For some time I have thought that the physical proceeds from the spiritual, what we see from what we don’t. Our intentions and will power have the ability to reshape the world around us. This is closely tied to prayer if one keeps oneself close to God by believing and obeying the commandments. And of course when one tries to be good and do things right the world fights us. The more we try to be pure and good, the more resistance we face from the world. This is why so many blessings seem to come with problems, why when good things happen one is likely to ask, “What’s the catch?”
Good and bad are so often coupled together. Many times the good can not grow and develop unless some necessary badness grows along with it, in which case we must endure until what is wrong and antagonistic gets weeded out, fades, and vanishes. It takes patience to see one’s good intentions and efforts come to fruition.
It is a mistake to focus on what is visible and “real” while ignoring what is invisible and emotional, or dreamlike. Especially now, dreams have unfathomable power. People dream of what they don’t have, what would be absurd to hope for given the “reality” of the world and how things apparently work. “Keep dreaming,” people say when someone voices this or that unrealistic notion of what their life could be. The person should indeed keep dreaming because the thoughts and intentions of our hearts, when combined with prayer, have the power to make dreams come true.
Ask what you will in prayer and do not doubt, and it will be yours. Of course we should be mindful and respectful when we pray. Asking God for a million dollars in cash probably isn’t the best way to go. Also there’s the scripture which says if we ask for anything according to God’s will, then it will be ours. Nontheless the physical proceeds from the spiritual. There is no scripture that explicitly says that, but I speak from experience. When asking for something it is generally a good idea to picture a world that would benefit from what one is asking. I wouldn’t mind driving a Lamborghini, but that wouldn’t really make the world a better place. Being closer to my family and friends would make the world better and therefore is the more righteous request.
The spiritual world is where we are fulfilled. Who is more content, the man who has everything money can buy, or the man who has almost nothing but lives a true and righteous life? Ten out of ten times it is the latter. And these are the latter days. The days of dreams. Make no mistake about it, these are the days when dreams are born. However these are also the days when we should not dream, for we are supposed to wait humbly for God’s return, and because what is good still couples with what is bad and antagonistic. Dreams come true, dreams have power to transform the world, but do not dream because now is the time for dreams. It gets confusing. Those dreams we should be dreaming are delicate and many of them are beginning to come true automatically without us having to dream them.
We are called to be like our Creator. God loves everyone. He hates sins and loves sinners. One way to be more spiritual is to consistently think of the greater good. Care about what would benefit all people rather than what would benefit only one. Whoever prays gets rewarded by God, so why not pray for everyone? Even caring about every human being on the planet would be an enormous leap forward for evolution. If everyone slowed down, ignored distraction, believed in the power of goodness, and actually cared about every single other living person, we would all be much closer to heaven. But that’s not how it works. People have problems. It’s not enough that they have to deal with their own setbacks, now they have to worry about everyone else’s? Maybe they should. There might be a catch 22 there, some ironic paradox. The only way for one’s problems to be solved is if he or she stops caring about the problems.
Everyone knows by now the goal is to leave this place, not renovate it. There is a much nicer townhouse in the sky, beyond the clouds, out there among the stars. Not the stars we can see, the new brighter stars. The spiritual stars. Miracles proceed from the spiritual. Traffic jams proceed from the physical. There are spiritual traffic jams as well, but we need not speak of those.
I haven’t flown for a little while. The ground is more peaceful for now, as flying makes me conflicted. It may be that I don’t deserve it. After all, there are no wings on my back that I can feel or see. If I could I would probably ask God to remove them before I fall like a bolt of lightning. This time is no joke. The commandments of the Bible are the Rules for some very good reasons. I intend to fly low and stay on the ground, wide awake. Best of luck to you.
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