Dreaming

Life is but a dream……

it seems like the older I get the more obvious the truth hides in plain sight.     Life is a dream….you and I and all others are collectively dreaming this into reality.    And each of us gets to decide if we want to continue the dream journey as a nightmare or in “hell” or if we want to experience a beautiful world.

How many beauty pageant contestants have said “world peace” is their greatest wish??   I wonder if they realize what they are wishing?    Heaven coming to this earth, this reality is the cure for a hurting planet and people.    Heaven brings light to the hell so many have trapped themselves in.    But how is heaven brought to earth?

Each of us holds the power to bring more heaven into earth.     The words we choose, the actions we choose, the way we choose to demonstrate love creates a climate of peace or a climate of chaos.      Part of demonstrating love comes from loving ourselves enough to treat our souls as we would like to be treated.    So many times I’ve made myself smaller and tried to diminished the eternal light given to me…. out of fear or shame.   But that version of me is changing.   I see differently now.

It’s taken a long time to start to appreciate the gifts I inherited from the Great Creator.    I read this wonderful little book a few years back called “A Guide To God” by Rabbi Rami…and it started the process of change.    My whole life, I’ve believed in the message Christ intended for creation.   His “red letter” words bring peace and harmony.   But I’ve been disturbed by how quickly greed and other things began to separate his message from his legacy.     Not even one generation had passed before his followers were having serious arguments about his intentions.    And from what we have to read, they really struggled to look through the eyes of Christ at loving each other and treating each life on earth as precious.  If those who witnessed miracles and walked with the peace of Christ couldn’t continue to offer it for their short life on earth, then how is it possible for us to offer this after being separated thousands of years and by thousands of hurtful words and deaths by those who claimed to know Christ??

Every time I’m honked at or given a rude gesture in the concrete jungle, I’m reminded how quickly people jump to divisive behavior.   It’s harder to choose love.    Love pushes us to expand and listen.  Love demands us put our own calendars, agendas, and mouths on hold, while we use our ears to lead our hearts.     If each life truly listened to the lives around them, the earth would have no choice but to shift.     I think about the animals and plants that offer human beings life…..are we truly thankful?    I’m guilty of taking these things for granted.    If I listened to my neighbors, big and small, I would find places were I’ve pushed instead of loved…i’ve taken instead of loved….i’ve demanded instead of loved.       This starts hinting at the true meaning of life for me.

To experience being one of the whole of creation requires understanding first who I am, then observing how the edges of myself can be flexible to serve and embrace the edges of my neighbors to create unity.   I love the picture of God painted by Rabbi Rami as he describes Panentheism.   “All of me is God, but I am not all of God”.      And if we were to see each religion and viewpoint as mountains separated by an ocean ….we could spend time to look deeply at the ground beneath the water that connects us all.   The ground beneath the water teaches us unity if we have ears and eyes to observe.     I am connected to the little ants that find their way into my house during the spring.    They are simply looking for food…..it’s my responsibility to create the appropriate boundary of my space, while maintaining respect for the space these ants have in creation.     It’s my responsibility to look at the heart inside my children and see how they really are made…to listen to their dreams for themselves that only they can dream…then make sure the edges of myself allow for a smooth acceptance of the edges of them.    I shepherd them into adulthood….while maintaining the truth of who I am inside.

It’s a beautiful picture of life giving and supporting life….a picture I see when I look at the heart of wisdom people…..and earth’s wisdom.     For the earth so loved us all that she continues to give peace in exchange for stress….love in exchange for hate….new in exchange for old…life in exchange for death….and a connection to a whole in exchange for a broken pieces…..Earth is happy to take the tension in my back from the many things I try to carry…She uses this tension to fasten roots to soil in places and in people who are at risk of tumbling apart…..Earth is happy to listen to my hurt and longing for a loving partner….She gives me peace, reminding me I am beautifully made whole.

Earth has shared part of her magic….she holds every seed and strand of DNA that has ever made life on and in her…this belongs to her and always will.     She offers these gifts to our souls in order for us to grow, learn, love and experience restoration as part of God.      I accept her gifts with gratitude and offer back all i can.

Many blessings!