Saturday Treatment - I Celebrate the Wisdom and Variety of the Universe

If melodiously piping flutes sprang from the olive, would you doubt that a knowledge of flute-playing resided in the olive? And what if plane trees bore harps which gave forth rhythmical sounds? Clearly you would think in the same way that the art of music was possessed by plane trees. Why, then, seeing that the universe gives birth to beings that are animate and wise, should it not be considered animate and wise itself? - Zeno of Citium 

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. - Zhuangzi 

I Celebrate the Wisdom and Variety of the Universe 

I sit in wonder of the Oneness of the Universe with all Its myriad variety yet, still a unified internally (for It has no externality) harmonious Whole. Despite the seeming chaos It appears, It remains a perfect integrated Being of Order which exists for Its own thriving as all things and beings. I too am that Being of Order thriving as me. As such, I call upon I with my thoughts, my words, and my actions. 

With this awareness, I celebrate my life, all life. I celebrate the beautiful and not so beautiful experiences I bring to this moment and the fertile compost that my past becomes for the seeds of even more delightful reality I plant today. I choose thoughts, words, and actions of prospering love, uplift, and humor. I choose my reality as adventure, playfulness, laughter, compassion, and passion for each moment. I look for and see great beauty, courage, and healing in every event. I see this perfectly with the eyes of the Divine which see through my own eyes clearly. I listen with open heart and mind to the whisper of the living wisdom of the Universe wherever I am. I hear it clearly. Now, I wake to the reality that I am centered in calm amid all seeming chaos and feel the peace of my quiet confidence throughout. 

I release my thought and word to the Universe and all Its wisdom as a new seed which It nurtures and grows as my emerging life now. I accept my newness with cheerful anticipation of greater prosperity in all areas and arenas of my experience. My acceptance and my expectation bear fruit abundantly. And so, it is. 

John 

Rev. John C. Lusk RScP 

First you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is the solution to every difficulty. It is like the sunlight of eternal truth bursting through the clouds of obscurity and bathing the whole world in glory. It is the absolute that you are dealing with and nothing else. – Ernest Holmes “Lectures on the Absolute”