A POWERFUL FRESH APPROACH TO SPIRITUALITY

From the new book, PRESENCE Recognizing the Divine in Your Everyday Life 

by Mary G. Jackson

Each of us is a favorite. 

(Photo by Robert Els for Quechua Benefit) 

We are all in search of something. Ask yourself, what are you looking for?

I would like you to open yourself up to the possibility that just as God spoke to people as recorded in the Bible, God may be speaking to us in abundance through words, concepts, events, and in our life journeys. 

If we can recognize when that communication reaches us, we can connect to Spirit and follow the divine messages that support and guide our paths in life. 

Recognizing the Divine in everyday life takes awareness, focus, purpose, and knowledge of a language that expands beyond words.

Take some time to consider what makes you lose the ability to be aware? What brings you to a keen sense of awareness? What is on your personal list of distractions? 

Do you fight your way through the fog of multitasking, overcommitment, exhaustion, urgent interruptions, getting bogged down in low priorities, or not prioritizing at all? 

Consider what happens when, even just for a slight moment,  you switch on your awareness.

Imagine, for example, that you are sitting on the corner of a busy street and mindlessly watching the cars go by. Hundreds may go by without you ever really noticing any of them. 

However, when a friend calls while you are sitting there and makes plans to pick you up in a few minutes in a red car, you begin to focus on red cars. Suddenly, there are so many. As the time grows shorter, there seems to be an abundance of red cars. Maybe you start asking yourself if maroon could be red, so you start noticing that color, too. Soon tomato red, orange red, brownish red, and more are on your radar. Now you are seeing red cars all over the place. Would you like the presence of the Divine to be like that in your life, where you see the Divine everywhere, just because you started noticing?

Let’s look at what it takes to begin recognizing the Divine in your everyday life. 

First, what are you looking for? What do you expect to see? 

It would be nice if God were easily recognized as the old stereotype of a large man with wavy white hair and a beard, speaking in a deep melodic voice, wearing a robe, and sitting on a cloud above. This God could be found in plain sight.

In the spiritual book PRESENCE, we consider some concepts that are like building blocks explaining the groundwork of spiritual understanding. 

They don’t demand that you believe them, but they have been very helpful to consider along my path, and I offer them to you to mull over throughout the book.

The first concept is that God is a mystery. The second concept is The Divine will appear to you in ways that only you recognize.

In next month’s A POWERFUL FRESH APPROACH TO SPIRITUALITY, we will look deeply into those two concepts.