D is for Deliverance

Deliverance:

the action of being rescued or set free.

"prayers for deliverance"

synonyms:

liberation, release, delivery, discharge, rescue, emancipation;

One of the most famous prayers includes this request, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” the prayer is thoughtful in that it acknowledges temptation and our tendency to fall into it (and the temptation has become evil), so the immediate request for deliverance makes sense given our curious and explorative nature.

Many beautiful experiences precede unpleasant outcomes because we do not understand the complexity of nature.  For example, you may see a beautiful rose and it gives off a beautiful scent which tempts you to smell the rose more closely. If you hadn’t noticed the thorns on the stem, you might experience a sharp prick, which has the potential have a longer and lasting effect on you. You might even experience a bit of anger behind it!

The same analogy can be applied to some relationships… everything starts out beautiful, the next thing you know is that “the situation has become messy.”

Sweets and delights can be beautiful and taste wonderful, but without nutritional value can (if taken in great quantities) cause health problems.

What then are the temptations (something that entices or allures us)  that we need deliverance (rescuing) from? Everything but stillness.

Everything. Everything has an alluring quality because everything is an expression of the creator and the creator’s nature is appealing in every form. Each form has a unique purpose and a unique way of expanding.  If a bird captures your attention, you and your mind will follow it.  If you want to know how it flies, you will study it, and that will take you on the journey of the bird.  If a tree captures your attention, your mind will ponder it and you find yourself traveling mentally toward the tree trying to understand it.  

Our nature is to learn more and the way we learn more is to focus our attention on that which we wish to learn, however because everything has a life, we naturally lose ourselves in that which we are studying and sometimes we need deliverance!

I’ve been using simple analogies but there are deeper ones. Human beings and their journeys. During our own travel we meet so many people and some we find attractive. Our society is not as sophisticated as we’d like to think it is.  So we take our attraction to be a part of some primal exposure (and it is) but we also don’t understand our “primal” nature.  We tend to think of primal as unsophisticated, which is untrue. Our primal nature is our prime, first or dominant force. Primal refers to our essential life force.  And our essential life force has an intelligence that is beyond what our society teaches.  We haven’t been part of a society that teaches the correct approach to relationships.   

Moving forward without “understanding” or even a request for inner guidance we introduce ourselves and we “see where it goes.”  The result is often unnecessary disappointment because we haven’t understood ourselves first. So the evil is ignorance. Not knowing, not understanding.

The purpose of attraction is always the same.  We want to know what and why God is expressing through that form.  Once we know, we can separate (deliverance) in peace and with the joy of knowing and understanding the expression of God in the other people.

Be well and be happy!