Rules, What Rules?
FROM CHAPTER SIX: RULES, WHAT RULES?
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE
We have all heard that “Life is not fair,” and it seems that way until we learn the rules and start playing by them. Because we are creative or use the Creative Process, our lives show up as a matter of cause and effect and not the flip of a coin by a god in the sky. We have the coin and, as long as we flip it, we will never know if we are going to get heads or tails, but we can stop flipping it and make choices instead. The coin is our freedom of choice, and we can flip it or we can spend it. The only way we can spend it is to use it.
GROWTH
Everything is a process. Life is a process; we are a process; the universe is a process. Did you know the universe is growing? The universe is always in the growth process, expanding a little every moment. For us, growth is a process that is started as easily as making the decision to grow. Alcoholics Anonymous has a saying, “Sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Our paths give us the opportunity to look at the places in our lives where we are not growing and do something about it. God or life is always offering us the opportunity to grow. Our experiences are invitations to grow. How many times do we have to make the same mistakes over and over only to relive them again? Albert Einstein said that, “You can’t solve a problem on the level it was created on.” We have to rise above the problem to change it.
LOVE RULES
Like other games, the game of life has a rule that stands out among other rules; a cardinal rule, and that rule is “Love.” Love as a Rule says, “You can’t play the game without me.” Love breaks all ties, exceeds all boundaries, defines the goals, reverses penalties, calls time, trumps all other rules and directs the course of the game. Love is the checkmate, the final goal and the reason for the game.
Love as a rule in the game of life is the beginning, the end, and the goal of every match, set, inning, and every score. Love is both the reason and the passion behind every play. Love allows us to see God in the other players. It defines the game for us regardless of who we are, or who we think we are. It levels the playing field by seeing us as equal. After all, “At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”(Italian Proverb) LOVE RULES!
from the poem:
Where Is Our Sacred Soul?
“The Golden Umbilical between thought and form,
Giving life to every word and deed.”