Fun

February 10, 2024

What is your favorite kind of fun? If you are unsure, just drop it into your heart and recall what your favorite fun feels like. Now, let those sensations fill your being. What auditory, physical, or visual memories are flooding into your heart now? Why do you suppose it's fun to re-experience fun right this minute?

While feeling the sensation of fun, ask yourself these questions: Do I feel the excitement as in a fun ride on a roller coaster? Do I feel satisfaction creating something beautiful, like painting a picture, building a piece of furniture, sewing, or landscaping? Do I have the feeling of wonder as in exploring new territory?

Do you feel joyful excitement being with people who love you? Do you feel exhilarated when your body performs at its peak? Do you have the feeling of becoming more than who you are by accomplishing a feat you didn’t know was in you, like building a house, cooking, or learning a new computer program? Do you feel awe and thrill in mystery, such as discovering a previously unknown wisdom?

Of course, we all have particular circumstances that are the most fun for us. But we do not always realize fun's spiritual power. Knowing what is fun for us is a gateway to our soul because fun is Joy, an essential quality of our being. Joy embodies our life force and evokes our soul child's bliss. Remember, our soul child is our essence, and all essences experience bliss. Bliss is a rare commodity in adulthood, yet we all seem to be looking for it somehow. All adults have a strong internal drive to recreate the bliss of their childhood, even if we are not in touch with that motive. Childhood bliss is pure joy. It is the joy of our true nature, our essence. Like homing pigeons, we want to return home to our bliss. If we are lucky, we will experience the bliss of our second childhood. If we are even luckier, we will live there.

Joseph Campbell, author of The Power of Myth, is one of the most highly revered philosophers and thought leaders of modern times. Having explored all the world's myths, religions, and cultures as pathways to the meaning, joy, and the divine, he had powerful advice for us human beings: "Follow your bliss."

Inquiry: What is your true bliss, and are you following it?

Dear God,

Grant us the bliss of our childhood. "Take us down to the springs of our lives and tell us our natures and our names." Amen

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