What if Possibility is Already Here?

With March Sunday talks focused on “What If,” I pulled a book off my shelf I’ve had since the 90s called What If. It’s an entire book of what-if questions, and its whole purpose is to spark your creative spirit. A few examples:

What if:  

• …you applauded someone else’s annoying habits?

• …you counted your blessings every day before you got out of bed?

• …you really did have bells on your toes?

• …your tongue swelled up when you criticized someone?

• ...dandelions grew as big as trees?

You get the idea. Mixed in with thought-provoking questions is a lot of absurdity, and by now you may know that I appreciate the absurd.

And – asking what if works!

On Sunday, practitioner Justin Thuemler, RScP, opened our time together with an impassioned Oneness candle ritual. He reminded us that we are one essence — not with it, but of it. We share its qualities, including unlimited potentiality. It doesn’t always feel that way; anger, fear, and despair are real feelings. But this philosophy gives us tools. Meditation. Affirmative prayer. Practitioner support. Community.

Even a crack is enough to break through

If we want more love, peace, wisdom, or joy expressed in our lives and in the world, we get to help create it. Together, that energy compounds. It’s exponential (Justin shared the math; if you missed it, watch here). And while we can’t accurately measure its impact, that doesn’t mean it isn’t real, too.

The Field: It's Greater than We Think

While driving recently, I was thinking about our collective consciousness and the sheer number of people who seem sad, angry, struggling, or simply unwell. While my tangible options for helping may be limited, who I choose to be in the world is not.

What quality speaks to you? Choose that, and feed it into the field. The world needs it. Needs us. Perhaps a bottom-line takeaway for me is that, what now seems almost cliché or quaint but is still so relevant: Be the change.

Imagine What We Can't Yet See

In her talk, Rev. Pamelagrace also came back to our principles and practices. We often assume our limits are based on our circumstances, experience, or what’s happening out there.  And yet...

So much of our experience is based on what we think, feel, and believe. We can use our practices – meditation, affirmative prayer, journaling, etc. And, we may still need more help.

That's where a few mental tricks might work. As an example, Rev. Pamelagrace mentioned the red doors in Temple Grandin - a simple mental image of walking through what appears closed or obstructed.

Instead of assuming a door is locked, what if it's just waiting to be opened? What image helps shift that stuck feeling to one of possibility? How can we train ourselves to look for an opening, even when we feel stuck, scared, or even hopeless? Imagination is powerful, as we know from our use of affirmations.

Rev. Pamelagrace also mentioned Edgar Cayce, one of my early “influencers” (before that was a thing).  What intrigued me then wasn’t just the mysticism (although it’s fascinating), but also the idea of layers of awareness and the possibility of tapping into my own inner voice, or intuition, more readily. I don't know a lot about channeling, but I don't discount the possibility that we can access more than we think.

What if Possibility is Already Here?

Right now, it feels too easy to see the world around us as a lot of closed doors, broken systems, or faulting others for impacts they may know nothing about.

But if we view the world through the lens of closed doors, there's little room for possibility.

• What if there’s another right answer?

• What if there’s another possibility?

• What if something so significant we can’t even imagine yet just happens to change everything – in a good way?

Oneness means we’re part of something larger than our immediate experience. No, we can’t close our eyes and pretend everything’s fine. Bypassing reality doesn’t serve anyone.

And, how we show up matters.

What if we loosened our grip on being right, or that our way is the right way? What if we gave ourselves more grace when something doesn’t go as planned, or we don’t act the way we hoped we’d act in that situation? What if we open ourselves up to infinite potentiality?

In exponential terms, even the small shift toward curiosity adds energy to the field of possibility, not probability (like Rev. Larry talked about last week). And that kind of energy has the power to lift us all.

With gratitude,

Laura