Morning Meditation: A Deeper Understanding

I don't know about you, but I never really spent much of my life thinking about exploring spirituality, or time spent in morning meditation or finding a peace and serenity within - until I needed to. When I began my journey in recovery, it was a new idea for me. I'm grateful that I get to begin this journey again and again with new people I meet along the path. We get to share a deeper understanding of what it means to live with and in a spirituality that is most often an experience beyond words.

I choose to call my understanding (or non-understanding) of this Source of peace, serenity, guidance, intuition, well-being..."God". I use this word because it is the easiest shortcut to a shared language. It's only three letters long and quite difficult to misspell. This word encapsulates, for me, the foundation and source of what makes this world go 'round...science, nature, reason...what makes a tree a tree, a bird a bird...what makes my heart beat in a consistent rhythm...what gives me the ability to know right from wrong and to feel the difference...what gives me the ability to have compassion, to feel and give love, etc etc etc. There are "laws" that govern this universe I'm in - and very much a part of - not separate from.

If or when I feel separate, I have created a separation. Sitting in the Silence is a vehicle for the movement beyond that separation. To take it one step further, my feeling of separation is actually an illusion since it is not real.

Shift thought from "inviting God in" to a "lifting of the veil". God, our guiding intuition, our inner -advocate, our Higher Power, our Higher-Good (whatever word or words work for you) is already in. It's at the door. We simply open the door to see the Presence was there all along. Let the idea of this Power's permanent indwelling settle into your consciousness. Our Higher-Good never turns from us although we may turn away ourselves. And when we turn back , we see that God was always there and then we know this Great Mystery will never leave.

There is an indestructible, unharmable part of each of us at our center where we and God come together. Our journey is to the place where God already is - not over a distance but found in an instant when we turn to the Presence within us.

As we practice in the Silence, we realize how close we are. As we practice the Presence, we realize we are not alone. As we live with the experience of an Eternal Indwelling, we reach the deeper understanding that loneliness is not necessary as we are never left alone to feel lonely.

God is always here - my here and your here - and will never leave.