“Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.”
Let all our employment be to know God
Knowing God
I have reached a point in my life where I am really not interested in theology. I don’t want to know what scholars or preachers think about God, I want to know God. Faith for me has become less and less intellectual and more experiential.
Life and faith are not meant to be endless struggle until we die and “go to heaven” as an escape from this earth. We are created to know and enjoy God right here and now. It is our beliefs about God spelled out in our doctrines and theologies which make life hard. It is not some sort of punishment from God, we do it to ourselves.
Almost twenty years ago at the end of an energy healing session I had an experience of the Divine that changed my life and how I see God. The healer, who was also a licensed medical doctor, knew something special happened and asked about it, but there were no words to describe it.
The doctor died unexpectedly a few months after that and unfortunately it took me awhile to stop going from one alternative healer to another looking to repeat that experience. I was not ready to comprehend that God was within me and that conscious experience of the Divine is always at hand. Now I don’t know how I lived before.
That doesn’t mean life is always smooth sailing. I do a pretty good job of complicating things and making life hard all on my own. But it is my thoughts and beliefs that do that, not God.
So this month let’s look at knowing God. If you have a personal experience you would like to share, please feel free to leave a comment below.
hear your own voice
“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.”
― You’re Doing Just Fine
Listen to my life telling me who I am
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
― Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
To be fully alive…
“To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.”
― Weird: Because Normal Isn’t Working
It’s marvelous to be
“It’s marvelous to be – one should never be anything else.”
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Replace the rush with “be”
“Always Rushing Around, Here , There, Everywhere? Replace The Rush With “Be”. Be Calm, Be Cool, Be Here, Be Near!”―
Practice sharing the fullness of your being
“Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.”
― Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Enslavement to the cares of this world
Time to Just Be
Like many Americans I was brought up with a strong sense of the need to do something. And not just anything but something that would be life changing or even world changing. So I tend to lose the importance of being and get caught up in doing.
In January however I was forced into a “time out” after a fall which resulted in an arm/shoulder injury. The first two weeks I’m not sure I was on the planet. Between the pain and not being able to sleep I was in a fog to say the least. At first I was caught up in wondering how things were going to get done, but then realized that Bob and I would just do what we could. We didn’t starve, nor were we buried under a pile of dirty laundry. Once I was able to let go of the need to do I was able to rest, just be injured for awhile and let my body heal.
It is important to remember that we are called to be. Doing comes out of that, but sometimes we go overboard and life becomes all about doing — non-stop. When the need to do gets out of control the universe will try to warn us. If we do not heed the warnings we may be headed for a fall — in my case quite literally.
Of course the physical injury was painful. So were some of the realities about life and people that were brought to my attention. But learning that people may not always show up in the way i want or expect brought me closer to God.
I am grateful for the time to just be and lessons learned. Let’s just hope that if I get caught up in doing again I will heed the message to slow down before I take a big fall.
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