Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Treatment - Emergency need to embrace God as Life

Written in my journal 10/20

God is All-in-all and all in space. The childhood rhyme is that 'there is no spot where God is not'. There is no need or place for fear. God is here, there, everywhere.

God as Life embraces reality. God as Truth embraces openness and honesty. There is no space or ability for lies about ourselves or others in God. There is no place where we can be outside of God's realm. God is here now and every moment. We can rewrite our own sense of our histories by replacing painful-seeming experiences with acknowledgments of God's presence there. We look at places where we see only one set of footprints, where we felt the most separated from God and we remember - rewrite - our time then with the knowledge that God was carrying us. God carries us a lot. We don't thank Her nearly enough for what She does. He is always there, right where we are, whether or not we care or can acknowledge it.

Help us to rebuke the sense of narcissism. We aren't in love with ourselves. We are doing God's work for God alone. The congregation in worshiping isn't the audience. They are part of the service. God is the audience.

There can be no attraction to sin. Sin has no power of its own. Face down the demonic fears. Name them/ identify them as nothing. Unmask them and they will disappear, because they are nothing. Run away from them and they seem very real and frightening.

When the light switch is turned on, the light immediately fills the room. There is no time required, because _time_ is a set of mortal measurements that have nothing to do with infinity. We are God's infinite expressions. Perfect. Whole. Complete. Mature. Able to deal with whatever comes our way, because it is God who is doing the work.

Our only job is to clean the glass. God does the shining. We just have to help be better transparencies for Truth. And God helps with that, too. There's no burden doing God's work. God rests in action. The highest and sweetest rest, even from a material standpoint is in doing holy work (from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy). We don't need to believe in the limitations of being introverted or extroverted. We don't need to believe we need to be with people or alone to restore us. God keeps us whole continually. Needing more or less energy is a human, limited understanding of our potential. We don't need to feel held down by anything or anyone.

I do not nee to accept any baggage -- not my own, nor anyone else's -- nor do I need to carry my own weight. All of it we can let go of and give it to God. From the old joke, about what money to give to God, draw a circle, throw up the money and whatever's in or out of the circle give to God, or take the other perspective - whatever God wants, God keeps! We are all held in God's hands/arms. When we feel we're slipping, we could only fall into God's lap.

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Continuation on that theme

God is here, now. Whether or not we realize it, whether or not we want it to be true, whether or not we feel that we deserve it, God is here with us, always. There is no judging, disappointment or suffering in God. God is there, with us, but God is not limited by mortal pain. God can lift us out of it, because God is not human and does not suffer.

There was a motto on a t-shirt for a swim team where I was Asst Coach, "Pain is inevitable, but suffering is an option". I have to make myself realize that how I react or respond to a situation is a choice. We all can make better choices. Metanoia is a Greek term often translated as repentance, but it can also be recognized as an advanced knowing. Knowing beyond where we were before - now, we can make better choices than before. Choose Life! that you and your children may live. (Deut 30:19) Live into life. Don't let it pass you by. It's truly precious and a gift. The saying goes, that's why it's called the present.

Thanks for listening.