Who's Actually Running This Show?

(Hint: Not Your Ex, Your Job, or Your DNA)

Ever notice how we talk about our lives like we're victims of some cosmic assembly line?

"My genes made me this way." "The economy is killing me." "That person broke me." "My body is falling apart."

We're convinced that life happens to us—that we're at the mercy of forces beyond our control, just trying to manage the damage.

But here's the flip: What if there's only one actual cause behind everything—and it's not your circumstances, your history, or your biology?

What if the real power isn't in fixing what's broken, but in recognizing what's already whole?

There's this parable Jesus told about a farmer scattering seeds. Some seeds land on hard ground and get eaten by birds. Some hit rocky soil and sprout fast but die when it gets hot. Some get choked out by weeds. But some land on good soil—and those seeds grow like crazy.

Here's the thing: the seed is always good. It's not the seed that's the problem—it's the soil.

The seed? That's spiritual truth. The insight that you're not a random collection of matter reacting to other random collections of matter. That there's an organizing intelligence—call it God, Mind, Love, whatever works for you—that's actually the only real cause.

The soil? That's your receptivity. Your willingness to let that truth actually take root instead of letting fear, old stories, and "but what about my actual problems" choke it out.

Most of us are walking around with rocky, weed-choked mental soil, wondering why nothing grows. We hear a beautiful spiritual idea and think, "That's nice," then immediately return to "But seriously, what about my actual problems?"

There's this wild story in the Bible about a guy named Simon who watched the disciples healing people and thought, "I want that power." So he literally tried to buy it. He offered them money.

Peter basically said, "Dude, no. This isn't a technique you can purchase. This isn't a shortcut you can download. You can't Venmo your way to enlightenment."

Because here's what Simon didn't get: healing doesn't come from manipulating energy or mastering some secret spiritual technique. It comes from understanding—really getting—that Mind is the only cause.

Not your willpower. Not your supplements. Not your vision board. Mind.

And you can't fake that understanding. You can't buy it. You can't hustle your way there.

You either see it or you don't. And when you do? Things shift.

Jesus didn't heal by being really good at positive thinking. He healed by starting from a different premise.

While everyone else was looking at the sick person's body and trying to figure out what went wrong, Jesus was looking at spiritual reality—where nothing had ever gone wrong in the first place.

He "put aside physical causation from first to last." He didn't accept that the material evidence was the final word. He saw through it.

The disciples tried to heal a boy with epilepsy and couldn't do it. When they asked Jesus why they failed, he said, "Because of your little faith."

Not their lack of technique. Their lack of understanding.

They were still operating from the premise that matter is the cause and they needed to somehow override it. Jesus was operating from the premise that Mind is the only cause—so there was nothing to override. Just truth to see.

So what does this actually mean for you?

It means the work isn't out there. It's not in changing your circumstances, fixing your body, or convincing other people to behave differently.

The work is in your mental soil.

What are you actually believing about cause? When something goes wrong, where do you look for the source?

Do you immediately blame your past, your genes, your age, the economy, that person who hurt you?

Or do you pause and ask: What does Mind know about this? What's actually true when I stop letting material evidence have the final word?

This isn't about denying reality. It's about questioning which reality you're giving power to.

Because here's what I've learned: when you stop giving circumstances the power to cause your experience, they stop controlling you.

When you recognize that Mind—infinite, intelligent, loving Mind—is the only actual cause, you're not at the mercy of anything else.

You're free.

So here's where I'll leave you:

What if the thing you're most afraid of—the condition, the person, the circumstance—doesn't actually have the power you've been giving it?

What if the only cause that matters is already on your side?