Ask
for Guidance
“Spirituality
can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful.
Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected
directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to
clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky, and that you
don't necessarily think of as guidance.”
Julia
Cameron
My favorite time of day
is early morning, before the sun is up and before I am out of bed.
There is a period of time—a threshold between darkness and
daylight, between sleep and waking—when intuition can function
unimpeded by rational thought. Images arise that lead me to next
steps in my art, ideas for writing surface, sometimes songs or poems float into consciousness. I trust this. I have learned this one thing
in my seven decades of life—trust your intuition. Guidance is not
loud; it is not in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire, but in the
still, small voice that Elijah heard. (1 Kings 19:11-13)
Spirituality resides in
this listening and trusting. The Indian saint, Sai Baba of Shirdi,
told his followers to ask for anything and he would give it
immediately—just as Jesus said, ask and you will receive. Ask for
guidance, and listen to the answer. Then act. Don't second guess and
judge what that guidance tells you—just do it. Often my guidance is
to clean out my basement, just as Julia Cameron's, who is best known
for her book The Artist's Way, is to clean up her bedroom.
What I find while I'm cleaning out my basement is the answer to
whatever question is hovering in my mind.
Our task when asking for
guidance is believing it when it comes. Our part is trusting and
following through. Spirituality is more than a set of religious
doctrines—it is uncompromising faithfulness to the guidance of your
divine Soul. Like creativity, spirituality requires a leap of faith—a
leap into the abyss of not-knowing, trusting that Spirit will not
let you fall.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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