Do you confine the Divine? Let me count the ways!

“Love is a really wild energy and like any force field, the more you send out, the bigger the boomerang.”—Joy Sullivan

Happy Thursday, peeps!

While I’d love to claim authorship of the phrase from the above headline, the truth is I picked it up from Father Greg Boyle.

Boyle, the recent recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom, is a Catholic priest and the founder of Homeboy Industries, a gang intervention and rehabilitation program in Los Angeles.

Besides being a fantastic wordsmith, Boyle is a master at seeing the innate goodness in everyone. He talks about radical kinship, about how we’re all loved without measure.

Because we don’t really know this, we have a tendency to, as he says, confine the Divine. So I started thinking about the countless ways we neuter the very force that sustains us.

For example:

1. We don’t really believe it exists. I mean how do you count on something that’s, well invisible? We think we’re out here, all alone, without resources. We think we have to do everything ourselves.

2. We don’t allow it to nourish us. Even those who give lip service to this higher energetic field don’t allow themselves to enjoy its unbounded, unfettered nature. Gotta keep everything in check, after all.

3. We don’t give it room to do its job. Each of us is here as a Divine expression of love. Rather than let go and depend on this this radiant field of love, we stiffen up and tune instead to a made-up vibration of lack, limitation and separation. And as long as we keep dialing into that particular reality, we keep that reality alive.

4. We don’t fully trust it. We think it judges us, that it expects something from us. We don’t dare surrender to love, because well, it might backfire and judge us or scold us for not being perfect.

Right now, as old structures crumble around us (this, by the way, is cause for celebration), let’s open wide and invite Divine Love to emerge. In us. Through us. As us.

And as the new world is being birthed, we just need to breathe, to trust and to catch it when it comes out the other side.

I also really dug this video:

Love to all.

#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)