Divinity In Motion

"God is a force that can't be pinned down no matter what you do.  If you have to find God, you are lost before you start, because God isn't to be found.  God is to be accepted, to be experienced, to be accessed.  That's the purpose of deep prayer, to be still enough to attune ourselves to what already exists."  Rev. Eric Butterworth

"Be still and know that I AM God."  Psalm 46:10

I am reminded of the movie City of Angels, when Nathaniel says "Some things are true whether you believe them or not."

That has always stuck with me.  Belief is irrelevant except in our own action.  Every choice or action we make has a consequence, whether we deem it a "good" or a "bad" consequence.  Cause and Effect.  God Is.  You can accept or reject God.  You can experience or ignore God.  You can access or deny God.  Your choice.

God has always been and will always be and is not dependent upon our choice to accept or deny.  The God we know from the bible and through the example of Jesus is Love.  Love by invitation.  We are invited to Love God, Love ourselves and to Love all that we meet with the same value. 

How do we do that?  How do you Love God?  How do you Love yourself (not in a narcissistic way, but in a healing, awe-inspiring, beloved child of God way)?  We can't even begin to love another person until we begin to recognize and practice the Love for God and the Love for ourselves.  If we don't have those first two in place we have nothing to give.  We can still act - and many do - but it is not action sprung from Love, it is action sprung from Ego.  The effect is not the same.

Silence.  It scares people.  Prayer.  It scares people.  I sat with a couple of people asking them to sit in silence.  Not even 3 solid minutes passed without it being broken and God only knows the chaos traveling through their hearts, minds and souls before their physical silence had to be broken.  A woman came up to me on Sunday in pain, soulful pain, agitated.  She wants peace in her chaotic, stressful life.  When I mentioned to her she might first try to just sit in silence for the first 5 minutes of her day once she is awake she almost had a visible panic attack.  She proclaimed that even 1 minute was impossible.

When did that happen to us?  When did we become so instantaneous and in need of miraculous gratification that we lost our ability to sit in silence, to find peace in stillness?  Have we truly lost the art of waiting on God?  If we can not be still, sit in silence, contemplate nothing but the desire to access God to be with God, how can we hear God, know God and act on behalf of the God who calls us into action?

The challenge today is to join divinity in motion by sitting in silence and waiting on God to speak to us!  Just give it a try and see what happens.