Reflection 10: I Live Inside God's Dream for Me
Dear Pilgrims,
One of the most beautiful gifts of this pilgrimage is that it invites me to revisit the wisdom I’ve gathered over the past 25 years of dedicated study and practice of religions and Heirloom Sacred Traditions. Not just as a guide walking beside you, but as a fellow pilgrim, also re-deepening my relationship with God.
Like all relationships, our relationship with God must be tended to, renewed, and never taken for granted. This journey is allowing me to let the wisdom breathe again, to welcome it with fresh eyes. It’s giving me the chance to rediscover God as a living presence, ever new and always awe-inspiring.
I’m reminded of a quote I cherish from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the leading Jewish theologians and philosophers of the 20th century:
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement... get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”
Every step of this pilgrimage, every reflection, is opening new doors within me too.
This week’s reflection on the Five Love Languages and the accompanying spiritual assignment is a living inquiry. This morning, as I walked through my garden on the way to yoga, I am in awe. The garden is alive in that kind of magical way only presence reveals: vibrant butterflies in every color, slow-moving caterpillars, bees buzzing faithfully, frogs tucked between leaves, a symphony of insects harmonizing with the lushness of tropical flowers, plants, and towering trees.
I greet each one.
Each creature, each flower is a living expression of the Divine.
God, made manifest in creation.
And in that moment, it comes to me, an exhale of gratitude:
This... all of this... is how God speaks love to me.
God’s love language to me is that I get to inhabit and live inside God’s dream for me.
I didn’t coin that phrase. Oprah said it first:
“I’m living inside God’s dream for me.”
But this morning, it is real in my body.
I’m not just dreaming with God.
I am dwelling within God’s dream.
I’m not just walking through life, I’m walking through a life God dreams into being for me.
And that is humbling.
It’s wild.
It’s mind-blowing.
And it’s love.
So today, I’m sharing my response to this week’s spiritual assignment:
“Which love language do I need to receive more deeply from God?”
I’ll leave you with that living question.
And may your own walk through the garden of your life today be filled with amazement.
With peaceful blessings,
Swaady
Day 1 of a lotus flower in my garden
The neighbor of the lotus (-:
More beauties from my garden today
“Do you not feel that flowers are the very embodiment of the Divine’s smile?”
From Swaady’s Journal
April 9th, 2025 - Bali, Indonesia
Dear God, I’m in awe of the many creative ways You are speaking to me, of all the love languages You use, most of them beyond how I’ve ever known to receive love. You are the perfect Lover. You speak Love to me by dreaming Life for me. I’m living inside Your dream. It’s wild. It blows my mind, my heart, and my soul. This is the most beautiful love language. Maybe this is what we all long for in love, someone, people, who dream Life for us because each of us is a channel of Your divinity.
To live inside God’s dream…
Since this morning, this phrase keeps echoing in my being. To live inside God’s dream is to realize that You, God, are not just speaking to me. You are living through me. Through this moment. My breath. My writing. My feeling. My garden. This new day.
This is the revelation.
I’m not waiting for signs. I’m living them.
I’m not trying to enter the temple. I am the temple.
I’m not striving anymore. I’m abiding.
I’m not outside the dream. I’m already within it.
What if the goal isn’t to manifest, but to inhabit?
I’ve never fully resonated with the language of manifestation. Not in the way it’s commonly taught, the idea of drawing something into my life through focused thought, belief, and energy. The premise that by visualizing, aligning, and affirming, I can attract my desires. There is some truth in it. There is power in clarity, in intention, in sacred visioning.
But still, I wonder…
What if the deepest alignment isn’t with what I want, but with what You, God, have already dreamed for me?
There is a subtle posture of control baked into manifestation practices. A desire to steer, to engineer, to bend reality to my vision. It still centers on me, my wanting, my creating, my calling things in.
But living inside Your dream?
That changes everything.
I no longer need to pull things toward me.
I’m not attracting. I’m arriving.
Not creating. I’m remembering.
Not conjuring. I’m inhabiting.
In Your dream, I’m not manifesting a life. I’m entering one that was dreamed in love long before I came into being.
Even the words manifestation, goals, seeking, even certain kinds of prayer fade, because something in me has crossed a threshold. Some ideas simply expire on their own with spiritual maturity. They shed like old skin. They gave me what I needed, but I don’t need them anymore.
I’m still on the journey, and I’m grateful for the constant shedding, and more to come.
Now I’m moving from asking to abiding.
From willing to being.
From manifesting to remembering.
From conjuring to communing.
From striving to surrender.
From chasing purpose to becoming it.
To live inside God’s dream is to move from the posture of calling things in to the sacred stillness of saying:
I am already where I’m meant to be.
I’m not chasing my destiny. I’m already inside it.
I’m not searching for the dream. I am the dream.
I am inside God’s dream for me.
