Vachon Imagined

Looking out into the world becomes a habit of human nature. We see something, and immediately we call it real. We call it separate. We call it another.

Yet what we see is always passing through the lens of our own consciousness. The world is not only revealing itself to us; it is revealing us to ourselves.

Those who live from the intelligence of life walk in its light. They do not remain there perfectly, nor are they asked to. Whenever they forget, they become aware of it. Whenever they wander, they return. Not because they have fallen outside of life, but because they remember they never could.

Nothing you think, nothing you say, nothing you do can separate you from the light that gave you life. When this is truly understood, something extraordinary begins to happen.

You stop trying to become someone else.

You begin to be yourself.

Every expression is a movement of this intelligence. Every thought, every talent, every whimsical idea, every work of your hands is life asking for your permission to be expressed through you.

Not someone else.

You.

What a gift it is to discover that you were never asked to imitate another life, but to experience your own completely.

You were given your voice.

Your imagination.

Your gifts.

Your way of seeing.

Your way of loving.

Not so you could become imprisoned by them, but so life could know itself through a perspective that has never existed before and will never exist again.

The thread running through every expression is the same life.

Forget the thread, and identity becomes heavy.

Remember the thread, and expression becomes joy.

How easy it becomes to relax into this understanding. To speak what you mean. To create what you are moved to create. To love what you love. To allow others to see through the lens they have been given without carrying the burden of their interpretation.

You are not responsible for another’s perception.

You are responsible only for the honesty of your own expression.

The light has never asked you to become someone else.

It has only ever asked you to remember what is expressing itself through you.

Be who you are.

Love who you are.

Return to God.

Or perhaps…

Simply remember that you never left.