Get Ready My Soul – I’m Diving In.  You may have heard me say over the years, we are going to take a dive into the deep end of the pool.  Depending on our comfort level with the analogy of water or diving, just hearing that phrase could cause some anxiety or fear. 

This week, in both our Lunch Bunch and our Wednesday Evening Class, we have discussed RISKS.  Some of the risks we have discussed are risks that each of us take daily, like driving a car in rush hour traffic.  Other risks we have talked about were things like skydiving or public speaking.  You may find it odd that I grouped skydiving with public speaking.  My experience is that people who are fearful around speaking in public would just as soon jump out of a very good airplane, not knowing how they were going to get safely to the ground as to stand up in front of a group of people and make a speech. 

BUT – The risk I am really referring to is a much bigger risk than any of these.  The risk I am referring to is the risk you take of being your authentic self; being real or showing up with integrity in each and every situation – AND realizing that some people will love it and others may question you.  This risk would include living your purpose, stepping into your passion or diving into the deep end of expanding your personal destiny.  BUT – and I do mean BUT, because each of us has one, and I am not speaking of the physical one.  Each of us has a BUT that keeps us “enclosed” as Robert Taylor referred to in The New Way To Be Human, or as Prof Deb Moore referred to in All In. 

Being a Counselor, Minister and now Dream Builder Life Coach, over the last 30+ years I have heard numerous reasons why a person cannot step into the dreams they have for their life, or even why an organization cannot move forward into the magnificence that is right there before them.  Some of the main reasons that come to my mind are:  “You see I would do this thing I have always wanted to do, BUT: My Family needs me; My present job takes all my time; I don’t have the right education or my personal knowledge base is not large enough; I’m afraid of failing and looking stupid; I’m too Old; I’m too Young; I don’t have enough money; The market is already flooded; The economy is not right…… Bla…bla ….bla…bla…bla……..

Last week our Sacred Reading was taken from the writings of Genevieve Behrend, student of Thomas Troward and the book, Your Invisible Power.  I will be using much of this material over the month of August to assist us individually and as a spiritual community to go through some Divine Mind Operation.  Do any of you remember the game of Operation?  I loved it – and when you were attempting to do the operation and go to close to certain areas, the red light went on and the buzzer went off really loud.  I propose we have that system at work in our own thoughts, words, emotions and actions. 

In the Religious Science Tradition, Prayer is referred to a Spiritual Mind Treatment and I believe that the Unity Movement could take note of that fact as we speak not only our prayers but just our words to our friends, family and others we come in contact with.  BUT and again I Mean the big If’s we put out there – If we are attempting to create, generate, imagine, manifest something in our world and that thing is not present there is only one thing that can be in the way…….   ME….You….Us!   I know – that doesn’t feel warm and fuzzy but sometimes “The Truth Can Set Us Free – But First It Has To Piss Us Off!”   Pissed off enough?  Good!

Join Me On Sunday morning as we begin this Journey of Divine Mind Operation for our Bodies, Our Minds and Our Souls.  Get Ready for the Deepest Kind of Love – for the Deepest Kind of Life – Get Ready, Get Ready My Soul!                                                                                                                                                                                         Namaste’  Rev. D