stage. Fast forward a few decades and we arrive at another seminal moment in life, when the time in this flesh comes to an end. Where’d we go? Consider: Before we were born we were nowhere physically, we are born, and now we are now here. Then our physical body ceases to function and we are nowhere again. Same word, just a little different spacing: nowhere to now here to nowhere again. (Tip of the hat to Wayne Dyer and Baba Ram Dass.)

In truth, we have always been “here”, part of, connected to Source, Divine Consciousness immanent, the flesh merely a tool, a conveyance in this time for our eternal consciousness. We didn’t arrive from anywhere and we don’t go anywhere. Our birthday and death day are points on a relatively meaningless calendar, since God and our consciousness are eternal. Living on the Spiritual Basis we spend this life applying spiritual truth and understanding to everything in our lives to the best of our awareness at the time since our awakening is an ongoing process. In so doing the answers to the eternal questions come if we are diligent. So don’t concern yourself with what is on the other side of the line, for the line really is immaterial, for death waits for all men but waits on no man.  Keep your eyes and thoughts on today’s demonstrations and the morrow will take care of its self. In living this way we will approach the transition in peace, embracing the change, bidding farewell to the limitations of flesh, going nowhere, being here now in raised consciousness.

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Renewing Energy

Without renewing energy stagnation results and there is probably no better demonstration of this than a tidal pool. The renewing energy of the waves keeps a pool fresh, supplied with renewed vigor. Consider our consciousness as a tidal pool, our renewing waves comprised of willingness, open mindedness, of turning to Source in all things, trusting in God to wash over us in forgiveness, love and guidance, in turn carrying away that which is stagnant, our negative and fearful thoughts.

A closed mind is like the tidal pool that has been blocked off from the renewing energy of the sea. Soon thoughts turn brackish, becoming unhealthy, energy and even life draining away. Eventually if nothing fresh flows in all life and positive energy drains away, leaving only fear and discontent. Self-centered fear works to convince us that in times of trouble the waves of renewal will not return; closing our mind to truth, and faith begins to waver.

Just as the oceans level rises and falls, leaving the pool seemingly without supply for a time, so does our awareness of our connection to Source. By standing in the light through the demonstration of consistent prayer, service and meditation we know the tide will rise and the waves of renewing energy will return. So we stay willing and open minded, to learn and listen; the renewing energy of Divine Intelligence keeping us fresh and alive, ready to demonstrate the power of Creation in every area of our  life.

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