Life shows up new every morning

“The noise of life and the density of matter can draw us in if we don’t deeply align first thing in the morning.”—Lucy Grace

Those of you who have been following my blog for a while know I’m a HUGE fan of ServiceSpace. I was invited to their Ghandi 3.0 event last year in India. I volunteer to transcribe their weekly Awakin Calls and Taz and I (through the 222 Foundation) chose to gift our yearly award to them in 2022.

I’ve been inspired by their work and their commitment to the gift economy for years. I’ve mentioned it before, but when I pitched a story about their founder Nipun Mehta to my editor at People magazine, she just kept asking, “But how does it work?”

She just couldn’t grasp the concept of an organization that believes so strongly in the abundance and goodness of the universe that they give everything away. It was so far removed from the script we all pick up at birth that it just didn’t compute.

I’m bringing this up now because, last weekend’s Awakin Call with Lucy Grace was Exhibit A in what I’m hearing from IFL. (The indestructible life force is what I’ve been calling my morning collaborator lately).

Lucy found the voice when she was just a child in New Zealand. (I also love that she’s from New Zealand, because Taz, whose birth father was from there, had a second passport from New Zealand and well, I’ve always loved the place.)

Lucy was born into poverty and, because she didn’t have the resources that many have, she learned to listen to this other voice that kept telling her she was loved exactly as she was, that absolutely everyone and everything is loved just because they exist. She said while she might have had a hungry stomach, she didn’t have the hungry heart that sometimes afflicts the well-off. 

She says, “I always had the company of God” only in her book of poetry she calls it This Untameable Light. (Hey, another brilliant synonym to add to my collection.)

Lucy said she could feel the aliveness in all of life and that she always possessed a deep sense that all is well.

The voice is here for all of us, except some of us have the volume turned down. The practice I’ve been enjoying is my way of restoring the natural volume.

I decided to post the video of this week’s Awakin Call interview, because well, it’s way better than anything I could ever say. Take it from Lucy, all of us are always supported and guided and held.

#222 Forever!

Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)