A WRITER'S A.I.

“It’s all in Divine Order.” Is it? Just the other day, I heard someone say to someone else, “It’s all in Divine Order.”

Influencer. I guess I am one. And so are you.

“Just don’t do something. Stand there.” And so goes a Buddhist axiom I have always appreciated. In a world of so much doing, busyness, and activity, perhaps it is more important than ever to apply that directive. “Don’t just do something. Stand there.” The fifth Unity principle that I am sure many of you are familiar with is “Inspired Activity.” It is the fifth of five, and very often the one that garners the most attention. There are, however, four preceding principles that have little to do with action. At least not in terms of physical action. I have touched upon these principles in previous blogs. I will reiterate them in my abbreviated form thusly: God Is. I Am. There is a Law. I pray the Law. And then I take inspired action. Without a deep realization and activation of the preceding four principles the action is rarely inspired. It falls into the category of doing, busyness, and action for the sake of action. When activity is FROM an internal knowing of our innate “Godness” then the action is permeated with inspiration, organic creativity, and transformative power. When I tap into my intuition before opening my mouth, deciding, or taking an action, I know that I am coming from my highest and most vital Self. I trust that what I put out will result in a non-dual Good. My life experience has been a laboratory for proving this is true. I have countless personal examples when I have mindlessly said or done something when I did not access my higher intelligence before making a choice. I acted for the sake of taking action. I did something without standing there first. It was reactive and uninspired. I got caught in the mind spin and then acted from the chaos. It almost never ended well. We have by virtue of our creation an Infinite Intelligence within us. It is Sourced by Source. It is All Knowing Allness. It is ever present and infallible. It always, however, must be accessed and consulted. When we are spinning out of control without an internal prayer for guidance, we end up acting out of programming and often unconsciousness. “Without prayer, action is futile.” “And without action, prayer is futile too.” I personally believe that prayer IS action. It is an activity in consciousness. It creates waves in the Unified Field. When sustained, those waves become form. Intention, attention, focus by Law become manifest. Many of the things we rush around trying to make happen are pointless for the most part. If we fuel our activities with prayer, those activities are inspired and innovative. We create waves and then surf those waves. We pay at least equal attention to the realm of the unmanifest as we do to what is already in form. I invite you to live this day Higher Powered. Understand in a deep and personal way that there is within you a Genius. An Intelligence that knows the best way for you to live, express, act. It is a pause, a breath, a prayer away. “Don’t just do something. Stand there.”  I double-dog dare you to do less and be more. The way of ease is the way of genius. We take inspired action because we ARE an inspired activity within the One. Align with that by standing there. Then take the actions you are led to take.

I am the least religious minister that you will ever find. While that is as bold a statement as it is impossible to prove, I believe it to be true.

I did not grow up with a user-friendly God. If you have read my two previous blog posts, you will know I have taken on the impossible task of putting into words what is far beyond words. It is the primary challenge of what I have done for the past thirty years. I use words, concepts, and images to describe the indescribable. I paint word pictures of what ultimately cannot be seen. I try to energetically convey what is essential and yet invisible. As challenging as it is it is also the dynamic that continues to deepen and to open me to a more mature and engaging spiritual life. I am grateful for the challenge regardless of how frustrating it can sometimes feel. It is within and from the Essential that I live and so express. I spend the largest part of my days opening to creative ways in which to share what I find so alluring and transformative. I grew up in a religious home with almost no spirituality. I was taught about an up and out God that had little felt relevance to my actual experience. It was conceptual without being personal. This religion gave me the impression that something or someone was always watching and judging me as less than good enough. I could never measure up. I was told that this super God loved me, yet I was also taught of a cruel and murderous God who savagely tormented “his” creations. I could not reconcile theology with a whispering of something bigger and greater in my heart. I felt as if I were being lied to. That these fear-based fables were far from the truth that I sensed in my heart and throughout creation. I suspected that it was ignorance that was being preached from the pulpit. An ignorance that wasn’t inherently evil but that carried devastating consequences. As I have said before I felt like the God being portrayed had a personality disorder. Confusion filled me as I felt drawn to and yet repelled away from this “God” of the church. The crosses that filled every space were accusatory. I shuttered at every glance. I took it personally, even as a young child. That “old rugged cross” was indeed an emblem of suffering and shame. I did not have a user-friendly God. And so, I again seek to capture with words my experience of going from what I described above to what I live in now. It was not an easy or comfortable journey. It was arduous. It was a rumble. I gave up many times, only to be drawn back into my own internal fray. It was a burning passion that I grew to know as my primary purpose. I discovered I was here to go from the torment of theology to the triumph of a transcendent spirituality. While there remain occasional wafts of the old thought system, I can honestly say that a delivery has occurred. A personal salvation. A quantum leap in consciousness. In simplistic terms: I have grown up. I have grown up experientially from a theological God to a reality I choose to call ALL. That was the topic of my first blog post. From God to ALL has been the most transformative experience of my lifetime. It has been an internal quantum leap that has changed everything. For me there is no God above except that is everywhere present. It is ALL of creation, which includes me. That was the topic of my second blog. To simply those two missives: ALL Is. I Am. I am a living expression of Allness, here to be the All in All. Everything that ALL is, I am. All is my Essence. It is what I am at the deepest level of my being. All is always becoming within and as me. I am evolving up and forward as All. It is my most authentic why. I think of it and feel it as an “All Call.” Why I am is to answer the All Call within me. That is my purpose. And my purpose is empowered by All. And so, once again I seek to capture in words what is so ethereal, contextual, ephemeral and yet is moving within me in very real ways. It is All Power made personal in my inner experience. It is Infinite, and yet intimate. It is “Almighty,” and yet already within my heart as every beat. Every breath. An image that feels vital and alive for me is that I am a personal wave in the Sea of All. Everything that is the Sea is also in the wave. In my fascination with myself as a wave I forget I am part of the Sea. I identify with being a wave. I look at other waves, seeing them as separate as I see myself. I experientially crash into them, losing touch with the Allness that is ever present in every wave. Stormy or still, the Sea will always be the Sea. When this lifetime of being a wave ends I will resolve back into my natural state of “Sea-ness.” Me-ness is in fact Sea-ness. All is. I Am. Sea is. Wave I am. I smile typing these words as I feel a realization that Divine oceanography is for me more valid that most theology. Right now, I have many high waves of experience in my experience. There are moments I admittedly feel pretty seasick. Yet I remain aware that everything that is happening is happening within the Sea of Allness. I remain aware that at my core I am that Allness. I know that my personal sea will calm once again. For me that is an unmistakable reality. It is for me to surf the waves that are ultimately me, finding calm in knowing that I will always be the Sea. I share these images and these meanderings as they are part of what has given me a now “user friendly God.” The fear-based fright inducing theology of the past is just that: the past. While I personally don’t call “God” “God,” I trust you will feel my heart. When I say “user” I trust you will understand that I mean practical, personal, intimate, internal, reliable. I have learned to use the Laws of Allness to co-create a more hospitable atmosphere in which to dwell. Those Laws are not to be feared. They are to be used. I will elaborate on that in a future missive.  While I did not grow up with a user-friendly God I have grown into One. It has taken many trials and many seeming errors. And yet where I reside today is so very worth the effort. And I relish the chance to share my journey with all of you.

Just typing the title words gives me a shame shiver up my spine. The question always came with a glare and a dare.