In one of my first blog entries, I submitted a description of who I am, and who we are, in conjugation form, writing:
I am a creator being,
an embodiment and expression
of God.You are a creator-being,
an embodiment and expression
of God.He, She, It is a creator-being,
an embodiment and expression
of God.We, You, and They are creator-beings,
Embodiments and Expressions,
of God.
I don’t know about you, but these are liberating thoughts for me, and I promised to write again to say why. They are liberating because, no matter what I choose to pursue in life, or how I express myself, the above statements will nonetheless be true. In order for God to be what the preponderance of humanity has expressed a belief that God is, then the above statements must be true.
That means that it is impossible to not be connected to God, since God is “in” all that I (or you) do. If God is in everything, the only real “judge” of our experience, is us. Much of the depression and malaise that we experience is, in part, due to being confounded by duality, and the entire range of actions and deeds that we do, some of which are wonderful, and others that are dreadful. We think, God can’t be involved in that dreadful act over there. Or at least, “He” can’t be involved on the side of the people who I feel are most unlike myself. But somewhere else, someone is looking at the same event, and feeling the same way, but identifying with the other people, who they feel are most like them. They’re all expressions of God, but don’t see their connection.
If you knew that something that is an expression of God that you have a difference of opinion with cannot be “killed,” what would you try to do?
If God is all, which God would have to be in order to be infinite, without beginning or end, omniscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful), and omnipresence (everywhere), that would mean that God is “here” and “now”, has always done so, and always will. Indeed, God is The Here, and The Now.
The Here and Now means everywhere, on every level, from nano-atomic and molecular, to the macrocosmic, from physical to the energetic. God is all-inclusive, enveloping believers and non-believers alike. They must yet be expressions of God to be in God, and to have the power to express non-belief in who they are.
An expressed non-belief in God’s existence often means undeveloped understanding, or failure to see what one believes to be “evidence”. It may also be a refusal to acknowledge what the heart already knows to be true. However, it does not negate that the non-believer is not a creator being, and an embodiment and expression of God.
God cannot be all the things we say we believe God to be, and then exclude someone who does not see things, or believe, as we do.
Do we condemn a baby who cannot yet understand simple arithmetic? Do we deny the sacredness of a child who does not yet see the sense of looking both ways before running into the street? If someone does not see one’s self as a creator-being, and an embodiment and expression of God, should God’s smile, or our love, be any less broad for them?
People who say that they don’t believe in God actually do, because God exists as an idea in their mind, even if their expressed opinion at that moment is that they don’t believe it. Just as we have the option to be blind to evidence of God’s existence, we have the option to change our mind when we do see. The idea of God is always there irrespective of our take on it.
The liberating thing for me about these thoughts is that when I embrace them, I don’t have to try to “be” anyone but me. I don’t have to act like anyone other than who I am. I can be irreverent, and still an expression of God. I can elect to be angry, petulant, and unkind; and if I do, other like minded creator-beings — all expressions of God like me — will come to play “life” with me.
If I choose to embrace the highest, most wonderful idea of life that I can imagine, other expressions of God will appear, and we will create different life experiences together. When you know you have a choice, who wouldn’t choose it?
And so, while what we think as evil is played out in what seems like a constant battle against “good,” please remember that all the players are denying the evil part, and believe that their role is of the “good guys,” denying God in themselves, and in their opponents.
I like… actually, I love being a creator-being, and embodiment and expression of God. It makes all options available to me, including the highest and best.
How about you?
