Blog 810 – 10.30.2017

Odd Sounding Advice, But True

All writers long to be read, that is why we write. In one of the favorite blogs that I follow, I read the still odd sounding, but true advice, she wrote that if the question you are asking is, “Who am I?” do not read a lot of books, the best thing to do is meditate. When the writer in me tried to rebel at the notion of advising people not to read, I immediately thought of three other great writers that expressed basically the same opinion. The first two over two thousand years ago wrote, “Of making many books there is no end.” And then, “You have no need of a teacher for you have the Holy Spirit inside you to teach you all things.” The the third much more recently, “If you want to find the real answers of life don’t look outside yourself, go within.”

This meditation business like prayer has been a mystery to me most all of my life. Like me, I think a lot of people have spent a great deal of time misunderstanding both. Let’s take prayer first. My Christian friends are always asking me to pray for this or that on their behalf or that of a friend or loved one who is sick or in trouble as if they thought, and many do, that agreeing in prayer is magic and always gets the agreed upon results. Prayer isn’t magic and it does not always get the sought answer. I think, true prayer is intending. And by that I mean sending a clear, consistent, and unwavering intention out into the Universe with the one caveat: “I make this intention for the good of the Universe, myself, and everyone.” In other words if it does not meet all three conditions please disregard. Most people’s prayers seem to me greedy, selfish, short sighted, ill advise, and really just a lot of begging, wishing, and hoping. Or as the old bebop love ballad says to the young girl hoping to land a good guy and have her prayer answered: “You won’t get him thinkin’ and a-prayin’, wishin’ and a- hopin’ “, As the Bible says so succinctly, “Let your request be made known.” My intention, my prayer, is always the same for the Universe, myself, and everyone – I want the highest and the best and will settle for nothing less. And I trust my loving and infinite source to surprise me with everything I could ever want or need at just the right time and in just the right way. That certainly does as the commercials use to say, “take the worry out of being close”, “do the trick”, and “is good to the last drop.”

And now for meditating that is easy too for it is really just prayer and intention also, only instead of looking outside for help or answers it is looking within. You see I think we have the whole idea of the Universe, Heaven, or God turned inside out. As I wrote that line I could hear Diana Ross singing, “Inside out you’re turning me. Boy, you turn me.” In an upside down, inside out world, that is just what we need. The answers are on the inside, God, the whole Universe is in you. The biggest reason we cannot find what we are looking for or even figure out who and who’s we really are is that we look for it in books instead of in our own heart and mind.

Don’t get me wrong, I intend to keep writing, and hope more and more people will come to read me. But I am smart enough to know that the best advise I can ever give is to refer you to The Source we all have access to, the Great Mind, that resides inside each one of us and has tailor made answers that fit each one of us specifically and personally. Wow, that sounded pretty inspired. Interesting word “inspired”, it means “filled with spirit.” We all are and he/she/it is a whole and holy one with all the answers.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

You could write your own blog, you wrote this one, at least the best parts,

David White