Balancing Spirituality with Reality

“On Earth as it is in Heaven”

-The Lord’s Prayer

The spiritual world is beautiful and perfect. Well, wait, I should clarify. The higher realms of the spiritual world, the ones I encountered in my experience, are beautiful and perfect. It is a world full of love and peace. Everything sings with light and joy.

In contrast, our physical reality can seem topsy turvy and difficult. After my experience, I wanted to have nothing to do with the “real” world. I knew how beautiful God’s world was, and I wanted to go there right away and forever. Learning to stay in this world in a balanced way has taken years.

One of the most valuable things I’ve learned in this process is the importance of being embodied and truly living in my body on the earth. Being fully present in my body was the last thing I wanted after feeling so much of God’s love. After much work, I’ve realized that staying in my body through the practices I’ve learned, like breathing, meditating, and slow walking, helps bring about peace in my own life and in the lives of those around me.

We are here to create God’s love in the real world, not just to escape to God’s peace and avoid reality. When we truly embody love and work towards peace, we help to create that heaven right here on earth. It hasn’t always been easy for me to want to stay here, but I know God’s world is truly all around us. We can align ourselves with love and create it right here and now.