Unfinished Dreams and Visions

Three years ago I built a dream home inspired by a family I love.  At the time,  I believed the father and children  were going through a difficult time.  The completion of the house was an artistic expression of how I wanted them to feel.  I wanted it to be peaceful, joyful and a place of refuge. But as I completed the first floor and all the furniture and art was in place, I knew that this house, although beautiful was not what the children needed.  They needed the love and attention of their father surrounded by a home familiar to them.  Although I placed furniture in the three extra bedrooms on the second floor, I left the artwork unhung, the rooms unfinished.  

Last week I listed my house for sale with a contingent contract on a much smaller house on my street.  This smaller house has a beautiful garden and a wine cellar in the basement and I felt God was answering my prayer to a closed door by opening a new one.  It is a house in my favorite neighborhood that will serve me well as I age.

This morning I went to my first small Magis group of the year.  The group comprises writers inspired by God.  As we completed our free writing exercise based on a story of a king and a prophet that showed the king a closed door asking the king first before he opened it, "How far do you want to go?"  As I moved through the exercise I thought about how far I wanted to go, the unfinished rooms in my home and the unhung artwork.  I carefully chose the art in my home over many years with special meaning for me and the thought of parting with it hurts deeply.  My favorite art piece which I have owned twenty-five years is of a little girl and her mother outside of Monet's home in his garden in Givenchy.    Another  painting is of dinner party from the 1800s titled the conversation, the woman listening intently across the table to the speaker who is left unseen.  Another favorite of mine is a pastel painting of an arbor set in a garden on a hill in the country.  Not all the artwork will fit the personality and space of the new home and I contemplated what I would let go, what I would store in the basement and what I would hang on the walls. 

I had dreams of living on a mountain with beautiful views in God's garden with a family I loved.   But like our prayers we have to trust that God will answer our dreams in his own time and way.  My prayer is that I have the wisdom to let go of some of my art so I can let in new pictures  and visions for my life.

The Deeper Order within Eternity

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."  Albert Einstein

"I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am."  Albert Einstein

Deep within us we possess knowledge of all things eternal. This deeper order, the unus mundus, is  our collective spiritual consciousness within eternity.   In eternity, or Kairos time,  all the past and future is contained within the present. Humanity reflects this deeper order although we are unconscious of it until God reveals it to us.   God, the loving movement within all of creation, is propelling the entire Universe and collective consciousness forward lifting the veil separating the eternal from our humanity.   All that is contained within our imagination exists because our consciousness is part of the unus mundus.  Our soul is a focus of energy existing within a field of consciousness that is eternal.  This is why even when we are not aware of it, our soul is operating in the unconscious  influencing our choices.   In my early thirties I was compelled to collect gardening books drawn to the covers and the titles, not realizing the deep symbolism until later.

What we imagine and then focus on becomes our collective reality both consciously and physically. This runs counter to the western scientific method which often defines reality as static based on what we can measure.   But what we learn from science as it progresses, is that many past theories are limited, requiring us to shift paradigms and construct new theories.   Well controlled Psi experiments  have shown humans can be unconsciously aware of events before they happen and can influence outcomes through thought.  Quantum physics plays by different rules than Newtonian physics.  We do not begin to know how quantum energy affects our human body, consciousness and the earth.

It is incredibly beautiful and powerful that the unus mundus and our souls are so intertwined with our humanity.