Creative Spirituality

Keep focus. Pay attention to the unexpected. If our concentration strays from the important details, such as eating or sleeping, we put our lives in jeopardy. I’ve had times when I was so engrossed in something that I forgot to eat. I completely lost track of time. It took the inability to maintain my visual focus to make me realize my mistake. The same thing has happened with sleep. If I get caught up in something I’m doing or reading, I can easily lose all concept of what time of day or night it might be.

As I heard so many times from my first spiritual teacher, we must concentrate. We ought to be aware of all things great and small. When we apply that effort to the fundamentals of our physical life, we open up our opportunities to mature in the spiritual life. To create new prospects for our spiritual lives.

Growing and maturing in our spirituality is the greatest challenge we will face in life.

Ever.

It’s a challenge to open up and give ourselves the internal space to grow out. To be more our real selves on a daily basis. It’s so much easier to sit back. To say we’re just too busy with our jobs, our families and friends. There’s just no time in our days to be anything more than a material person.

Spirituality? Becoming a better human being? Treating ourselves and others with dignity, honor and respect takes work. Who has the time to reach outside of ourselves like that?

Some people mistakenly spotlight my abilities to see and communicate with God, angels and spirits as the greatest thing ever. Or they fixate on my ability to use my spiritual gifts in the physical world. Whatever spiritual gifts are the result of constant work at nurturing my spirituality. They are gifts, but these talents come at a price.

We are born with our own unique spiritual gifts. Spiritual teachers opened my heart, mind and soul to receive in this earthly sphere matters known in the spiritual worlds. They taught me to go beyond the expected. To find people and books that took me outside of this world to the divine. New ideas and sources of inspiration were cultivated and fostered. I began to see the extra-ordinary in the physical world.

That developed into my current spirituality. It’s my job to continue to explore an ever-expanding, always creative spirituality. To have today what I had yesterday is never enough. True spirituality ceaselessly grows, matures, develops into something ever new.

My spirituality is the same as everyone else’s. To be healthy we must feed it so that it, in turn, nourishes each of us. Our spirituality, to be true and real, must take us beyond ourselves to also nourish others. As new spiritual opportunities grow within and around us, we have to share them. If we don’t our growth stops.

Period.

By extending to you what I have you, in turn, are able to share with me the depths and riches of your spiritual gifts. We both take our wealth out to the rest of the world. There we give away what we have to others. They share their spiritual riches with us.

This is how real growth, real spiritual union and communion, occurs.

I have discussed with knowledgeable experts the exorcisms I have performed. Like me, they’re not terribly impressed. It’s work that needs to be done. I am simply God’s instrument.

I have discussed with doctors how I have been used to physically heal seriously ill people. We agreed that I am as useful as a bandage in protecting a wound. My job is to pray. God does the real work.

Far more important than either of these examples is how I maintain my mystical connection with the Creator. The second I become puffed up, I’m lost. If the Divine isn’t at the center of what I do, then how can I continue?

Not very well.

It is the sacred that makes my work possible. As it is for everyone else who lives in the mystical realm.

Among my favorite mystics are people to run food pantries and soup kitchens. Or find shelter, clothing and furniture for people in need. They are the real heroes. They are the women, men and children performing sacred work on the ground.

The time I spend in prayer, meditation and reading are central to my spiritual work. They are not magic.

My primary work is constant prayer. Continual, unceasing prayer for the needs of our earth and its people.

So, if ever you have the need for someone to pray for you, contact me. Whatever the reason. Healing people, performing exorcisms and all of my other gifts are wonderful. Nothing is better than being able to pray with you.