Don't Go and Talk About my Father/ Mother [God is Love]

¡Hola! Everybody...
It’s Monday...

I find RE-posting the following extremely difficult today. Especially considering that our home-grown terrorists, fringe right CHRISTIAN fundamentalists, are rejoicing that their ideology has resulted the cold-blooded murder of yet another human being. My heart goes out to Dr. Tiller and his family, who was gunned down while he was worshiping in front of his wife and community. Slaughtered like an animal.

His crime? Exercising his constitutional rights in the service of others. May their jealous and vengeful God have mercy on the rotted souls of this mass pathological movement.

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-=[ God is Love ]=-

“God is Love.”

-- Marvin Gaye song

“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

-- Jesus of Nazareth

When will we accept the Divine within our selves? The idea that we are more than sack of flesh may trouble some individuals. Others may think this idea just more New Age bullshit.

To others, the idea that we are part of the Divine spark may sound like blasphemy, even though my own investigations into the world’s religions, including Christianity and Judaism, contain passages, often overlooked, which clearly emphasize this very perspective.

Think about it: different cultures across different eras have come to the same conclusion, more or less. In addition, modern physics is beginning to sound very “spiritual” lately. Especially when looking at the very essence of all matter. The conclusion is so: that we are not separate from the rest of creation. Therefore, our very thoughts and beliefs have a power to impact on ourselves, our world, and those around us in ways we never knew.

In the creation story of the Jews and Christians, for example, God is portrayed as being the Creator. God creates out of his mind’s spoken desire: “And God said, let there be light... water... firmament,” and so on. Finally, God concludes by the creation of humankind “in his own image and likeness.”

Let’s look a little further at the teachings of various religions where God is seen as Love, and that we are of the same creative essence or Spirit of God:

Judaism:

“Love is the beginning and end of the Torah.”

“God created man in his own image and likeness.”

“I AM that I AM.”

Christianity:

“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”

“I and my father are one... You can be as I... Greater things than I have done, ye shall do.”

“We are all sons of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ.”

“I am the vine and you are the branch.”

Hinduism:

“The individual soul is nothing in essence than universal soul.”

“Deep within abides another life, not the life of the senses, escaping sight, unchanging. This endures when all created things have passed away.”

Buddhism:

“Be lamps unto yourselves. Be a refuge unto yourselves. Seek not for refuge from anything but the Self. Desires and tendencies pass away.”

Islam:

“On God's own nature has been molded man’s.”

Sikhism:

“God is concealed in every heat; his light is in every heart.”

It’s amazing how the same themes run through each of the world's major religions: that God is love, and that we are of the same creative essence, or spirit, as God.

Yet, our small ego-centered minds fight in every way the recognition of our divine inheritance. You see this expressed everywhere: In psychology or in religious thought you will find the tendency to preserve our sense of separateness, littleness, and powerlessness.

Who and what we are is so magnificent that it is more than we would ever dare dream. We are at our core spirit expressed through flesh. Our Divine inheritance, which we have disowned, gives us all those qualities we have projected onto some “up-in-the-sky” god that is separate from us and full of an endless supply of love.

Folks, we are powerful, knowing, and present in ways we have only begun to understand. We are Love itself. Since it is only an illusion that we are separate from all this, we have never lost any of the qualities -- we just think we have. Nothing limits us as much as our beliefs -- negative or positive.

What happens when we take this perspective and apply it to our relationships? Can such a way of seeing the divine in ourselves help change our relationships, helping us to let go of a limited and narrow concept of self?

If you accept the bigger reality of your True Self, you will become more and more aware of your beliefs, your thoughts, and the connection between the two. In touch with your divine essence, you will learn to use an untapped source of power within -- not only to transcend your own personal suffering, but also to heal those many relationships based on the small, narrow sense of self.

Love,

Eddie