This will be a spring season unlike any in the past one-hundred-plus years. There will be no spring training for the baseball players, no company or family gatherings in the park, no concerts, parades, trips to theme parks, marathons, crowds at the beach, or any of the many other activities we normally associate with spring. In place of Easter egg hunts, church socials, proms and graduations we will be “sheltered in place.”
This is not the end of the world. It is a massive upheaval of our lives. It is scary. It is inconvenient. It is disappointing. It is going to be a tremendous financial, as well as social, and emotional burden for many. There will be much illness, and yes, many deaths. Yet, this too shall pass.
We know that this will pass because everything does. That is the nature of the physical world – the only constant is change.
And it is that change, the change that is the basis for everything on this physical plane, that will birth us into a new paradigm. What that will look like remains to be seen, but be assured it will be a new, improved world on any number of different levels.
It is our human nature that causes us to default to those aforementioned “negative” emotions and feelings. It is our divine nature that allows us to transcend them quickly and know that God is in this situation. Because God is in all situations.
This time of “sheltered in place” is a time to remember, renew, and reinforce our spiritual aspect, and a time to maintain and even increase our spiritual practices. It’s also important to remember that God IS the shelter, and god IS the place.
Social distancing does not mean living in fear. Social distancing is a responsible and sensible approach to limiting, as much as possible, the potential impact of this world-wide dis-ease. It will take a large enough toll without us aiding it either in ignorance or in arrogance. The time for denial and bluster is long past. This is the time for faith, belief, and prayer.
It is a time to rise above the consciousness that engendered such an inordinate condition and brought it forth into the world; to rise above with faith, love, and charity, to a higher-level consciousness. The power of our consciousness is so immense that we can direct and determine our world, individually; the power of the collective consciousness is absolutely awesome in its reach and scope and capability.
There is a Power and Presence from which all things come, and within which all things live and move and have their being. This One Power births and rebirths all of creation, infinitely and eternally. All seeming earthly, human, or natural power is but restricted personalized use of this Power.
There can be no doubt that the current world condition is a result of the collective consciousness being tipped to the side of misuse of the power given us by God, Life, Nature, Spirit (you choose your preferred holy name). This misuse needs to be addressed and corrected.
We have available to us as much of the power of God as we can embody. When we realize, recognize, and responsibly direct this power, for good, there is literally nothing we cannot accomplish. When we attempt to direct this power for selfish, or non-inclusive ends, and if we direct it without being based in love, we find that the Universe cannot respond to that in a positive way.
The Power of Life is such that it must be a power for good. It must be inclusive of all, and it must be directed for use for the highest and best good for all. Any, and all, other use is simply not sustainable. This planet, this universe, and the Consciousness behind it will not self-destruct. If that was going to happen it would have done so sometime in the past fourteen billion years. But it will make any necessary course corrections.
We, as spiritual beings having this human experience, can be conscious participants in our new direction. We are participants in all occurrences, anyway, whether we are aware of it or not. We were unwitting partners in allowing the current situation to develop, when we, as a global community, allowed love and unity and oneness to take a backseat to greed, otherness, prejudice, and misuse of our planet. We can be in the forefront of the movement back to global health by once again recognizing that the Kingdom of God is right here, right now, and we are it! We are Love.
It is Love that we were born from. It is Love that we were born to. It is Love that we were born for, as, and in. It is Love that will be the solution to the problem at hand, because it is Love that is the solution to all problems. Not some fictional, airy-fairy unreality, but real Love. The Love that is God; the Love that is the basis of all Life. The Love that, when shared with all others, restores the Unity that we are and leaves no room for untoward circumstances to develop.
Let’s know, together, that as we consciously immerse ourselves in the Love that is our Divine birthright, that we do so in conscious awareness that we, the population of this planet, are a unity. We are One; we are the indivisible sonship; we are God expressing! We are forever and always bound up with one another as individualized expressions of the One Reality. There is nowhere God is not. There is no one God is not. We are, each and every one of us, divine equals, made in the spiritual image and likeness of God. We control our destiny, individually and collectively. Let us demand, and then command, a world that works for everyone. A world where harmony, peace, joy, and beauty are the norm. A world where nobody is taken for granted, treated as ‘less than,’ or denied his or her rightful place.
I know that a world very much like this is about to rise up out of the present climate. I know, too, that when we allow ourselves to meditate, introspect, and affirm the best possible world while we spend this time “sheltered in place,” in God, we help raise the race consciousness to a new level. It is this very raising up of the global consciousness that guarantees new life, new birth, a new Earth for a new day.
It is with absolute faith, and an unwavering belief in the One Power and One Presence, that I release this word into the Law of Spirit, knowing that as I do, that Law will respond with the only answer It ever gives – “Yes!”
In Love, in faith, and in gratitude, I say, “Thank you, God!” And so it is. Amen.