Contentment & The Cost of Presence

There always seems to be a test, a cost, for me to maintain contentment. At least it seems that way. Shouldn't contentment just be, no matter the circumstance? A cost to be here. So is it a cost to cross the door threshold? To experience what's on the other side? A cost to experience; that makes sense to me. It's a cost for the miracle, for the presence, for the possibility. Yes, they are freely given, but only to those who recognize the expense it requires to obtain them. Contentment is the expense required. It comes down to what I believe as I reach for the deeper part, Your presence, Your contentment.

You view the journey to contentment with the testing of your heart and mind to maintain your expectation of reaching a place. It some ways it is true; any journey to an expectation will test one's endurance to reach it.

With me, however, there is a difference in expectation: in a journey alone you have an expectation of a goal, might be able to see and define it, even perhaps map your way to it. Yet there is always the possibility in the back of your mind of not reaching where you would want to go. There are doubts — mostly driven by past experiences — current abilities, comparisons to others on similar journeys. Still, contentment in Me is a real place, one that is a given for the one who searches for it. For I have already paid the cost for you to obtain it. I have willingly done that for you, that you might have a guarantee of success.

I know the door you seek, for I am the door. I am the door to all possibility, all places the heart would know, all miracles it perceives to be there. This is a door you could never find on your own, yet one I would freely give because I know what lies beyond. And I would have you experience the beyond.

Yes, there is a cost for the journey, for any journey. But it is affordable: this destination is worth any cost. Even in this moment, when you had no idea where this moment would lead, you paid the cost to look at it, to desire it, to be where you are now that you might experience the deeper within. And knowing that now would you have paid the cost?

Is there a value you can assign to what has been revealed, the place you are now, the conversation you are having, the wisdom and knowledge revealed? Would you have paid more? Could you have paid more? For any soul that would meet its Creator any cost is worthwhile. Because its 'being' understands that meeting the Creator is not an end result... it is just the beginning. You innately know there is more in this place.

There is always more.

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."

— Matthew 13.44