You Are a Branch of the Tree of Life

Are there times in your life that you feel alone and helpless and you don't know where to turn for answers?  Here's a simple analogy to help you get through those times.

Think of a tree, imagine the most magnificent tree you've ever seen.  The branches and leaves are a part of that tree, they are an expression of the tree's beauty.  The branches and the leaves are nourished by the tree and it would foolish of them to look outside of the tree for any need.

Likewise, you are a branch of the Divine Tree of Life.  Thus, the glory and beauty of the Divine is expressed through you.  You are an intimate part of the Divine Tree of Life so, in those difficult times, just turn within to the Tree for nourishment because looking anywhere else would be foolish.

In What Do You Trust

Recently, I was sitting outside and enjoying a beautiful sunrise,  I could feel the warmth of the sun rays on my face bathing me in a spirit of peace and harmony.  All was good with the world in that moment.  Then, it occurred to me that I didn't have to put forth any effort to make the sun to rise and enjoy it's warmth.

Ever think about how the sun rises and sets without your effort and if for only one day the sun did not rise all life on earth would die.  There is an universal Loving Intelligence which governs the rising and the setting of the sun without any help from you and I.  This same Loving Intelligence created you and I out of Itself and will govern our lives just as It causes the sun to rise and set if we trust in It.

But, being human you and I think that we know best how to run our lives, so we struggle and strain to force our way in the world while there is a Loving Intelligence that patiently awaits to guide us effortlessly through life.  All we have to do is to totally trust in It, just as we trust the sun to rise each day.

Truth Heals All

Many people struggle with a feeling that something in their lives needs fixing and they go here and there looking for the solution when all they need do is look inside themselves for the answer.  For, all healing is nothing more than the realization of your unity with God.  Seek this union in your prayers and all things in your life will be made whole, and you will lose that feeling of something needing to be fixed in your life.

One of my favorite mantras is, there is nothing to be healed, only Truth be revealed.

Practicing the Law of Non-Attachment

In my last post I spoke of the Spiritual Law of Non-Attachment.  You put the Law of Non-Attachment to work in your life by realizing that you are the creator of all your life experiences via your belief system (consciousness).  Therefore, the only way to change your experience is by changing your consciousness. When you rigidly onto to anything in your life you keep your consciousness at the level of the thing, and you stifle your growth.

The only lasting security in your life is your connection with your Inner-Self, which is where your life merges with the Divine.  This is the place of unlimited possibility and from this place you create everything that is necessary in your life.  So, you see there can never be any lasting security in material things because they are always changing.  Your connection with the Divine is eternal and is always ready to meet you at your place of need, and that is where your security is.

Daily practice the following in your quiet time.

• Give thanks for all you have and release all you have to the Divine, knowing that if something is lost in your life a way is always opened for something greater.

• Know that the Divine always provides for your every need, but It can only give you what you are conscious of receiving.

•  Know that there is unlimited possibility in uncertainty and non-attachment and this is where your security lies.