What do we mean when we say, “Good luck?” We are wishing someone well, that things go his way. And what does it mean for things to go his way? We all know there are times in life when everything seems to just go easier, contrasted to other times when it feels one difficulty after another is trying to stop us. Good luck means either the impediments disappear or that they are overcome.
But why any impediments at all? Is it bad luck that is at fault? The same person with the same body conditioning may be walking down a slight hill, talking, smiling and laughing all along the way, or he may be climbing a steep incline, all talk ceases, the lungs act like overworked bellows and he feels as though he will not make it to the top! Is the hill climbed bad luck?
When we find someone who is struggling to put one foot in front of the other we want him to have strength, endurance, have some things go his way. The individual may focus upon his own abilities, however to the thoughtful person it becomes clear that every individual is connected to something higher, and events that swirl all around have a Source beyond random chance—there is a Creator, a God. Rather than ascribing this source to luck, you ultimately want another to be blessed by the giver of all good things. Good luck really means: God bless you.
If you would but know it, all things in your life are a result of the law of cause and effect, the law of karma. However, higher than the law of karma, or the stars, genetics or any other influence from the material world is the power, intelligence and grace that comes directly from Divine Consciousness.
Replacing no, I can’t consciousness with yes, I will consciousness is a tremendous step in evolution. But a giant leap forward comes in uniting individual will with the supreme Creator’s will, which makes all things possible. Light is stronger than the dark, love more powerful than fear, omniscience true and separation false; in all ways, the Presence of God is superior to anything this world offers.
It is the human mind that is the battleground for these two ways of perceiving the source for overcoming—the human and the Divine. Years and lifetimes of survival mode makes us think we must rely only upon our own wits and capabilities. And, although it becomes clear there is a Divine Consciousness which is the true source of our being, past programming remains strong in feeling, it is just me.
My own journey in knowing this something higher began when I was a late teen. My own decision making and circumstances led me to crisis of great emotional pain. In the middle of the night I sat in the front yard looking at the starry sky, feeling my heart splitting in two in the most painful way possible. It was so painful that I prayed, “God, I don’t know if you exist, but if you do, if I have never needed you before I need you now. Please, help me with this pain!” Immediately I felt as if a thousand-pound weight was lifted from my shoulders and the pain in my heart was alleviated.
My rational mind argued that there was no divine intervention, but a deeper part of me could not deny it, I knew that it was. This was a momentary opening of a door to a much greater way of being. The way was slow and bumbling, but a seed was planted in the rocky ground of doubt and denial, finding enough good soil that it eventually bore a tree of realization. The most tremendous change began when I was blessed on that warm summer’s night.
Instead of wishing you good luck, I see, in the depth of my communion with the all-beneficent Lord of creation, that you are blessed—most particularly that your journey to the highest realization is greatly quickened. In that spirit, God’s greatest blessings to you.