Welcome to ‘God R Us’
Some elements of life are so much part of who we are that we overlook them as factors when we wish to affect change. My assertion that we are each, in fact, God expressing in human form, sounds too simple or improbable for many to embrace. “I can’t be God,” I’m sure many people are telling themselves. Yet, the evidence is growing that each of us not only can be, but is.
There are many reasons for either questioning or denying our own personal God-ness. Here are a few examples:
“My friends will think I’m crazy!”
“My life is in shambles!”
“I’m in so much pain!”
“I’m not a ‘do good-er’!”
“I am so sick!”
“Bad things always happen to me!”
“I hate myself!”
We can agree that none of these people are feeling very “Godly.” But then, what does it mean to be “an expression of God”?
Experientially, acceptance of the idea won’t change much externally, but it will start a process inside each of us, as we start to feel kinship and a sense of equality with others. We are equal because we are one; One God, expressing itself on earth as one human organism, with each living, moving, and interacting with others as Cellular Beings in The Body Divine.
Should we ever choose to accept the idea that we are God, Lord of our life in our own right, it will have been after many layers of disbelief, ambivalence, fear, or denial have been stripped away. Many people profess to “believe in God,” but few believe that God is within them, or that they are expressions of God, creators of their life, and have the power to change the nature, course, and flow thereof.
Fewer still will acknowledge that someone that they hold ill feelings for, are also equal expressions of God. In fact, our idea that we are separate and unequal, is at the core of our disconnect with the Power that dwells, at all times, within us. As such, many hold on to their preconceptions and prejudices while waiting for a “Savior” to “come again,” not knowing that said Presence is already here, and will be revealed from within, rather than from without.
“If we are expressions of God, then we should have no excuse for having anything go ‘wrong’ in our life,” some will say. “Everything would be perfect.” On the other hand, some are thinking, “I can’t be God because I hate ‘__fill in the blank__’, and I haven’t found it in my heart to love that.” Hatred affects the one who hates far more than it does the target. It is a great act of love that God brings other aspects of Itself to interact with those who have so deeply and profoundly forgotten who they are. No one is ever “left behind” or “shunned”.
There are those who maintain an ongoing Amber Alert for Ego involvement. They believe that the human ego is the source of all our problems and spiritual frailties, and must be made to step aside, if not eradicated altogether. However, if we accept that the entire Universe is Energy and God created the Universe, and it exists within God, then God is All, and all that exists is Divine expression, including Ego.
Ego is a state of consciousness. Consciousness is what God is. Consciousness is energy. Energy is what God is. Matter is energy. Matter is what God is. Dark matter, the presently unseeable mass which comprises the vast majority of the Universe, is also energy. Do you see a pattern here?
“Scientists using different methods to determine the mass of galaxies have found a discrepancy that suggests ninety percent of the universe is matter in a form that cannot be seen. Some scientists think dark matter is in the form of massive objects, such as black holes, that hang out around galaxies unseen. Other scientists believe dark matter to be subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter.” Chris Miller — Cosmic Hide and Seek: the Search for the Missing Mass
Because life doesn’t appear to be perfect, and we don’t appear to be perfect in our own eyes doesn’t mean that it’s not, and we’re not. It also doesn’t invalidate the idea that God dwells inside you and me, as “You” and “Me.” However, for the past few thousand years, our only reasonable way to explain our history as human beings, and as individuals in our own lifetimes, has been to question, if not deny God’s hand in each action we’ve taken. We could judge everyone and everything else negatively, but not God. Accepting the God-ness in all would mean looking at, and treating all differently. Who is willing and has the courage to do that?
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were indeed “acts of God.” At present, we cannot imagine how their creation was the result of collective and cumulative human thoughts and feelings; thoughts and feelings energized and directed by the God within each heart, not from outside and afar. This is not to say that the people of the Gulf Coast “wanted” this to happen, but it is clear that most believed that it would, and that they were vulnerable. And so they were.
A non-judgmental universe would not question the energies that we create and attitudes that we proffer up to it, because it is all part of the oneness of God. It is up to us, who have taken human form, to come to know and appreciate the creative power that lives within us, and then begin to use it consciously, with love, instead of assuming that we can not be, are not divine, or are powerless to influence even the forces of nature.
If God is all, and knows all, then God must experience all, including our pain. God must know our pain. God must know our joy, hopes and ambitions. God also must know our hatred and fears. God also must know what it feels like to “forget who you are” because each of us has a direct connection. The only way to know these things is through actual presence and connection. If we’re “in” the Universe, then we’re “in” God. If we take our God-ness as a blessing and not a question, it will be a turning point that changes everything.
