theMessenger - Trust (Sep 07)

September 2007

You are perfectly safe as long as you are completely unconcerned about your readiness, but maintain a consistent trust in mine.
- A Course in Miracles

Living a path of brilliance is a courageous surrender to the harmonious flow of life. I experience trust as an active endeavor and a choice in each moment - the perfect balance between conscious direction of purpose and peaceful yielding to the view far above my scope.

I see the space inside me like the contours of a river bed, being shaped and transformed by the force of creativity that dares me to give it license. Fear would have me resist the unknown agendas of the currents of life; yet Love is there to embrace the shadow dancer within me - illuminating darkness with awareness. When I relax enough to allow light to pour through me with little to no resistance, I am liberated to likewise saturate the world around me...fulfilling the path and purpose of how the world is meant to be experienced through me.

'Safety' is an undeniable theme in working with clients who are daring to live their brilliance. Fear, trepidation, and the force of the unknown can sometimes drive us into something resembling madness, as we shed who we always thought we were in order to embrace a new reality that is emerging. Often fear responds to our heart's yearnings: "ah, perhaps one day, but certainly not now. I am not ready for such-and-such to change." In reality, we are quite ready for a change. It is lack of trust in something better - the greater good in store for us - that stagnates our re-creation. In essence, we presume our deepest yearnings will betray us in the end, resulting in the paradoxical paralysis of a society at war within: What my heart yearns for in its expression is what most resembles me. And it is this that cannot be trusted. Therefore, that which most resembles me is unsafe. I must become who I am not to be functional and secure.

Today, I dare you to completely sever ties to such faulty logic. Become your greatest ally. Safety is a choice based on this simple, yet profound, shift in perception. I challenge you to entertain the idea that it is safe to be you. The madness is in succumbing to fear - resisting how the currents of life are pushing from within, eager to re-create your outer world so that you might experience you in its fullness. And remember, recreation is supposed to be fun!

When change is happening, I know without a doubt that I am ready...or it simply would not be. I am safe when I choose to trust that the currents of my soul's cries are carrying me towards an ever-greater good. And that, my friends, is the best part! Our rivers all pour into the same ocean...and goodness is the only destination.

Embrace Change. You Are Ready. You Are Safe.