I love springtime! It is an amazing time of year! The days are becoming longer…and warmer! New growth appears everywhere we look. The occasional days of rain replenish our water supply and sustain the fresh shoots of the new plants and flowers that will soon cover the land with their joy and beauty and fill the air with their magnificent smells. It is a wonderful time to witness the Life Principle in action in nature!
It is an exciting time, also, to reaffirm that very Life Principle acting in, as, and through us! We know that Life is forever coursing through our being, and the Absolute Consciousness that we call God, or Spirit, or a host of other names continues to sustain each of us as it always has, and will continue to do, eternally. We are an integral part of that nature we talk about. We, like every other thing in existence, live and move and have our being in that Absolute Consciousness that grounds all being. Spirit.
Remembering this, re-cognizing it (so to speak), it is no wonder that our step has a little more spring in it, our smiles are a little brighter, and the optimism that accompanies new life fills our hearts with renewed certainty about our place in the cosmos. We are here because we belong here. We are here because we are made of the same substance that the entire universe, and all it contains, is made of. The famed astronomer Carl Sagan, in the 1980s, told us we are made of star stuff. We are. We are made of the only substance that exists. That is the substance of God, from which all that is created is made. We are truly spiritual beings having a human experience.
Imagine that! We are made of the substance of the Divine Creator! We are also powered, driven, and informed by the only Power there is – God Power! We are indeed made in the image and likeness of God. It is because we are made in that image and likeness that we share in the creative process. In the same manner that each of us is a thought in the Mind of God, our thoughts, too, are creative, and they create the things that populate our world. That is why we say, “Thoughts are things.”
Of course, this is true year-round, through every season, yet in Spring I think it is more in the forefront of our minds because we see so much new life come into being and are lovingly sustained by the Life Principle we call God. Isn’t that amazing?!?