The other day You asked, do I think we are as close as we can be? I guess my answer is a combination of the possible answers–a question back to You, there is more? We can be closer? I can sense Your Ever-Presence more? Or, I can be more aware of You all throughout the day–like I am very aware of the light, glancing out the windows. I could, I know be more deliberately dialed-in. So I have been talking. Now I want to listen. Lord?
You have grown much. Now you are like a faucet, aware at moments that you are connected to Water, and you turn the knob and let My life within you flow. Then you get busy–or distracted–or irritated–or frustrated–or afraid–and without realizing it, you turn the faucet off, or down to a drip or a trickle. You do well to conserve water, but when it comes to My Presence, I want you to begin to think of your life more like a stream, not confined indoors. Ah, that surprised you!
You fill up vessels at a sink, give away cups of water to the thirsty. Imagine if you knew and lived from a stream mindset and invited folks to join you there, where you live in Me. Even if they are there only for a Moment. Here is Birdsong. Here is Deer and here is Fox. Here is your cabin, your retreat house. And here is a view of the Western Ocean. Everything you love and need to thrive is here. These are all metaphors of your life in Me–now try to overlay that template onto your daily tasks, your routine.
Lord, I look around the house, and it is a wreck. And taxes! I need to do taxes!! Please, please, please, can You, will You, help me?
Little One, don’t fret. Don’t panic. This Stream holds no danger. Think about that for a moment. No Fear Here. Not for your health, not for your finances, not for your relationships. Try living one day–this day–Streamside. See what happens. Then come back and report in here.
Ok, Lord, well, now it is evening and…I don’t think I did that today. I mean, I did not have a bad day. I got a lot done, which is equal to a good day, these days. Not everything of course, but a lot. But I wasn’t actively, consciously aware of You all day today, either. So there is more for me to learn, obviously. That was the whole point of Your instruction, wasn’t it?
This wasn’t a test; remember, I know everything about you. But this was a good way to teach you by experience the answer to the question I asked you, and you then asked Me: can I be closer? So what do you think is your answer now?
Yes, obviously yes. But I honestly don’t know how or where to start.
You don’t have to teach a baby to breathe, or to swallow. Those two things are inborn. Unfortunately, the awareness of My Presence used to be as integral to humans as your physical breath.
But I don’t think about breathing; I just breathe. Aren’t I supposed to be thinking about You every minute? Isn’t that what this means?
Go back to your analogy of the light. How do you know what the light is doing?
I look. I look up and out. I can sometimes feel the change, sometimes a minute or two before it happens, even. It’s a sense, I guess.
And do you go through your day chanting Light Light Light, must remember Light Light Light?
Ha, Lord, no, of course not!
So, you see, thinking is not the answer. Awareness is. Feeling is. Knowing is.
I don’t think I understand.
Ah, yes, at last! You don’t–and you won’t. But you will Know, and you will Feel. And that is what living more consciously in My Presence will be like–it will be exactly like how you live in and with light itself.