There Is Always A Way

Every morning I have a drink that begins with a cup of hot water. One morning our microwave broke so I thought, “Well I guess I won’t be drinking that this morning.”

It took a few minutes before I realized that a microwave is not the only way to heat hot water, just the one we had used for years; habit constricts horizons.

There is always a way. Maybe not the way we have done it for years, but the Divine that is infinite possibilities does not have only one path or one way or one supply or one opportunity or one look or one anything other than the One that includes all and is known as Love.

It's hard to remember, much harder than realizing that hot water can also be heated on the stove. That’s because we are so used to feeling separate from Love with the accompanying feeling of lack.

The habitual lack-based worldview always attempts to creep in and separate us from the infinite possibilities and practicality of Love. It is in those times that we cling to the rock of Truth.

I can always tell when I am feeling very separate. I start having dialogues with myself; sometimes playing out more than one role, but always talking. This is different than my “normal” talking to myself; this is the dialogue that plays out how it could have been, should have been, or what I might have said if I had been wise enough in the moment to say it.

Getting out of that separate and dialoguing state sometimes feels impossible, but it is not. However, it does take a willingness to turn off the channel of separation and tune into the channel that is about the One.

One way I do this is have a grateful dialogue which resets my point of view and state of mind. As I do my morning walk, I try to practice a walking meditation. It’s harder than it sounds. I have to keep dragging my focus back to gratitude and away from whatever message the separation channel is playing.

Recently as I practiced this I experienced a new awareness about the statement, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you.”*

The “Seek ye first his righteousness” became clearer. I realized that I couldn’t get to that feeling of peacefulness and love by seeking it either for myself or another, I had to seek first what is the Truth of Love and peace, and of course the rest would follow. I had to seek the right thinking – righteousness - that is Love.

One of the walking meditations that I use to ground my point of view in the Infinite One is the statement, “We are the loved of Love.” The “we” I am referring to comes from Mary Baker Eddy’s statement, “There is but one I or Us….”

While I am walking my mind wants to drift away to conversations, past, future or imagined; or it becomes occupied with designing places and things. It moves away from the idea of wholeness and is distracted by what I want. It doesn’t matter how good my intentions may be for what I want, or even if I want for another, it is still a distraction away from Truth.

Using a 360 degree soft vision technique while walking not only turns me away from the hypnotic internal dialogue, but brings my state of mind back to the awareness that the statement “We are the loved of Love” not only means people, but everything that appears externally and places it all back where it belongs, within the circle of One.

Obsessive vigilance is required when our intent is to move from the self-righteousness of fixing what appears to be broken or separate, to God’s righteousness which already is the wholeness of Love. Seeking to understand first the kingdom of God is not about getting something for ourselves or others, but the intent and desire to really know and live as One.

Meeting anger and resentment and sorrow with all encompassing unconditional love for ourselves and each other is one way out of the unhappiness of separation. The sooner we choose this perception, the sooner we find the peace and comfort that is the joyful atmosphere of the kingdom of God.

What does all this have to do with making hot water? Sometimes we think there is only one way to forgive, one way to seek first the kingdom of God, one way to experience at-one-ment, or atonement.

But there are many ways for each of these actions. Love, the nature of God, is expansive not constricted. No matter how many times we may appear to step away from the righteousness of God, the moment we step back and yield to Love’s direction we are within the kingdom of God and we intimately experience that each of us is the loved of Love.

*Bible - Matthew 6: 33

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