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Waiting for the Great Awakening?
Don’t Wait — Create!
Rev. Kat Carroll
(About a 4 min read)
The headlines are filled with reports of events unfolding. Planes grounded, ships colliding, huge ocean waves, arrests, potential banking collapses, and aging infrastructure in desperate need of replacement. Everywhere we turn, someone seems to be warning or predicting the next major event that will change everything.
For years, we’ve heard predictions of a Great Awakening, a solar flash, mass disclosure, financial transformation, or even divine intervention that will usher humanity into a new Golden Age.
But how much of our attention has been focused on looking elsewhere and waiting for something to happen?
Are we looking in the wrong direction?
The transformation we’re waiting for may be something WE must create ourselves… right here, right now
Rather than waiting for someone to rescue us, perhaps it’s time to recognize the extraordinary power we already possess through our thoughts, words, intentions, and actions.
And what better place to begin than with two principles humanity has known for centuries: gratitude and the Golden Rule.
The Golden Rule: A Foundation for the Golden Age
More than two thousand years ago, Jesus offered a remarkably simple principle in Matthew 7:12:
“Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”
We know it today as the Golden Rule: Treat others as you wish to be treated.
In Matthew 22:39, Jesus also taught us to love our neighbors as ourselves, while John 13:34 reminds us to love one another.
These teachings aren’t exclusive to Christianity. Similar principles appear across many spiritual traditions, reflecting a wisdom that transcends cultures, religions, and generations.
Imagine what our world might look like if we practiced those principles every day—not simply with family and friends, but with strangers, neighbors, and even those with whom we disagree.
We don’t need to wait for a great awakening to show compassion, offer forgiveness, share our abundance, or help someone in need.
And perhaps the most important place to begin is within ourselves.
How readily can we extend compassion to others if we continually judge ourselves? Forgiveness, patience, and appreciation are gifts we can offer ourselves as well as those around us.
Love is not diminished by sharing it. It grows.
A Stadium Wave of the Heart
I’ve mentioned this before, but I want to repeat it for those who may not have heard it.
Have you ever watched a stadium wave? One person stands, raises their arms, and others follow. Within moments, a wave of movement travels through thousands of people, each contributing to something greater than themselves.
Now imagine that same wave beginning in the human heart.
Research by the HeartMath Institute has demonstrated that the heart produces a measurable electromagnetic field extending beyond the body. Its researchers have also explored how emotions such as love, appreciation, and compassion influence heart rhythms and physiological coherence.
Through heart-brain coherence, we can help amplify those positive states within ourselves, and pass it on to others.
One person radiates gratitude. Another responds with kindness. A third passes that feeling along. The movement grows, not through force or persuasion, but through resonance, example, and shared intention.
But this time, the stadium is our planet.
Imagine millions of hearts joining that wave, expanding outward across communities, countries, and continents.
A tsunami of love, sent and received.
Perhaps the Golden Age doesn’t require everyone to awaken at once. Perhaps it begins when enough of us choose to raise our consciousness together.
Gratitude: A Gift We Give Ourselves and Others
What happens when we live in a state of gratitude?
Gratitude can influence our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It helps quiet stress, encourages positive emotions, and shifts our attention from what is lacking to what is already present in our lives.
But its influence doesn’t end with us.
Have you ever met someone who smiles with their entire being? You can almost feel the warmth radiating from them. Their presence is uplifting, and you naturally want to be around them.
Gratitude also opens the door to compassion and forgiveness.
We rarely know what another person is experiencing unless they choose to share it. Their anger, fear, or withdrawal may be expressions of sorrow, loss, or struggles we cannot see. And for the empaths among us, those feelings may be especially apparent.
What if, instead of reacting to someone’s behavior, we took a moment to recognize the goodness within them?
Sometimes a kind word, a patient ear, or a simple act of caring can help someone begin to heal. And in offering that kindness, we often experience gratitude ourselves.
The beautiful thing about gratitude is that it can become a gift shared between the giver and the receiver.
But gratitude can also extend beyond appreciating what we already have.
What if we began giving thanks for the world we wish to create, as though that future were already unfolding?
Instead of focusing on fear, scarcity, and uncertainty, imagine directing our thoughts, intentions, and visualizations toward peace, healing, cooperation, and abundance. The universe seems to enjoy providing more of those things we are grateful for in our lives!
We may not control every circumstance, but we can choose what we contribute to the world around us.
And that contribution may inspire someone else to do the same.
Gratitude is a gift that keeps on giving. Pass it on!
Don’t Wait for the Light — Become the Light
More than a century ago, Kahlil Gibran wrote The Prophet, a book whose wisdom continues to touch hearts across generations. In his beautiful chapter On Love, he speaks of awakening each morning with gratitude for another day of loving.
The Apostle Paul offered a similar message in 1 Corinthians 13:13:
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
Perhaps these teachings have endured because they speak to something eternal within us.
We’ve spent generations looking toward the heavens, awaiting a solar flash, divine intervention, or some extraordinary event that will transform humanity and usher in a Golden Age.
Must we experience three days of darkness before we remember to look within for the light?
The light we’ve been waiting for is already within us, waiting to be expressed.
Every act of kindness, every moment of gratitude, every choice to forgive rather than condemn adds something beautiful to our collective experience.
Imagine those moments spreading from heart to heart, like a wave traveling through a stadium. Only this time, the stadium is our planet.
A tsunami of love, expanding outward, touching lives we may never know.
Perhaps the long-awaited solar flash is also an invitation to experience a soul flash—a collective awakening sparked by millions of people choosing to live with greater love, compassion, and gratitude.
We needn’t wait for a savior, a prophecy, or permission to begin creating the world we wish to experience.
The Golden Rule provides our foundation. Gratitude opens our hearts. And love gives meaning to everything we do.
The Golden Age doesn’t have to begin with something happening to us. It can begin with something awakening within us.
Perhaps knowing precisely what we are matters less than what we choose to do with whatever we are.
Love and gratitude are the gifts that keep on giving.
Pass them on!
Don’t Wait — Create!
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