Yesterday we saw a squirrel running by our door. He was intent upon burying the nut that he had just found. We can tell that winter is coming because instead of just using the “squirrel highway” in the trees, the squirrels are on the ground looking for and burying nuts.
The squirrels are doing what they always do, gathering and planting. Someone must have forgotten to tell them about the current financial crisis.
What if no one told us about it? What if we never heard the scary projections of those whose fear, turned into greed, bred the results of what they are now experiencing.
Writer H.L. Mencken said at least a half a century ago, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
That was then, and this is now and it is the same intention. If we agree with these imaginary hobgoblins it is because we have forgotten that illusion begins within. When we accept illusion as realty it becomes our perceived reality.
And we all know that perception is reality. It is up to us to decide if we want to live in Truth known as big r Reality or with what is being sold to us as an alarming perception.
Isn’t starting internally with a perception shift the same thing as what Mark Twain meant when he said, “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Our imagination needs to be focused on what is true if we are to dissolve within our own lives any affect produced by fear. This fear is often imposed and projected on purpose by others with the intention of being able to continue with their lies and deception.
We must be determined to practice shifting our perceptions to the graceful cycle of abundance of Reality. This shift will free us. It will even free those who appear to be intentionally doing wrong within the illusion of a dualist worldview.
Observe the squirrels. They continue as they always have of finding and burying supplies, playing with each other, and protecting the inhabitants of their neighborhood with their alerts. We might think of squirrels as savers and hoarders, but they are neither.
Although they prepare what they might need by gathering and saving for the winter, once new food arrives in the spring they let what they gathered in the past alone. This means that the seeds and nuts that they have hidden can sprout and produce more of what they will need to gather in the future while providing for the neighborhood of animals, insects, plants and people in the mean time.
It’s a glorious graceful cycle of abundance.
In fact the whole of nature continues along as always in that cycle of abundance. It does not react to false and imposed imaginations. Feel this for yourself. Sit awhile and listen to the birds, feel the wind, smell a leaf and let the grace it represents seep into your being.
Imagine the cooperation, support, connection, love and respect within the many functions of what appears as a body and see how it becomes a fuller sense of body. Your awareness of body expands to include your home, neighborhood, and community.
Continue to imagine the grace that gently and intelligently guides each thought and action of what appears to be an individual, but is really a thread in the fabric of the intelligent representation of Life.
The wood in our fireplace gives off heat because that is what it does. It is not judging who is in the room, or whether we deserve it or not. It radiates.
It is the continuation of the tree that also brought shade, food, and shelter. A tree that breathed in and out to provide clean air for us. A tree that drew nourishment from the ground and then returned its leaves to the ground to nurture it.
As it burns in our fireplace it is releasing the sunshine that it had stored within to make food for itself. A perfect cycle of graceful continuing abundance.
At no time in its life did it judge who sat under it, or worry if it was noticed or appreciated. As a tree it continues to demonstrate grace no matter what its outward appearance may be.
Let’s imagine that grace and live it ourselves. Let’s make it our perception, because we know it to be true. We know that all that is present is God, Good. So if we look at and accept a financial crisis, where is God?
See beyond the appearance, the lie and the illusion and feel only the power of grace because this will free us all from the tyranny of fear which lives as greed. Let’s perceive as Divine Intelligent Love perceives; let’s know and live and respond only to the continuous cycle of abundant grace.
