The Alpha is the Omega

Where we start is where we end. If we start from lack or discord, we will end with lack and discord. When we begin from perfection, we will arrive at perfection. Perfection cannot be made from discord. Discord does not contain anything that makes harmony. Lack does not hold any element that can create or provide for substance, abundance or fulfillment. Having our eyes on peace and perfection is more substantial than holding thought on shortage. Shortage does not mean having less ‘things,’ it is the belief that lack can exist. Since “the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” Since perfection and the highest good is our shepherd, our starting block, we shall not find ourselves wanting or lacking.

 

It is often thought that lack or limitation ignites creativity and inventiveness. There are many examples of inventions and new ideas coming up in extreme situations. Because of this, it is believed that lack or limitation brings forth creativity. However, the true explanation is different. New ideas always come from a change of thought—from lack to possibility and opportunity. It is the rejection of a supposed limitation that reveals higher vision and insight. “Man's extremity is God's opportunity,” and surely not limitation’s opportunity.

 

But how do we start from perfection and harmony, when facing conflicts and unsolved questions daily? Even when we recognize that we start from imperfection in thought, it will not always allow us to change the thought. That is because in such case, we try to ‘fix’ the existing discord with positive thought, which is again, starting from the problem.

 

Daily, I am confronted with problems, and do I need to do things I have never done before. I feel like balancing on a cord in complete darkness, and it is most frightening. When I subsequently try to work out how it must be done, I will silently break out in panic, feeling great tension in the stomach. The unsolved problems seem to increase in negative multiplication, and even if they end up solved, a new question immediately arrives. The relief of the previous answer is short and soon forgotten.

 

Until I realized that I cannot solve anything, I cannot bring perfection to this open gap of lack and imperfection, and I do not need to. But there is one thing I can do. I can rejoice in my love for everlasting perfection, harmony and good, because of this love I have plenty. I cannot solve any problem, but I can see right now how much I love and yearn for peace, even while standing face to face with great material destruction, or personal and emotional disaster. I can do this because peace of perfection is purely spiritual and not material. Matter is not fact, but the experience of our thoughts—conscious and subconscious. Peace of perfection is everlasting Truth, available at all times to one and all.

 

Beautiful is the practice of love that does not require a blind leap of faith. Many proposed systems fail when the conditions are hardest. But this metaphysical approach is one of substance, proving to be easier when things get tough. It takes little effort to find a moment to love the harmony that the challenges try to deny; it only needs the reminder and sincere attention. The challenge might be hard; the love for harmony is far greater. And taking this manner as a starting point will reinforce ‘now’ with completeness. Wisdom claims: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

 

With eternal Love,

the Hanna