September 20, 2025

We have to be available.

What it means to be available is this:
"Those who would be my disciple have to pick up their cross everyday and come with me."

Cross-bearing is making the routine sacrifice/practice of handing over what we want in the service of what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, in each situation as it arises, no matter what.

It is like this. People manifest their desires in hopes of producing what they want in their life and avoiding what they don't want.

Just like people pray to God to give them this and give them that and save them from that, and that, and that over there.

There is no giving, getting, being saved.

Manifesting anything is shaping ourselves to live in accordance with, aligned with, what is asked of us in each situation as it arises. It is not about us getting anything. It is about us doing whatever is necessary to serve the needs of the situation, where, when and how they are needed, never mind what that means for us personally.

We make ourselves available and do what is necessary.

Our life needs certain things of us in each situation as it arises. It is our place to meet the moment the way the moment needs to be met, whatever that means for us personally.

"Pick up your cross and follow me."

Jesus was all about aligning himself with the needs of his Psyche in each situation as it arose. He called it "doing his Father's will. His Father was his Psyche. Who spoke to him constantly. When Jesus said, "Pray always," he meant for us to understand that to be always be present with and in service to our Psyche in every moment of every day.

Being that close to our Psyche is not difficult. It only takes a shift in perspective to understand that our Psyche is in constant touch with us. Our intuition leads the way every day,
but we have our eyes on what is in it for us, and on what we want to do and what we want to happen, and are mostly unaware of our Psyche's presence anywhere in the day.

But. If we sit down, shut up, be quiet, and listen, look, we will see and hear and be amazed at how the Tao (That is the Way of Psyche) is flowing along through every moment of every day--not for our personal benefit, but for the good of the whole, the good of the moment, the good of the day, every day.

Living in synch with the flow is how things work best, and we will benefit from that, but it will not be the kind of benefit we have in mind. Personal advancement to the point of having everything always just like we like is not in play. Being who we are doing what is ours to do all day long every day is that which is ours to do. That is our practice. Being who we are, doing what is ours to do, here, now.

Everything waits for that.

And why would we do that?
For the simple joy of doing it
and the satisfaction of having done it.

"For the joy that was set before him he endured the agone--the agony--of the way that was the way." Like Sisyphus pushing the rock up hill and trudging down hill to walk the rock up hill... Jesus had his rock, Sisyphus had his rock, we have our rock. No? And all it takes is flipping a switch to see it as the joy that is set before us and do what calls us to do it, where, when and how it calls us to do it, here and now, some more again today.