"Let there be light."
Genesis 1:3
In an age where many motivational speakers are telling us to pound the pavement, ramp up our affirmations, make time for visualizations, get into action and make something happen, there is not much room for simply allowing things to unfold as they will.
The word "LET" is about allowing.
Don't get me wrong, I tend to be very proactive in my own creations and am all for people taking 100% responsibility for their creations, if not at least looking at the part they played in them. If we don't do that, we can't take notice of our stuck points and where we might need to get unstuck.
But sometimes, I think we go overboard in thinking we have to do everything by ourselves - erroneously thinking that if we don't "make" something happen, then it won't happen.
And this hasn't been my experience.
Years ago, when I was living in a tiny studio in Oakland, I did some visualizing. Actually, not even visualizing. I just took where I was living and wrote down all the things I wanted to be different. I wrote down exactly what I wanted in a place, including beauty, space, garden, a home office, walking distance to restaurants, fireplace, parking, etc. The list came from things I was living that I didn't like. As you know, when you are living something you DON'T want, you can easily get more clear on what you DO want. So, I wrote it all down, dated it, and put it away.
Flash forward a couple years and I am out visiting a friend in Sonoma County who sent me some listings for a place for rent. While I was at it, I figured I'd check out what else was on Craigslist to make the best use of my time. The listing said "drive by before calling", which I associated with a place I wouldn't want to live, but something made me write down the address anyway.
The long and the short of it is while I go to look at the place, my friend stays in the car and ends up schmoozing with a man in the same complex doing some gardening. Turns out, he is moving out, too, although his place is not yet listed on Craigslist. He has the best unit in the complex
(even the unit number is No.1). The end result is within the month, with no great fanfare, his place becomes mine. As I am unpacking my boxes, I come across the notebook where I had written my original list of desires (that I had forgotten about) and all 11 of my requests have been fulfilled. Even the ones that had not been written down are fulfilled.
Turns out, the universe knew my requests whether I had them written down or not. 
So, what does this have to do with allowing? T. Harv Eker has a great saying: "How you do anything is how you do everything".
I like to ascribe the same notion to the universe. How it does anything is how it does everything.
What I know of the universe when I am allowing it to work in my favor, when I let go of the idea that I need to do it by myself, is that the nature of the universe is generous. The nature of the universe is forgiving. And the nature of the universe is loving. And kind.
Abraham-Hicks, the leading teachers of Law of Attraction who wrote the best-seller "Ask and It Is Given", state that the only thing between our asking and our receiving, is our state of allowing, or "letting it in."
Within the quote "Let there be light", is the implication that the light already exists - it is out there- but that we have to allow it. It implies that WE are the ones that have to do the "letting".
This, in turn, demands a certain level of trust on our part - a willingness to subscribe to the notion that we are not doing it alone. That help, exists.
The question is, is this something we are willing to surrender to ? Are we willing to trust that everything, despite appearances, are working out in our favor? Even when it looks like conflict? Even when there is a time delay? Even when we cannot conceive of the solution? Even when we think we screwed up beyond repair?
Are we still willing to surrender to the knowing that there is grace? And that we live in a Universe that "rights" everything we think we may have "wronged"?
Because in this, is the surrender. In this, is the allowing. And in this, is the open space within which the universe can do its work.
So, this week (or you can even make it your intention for the year), we can consider that everything that we have been asking for, everything that is essential to our wholeness and unfolding already exists. It is imbedded in the nature of who we are. It is heard and understood and guarded and ensured by the generosity of the universe.
And in its own timing, it will unfold.
Not because we pounded the pavement, or finally became "good" enough. Not because we took enough action or prayed in the right way. But simply because we let it be. We stopped resisting. We became willing to allow.
And we let there be light.
REVEREND MARY MORRISSEY
