The Intention that Rules All Intentions

John Morton, D.S.S.

Intentions represent what we’re directing ourselves toward. That’s how our intentions are working. When we look to do something in the world, we claim it out of faith. So when we place an intention to accomplish something, we can lay claim to what we’re going to do or where we’re going.

Another way that I see an intention is that what we can behold, we can become. Our intentions hold energy. What we focus upon, energy follows.  We are creators.  So by our focus, we’re calling forward energy to follow that focus. Things will happen because of how we direct our focus as it relates to our intention.

If you have a particular intention, I encourage you not to put it in vague terms.  Put your intention in very specific terms, as specific as you can make it.  That’s going to give further direction and energy to what you’re asking and where you’re directing yourself.

One of the things to consider is what’s most important.  In order to do so, I ask, “What intention is supreme over all others?”  You have an opportunity to ask yourself that question by looking at the various aspects of who you are physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.  Through that exploration, you can realize that there’s an intention that rules all the other intentions – the intention that is the Divine will. When you direct yourself towards that intention, all the other intentions are aligned.  And if they’re not aligned, they don’t work.

Part of what we’re learning is where we’re unaware and deluded.  If we have intentions based on illusions, they won’t manifest.  If we’re going to attempt to do something we can’t do, the result is our efforts are for naught.  We waste our energy in the process, and what we intended doesn’t happen. What happens instead is frustration, disappointment, pain, and disturbance.  Those results are all signals that our intention is not clear nor workable.

Trying, or what I call “efforting”, is not actually doing something.  It’s trying.  When we’re efforting, the results are tension, contraction, and exertion.  When we let go and relax, we’re more available to what is and to what’s flowing.  And what’s flowing is God’s intention.  You might just call it “The Intention”— the big one.  God’s intention is what’s flowing always in all ways.

John-Roger wrote in his book, Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living, “Intention is the direction we want to travel. Spiritual Warriors make sure their intention is very clear because what we put out into the world is what we get back. If your intention is to be loving and caring, you cannot let anything that is not loving or caring come into your field of action”.

As we allow ourselves to let go of what we’re attempting or trying, we can come into an awareness of the movement and flow of what is always present — the loving and caring that is the Divine flow. We can’t get around it.  We’re not separate from it.  We’re always part of that Divine loving flow.

We have an opportunity to choose away or to be contrary. And when we do, we have experiences of things not working and of frustration, pain, and disturbance. Those are signals that let us know we’re not allowing our self to flow with what is.  When we flow with the Divine flow, there is ease, relaxation and the experience of grace.

This divine loving flow is invincible and can be viewed as conquering all, such that there is no thing that loving cannot overcome. You can experience this fully as a loving vibration, percolating and penetrating into the minutest levels in your cells. As you allow this loving energy to flow through you freely, whatever must be cleared or straightened, whatever must be changed, will be done because you are allowing this movement and flow through your clear intention. Any resistance you may feel, your loving intention can make tender. This invincible loving embraces any resistance you have until the resistance lets go of its own accord, knowing that it too is loving and in that Divine loving flow.

Love is what sustains our heart. It’s the energy that flows through our bodies, circulating the loving flow of God. With each breath, each rhythm of the heart, you can experience an exercise of loving, a choice to love all things, a choice that’s in harmony with the will of God — the intention that rules all intentions.
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John Morton, D.S.S. is the author of the inspiring books, The Blessings Already Are and You Are the Blessings: Meditations and Reflections on Life, God and Us.  Learn more about John at www.johnmortonministries.org.  Contact John at goto@johnmortonministries.org.