Few weeks ago, I started a course “The Divine Exchange” with Cynthia Bourgeault and I have been really impressed with the material I am learning. This week, we learn about our life in different realms and how we move in the vertical and horizontal axis.

We had this question for our discussion:

• When talking about vertical exchange, Cynthia describes that it goes both ways between realms: that not only are the branches dependent on the vine, but the vine is dependent on the branches. How have you experienced this two-way flow in your own life?

I have experienced this concept very vividly in a stage of my life; I felt that I was in total control of my life. I remembered I pushed to the maximum until my body resisted and I got sick and disable. Few years took me to figure out how wrong I was.  Few years took me to convince myself that I need to heal from the inside out.  Few years took me to decide to jump on the hands of God so He will use me as instrument. Then few years is taking me to learn to keep and maintain this flow. It is a life -long work.

My teacher assistant respond me so beautiful with these words by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:

Trust in the Slow Work of God

Above all, trust in the slow work of God
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability-
and that it may take a very long time. And so I think it is with you.
your ideas mature gradually – let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances
acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.