Episode #20 — Happening to Life — Orthodoxy Transforming
In the last podcast episode we revealed the fourth great spiritual truth that everything is exactly as it must be. Since the entire world as we understand it and all relationships in it are interconnected by infinite causes and effects, nothing is out of place. Everything is exactly as it MUST be. We might not like it, we might chafe at our circumstances and relationships and the disappointments they may or may not be delivering at this moment, but everything, absolutely everything is exactly as it must be right this very moment. Unless the universe suddenly dissolves, this is inescapable.
The only spiritually mature response, the only reasonable response, is acceptance of how things are night this moment.
You have been trained all your life to believe that life happens to you. Oh, yes. You have been carefully trained to forget that you happen to life. Because you have believed that life blows you around, whisks you away in its wake of circumstances leaving you to dog-paddle or sink, you most likely have felt quite victimized most of your life.
This leads to the belief that your life, your problems, your circumstances happened to you and left you stranded on the desert isle you call your life.
The difficult truth is this: your life is totally and absolutely your doing. You did this to yourself. Either you directly caused your circumstances or you failed to respond in a spiritual way to the circumstances that assail us every moment, day, year and second.
Your life is exactly as it MUST be based on the causes and effects in your particular life. You life can be no other way than it is right the moment. Taking responsibility for your own life is one of the greatest spiritual steps a human being can make in their lives.
Victims cannot grow, they can only go with the flow of what happens to them.
Now, since you sought out this podcast series and have listened this far, you obviously want something different in your life. You don’t like where it is going or where it is stopping. That means you want to change. The good news is this:
You can remake your life because you made the one you have now. If you made it, you can remake it. However, most people never take the leap of responsibility. They can’t imagine they are responsible for their own unhappiness.
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Very perceptive. This point sounds very much like Leibnitz’s idea of the best of all possible worlds in his Essay On Metaphysics.
Rev. Gerard T. Sparaco said this on May 13th, 2008 at 6:58 pm