We always have
all of our faith in any moment. The question is, where is it invested?
When you have fears and resistance to life, when you have strategies
and masks to keep yourself safe in a world that you believe to be unsafe--
that is where your faith is invested. You have faith in those stories,
faith in those lies. Your faith is invested in those things that keep
you safe in what you believe to be an unsafe world.
To be free is
to release the investment of your faith in those things of Hell, and
instead to invest your faith in Life. Life is what you are, anyway.
Life is digesting your food right now. Life is growing hair and making
ear wax and exchanging nutrients in your cells and creating hormones
and doing all of the tasks that keep "you" alive. If "you" tried to
do it all without Life, you would be dead of overwhelm in 30 seconds.
Life is what you are. And Life is unfolding every moment, in this present
moment.
There is nothing
you have to do or become to surrender to Life and invest your faith
there. There is only something to stop doing, and that is believing
that your are NOT Life and that Life is not doing Life as 'you.'
Perhaps it is
time to invest your faith in Life itself. To trust that the Life that
moves in you and animates you, as you, knows more than the "you" that
is used to knowing everything. LIFE knows why you are here and where
you are going. To leap into Life is to surrender your fear and everything
else that you know or believe. It is to trust that which has actually
been guiding you all along, in spite of your resistance and
distractions. To surrender to Life is withdraw your faith from the lies
and fears of the past, and to put it into a trust of Life. It means
surrendering to Love. To the glorious Oneness of all Creation.
There are many
fears and beliefs that will hold you back and sabotage this surrender.
Perhaps there is one reality that will help you let go: Perhaps you
know that it has not actually worked very well to try to control your
life. Perhaps you have realized that in spite of your best efforts,
your Life just keeps unveiling itself according to some plan or accident
that you do not understand and cannot control.
Life is only
alive in this present Now. Fear and control and resistance live in the
past and the future. God is only alive in this moment, all other moments
are dead. To be in this moment, present with Life, with God, is to surrender
and BE. Again, you must invest your faith in Life, in order to have
this present.
And it truly
is a gift.