2021: The Invitation
Dear Human,
This is your Soul Self...the eternal Wholeness that you are, calling out to you with an Invitation. Please take in these words and sentiments lightly, fluidly and warmly. Open your arms and read this with your heart.
I have stood with you, as you, throughout all of your lifetimes, through all of your struggles, losses, challenges, traumas and triumphs, and I must say, you have no idea just how far you've come. To have endured what you have endured; to have overcome what you have overcome...you'll never know how brave you are. You'll never know what overwhelming joy I've felt watching you rise to the challenge, again and again and again.
You continue to see yourself as flawed, unworthy and in need of fixing. In other words, you still yourself as incomplete. And that's okay. That's part of the contract and the innocence of being human.
What you perceive within yourself is what you will see in the world as well. Again, this is not wrong. And you are free to continue to see yourself and the world as deeply flawed, unworthy and in need of fixing. However, I know how painful it is to see yourself and the world around you as being somehow cut loose from the benevolence and love that is this Universe.
So here is my Invitation to you:
There is perfect, Divine order in ALL things; ALL Beings; ALL situations and ALL apparent chaos. This has to be so because only Wholeness exists. There is nothing outside of Wholeness. Every life-form exists within the splendour of Wholeness and is lit up and animated by Wholeness.
We can call this Wholeness by any name....God, The Divine, Universe, Consciousness. It has no preference. It simply IS.
How then, could you or the world possibly be flawed, unworthy or in need of fixing? If everything exists within Wholeness itself, how is this even possible?
Take, for example, going to bed and having a nightmare. You believe, while in the nightmare, that this is actually happening to you and it's terrifying. But then you wake up and you think, "Oh, thank God, it was all just a dream!"
You wouldn't, upon realizing that you were just dreaming, try to go back into the dream and fix yourself or the situation or the others' in your dream. That would be insane!
Similarly, there is nothing here to fix, Sweet Soul. There is only Wholeness and you are that. These human lives that are being lived by Wholeness are like the dream. You don't try to fix the dreamer. You wake up and remember Who and What you ARE.
Now, I know what you're thinking...how the heck do you wake up when you feel like you're not yet awake?
But that is just another question posed by the dreamer. Only a dreamer would want to know how to wake up from something that is already here.
So we remember and see what is right here, right now. You are already Awake. You are already Consciousness appearing as a sleepy person with problems and challenges.
You are already that which you've been seeking for lifetimes.
From this space, there is nothing to improve, nothing to make right, no trauma to release, no gains to be made.
There is only The Invitation.
This Invitation asks only to be AWARE of what is moving, experiencing, sensing, resisting, denying, demanding, subduing, gripping. The Invitation has never once asked us to fix what is not broken, for that would be crazy-making.
It asks: Can you see the Dreamer who is in pain? Who resists their life? Their feelings? Their past? Their projected future? Their relationships? Their disease? Their job loss? Their divorce? Their addictions? Their misery? Their deep love? Their yearnings? Their insecurities? Their not-enoughness?
Can you simply sit in awareness of all of THAT? Can you look upon the Dreamer with the eyes of God? With absolute love and acceptance?
This Invitation reminds us that there is no separate self at the wheel of a separate life; that Wholeness itself (of which you are THAT) is simply unfolding. Your life, as Wholeness, is simply unfolding. It's all perfectly ok. No wrong turns have been made. No ball has been dropped. Nothing has been forgotten. You are not late to the game.
You ARE what you have been seeking your entire life.
Wake up, wake up, wake up.