By Rev. Elizabeth Rowley,
Spiritual Director
June 7, 2019
Have you ever made a terrible choice or been afraid? Did you ever think you were making significant spiritual progress and then backslid into old thought patterns or behaviors which no longer serve you? Have you ever wanted something in your life, really badly, and then got something completely different? Alternatively, maybe you got precisely what you wanted, and then you wondered why you even wanted that in the first place? Me neither!
I’m just kidding, this happens to everyone, it’s just that nobody talks about it openly. Sometimes you outgrow what you thought you wanted or needed before it even shows up in your life. Especially when it’s a specific form like a house or a relationship that you are desiring.
The good news is that your greatest yet to be is still on the way. Even if you’re currently in the most excellent place in your life, as happy as you’ve ever been. You are always evolving, learning, and growing into your radiant spiritual magnificence.
The Science of Mind teaches you to identify what you really want by asking yourself a series of questions as follows: What do I really want? What form do I see this taking? What specific experience do I desire from what I want?
Asking yourself these questions develops your skill in listening to your internal guide or inner voice, your highest wisdom Godself. There is always a form or picture of what you want and an experience you are seeking from that picture of what you want. The key is to place your prayerful emphasis on what you are seeking to experience.
As you uncover what it is you’re seeking to experience, or feel, you develop your inner awareness and become more conscious and awake to the God qualities existing within and all around you, always available, waiting for you to notice them.
For example, you may genuinely desire to get married or be in a long-term relationship. Ask yourself what the experience is that you’re seeking to bring into your life? It might be security, partnership, or love. Then, as you begin to focus your prayer work on security, partnership, and love, you allow everything in that vibration come to you. If that includes marriage or a long-term relationship, so be it!
The opportunities that you begin to become aware of in your life seem like new opportunities, but in reality, they were there all along, you weren’t seeing them because your focus was elsewhere.
When individuals come to me feeling unhappy, I ask them what they want. They often don’t know or are unable to articulate it. They are always very clear about what they don’t want, and usually, have a great story about that. If you don’t know what you want, ask yourself those three questions to gain the clarity of what you’re truly seeking to experience in your life. Make it welcome and enjoy your blessings.
And so it is.
