Rooted to Rise

What are you rooted in?

This is an important question to ask ourselves, especially as we explore this month’s theme of Embodiment.

Before we can rise, we must become conscious of what is beneath us—what is supporting us, nourishing us, and determining the direction of our growth.

Every day, we are planting thoughts.

Some of those thoughts come from our spiritual principles. Others come from fear, past experiences, social conditioning, other people’s opinions, the news, circumstances, or the voices we have unconsciously allowed to become our own.

So the question is not simply, What am I thinking?

The deeper question is:

Whose thoughts am I thinking?

Are we rooted in the principles we say we believe? Are our thoughts grounded in the teachings of the Science of Mind—that there is One Life, that this Life is expressing through us, and that we are not separate from the Divine Presence?

Or have we become rooted in someone else’s version of who we are?

This brings us back to something we explored last month: spiritual identity theft.

Sometimes we don’t lose our identity because someone takes it from us. We lose it because we forget who we are—and whose we are.

We begin accepting thoughts that contradict the truth of our spiritual nature.

We say, “I can’t.”

“I’ll never have enough.”

“Nothing ever works out for me.”

“This is just the way my life is.”

“I have to settle.”

“I don’t deserve that.”

“I’ll believe it when I see it.”

But thoughts are not simply passing visitors. The thoughts we repeatedly allow into consciousness begin to take up residence.

And what takes up residence in consciousness eventually becomes embodied.

A thought can become a feeling.

A feeling can become an image.

An image can create a sensation in the body.

Those sensations feed our emotions, and our emotional patterns influence the way we see the world, the choices we make, the risks we take, the opportunities we recognize—or fail to recognize.

Before long, something that began as a thought can begin to feel like reality.

This is why what we are rooted in matters.

If we are constantly rooted in fear, we may begin organizing our lives around avoiding what we fear.

If we are rooted in lack, we may become preoccupied with evidence of what is missing.

If we are rooted in rejection, we may interpret neutral circumstances as proof that we are unwanted.

And here is the spiritual irony: we can become so focused on the very thing we don’t want that we give it more of our attention, emotion, imagination, and energy.

We forget the vision.

We forget the possibility.

We forget what Spirit has already planted within us.

There is a vision that Spirit has implanted in each of us—a divine idea seeking expression through our lives. But sometimes the noise becomes louder than the vision. Circumstances become louder than consciousness. Fear becomes louder than faith.

And we begin looking at what is instead of becoming available to what can be.

To be rooted to rise is to return.

Return to the principle.

Return to the truth.

Return to the consciousness that says: There is One Life, That Life is Perfect Life, and that Life is my Life now.

It means becoming intentional about what we allow to become embodied in us.

What thoughts are you rehearsing?

What images are you entertaining?

What feelings are you continually feeding?

What story about yourself have you accepted that Spirit never authored?

Perhaps this week, embodiment is not about adding another spiritual practice.

Perhaps it is about changing the mental soil in which we are planted.

Plant thoughts that support your spiritual identity.

Nurture images that correspond with your divine potential.

Feel the possibility of the life you are being called to live.

And when an old thought appears, you don’t have to fight it. Simply recognize it and choose again.

“I know that thought. But that is not the truth I choose to embody.”

You are not required to become someone else to rise.

You are invited to become more fully who you already are in Spirit.

Rooted in Truth.
Rooted in Love.
Rooted in Divine Intelligence.
Rooted in the vision Spirit has placed within you.

Because what we are rooted in determines what we are able to rise into.

And perhaps the question for this week is not, “What do I want to change?”

Perhaps the deeper question is:

“What truth am I willing to become?”

Ernest Holmes

“Change your thinking, change your life.”

Holmes repeatedly emphasized the creative power of consciousness: that our thought patterns matter because consciousness becomes the avenue through which the Creative Power expresses in our experience.

Your Affirmations for the Week:

1. I am rooted in the Truth of my Divine Nature, and I choose thoughts that reveal and embody that Truth.

2. I release thoughts that are not mine to carry, and I consciously choose thoughts aligned with the vision Spirit has planted within me.

3. I am rooted in Spirit, grounded in Love, and rising into the fullness of who I am created to be.

Remember we are Surrounded by Blessings and Light

RevMichael (Kisumma)