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Creative Call to Action  

©2005 Janice Sproull, D.D. , J.D.

Over lunch in Corpus Christi , my birthplace and present home, a new friend questioned me about the career transition from classically trained lawyer to writer, healer and creative coach.  After studying so hard, passing the bar exam and entering the legal system, I told him, nothing could take away the gifts of the knowledge and experience.  But an expansion of purpose had called. 

“And what was it?,” he asked.  “One word, ‘spirituality.’ ”  My friend then asked, “What is ‘spirituality,’ any way?” So I gave him my four-word definition, “creative call to action.”     

He asked to know more.  We talked about the spiritual essence of happy living that each individual can create according to personal talents.  We discussed the explosion of awareness in our era.  We agreed that from every faith tradition, and from today’s scientific understanding of systems biology and quantum physics, you can seek and find Spirit for your best life.  Then as a writer, I went home to write about it, because daily interaction gives the best inspiration for every how-to article. 

How do you find your truest voice as a writer?  You will find “spirituality” at the heart of drive, the center of encouragement, the spark of imagination.  We connect, in the creative Spirit, to support one another in the process, by our shared consciousness of purpose.  You can envision the “CABLE” of our creative call to action this way.

CABLE (Connected Links for Living at Purpose)

Call for Individual and Community Wholeness

   Advance Awareness of Humane Heart’s Desire

        Build on Truest Talents for Inventive Action

             Learn the Consistent Way of Visualization

                  Expand Your Creative Compassionate Growth

By the “CABLE” of consciousness, Spirit connects head with heart to experience greater dignity, purpose, joy and freedom.  

Our linked co-creation with Spirit nets a two-part analogy to modern communication media:  (1) the Western Union written telegram carried forward in historical circumstances through cosmological power greater than ourselves, and (2) the Eastern Onion singing telegram which resonates through the layers within every individual. 

We can seek and find both the mystic “ Union ” and the layered “Onion,” savory like the variety from Visalia .    The mysterious savor of Spirit bridges from our separate natures to our common goals for a greater good.  Spirit inspires us to speak with one another, and then write from personal experience.

Theologians talk about the “numinous” and the “ineffable,” two-dollar words about the inherent mystery of what we know deep in our souls and yearn to communicate. Spirit allows the mystically inclined to sample infinite consciousness and convey images never dreamed before.  Spirit puts faith into action for building our best dreams come true. 

For the scientifically minded, mysticism and science has converged in our time.  Today’s physics will tell you that every molecule in your body once lived in a twinkling star. The same Spirit behind a trillion galaxies, blazing stars beyond number, literally lives within you.  When we open to the wonder of life, Spirit fuels our willingness to live in an expansion of our star-quality abundance.  This creative Spirit intersects the religious impulse with every individual’s unique blend of talents.

Spirit enjoys the moment. Spirit takes a deep breath.  And has a big laugh.

While the definitions of Spirit number in the billions among the billions of people on this earth, in common every human wears a body suit as a spiritual being.  The billions of folks moving toward direct connection with living Spirit is a fresh movement.  At no other time have so many people been living on earth with knowledge about each other.  The movement is also fresh, because access to the fullness of Spirit requires the framework of personal freedom in human society.  In historical terms, this has been a long time coming.

Today we can seek a better life by visualizing what we want, and find Spirit’s help in the realization of our dreams.  We can discard the undeserved, the unfitting and the unfriendly. For those who depart organized religion as well as those who practice a faith tradition, Spirit informs the best of what we can be. 

We all have special places of reverence and memory. Spirit builds from the awe in nature and religion to support each unique person’s unfolding to a life purpose of richer fulfillment: detachment from harm, authentic good feeling, constructive action, new invention, heightened intuition, enhanced creativity, greater joy, better relationships and community strength.   This is the “CABLE” of life, and the linkage to your best writing.

 Spirit links us to possibility and, over time, converts the seemingly bad to the gifts of the soul. Spirit even has A, B, C’s:  

(A)  Learn to trust our power for conscious co-creation in our world;

(B)   Increase our constructive energy by practicing gratefulness for the good we presently see, while we gratefully visualize the coming good we deserve; and

(C)   Expand into the future from greater awareness in this moment. 

You might have your own A, B, C’s for Spirit.  Or you can try these, and see how they fit:  

(A) Spirit works for perfectly imperfect human beings;

(B)  Spirit sidesteps despair by making the best of situations to clear the field for what’s better; and

(C)  Spirit becomes an inside job to honor the universal power.

Most of all, Spirit gives thanks.

For the tough times of worldwide upheaval, gratefulness is the pragmatic energy that draws better solutions to us.  In our lifetime the Berlin Wall fell, the Iron Curtain dropped, and the configuration of global economy shifts daily.  The physical serves to reflect the spiritual changes we are being called to face.  Practically speaking, in Spirit, if humanity as a whole wants to move past suffering, we can use a change in focus to bring the best possible results out of everything that happens.

To take an example from early 2005, we can choose to see the good in neighbors coming together, after tsunami, to comfort one another in the time of grief, to search for survivors, and to keep living for a brighter day. We can find appreciation in every opportunity for rebuilding. We can give honor to those whose bravery inspires us courageously to seek and find new solutions. 

It will ultimately improve our collective experience as more and more people find the gratitude and make the best of whatever outward appearances surround us.  Spirit is about doing what it takes to detach our focus from blame, fear and worry, and instead shift our focus to connection, compassion and creation.  We build a better world in homage to our shared dignity of expansive possibility. 

In the meantime, for this world in flux, your life becomes your responsibility. Life is what you make it. Your consciousness of positive thought and happy emotion is the canvas on which you paint your best life, tell your best story, and embrace your best connection. Spirit is your palette of colors, your elixir of bounty and the dance of this day.

What is “spirituality,” any way?  However you define it, spirituality is the greatest story of how you find the way to the life you really want.   And then write what’s within you, waiting to be born.

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