The Light in the Woods

8/8/09 Revelations            I was kayaking past beautiful places that I couldn’t help thinking the mystics ought to have for their spiritual retreat if the world could be run my way. But that’s not going to happen. So I wondered that those that have get more and more, and yet they still don’t understand how fortunate they are.

But I am blessed in a different way. Those who have God have everything, and don’t need more. Sometimes we seek more, or regret not getting everything we want. But deep inside we know that we have the best there is, because we have a right-relationship with God. And if God says “yes” there’s no need to worry about the “no” we get from elsewhere.

I reflect on that now, but earlier today in my kayak I felt a little sad for the things that can’t be when it’s so clear that they ought to be. As I floated past fifty-foot high slabs of rock, I touched them and it was like touching the face of God. And this is what I heard so clearly inside my spirit:

“There’s no amount of money or well-being that can compare with the excellence of the spirituality I have given you. You don’t have to wonder at others’ good fortune — just enjoy the good gifts I give you, because they will last a very long time.”

2/28/08 Revelations        “You have to be more specific for your targets to learn what you have to teach. You hold back on writing the specifics because you aren’t moved to do this writing; if you aren’t truly moved then you feel it’s your thoughts, not mine, that you present. You aren’t moved to write the lessons I want you to write because you have been graced; it’s incomprehensible to you how people can not know these things. But remember – like the apostles, things are yours to know that aren’t given to others to know. You can’t rest with that – in order to be of service you have to quit basking in the favors I’ve given you, and do the bull work of passing along the word to others. In that way they will come to drink of the living waters I’ve provided for them through you. Just get started — you know I’ll do the real work. Right now you’re holding back because you think it’s arrogant of yourself to presume to be a spiritual counselor because you haven’t been trained in that. You haven’t completely opened up to my desire to work through you. My work is perfect, well more useful than any training you may get from any human. This is a worldly attachment you must give up now. Forget the fear of being judged by the world. If you do, you will please me, and that will be answering the highest calling possible.”