AGENT OF SOMETHING LARGER


A feather quill resting in a bottle of ink

The benefit of doing three pages of writing every day is that it speeds up whatever tedious process you may be going through.  How does it do that? It is like meditation, in that it gets you in touch with the Voice for God. When you approach the writing as a chore, and write prayers to fill up the lines before you can stop, well, that too is a form of asking.

You have done a lot of asking now. You have been heard. We know what you desire. It is time to relax now, listen, to  be that instrument you so often ask to be.

If you knew you could access the Voice for God at any time, why would you not do this, for this is so.  You can access the Voice for God at all times. What is this but the best news you could ever hear?

 

A figure sitting in meditation

 

Let me take a moment to be thankful for that now.  Thank you that I can access the Voice for God at all times.

Let me access the Voice now.

Let me be the agent of that something larger. Let me be Your agent.  If there is something to be done, let me be the agent of its being done. If there is something to be voiced aloud, let it be voiced through my throat. If there is something to be thought, then let it be given thought through my molecules, through the matter of my brain, through the ground of my being. May I be wholly used by You. I would consider it the highest honor and the proper fruition of my life as a human, as well as the crowning glory of my existence.

 

Saguaro cactus in the foreground, against a background of a spring Arizona desert

 

But my agency does not have to be conscious to me.  I do not insist on Your purpose being revealed to me. How could I understand it? How could I insist on anything?  I am but Your agent. Use me as You wish. Guide me here and there like a puppet. By all means, use my mouth for Your words. I have no will but Yours.

 

Elaborate, intricate Islamic art

My agency need not be conscious

 

How much better it is that I do not plot and plan, worrying about events and trying to control outcomes. How much better it is that I surrender my will to Yours. How much better it is that I have stopped worrying about what to say and what to do.

What burdens these are to have been lifted.

Let me be Your agent, content to go where You send me. When You are with me, here and there lose their meaning.

 

Desert wildflowers overlook Death Valley, CA

Here and there lose their meaning

 

 

 

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