A CHAPTER FROM
‘YOUR SOUL’S INVISIBLE CODES’,
UNVEILING YOUR SACRED LOVE STORY…
LOVE IN THE MYSTERY
It has been said, “Start with Why”. It’s actually pretty simple. Why do I write? It’s because my heart yearns for it. And I want something in writing that reflects my actual experience of Love living Itself in my life, in all of its interesting and sometimes strange disguises.
I believe that our lives are Sacred Love Stories, if we are able to see them through the eyes of Love. That is not always easy. Sometimes we see, sometimes we don’t.
Jesus taught in parables and even talked about this being part of ‘Why’. ‘To some has been given the gift of knowing the mysteries, to others, the gift is not yet given.’ Those words are found in Matthew 13:10-17. It is the Purpose of Parables to know and give the Mystery.
My attempt is to write “in ordinary language for ordinary and extraordinary people”. It has to be simple. This will not be a scholarly book. There are already lots of those, of which I have read, studied and even taught many.
The template, for me, is a simple story. It is a Creation Story, a sacred writing thousands of years old. It guides me. There is some kind of mystical power in the ‘thousands of years’ part. You may find your own templates that will guide you. I’ve found others that interweave with mine.
This is about the Mystery of Love. And there are invitations for you to be part of it, to bring your life into the curriculum. It is centered, in part and in my heart, around a garden and it involves stories, not ‘ego’ stories, but Parables of the Soul.
The stories are ‘fragments’ of a love story. Each piece, or short chapter, is part memoir, part teaching and part practice. The Practice is the invitation for you to apply it and See It in your own life. It is a journey without distance.
The Practice ultimately could be the most important part. It’s the part you write, it’s your Love Story. It is an Invitation to bring your own life into the curriculum. It is an invitation to write your own Manifesto of Love.
I believe in a very simple way that Love can change our lives and ultimately the world. Love has a quality to it that is very rare, like the Pearl of Great Price. In its Pure Essence, it is like Light that dissolves darkness.
Many, perhaps most, will think that I am naïve and even that it is ridiculous to believe in the simplicity of love. The ‘Seeing’ of this is a rare gift. This may be writing for Future Time.
So, in the scribing of what comes, for me and for you, if you say ‘yes’ to the Practice, we will be a ‘Seeing’ through the Eyes of Love. There will be a sowing of seeds of this Seeing that holds the potential of a higher Love birthing in us, in others that are part of our lives and even in the world.
I believe this kind of Practice can heal. It has been said that this kind of healing can encompass seven generations into the past and seven generations into the future. There is Mystery in this Field that we experience as Love.
In the simple stories is the complexity of the Vastness. Each fragment is a hologram, a container of the All That Is, for those who have the Eyes to See.
The Walk through the Garden that we share unfolds in ‘Three Phases or Tiers’, even though all of it is invisibly contained in each stage. They are called ‘days’ in the creation story. You will become skilled at Seeing both the visible and the Invisible.
The three phases or tiers are actually part of our lives, and part of the evolution of our world. They have been called by many names. They include: The Invisible and the Timeless; The Journey of Manifestation; The Realization and the Return.
They ‘show up’ differently depending on where we are in our own process of perception. There are no ‘wrong answers’, there are only ways of learning, growing and awakening. Ultimately, we see Multiple Realities Existing Simultaneously. And, maybe you already do, Now.
There are 40 usually short chapters, written with the thought that you might do one a day. Giving yourself days of rest, part of the creation story, it could take a year. The number 40 is a sacred number, a symbol, found in scripture. It took the Children of Israel 40 years to enter the Promised Land.
Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness, before beginning his public ministry that included the Shift, that Ernest Wilson called ‘The Week That Changed the World’. It was on Palm Sunday in 1993 that I came as a temporary minister to Unity of Tustin. A Campus of Consciousness and the gardens were to be born.
THE PRACTICES: BRINGING YOUR LIFE INTO THE CURRICULUM
What have been some of the Templates that have guided you in your life? How have
these templates come in and interwoven?
Open into the Awareness of ‘Your Life as a Sacred Love Story’. What ‘fragments’ come to you, perhaps fragments that were beautiful, or not, perhaps some you did not understand, perhaps some that changed. What do you believe about Love?
What do you believe can change your life and even the world?
Go into the Stillness, sit quietly, breathe deeply, open your heart… And simply ‘scribe’ what comes.