We arrive at this new moment in time, with the desire to experience the sacred. I f we do not have this desire, then we will only experience the physical level of the space we are in, with people that are here, with thoughts that we have, but we won't experience the sacred. The desire has to be there, and there has to be a 'presentness' to the moment so that we are willing to integrate with our wholeness, and feel more than, the worries, or cares, or thoughts, of the present moment, or the past moments.
Fortunately for human beings, the desire to experience the sacred, is built in to who we are; it's not something that has to be learned, it's something that has to be uncovered. Because each human being is a soul, and each soul has within themselves - the yearning to fully express 'beingness' where ever one is, and under all circumstances.
So to express 'beingness' means, being aware of yourself as connected with God, connected with your own wholeness - all of the time. Not some of the time. All of the time. This is the yearning of the soul and the reason for embodiment. It's the reason for coming here now, to be on the earth, to be in a body, to express your beingness through the body. That's why you are here.
There are things that takes us away from remembrance of why we are here. The habitual things of what we pay attention to. The ordinary things that create the illusion that physical reality, the demands of the moment, the things that are on our list to do, are all that's happening. But that's never the case. Our list of things to do is shaped by how we are holding our consciousness, that's what determines what's on our list of things to do.
How many people put on their list of things to do, to 'breath'? How many people put on their list of things to do, to remember God in the moment? Remember why you came to the earth. That's what needs to be on the list of things to do. That's what constitutes a foundation for a sacred life.
So we all know, because we lived a long time, in this lifetime and others, what the experience of pay attention to the many things, both pleasurable and painful, that have come to us in the course of life experience. We've paid attention to many varieties of things. We know that, We are use to that.
And so the heart has to awaken for it's yearning for the sacred. It has to want it more, it has to want it more that paying attention to the habitual way of seeing things, and then when that yearning awakens more, then that list 'to do' changes and remembrance of God comes into the list; and remembrance of breathing comes into the list.
And the business of life becomes modulated by the desire to live in sacredness. That becomes more important than other things.
So those of you who may ask, "how do I remember, how do I remember these things?" The answer in this part of that is "you need to long to remember." "You need to want to remember." "It has to become a bright flame in your heart". Then you begin to remember.
The reaching out needs to take place in an active way. Through asking, through praying, through longing. Through the yearning. Through the feeling that something is missing. In all the ways that you as an individual require completion. That 'longing for completion' is the fuel that fans the flame of the desire to remember, and then, remembering begins, to be more active on a daily basis.
But as long as you are separated in your own thoughts, and paying attention to physical reality, as if that interaction and the definition of that, is all that you are. Then you will believe that that is all that you are. Until the moment comes that the loss of the sacred is felt more deeply in your heart. And it can be also, that the experience, the desire, for the greater expansion of love, is the way that that comes to you. It can be, that you have a feeling within yourself, that love is the basis for life. And that you, in some deep place in yourself, want more love, know that it is possible, yearn for it, desire to bring it to people, desire to receive it from others, desire to be in communion with love, at all times.
So that is not separate from the sacred, that's the center of it - God's love and your interaction with that - it's the center of it.
YoU hear my words, but only you know in your consciousness, how much you are longing for these things, and how much you feel your life is defined by the more practical concerns of the day. How to earn a living, how to get food, how to to clean your house, how to take care of children. You know, in yourself, to what degree, those things that seem so practical and everyday, are separated from the sacred. Because that separation, is not a necessary separation. That's the illusion of living life by the physical plane. Instead of living life in which the physical experience, is part of the sacred. You know where you are with that. And so the longing has to grow, to have a seamless life. "One" life in which the physical interaction is included, but included in the sacredness of God's Presence. In all things.
So in relation to these thoughts and desires, at any point you wish to, you can pray that the doors be open to your own longing. You can ask that you're own reaching out, becomes stronger. You can pray that there be less of a separation between the practical and the spiritual, or the sacred. You can ask to live, just one life. Those are ways of increasing the response of the Universe to you, so that you will be shown, when it is that you are separating from yourself. And when it is that you are experiencing more wholeness.
So let your longing be full. Let your desire for a unified life be full. One in which you embrace the sacred and the separation between the physical and the spiritual finally comes to an end.
May all beings live, as they truly are, in the holiness of their being, in unity with God, and all others; immersed in the love that is at their core.
"The Foundation of a Sacred Life" To listen: http://lightomega.org/podcast/media/Fou ... d-Life.mp3For all podcasts: http://lightomega.org/podcast/List-Podcasts.phpNote: Any grammatical errors or spelling errors are Johanna's in the translating. Mea culpa.
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