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Stop, Look and Listen………..A New Perspective in ’08!
 Is there anything “shaking out” in your life right now that doesn’t fit the picture?
After 4 months of learning patience and the sweetness of the Infinite wisdom of the Creator, as greater than mine, I have come to the conclusion that my job is to head in the direction of what my soul says is for my highest and best, without running over myself in the process!
Let me share with you how “the story” goes. After planting the seed thoughts 3 years ago of creating a permanent sanctuary-like home environment that would serve the best quality of life experience for each member of our family, the right and perfect “home” showed up. It showed up one day when my mind was simply enjoying a day off in an out-of-town location.
I of course leapt into action, recognizing that this was the answer to my prayer and relentlessly and efficiently proceeded to care for every detail needed to pursue the acquisition of what my family concurred was the “perfect answer”. |
After the initial “buzz” wore off I soon developed a feeling of resistance and intolerance to anything else going on around me in the “present” if it was not directly connected to the move at hand, and thusly developed a feeling of lack luster and disconnect with life in general.
Knowing I needed to dig deeper into the principles of life that I teach, I discovered that my “joy” for living was suspended and conditional upon getting this property. Through my intense focus and vigilance pursuing this goal (dream) I had forgotten that my JOY was sourced within me in the gratitude and connection with life here and now. From that very moment of realization, my energy returned to the present moment – letting Spirit create the “how” having faith in the knowing that each step, each happening, was a piece of the prayer being answered.
I am on my journey of working my way to the light through the many layers of surrender’s experience and am surprisingly enjoying the peace found in the mystery of knowing that there is a power for good in this universe that is supporting me at every turn. No matter how the details of life present themselves. After all, my new home is revealing itself to me as I open to a new perspective of who I am in my internal resting place, yes-no?
Recently the Provincial Teen Groups gathered to spend a weekend discovering who they were in respect to living their dreams. One of the proposed experiential exercises was that the teens, through visualization, meditation and journaling come up with 6 valued-based steps that would align and prioritize their actions in the direction of attaining their dream.
Each participant wrote those 6 steps on separate pieces of paper and put them in a communal pot to be “randomly” (or not) distributed and searched for in a Treasure Hunt type exercise. This Hunt was to deepen their understanding of the Divine Right Order for Good in this Universe and their trust in the mystery of the unfoldment of what was important for them to create. The results were varied as to the level of priority in which these steps were originally held in the minds of the participants, to the order in which they found what soon became “pieces” of the puzzle (prayer) to the outcome of their action. An invaluable discovery to make – at any age!
As I found a deepening sense of peace I felt a subsequent release of the burden I had put upon my shoulders to make it happen and an amazing thing came to be: I invoked the Creative Intelligence of Spirit that enabled me to actually bask in the mystery, waiting with “cheerful expectancy” as Dr. Holmes says………for the prayer to be…….in God’s time. I was also able to allow and honor my disenchantment, my lack of personal physical, emotional and mental motivation for anything – and therein still use the many resources I possessed to give myself into life. It just looked and felt different, that’s all.
We are an infinite resource of Life giving of Itself through us……ours is to Stop, Look and Listen to that activity of Life as it moves Itself through us in the direction of our intention. Ours is not to resist the internal feelings and changes in the ways we relate to life just to choose what serves our soul in the moment, in a manner that supports us in feeling good about our contribution. As we let go of thinking we “know” and allow Spirit’s Infinite wisdom to rise up within, we discover our comfort living in the mystery. All is well, it always was! We are perfect givers and receivers of Life.
In honor of “our” journey together, Rev. Nadene Rogers
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