People often tell me they appreciate my consistency.
What they may not realize is that my consistency is, first and foremost, an act of self-love.
I’ve recorded a prayer nearly every single day twenty years. It isn’t hard. I don’t forget. It isn’t a burden.
It’s a blessing.
I once took two weeks off as an experiment. I saw no value in it, so I came right back.
There’s such a thing as a divine discipline. Martin Luther King Jr. called it the drum major instinct. Michael Beckwith calls it “blisscipline,” a discipline rooted in bliss rather than force. It’s been fundamental to my spiritual growth.
Consistency shows up in the Manual for Teachers as the second characteristic of God’s teachers. Jesus calls it honesty.
A Course in Miracles is telling us that being consistent and being honest are the same thing.
Consistently loving. Consistently compassionate. Consistently truthful.
When we’re loving on Monday and distant on Tuesday, we’re teaching that our love depends on conditions. When we return, again and again, to the same open heart, we teach something steadier. We teach that Love is what we are.
This is why I fold my spiritual practice into my ordinary days. The prayer. The daily writing. The self-care too. Rest, unhurried time, room for the people I love.
Self-care is part of the practice, not separate from it.
None of this is about earning anything. I don’t need to earn my spiritual benefits. It’s about staying in the vibration of Love long enough to remember it’s our natural state.
Here’s what I’ve noticed over the years: the days I show up for my practice aren’t the days I feel most inspired. They’re just the days I chose. The feeling follows the choice, not the other way around.
That’s a freeing thing to know. We don’t have to wait to feel spiritual before we act spiritual. We simply keep saying yes, and the yes does its quiet work in us.
Consistency isn’t pressure. It’s how we keep saying yes to the Love we already are.
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LATEST PODCAST EPISODE: Mark Anthony Lord: The Work That Heals Us Mark Anthony Lord and I met as practitioners in training in 1999, and we’ve walked the same path ever since: prayer practitioner training, becoming ministers, starting our own ministries, learning to counsel and to train counselors. We each came up through a dark night first. What we keep marveling at is that the work itself is what healed us, and that A Course in Miracles met us at every turn. We go all the way back to the beginning here, and we don’t tidy it up.
