Vachon Imagined

The fruit of the Spirit is not an object.

It is a feeling.

Something happening inside the body—within the heart—the place where perception, and therefore judgment, live.

If the fruit of the Spirit were a thing, we would argue over it like an object: mine versus yours, right versus wrong, who has it and who doesn’t.

Instead, we are invited to take the mind off the object entirely and be with whatever life—or Spirit—is bringing up within us.

This is perception, not truth.

Truth does not behave like an object the way we do.

It does not collect opinions.

It does not form judgments.

Truth reveals.

It does not become fixed in permanence, as if it could be held and owned and defined once and for all.

That would change its nature.

And while it can move through form, it does not stay fixed in it.

It keeps moving.

So what one person perceives in another, another may not see at all.

But Spirit is happening.

And because it is happening, we feel it—sometimes as guilt, heaviness, or even persecution when someone is speaking to us.

That feeling is not just reaction.

It is Spirit stirring what has been buried.

Turning toward truth interrupts the cycle.

It stops the exchange of anger for anger, story for story, defense for defense.

It dissolves the heart that has become misaligned in its perception and returns it—gently, relentlessly—to what is real beneath it.

Not the truth of argument.

Not the truth of opinion.

But the truth of your nature.

And the truth of Truth itself.