SO SEEK

Supply is the realization of God. -- Joel Goldsmith, "Letters," p. 631

Realization. That is the goal that is unattainable by our own efforts. In general, we must needs make our self available for it, but not always...Saul, a real reprobate, on the road to Damascus was knocked off his horse by a bolt of Realization and, from that, grew into being Saint Paul. (Take that as my short-form of a saint's transformation..."my" being the key.)

Realization is not just believing or wanting to believe, knowing or wanting to know. Realization is a gift from within...we realize from our toes to our nose to the roots of our hair to the broken ends of each strand of that hair. And that realization changes us...that is the proof of an authentic spiritual experience. We are changed. Not by our thinking, reading, studying, talking; we are changed spiritually by the cosmic hand of God...according to me.

That's when our work begins. The work of remembering. Remembering that our life is not ours to fix or even improve. We learn just what Goldsmith meant when he wrote, "Supply is the realization of God." We never again need to worry about...anything.

Supply includes health, wealth, wisdom...soul. Our "work" is in living that. A start is when we accept that there are two things with us 24/7...first, the God of our own understanding, and second Lucy, our ego, both of whom will be with us three days after we're dead.

Lucy will be there holding that football and God will be there assuring us "It is I, be not afraid" (or, for simple folk like me, "kissing the boo-boo") when we take her bait once again.

The change that realization brings isn't into a fear-free, worry-free, stress-free life. The change is that we are free to fear, worry, be stressed...but why? And we grow into our own spiritual peace through proving to our self the un-necessity of fear, worry and stress. Through proving to our self that God has our back.

Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven....

Thank you.