Chatter

Over the loud speaker in the grocery store, I heard a rather amusing country song with a chorus that went, "Swing batter batter, swing batter batter, swing batter batter swwwwiiinnnggg."

There, in the produce section, my mind traveled back in time to remembrances of Little League Baseball games and how we were coached to chant this from the outfield when the opposing team was up to bat. It was suppose to distract them, break their concentration and make the player's time at bat as ineffectual as possible.

However, this was no sure fire way of disrupting the batter, for even with our adolescent chanting, some still managed to hit the ball successfully.

I smiled at the corollary to our ongoing spiritual journey.

The world serves up quite a bit of chatter and disruption, distracting us from our inherent knowing of the Divine's presence. Regardless of the level of that 'noise', our continued intention is to physically, materially, and spiritually remember what was expressed in Genesis... we are made in the image and the likeness of God and one of our inherited God-qualities is the creative nature of our thought.

We are forever strengthening our ability to channel that thought towards conscious possibility and expansive expression.

The earthly chatter may be a resounding, "You're a failure. You're not good enough."

But one must remember, it's only chatter - not your truth.

Through concentration on truth, we strengthen and sustain a loyal ownership towards our personal value. This is really no different than the concentration and discipline needed to complete any work-oriented task. The great author and motivator Og Mandino once reminded that "drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind."

Honing away at earthly chatter is the same. We transcend it by linking one quiet moment to the next even through life's uproars.

How beautiful to know that we have dominion over the world's chattering of less than, not enough, and other messages of scarcity.

Quiet, meditative moments always reveal a greater message that speaks of our unlimited potentiality. We connect our thoughts to boundless demonstrations of good. And we step up to the plate in this game of life with willingness and expectancy of right action.