Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom.
The path to freedom,
Of course,
Is all about us waking up to who and what we are,
About us allowing for great and grand expressions of that whom and what to emerge,
And about us allowing for the peace and the love and the joy and the harmony and the abundance and the wholeness,
The beauty,
The bliss,
The expansion,
The progression,
The intelligence,
The creativity that is the truth and essence of who and what we are,
And that is surrounding us and valuing us and cradling us in every single moment to well up and to come forth to emerge in us and through us.
The theme for this talk is Bless the Mess.
Bless the Mess.
And this,
Of course,
Has something to do with the fact that the Spirit is fundamentally good.
That God is eternally for each and every single one of us,
Never ever against any one of us.
And that God is forever seeking to allow for greater and greater expressions of who and what it is to emerge in us and through each and every single one of us.
As we're all unique emanations of God,
As we're all God expressing itself in us and through us,
Spirit is forever seeking to expand and to progress,
Thus allowing for more of the peace and more of the love and more of the abundance and more of the wholeness and more of the joy and more of the beauty that God is to come into expression.
And as we move along the path of freedom and as we move along the path of awakening,
As we continuously allow for greater and greater expressions of who and what we are to emerge,
What we need to realize is that that expansion,
That growth,
That unfoldment can only come about when we say yes to releasing and letting go the small and the limited.
That which no longer serves us,
That which we used to believe,
That which we thought we knew,
That which we thought should and should not be.
All these perceptions and judgments and opinions,
They have to go and they will go.
They will continuously begin to,
Or they will continuously dissolve and transmute themselves into the nothingness from which they came.
So that new,
Greater and grander vantage points,
New,
Greater and grander perspectives,
An expanded consciousness and a raised vibration may emerge in their place.
And so continuously,
Regardless of conditions and regardless of circumstances,
Continuously we will move through periods that seem messy,
That appear to be messy,
Dark and dank and troublesome and turbulent,
When the old structures within us dissolve,
As they dissolve and as the new begins to emerge,
We move through periods of confusion.
We move through periods where we don't know who we are.
We used to know exactly who we were.
We used to know exactly what we liked.
We used to know exactly what we believed.
We used to know exactly how we worked.
But now we're not believing what we used to believe.
Now we're not thinking what we used to think.
Now we're not responding the way we used to respond.
We're not operating in the same way as we used to operate.
A new us is being born and in this rebirthing of the new,
It becomes messy.
But coming back to the fundamental principle,
The spiritual principle that God is good,
That God is benevolent.
Coming back to that,
Leaning into that,
We realize that even though we perhaps may not enjoy what we're going through,
Even though we perhaps do not enjoy this mess that we are sort of struggling through and making our way through,
This mess is a blessing.
Something truly wonderful is happening in this moment,
Even though it seems to be messy,
Even though we perhaps would prefer not to have to go through it.
But it is still something wonderful that is happening.
Everything is still well.
Nothing has really changed other than us being reborn.
And so we're wise whenever we move through such mess or state on confusion or temporary blindness.
We're wise to bless it.
We're wise to give thanks for it.
We're wise to appreciate it because it is something good in progress.
Sometimes along this path of awakening,
Feeling bad is good in progress.
So we're wise to not judge it.
We're wise to not condemn it.
We're wise to not resist it,
But to bless it because it is a blessing.
It truly is a blessing to be reborn.
As the saying goes,
We're being reborn by the renewal of our minds.
We need to change.
And change sometimes is messy.
But if we don't change,
If we stay the same,
Nothing is going to change in our lives.
Nothing will not occur unless we transform.
New greater and grander expressions of who and what we are will not come forth unless we allow them to.
And so this is what it is to be a conscious participant in the unfolding of our souls.
This is what it means to consciously walk along the path of awakening and freedom.
To release resistance and embrace and appreciate and give thanks for everything and nothing and anything,
Even the mess.
Because it is good in progress.
It is something wonderful happening in this moment.
So wherever you are,
Whoever you are,
Until the next time,
I bless,
Bless,
Bless your day and I bless,
Bless,
Bless your way.
Namaste.
