Christophers Blog

For so long as we see God, Allah, Jehovah, Brahma,Life – call it what you will – as somehow separate from us, a No-thing, that we have to work hard at having a relationship with, we make a mock of the concept that we have thrust at us on a daily basis – THAT GOD ( and all the other words that we use) IS PART OF US AND WE ARE PART OF GOD. If I am part of that God and that god is part of me, then there is no separateness and therefore there can be no relationship to work on. What I do have to work at is simply expressing that divinity of which we are all a part and which is in each and every one of us. For so long as I feel that I have to work at the relationship with God then I deny the promise contained in the words of Jesus of Nazareth at John 10:34 “Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are Gods?” and again at 10:38 “that the Father is in me and I in him”.

We are surrounded at every level with the effects of this belief in the separateness of God/Life from us. The planet that is our home is rapidly becoming less and less habitable and less suitable to our purposes as heap abuse after abuse on Mother Nature. There is also more than a little evidence to suggest that the very fabric of our society is also beginning to unravel as we heap abuse after abuse on each other. I like to feel that we would not be doing to the planet what we are doing if we simply saw the planet as part of the same God/Life as we are. I like to feel that we would simply not treat those that look and believe different to us in the way that we do, if we saw them also, as part of the same God/Life as we are. Surely we would not be that stupid? A school boy who is just approaching puberty, came back to his parents, whom I know, in a state of shock after his teacher in Religious Studies had told him that a Buddhist Monk would surely burn in the Christian hell for his beliefs! It would seem we are that stupid!

Is the answer too frightening for the Churches? – and I am also speaking of the Jewish and the Muslim “churches” though I am very aware they do not have the same formality of structure as the Christians. Are they afraid that if we actually realised that we all have to do is be the divinity that we already are, then a great deal of the structure that they have created would become obsolete and unnecessary? The way for us to realise – make real - that divinity would be through us and our own introspection and effort and not because of the interference of any outside agency. Do they fear that this would then make them superfluous? Would it really? Perhaps all they would need to do is change their roles in our lives. Priest, Rabbis, Mullahs would then rather become facilitators to support us in calling forth what is already latent in us rather than attempting to beat us into the shape they feel is required by some dogma or another. This is the real meaning of the word education – to call forth. And is this not what God wants? For us to simply “ be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” (Marianne Williamson)

Posted on September 14th, 2008 by christopher
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