There is a Plan.... and the Art of Surrender

.....and my "job" is
"to get out of the way enough"
to be able to hear what
I'm being asked to do

Since Christal Temple's celebration
5 weeks ago in the yurt on Maplewood Hill,
there have been many small, private gatherings
of some of us who regularly take part
in our community Divine Communion.

We have come together to do personal work -
many different kinds of transformation -
where the personal needs of each of us as
"independent beings" have been shown to be
variations of deeper stories which turn out
to be our common thread, past and present.
That which we thought was just our own
challenge or problem or need, seems now
always to be mirrored in those we meet.

Was it always so
and we didn't notice?
Or is this a confirmation
of the coming-closer which
is now manifesting clearly ...
the lifting of the veils of
the separation illusion?

I have spent some time the past month
looking into passive residual income.
Faced with a seemingly inexhaustible number of
websites offering "the newest, best and most
secret way" of becoming financially plentiful,
(often at the manipulative "expense" of others,)
I have tried to sift for a sense of deeper Truth
and compassionately generous Vision in those
who would enroll me in their schemes.

I have been surprised to find among these sites,
(so many of which play to the desperation of
people caught in a recession that they fear will get
very much worse before it - if ever - stabilizes,)
nuggets of divine, alchemical gold with visions
not just of a world in which more people can
"get more" but also where the spiritual nature
of our existence and its value is integrated into
the expressed vision and commitment.
Instead of coming from a space of fear and lack,
there is an invitation to share Abundance.
In a few, this is clearly-spoken; the understanding
of shared joy and abundance as a pre-requisite
to allow any type of business/economic dealing to
flourish - now and for the future.

(For more on this, see my Abundance blog.)

What has this to do with "the Plan" and
with our small, transformational meetings?

I am becoming increasingly aware that the
Paradigm Shift is not the domain of the few -
the self-proclaimed enlightened ones - but a
divinely-inspired phenomenon which cuts across
our limited human religious, economic, artistic,
left vs right, "real"-life vs "spiritual life" boxes.
We don't have to be mystics or recluses or
"deniers of 3D-reality" to access that voice -
in fact the "normal" processes of human growth
in seemingly spiritual deserts (like much of the
business world may appear to the "spiritual")
is just the space where the Spirit thrives,
making of joyful and collaborative marketing a
holy space where the divine is easily seen and
experienced, and where people are honoured.

Those successful marketeers, many of whom
now use their profits to fund specific projects in
war-torn places of despair and drought, seem
to give themselves time to be led, to be shown.
Most of them write about how they toiled and
worked, only to find that easy, lasting success
just evaded them. They wanted to give up.
And then the "miracle" happened, they saw
the Light, or met someone and their life
and enterprise were changed, transformed.

What happened?

I believe it was, in each case, that they
admitted fully where they really were,
they accepted the limited and limiting
earthbound truth of their situation in
all its parts, however uncomfortable.
In short, they surrendered to "What Is."
By doing this, they allowed the connection to
that deeper Truth which brought the "miracle"
into their lives.They aligned with the Plan!
(Actually, it is not always necessary to have
a life-shattering experience to be able to hear
and be at one with that Inner Inspiration!
But it often helps the process, especially if
one is stubbornly into the negative self-talk
which crowds out the still, small Voice!)

In my musical life, I have an experience
which happens again and again when I practise.
I come to a place where I can nearly play the
piece of music, but can't really "get it together."
Often I forget the divine process and try to
stick it out, just practising more and more, and
getting increasingly frustrated and angry!
It takes courage to surrender to What-Is,
especially when there's a concert coming up.
But if I don't surrender, I just don't "get it"!
When I do surrender, allowing myself to wait,
the piece comes together in its own time,
funnily enough, always in time for the concert,
and I play better than I have played it while
I was "practising"!

What we have done in those small groups I
wrote about at the beginning of this piece,
is increasingly to allow the inspiration of
where we are being led to inform us and
what we do, therapeutically and ritually.
I feel we have been enabled to do this by
the practice we have previously undertaken.
In other words, practice is in my experience
a pre-requisite for receiving inspiration
through surrender and allowing it to
take root practically in our work.

In this way, I feel that we have empowered
ourselves to "get out of the way" and let
God, and the Divine Plan, flow in us.

And what are the marketeers showing us?
That the Plan really works, not least
in Earthly terms as well as "Heavenly" ones!
Turns our self-imposed distinctions of
what is Earthly and what is Spiritual
on their head, does it not?!!!!

The question arises:
How do we know
when it is time to
practise
and when time to
surrender and
let go?

Ah!

Blessings

John O