Hi guys. Ready for another story? I hope these expressions are helping someone out there.
I went to the coffee shop today, ran into a new friend, and we got to talk about the Kingdom of God.
We started talking about the now, and how things "outside" ourselves sometimes communicate with things "inside." I went on to ask him how he thinks that's possible? I told him I believe the Now is Alive, that everything- including the empty space between us is sentient. I went on to say there is no empty space between us.
After this I got to share with him my visit from the, "eye doctor."
He interrupted me-
"Wow, that's crazy you're talking about an eye- I just had a dream last night about a giant eye with all of these hands coming out and reaching from it."
I told him it was affirmation of our very discussion, acknowledgment of the sentient NOW- the kingdom of God.
He told me he was so impressed by his dream that he had asked AI to help him create what he saw. I asked him for the image, and with his permission, am going to share it here:
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After he left, these were my final thoughts at the coffee shop before headed out to Costco to run my errands(gas and groceries).
This life, as real as it is, is not all that is. Now I try to witness the world around me and accept all of the distortions within me and around me. Accept does not mean conform, it only means that I witness and make an effort to understand. And I do this, realizing there's so much more to be known/Revealed.
With this thought heavy in my mind and heart- I drive down the highway and begin to see the now speaking to me. It's a distinct feeling, I'm looking at the world around me as constant communication with the presence. I ask myself what am I witnessing? I notice certain words on trucks, on billboards that are truly grabbing my attention and speaking to me...
"CRYSTAL MIRROR"
and...
"SUPERCHARGE"
I get to Costco and put air in my tires. I go to the gas station, there's multiple pumps and a line- I ask which line I should go in. I instinctively feel it rather than selectively choose it. The pump I pull up at had a total from the person before me: $44.44
I look over my left shoulder and behind me is a white ford bronco with a pink custom vanity plate: "PSALM 7"
I don't know what Psalm 7 is. But while I am interpreting all of this, the woman with the psalm 7 license plate is showing a bit of impatience and irritability for the woman in front of her.
I get the idea that I should go and ask her the meaning of Psalm 7. But there's too much hesitation. My time at my pump was up, and I didn't know whether or not it would be welcomed. She was clearly irritable. Instead I pulled away very slowly, watching to see whether or not an opportunity to speak with her would present itself. I went and parked my car not to far off from the pumps.
No such opportunity presented itself. I wondered what my hesitation was all about, and wondered whether or not God would allow me another opportunity. But even these thoughts are not correctly interpreting the now, instead I felt the importance of what happened was to give pause.
I did not get the chance to take a picture. It may have further enraged an already irritable woman if she saw me with my camera phone up in her car, haha- who knows. I just didn't think fast enough to chronicle this particular moment.
But on my way home, still thinking about everything. I was confronted by another white car with a custom license plate...
"GOD REIN"
Forgive me Sandy, I took a picture while driving.
You see, it was silly of me to think I missed any kind of opportunity. Because the Now- IS. The Now, All-Ways IS.
And you know what else I see in this photo?
"SELF IS"
Do you see it off to the right?
On my drive home, I kept my self open... Looking at everything around me as a type of surface level reality- trying to stretch my mind to encompass a larger self/reality... Where everything around me is speaking and in a state of constant communion. Questioning what is presented to us vs the truth of reality...
That's when I saw the words on a truck as I turned into my neighborhood:
"TRANSCEND"
And immediately to its left, driving in the opposite direction, a car with the license plate having "333" in its digits.
Should I end this post with the clever childhood song? Because Now- I am in awe... And I have no answers.
.....
"Row, row, row your boat...
Gently down the stream-
Merrily, merrily,
Merrily, merrily
Life is
But a Dream...."