Fast from Your “Self”

I can’t help but think it would be amazing if my dog did all the things that I told her to: “Ghost, sit and rest. Ghost, turn around. Ghost, do a backflip! Ghost, take yourself safely on a walk for the next 15 minutes.” Although, it sounds like it might be a bummer for her! But this is exactly what Christ and many wise sages indicate that they do in regard to God. Jesus said, “the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing.” Christ knew that all things that happened are a manifestation of the universal will or what some call “God’s Providence,” but it also means that Christ had awakened to this truth so fully that his mind was perfectly in sync with the Spirit flowing through his mind and around him. Unlike many of us, Jesus was no longer beholden to his fickle yearnings and attachments, nor deep-seated fear or misgivings, although he might have experienced these in passing. Christ says as much himself, “for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me,” inviting us to the same lightness of Spirit by giving in to the flow of Life. And perhaps our relationship with God is even closer and already more aligned than we know, making us less God’s “pets” and more God’s “children.”