by admin | Sep 11, 2019 | Affirming our Divinity
I can’t be reminded often enough that the world as I see it is a creation of my own mind. Some days my world is rosy and feels at equilibrium. That is a function of how I am choosing to look at the world. Other days, like today, I feel some anxiety in my world, that I need to watch my back, to protect myself defensively. That, too, is a product of the internal workings of my mind.
I can stop, take a look at how my world appears and remind myself that the pure divinity within me is untouched by the thoughts in my mind, doesn’t answer to others’ perceptions of me and is always OK. I can remember that I control almost nothing when it comes to other people’s thoughts and actions but they don’t touch the real me, the truth of my nature as a child of God.
I can rest in the truth of that reality, pause to give compassion to those who reject, demean, or judge me. I can actively work towards recognizing each being as an aspect of our shared creator and in so doing, realize my oneness with all that is.
by admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Affirming our Divinity
A lot has been said about Woodstock on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. It has become a moment in time when a large community of people packed into a small space had a shared experience of love, peace and unity. On a much smaller scale, I had a shared experience with strangers viewing the eclipse together at a park in the mountains of North Carolina.
Viewing the total eclipse was a surreal event with a quality of awe that didn’t require words or description. There was an easy silence amongst the people and no sense of time or urgency, only peace and wonder. There were no feelings of stress or fear. For the moment, there prevailed a lovingkindness and otherworldly serenity for a group of people that would not gather again.
The same kind of shared experience sometimes happens in a crowd at a sporting event. Time is suspended, all energy and focus is on the action and the experience elevates the individual to a unity of purpose outside himself.
This is a glimpse of heaven. There is no ego in heaven and the present moment is the only reality. To be in a shared experience with no thoughts about yourself and intensely in the moment is a yet another gift the universe gives us now and again to remind us of our true selves, our common divinity as God’s children.
by admin | Apr 7, 2019 | Affirming our Divinity
Every once in a while, when I have been diligent in my meditation, mindfulness and prayer practices, I get a glimpse of what it feels like to be one with all that is. Most recently, it has resulted from repeating, in a mantra-like manner, a request for lovingkindness. ‘May lovingkindess manifest throughout my life.’
Focusing on how that would look and feel if present, I expand with corollaries, feeling the reality of each. May I be free from fear. May I experience the fullness of divine love and light. May I be relieved of the burden of self-will. May I feel at one with all creation. May I recognize all as my fellow travelers. May I know all as God’s children.
Concentrating on the expression of lovingkindness, practicing the mindset I would maintain as a being of love, I sometimes relax into oneness with all.
When the feeling of separateness leaves, there is nothing to fear, nothing to fight, nothing to judge or tolerate. In those moments, I remember that I am not separate from the rest of creation. It is a state of joy and peace, our natural state when at one with all that is.
