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Having read & watched this week’s material I think I have the courage to state that the end goal is to gain EOF with the Creator. It is not enough to settle for an intermediate goal of “simply” perceiving the Creator.
Ultimately my goal is to perceive the Creator in all that occurs in my life, and by exercising my freedom of choice in the environment I consciously place myself into to both speed up and enrich the journey.
Freedom is my choice to choose to value the internal above the external as my focus and motivation, moment by moment. Surrounding myself with fellow-seekers of spirituality, in a common desire for connection with the Creator and bringing Him satisfaction will strengthen our practice of Lishma in our intentions. This will in turn attract the Reforming Light and draw us closer to Him.
I am struggling to grasp what was “incomplete” with the initial relationship of Creator and Creation and therefore required that souls would need to go through a cycle in this world to then to return to the Creator in a corrected state and presumably to a “complete” relationship. Is it that no real relationship exists if one party only gives and the other only receives? Is the end state sought one where both parties both give to and receive from each other? I know we are taught that God only wants to give, not to receive at all … but we also are told that we give the Creator satisfaction and pleasure when we correct our WTR with the WTB for Him alone. Can you please help me penetrate this apparent paradox? Thanks.
First I need to believe that the Creator is the only actor in this world, is truly beneficent, and all He does in my life is therefore for my good. Then I am able to suspend my worldly reasoning and interpretation of events happening in my life in real time, knowing He is at work for my good, even if everything in me sees only pain and suffering, for no apparent reason I can fathom. To then truly feel this I need to keep this “faith above reason” in operation all the time, or as often as I can, and seek to respond in gratitude and hope that I can bring Him satisfaction through my faith. I realise that when I behave with this intention that gradually it will become my reality … my thoughts and feelings will move to align with my faith, so I will increasingly feel that the entire reality I perceive is the action of the Creator.
The huge “aha” moment for me was to learn that God is the sole actor … and that He uses the doubts He places in me via thoughts and feelings of failure, hopelessness and despair at ever following His ways to actually strengthen my need to attain unity with Him. Beautiful! And the flip-side that when I do experience moments of connection with Him it is His doing, never mine. I found this wisdom both freeing and encouraging. And knowing that I can never attribute His reasons for pushing me away or drawing me near to Him to capriciousness … but only His unconditional love and desire to bestow me with the joy and peace and pleasure that far surpasses whatever we can experience in this world … really makes me glad that He is the Only One in control; certainly better than me, human authorities, religious leaders, or some rival force He battles or who I must battle!
