As I listen to conversations or hear of themes of contemplative classes or even topics of discussion in sermons or lessons of spiritual leaders, there seems such a need to do something,  be something or find something.  Actually, it is so prevalent and seemingly incessant, I often recoil from  it’s ‘noise’.  

Certainly, the ‘heart’ hears that an individual’s ‘path’ is sought or one wants to be seen or understood, but as has been expressed for thousands of years, the busy-ness of seeking a ‘path’ distracts from seeking the knowledge of the soul, the self knowledge of God, which awaits for the simple realization or awakening to its dynamic Self. You’re already on your path - - you are your path. Actually, the ‘path’ is always reaching out for us and making its way and foundation for us as we make our way through the moment to moment of daily living.  

Being aware of who we are, or our ‘path’ as it may be called, isn’t a one time occurrence. Actually, we awaken or ‘resurrect’ over and over again during our lifetime. For most, it happens many times just as we awaken after a nights rest or even a short nap. Each ‘awakening’ gives space for our Light to give new understanding and forgiveness of events from all the stuff that happens in living, and then in some moment, without expectation, the eyes open in a blink to the bright recognition of our true soul, filled and lived by, in and through the Christ. Voila!, we know that we truly are the Light of the World, and that Light shines to reveal the joy of simply living and doing the work we truly enjoy, and then suddenly, that ‘path’ shows up in the most unexpected way and most likely, will seem effortless.

Perhaps another way to realize this is to recognize and rest in the knowing that the path being sought is actually the creative life of all of creation which abides in every person and in all that is created. That relentless Love is always upon us

Life is yours!! It is a Gift. Enjoy it, change it, re-create it, make it your own!   We cannot escape our calling – we might walk away from it for a while for lack of understanding or perhaps willfulness, or life events or maybe just plain rebellion, but we cannot outrun or escape the calling goodness of God, the Christ.  

We are created to be actively involved in living and to enjoy that living, no matter what that living may entail.  

If you’re an artist, create beauty and fill the souls and all the creations of the worlds with the joy of it! 

If you’re a musician, create music and join with the Symphonies of the Universes! 

If you’re a caregiver, love with all that is within you and give hope and compassion where there was none! 

If you’re a factory worker, let every task be completed with the greatest bit of care to detail you can possibly  give!

If you’re  a teacher, teach with love and tolerance and share the wisdom of all the truth you can attain!

If you’re a philosopher, give with all you can give, but only after you ensure the meanings you have come to know have been tested to bring only Life giving Truth within the bookends of Wisdom;

If you are a parent, give yourself fully with Love, bound by honor, trust and the integrity of your best knowledge, seeking always the highest and best of and for each soul entrusted in your care — remembering always you are the bow from which they are thrust;

If you are a called to prayer, then pray with all that is within you, seeking always with compassion the good of that one, even though you may not know them, who is bound to you as a brother or sister in Spirit, thereby giving hope and peace to all of creation, knowing together in the Christ we are One;

If you are a spouse, love willingly with the only expectation being to find through patience, kindness, love, forgiveness and the eyes of ‘knowing’ that Grace abounds, fills, heals and builds up and binds you together with the gentleness of the Love from which it arises.

 And,

If you hear the song of Grace and Love, you will feel the hearts of those who do not yet know or are not able to enjoy the living of Life.... and you will  hear their cries of need and their seeking to enter the Wisdom of Life and Love and you will embrace them with the Rest and Love of the Wisdom you have gleaned from the threshing floor of youth, and through the living breezes. Then, with them you will dance with all that is within you in the reverberating sound of that Song which calls and has called from eternity!

 AND, THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE!

 IF © 2019

 Margie Owens Phillips

LifePrisms © 2019

Margie Phillips

Margie is a prolific writer and poet in an eternal love affair with the Divine.   Her work, both  inspired and  powerful , is inclusive of all and often the reader can experience the deep personal fire of Divine Love flickering deep within their own soul.

The purpose of her writings is to entreat the virtues of Hope, inspiration and thoughtfulness while providing a channel of Love for healing of soul, mind and body.

In 1976 she had a life change of infinite proportions. You can learn of her gripping story of change, healing and instant spiritual transformation here.