Everyman's Journal 2011, #32
© 2011 Rev. David Seacord
Feb. 11
10 PM Feb 10. Of course today did not go exactly as I had envisioned it, but we all have learned to expect that, haven't we? What I find at the end (of a day, like right now) when I reflect back over the moments of grace continually being overlaid by other moments of grace being overlaid by additional other moments of grace..... what I find is the fullness in my heart... that that is what lets me know that whatever I might have thought the day was supposed to have been like, what it actually was like was 'the best good karma possible' [to happen for me, inside of my practice of surrendering and allowing that energy I (sometimes) call God to lead the way and be the creative power in my life].
One distinction that is usually present when a day feels so good and ends with such fullness is a sense of relatedness and being included and belonging and being loved. That was certainly there for me today.... and that has not always been the case at all, so the juxtaposition offers a learning opportunity. For there have been many times 'out on the roads between art shows' where only the superficial relatedness of strangers was available for days on end, broken finally when someone known appeared as if a gift of fate, or a miracle ("What are YOU doing here?" etc). So for me one of the deepening blessings of 'the miracle of being in Yuma' is simply being someone becoming known and appreciated by more and more people, and the disappearance of the sense of nearly always being a stranger. I have to admit it feels wonderful.
To our all-knowing and therefore not so 'attached' soul centers, I sense this feel-good relatedness is not especially important (as I notice that Life will give it or take it as appropriate to the needed-to-be-learned lesson that is 'up' for us), but to us as 'children playing in the world', especially while we are self-identifying as being a body, community is very important. Not just for social reasons, but also for the power it gives our spirits to fulfill our karmic mission in being here. Just as Jesus taught, coming together for the purpose of honoring our true nature (normally called 'worship') will certainly make it easier for our true nature to be experienced. A Course in Miracles also teaches us that service to each other is as totally valid a path as service to our Father/Mother/Source, for He/She/It knows Itself aseach of us, whether we know that (consistently) or not. Yet, thru service, the consistency will come. It is inevitable, and only of matter of when, not if, for each of us.
As today came and went, inside the perfection of it (and skipping the normal stories tonight), it contained both giving and receiving of service many times... but something else also deserves to be acknowledged. And that is the level of conscious awareness that it also displayed.
I'm not speaking of my own awareness here.... I am just speaking of being able to recognize how aware others were also, especially whenever we were engaged in any activity that could be called 'selfless'. For when thus engaged, I again rediscovered that life will naturally transform to being more of a musical activity, where even if a sour note or two were to be played, the current of the music just includes it, the note quickly becomes a thing of the past, and all in the game of Being Present return, as with a rhythm directed by an unseen hand, to the service project at hand.
Just as great poetry is the evoking of a thing, a quality... but without naming it..... so is service done selflessly the evoking of the total tangible yet amazingly mysterious Presence of Love. Such evoking cannot but leave us willing to serve more and more. I think it's a day well lived by all when such a lesson is learned.
Namaste,
David
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Rev. David Seacord
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