Everyman's Journal 2011, #31
© 2011 Rev. David Seacord
Feb. 9
Everything's lawful, and everything's also a potential hook for the mind, like a dog hot on a bone. "Why?" I have heard it said, "is an insane question." (Here I am referring to the 'why me?' kind of 'why?'). And most other questions of that type probably are in the same insane basket too....
Anyway, I can't imagine a really free mind asking it very often. But there is another kind of 'why' that is completely different. It's the 'why/how' of the inquisitive, the curious. That's the child in us letting us know it is still alive and kicking, and calling, pleading, inviting, seducing us to come play in the 'fields of glorious living aliveness!'.
The first 'why?'... the why-me why... will often overlay and bury the second 'why/how', being a symptom of an emotionally-reactive response, as distinct from one of simple curiosity. But after we accept and make emotional peace with whatever happened, THEN, if we're intelligent, we may find we are actually interested in finding a deeper answer to 'why, or how, did I happen to create that in my life, etc...'.
It is to this conversation that our self-honesty loves to come. Especially when the issue is one of self-importance. Why? Because 'self-importance is a trap'. And one I happen to know quite well. Much better, as a matter of fact, then the ever-present and available road to humbleness. But the ever-present and available road to humbleness is clearly my supreme teacher these days, for which my soul is deeply grateful. It's like is expressed in a certain line in A Course in Miracles: "The Holy Spirit loves a happy learner."
I notice the peace I have inside me when I am happy to learn whatever I am being taught. How exquisite, how divine, this dance. Like today, I, the self-important big hot shot artist sat peaceful among the gathered local not self-important, not hot shot artists meeting and was simply 'one of them'. Whenever I felt the knee-jerk of my ego kicking in protest, I just petted it. And as it accepted the status, other missions came into view.... missions of service.
All missions are impossible without first having relatedness present, but Teacher does not care what kind, for She can use ANY relatedness to transfer Love from one being to other. For what purpose? To disappear our separation.
This then, is the great secret I am learning.... Love is available exactly where you are. All that is needed is to be fully related to exactly where you are to receive it. And all being fully related means is having no agenda with another but to see that they are actually you (or, at least, the same as you).
Hope you enjoy your day, like a poetry. We all have angels around us. :-) Thank God.
Namaste,
David
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