How many times have you heard the phrase, “she has her ways”? What about seeing a character profiled in a movie where someone’s huge goal was met or an achievement that pays great dividends, encloses the scene with the clause, “Well, he has his ways”. It leaves one with the question, which way is that? What was the secret to their success?
For centuries mankind has sought and discovered disciplines of various practices on their quest to see and know a way. Some call the way, a pathway. This journey ultimately alludes to how one approaches something, or someone and the opportunity and experiences of change within that way. Ways can be both life-giving or destructive. The variables that determine the fruits and effects of ways chosen are within the sojourner’s choices and intent.
Within belief paradigms various sacred writings make references to the way or a way that is better than others. In Christianity, ancient writings refer to a new and living way. Then another verses are mysterious stating, Source’s way, his [God’s] ways are past finding out. So here we see a call to discover (to search out a way) and find what is hidden (a mystery) that wouldn’t otherwise be known as a way unless the seeker sought it out. If one way is old and another new, then it stands to reason we would seek to know and experience something new, after all, isn’t something new better than staying the same or settling with the old?
Ponderings drive us to enlarge, expand, and transform as we seek meaningful experiences purposes, and of a new way. Just because something is new doesn’t necessarily make it better or mean it’s the best option for us in any given season. So seeking a way is a valued process for any journey and a choice that should be weighed in discernment. To transform is to believe, receive, and become. Yet there truly is a difference in becoming vs. being. This perception and consciousness vary individually and seasonally as we change in our seeking. Valued keys are gratitude and humility.
In the position of living in gratitude and humility our way is straighter and easier because we are living from a source greater than our own physical, mental, and emotional capacities. This is naturally supernatural, to engage with a spiritual being, Source, God, (for me a living Christ). This relational exchange and stewardship cause the path (the way) to become brighter and growth continues. In acceptance of a new way (what was previously unknown or seen), we then see (through a revealing) a new way that is clear so we know how to directionally go forward. New ways can be scary and uncertain, and therein lies the invitation to transformational wonders.
One of my favorite truths in Christianity is that in the way, I can have the assurance that God, (i.e., Source) the very essence of love and light has made a way for me to overcome (to transcend) circumstances and limitations because Source, God himself, has taken what is against me out of the way. Therefore the only hindering truth is what I refuse to accept and co-create in my relationship of reality. This is the simplicity of good news, although profound, childlikeness in cultivating it determines ascertaining experientially.
The Hebrew word for describing this process or way of becoming is yashar, pronounced ‘yah-shar’. It literally means a direction that is known once we engage with the becoming process. Oftentimes people want to know before they can agree or trust to commit to a process, but the process is where we find the beauty of new and knowing comes. Remember the power of your willingness and acknowledgment that there is a Source, a God, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and let THE WAY be embraced with gratitude and humility. If you get afraid or stuck, ask for help, and it will come. Change is inevitable but choosing a new way may in fact be a better way. A better way to create determines our results. Choose cocreating through ways of humility, healing, forgiveness, and love then watch the flow in wonders of abundance and new life manifest on all sides.
