January 1st - The Eighth Holy Night - The Intention to Wonder

[Note: please consider the thoughts, perhaps re-reading and visualizing a few times. Then do as many of the exploration steps as you have time for.]



  Thoughts   

The first seven Inner Christmas messages explored the soul's mysterious reflection of our life processes ending with the intention to birth new thoughts, new feelings and new deeds.
With the life processes we interact with life.  We receive life through breathing, warming and nourishing.We find our free relationship to life through secreting.  Finally, we express our commitment to life through maintaining, growing and reproducing.
 
These processes are key natural activities of our life body but within our soul's reflections, processes ask us to bring them into conscious inner intention.  Within the soul these inner intentions provide us with a knowledge of the world, create a free relationship with the world and fulfill our presence in the world with living thoughts, living feelins and living deeds.
 
We are here to live and to love.  The remaining five inner intentions are the elements of the deed of loving ourselves, others, the world, the spirit, and the future.
 
In the highest intention for life, to reproduce, we discover a sacred emptiness or nothingness.  We give up what is to create what will be.  The first intention in the deed of loving also requires us to be empty of all things. The first intention for loving is to wonder.
 
When we wonder we have no preconditions, no requirements, no selfish desires living in our soul.  We are a void waiting.
 
Imagine being a void waiting! This is not a lifeless void.  This is a vibrant, fertile void. And the waiting is a vibrant and fertile state. The vibrancy and the fertility awaken in our wondering souls a capacity to draw in, a suctional quality. Free of all deadening conditions and controls, the waiting void of wonder does not know what it attracts. Like a newborn emerging from the womb, the void is open to receiving all. Emptiness awaits fullness.
 
If we want to love, to truly know, we let go of knowing anything. In letting go of knowing anything, we become capable of knowing everything. Not knowing allows for true knowing.
 
Our souls long to wonder. If just once in a lifetime we manage to truly wonder, we open to love. A moment of real wonder, transforms our lives.
 
The spiritual world wonders at us, especially during the Holy Nights. We wonder at the spiritual world, especially during the Holy Nights.  It is wonder that lifts the veils between ordinary consciousness and spiritual consciousness, between who your have been and who you are becoming, between you and another, between now and the future. Wonder creates the grace of oneness with what wants to be known.
 
On this eighth Holy Night, wonder at wonder. Feel the place in your soul where the void waits in wonder.
 
If you have trouble wondering about wonder, consider this.  Do you want to be seen for who you really are and known from every possible perspective, to be loved unconditionally?  Imagine meeting another's wonder.
 
Wondering is not for sissies.  It takes courage to wonder, but if we want to truly love, we must risk fulfilling the intention to wonder.