Don't Wait, Do It Now
The question is, do what?
It happened in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLV. For all of us watching the game at home, the microphones captured what was meant to be a private moment between a coach and a player.
With only moments left in the game, their team trailing behind, the coach said to the player, "Now is the time. Now is the time for you to go out and make it happen. Don't wait, do it now."
As the player turned to return to the field, we could see he had absorbed his coach's words into his very being. He had decided to act.
His next play became the game's turning point.
The Coach Within
Inside each of us resides a "coach" — that still, small voice within saying, "Now is the time; don't wait; do it now."
But what does that mean? Now is the time for what?
The football player knew exactly what that meant. He was in the middle of a game, understood it was about the ball, knew where that ball needed to go, and recognized his role in making it happen.
For us, things aren't always that straightforward.
We often don't know what our personal "ball" is or where it's supposed to go once we find it.
Even when we do know these things, confusion remains about our role in "making it happen."
Merging Spiritual Life with Daily Life
We yearn for our daily life to be our spiritual life.
We want to shop, wash dishes, run our businesses, care for our families, pay bills, and nourish ourselves — all while maintaining spiritual awareness that the Divine Mind, intelligent and loving, guides our every move.
We long to follow that guidance as naturally as the football player followed his coach.
Unlike the player, however, we question this process.
How do we know we're guided?
How can we be sure that the internal voice we hear or the impulse we feel comes from the guidance of good?
Then comes the ultimate confusion: Are we supposed to make things happen or let things happen, trusting in "God's will be done"?
Intention Without Attachment
Deepak Chopra offers wisdom here:
"In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result."
This insight reveals where daily life merges with spiritual Reality. To have an intention behind a desire, we must first receive divine guidance — that still, small voice or divine impulse urging us toward action.
"Making it happen" becomes action taken in response to Divine guidance, which naturally eliminates the ego's attachment to results.
By placing our desires within the context of spiritual Reality, we follow Angel Ideas that resonate within our hearts.
The Divine-Human Connection
This is the coincidence of the divine with humans on full display — our God-defined nature recognized, perceived, and lived. It is inspired perception and spiritual discernment fulfilling the promise: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me." (Revelation 3:20)
We can trust that shifting to this spiritual perception opens a window to the infinite, revealing painless plenty in our lives.
Trusting the Process
What was that football player really doing?
He was following guidance he knew and trusted. He gathered all his training and practice and gave everything in the present moment.
We can do the same.
We can follow the guidance assuring us that we begin, end, and live as the spiritual expression of God, which means everything we truly need and want is present and available now.
The master-coach has called us to live a Love-defined life. As we respond to the invitation to "do it now, don't wait," we demonstrate that divine law governs all our human activities.
Practice Makes Perfect
This is our practice.
This is the training that enables us to hear and respond to the call, "now is the time" while trusting both the process and the outcome as the unfolding of good.
We can desire what we want while remaining unattached to the result, because we understand we couldn't have the desire if we didn't already possess its substance as an expression of the divine in action.
When we listen to that coach within, trust the guidance, and act in the now — that's when our game-changing moments happen.
What is your inner coach urging you to do today?
What divine impulse are you feeling?
Don't wait. Do it now.
Yes, the audio is me, but not. My cloned voice. So sometimes… you can tell. Let me know what you think.
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"We yearn for our daily life to be our spiritual life." Spot on Beca!