Your Spiritual Intent

“Animals respond to your energy and you respond to them. I met a cat the other day, a little half-grown cat, that he was the most happy-go-lucky cat. Everything was great in his world. If you didn't come away from that cat feeling happy, then you weren't in tune with him. So everything interacts.

…We don't realize that everything in the physical world is a result of what we are thinking and feeling. What we are doing is reaching into the unmanifest and pulling energy from it. With our creative thought ability, we are creating events that are going to happen.

I know that none of you here think, ‘Alright, I am going to create an event over in Iraq.’ We don't do that. But we do feed the energy on the earth plane into any event that is going on. If we believe in negative things, if we expect war, if we expect accidents, if we expect sickness, if we expect any kind of negative thing, what we are doing is creating, and building on the creation, until we have produced whatever negative condition needs that energy at the time.

We have to be mindful of our spiritual work. I know some of you might say, ‘I don't think I have any particular spiritual work.’ Are you alive? Are you breathing? If you are, you have spiritual work. You are living your spiritual intent every moment of your life. Whether you recognize it as that or not, doesn't change it. Because we are spiritual beings, it is impossible for us not to live our spiritual intent. We occupy a body and have a mind but the bottom line is that we are spirit.

Your spirit has a far vaster understanding and vision of life than you do, when you think you are held in this little container called a body. When you step past the physical and go out into the vastness of who you really are, you can recognize how your spiritual intent - and what you believe about yourself and your world and the people in it - has a profound effect.

I (i.e. Rev. Penny Donovan) had an experience in my meditation a few days ago in which I experienced myself as a vast consciousness. It seemed to me I was nothing but consciousness. I wasn't aware of my physical body or of any form or littleness or limitation. I knew I was life, joy, and love. I felt such a sense of exuberance and enthusiasm for life because I recognized that far beyond my body was this livingness. Whether I was aware of it or not, life was living itself in a very happy, joyous way. I could see how this life reached out and interwove with other people's spirituality, how we all are a united spirit.

Humankind needs to be with their own species. We need companionship, to be in love, to be loved. We need to share and to enjoy each other. These needs have a spiritual basis which is brotherhood and behind the brotherhood is that realization of the unity of life. We are a part of everything that is.

The human species is a part of a vaster spirituality than what any religion can possibly put into words. I think just about every religion has tried, but the truth of our spirituality is more than what can be captured in words and doctrine. To be aware of all of this is to be aware of living our intent.

What is your spiritual intent? Everyone's spiritual intent is different in many ways. But there is one part of our intent that is the truth and the same for all of us and that is to live life with joy, with happiness.

  We all have a holy purpose. If we didn't have a holy purpose, we wouldn't be here. Everything that God created has a sacredness. The Scriptures tell us that God made us in the image and likeness of Himself.

The Christ that is in everyone - whether you want to name it the Christ or Divine Mind, it doesn't matter what you call it, it is the same thing - is so full of joy, so full of Itself. And that Self lives in you, and through you, and it expresses in any way that you allow it to. The Christ meets everything with love. It cannot meet anything or anyone without love because It is love.”

08/17/2025 Blog. Rev. Penny Donovan, THE CONTINUING JOURNEY OF SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY (PART 2), Pgs. 11-14. Copyright 2016 Sacred Garden Fellowship. All rights reserved. To buy this booklet, please contact: sherry@sacredgardenfellowship.org