You bring more than enough to the table
Monday Musings
Here’s your mantra for the week! This week’s card is from my Cards for Creative Courage oracle deck.
You bring more than enough to the table. In fact, you bring to the table exactly what’s needed.
How do I know this?
Because we’re all here for a (slightly) different purpose, and it’s only when we all start attending to our very specific purposes that we can bring this thing around and level up across the board.
I’m currently reading my dear friend Sondra’s A Goddess Course in Miracles: Complete Feminine Translation of a Course in Miracles, and in it we’re reminded that ‘Goddess and Her creations are completely dependent on each other. She depends on them because She created them perfect.’
You’re obviously welcome to interpret these words as you like, but I read them as follows:
We are all creating a piece of what’s needed on this earth. There’s a reason the text speaks of ‘creations’ in the plural: none of us are or have the key to what we need right now as a collective, no matter how much our egos might wish that for us, that we’ll be able to create that one thing that humanity needs to heal.
Ego likes us to forget that we’re all one, that we all come from Source – or whatever you want to call it – and will return to it once we’re done here. As such, I find it only logical that we all came here to do something very specific that will benefit the whole. Not because our one thing will be able to uplift that whole, but because our specific creation tends to exactly that piece of the whole we came here to attend to.
The image that comes to mind is that of a raincloud. From the raincloud, different drops of rain descend onto the earth. Each of these drops came from the same source, was one with that source, and is now raining down to do their bit. One of them will help this plant grow, one will play its part in washing something clean, another will contribute to the well being filled so that different animals – including the human ones – can stay hydrated.
After that job is fulfilled, these raindrops will eventually return back to where they came from, each in their own time, until they’re ready to rain down onto the earth again and take on their next job.
Our human incarnations work exactly like that. We all come from the same place and are then unleashed upon the earth to do something, to put something in motion. None of us are given the key: we’re are all handed a teeny tiny key – or a teeny tiny part of the key – that will unlock exactly that bit we came here to unlock.
It’s only when everyone starts using their own little key, starts allowing for their specific purpose to rise to the surface and meet it head-on and with everything we’ve got, that we’ll be able to open all the locks to that portal and go through it as one.
Each of these keys is perfect in itself, and needed, because all of those things we came to this earth to create ‘are completely dependent on each other’. As the Course says, the Divine ‘depends on them because She created them perfect’: Source knows they are all needed for our collective success, and that in itself is what makes them perfect.
Because every key is perfect, it doesn’t matter what our neighbours do, or our friends, or our spouses, or our children, because we can trust that everyone who has fully aligned themselves with their creative purpose for this lifetime is doing their part of the work. All we need to focus on is our little part, and doing that part to the best of our ability. It’s what we came here to do. Nothing more, and nothing less.
Of course, you can check in with others to see what they’re up to, perhaps to see how your specific strengths can be brought together to amplify the work you’re both doing, but looking at other people’s work to compare jobs loses all of its logic when looked at from this angle. If we’re all here to do our own unique thing with what we’re given, what’s the use in weighing them vis-à-vis each other?
When I say ‘unique’ here, I don’t mean that in a way that feeds the ego. Doing what we came here to do can mean that more of us are creating something that’s quite similar to what other people are doing or have already done. We need more than one raindrop to make any living thing grow.
What makes it unique – and therefore important to pursue – is that, even if we’re doing something that looks or sounds like something that’s already been or being done, you doing that same job, with what you have and where you are in the world, will make it just different enough that it speaks to other people, to those who didn’t feel called by those other similar creations or who previous creators haven’t been able to reach.
As such, there’s nothing wrong with creating something that’s not entirely new and shiny. It’s ego who wants that for us, because it believes that being able to provide something that absolutely no one else can contributes to our chances of survival. The people your creations are supposed to reach this lifetime might not be in need of something new and shiny. They might just need to hear the same message with a twist, something that’ll make it finally land with them.
And maybe they do, maybe they do need something entirely new, and maybe your job is to do something that’s never been done before, but that doesn’t make your job better or more valuable than that of someone else who’s also doing exactly what they came here to do, chipping away at unlocking their specific lock.
When introducing the notion of miracles, the Course says: ‘There is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is not “harder” or “bigger” than another. They are all the same. All expressions of love are maximal.’
The same goes for our creations. There is no hierarchy. One is not harder or bigger or more important than another. They are all the same.
Being able to see your own creative work, and that of others, in this light calls for a complete surrender to the purpose Source had in mind for us when our souls decided to incarnate. It calls for utter and complete trust that you’re being guided and doing the work you came here to do. It’s only then, in those moments, that we’ll be able to do our work, and witness that of others, without any sort of judgement.
What are you bringing to the table? And can you look at it without passing judgement on it? Can you revel in the miracle that it is and will bring about in this world, and do that without your ego getting ahead of itself?
Let me hear your thoughts <3
xx Mariëlle
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Thank you. I love this week's mantra, which resonates with me.