Grace

We are surrounded by everything we need for our growth. Everything is provided for us but we are closed and numb to it, like we are surrounded by air but seldom are we aware of it.  How can I become sensitive to the subtle energies that surround me?  How can I get help when I need it most?

In our mundane life we learn to ask for what we need or want.  We need to have clarity about what we want.  We achieve this kind of clarity by bringing in more light of consciousness in a way that sorts the wheat from the chaff.  With this clarity we can invoke a state of prayer or loving submission to our higher self, and ask for it with yearning.  Our yearning can become like a magnet that attracts what we want in a receptive way.  We can visualize our goal and connect with the future experience of having achieved it.

We can stay in this positively receptive state until we open up to grace or until we are distracted or at the end of our persistence.  If we persist, we may find that there is an abundance of help available in forms we could never imagine.  By opening to help we are not as bound by our own limitations.

When we open to grace we experience the abundance of what is provided to us.  Life becomes abundant living and we can experience fulfillment.  We are filled with gratitude.  We don’t mind that we are dependent upon help from outside ourselves.  Instead, rejoice that it is available to the extent that I am open.  Our ego likes doing everything on its own and maintaining its independence.  In order to be open to grace, the ego must lovingly submit.