~THE GIFT THAT YOU ARE~
Or ~Who you truly are~
Will solve the problems in the world…….
Including any after-math from Brexit( the exiting of Britain from the European Union).
Let us listen to the words of this song first:
First, when there’s nothing but a slow glowing dream That your fear seems to hide deep inside your mind All alone I have cried silent tears full of pride In a world made of steel, made of stone Well I hear the music, close my eyes, feel the rhythm Wrap around, take a hold of my heart ……….Take your passion, and make it happen Pictures come alive, you can dance right through your life Now I hear the music, close my eyes, I am rhythm In a flash it takes hold of my heart What a feeling
This song and the movie it came from changed my life.
When the movie came out in 1984, I was doing all that I could to be accepted into ministerial school at Unity School of Religious Studies (it has a different name now but that is the name it had then).
There were many reasons why I was not the most likely candidate for ministerial school. The first reason was that I was terrified to speak to a small group of even 2 to 3 people, let alone to a large group on a Sunday morning. Another reason was that I was younger than most of the people applying. I was 28. The final reason was that I had just put myself through 6 years of college and I had no money in the bank,
Long story short, I was able to overcome all of these obstacles and I became an ordained Unity minister in 1986.
What enabled me to do this was the awareness of that “slow glowing dream”,
that indeed my fear did hide deep inside my mind. And I was all alone in so many ways with those silent tears…………
The world did seem to be made of steel and made of stone.
And yet, that slow glowing dream was there and I could not let it go.
My mom had always been so supportive of dreams. I watched her support the dreams of others from the time I was very little and as often as she could, she supported my dreams.
So, I believed in my dream; and it came true. I have had many dreams come true since then but the main effect of working to make my dreams come true is that I connected to my true and authentic self which is where un-born dreams abide. They wait there until we connect with them and do all that we can to fulfill them. If they are a dream that is truly coming from our authentic self, their fulfillment is part and parcel of fulfilling our Divine Purpose. This is so because when we work with a dream that comes from our authentic self, in order to fulfill it, we have to connect to our authentic self. Our authentic self is one of the easiest ways to connect with the Divine.
The only way to solve problems in our personal life, our family life, our work life, our community life, and the world is to connect to and be willing to live from our authentic self.
This is why I said ~”Who you truly Are”~…….
……Will indeed solve the problems in our world.
It is the only way.
I invite you to consider the: Butterfly effect
Here is a description of this effect which tells us how small causes can have large effects.
This information was taken from: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
“The butterfly effect is the concept that small causes can have large effects. Initially, it was used with weather prediction but later the term became a metaphor used in and out of science.[1]
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The name, coined by Edward Lorenz for the effect which had been known long before, is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a hurricane (exact time of formation, exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly several weeks earlier. Lorenz discovered the effect when he observed that runs of his weather model with initial condition data that was rounded in a seemingly inconsequential manner would fail to reproduce the results of runs with the unrounded initial condition data. A very small change in initial conditions had created a significantly different outcome.”
There are many ways to see how the Butterfly effect does indeed explain how we are all so intricately connected. Today I am using the Butterfly effect to explain how when even one person has the courage to connect with their dreams and therefore their true and authentic self, they have found the way that they can help solve the problems in the world. Though it may seem like such a tiny action, that of connecting to one’s true and authentic self, it will have a huge affect.
As we seek to fulfill our Divine Purpose, which can be seen as a small thing, the effect is not small. Our Divine Purpose has 2 main aspects to it. First, our purpose is the intersection between a need we have and a need in the world. The way to solve the need in the world is after we have solved this resonating personal need. Then we know how to go forth and work to fulfill this need in the world. Many people try to fulfill their own need by trying to solve the need in the world. This never works.
In conclusion, the way that you can help solve the problems in the world is by:
- Listen to your dreams
- Your dreams will lead you to your authentic self
- Follow your highest guidance in fulfilling your need
- You will then know how to solve this resonating problem in the world in only the way that YOU can.
You may wonder how can doing these 4 steps can help solve the problems that are resulting from Brexit. I heard on the news that the people for the “Leave camp” were yelling that they did not like that unelected officials were making laws and rules for them and telling them they needed to do this.
The way that we can apply this to our own lives is this:
First consider are there any areas of your life in which you see that you are on opposite sides of an issue with a loved one? If you answered “no”, I want to meet you.
Almost everyone has an issue like this. I believe that as we become willing to learn to communicate with the person we are in opposition with by connecting with our authentic selves and then speak and listen from our authentic selves, we can find a solution. When more and more people become willing to communicate in this manner rather than simply calling the other side names and making them wrong, we will find a solution that was not there before.
If the government had been willing to listen and understand, then perhaps, Brexit would not have happened. At this time, there is no need to cry about what was not done. The time is now to see what is ours to do.