Experience Vastness of the Human Heart and Its Connection to God

One night I was dreaming of the previous day’s events that now I cannot recall. In the middle of the mundane interactions with my fellow humans I felt that they and I became small. I focused instead beyond the people with whom I was speaking. The trees, then the valley, then the blue ridge mountain range, the expanse of plains beyond and the space beyond the Earth, the vastness. I floated in the vastness that can only be described as freedom a huge place of love and acceptance where we float unencumbered by gravity or bodily needs or social “norms.”

I rolled over and my hand landed on my husband’s heart and the vision transformed into the depth of the human heart that has its own unique vastness. A vastness that we each hold inside of us. This vastness was like the first one yet we each contained it. Vastness inside of vastness. I woke up that day with a new marveling appreciation for the human heart. Each of us have an endless, bottomless, and limitless capacity for love, compassion, enlightenment, inspiration, creativity and sweeping goodness.

I saw a post on Instagram from a young woman talking about being afraid to sit quietly alone. She was afraid of what she might encounter inside herself. I remember feeling this way too, many years ago. We believe so many lies about ourselves. Lies that we have been told by others and lies we tell ourselves that we often can’t see ourselves as we really are. We are complete, whole and exactly the way God made us. I believe that God does not make mistakes. Nothing about you or me was a mistake. Do we have challenges because we live in a fallen world? Absolutely. However, that is no reason to live a life in the Matrix ignoring our own inner vastness and the vastness of the universe around us.

Sit with me a moment in a quiet place by yourself. Sit comfortable but not so you will fall asleep easily. Focus on breathing slowly in and slowly out. In your mind’s eye, picture the “now” moment. The closest way to describe the “now” moment is the instant a kernel of popcorn pops. It is the time in between time, the crunch time. The moment that we get a glimpse of eternity, outside of time. Vastness in time. Eternity is where God is. This could be why he is all around us but we have trouble accessing Him. Because we are living in “time.” He lives in “eternity.”

Tapping into the “now” I get the feeling I expand beyond boarders of my natural existence into the spiritual plane. This is going outward. We can also go inward into the vastness of our own heart. At its most fundamental point our hearts are fed love from the wellspring of the origin of love, God. We see this love in His manifestation, Jesus. His love flows into us sustaining us. As we turn our “now” vastness concentration inward we can access this love, pure love, love of your own soul, spirit love, Godly love.

In order to get to this love, we may have blockers in the way. Imagine an enormous waterfall with a boulder blocking it halfway down, then at the bottom a giant sequoia tree has fallen across the river cutting off much of the water, finally just before the water reaches your reservoir someone built a dam that prevents even a drop of the love water from reaching your heart.

Why on Earth would someone keep a boulder, a giant sequoia, and a dam to prevent God’s love from reaching our heart? Because we are helpless and hopeless? No, we are not either of those things but we may not know they are even there. Others may have put the boulder and the tree but we build the dam ourselves thinking that if we keep love out, we won’t be hurt. The problem with this is that the only, I mean the only, cure for our heart is God’s love. Without the flow of it, the heart shrivels up and dies. Look at the science. People with less ability to deal with life’s crisis have heart problems and shorter lives.

Our hearts are built for vastness. If we keep them dammed up, they cannot grow and get the love they need to exist. That love from God must flow through our hearts and out to others. If it doesn’t, we die.

They say babies who are never picked up and loved die. I believe it is 50% 50%. They are not loved and they have no way of loving another. Without love flowing through and out we perish. We die, spiritually, then emotionally, then mentally, then physically. We must have this vastness of God’s love.

Spend time today sitting quietly allow your dam to come down. Use kindness, gentleness, patience and forgiveness for yourself and others to remove the boulders and sequoias from your waterfall. It may not happen all at once. Life is about learning to work through all these blockers. As we experience His vastness through worshipping him our problems become small. I have often noticed that what I thought was a big problem before praying and worshipping only to open my eyes and fail to remember what my problem even was. The problem did not disappear like magic. They are always there to trouble us but it is our perception that changes. Those “big” problems become nothing at all when the God’s vastness hits us. Know that your pain and emptiness can be healed by the One that created you. Know that anything is possible with God. Tap into your vastness and connect to His vastness and watch how your life expands beyond your imagination. Experience the endless, bottomless, and limitless capacity for love, compassion, enlightenment, inspiration, creativity and sweeping goodness found in your own heart and that wellspring of love that comes from the sources of all things.