Divine action, timing, and presence
Each beautiful soul, every child of the Beloved, is on their own journey, their own path, with Love’s care and carrying.
Every day becomes a new opportunity to see the Divine in ourselves, our lives and in the lives of our brothers and sisters.
The soul is tender often desiring to hide from the world, the noise, even our inner chatter, almost afraid to come out and show its beauty to the Divine due to the myriad times when it has come out and been met with coarseness, rejection, goals, expectations, should’s and shouldn’t’s, and the like.
Today consider in your life three areas that often obstruct and perhaps co-opt the emergence of your soul and its tender emergence to meet the Divine and merge with Love.
Divine action is often different that what we expect. We may even know that our best laid plans are not Gods, yet, we can still hold within ourselves a belief that God, the Beloved, will show up in a certain way in our lives. Our Beloved is showing up often disguised in another, an event, nature, a happenstance meeting, and other ways. Divine action is not always easy to discern because our spiritual path is a path of change, of adjustment to a complete and all encompassing Love that is breaking forth for us, within us and around us. That Love, is guiding us toward a new and transformed place and relationship with the Divine, which we slowly accept as we open our soul and our lives to a Divine action we never could have imagined. Just as Joseph was shown through dreams, Divine action in ways he couldn’t imagine, we too are being guided in ways and toward things, we often can’t imagine. And we often look for Divine action to show up within and around us in ways we expect… we need to get ready for something different.
Divine timing is another area that often can throw us off balance. As humans, we have plans and schedules, agendas and seasons, stages of life and goals and all are held and carried deep within us. Our tenderness of soul can be quick to hide when the course-ness of our lives pace demands a certain march. This is where we have to be attentive to Divine timing which again, is not what we imagine and or hope it might be. Tapping into Divine timing requires a lifetime of experience, of missed expectations, and not getting it right, at least from a human perspective. We can learn over time, to lower our own expectations and know that Divine timing is becoming our timing, over time. Although it’s very difficult to do, we must remind ourselves that our soul is slowly being freed from the constraints of time. Although on the surface, that sounds good, our human-ness can feel un-hinged as bit by bit we recognize the eternal presence of Divine Love. Again, we may expect something different but often our “different” is based on valuing time based on our ability to plan and control it. Since Love is always and eternally present for us, as we release ourselves into Love’s embrace, we simultaneously, methodically, move away from our expectation of Divine timing. Since time is such a handy human construct, and we honor it, and in a sense worship it… it can become a form of Spiritual bypassing if we tell ourselves that our timing is Divine timing and then try to reason why we are using our time wisely for God’s purpose or some other inner narrative. When Timelessness shows up, do not be afraid, allow yourself to embrace and be embraced by the Holiness.
Divine presence is often commotitized by the assumption that we should expect that Divine presence is always there. We hold an expectation of what Divine presence should feel like, act like, be like, look like. At times Love shows up predictably and yet more often than not, we are so surprised by Love’s presence that we don’t even notice it. We narrow our expectation of Love to fit into what we think we need or deserve, and often narrow it further to protect ourselves from various hurts.
On our spiritual path, we are being shown Divine presence day by day, bit by bit, in full glory through a narrow opening. Often we intellectually think we should feel God’s presence and rather than not feeling it we may need to accept that our aperture is being expanded… and we can’t imagine how Divine presence is or may be showing up. Our history looks to what we know and or what we’ve experienced but again, Divine presence is so vast and so encompassing that we can only sip and taste the fullness and our lifetime becomes the experiential classroom for our souls.
We can join with Jacob’s sentiment as we say “Beloved, You were here the whole time, and I didn’t even know it.” Amen
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