Excellence abounds, celebration is all around, we celebrate freedom and independence, and we make room for the quiet.

     The weather continues to remind us that it is July and Tuesday night I’ll be watching the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, featuring the best players in the game.  Last night, we saw an encore of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD presentation of Verdi’s Otello, based on the Shakespeare play.  (I can’t help but wonder what Iago’s backstory is.  What made him the guy we see in the play?)

     Excellence abounds, celebration is all around, we celebrate freedom and independence, and somewhere in all that we make room for the quiet.  In the quiet peace, we celebrate freedom and excellence.  We celebrate the right to pursue excellence, the highest and best, in our own individual ways — and the ways that our individual ways fit together into a seamless, unified whole.

     And so we treat together.

     There is only One Life.  That Life is God, in all, as all, through all, around all.  That Life is perfect and that Life is my life now.  It is the life of every one of us right now and always.

     I know that all God is is expressed and reflected in, as, and through each of us.  The harmony of God shows up in the beautiful music of the opera.  The grace of God shows up in the athleticism of the All-Stars.  The excitement of God shows up in our canine friend.  The celebration and joy of God show up in the fireworks and the other celebrations.  The peace of God shows up as each of us as we quietly contemplate the many wonderful ways that God shows up.

     I know that in every endeavor, we express that harmony, that grace, that excitement, that celebration, that peace.  We simply show up as our highest and best, expressing just as fully as we know how.  Each activity, each moment is lifted up by our showing up in the way we do.  We accept the highest, best, deepest life, filled with abundance, health, joy, peace, and good of all kinds.

      I am thankful for that harmony, that grace, that excitement, that celebration, that peace.  I am grateful.  I remember the words of Khalil Gibran: “You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”  For all of that, I am grateful.

      And so, in the deepest gratitude, I release my word to the Law, knowing it is done and done well.  it is manifest; it cannot come back void.  The Universe simply doesn’t work that way.  And so I let go, let God, and know it is so.

     And SO it IS.