I think I understand ¨love your neighbor¨ better than I understand ¨love God.¨
How can I love God and know God?
God is love.
God is bigger than the universe.
God is the universe.
I see God in creation.
God is still creating.
I am a very important treasured speck of dust in Godś infinite plan.
God is my father and my mother.
Jesus said, ¨pray Godś kingdom of love be on earth as in the heavens.¨
Jesus said, ¨pray Godś will be done on earth as in the heavens.¨
Wait a minute!
I have discovered I am afraid of Godś will! That is crazy!
Why do I feel that way? It does not make sense. I know God loves me.
I don´t want to be separated from God in any way. I want to surrender to God´s will. I want to be one with God.
Are other people afraid of surrendering to Godś will?
I sort of suspect that someplace deep in my memory God´s will has gotten a bad rap.
God . . . would you help me figure this out please?
How can I love God and know God?
God is love.
God is bigger than the universe.
God is the universe.
I see God in creation.
God is still creating.
I am a very important treasured speck of dust in Godś infinite plan.
God is my father and my mother.
Jesus said, ¨pray Godś kingdom of love be on earth as in the heavens.¨
Jesus said, ¨pray Godś will be done on earth as in the heavens.¨
Wait a minute!
I have discovered I am afraid of Godś will! That is crazy!
Why do I feel that way? It does not make sense. I know God loves me.
I don´t want to be separated from God in any way. I want to surrender to God´s will. I want to be one with God.
Are other people afraid of surrendering to Godś will?
I sort of suspect that someplace deep in my memory God´s will has gotten a bad rap.
God . . . would you help me figure this out please?
5 comments:
Wow,
this is an amazing post, filled with touching honesty.
You wrote, "I don´t want to be separated from God in any way." Maybe that is precisely God's will, and God is the one performing it. You (and the rest of us) aren't separated from God's will.
That being said, surrendering to love has several levels to it, doesn't it?
Blessings,
Kevin
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Marilyn I love your writing. So beautfiul and like Kevin mentioned so honest.
To me, with regard to your first sentence, loving your neighbor is loving God.
Mustafa - on behalf of the turnloveinsideout group - sağol - which I think means "Thank you"
Cool comments . . . good stuff to think about. Thanks! :)
i was conditioned by religion to think and live as seperated from God. i managed to twist the significance of Christ into a "forgiven but still seperated" notion. God is the subject, I am the object; he is there; i am here; "spirituality" is finding ways to get God 'into' my life, etc...once i was open to it, Jesus' teaching that "the kingdom of God is within me" became the first step toward awakening to the fact that God and I are intimately connected in ways words defy. for me, it's a sort of 'knowing' that there is no seperation. and yet, i sometimes revert back to the seperation mentality. Love to all, jim
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