Spirit teaches a simple seeker (and we each and all are more or less simple seekers) a gentle, personal, loving, and intelligent way to live in relationship with all other life forms. We have been born into a society that is not necessarily of our own choosing. That reality is a clue to a more general reality. We will experience environmental conditions and relationship situations that we feel are totally, or at least partly, beyond our personal choosing, and yet we must respond in some way to them. How?
If and when situations arise for the first time within our personal memory, we haven’t had the benefit of being able to remember how we responded the last time such a situation presented itself, and on how effective our response was, then. We need to develop new responses to new situations. How?
Spirit teaches a simple seeker that there are no absolutely new personal situations that could possibly develop. No life situation is completely disconnected from any other life situation. They each involve people, and we each are the singular form of people. We each possess a certain unique capacity to respond to any possible situation that might arise, within the limits of our ability to do so.
Sure. But how to know what those limits are? They expand, Spirit tells me, as we face and cope to the best of our ability at the time. Then, as the Law of Evolution has prepared us to meet unforseen situations and conditions, we develop new ways to face them; new ways that are based on old ways. We’ve learned, if we have, what worked in the past, in similar, if only vaguely similar, situations. We learn to trust our ability to respond, sooner or later.
Simple Seekers 