Friday, April 12, 2024
I wish I could explain that it is OK and that everything is fine. But first, we must recognize we’re “it” and we’re “everything.” “It” seems like something other than me, but how little I see.
What do you look at to determine if “it” is OK? Do you look at your circumstance? Your circumstance doesn’t contain “it” any more than money “contains” happiness or a job “contains” security. You contain. Inward distrust incarnates duplicitously as road rage, insurrection, violence, and acting out. Acting out, as it were, is the key to this important truth. Are you acting out your inner trust and acceptance, or acting out your fear?
Reality is nothing more than your internality acting out. “How’s everything?” is not a question about your bank account, job, or relationship, but about you. Worrying, fighting, and resisting within creates more resistance without. If we could only know how to grow, expand, and trust that deep peace that resides within the core being, it would permeate into what appears as the outer world.
We’re confused. Too many of us think “the world” is going to hell, not understanding that this distrusting belief is a manifestation of a hellish inside. We’ve abdicated our responsibility and tossed it off as being “out” of our hands. He’s got the whole world in his hands.
What is “the world” if not yourself? What’s “He” if not yourself? What is wrong with “people” if people aren’t you? What’s “the matter” if the matter is not you? “It” is out of your control. What is “it” if not you? It is in “God’s hands.” What are “God’s hands?” You’re “it,” “the world,” “everything,” “others” and “God’s hands.” If he’s got the whole world in his hands, I wish he’d give it back so we can understand the hell we’re creating.