BEYOND

Everywhere I turn I see it: Blessing. We call it by other names like “lucky” or “fortunate,” but where is this blessing coming from? What or who is its source? People sometimes say, “It’s beyond me!” Certainly the phrase fits here! Wherever this universal experience of blessing is coming from, it's beyond us. Whether it’s so far beyond us we can’t comprehend it or it’s just far enough to be indescribable, either way it’s beyond what we know, beyond what we understand, beyond what we can articulate.

But we try anyway.

Some call this beyond “God,” some their guardian angel, some the divine, some Allah, some a higher power, the Universe--or a million other names (the Bible alone has over 1000 names or references for this “beyond” experience that Christians call “God.”)--none of which matters until and unless we assign attributes and functions to the name or names we choose.

They are all just names, in other words, they are just like the label on the jar of jam--and not the jam itself. Whatever names we choose, we do so for our use and benefit, not for that of whatever this “beyond” is. It has no such need. With the way it gives of itself, the way it blesses everyone and everything--infinitely and therefore equally so--it obviously has no egoic need to be “separate and superior” as Richard Rohr says.

Are we (‘we’ being every living thing on earth) not fashioned in the same way, having infinite opportunity--and therefore infinite capacity--to bless life in every direction around us in just this one day?

And for that matter, are we the labels we use on each other? Or, are we each the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual embodiment of indescribable blessing from beyond?

TODAY.

LET’S DO THE WORLD & OURSELVES A FAVOR.

LET’S TAKE TIME TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE THINK.