Accept What You Want

 

ACCEPT WHAT YOU WANT

Copyright 2021 Don Ray.  Feel free to print and share.

Why do we not get answers?  Why do we have to invest time in contemplative prayer if we want a little conscious experience of Communion with God?

Because that maintains the holy and precious balance that gives us freedom as children of God.

We are indeed free, but the sustaining Spirit, the Christos by whatever name, does long to embrace and in its inscrutable way guide us.

We are not left alone.  But we don't get detailed instructions and answers.  

We don't like.  We want detailed instructions and answers when we want them, and we want to be left alone and independent the rest of the time.  Instead, we face crises without unambiguous worldly answers that we can understand in our terms and we get pesky irritating reminders of rules and regulations when we least want them.  

Welcome to childhood, or maybe it's adolescence.  Welcome to freedom, including freedom of belief, and most terrifying, freedom with consequences.  

Yes, you have to make some effort and invest some time to experience the joys of Deep Communion with your Creator.  Yes, you don't get all the answers and specific guidance you might desire.  But dear God, you are never left alone.  You are, in spite of how it  sometimes feels, an integral part of the Wholeness of Creation.  The Christos that permeates all time and corporeal existence also permeates your existence.  You are part of it.  Yet you are free.  You are loved and independent and part of Wholeness and you are empowered.  You are a child of God, learning to surrender not to specific directions and guidance but to encompassing Love and embrace.  

Accept the lack of answers when you demand them.  Accept the nebulous guidance.  Accept the embrace and Love and eternal security and belonging that ultimately are what really matter, regaining the naked joy of Communion in the Garden while growing as a child of I Will Be What I Will Be, a child participating in growing Unity with the First Born in ongoing and eternal Creation.  

Copyright 2021 Don Ray.  Feel free to print and share.