I imagined that when I should turn a page, or
walk the next step in an ordinary day that I would come across something that
would make it less ordinary and me more alive and awake to whatever was in the
air. I didn’t want much; just
a glimpse of what I knew was there that I couldn’t see with my normal eyes. It was
always being offered. I had seen there was always more. I had already found a host
of lighted things. And it wasn't through looking on the outside, but on the inside. I think I was always looking. One thing led to another, and
that would lead me on to find the next thing. And on this beautiful morning as I
was walking along the path past the house I turned the corner and there before
me was a ladder...and it was in my way.
I looked at it. Suddenly I knew a ladder was
in my inner way within me. I stopped and listened. And I saw heaven open and the angels of God which are always with me ascending and descending upon
the ladder of heaven as I increased or decreased in the light: joy
in the light increased by degrees as I decreased: as I decreased in degrees of climbing
down the Ladder of Knowing losing more and more of my own knowledge, and tight-held opinions, as I descended. The less I had of my own, the more I had of his: there being
more space in me the more I descended. The rungs of the Ladder, stepping down, were reducing my barriers to knowing more, increasing lifts to stepping up within the
light. The more I descended, dying to myself, the
more the light could enter my heart to ascend my own particular stairway in the
kingdom of heaven. (Yes! We all had one.)
It was
shown me, also, that the angels moving up and down on my stairway were the thoughts
and intents of my own heart; the angels were the bearers and carriers of the
thoughts and intents of my heart . . . in the light . . . that glorious beam of
light that was always there was relationship with my Father, beholding his face in heaven, through
the Lord Jesus, my beloved, who filled my heart and life to overflowing...it was the way of
Life!
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