Is Your Commitment Greater Than Your Resistance? with Rev. Michael McMorrow
Is Your Commitment Greater Than Your Resistance? This is an opportunity to reevaluate our commitment to the Vision revealed to us earlier in the year. Where and how are we resisting the transformation? Are we willing to release it? We are invited to revisit our “why.” What are we willing to recommit to in order to advance in the direction of our Vision? We examine this from a personal perspective as well as an organizational perspective.
“We envision humanity awakening to its spiritual magnificence and discovering the creative power of thought; a world where each and every person discovers his/her (their*) own personal power and ability to create an individual life that works within a world that works for everyone.”
*strikethrough and parenthesis added to create gender neutrality and inclusion of gender non-conforming expressions of Creation.
Direct Revelation is the practice of the Principles of Spiritual Being, Freedom, and Heaven. As individualized expression of the One Infinite Reality we have access to the infinite wisdom and intelligence of the Ultimate Reality. It flows through us, as us, to the degree that we set our previous ideas aside and become aware and conscious of the impress of Universal Spirit. Direct Revelation is available to us through our intuition and can be intentionally cultivated through Visioning.
● Visioning consciously opens us to be receptive to the impress of Universal Spirit. Visioning is the practice of cultivating the Field of Consciousness and illuminating what wants to emerge into form, without preconceived ideas or limitations. Visioning has a specific methodology, which can be used individually or in a group. Visioning may also be done informally.
Allowing Life’s highest vision of Itself to be known in our individualized human awareness opens us to a completely new idea, a wholly new experience, to a direct experience of the Mind of the Infinite which is our Mind.
Having received a direct revelation, the degree to which we embody Oneness; the degree to which we embody Wholeness; the degree to which we embody that God Itself is living It’s Life in the form of us, is the degree to which we allow Life’s vision to be made manifest through and AS us.
1. Principle is never bound by precedent. It seems, as humans, we have a tendency to slip into probability theory once we have clarity about our vision. That is, we have the tendency of viewing the vision in the context of past events and circumstances and trying to bring lessons learned forward to assist in unfolding our vision safely and successfully. Such a perspective limits us from stepping into a wholly new experience of possibility. Our vision is a mystical glimpse of Infinite Possibility urging Itself into expression through and as us.
2. Lifting the anchor. Pain pushes us like the winds and currents push an anchored boat moving us back and forth, side to side, and spinning us in circles yet never moving us forward. Vision pulls us, inviting us to move forward, inviting us to a new place, a new adventure. Vision invites us to let go of our point of reference; invites us to journey outside of our comfort zone, and demands that we take a risk, raise our anchor, and surrender control of our vessel.
3. True transformation renders the previous version wholly unrecognizable. Just as something within the caterpillar compels it to attach itself to a twig, spin its own cocoon and then completely release its physical form and caterpillar identity to realize its butterfly identify and form, vision pulls us and compels us to surrender our human identity, our idea of ourselves. Vision pulls us ever closer to God’s highest expression of Itself AS us. Are you ready to be transformed by the renewing of your Mind? Are you ready to embody something completely different and unrecognizable? Is your commitment greater than your resistance?
Faith is the belief in the “substance” of things not seen, not a guaranteed replica of our mental prototype. The substance is the unformed God stuff out of which everything is made, including you.
