Dear Spiritual Family,
With baseball season underway, we find ourselves reaching for a baseball metaphor or two to aid in our messages to you. Thank you in advance for your understanding. 😊😊
“Home plate” as we refer to it in our video this week can represent a number of things – a spiritual breakthrough, a greater sense of purpose, a healing – physical or otherwise. The idea is to allow yourself to be “spoken to” by Spirit as to what might be trying to rise to the surface of your awareness.
For Simon Peter, Jesus’ disciple, “home plate” might have represented the reset that was necessary for him to have in order to be highly effective in the work that lay before him after the Resurrection.
As we share in John 21:13-17, our Master Teacher provides that reset in a most profound manner. It was one of his last great lessons before he left the physical sight of his disciples there by the sea of Tiberias.
When we yield to the promptings of our true Self, the indwelling Christ – we feel empowered to “take our foot off third base” and head for home plate. Symbolically, the hesitancy to leave the familiarity of where we are – on third base – is typically the ego that keeps us stuck in a long-held grievance or a worn-out set of judgments.
To the ego, it’s a sacrifice to let those things go, but like Peter, who had denied knowing Jesus three times (and thereby his own Christ nature) on Good Friday morning, his “Third Base Coach” was right there to help him find his way “Home.”
Does our Father love us any less when we lose our way, when we feel stuck, when we hesitate to move from our positionalities? Of course not; we are loved unconditionally, forever. Yet, our real happiness, our sense of being “on track,” aligned with God’s will for our highest good, is dependent on putting our fears aside and going for the authentic life that we are all destined to live.
As we seek, with you, to live such lives, we are so grateful to be on this sacred journey with you. Here’s to making that deeply spiritual move from third to home and grounding the real feeling of victory as we touch home plate – together!
We Love You,
Rev. Steve and Mary