Jen + Juice

“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”

One of my weekly chores as a kid was to dust the living room, and there was an old-country-style decorative piece on the end table with those words painted onto it.

Every week when I wiped it down, I’d read those words in my head, and they would get stuck there on repeat like a song. And I didn’t even really know what they meant.

But through experiencing creative art and music throughout my life, and how it speaks to and nourishes my soul, deepening my connection with God and the rest of Creation, I feel like maybe I’m starting to understand a little.

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“The music plays the band, not the other way around.” – Bob Weir

St. Paul shared the same sentiment in his second letter to the Corinthians, but in biblical verbiage.

“Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit for anything as coming from us; rather, our qualification comes from God.” (2 Corinthians 3:5)

They both said the same thing, just in their own unique expression and understanding of the universal language, the Living Word, the Logos.

They were both aware, through their personal experiences of Mother-Father God (or however you’d like to name the unlimited flow of universal juicy juices of source creation), that we aren’t the source of the flow; we are merely vessels for the immaculate juices to move in, through, and out of us.

“Reach out your hand, if your cup be empty. If your cup is full, may it be again. Let it be known, there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men.” – Robert Hunter

“Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink…He who believes in Christ, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” (John 7:37-38)

When we are in flow and dancing to the Rhythm of God, with our antennas tuned to the frequency of the Sacred Universal Heart, we know *we* aren’t the creator of our music. We are just the radio playing the love song written by God, through us, for God’s Creation. The ever-flowing faucet of sacred waters, of music, of love, of prosperity, of creation, is immaculate and eternal, and the music will never stop or fade away. May we open ourselves to the flow and keep the music alive.

This life is God’s gift to us, and the love song God creates through us is our gift back to God, by playing our soul’s tune for one another.

We were made for each other.

“Let there be songs to fill the air…“

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