Spiritual Tide

I have to take a leap of faith and trust I will be taken care of during this relocation, despite the loss of income. I’ve always been taken care of, even when I hadn’t a clue which direction to turn. Why would this be different? Now is the time to put my words into action, what I’ve been saying for months, surrender and give it to God.

Spiritual Tide will be offline until the end of July. In the meantime I leave with this thought: A mind that is busy judging and criticizing others or busy with worry and fear or busy chasing material and sensual desires is a mind that has no time to think about God.

We should use our time wisely.

By forsaking material compensation, I have gained the spiritual compensation of communion with God, of constant bliss and Aum; that is my compensation. God says: I am your compensation.

Throughout this test God was saying: Show me that you want me, prove to me you want me more than material gain. We are tested everyday with material desires and temptations that lead us away from Spirit. God is waiting for us to put these transitory desires aside so He may shower us with the gift of eternal bliss.

Anything that obscures the light of God, that takes our attention away from God, should be renounced by the true devotee. The devotee will be amply repaid by attunement with the source of all prosperity, material and spiritual.

Of all the qualities that enable me to let go the most important is forgiveness, of myself and others. Forgiveness loosens the ego’s grasp allowing the abundance of Spirit to flow.

The only real job you have in this world is to receive the light; that is all that is required of you. Do not confuse your outer job with the inner. To make yourself transparent and receive and reflect the light is your highest, most worthwhile duty. God works through willing instruments.

Receive the light of God by communion (with Aum) and by surrender of the little self.

Over the course of a week I’ve watched a situation dissolve before me, leaving me little choice but to surrender. We can’t fight divine will, but we can receive the blessings, comfort and peace of surrendering to divine will. In the end these outer intangibles (but deeply felt inner tangibles) add up to a treasure beyond any monetary gain.

Sitting on a river rock watching the approaching dusk I noticed a snout parting the water. Otter again I thought, until the animal came ashore, way too big for otter, this was a big fat beaver. I watched him cross the river several times, get out and investigate some weeds, give a snort and slide back into the water and swim around a corner. I got up and followed him back to his dam and returned to my sunset seat thinking the show was over. Five minutes later he cruised by again, then another, then another and another until four beavers were parading in front of me. They paid me no mind. I watched with fascination their very industrious activity. I’m not sure what they were doing, feeding maybe, but they went about it with such one-pointed singlemindness that I was very impressed. The unflappable beaver always on a steady course like Mister Ed, whom I also greatly admired.

Someone has failed to deliver, in this case a large sum of money, and I realize now my mistake.

When others fail to deliver, that is the time we should surrender and turn it over to God. We realize all along we should have looked to the source of all prosperity, not the instruments of prosperity. Others act as instruments of the divine, they are in reality powerless to provide without divine guidance. Would I depend upon the scalpel and not the surgeon’s hand; the scalpel is powerless without the hand to guide it.

I should look to Divine Mother for all prosperity. Prosperity comes from the divine, and from nowhere else. From now on I will give it to Divine Mother to look after. She will arrange the proper outcome. I pray to Divine Mother that I never again confuse the instrument with the Power behind the instrument.

Yet again, I am backed into a corner and forced to surrender. And the strange thing is that at this time, this is the best possible outcome.