© Rhoberta Shaler, PhD
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We call people “spiritual seekers” and many are looking for God in all the wrong places…in my opinion. (Of course, I can only share my thoughts and conclusions about this after fifty years of walking the spiritual path through amazing experiences and beside still waters, and they are just mine.)
Why do I think folks are looking in all the wrong places? Because they are looking for God outside of themselves. You know there is an old story about sages arguing about where to hide the truth, each with his own idea. Finally once suggested hiding it inside people. When asked why he thought that was best, his reply was:
“Because they will never think to look there!”
God is within me, expressing in, as, around and through me and I know that to be true. Believe me, I’ve had ample opportunity to figure that out! As a young mom, I made my way alone with three children, a fulltime job, little child support and parents who espoused that infamous phrase,
“You made your bed. Now, lie in it!”
As I sat down with a pile of bills much higher than the pile of dollars each month, I would feel myself slipping into the “ain’t it awfuls” and have to remind myself–maybe even talk out loud very strongly to myself to get my attention–that God is, in fact, expressing through me and only I can stop the flow! And, oh, I had such supposedly rational ways to stop that flow.
What if you could wrap your head around the idea that God is within you, made you as the Bible says “in his image and likeness,” and you could live from that idea? God has poured everything out for you long before you went looking for it. Could you accept that? Or, do you prefer fear, limitation, and struggle?
Believe me, I know it is not always easy to stay in that flow. I’m an expert at finding justifications for making plans and making things happen. Foolish me. Truly, when I remember that God lives as me, then all is “added unto me.” It’s when I get my knickers in a knot, thinking I have to MAKE it happen, that anxiety, anger, frustration and fear take over.
Fortunately, after all these years, I’m quicker at remembering and getting back in the flow that has sustained and maintained me with manna all these years.
How about you? How do you get yourself back into the flow?
Many blessings,
Rhoberta
Rhoberta Shaler, PhD
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1 Comment so far.
Hello Dear Rhoberta,
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on my blog. Seeing yours, it is clear we have strolled some similar walks along the path.
This is a wonderful post, and my experience has certainly taught me the same. I feel this is what our dear old friend Jesus, for one, was saying when he said, “I and my Father are one.” Finding and acknowledging God within is to realize the Light of Spirit both within ourselves and in each other. Then we can more easily let go of everything that is not “us,” (sin, fear, guilt, the past, the future, etc.) we finally see all that we we truly are… the Light and Love of God (in his image created he them!). Sure puts things here in this world in perspective when we humbly remember the beauty and innocence within us.
Thank you for sharing our Light Rhoberta.
Patrick
http://phdarling.wordpress.com
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