Trust in the Lord

The search for a path through life

Most readers know I have a regular publishing schedule, and it usually runs several months out in front of today's date. Yesterday and today, however, I’m inclined to comment in the present moment, and so I shall do it a second time.

Photo: The new honey processing shed in my beekeeping operation. The apiary project has absorbed my energy for over a month now.

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Here some folk will say, 'You are telling us wondrous things, but we perceive them not. ' I regret that too. This state is so noble yet so common, that you have no need to purchase it for a penny or a halfpenny. If your intention is right and your will is free, you have it.

He who has thus abandoned all things on the lower plane where they are mortal, will recover them in God, where they are reality. Whatever is dead here is alive there, and all that is dense matter here is spirit there in God. Just as, if one were to pour clean water into a clean basin, absolutely bright and clean, and stood it quite still, then, if a man held his face over it, he would see it at the bottom as it was in itself. That is because the water is pure and clean and still.

It is just the same with all people who are in a state of freedom and unity in themselves. If they can receive God in peace and quiet, they should receive Him too in turmoil and disquiet, and then all is well.

—Meister Eckhart, Sermon 16

The whole point of trust in the Lord is that we walk through the valley of the shadow of death — the horror, the things that seem to be bad – and still, we let ourselves be filled with the organic faith and consciousness of the love of God for all of creation, despite the depravity that we as human beings inflict on it.

Trust arrives in different ways, and at different levels within being. The trust of the ordinary body, for example, is relative and quite different than the trust of the astral body, which is organic. In some senses, the entire journey of spiritual change consists of movement from the relative to the organic, the absolute.

Absolute trust is unshakable and quite different than ordinary trust. It fills the body with a different substance that can be relied on because it is not of the mind and its continuous distractions.

We can't remain in one place for any length of time or avoid the attacks — yes, in a certain sense they are attacks – of reactive emotion on our being without developing something more permanent and more solid within us. I should mention here that paradoxically, that which is more solid is more transparent. It lets more light through.