Divine Design

It's easy in these troubled days to become disillusioned and see the world from a 'glass is half empty' point of view, especially if you feel misrepresented, misunderstood, unheard, and alone. The world can seem harsh, cruel, unjust, and out of line with the angelic innocence we are born into the world with.

What we learn from birth is to obey, to conform to a world designed by others long before we were ever conceived. Roles must be adhered to based on birth location, gender, finances, family values, religious beliefs, cultural inheritances, etc. Basically we are born with more baggage than we could ever possibly need to survive. You arrive in the world fresh, naked, wingless, naive, in the trust of angels and at the mercy of the externals. You are swaddled in expectations and subject to criticism and judgments based on your appearance, abilities, behaviour, and personality.

It all seems so unfair...

Some people will dislike you before you speak. Others will dislike you after you speak. Some people will like you, but never tell you. Some people will love you- then hate you. Others will start out hating you, but grow to love you. Some people will always love you, even if you don't know about it. Unless you are invisible, you will be judged, without fair trial or representation, and people will hold feelings and opinions about you. It's unavoidable. What IS avoidable is how we respond to this treatment. You can waste lots of your time trying to 'make friends and influence people', or you can get a life, be true to yourself, and get on with it.

Things are how they are. There is a reason even if we can't see it. When you have nothing to lose, everything is possible.

Good and bad, black and white, right and wrong, we all have our differences. In our attempts to define ourselves and forge an identity, we divide ourselves into 'those that are like ourselves' and 'those who are not'. Fundamentally however, we are One, connected at the Source of All being. It is an illusion that we are separate, and superior or inferior to one another.

E=MC2. We are full of energy, even when we say we're drained of it. We are matter, and we DO matter. We are charged and we affect each other, positively or negatively like protons and neutrons. We cause a reaction whether we act or we fail to act. We are both alone and interdependant. We are the ones who make it fair for ourselves and each other. We are each like a piece of a huge jigsaw puzzle. Whatever size, shape, colour or interlocking edges we have, we are all essential to complete the big picture.

With this in mind, we must make our piece. We are all powerful in this process. Every time I pick myself up off the floor I am stronger for knowing how I got there.

There is a sacred balance which is hard to see from the bottom of the glass. I don't see the glass as half empty. As a matter of fact I don't look at the glass at all anymore. I drink straight from the fountain, the elixir of life. I am my own creator and belong in the picture no matter what background I find myself against. As Ram Dass once said, “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

So on we go...