A Different Use in Everything

Yes, I'm still here!  I know this is the longest I've gone without posting since this blog began in 2007.  And thanks to those of you who e-mailed, wondering where the blogs have gone.  As I said in the beginning... I will only post when inspired, led by the Voice of Self.  And Self has had other things in mind for me for the past two months... fun stuff, busy stuff, transformational stuff.

Let's start with the quote that inspired today's post:
"Complete abstraction is the natural condition of the mind.  But part of it is now unnatural.  It does not look on everything as one.  It sees instead fragments of the whole, for only thus could it invent the partial world you see... Thus were specifics made.  And now it is specifics we must use in practicing.  We give them to the Holy Spirit, to employ for a purpose different from the one we gave them.  He can use what we made, to teach us from a different point of view, so we can see a different use in everything." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 161, 2:1-6, & 3:1-4

The fun, busy, transformational stuff that has filled my life recently is very, very specific... lots of details that make it easy to get lost in thinking it all means something.  Whether you create beautiful gardens, write elegant XHTML code and create new websites, or learn to create art through Adobe Photoshop, it's easy to think the specific is the point.  But I'm very sure the reason I'm being led down this path is to see that the easiest and most joyful route through the briars of details is to stay in the abstract knowing of the Self, the Awareness of Oneness.

When new details threaten to swamp the mind with busyness, there is only one purpose in it... to remind us that there is another point of view that will help us remain open and expanded in the Oneness of Self, right here in the midst of it.  I've come to treasure that this is the only purpose anything has, and its only value.  A different use in everything.