One Step at a Time: Living Your Divine Purpose

As I near the completion of yet another book, I’m reminded again how important it is to take one step at a time.

We are not humans on a spiritual journey—we are the infinite expressing itself, temporarily focused through this remarkable lens we call a lifetime.

And here’s what I’ve learned: what you perceive to be reality magnifies.

When you perceive yourself as stuck, as not enough, as separate from your purpose—that magnifies, but when you perceive yourself as the infinite unfolding, taking one perfect step at a time—that magnifies too.

The Wisdom of Nature

Life unfolds step by step. One leaf at a time drops from the tree. One snowflake at a time falls. Nature doesn’t hesitate, doesn’t wonder why or how—it simply moves forward, expressing its essence without question.

A book’s idea comes to me (from yes, the infinite), but I write one word at a time, watching it appear as I type. Sixty thousand-plus words later, I review them all again, and again, one word at a time.

Later, I record them, one word at a time. Each chapter feels daunting until I remind myself: it will get done. But only if I begin.

And that’s where we—believing ourselves to be merely human—can get stuck.

The Questions That Stop Us

Sometimes we freeze, questioning: Am I good enough? What’s the point? When will I find the time? What if it’s bad, wrong, or stupid?

Do you think a flower asks these questions as it lives its purpose?

We, like the flower, have a limited expression in this form. The infinite has focused itself into your unique perspective for a reason.

Spending your precious time waiting to start doing what calls you serves no one—not you, not the world that needs your particular light.

Here’s a tool to transform your thinking: Put aside the worry that what you want to do won’t work or won’t be good enough or might take years. None of that matters in the end.

What matters is that we live this lifetime doing what we came here to do. And if nothing else, it’s simply to be alive and kind in each moment. One moment at a time.

When You Take One Step, Magic Responds

A few months ago, Del and I decided to go for a hike somewhere new. We planned it one step at a time, listening for the right timing.

That day unfolded magically with no effort on our part to force anything—just literally taking one step at a time.

A group of people was exactly where we needed them to be, directing us to the trail we wanted to follow.

They passed us quickly, but one woman hung back and told us we were on a section of the North Country Trail (a trail that runs from North Dakota to Vermont). Later, she circled back to make sure we didn’t miss a split in the trail ahead.

Kindness in action. The infinite expressing itself through and as her.

We also happened to arrive on a day when a pancake breakfast was happening in the park. We returned from our hike just before closing and sat down to a meal, where everyone ensured we—the last people there—had everything we needed, and more.

Months later, I still feel that kindness. Did they do it to get a reaction? No, they let their light and purpose guide them. They were simply being what they truly are: expressions of the infinite, living their divine purpose one step, one kind act at a time.

The Stories We Carry

This life is a series of steps, always unfolding. As humans, we believe we must drag everything from the past forward into each moment. Instead, we can let those stories fuel our wisdom without letting them dictate our unfolding.

What you perceive to be reality magnifies.

If you perceive yourself as defined by past failures or limitations, that perception expands and becomes your experience. But if you perceive yourself as the infinite unfolding its unique expression through you—that magnifies instead.

Your Holy Purpose

Each of us is unfolding a holy purpose. One step at a time.

Let’s pause every day to observe the miracle: life unfolding as us, as the person next door, as the tree, as clouds moving across the sky.

Let’s give up our reasons why we can’t live in, and asm joy, why we can’t unfold our divine essence right now, today, this moment.

That’s what those people on the trail were doing—expressing their true nature. That’s what counts. Not how much we accumulate or achieve, but how fully we express our unique light, one step, one moment at a time.

The infinite wants to experience itself through your particular eyes, your particular gifts, your particular journey.

Begin. Take one step. Trust the unfolding.

What you perceive to be reality magnifies.

Choose to perceive yourself as divine, infinite intelligence and love in action, and watch how that transforms everything.

It would be remiss of me not to tell you about the latest book that I just finished recording and getting ready for you. It’s called The Rising and is the third and final book in the Rivers of Time series.