September 15, 2024 – A

Do you believe in God?
It's a trick question.
Do you think Jesus believed in God?
Or Moses?

People who know God
don't have to believe in God.
Particularly people who know 
God dwells within.

God has always dwelt within.
God is nowhere "Out There!"
God is entirely and "forever "In Here!"

It is only when we recognize
the divinity that dwells within
that we are able to consciously
take up the work of identifying ourselves with
and intentionally aligning ourselves with
and serving the Holy Other within.

The Holy Other is the I Am we deny,
discount, ignore, reject, desecrate
throughout our life.

Our original nature,
our innate virtues--
the things we do best and love/enjoy doing most--
and our intrinsic intuition
are the divine characteristics
living in everyone,
waiting to be realized, recognized, embraced
and consciously/intentionally incarnated/embodied
in us all.

The gifts listed above
are holy and sacrosanct in everyone,
yet revered in only a few--
the Christs and the Buddhas, 
the saints and the "gifted"
who live as evidence of blessings and grace
in every generation,
yet concealed,
waiting to be revealed, 
in us all our entire life long.

"Who ME? I could not possibly be
confused with GOD!"
Because we have been told we are sinners
deserving only hell forever throughout our lifelong.

Wake up! Wake up! BE WHO YOU ARE!!!

Start with your intuition.
"God's voice within."
NO! GOD within!
From the earliest, 
human beings have known things
no one could know--
where water could be found, 
where to find safety,
when and where to take refuge,
when it was going to rain,
when to go to high ground to escape flooding...
All ascribed to the God Above.
All derived from the God Within.

We worshiped and made sacrifices to
the God Without
when we only needed to honor
and attend through emptiness, stillness and silence,
the God Within.

As it always has been,
so it always will be.
And it is time we tune into what's what,
and live as servants to the holy aspects
of ourselves
for as long as life shall last.