Witness The Master Multitasker At Work

Hint. It’s not you.

I heard their honking first. Widening my vision, I saw three geese, one leading and two more walking together, honking as they waddled over the rise to their little pond.

One saw me and slowed down to watch me as I walked by.

We kept glancing back at each other, kindred spirits, celebrating the dawning of a new day.

It had rained all day the day before and into the morning. At dawn, the rain stopped, and the geese and I were witnesses to a morning filled with the scent of lilacs and the movement of the sunlight through and around glistening branches and flowers.

It was a glorious morning, overflowing with countless trillions of living things moving, singing, sliding, and expanding.

It appeared as though every plant had grown overnight, thanks to a day of rain.

As the goose and I exchanged glances, it turned into one of those moments when it was impossible not to know that there was an Infinite Loving Principle behind it all.

I was beginning to walk again after stopping for the winter and trying a new technique of walking while breathing only through my nose. It was harder to do than it sounds, but it was supposed to make running or walking easier after getting used to it.

I had also tried to do an additional new technique, walking toe first, then heel, but had given up the idea of doing two new things, finding it much too difficult to break two habits at once.

It is difficult for me to do more than a few things at once if I want to do them well.

However, once again, during that glorious morning, I remembered that the Infinite does all things, all at once, all the time, with perfect precision and outcome.

I know that when I surrender to the acceptance that I am the expression of this infinite Principle, I always have the experience of being cared for as part of the One infinite whole.

Of course, this perfect caring is always happening, but experiencing it and intellectually knowing it are two different things.

It’s not the big events in our lives that prove this infinite care to us—it is the small, everyday events.

For example, I couldn’t remember an item I was supposed to get at the grocery store. Instead of worrying about it, I affirmed to myself that the infinite Mind surely has forgotten nothing.

After a few moments, I “heard” the answer as I walked up an aisle. Later that day, that quiet voice reminded me to mail a letter and make a phone call.

Trusting that this infinite Principle is in charge, we could all let go more.

We could stop trying to multitask and instead witness the master multitasker at work, caring for every detail of every life in every moment.

The Infinite Principle of Love is always on the job. To remind ourselves, we could step outside and notice what is going on that we had nothing to do with.

We may have watered the trees, planted a rose, or trimmed the lilac, but we cannot actually make anything happen.

No amount of human willpower can give the tree, the rose, and the lilac life. Human willpower cannot watch over them every moment or care for their every new sprout.

Yes, human willpower can make some things happen within the material world.

However, what good is this other than expanding our human ego and misperception that we are material and the world is material?

How happy are we when we multitask, take on more responsibility, and try to prove our human worth?

Eventually, we need to leave this mistaken view of ourselves as humans and experience ourselves as the idea of the Principle of Love, always tenderly cared for and loved.

In those glorious moments when this is perfectly clear, we know that Infinite Intelligence is the substance of what we have misperceived as material.

Once that idea takes root within our consciousness, it becomes clear that everything that exists—that we see, taste, touch, smell, and feel is—in big R Reality — spiritual, or the idea of God.

Then, we know ourselves as God's action and follow direction rather than powering forward in a series of multitasks trying to make things happen.

Del and I sit outside before dawn every morning.

The birds start their morning chorus long before dawn arrives, usually with a single mockingbird call, followed a few minutes later by the robins and cardinals. By the time the sky lightens, there is a full chorus of birds in the trees, grass, bushes, and plants.

The morning’s choreography is just one more example of the master multi-tasker’s constant and precise care of every detail of life.

We cannot imagine the complexity of each moment.

But we can imagine the possibilities for ourselves if we stopped trying to be the cause and creator and surrendered instead to the steady care of the one cause and creator, the infinite intelligence of the Principle of Love, multi-tasking with precision because that is Its nature.

Here is a perfect reminder to stop doing personal multi-tasking:

“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?”

This is summed up in the statement of one of the three spiritual laws:

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

Mat: 6–28–31/33

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