Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Universe is Kind.

I was watching a youtube vid the other day about a eco-building in France. The girl who made it said a phrase that I have heard many times before. "The Universe is Kind" she said. There was a residue of hardness around her eyes. Echoes of anger and the belief that you have to fight hard to get anything that you want in life. But there was a softness overtaking it.
Intuition says that someone told her at some point, "you dont have to try so hard. The Universe is kind. Trust more. Look for the good. Be good to others, and good will come to you."
What fascinates me so much about this is that you can see the change in her eyes.There is a kindness, a beauty and a softness overtaking her. I do not know her, so one could argue that there is no way i could know this, and i have nothing to go on, but my heart tells me that she is being transformed by this simple change in belief and expectation. So where she used to work so hard, and never get a break, and festered with secret anger seeing the lives of people around her that things "just always work" for, she is resting from striving and beginning to see meaning in the random events of her everyday life...some of which led her to meeting a family in France that took her in, encouraged her, and showed her their home.

I am mostly fascinated with it because I believe that the Universe that she is trusting in does not exist as she thinks it does. The universe is really a place of space, atoms and energy. The Kindness that she attributes to the vastness of space really belong to the one who made it.
And yet you can see evidence of Grace on her life. This amazes me.
But that is the nature of Grace isnt it. It rewards trust more than effort. It responds to love and kindness more than anger and self will. It comes close to the humble, but regards the proud from afar. Even when it doesnt get full credit.
I think its amazing that she is possibly experiencing more of the benefits of grace in her everyday life than some of us. I would wager a guess that when things begin to get tough, she doesnt get discouraged. What would be the point? She probably rests and asks "the Universe" to show he areas where she is not living in trust and surrender. And what lesson she is to learn from this. She does not look for sin and consequence as a reason, because the Universe does not keep a record of wrongs.
To me, the Universe has a name. And He loves me with an everlasting love. I think id like to trust Him as much as that girl inspires me to.
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