Have you ever felt like you just can’t take it anymore? Things that need to be done, not done? Living with disorder when we know we crave it? Some call it impatience, but Adytum has taught me that virtue courtesy of a few unnamed contractors. But now I want completion. Yes, the 5 year plan done instantly, right now, thank you. In short; we need help with this land with a capitol H, white flag waving and flares firing off.
Can you imagine trying to create beauty and order out of raw land? An unruly field? A forest left to itself with all the attending brambles and thorny berry vines? Nature left to itself is rarely pretty. Taming has its virtues. The thought of a child’s room at the end of the week comes to mind….nature is really quite like an undisciplined child.
It may be hard to relate to these pleas if you have a city lot or a regular back yard. Those I’ve known in my past seem so “tame-able” now. This is like walking into the forest and asking for respect. In my world, we like beauty, less weeds, less in general. Less is more…In nature, anything goes. Packing it in, natural exuberance and one thing crawling over another fits right in.
Living in this realm of time and space and having to wait for what I need is hard. We know we can have it now, on some level. There is a part of us that knows “instantaneous results” exists. It is the stuff of miracles. We know that we are creative beings. We know that our word has great power; that is if we believe what the Bible says about using our words.
Do you know those statements? One in Proverbs 13:2 written by King Solomon says that “from the fruit of a man's mouth he enjoys good.” Words are seeds that produce fruit after their own kind. Good words spoken produce good fruit in our lives. Bad words spoken produce bad experiences in our lives. I am learning to use my speaking power to get the things that I need now. That statement might go by…do you realize what I just said? We have the creative power to bring into our experience what we desire with our word. Ponder that.
I’ve gotten in the habit since living here these last few years of walking the land of Adytum and praying aloud with each footstep that impresses the ground. It takes me almost half an hour to walk it. That is a lot of desire projected into the realm of God, who has the power to bring it to pass.
I’m saying what I desire, what I want. And if we know the Biblical formula, we will thank God in advance for giving us the desire of our heart. There is so much power in gratitude attached to the faith that what we’ve asked for will come.
So I ask for what is most pressing for us now,that would be “help”. There are two of us. Sixteen acres. No chemicals….No herbicides….Man against Nature- a popular theme. Only I like to think we’re aligned WITH nature. Still it is crushingly hard. Mostly getting out of bed the next day after a bout with her…
As I walk, I thank God in advance knowing that I’ve been heard. Coming back in after most of an hour walking in this form of anticipatory meditation to see that a call has come in my absence should be no surprise, but it is. Why is a part of me still “testing this out” even though it happens day after day?
The first day, an old request is fulfilled that we have someone come that will help take the dead maples, ghost trees that were hit with a fungus that kills ancient maples, off the land before they infect other healthy trees AND give us half the profits from timber sales. Since wood cutting isn’t our forte, is this a perfect situation or what? No more dead wood. No accidents cutting trees we don’t’ have the experience to tackle. Order created and space opened. Money coming in to offset all the outgo of running a large estate…How much better does it get?
The second call, however, is completely out of the blue. It is beyond what I ever would have dreamed which kind of proves “The Secret” a strange book. In other words, God keeps exceeding my desires….The Secret doesn’t talk about God doing that at all. It is limited by our own visualization and imagination and desire. God always takes that and essentially laughs.
The message reveals that a Boy Scout leader of half a dozen boys aged 15-17 can’t find camping availability at Lake Mayfield. They want to water-ski and have nowhere to stay- and he means NOW. No room at the Inn for them as it were. They’ve heard of our land, Adytum, overlooking the lake from a Miele Coffee Machine repairman that has come here- multiple times. “Can we stay? We are privately funded but would do a service project in return for the chance to ski Mayfield….”
I laugh to myself….a morning’s meditation brings an entire Boy Scout troop when I ask God for help (thinking “someone” or maybe a few good men), then thank Him that help is on its way. This is outrageous, I think to myself. “Of course you can come”, I say visualizing the 6 boys and 6 men that will accompany them. “Nothing would give me more pleasure than seeing you all enjoying yourselves here.” So much for the one or two… A guest found a new nest last week. We hope you can learn to see too…to love the land and respect her. And teach these young men…. “Of course, come!!”
I am before God again, at dawn walking the land with ancient Sasha – the Borzoi in her last years of traversing these trails with me. I am laughing now in His presence. “I ask for help and You send an entire Boy Scout Troop??” That is SO like you…..so over the top. So completely out of my realm of thinking…
”When”, I think to myself, “am I going to learn to enlarge my vision and thought process?” We have just shy of sixteen acres we are managing without chemicals and herbicides- the soil destructive “servant duo”. We are working our tails off and haven’t had a holiday in ages. God decides to send the literal “troops” in, a whole army of young men.
I can almost see Him with that smirk on His face while He wonders why I never asked for them, and had one or two in mind instead….He sends our angel to cut down the dead wood and bring light to the new Redwoods and Sequoias in that place that consequently the Boy Scouts will most likely pitch their half dozen tents or more if they sleep double.
Why would anyone choose not to use their word, gratitude and faith power? And watch for all the miracles? This is the most fun we’ve had in ages….We are being taught to expand. We are laughing inside this experience. God is laughing too at seeing us learn to grasp the simple things of living inside the Secret Kingdom where all things are possible and miracles are quite common place.
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