Meditations

 

The only way that we could possibly have the inner [sometimes subdued, sometime strong and clear] desire for PEACE and FREEDOM, is that our Creator has placed it within us as a holy and ATTAINABLE reality. God is not so cruel that He would put this desire for eternal life, peace and freedom within us as something forever unattainable. That would be like holding a piece of candy before a child, and keeping her from having it. The desires of your heart are attainable; you just have to know where and how to look. Not every way of “looking” is “seeing”. Blindness is real.

The most important thing is not to create something or to attain anything….anything! The most important thing is to AWAKEN….to be REBORN into the awareness of the Spirit of Christ within you. Every helpful creation and worthy attainment flows from that Awakened Spirit of Divine Love. Everything not done in that Spirit is useless at best. And at its worst, the Holocaust and world wars are good examples.

On earth it may be in some way, as Darwin has suggested, “survival of the fittest”. In heaven, it is and will be survival of those who Love.

Cutting down trees and destroying forests for money is like selling pieces of our lungs. If we cut down all the timber in our forests to build houses in the desert, we will turn the forests into deserts.

If your body is tired and weary; if it is in pain, or even on its last leg; don’t forget that you are not that body. You are an eternal soul. Your body is the temporary home of that soul. Don’t let that which is temporary take precedence over that which is eternal. Your body stops when your heart stops. Your soul is set free at that time.

The Bible tells us to “Be still and know….God.” At some points in that stillness and openness, we touch more deeply the sorrow that resides in every heart. We’ve all been hurt, suffered loss and watched our loved ones suffer---oftentimes in ways that we, in our blindness, have brought upon ourselves. We grieve this. It is holy to grieve the suffering of the human family, as Jesus did [Lk 13:34]. But when we go deeper into the Stillness, we touch the profound and liberating Reality that founds and transcends, not only our suffering, but every conceivable and inconceivable aspect of the Universe. In this place all suffering becomes fuel for the Consuming Fire of Divine Power and Love. All our suffering becomes like the transforming and liberating suffering of Christ on the Cross. And we experience, in Faith, the Joy that that suffering is leading to.

The good that we do in the Kingdom is truly satisfying---but only briefly. The Master Gardener prunes away that satisfaction to make room for fresh outcrops of goodness. We feed our souls by doing good in the Spirit of Love. We do not feel this as an obligation; we feel it as the most wonderful opportunity.

The ocean, at its shore, joyfully licks the feet of children and the awakened ones whose hearts are filled with gratitude and Love.