Consciousness. Integrity. Love.
The Seeds of God’s Love
Why is it that some people feel and know God’s love for them and some people feel like God is against them or not hearing them and seeing them? Through my experience in working with different people I have found that the degree to which someone can receive and feel God’s love is in direct proportion to how much one is grateful. When a person opens their heart to find the lessons and gifts in their experiences…even the hard and heartbreaking ones…a channel is opened into which God’s love can flow. When we close our hearts to the possibility that something good can be found or learned we end up experiencing the fruits of this negative prayer. We become angry victims feeling entitled to something better or easier. Have you ever considered that the experiences you grow the most from are those experiences that jolt you out of your complacency and bad patterns? Everything you experience has something to teach you if you just open your eyes to see.
Through the years I have contemplated this a great deal in working with people on the spiritual path. And what I have learned is that it is not something someone reads or hears but most often it is something that one decides, chooses and experiences. Most people can reflect back on their lives to times when they experienced an unexplainable love, or an experience that opened them to the possibility that there is something more beyond what we experience in our physical beings. To me those glimpses, moments and experiences are the mustard seeds of faith. Those small glimpses that contain all the promise of God’s goodness and love…and if those seeds are planted in fertile, grateful soil anything is possible…
How has God loved you? What experiences have you had that seemed hard and difficult in the moment but turned into gifts and realizations that changed your life…that increased your faith? Let this faith be what your love and hope is founded in and your life will blossom with inspiration and vitality.
From Matthew 13, verses 31-2: Jesus put before them another parable: “The dominion of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
May you blessed in your gratitude and may it ever increase and grow in you.
By Rev Cynthia, Priest, Atlanta
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