December 14, 2024

Jesus saying, "The Father and I are one,"
and "In as much as you have done it to the least of these,
you have done it unto me."
And Paul saying, "It is no longer I who live,
but Christ who lives in me." 

Sets the table for us to realize
we are one with Paul, one with Jesus, one with God,
just as we are,
as much as the Prodigal Son was at one with his father,
and his father with him.

The entire atonement, redemption, forgiveness, etc.
angle is a road best not taken,
and we need to be working on being one with ourselves
so that we might be one with each other,
Paul, Jesus, God and the entire Cosmos.

We work at being one with ourselves
by aligning ourselves with our original nature,
our innate virtues
(The things we do best and enjoy doing most),
our inherent imagination
and our intrinsic intuition.

When we are one with those things--
when we are being who we are
and serving/exhibiting/reflecting
these aspects of ourselves,
in the work of doing what is called for 
in each situation as it arises,
never mind what we want,
the world changes,
and we are living in ways 
that are inseparable from
what Jesus called "The kingdom of God."

This is our work to do--
consciously, mindfully, deliberately, intentionally,
day in and day out
for the rest of our life.

There is nothing about any of this
that is too hard for us,
too difficult,
impossible.

Children can do it--
and do it all of the time.
So Jesus said, "Unless you turn and become
like children, you will never enter 
the Kingdom of Heaven."

Being one with themselves
is what children do best.
They all are "as one thus come,"
which is to say, being themselves,
being who they are,
being Paul, being Jesus, being God,
showing us how to do it,
only we have eyes on other things.