I heard the speaker tonight slip this into his message.
“Master the ask.”
I’ve often said that our questions can be our greatest answers, and now I’m excited to see that the art of asking can be a beautiful journey into mastery.
So may we “master the ask.”
Hope this fits as well for you as it did for me.
The heart tunes when we begin letting go to what isn’t and start clinging to what actually is.
Fear isn’t much more than an accuser and a thief. Hence the constant trial and robbery we feel when we can’t let go. All the while, Love is the fuel and the engine, the river and the ocean, and the song and the dance of reality’s gorgeous storyline. Hence the cosmic connnection to all things when we’re dialed into and clinging to this Love.
The heart tunes with a surrender to the moment…
…and when the ego lays down…
…and when joy is the thread we choose to weave the blankets of our lives with.
Tune the heart.
Warm the soul.
Sing thy grace.
Diana Butler Bass is an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of nine books, including her latest, Grounded: Finding God in the World—A Spiritual Revolution.
Diana regularly speaks at conferences, leads educational events for religious leaders, and teaches in a variety of venues. She also writes at The Huffington Post and The Washington Post and comments on religion, politics, and culture in the media including USA TODAY, Time, CNN, FOX, PBS, and NPR.
Diana joins us in this episode of Let The Music Play Podcast as we discuss the connection of awe, compassion, and action, how we may collectively relocate our idea of God to reground our very lives, and how we can be moved by the Love that enlivens the earth and the Mystery that is with us, for us, and ahead of us.
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There’s power in simplicity…
and in gratitude…
and in presence…
and in Love…
…and it’s all at your fingertips.
Power will always be sold to us as something external to obtain. The reality is it’s totally an inside job and it’s flow and availability only increases the more we use it.
If your posture in this life is available and open enough to take in all of the Heaven that’s at your fingertips then you’ll most likely find it not so necessary to point out the hell you’re finding, or being sold, in your niche market hand baskets.
Imagine a world where our radars picked up more joy than fights.
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