I was walking along the beach near Delmar, California, and a seagull flew by. It stopped in front of me, hovered, and then flew on. I thought that was so cool that I called out to him, “Hey, how do you do that?”
The seagull responded by turning around, returning to me, and hovering directly over my head so I could see how he did it.
I watched for a long time, and when I said, “Thank you for showing me how you do that,” he flew away.
When people in my dance company told me they couldn’t do something I had choreographed, I would ask them to show me how they couldn’t.
Most of the time, they were able to do it after all.
Walking, this time in an Ohio neighborhood, and holding a wide-angle vision as I walked, I realized that I don’t directly ask, “How do you do that?” to the infinite creator as I admire Its handiwork, seen in the beautiful homes, trees, flowers, singing birds, and clouds in the sky.
I realized that It was probably patiently waiting for me to be bold and ask, “How do you do that?
“How do you provide instantaneously and consistently for every blade of grass, every grain of sand, and every feather of every bird? How do you love as the essence of your Being?”
I imagine that if the Infinite showed me the answer the same way the seagull did, It would demonstrate instantaneous provision and infinite love, and my only job would be to be aware enough to see it.
You are ahead of me, aren’t you? Because you know that is precisely what is going on all the time.
We are consistently shown provision and love.
Still, we are blind to it when we allow ourselves to be swept away by and hypnotized by the siren call of the evil of the worldview of lack and separation.
We watch and sometimes even participate in screaming, yelling, blaming, despair, bad news, hate, greed, and unconscious thinking and believe that all of that is real and that participating in this way will solve the problem and get us what we want.
We get caught up in it, mesmerized by it, and frozen by this evil that sometimes wears lamb’s clothing but always bears the fruit of fear, hatred, depression, or guilt.
We are sold the idea that the world owes us everything, and we expect it to give us what we want now. When we accept this view as accurate, we become addicted to figuring out how to extract from the world what we feel is our right to have.
If we don’t receive what we want the way we expect it to look—depending on how our human personality deals with these things—we may be angry, depressed, or take offense.
We may drop out or push harder.
Thinking that the world provides what we want and need, we have made the world in debt to us and, in doing so, have become a debtor to the world.
This, of course, has resulted in the massive debt with which countries and individuals are now burdened.
But it is not the world that provides.
It is the infinite intelligence of Love that is provision. This is a definite and radical shift in the way we think.
We are not material beings. We are spiritual ideas of this divine Love.
We are the provision, we are the supply, and we are the beauty that we see.
Perhaps this is incomprehensible to us most of the time, given that we have been blinded for so long by the opposite view, but we can and now must begin to see what is True about each of us.
One way to do this is to ask the infinite intelligence known as God, “How do you do that,” watch for the immediate answer, and then say, “Thank you!”
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