"Take no thought for tomorrow, for tomorrow will take thought for itself..." ~Master Jesus
If
at certain moments we feel purposeless, wandering without a plan, why
not repose and rejoice in the grace of aimlessness?
Our culture conditions us to feel useless,
lazy, irresponsible in such moments. But those can be the moments when
we come up for air, step out of the box of our agenda. Those are the moments when we become intensely aware of the tiny
sacraments all around us, the countless possibilities for small acts
of kindness. Chung T'zu said, "Many know the use of the useful, but few
know the use of the Useless."
Today, the earth has woken up perfect and whole. You can wake up
perfect and whole, just as on the First Day. You were perfect when you
were born, what happened?
Someone convinced us that we
needed a plan. And then we became disappointed, because the world never
works out according to our plan. Blessed are those who still have the capacity for surprise!
Our education and our religion brainwash us to believe that we must have
a plan, a meticulously crafted story about the non-existent past, leading
to some definable and material result in a non-existent future. This, of course, is
delusional thinking.
But what happens when I have no agenda? I am the water that does not get caught in
the net. I am always home, always healing. My Presence refreshes the
earth, because there is no "mine" in that Presence.
This ineluctable moment of pure Being
renews the entire world around me. Instead of being dedicated to my
plan, I am devoted to Life itself. Now I am available, response-able
to whomever I encounter.
A man with a plan is quite
unconscious of you when you meet him, unless he can use you for his
ends. If you do not fit into his agenda, you are just an obstacle in his
way. In a sense, there is nothing more dangerous than a man with a
plan.
But when I am free of an agenda, I have no edges, I embrace you with the fullness of Being, and I playfully re-create reality out of this
moment, for there is no other moment. I am here for you, and I belong to you.
Please, for the health of the planet, spend some time every day just Being without a plan. The Bible calls this
"the Sabbath." In Hebrew, Sabbath does not mean "seventh day." It means
"stop!" Whenever you stop being the do-er, you celebrate the Sabbath.
Even if only for a moment - stop, look, listen and Be. Be the Witness of your
mad spinning cosmos. Be the center of the sunflower, flinging out your
spiral of seeds and galaxies. You will be surprised by the abundance of creation when Life
is your only agenda.
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