You’ve Got This

To begin the mystical journey, inquire within.

You’ve got what it takes to slow down.

You’ve got what it takes to listen to your heart.

You’ve got what it takes to truly be aware of the present moment.

You’ve got what it takes to find God in all things and in all people.

You’ve got what it takes to breathe slowly and gently and deeply.

You’ve got what it takes to notice the silence between every thought.

You’ve got what it takes to live in gratitude, giving thanks even for the difficult things.

You’ve got what it takes to love your neighbor as yourself — one love, one being.

You’ve got what it takes to open yourself generously to kindness and hospitality.

You’ve got what it takes to ask for what you need and to be receptive with others.

You’ve got what it takes to acknowledge the mystery at the heart of all things.

You’ve got what it takes to cultivate a life shaped by awe and wonder.

You’ve got what it takes to pray without ceasing, to take delight and find joy in the divine, to live in ever-blossoming empathy.

You’ve got what it takes to foster within you all the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and equanimity.

You’ve got what it takes to embody the Beatitudes: to enjoy the happiness that emerges from both the splendor and the challenge of a mystically grounded life.

You’ve got what it takes to see the burning bush, to be caught up into the third heaven, to fall in love with everyone, and to see the gate of heaven everywhere.

You’ve got what it takes to wake up, to notice what is alive and luminous in you and around you, the divine presence revealed here and there and in all things.

You’ve got what it takes to embrace the unknowing, to fearlessly enter the obscure night, to be vulnerable and broken and incomplete, to tell the truth, and to live into the possibilities.

You’ve got what it takes to recover your wholeness: to cleanse yourself, and also to allow the Spirit to bring you healing and renewal and newness of life.

You’ve got what it takes to become fire, to glow with your inner light, to shimmer as you partake of the divine nature, to radiantly shine like the sun.

You’ve got what it takes to embody the darkness, to celebrate rest and leisure as you honor the rhythm of being, mindful of how no breath is complete without the inhale and the exhale.

You’ve got what it takes to recognize what has been mysteriously hidden in you all along: that you are one with God, fully human, fully divine, fully realized, fully becoming, fully you, fully ecstatic, fully ineffable, fully beyond the limits of reason or words — fully divinized, here, now; in this very place, in this very moment.