Picture: tiny white dot is our RV in expansive Mother Nature.
Impossible tasks seem to be ahead of me; things to be accomplished before I am to leave this body. However, what seems to be impossible to me, is easily accomplished by an all-powerful God.
When I survey what needs to be done it looks to be an unconquerable mountain. But that is just me, my localized view. I would be a fool to rely on my own resources as a human being.
God one time gave me an apt simile: He made me think of when I first had a computer, a commodore 64, more of a plaything compared to a full scale personal computer of today. Later, when I had moved up to a larger scale computer Larry was trying to talk me into accessing something called the internet. I was not sure how that would be useful to me at the time. I will remind you this was the early 1990s and in order to access the internet you had to dial it up, if you were fortunate it gave all the appropriate beep and bop noises that made you know you had made connection, then you had to type in the exact address filled with backslashes and dots in order to go to a specific internet address. I finally gave it a try and moved into a much larger computing world.
A while later a close friend needed a pharmaceutical drug that was available in England but not here. Amazingly I was able to order it for her and a great positive result came about. Of course the internet has evolved leaps and bounds since then and billions of people could not imagine their lives without it today. In a similar way we hear about the inner-net, our connection with God. It can seem distant and perhaps non-relevant; something more for those “church-going-folks” than something really practical, even essential.
We simply don’t see it, and as a result we miss the greatest, most powerful tool available to us in life; in a similar way that I did not see how my little computer would one day be connected to the collective computing power of servers and data banks from around the world through the internet. The inner-net also evolves; the more we use it, the more connected we become. What seems perhaps cumbersome in the beginning, the occasional “hits” we get through meditation and prayer, becomes more refined, smoother, and wide ranging as we make the connection again and again.
I know that the tasks I have to do in the world are really God’s tasks. He has demonstrated in this past year that this body is not to be here forever, and the question naturally comes, will I be able to do all that He has given me to do? This is an important question. But if I am insulated in my humanness, the answer is intimidating. When I open myself to the inner-net, the answer is illuminating. This is God’s Work. I am but a cog in His machine, and if He finds this cog unusable, He will toss it aside and find another that meets His needs!
Is this a cold and unnerving answer? No, it is actually a relief. While it is my part to strive to accomplish all that He has given me, and believe me it is the utmost importance to me that I do so, still it is according to His will. Through his Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence He will accomplish all that He has set out to do; of that there is no doubt. My part is to willingly, full heartedly, and mindfully live each day as His instrument. That is all I can do, that is what He needs from me, and He will to see the rest.
Already I have new helpers who are working daily to do a part of what He has set out for me to do. In this I can take perfect repose; it is unfolding according to His will. I am to remain connected to the all-important inner-net; the power and intelligence of Divine Consciousness. With this connection streams His peace, joy and direction. There is nothing more that I want or need. So, for what God has given me to do, for what He has given you to do, Victory to God! Victory to the Light! For all sentient beings, everywhere!