12 – Rocket to God

Rocket / Arugula (Eruca sativa)

Keyword – Focus & Motivation

What would change if your desire to know God became something you actively pursued rather than something you only thought about?

We can spend years thinking, searching, planning and wondering about God while remaining hesitant to develop the relationship itself. Doubt, distraction, disappointment or uncertainty about where to begin can leave spiritual desire present within us but largely unmoving.

Rocket To God invites you to give that desire direction. Like the humble Rocket plant responding to favourable conditions and rising rapidly towards flowering, this essence encourages sincere longing, prayer, curiosity and an active willingness to discover God personally.

Yet purposeful movement is different from urgency. Spiritual growth is not a race to the top, nor can essential emotional learning be bypassed in the desire to arrive somewhere quickly. The plant must root, receive nourishment, grow and mature before it flowers — and flowering itself eventually produces seeds for another generation.

This essence encourages wholehearted movement without impatience: developing the relationship one sincere conversation, prayer, feeling, discovery and loving choice at a time.

Invitation: This essence invites you to explore what may be distracting or holding you back from developing a personal relationship with God — and whether your desire is strong enough to move beyond thinking and planning into sincere exploration, prayer and action.

Loving qualities: Desire • Focus • Motivation • Prayer • Faith • Curiosity • Determination • Relationship with God

Patterns revealed: Spiritual stagnation • Lack of direction • Distraction • Procrastination • Doubt • Impatience • Urgency • Intellectualising spirituality • Fear of God • Lack of sincere desire