Thursday, August 8, 2013

Love IS …





“There will never be any more God
than there IS now.
Never more good, wholeness,
abundance, perfection, infinity
than there IS at this present moment …
Living in this moment of IS-ness,
this next moment unfolds
as a continuity of Grace.



I’ve been back in Canada for a few weeks getting settled back into my routine here.  And, I realized during the wee hours of the morning that I’ve missed talking with you.  Something has been floating around here to share, but I just hadn’t sat at the computer to allow it to come out.  So here goes …

Have you ever felt like something was not quite coming together all the way for you?  That there was something still missing?  When we give the signal with our hands that everything is OK, we usually put our thumb and pointer finger together in a circle to give the expression of it’s all ok, it’s beautiful, it’s perfect, “yes!”  So, as this feeling of not being complete is happening the circle feels to be not quite all the way together.  Are you with me?  Have you ever had, or do you have that feeling?

This experience may have been there all along, but we might not have noticed it fully yet.  It hides out as we go about busily in our lives finding all kinds of things to do to cover up this feeling, because it doesn’t feel good.  But, as we know, this gnawing feeling has to be met fully in the embrace of Love for it to disappear.  Actually, in truth we know, nothing is really there, but as long as we ignore it there is an appearance that something is there.

It’s much like the lion that lived under my bed when I was a small child.  And, at night I wouldn’t get up to go to the bathroom without calling my Dad in to help me.  He didn’t know what in the world was going on until one night in asking questions, he found out that I really thought at night there was a lion living under my bed and his big paws would come out after me when I got out of bed to go to the bathroom.  When he and I took the flashlight out and looked under the bed, and I saw that nothing was there, that was the end of it.  I even felt happy that it was gone, when it never was there in the first place. 

So, after many years of working on myself, have I gotten sophisticated with what comes up and just “see” it and “transcend” it from Awareness?  And, this illusion remains.  Or, am I willing as this child did with her Father, from Pure Love, face this underlying gnawing feeling and shed a Light on the entire experience?  

Now, realizing for ourselves, that there is nothing there … only a fullness of Love … a vast open space of what IS …

OK!!


Love being with you,
Thanks for listening,
Elizabeth


9 comments:

  1. There are many definitions of perfection. Certainly the circle (your okay sign) is one of those geometrically. It happens to be one that I love. But you know the word circle starts with a "C" and it has its own completeness just as it is. Who said it had to be a circle? I like the idea of challenging our ideas about perfect. I think they get in the way of our true happiness. Love you, Elizabeth! e

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    1. I am with you in what you are saying. Thank you,
      Love,
      em

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  2. Hi dear Elizabeth...Thanks...What is happening with me these days is a deep knowing that no moment can possibly be better or worse than this one. This realization takes me by surprise over and over.

    Your body must wonder what is going on with all your extreme changes in environment? What the...???

    Lots of Love and Hugs, Esther

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    1. It is delightful and light living this way, Esther.
      Love,
      em

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  3. Your sharing reminded me of something I have been seeing for a while now. Life has many movements, many forms, and moves in many directions. I can identify and classify all I want. "That is good. That is bad. That is me. That is not me, that is other." The process is endless, but does not affect the truth of what is. There is something here that is just the witness of all of this. That is what is true. Anything else is not really there when I go looking. It is all story.

    Yet, within the context of "Life" a great deal appears. It is all just the "process" of life. My urges, desires, ideas, plans, decisions...all of it just facilitates the movement of life. It is all as it should be whether within the process it is judged as good or bad.

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    1. Yes, Joe, this is the truth that sets us free.
      Love,
      em

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  4. Yes, I have had this feeling you describe.
    I have found that sooner or later the truth will surface if I remain open to it, without giving my experience a name or label, or even trying to understand it within a spiritual or any kind of context.

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  5. Elizabeth,

    That was really very good and understandable the way you clarified how there cannot be more goodness or perfection in any moment since it is already here; and how we need to face and drop are notions, beliefs and conditioned tendencies in order to realize this wholeness and peace is always here no matter what appears to be. Thank you for that reminder which is the conscious foundation of the awareness of what IS.

    Love,
    Ted

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