Becoming A Resonance of Life
A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” - Teilhard de Chardin
I’ve been holding a sensing…a question…for some months. I am still searching for the words that give us collective access to the sensing. Here is where I am so far…
There is a deeper kind of contribution we are being invited into right now—not just what we do for the world, but how we show up in it.
When the world feels loud, jagged, dissonant with fear or urgency, we often try to respond with effort: organize better, speak louder, move faster. But what if Life is not asking for effort, but for coherence?
What if our truest offering is not our strategy, but our resonance?
In many wisdom traditions, Life is not just biological—it is relational, harmonic, and intelligent. It is not merely the sum of living organisms but a field of consciousness expressing itself through pattern and presence. When we move in tune with that field—through intention, word, and deed—we don’t just respond to Life. We become a conduit for it.
This is not passive alignment. It’s active, attuned participation, a practice of living from the center of your being in a way that stabilizes the world around you—not by control, but by coherence.
It begins with awareness:
Can you feel what’s here without rushing to collapse it into action?
Can you hold a field long enough to sense what is being invited—not imposed?
Then it requires trust:
Trust in the deeper intelligence of Life.
Trust in your place within it.
Trust that showing up with integrity in small, sacred ways matters more than spectacle.
Finally, it asks us to live as symbols of the Sacred—not in abstraction, but in the shape of our choices. It asks us to become trustworthy space-holders for pattern, flow, and belonging.
Our contribution, then, is not measured by impact reports or recognition. It is measured by the field we carry—the harmony we emit in each moment, the coherence of our presence. We don’t act on behalf of Life. We act as Life. We are the waveform, the frequency, the form made luminous. And this is enough.
What do you sense?
We are in this together,
Cameron
Reflection Questions
What does coherence feel like in your body, mind, and spirit?
Where in your life are you being called to shift from effort to resonance?
What small choices could reflect a deeper trust in the intelligence of Life?
A Prayer for the Day
A Prayer for Resonant Living
Spirit of all harmony, Guide me into coherence. Let my thoughts be clear, my words be true, My presence steady and alive. In a world of distortion, let me be a tuning fork. Not striving to fix, but willing to hold. Not grasping for meaning, but becoming meaning through love. Make me an instrument of sacred symmetry— A living resonance of Life itself. Amen.
Spiritual Practice
Attuning to the Field
Take ten minutes today to sit in silence.
Before you speak, act, or respond—pause and notice:
Is my presence in tune with my intention?
Am I aligned with truth, or just urgency?
Can I move from trust rather than fear?
Practice sensing what wants to emerge from within you, not from force but from flow. Let each word or action be less about “making something happen” and more about revealing what is already in harmony.
Let your life become a tuning fork for wholeness.
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Thank-you, again, for your words of wisdom. What spoke to me was the question in the spiritual practice that asked, "Can I move from trust rather than fear?" When I move from fear, my attempts look more like desires to fix and control. This is almost always received with push-back and resistance. It can create dissonance and division that is often very difficult to reconcile. My challenge is to move from trust, for if I do so, I have an opportunity to take that "pause." In that pause, there is time to take a breath and not rush in to fill the space with my solutions. It is an opportunity to let in the light and spirit that can quietly and gently nudge me in a different direction. And that direction may be simply to be present in the moment.
This is the challenge that I constantly struggle with. But if peace begins with me, then I need to welcome it, knowing that I am never alone, and that there is real hope for the coherence you spoke about today.
Thanks so much for this thoughtful reflection, Cameron. Your invitation to move from effort to coherence, from strategy to resonance, speaks directly to something I’ve been holding in my own life and leadership. So often, when the world feels loud or fractured, the impulse is to do more. But what you name so beautifully is that Life may be asking us not to escalate our effort, but to deepen our alignment. To become, as you say, a conduit—not just for solutions, but for presence itself.
The idea that our contribution is measured not by impact reports or visibility, but by the field we carry—the coherence of our presence—feels both ancient and urgently contemporary. It reminds me of the mystics who speak of becoming transparent to the Sacred, not to disappear, but to allow what is deepest and truest to shine through us unimpeded.