The Spiritual Power of Dissolving
The world is dissolving, drip, drip, drip, right outside my window. It’s a January thaw. The temperature has risen above freezing, and the sun's warmth has increased the dripping and dissolving.
Where, just yesterday, the snow had buried them, the tops of the lights along the garden path have now appeared.
Plants have lost their white covering, and the branches of trees are more clearly seen against the sky.
No matter how hard I might have tried to reveal all that was hidden beneath all the snow, I could not have done so. I had to wait until the sun's warmth revealed what was already there.
However, that is exactly what we do with what we want to see and have in our lives. We try to make it happen, and that, despite all attraction theories, is not how it works.
Just as the path lights and the plants were always beneath the snow, everything we could want or desire is already present because the One cause and creator has already created them.
It is not our job to be the creator.
Our job is to be the light and the warmth that light brings. We all know that when we flip on a light, the darkness dissolves immediately, revealing what is already present.
Light as warmth may dissolve elements slower, but it dissolves eventually. How long it takes depends on many things: how deep the snow, how hard the ice, and how high the heat. With a minor change in temperature, things change.
Add the warmth of the sun and the dissolving increases. It is simple, elegant, and easy.
The attraction principle operates within the worldview.
It stands within a dualist point of view that there is the power of God, and there is also the power of how things are here on earth.
This false premise states that what we want will appear if we pray hard enough or raise our vibrations high enough.
This takes as much work as if I tried to remove all the snow around our home, and the little this work produces continues only as long as I keep working at it.
The dissolving method begins with the correct premise that there is only One, and that One is the only cause and creator.
It stands in the point of view that since there is only One, and it is the Principle of intelligent good, then it cares for itself in infinite ways and provides for itself before the need arises.
We are that One knowing itself.
I know the human mind boggles at this statement, even though we know it is true. We have to translate this idea into one that we can grasp and then put into action.
The concept of dissolving is one we all understand.
We can’t see what we need, which is always present when we begin with a duality misperception.
When we begin with the correct premise and bring our state of mind and point of view into harmony with this correct premise, we are warmth and light. This, in turn, reveals what is already present by dissolving what is hiding it from view.
Sometimes, when light appears, like when switching on a light switch, the dark dissolves instantly.
Other times, as when the sun rises, we wait patiently as the darkness dissolves drop by drop.
To be the light, we need to engage our imagination and allow it to shift our state of mind until we are filled with the light’s qualities, like warmth and love.
The qualities of warmth and love dissolve our doubts, hardened hearts, sorrows, and egos. And as these dissolve, the scenery clears, and we can see what was there for us all along.
Being the light, we act with loving and kind intentions. Love and kindness dissolve hatred, bigotry, sadness, despair, and discouragement.
These actions dissolve what is not omnipresent good, just as the sun's warmth dissolves the snow.
Whether the dissolving is instantaneous or a slow melting, we can rest assured that bringing light, warmth, love, and kindness to any situation will reveal what is needed for others and ourselves.
“Before they call, I will answer” gives us that promise, and its truth stands revealed as we dissolve our misperceptions with the warmth of love. Bible: Isa 65:24.