On Divine Providence

((Imagine...))


There is no Time.

Time has already happened.

You have already happened.

God, in His Majesty,
has already drawn you into His chorus
and incorporated your voice in His song.

At the end of the Universe,
at the end of Time,
God has revealed Himself
in His entirety,
fulfilling all appetitions,
surpassing all expectations,
answering the smallest
and most unconscious questions
and confusions of your soul.

God has known you
and you have known yourself
as Christ;
Incarnated;
Crucified;
Ascended;
Reborn.

The Song of God
is the song of His becoming
and also of His triumph;
it has been sung,
and we sing it still
somewhere, here, in the echoes.

The Great Heirophany
beyond Time and Space
draws us ever nearer,
and we are powerless
to contend
with Destiny.

The very actions of the Ego
are the throes of its demise.

For the Ego,
to exist is to perish.

And the realization of Heaven
is that the Ego,
before it is born,
has already died.

Its "life" is as absurd, and as futile,
as an attempt to dry-out, and soak-up,
the Ocean with a drop of water.

Nothing resists,
and nothing can resist,
what God has already accomplished;
the marriage of Heaven and Earth.

Nothing proceeds
which is not a part
of the bridal procession.

Look around you now,
and see how all things
magically spell
the restoration of Heaven.

With or without
our awareness or consent,
everything Heavenward tends,
and that tendency is an assurance
to the whole of Creation,
and through the whole of Creation,
that the wedding has been a success.

We spin inexhorably Godward,
eternally approaching the altar,
and in privileged moments even
seem to dance at the reception.

What has been done?

What, indeed,
has not been done?

Consider
that the greater portion of goodness
belongs to what is not done;
that they do the most good in this world
who abstain from doing the most mischief.

Conversely, the good that is done,
is done, for the most part, in order to
correct the mischief that is done --
that is, the mischief that is
not not done!

This is a truth which testifies persuasively
to the only-slightly-less-evident truth,
that God has already accomplished His work,
and that the Hand of God is present
and unerring, in all that is done.

Only behold:
the Kingdom is upon you.

The plant, the book, the armchair,
have no pretensions to be godlike,
because they humble themselves
to the God that is.

They do nothing
but reflect the is-ness
with which God has imbued them.

But we endeavor to be useful...

We regard ourselves
as imperfect and incomplete
only because we imagine
there must be a use for us;
a use which we are not already
being put to by God.

Much mischief is the result
of our attempts to be godlike,
and much good is the result
of our just being God.

Only when we've recognized the value of inaction
can we be trusted to act according to the will of God,
and to leave undone what God has no will to do.

We are closer to the Kingdom than we know.

More ground has been gained than we know.

So much has been set aright.

What is lacking,
more than anything else,
are only the eyes to see
what God has already done...

the heart to love
what His love has already touched...

and the arms to embrace
the good childen He has made.

Yet all of these, --
eyes, heart, and arms, --
are ours to give.

Our work is cut-out for us;
meaning, the bulk of our work
has already been done for us.

What God has done --
all that God has done --
has been done so that
God may do what He does.

He has prepared the field,
and planted every seed --
every seed worth planting --
so that we may be free
to tend and to reap.

See
what God has done,
and you will know
what is left for you to do;
that is, what is left for God to do;
since He has accomplished everything
but what He means to accomplish through you.

And when you have done your part,
you will know that it was your part;
the part destined for you to play;
the part played for you, by God.

Seeing that all things are subject to Destiny,
and can only lead to One Thing, that One
must be the Source of all things; hence,
all things have already been done.

Ours is but to do
what God has done
through us, --
and to know
what God has known
through us.

To go
whither we are tending.

Patiently, patiently...

regarding,
along the way,
the signposts
(they are everywhere!)
of His immanence.