Two young girls are prominent in the news this week. Thirteen year old Mo’ne Davis displayed skill and poise pitching her team into the Little League World Series and an unidentified nine year old entered the national stage when she pulled the trigger on an Uzi sub-machine gun.
Ms. Davis’s story is being well parsed in the mainstream media. She stems from an environment that encouraged her to accept her natural talents and develop them to a level beyond the common place. Ms. Davis demonstrates the power of the human mind when it is open and receptive to its Spiritual Truth.
Spirit or God is the source of everything we are, know or imagine. It is infinite, therefore everything and every idea is some part of it. Spirit is love and creates constantly from the beliefs we project into it.
Clearly Ms. Davis has either consciously or unconsciously aligned herself in harmony with the creative energy of Spirit. She believes at her core that she is skilled and capable of delivering devastating pitches. She knows that her skill is useless until she hones it with practice and coaching.
Our coaches personify a conduit for that infinite pool of knowledge we are spiritually tapped into. Practice is to our muscles as regular affirmative prayer is to our beliefs. Repetition builds strength and memory for both. At the time of need both well trained muscle and belief kick in and “auto pilot” us through the challenge. Muscular endurance keeps us in the game and confident belief keeps us in harmony with Spirit, receptive to important nuggets of wisdom and self-confidence when we need them most.
Ms. Davis also demonstrates the confidence and demeanor of a spiritually aligned person. She has talent, and she knows its source is something greater than she alone. She knows too that she is not alone on the field and that she is part of a team. Her interviews are refreshing in their candor and humility.
Upon hearing of the tragic shooting by the nine year old there was a temptation to jump into judgment. Although no civil laws were broken, the mindset of the girl’s parents seems questionable to some, but understandable to others. Unmistakably these are not evil people. The accident occurred at a family outing, the kind of thing every family enjoys.
Target shooting is a time honored sport. It is part of Olympic competitions. What body of fears leads a family to believe there is a need for its children to learn the use of automatic weapons, weapons whose only practical use is to kill people? This kind of fear suggest a belief in scarcity. A belief that divides the world into those who have and those who want. A belief that those who have must defend themselves from those who want and a belief that wanting justifies taking.
If God were separate from its creation, such scarcity might exist. If humans had to beg from God, or promise homage to God an uneven distribution of wealth would be the natural state. God is infinite and by definition cannot be separate from its creation. Therefore all the wealth of creation is instantly available to all.
Mo’ne Davis has not stolen her skill from anyone else, she developed what was hers to use. She accepts victory and defeat with equal aplomb and grace. She is still a championship pitcher, she is still a pioneer in her sport. These Truths about her never need defending. She demonstrates an understanding of Spirit and how it works.
The tragedy on the gun range is as much a part of Spiritual creation as the talent claimed by Ms. Davis. Its lessons may remain a mystery for some time to come, but one day an evolutionary shift will be rooted in it. Whether the shift is personal for someone involved, for an unrelated stranger or society in general a shift is evolving.
Spirit does not judge our human events and no good comes from our filling that gap. Spirit builds on our beliefs with each event a building block of our belief. We can choose to be inspired or we can succumb to our fears. We can evolve and grow or cling desperately to false ideas of fear and scarcity. Spirit loves us either way.