The Meadow        By Sandy Jones

 

There is a Meadow that is right here.

Here as the Child I perecive a lovely new world all around.

Place and Identity are one, they cannot be separated.

What we hold in our Heart we see in the world.

You are the world you walk through. What I am is what I see. What I be is what I see. That is the Divine Solipsistic Truth of Life.

With the eyes of the Heart everything seems filled with light.

We become the Child and then we see the Child's Lightness of Being everywhere. It comes as a slight shift within us; or could I say the clarity within us is being seen "out there", like a new dimension right here and all around us, everywhere heaven on earth.

Something like when we are peering through binoculars and we keep trying to focus the two lenses, then, ever so slightly we get them both combined just right and the view becomes perfectly clear.

Or like going from your little old TV set to a big HD TV.

Finding the Child we look 'out' and the world is clear and bright and more expansive.

You get 'understanding'; understanding is 'clarity' of mind. With the clarity 'inside' everything becomes clear 'around us'---It's just simply more radiant, brighter, clearer, distinct, yet also, full of depth, full of richness, beauty and wonder. Well, of course, because in fact All That Is is Mind.

The magical kingdom of God is within. The world is subjective; within and without are the same one. There is no difference. We are the world we walk through. There is only one Mind, one Consciousness, Here and Now the Self I Am is the Universe.

So "as I am lifted up" the world is Lifted Up.

You just cannot separate identity and place, they are the same thing.

It takes a change of heart within us to find and see the Meadow.

When the heart is changed the world is changed.

As this original self, the Child of God is rediscovered and Lived right here in the world, just as it is, without needing to change anything about the passing scene –

In Trust we are lead by the Child Heart into the Meadow.

This new dimension is 'added' like a deeper layer; nothing is removed. Everything is the same, but everything is new, bright, gentle, sweet; like putting your feet in a crystal clear creek on a warm, lush green, summer day, looking up at the quaking Aspens, a gentle breeze, the deep blue sky and soft white puffy pillows of clouds and everything so clear, so crisp, so deep with dimension. It's like that.

This new land, this fairy land is real. Though I have not heard any mention of it except in fairy tales, I am seeing It is real.

Heaven is in the midst of thee, this is the Heavenly Light of the Infinite Mind you are--when you find the heavenly Child, your Real Self, you find the Meadow all around, right here, right now--"Look again".

Life and Truth and the Meadow and the Child and Awareness and you and God and Love --All That Is is One.

Our search involves the realization of 'where we are' as much as 'who we are'.

We find this Meadow-- but we cannot see It without that change of heart, without the Christ Child that comes along and takes us here, brings us Here.

I do not know if I will shout it from the rooftops “Behold Heaven is Already Here in the midst of Thee” but, I will stand here in the Meadow and see what happens.

I think somehow, like the monkeys on the island, one day, one of us will be that hundredth monkey--and then everyone will know and Be The Child Living in the Meadow.

 

 

 

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