“Why do anything at all if not to see yourself within that action?”
If I am to first look at You, to see You, as my guide into all I would do or want to do: what do I see of You that would be revealed to me of me within the task I would want to do? I confess I don’t even ask the question; usually I am seeking to complete the task.
But what if I start with You, and allow the task to reveal its’ depth to me – that in doing so it reveals something of me, something of You? It sounds a bit convoluted yet might be an interesting journey into creation. What are my expectations, what do I wish to see – a task completed or a revelation of me?
Why get up early over the last several years to meet with You? Why mess with sleep only to sit to have a conversation with You? Because in that I discover You – and I discover myself. I discover truth, understanding, an unknown wisdom, a lot of things about us that I could not discover on my own. I know, I tried for many years. In the doing has come the revelation.
It is as we have spoken of many times: as you have seen now go and do. It’s not meant only to be an action for Goodness to be expressed to another – although that is a primary purpose – but also to see yourself within the doing: to discover capability, what Wisdom has seen within, to know even as you are known.
None of this comes by desire alone but within the act of doing. Will the action bring about the desire? Perhaps. Will it reveal something of the Creator to the would-be creator? Definitely. For in creating the Creator is revealed. And I would have you see Me in all you would desire to do. For in that action you see yourself too.
And now, in everything you would do first set yourself in the place of discovery: that you may see something of yourself within the task. In so doing you can move within the task to create what you might wish to see. Within your investing, for example, do you just set yourself for gain and consider it successful when you do? Or is there perhaps something else, something of you?
Can you take a moment to observe yourself within the task: what are you sensing, what do you see within, what might you be missing – an opportunity to create? Does success only come from gain with the task, some outcome you desire, or is there not also something gained within too, something you see of yourself, something of Me? Then that is true success.
We succeed every morning.
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