In reading a mind, a famous set of brain scans illustrates two things: 1) a scanner can spot the difference between a brain recognizing a face and a brain recognizing a place and 2) imagining faces or places lights up the same brain regions as actually seeing them. How do we know anything for sure, if our brain cannot tell the difference between a real experience and an imagined one?
I understand that both experiences, as illustrated, take place in the now, the present moment. Jesus said "Ask and ye shall receive". He performed miracles as though they were the most ordinary experiences in human life. He made demands on an invisible power that no other man before had dared to make and this power honored his demand. His brain did not tell the difference between a real experience and an imagined one and honored his demand in the present moment. He placed no limits on his gift of awareness of who and what he continues to be, created in the image and likeness of the one life - of which I am one plus won equals now.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Life's Longing for Itself
What is God? God is Life. I acknowledge that I am a response to God's divine plan for the expression of Life (God). Life (God) longs for another first day of the rest of my Life. My attempts to understand the substance of that statement have often eluded me. Rather than to expect that this is the first day of subsequent days and living in expectation, Life (God) longs to renew itself in me each and every day as the first day of the rest of my life.
In the past when I thought of God's significance in my Life, I failed to feel empowered based on my ongoing circumstances. As often as I would pray and expect things to change, I realize now that I was merely imploring God to change and not changing myself to accept God. Yet I had no definition that supported my belief. I am certain of one thing at this point in my Life, I now know far more than I did yesterday, yet not as much as I shall know each and every consecutive tomorrow. This is not a riddle for there is something new to discover every single day. Those lessons of each day make that very day new to itself.
Life (God) longs for itself in its attempt to help me understand this new day is another day of opportunity to let consciousness flow into whatever I do and to do everything in a sacred manner. In doing so, Life (God) longs for itself in my activity as simplicity, patience and compassion, Life's (God's) sweetest treasures.
Life (God) longs for itself by removing the veil of pessimism from me. Negativity has become so ingrained in thinking that it has almost become second nature in the foundation of life. Life's (God's) longing for itself is in the path of success for its creation, illuminated by optimism. Life's (God's) longing for itself gives me the courage to face things exactly as they are without any self-deception, knowing that being alive is to live in a supernatural life. In the wisdom of the I Ching, "A light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized".
Life (God) longs for itself by opening us up to receive our gift of awareness, our Mercy. Life (God) comes forth into expression through me as perfect life, perfect being, perfect God within. I choose to become that which I am for I am the Life of God that longs for itself. It is our birthright to live our divinity, to recognize the power that we have within. As Rev. Herracia Brewer eloquently states to the understanding of Life (God) longing for itself "to show up, express forth, and live in deliberate perfection as our individualized person hood".
In the past when I thought of God's significance in my Life, I failed to feel empowered based on my ongoing circumstances. As often as I would pray and expect things to change, I realize now that I was merely imploring God to change and not changing myself to accept God. Yet I had no definition that supported my belief. I am certain of one thing at this point in my Life, I now know far more than I did yesterday, yet not as much as I shall know each and every consecutive tomorrow. This is not a riddle for there is something new to discover every single day. Those lessons of each day make that very day new to itself.
Life (God) longs for itself in its attempt to help me understand this new day is another day of opportunity to let consciousness flow into whatever I do and to do everything in a sacred manner. In doing so, Life (God) longs for itself in my activity as simplicity, patience and compassion, Life's (God's) sweetest treasures.
Life (God) longs for itself by removing the veil of pessimism from me. Negativity has become so ingrained in thinking that it has almost become second nature in the foundation of life. Life's (God's) longing for itself is in the path of success for its creation, illuminated by optimism. Life's (God's) longing for itself gives me the courage to face things exactly as they are without any self-deception, knowing that being alive is to live in a supernatural life. In the wisdom of the I Ching, "A light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized".
Life (God) longs for itself by opening us up to receive our gift of awareness, our Mercy. Life (God) comes forth into expression through me as perfect life, perfect being, perfect God within. I choose to become that which I am for I am the Life of God that longs for itself. It is our birthright to live our divinity, to recognize the power that we have within. As Rev. Herracia Brewer eloquently states to the understanding of Life (God) longing for itself "to show up, express forth, and live in deliberate perfection as our individualized person hood".
Monday, April 5, 2010
This is the Love of God
When I read the words of Van Dyke, I feel true love. Without having to deal with the word, God, these words evoke a feeling in me of true love from that which created me. This is the flow, the "zone", that I am in during prayer and meditation. Endorphins are released that give me a sense of deep happiness, a sense of rightness that I am right where I am supposed to be and right with the spirit of awareness. I recognize how consequential I am to the Universe as is all God's creation. We must use our power of Mercy aligning ourselves with our larger good if we choose to be happy and feel the love.
Love by Henry Van Dyke
Let me be but love, my love without disguise,
Nor wear a mask of fashion old or new,
Nor wait to speak til I can hear a clue,
Nor play a part to shine in other's eyes,
Nor bow my knees to what my heart denies.
But what I am, to that let me be true,
And let me worship where my love is due,
And so through love and worship let me rise.
For love is but the heart's immortal thirst,
To be completely known and all forgiven.
Even as sinful souls that enter Heaven.
So take me, Dear, and understand my worse
And freely pardon it, because confessed.
And let me find in loving thee, my best.
Nor wear a mask of fashion old or new,
Nor wait to speak til I can hear a clue,
Nor play a part to shine in other's eyes,
Nor bow my knees to what my heart denies.
But what I am, to that let me be true,
And let me worship where my love is due,
And so through love and worship let me rise.
For love is but the heart's immortal thirst,
To be completely known and all forgiven.
Even as sinful souls that enter Heaven.
So take me, Dear, and understand my worse
And freely pardon it, because confessed.
And let me find in loving thee, my best.
My Time of Mercy
George Harrison wrote "I really want to feel you Lord". As moved as I am by those words, I have come to understand that the feel of the touch is in my sense of awareness, that deep place of intuition beyond sensory, beyond affect and reason. My sense of awareness is heighthened during prayer and meditation, that time when I am happiest in my understanding of the rightness of it all.
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