April 08, 2026
As we continue our journey through The Way of Mastery, both in our current class and within our Sunday services, we are collectively exploring Lesson 4: Following the Thread of Desire. This powerful chapter invites us to reflect more deeply on who we believe ourselves to be, and what we are truly longing for at the soul level.
To deepen our shared experience, we invited a member of our community to offer their personal reflection on this teaching. What follows is a heartfelt perspective on the chapter’s central metaphor and the invitation it holds for each of us.
Here are thoughts on Lesson 4 of The Way of Mastery by Lisa Grady:
This chapter, using the metaphor of the ocean for the entirety of what God is, that we are but a wave that returns back to the ocean of God‘s love. And it describes the foam on the tip of the wave as the things that we identify with, like how we look or how much money we have or what other people think about us. Do we identify with foam or with the entire ocean?
I look at my fear of acknowledging the Ocean/ Gods entirety, and the fact that I am just a wave hyper identified with the foam. My ego mind wants to hold onto the tiny specks of foam and places before me the fear of going back into the ocean of God. But I recently was able to get past the fear. I don’t want to be like the person standing on the shore just dipping a toe in the ocean so afraid of how cold it might be or the waves may knock me over or the ocean may swallow me and I’ll be destroyed. I want to ride on it and play with it and luxuriate in it. I want to ride the waves like a surfer or cruise around on it like a luxury yacht or deep-sea dive in it. I want to enjoy and play and be a grand beautiful wave because the ocean is an ocean of love. And I am already it and it is already me and I lose nothing.
In closing, this reflection gently reminds us that our spiritual journey is not about becoming something new, but about remembering the truth of who we already are. As you sit with this message, you might ask yourself: Where am I still identifying with the “foam,” and where am I ready to embrace the vastness of the ocean?
May we each find the courage to move beyond fear, to trust the depth of Divine Love, and to fully enter the experience of being the wave, alive, free, and forever one with the ocean.