WHY WAIT?

BY Rev. Etienne Pait

Why wait for the death of someone before realizing and responding to the truth of who they are?  Why wait to see and know yourself as you really are?  Why wait to remember God?  Why wait to change from projecting unfinished business unto others to simply extending Love?  Why wait to shift from distorted perception to clear vision?

We, in our humanness, have been trained on the foundation of judgment – judging what is right or wrong.  Judging, however, distorts our vision which results in perceiving what’s not real.  Be that as it may, Spirit is consistently guiding us through the unreal by gently coaxing us to realize the real. 

What is not real?  What our unhealed mind perceives to which we react in fear – that which is projected onto others.  What is real? What our pure heart knows to which we respond in Love – that which is extended onto others.  How do we discern the difference being so close to both our mind and heart?  Discernment comes through retraining the mind to be the servant of the heart instead of the heart being in submission to the mind.  The heart is always focused in the now moment, whereas, the unhealed mind alternates its focus in the past and future.  The healed mind is re-aligned with the heart and therefore, also focused in the now moment as a cooperative tool for the heart – as a translator for what the heart expresses.

Love and fear are the only two emotions available in our earthly world to experience ourselves and one another.  Love, like a diamond, has many facets that expresses, defines and knows Itself.  The language of Love may be difficult to describe but by grace we have the benefits of experiencing and expressing Love through Its attributes.  Some, but certainly not all, attributes of Love are:  kindness, calmness, sincerity, integrity, steadfastness, compassion, gentleness, mercy, cheerfulness, presence, empathy, etc.

We are also able to experience and express fear through the attributes or symptoms of fear.  Attributes of fear are:  any expression not of Love.  A way to discern between the expression of love and the expression of fear is that love expands and fear contracts.  Love sees possibilities; fear perceives impossibilities.  Love is ever-inclusive, fear seeks exclusion.  Love is unity; fear is separation.  Love is acceptance; fear is judgment.  Love is open; fear is closed.  Love allows; fear restricts.  Love is Who we are; fear is who we’re not but have been erroneously taught to believe we are.  Love is real – absolute.  Fear is an illusion appearing real, at times appearing very real.

Love and fear are not able to express in the same moment – neither can be partially expressed in any one moment.  Either Love is totally expressed or fear is totally expressed.  Accepting the premise that fear is not real we are left with what is real – Love.  The activity of Love in this world of duality (you there, me here; hot, cold; up, down) moves in either one of two directions: It is either being expressed or It is being called upon to be expressed.

In my humble opinion, our world of form is arranged as an intimate practice module for knowing God and our relationship (more accurately, our oneness) with God.  Because of how our brain-mind works we may have difficulty comprehending the direct experience with God’s moment-to-moment eternally vast intangible way.  Also, being so close to our own mind and heart may also pose difficulty in seeing ourselves in relationship with God clearly without consistent and persistent self-assessment.  With this seeming dilemma and challenge we are blessed with each other for sufficient signposts guiding us to remember God. 

What I have found to be helpful in the process of knowing God through another is determining what benign, unconditionally loving, neutral memory would I remember them with if they were no longer in my life.  What would be the now living epitaph?  How would this process be helpful in knowing God?  Realizing the benign, unconditionally loving and neutral expression of another not only helps in seeing the extended part of one’s real Self, but also actualizes the experience of a seemingly eternally vast God in this concrete world of form. 

Why wait?  Why wait another day to know God?  Why wait to know your real Self?  Why not realize the truth now by bringing the memory of the Divine of others, Self and God into the now?  How we see another is how we experience and respond to another.  How we see ourselves is how we experience ourselves.  How we see God is how we experience God.  If I am now experiencing the Divinity I extend onto you, I am now spontaneously experiencing the Divinity of me and therefore, I am now experiencing, in this same moment, Divine Itself.  Why wait?

  Rev. Etienne Pait is an Ordained Ministerial Counselor offering Accessing Inner Wisdom Counseling, Intuitive Assessment Sessions, Yoga Massage and Therapeutic Deep Tissue Massage, Wedding Ceremonies, Funeral Services.  Etienne may be contacted at 920.819.2818 or epait@new.rr.com