The Open Hand Revisited

The “open hand” is a wondrous image of manifestation, for it is at once fully receptive and powerfully active. By simultaneously allowing and offering, it opens a way into the experience of the Alchemy of Abundance. I have previously discussed how the flowering of human creativity may be envisioned as a great offering. We are truly here, here in our most radiant luminosity, when the life-offering of our deepest essence flows into the world. This offering can appear through our thoughts, our words, or our deeds – our projects, our products, our art, our services, but we are only fully satisfied only when we have given everything, glowing fully in the intense fission of energetic release.

At the same time, however, the “open hand” indicates our willingness to receive the grace of whatever life is offering to us. And this simultaneous exchange of receiving and offering moves to the ever flowing reciprocity of love.

To open to this inconceivably synergistic process of offering and receiving is to live in the miraculous alchemy of the presence of the present. It allows one to accept the present as a present, as a gift, and the resulting deep gratitude overflows as the intuitively appropriate response to whatever is necessary.

The open hand of offering and allowing solves the riddle of how to let things be in their own way while simultaneously moving toward the ideal of what can be. When these movements meet one another in the nexus of offering, we literally hear the music of the spheres and become crystalline receptors of each and all in every moment; all space becomes here, all time becomes now, and we ever open to be the reflector, refractors, receptor, and regenerators of the life force as it flows through our particular holographic configuration. Every breath, every step, a wonder, even as we walk though caverns of darkness and density, for we have surrendered our resistances at the altar of beauty, justice, and wonder… and feel the cool breeze of Spirit through all creation.