Presence
of Peace
“God
is an experience. It's not a study, an essay, or an argument. Either
you are inundated with it or you are not. God is as real as someone
touching your hand. That is how much you can feel the Spirit inside
of you. It is as real as the beating of your heart. You feel it
flowing through your being.”
Michael
J. Singer (The Untethered Soul)
Sometimes
today we act as though God is a commodity—something I have and you
don't. I'm a Christian, so the real God is my God—or I'm a Muslim,
so the real God is mine—or I'm a Jew, so the real God belongs to
me. Truth is, God is a presence available to all; believers and
non-believers alike. God is not us, and not our religion. God is God
and beyond all religions. We cannot name and claim and denounce in
the name of God—that has nothing to do with the Source of all that
is. That has to do with us—territorial mammals that we are.
God
can only be experienced. If you sit with yourself, close your eyes
and give your talking brain a fifteen minute recess, what you will be
left with is consciousness, presence; the awareness of something very
much alive within you. That something is Spirit. You breathe and it
breathes, you feel its unconditional love and compassion, its
acceptance of you exactly as you are. It is the Source of your life
and mine—and the lives of everyone and everything else on this
planet. That Presence is God.
It's
time for humans to stop using their concepts of God as a bludgeoning
tool to harm and condemn and destroy others. It's time to realize
that Spirit has nothing whatsoever to do with that—that's all on
us. Today, I hope you will make contact with the Presence within you.
It will lead you to the path of peace.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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