PRINCIPLE AND PROCESS-YOUR LIFE-MAKING MIRACLE
by Dr. Arthur Chang
If we can take a pill to lose weight, get our blood pressure down, or to enhance our mood, there is a strong tendency we will do it. If we can enter a game of chance, a gamble, to win a significant amount of money, our human tendency is to do it.
On the contrary, if we desire to get in shape by changing our diet, doing regular exercise, and to have an optimistic mindset, now that is the rub. That's work, and work doesn't seem miraculous because it is based upon our understanding a principle and engaging a process to be effective. It is time related.
Yet, we don't dislike everything that requires effort. For instance, play and competition often will get our attention and invariably our efforts. Our challenge seems to be our inadequate grasp of the kind of whole creature we are, and how all things relate to each other.
Could it be that the Bible's presentation of miracles, of things happening instantly instead of processively, has screened us from seeing the greatest miracle of living creatively is vested in principle and process?
We are each an entity that didn't just get here in a moment. Our lives are a series of occasions over time. We live in droplets of moment, which come into being, and perish. This is process guided by an intelligent principle.
If we understand the principle governing a creative venture, and apply the principle in our action toward our goals, whether greater well-being, increased wealth, more and better friends, love and happiness, we can attain all these things. However, making a life is not like making instant coffee. It will involve action over time and space. We see this miraculous result in the lives of successful people. On the other hand, unsuccessful people may tend to sit and wait for an instant miracle to happen without realizing they can gradually build their dreams on principle, and process is the miracle of their lives. This is the real journey of living and it unfolds from principle and process.
Blessing
May the journey of your life be the unfolding of your innermost vision as it honors the principle and process of the heart of the creative process.
