Everyman's Journal 2011, #6
© 2011 Rev. David Seacord
January 7
Like Noah...
Like Noah, I noticed today I am 'inwardly preparing'...
and there is an unmistakable expectational logicalness that wraps around me as I
make lists,
do chores,
write articles,
study what I am being attracted to,
experiment with ideas, discover, create....
Like Noah, I noticed today I am persuaded to 'seeing differently'...
How else is explained this world's appearance
of being swallowed by
an insatiable self-absorbedness that
seems to fill but also
always seems to leave an empty aftertaste hungering,
calling the swallowed to mainline 'more/more'.
Like Noah, I noticed today I am trusting 'I shall pass through'...
And I see, as with everything that is not really Real,
that seduction's illusion's are actually a teaching gift in disguise...
How else shall we ripen, discovering the choices that
make the fully-opened Heart the richest of treasures?
And from where else comes the power to see
choosing to Be True to It is the cheapest of all bargains?
Like Noah, I noticed today a knowing...
that I am 'for something else awaiting'...
yet this nowtime is neither empty nor idle...
it is filled with both the furiousness of dramatic urgency,
and with the ultimate patience practice....
listening to my own silence
inform me of obvious things previously unknowable.
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They appear to be living still, drooping a bit, but clearly not dead. They are not curling, nor are their edges turning dry or powdery. So I have great hope that the vision that called me to act to learn, and believe, and trust, and then act to do.... that that vision may in fact have found it's beginning expression successfully. My instructor told me it would take about three weeks for the grafting to form a healed joint, and this is only day two, so I know...I must wait--- and be willing to learn from whatever happens.
I admit I was somewhat surprised that it took a number of years for my recognition of the possibility to mature, mating that possibility with the reality of my Mom's 'trash lemon' citrus tree. I refer to it that way because when it was planted it was supposed to be a tangerine tree, but somehow the root-stock sour lemon dominated, and though the fruit is orange looking, they are inedible except for lemon juice purposes. Mom loves the tree and for years has resisted the often-made comment that it should be replaced. And 'we all' could see that the tree was exceptionally vigorous and fruitful. So over the years all the neighbors have annually received ample gifts of these trash lemons, unable to say no to my Mom's intention that 'these perfectly good fruits should not go to waste'. But nobody ever mentioned to me that it was possible to graft different, better, edible fruit branches to it (even now, with the tree well-sized and above 15 feet in height).
And I didn't think of it, having no experience with citrus horticulture. In retrospect, it is clear IF I had had the knowledge, I could have acted years ago. One more example of 'for lack of knowledge'. But, to be honest, I did not have the intention to be interested in the tree until I accepted the call to move here, and began surrendering to 'another kind of grafting process'.... realizing that for now, this was my home. So 'all things in God's good timing', and 'there's no use crying over spilt milk' etc.
The real story is simply that I somehow did discover the information right where it was waiting to be found, a blip of relevant knowledge amidst the massive cyberworld information superhighway. Once discovered, I realized I had first-hand personal experience.... I remembered I had once picked a cherry tree which branched into three main trunks, each producing a different cherry variety. Metaphysically, first-hand experience is often key.... it gives us enough faith to act. And that is what I did yesterday, receiving the gift of a minneola tangelo sucker from the grafting instructor I had been connected to via my adventures (who had opened up for me the basic idea but who also made sure I understood that a lot of ways could work, so experiment if what she was telling me failed etc)... and now we shall 'wait and see'.... and as I said in the beginning, all the signs from the leaves/stems give me reason to smile.
As this (wait and see) is also what Papaji reportedly said to everyone, I feel on good ground spiritually. And I am tempted to apply liberally the idea that 'a lot of ways could work, so experiment' to my life also. It does appear to me that the Godness Power does that pretty regularly anyway.... looking at all the different experiments with archetypes of people, religions of all persuasions, etc, etc. I have wondered if the whole thing is really just a wide open experiment. It is one of the few 'answers' to the 'question of existence' that comes close (at least) to matching the factual realities of the adventures we humans all share. Once again, perhaps 'wait and see' is a good course to steer. It seems programed to have a natural attraction to wisdom. :-)
But then again, you might wish to 'be prepared', too. :-)
Or both. :-)
Namaste,
David
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Rev. David Seacord
Fine Art Painter / Sufi Cherag
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