Remembering How It Works
by Nancy R Bowers, RScP
God is. The Alpha and the Omega. The Yin and the Yang. The Light and the seeming Darkness. Humans mostly live in duality and so the Oneness appears to contain opposites. Yet, we give everything the meaning that it has for us. Our experiences/my experiences simply mirror my essence. When I allow fear to take root, I cannot see the love. I am that which God is. God is not fear. God is all-encompassing Love that has no opposite. The appearance of a seeming opposite is the invitation to go deeper within, to find the gift that is being offered. I believe, all calls for love are requests to heal duality. Lack of light is never the truth, even when it seems to be the experience. We are One. When you cannot find your inner light, God encourages me to share mine.
Life is a reflection of who I am being. Sometimes, it is challenging to remember that since it seems to be external; it seems the problem is “out there.” But the work is never “out there” since “out there” is just life mirroring back to us who we are being. When I insist life change to accommodate my preferences, I fail to notice the inherent beauty of life. Where I place my attention is the determiner of my experience. Focus on my distain and life delivers more to disgust me. Center on what I love and it starts to blossom into beauty. God wows me when I remember to let Him.
So, in this moment, I affirm and declare that in each and every moment, I remember to admire God’s handiwork. I release the notion that I know what anything is for and remind myself to return to the present: free of thought, judgment-free being. I surrender to the Divine, allowing all things to be exactly as they are and in surrendering, discover God’s purpose. It’s Love. It’s always Love. I settle into that. It’s the most peaceful place I know, anyway. It’s the place where I stop trying to run the show myself and go where God leads me.
In gratitude, I let go. Remembering that my only job is to extend the Love within me, I allow God to fill my heart and show me the way. I do not know what anything is for, but I trust that Spirit has it covered so I don’t need to worry about it.
And so it is. Amen.