Our community meditates each week to invite a divine quality into our humanity. It is so powerful that I always discover new parts of the real me that I have never seen before. I am sometimes upset at the discovery of how little I have embraced a quality. But on the other side of that coin, I am always pleased at how much more of my divinity I can embrace.

The pleased feeling had a slow start the week we chose to expand the quality of Exploration. I had always prided myself in being willing to look beyond the human surface of myself and of others to the divinity offered. However, investigating Exploration made me aware that I only liked to engage in this deeper search with people who joined me in walking a divine path.

Now, you would think that resisting that path would never happen in an intentionally spiritual community. But sometimes the unthinkable happens just so we can get a big lesson about a divine quality, like Exploration. So of course I bumped into three highly evolved people who would only join me if I would push them through their stuck place. After the third such refusal, I got very angry.

I spent time breathing through my anger…to meditate on Exploration from a clear space and get the wisdom I was obviously missing. I became aware of how stupid it was to wait for people to always walk up to me presenting their divine selves. Instead, I could start the Exploration walk and invite them to follow.

So I asked forgiveness from the people I had cast into my anger pool. One had been stuck in competition. Another was stuck in the less-than feeling of envy. And the third person was in total judgment. Two of the three gave up their petty human attachment to join my heart. And I am still holding open a space for the third person to jointly Explore our divine path.

Once I was back in the arms of Exploration, none of their human resistance seemed important. What was important was the path our divine footprints had made on which our human selves could walk. I still prefer that their human-self join our divine walk. But I am content if only their divine-self offers to keep me company.