DIVINE ORDER
“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.”
This was in response to something that was troubling someone courageous enough to share how they were feeling.
I have been pondering this oft-used saying and, more importantly, how it was being used since hearing it so blithely given.
While I referred to the interchange as a response, it felt more like a reaction. It seemed to me to be a careless and uncaring reaction to someone who seemed to need compassion and encouragement. They needed to be heard and not dismissed. Opened to and not shut down.
It can be easy to use or misuse spiritual principles to bypass someone in need.
While the almost cliché notion that everything is in Divine Order is true, it is not as simple or definitive as it may sound. And it is never kind or caring when delivered as a way of bypassing someone else’s pain. Or our own, for that matter.
Divine Order is the way in which spiritual Law unfolds into reality. It is an activity. In fact, it can sometimes be called that. Divine Order unfurls as Divine Activity. It is dynamic. It is how consciousness, moved by Law, comes into manifest expression. Divine Order is not in itself causative. The Word is causative. Intention is causative. The Law acts upon the Word, the Law. That activity is in Divine Order.
There may well be different variations in what I just described. That description is Divine Order according to Taylor. I do, however, believe it to be true at a felt-sense level. As I already alluded to, I combine the notions of Divine Order and Activity, while others hold them as distinct.
Everything that occurs for us happens because of Divine Order acting upon the Law. Most of the things that do unfold in our lives result from unconscious usage of spiritual mechanics. We speak and focus on things that we fear or do not want to happen. This is our Word. That focus energizes as Law and comes into fruition via Divine Order. There is no force that determines or evaluates that we are creating things we do not want. The mechanics simply unfold. There is no judgment of the technology. The Word is acted upon via the Law and unfolds as Divine Order.
Becoming aware and adept at utilizing this spiritual technology is a process. It is hit or miss at best. Most human beings live as if much of life is simply happening, and we are here to react or respond to it. We are largely asleep to the fact that we are always active participants in what and how things are unfolding. Everything is consciousness. That consciousness is intelligent and responsive. It operates by Law. As we become more aware of the principles that govern consciousness, we become more masterful in how we employ those principles.
When someone misuses the technology of consciousness and experiences unwanted consequences, it is for me unhelpful to label it as “all is in Divine Order.” It is as unskillful as was the cause that led to the undesirable consequence. Consciousness misused is a call for compassion, not criticism. It is also helpful to me to recognize that such criticism is also causative. We will reap the consequences of our own unhelpful reactions.
As we grow by fumbling around and misusing Laws and principles, part of that growth is being increasingly compassionate when painful consequences and effects befall us and others. It is an imperfect science misused by imperfect people. We are all at the effects of misused Law. As we allow ourselves to care for and compassion our own misuse, we extend that same compassion to others.
It is all, indeed, in Divine Order. A deep realization of this gifts us with taking responsibility for how our own consciousness unfolds. It blesses us with the opportunity to more skillfully participate in the events of our lives. It never, however, is reason to label another’s experiences in ways that are dismissive and unkind.
So, dear readers, it is all in Divine Order. The good and the bad, so to speak. The desirable and the undesirable. It is all an unfolding of how we are utilizing the Laws of consciousness. The more cognizant and awake we are to our own participation in this wondrous unfolding of consciousness, the more caring we are with others who are sharing this adventure.
It is my intention in sharing this musing that someone is aided and reminded of how important both skill and compassion are when relating to the mechanics and Laws that govern our experience here. Both ours and those around us. And as it is my intention, I place my words into Law and trust that by right of Divine Order they will find the person that is in need of reminding.
And so it is. Amen.
