Seeing the Future (part 3)
Seeing into future worlds starts with seeing the present one. If we see only lack in the world around us we stand no chance of seeing abundance in the future. Opportunity is either here now (somewhere) OR it is nowhere in the future.
It is our job to find and cultivate the potential in the here and now.
Even in our most dire of situations there must be assets, abundance, life. There must be. Not with perfectly-tied bows or in pleasant places. No, evil does abound. Chaos happens. We can not avoid the inevitable brokenness of the things around us.
And yet, we see beyond it. We must. Things are not only broken. Evil is not the only abounding reality. Goodness also abounds in the fullness thereof. Not equal and opposites. Goodness is greater. Goodness is always is greater!
We must learn to see through brokenness. We must learn to see the hidden wholeness behind all conflicted things. There is hope. Because goodness is greater. And it abounds. Already. In our midst. Even now. Hiding in our hearts.
Unveil the layers. This is the act of visioning. Peel back the layers of grit clouding other realities behind this one. Help people see the magic in what is already around them. There is life, hope, beauty, truth, even eternity right now. Right here.
Though some ancients claimed the only way to this sort of visioning was extreme meditation, the art of mystics. Only those with great powers of concentration could sacrifice the normal pleasures of life enough to see into this magic realm.
But there is something insurmountably important about the “normal” things of life that help reveal this magic. In fact, we might say the magic of seeing new worlds is IN the normal things of everyday life. It is not in escaping or transcending, but in accepting.
This act of surrender is not a defeated pose of angst and disappointment. Surrendering to the power of normal around us is done with gratitude and joy. It is full of hope and life that we lay down our need to get away or escape the normal. No. We accept it.
We must fully accept what is in order to get to what could be. This is the exercise. We evaluate. We access. We honestly account. What we are after is a robust list of the current assets already around us. What do we have right now at our disposal?
Asking it that way may sound crass, but what otherwise are we are doing with the hidden assets around us? We are trashing them. Not considering them. Not using them. Not even seeing them. They are truly “right in front of our noses.”
How do we get the layers off? How do we clear the dust? Like any clean up project, it starts by starting. Do the clean up. Start throwing things away. Sort. Move. Uncover. Categorize. File. Do the hard work of laying the foundation.
Then things start to become clear. Or at least a next step is revealed. Then another. Then another. Slowly, but surely, we get through the layers. Sooner than later we get that breakthrough moment and discover the thing we have been looking for has been right here the whole time.
