To be one with God, as Jesus was, is to be one with our own inner Psyche. In sync with the movement of life here, now. Not opposed to it. At war with it. At odds with it. Opposed to it at every turn. No “MY WAY NOW! We cannot live to have our way. To get what we want. To force what is important to us into being. None of that.
To be one with God is to be soft and pliable. Easy to get along with. Eager to please, to comply, to do what is called for–when, where and how it is called for. In each situation as it arises all our life long. Like God’s “observant servant.” Only the God we serve is our own center, source, essence and ground of our own being.
In doing God’s will, we are doing what we most need to do to exhibit, express, exhibit who we are in the service of what is called for here, now, by “peacefully abiding, here, now.”
God’s will for us is our best interest. Our most necessary, essential, imperative, most vital concern. And it likely has nothing to do with what we want. What does wanting know? When has wanting ever met the criteria for value and worth? Sand in the sugar bowl. Dust in the wind.
In order to be one with God we have to be transparent to ourselves. At that point, we are “transparent to transcendence.” And people who see us, see God. Our work is to align ourselves with the God within. Some call her Psyche. She is one with our integrity and our intuition. Getting to know those facets of ourselves is getting to know God. It is being God by becoming who we are.
We do not get there by planning, scheming, striving, stying, but by relaxing into being who we are, where we are, when we are, how we are by doing what needs to be done in the right way, at the right time, in the right way, in the right place. And we do that by knowing what is called for here, now, and doing it where, when, and how it is called for. No matter what. Whether we want to or not. Just being who we are, where we are, when we are, how we are. At one with ourselves, at one with God.
Just like Jesus, getting up and doing what needed to be done, moment to moment, just by being himself. No one special doing nothing special. Just being true to himself here, now in the time and place of his, of our, living.
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