INFINITY ON THE POINT OF A PIN

...Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.... - from The Lord's Prayer

Those words grabbed my unthinking mind this morning...through all my prayers, meditations and meandering thoughts, it was like low-hanging fog over a country field.

They took me back to Our Father, which art in Heaven...and caused me to wonder (yet again), where is Heaven? Within and without. Everywhere. Infinite. Infinity on the point of a pin. And God occupies every infinite inch...the only limit being our own concept of God.

When we were in college, a friend told me of sitting on a huge boulder by a lake and imagining a rope going out into space...and she focused entirely on expanding the length of the rope, further and further...and still farther. Until she experienced a great light and an almost unbearable feeling of peace...which scared her so that she never tried it again. It was years later before she understood she had experienced a break through to the fourth dimension.

I wonder if that almost unbearable feeling of peace isn't what keeps most of us anchored here...not only because it is so unfathomable but because we try so hard to catch it, to grasp and hold it.

I am reminded of her story because I feel that I almost touched that this morning as I was pondering infinity and God's unboundaried space within. And lost it in my reaching for it. Ah, there it is. The reasoning mind needs boundaries, will manufacture them for its own feeling of security. God cannot be bound. Maybe another aspect of spiritual growth is our detaching from our own conceptual boundaries.

As Meister Eckhart preached, God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.

Thank you.