Castles Of Sand

 

Man strives daily to build his worldly castles. With laser-like focus he minutely examines his life circumstances and then compares them to the circumstances of other people, past or present. "That is what I want to be!", he cries. "That is what I want to have!". With resolve he promises "I will be that! I will have that! I'll do whatever is necessary!".

And so, man attacks his life, working diligently to do whatever he can to obtain his oh-so-important earthly goals: success-wealth-power. If he reaches his goal, dissatisfaction arises and he sets higher ones, for there are always those who have more than he. If he fails to reach his goals, he labels himself a failure and a loser.

All is vexation and folly. Why do things never turn out the way we want them to? Why does the boulder we push uphill always come rolling down that same hill, crushing us beneath its weight? Why can't we have what we want in this world? Why can't we be "happy"?

i have news for you. You are not here on this earth to be happy, or successful, or wealthy, or powerful, or famous or any of those things that we are told marks a "successful" life. That is not the point of your incarnation. You are here to seek and find the Kingdom of God that dwells within you. You are here to awaken the Divine Spark that slumbers in the upper right ventricle of your heart. If you do not undertake this effort, then you will have truly failed at Life, for that is the whole purpose behind your being here.

Whatever you try to obtain and retain in this world will inevitably be taken from you. Anything you endeavor to build in this world will eventually collapse. These things will be, they must be, when one seeks from the earth what he should be seeking from Heaven. If your seeking remains horizontal, Universal Law will work overtime to ensure that you never obtain the object of your material desires.

Why is this? Think of it. If one gains what one wants in this world and settles contentedly in a "paradise" of his own making, he will crystallize. He will never feel the urge to seek in a vertical direction. He will never take even the first step to locate the Path. Why should he? He's perfectly happy. That is why all striving must be broken up, again and again and yet again. That is why you fail at what you so ardently desire, that is why those things you accumulate are at some point taken away from you. Man is like the stallion who must have the rider yank the reins repeatedly in order to force his eyes to focus on what is in front of him.

In the same way, you must switch your focus from the things of the earth. Yes, we need to eat and live somewhere and yes, we must provide for ourselves and our children. No one is denying these basic facts. But the chase for earthly comforts beyond the minimum that we need to live will always be rewarded with disappointment and pain. However, if one finds the Path and begins to walk it in honesty and humility, all will change. For then you are attempting to align your will with the Will of the Father. And there is no doubt that those who do so will be guided, protected and provided for. The Father knows His own. From the Holy Language:

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures buried in the ground, a place where rust and moth destroy and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves a Treasure in Heaven, where neither rust nor moth destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also is your heart.

No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and like the other; or he will honor the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (wealth).

For this reason I say to you, do not worry for your life, what you will eat and what you will drink, nor for your body, what you will wear. Behold, is not Life more important than food, and the Body more than clothing?

Observe the birds of the sky, for they do not sow, neither do they harvest nor gather into barns, and yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not that much more important than they?

Therefore do not worry or say, What will we eat, or what will we drink, or with what will we be clothed? For worldly people seek after all these things. Your Father in heaven knows that all of these things are also necessary for you. But seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you". Matthew 6:19-33

Go with the flow, not against it. Build your castles on the most solid of foundations. Leave desire for the things of the earth behind. Aspire to obtain that which is higher, the Pearl of Great Price, the Kingdom of Heaven that you carry within your Divine Spark.

~ g