I heard their honking first. Widening my vision, I saw three geese, one leading, and two walking together, honking as they waddled over the rise to their little pond. One saw me and slowed down to watch me as I jogged/walked by.
We kept glancing back at each other, kindred spirits in the celebration of the dawning of a new day.
It had rained all day the day before and into the morning. With the dawn, the rain stopped and the geese and I were witnesses to a morning filled with the scent of lilacs, and the movement of the sunlight through and around glistening branches and flowers.
It was a glorious morning overflowing with countless trillions of living things moving, singing, sliding, and expanding. It appeared as if every plant had grown overnight, nourished by a day of rain.
As the goose and I exchanged glances, it turned into one of those moments when it is impossible to not be aware that there is an infinite, loving Principle behind it all.
I was just beginning to “run” again after stopping for the winter. I was trying a new technique of running and walking while breathing only through my nose, harder to do then it sounds, but is supposed to make running easier after getting used to it.
I had also tried a second new technique of running toe heel, but had given up the idea of doing two new things, finding it much too difficult to break two habits at once.
In fact, I have realized that I find it hard to do more than a few things at once well. However, once again, during that glorious morning I remembered that the Infinite does all things, all at once, all the time, with perfect precision and outcome.
I know that when I surrender to the acceptance that I am the expression of this infinite Principle, I always have the experience of being cared for as part of the One infinite whole. Of course, this perfect caring is always happening, but experiencing it and intellectually knowing it are two different things.
It’s not the big events in our lives that prove this infinite care to us, it is the small, every day events. For example, over the weekend, I couldn’t remember an item that I was supposed to get at the grocery store. Instead of worrying about it, I affirmed to myself that the infinite Mind surely has never forgotten anything.
In just a few moments, as I walked up an aisle, I was gently reminded what it was that I needed. Later that day, I was gently reminded by that same “still small voice within” to mail a letter, and make a phone call.
Trusting that this infinite Principle is in charge, we could all let go more. We could stop trying to multi-task and instead witness the master multi-tasker at work caring for every detail of every life in every moment.
When we forget that the infinite Principle of Love is always on the job, we could simply step outside and notice what is going on in nature without us doing anything at all. Perhaps we have watered the trees, planted a rose, or trimmed the lilac, but we cannot ever actually make anything happen.
No amount of human will power is going to give the tree, the rose, and the lilac life, watch over their every moment, or care for their every new sprout.
Yes, human will power can make some things happen within the material world. However, what good is this other than expanding our human ego and misperception that we are material and the world is material.
How happy are we when we multi-task, taking on more and more responsibility, trying to prove our human worth? Eventually we need to leave this mistaken view of ourselves as human, and experience ourselves as one of the ideas of the Principle of Love, always tenderly cared for and loved.
In those glorious moments when this is perfectly clear, we know without doubt that infinite Intelligence is the substance of what we have misperceived as material.
Once that idea takes root within our consciousness it becomes clear that everything that exists, that we see, taste, touch, smell and feel is in Reality spiritual, or the idea of God. Then we know ourselves as the action of God, and follow direction rather than powering forward in a series of multi-tasks trying to make things happen.
Del and I sit on our new porch before dawn every morning. The birds start their morning chorus long before dawn arrives, usually with a single mockingbird call followed a few minutes later by the robins and cardinals. By the time the sky begins to lighten, there is a full chorus of birds in the trees, grass, bushes, and plants.
This morning choreography is just one more example of the master multi-tasker’s constant and precise care of every detail of life. We cannot begin to imagine the complexity of each moment, but we can imagine the possibilities for ourselves if we stopped trying to be the cause and creator and surrendered instead to the steady care of the one cause and creator, the One infinite intelligence of the Principle of Love, multi-tasking with precision because that is Its nature.
Here is a perfect annotate to personal multi-tasking:
“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?”
This cumulates in the statement of one the three Spiritual Laws: 33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Mat: 6 - 28 /33
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Educational and comforting! Thank you, Beca!