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Joel Goldsmith used to tell this anecdote about himself as a little boy. It seems that he was an extraordinarily active little boy and would get himself into all kinds of trouble. But his mother would just sigh and say to him, “Joel, I know what the trouble is. You’re looking for God!”
This story illustrates the spiritual journey….At a certain point in our evolution – our development, we begin searching for God, and this almost always happens when we find ourselves in a situation that we cannot solve by ourselves. Up until then, perhaps we have managed to do alright by ourselves, but then it appears –some kind of trouble -and we know that we need to find something greater than ourselves to meet it.
Often we did not know what we were looking for – a singular entity with superpowers? A human – only bigger? An old man “up above” who knows and keeps track of our every misstep? But when we are ready, we are introduced to a spiritual teaching that will help us release these old man-made concepts of God and make room for the reality of God within ourselves. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay, The Oversoul, “when we have broken from our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.”
This summer I invite you to spend time, not looking, but finding a deeper relationship with God. I invite you to see God as your beloved everywhere, to look into the eyes of the people you meet and see the face of God, to speak to God in your friends and family and pets, to admire the beauty of God in the earth and sky and sun, to worship God in the “temple” of you, to walk with God within you and never ever feel alone, to thank God for every precious moment of being alive, to use any time of trouble as a time to whisper to God (as a friend of mine does), “Show me that you love me!”
God is that higher Consciousness of Grace and Infinite Good that we can perceive and know and love when we find It within ourselves and everywhere.
Happy Finding!
With Much Love,
Rev. Nancy
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