Friday, May 24, 2024
In the story of Genesis, God declared permissively, “Let there be light.” What I find interesting is how the writers of Genesis portrayed the creative act. God could have done it any number of ways. Why permission? Why let it?
The writers could have made God like Samantha on Bewitched who twitched her nose for everything she wanted. Or God could have been have been like Jeanie, who folded her arms and blinked her eyes. But it was through surrender and allowance, not demand, that reality unfolded. In A Course in Miracles, Helen Schumacher uses similar language when she wrote “let healing be.” This implies that healing is the default and that disease is the blockage. In God’s case, light is the default and darkness is the so-called blockade.
The creative act is surrendering, allowing what wants to come from you (let there be); and then it’s permissive – it states with confidence what is already there. It doesn’t work if you say “I wish there were light,” or “Turn on the damn light already!” or “It’s so dark in this place!” That only keeps the darkness in place. It works if you get out of the way and trust the light into being. Our only “evidence,” when we have a dream, is the dream itself, and it is through belief that it becomes physical.
We impede the spontaneity of creation. We allow negative beliefs to block the light, which shines perpetually beneath the doubt. The light wants to shine. Wonderful dreams want to flower, but only if you let them. Blessing cannot shine through doubt, hardness, insecurity, or fear. Light brightens when you comply, submit, and let. What are you not allowing? Allow, and you’ll see how much light there is to let in. It’s endless.