The Deciding Factor

Are we all just actors, playing out a role within a role, layered inside an ever larger cosmic role?

Are we husbands or wives carrying out scripts we were handed, phoning in our lines, doing the bare minimum for maintenance?

Are we truly present in our relationships — engaged in the ever-unfolding now — or are we satisfied with shortcuts? A peck on the cheek, a rushed “I love you,” a perfunctory act of intimacy once a year. Relationships, whether intimate or otherwise, do not thrive apart from careful tending and total investment. If you do not embody it, you will lose it.

Are we playing at being good children — performing for praise like house-trained pets — rather than responding out of genuine love? Do we forget that even our parents gave us both blessing and flaw, and that being their children is more than just behavior?

And with God — are we children only in a transactional sense? I know I made that mistake more times than I can count. “If You do this one thing, Lord, I’ll never ask again.” I’ve prayed those bargains. But He already sees us as we are, not as we pretend to be. What He longs for is presence — our joy, our sorrows, our triumphs, our mundane moments, not just our crises.

I just learned something while writing this:

Being present is the deciding factor.

If we are actors and our flesh is the costume, then perhaps our souls are will embodied — and death is will set free.

Free to rejoin the Source.

Yeshua.

As always Dust,

To you,

For you,

From Him,

In me.