Discover the Shield of Supreme Victory

A lonely woman received an invitation from the King. She couldn't read it because it was in a language she couldn't understand. She got distracted and it blew under a table. Years later she found it and began to be interested in what was necessary to understand the language of the invitation. The invitation was for the unseen life. The unseen life is a perfect loving intelligent life, but that doesn't mean without movement.

2 Corinthians 5:7: "For we walk by faith, not by sight." To walk by sight means I know where I am going and where I have come from. Faith navigates through the unseen life. The unseen life is in front of us all the time. You enter into it when you marvel at nature. Life is trying to show you its perfection by the lessons it brings us. It shows us through our pain that we have the wrong reasons in place. It is a gentle correction even if we don't agree with it, it still happens. It brings us events as invitations to change our lives. We want to begin to understand how to read these things. We have to stop trying to change everything and begin becoming receptive to the process of life. Once we begin to participate and cooperate with it everything starts to move into perfect order.

A good king sent his son to build a kingdom for him. He told him he would give him everything he needed to succeed. If he ran into any trouble he gave him a sword of supreme victory. After a while the son thought the kingdom he was building was his kingdom. One-day dragons appeared and things in the kingdom started going down. The vineyards began to dry up and the people began making trouble. He tried everything but the dragons burned up everyone. Then he remembered his shield but much to his dismay the center of the shield had a hole in it. On the four corners of the shield were Courage, strength, wisdom and safety. He plugged the hole and sent his knight to fight with it but only the shield came back.

He began to realize that the dilemma he was in was because of his arrogance and wanting the kingdom to be what he wanted. His father's kingdom didn't have these problems. The dragons' names were fear and doubt, which don't exist without certainty and confidence. He realized he could no longer fill the hole with his answers and went forward unknowing what will happen but he knew that no kingdom should survive if it wasn't good. When the flames reached the shield, it filled in its own center and he was able to push the dragons back into the cave of the earth where they belong and the kingdom thrived again. The center of the shield was faith.

Our lives are elements of our own making but we can be part of the unseen life and it can live in us. I walk not by my sight but by a living faith, which allows a completely different relationship with the universe.