Think of the gap between your moments, or your conscious registering of your moments, as a wilderness that you can explore, and fill with exciting, even providential things.
By the time you read this, another moment will have gone by, and another. What are you doing in between? Are you thinking about your next moment and what you will do with it? Are you filling the gap with your list of ‘to do’s’ and work to accomplish? Are you mindful of these gaps? Are you taking them for granted? And what gaps might exist between moments anyway? Now, that is an interesting question?
When we write about moments and gaps, we are writing allegorically, for how could there be gaps between moments? They’re seamless or at least should feel that way, but you only really have these moments of your life. You can’t really have anything else, though you tend to fool yourself into thinking so. So if we propose the idea of a gap in between, we think that helps you get on with the idea that you must fill your time wisely, and you must be aware of the precious opportunity that exists in each moment of your life.
Now, how better to explain this to you? Well, you could think of the gap between your moments or your conscious registering of your moments, as a wilderness that you can explore and/or fill with exciting things. We could say providential things. By that, we mean things that are bound to do you some good. What would they be?
Well, for starters there is using your precious time wisely, checking in with yourself to see if you’re making full use of your life’s time, or are you stalling or delaying something important? Are you lazing around waiting for something to come to you, or are you resting in between big moments to which you are giving your full attention? There is a difference.
Deborah is getting rather good at discerning the difference. When she needs to rest, she does. When she can’t think of anything to do, she gets lazy and naps in the front of the TV. Yet, there is so much for her to do, and she knows this. We have much work for her to do, and there is all of life out there waiting and burgeoning for her to get involved with. So what is the problem?
She is getting clearer about this and realizes resting is good, but ‘vegging out’ maybe isn’t. At least not for too long. You begin to see what we are getting at?
Think of the space you and your mind inhabit between intervals of higher connection, which we are hoping you can get to more and more frequently, as a kind of wilderness just for you to figure how you want things to be. Not unlike your ancestors. They made a new life out of the wilderness wherever they could, and it was something they wanted to do. Not everyone wanted to, but you get our point. So you similarly could be doing this — making a new home or preparing the ground for the home you want in your thoughts and in your actions each day. It’s as simple as that. We want you to see the fruits of your actions each day, and to realize the fruition of your dreams, too.
If wilderness sounds too remote, remember that it is in the supposedly unknown that so much is discovered. You must want to go out and see what can happen each day and what you are capable of. That is a relative unknown to many of you, yet you worry about the unknowns of any wilderness.
We think all is known in advance by you, by simply applying the principle of love and caring to each thing that you do, and to extrapolate from there how we love and care for you. When you feel loved and cared about, you are confident. You can do no wrong, and you can do wonders. Well, that is what we are driving at here. We wish all that for you. So why not turn a wilderness (that time between the special moments of your life) into something you can work into, or grow into more special moments, until they become the norm and until you no longer have to think much about them. You are already there, enjoying and making the most each moment of your life.
Wishing you all luck and adventure in your journey — your new finds and new lands transforming that wilderness, yet opening up your life in the process. —Your teachers