Falling away from God is how we grow. Coming close to God is how we heal.
It is God's design that we fall away and come close, over and over again. By continually falling and breaking, we lose parts of ourselves. We are forced to relinquish that which is immature and selfish. We are forced to release old, dead wood from our inner, spiritual tree so we can continually grow and mature toward the Light.
Your soul is a seed growing into God.
And in fact, it is Light from which we came, so the whole Tree is inverted, but that will be the final stage of Your awakening, to see that Truth. That as we reach toward the Light, so the Light comes down to give us Life, in a continual cycle of rebirth and decay, until we understand that all things are the Light. That nothing can be born without it, and when we die, we simply return to it.
It is only here, in this heavy realm, the realm of Death, that we can learn the nature of God. In all the other realms of Heaven, God is too present, too magnanimous, for us to learn. We simply Are. Which is a beautiful and peaceful way to exist, but does not allow for creation, does not allow for reflection or growth. Here, in the heavy realm, in the roots, we are inside the engine of Creation. Only here, can the soul grow and become. Only here can we break the ego, crack the egg that gives us Life. Only here is there Time and the illusion of Death. Welcome to God's master class: the Creation.
The illusion of Death is God's masterpiece, for it is the illusion of Death that allows all things to grow.
See your faith like a tree. Inside each of us is a Tree of Life. The tree is your soul. The roots spread through the ground, rooting you to the earth, to the physical body, drawing upon the wisdom of life and death. All parts of you rooted in the physical world of Creation.
Your journey, from seed to sapling to redwood, is a journey of the soul to God. Through the growth of the inner tree, we come to know ourselves as parts of the divine, when our branches finally grow high enough to receive the Light. This metaphor is the experience of Enlightenment, or Salvation, or Perfection, or Liberation. In truth, all of these words simply mean becoming One with God's consciousness and the Spirit of Eternal Love.
In the same way that our internal life, our spiritual journey, is a Tree of Life, so is the make of our external world. All of Creation is a Tree of Life, because all of Creation is the soul of God. God's roots extend through everything, every being, every object, animate and inanimate. Her great body extends from the Crown of Creation, the Light of the Cosmos, through Time and atoms into the heaviness of a black hole. Her Love and Unity pervade all things.We are all connected as One in the Tree. This is why all of the laws of physics unify like instruments in a grand orchestra. This is why all parts of our life unify for the good of the soul. Everything is connected, from the largest planet in our solar system to the smallest grain of sand on a beach. Likewise, everything is connected from the deepest realm of your heart to the Heart that Creates All.
How does one explain to a fish that they swim in an ocean of water? In the same way, how can I explain to you that your consciousness swims in an ocean of God's soul? We are blind to it, until we are not. Raising our internal awareness away from destruction and division, towards love and unity, is the path to seeing this divine connection in all things. This path, this heartwork, is the path of perfecting the soul. Heartwork is the path of the peacemaker, and the true knowing of our Essence, our Self, our Source, which is God.
