I remember hearing this song in the nineties. Back then I was more of a purely dogmatic Christian frame of mind. I would envision encountering Jesus on a bus for example. To me it was a novelty and extension of the entire "What would Jesus do?" mindset. I think I still have one of those bracelets somewhere.
I have clearly stated before that I don't believe the Pope in Rome has no more authority then we do to reach out to God/Source in communication. In fact, most of us are communicating with God every day but we don't see it that way. We have a chance every day to change the way that God/Source experiences itself....through others. I will say that Recovering Catholics have an edge on some people in grasping what I am writing because it is a very inclusive perspective on Christianity (which is why the Christian church moved away from that ideology when it splintered). This idea, now that I look back, was completely misinformed and missed the mark. I guess when you get so focused on the idea that only select people are worthy of knowing god, that the rest of us are meant to be followers...it is easy to view God as embodied in the flesh outside of oneself. The idea that there is some sort of elite special hierarchical group never made sense to me. All of creation is equal in God's eyes. Whether you're a rocket scientist or a junkie...God loves each equally. What I've come to understand, as I attempted to explain in my Multidimensional Oneness blog, is that each person is the embodiment of an individual aspect of God. When you think of an eternal being how else would it discover itself? Yet, do we treat all of the people we meet in life as thought they are God? Most of us have spent so much time hating people that...we don't really see the authentic them. I had a woman tell me she hates people. She hates customer service. She can't see how I can have such a positive attitude. That hurts to hear, I remember how that feels. This week so many people said they wish they could have my positive loving upbeat personality. My heart breaks because I know they can. Does this mean that we should let other people do whatever they want with us? No. Let's go deeper into a meditation on this subject. Lofty Expectations We have such lofty expectations of what someone working with Spirit should act or behave. We have lifted the people who seemed to embody source to such lofty levels we don't feel we can achieve them. Yet, we are naturally embodying God...usually we just push all of it to the subconscious and our soul operates from that level. In order to really embrace the paradigm I currently have (I do not claim to be right) it is important to let go of those expectations. Saintly behavior is not human. It's a fictional bedtime story we created for ourselves to justify not being able to unite with God/All-That-Is in our every day lives. Being a saint is just too much work. Therefore it must be a God-Given characteristic that people are simply born with just like those pesky kids who seem to be born knowing how to paint like a master or write orchestras. Yet, the real work is in our every day interactions. Our moment to moment decisions in the now. This is how we find God in every person that we meet from the person on the bus stop to the person preaching in Church. Each is a divine spark of the One/Source/God and as such they carry the seed of God within them. Interacting With God "Hello, welcome to Fast Food Central. My name is Amanda, can I take your order?" What do you think when you hear this at your local fast food restaurant? You are probably judging the person by their job. Obviously, to have this job they must not have a degree. They are a failure of some sort that they have a minimum wage job serving fast food to people. Even a robot could do their job. They don't deserve a decent wage because only college kids should have that job. Adults shouldn't work at a Fast Food Restaurant. Just think of all of the judgement you just passed in a few moments. You probably even treat them like a robot. You hand over your money without words and without making eye contact. You collect your food from the next window and drive off without ever making any human contact. Yet, you just interacted with many aspects of God just and judged a part of God unworthy of your time. You ignored them...perhaps even of existing. God/Source decided to make that individual. Who are you to question their worthiness of existence? You skipped over any lesson they might have given you. You missed the opportunity to learn more about yourself. You missed the opportunity to make their day a little bit brighter...to restore their faith in humanity. Learning More About Yourself How do you work with knowing that everyone is a part of you? Every person you meet, every perspective you consider, you learn a little bit more about All-That-Is...or God. They are your mirrors. If they trigger you...you know that's something YOU need to work on. Not them. You have the ability to interact with God every day. You have the ability to breath, to blow, on that little spark within other people...so that they too can experience the light of beauty, truth and love through growth. That aspect of God you are interacting with might be completely asleep to the fact that it is a part of God. If they are they are probably experiencing deep loneliness, isolation and suffering even if they are surrounded by other people. They are wounded individuals. They might as well have their heads wrapped in bandages. You have the opportunity to give them a taste of the divine in full knowledge of itself...an opportunity to show them a different path that they can take. We all slip and fall in this journey. If we have incredibly un-human like expectations of what God is in this material reality we will surely be disappointed if we go looking for it out in this world. I'm sure if you met Buddha, Jesus or Mohammad you would not immediately know they were channels of the divine. Every social interaction is like going to school. You have the opportunity to learn more about yourself by those you meet. The way the divine matrix of collective thought works causes people you need to come to you. Each brings you the gift of opportunity, knowledge of God and the opportunity to grow. If you are closed down to social interaction you might not even realize the opportunity. Every person has a unique perspective, but their journey always has aspects that you can relate to...and through understanding how someone related differently with a particular obstacle you can learn more about yourself. This requires a certain authenticity on your part- the ability to shine a light on your shadow side that you might not like. Inevitably, in these other people you will be shown your shadow side and weaknesses. These will be your trials and until you deal with the aspect in you that is like them...these types of people will continue to enter your life until you learnt he lesson. Once you learn the lesson their ability to affect you is greatly diminished...and their attempts at unsettling you might be laughable. In fact, more then likely they will become uncomfortable around you and decide to take their leave for a more...compatible environment. This is where you start looking at situations as opportunities to measure your creativity and patience. You go home and you meditate on the social interaction that upset you. (Again, meditation is just placing your mind on a subject). You explore why it hurt, did it bring up memories from your past (possibly even past life memories)? Identify the pain, lean into it and explore it and you will learn far more than any IQ or Personality Test can ever teach you. Every Interaction Is A Test Every person is a test, a test to see if you really get the concept that they are One with God with you...that you are the same being. Did you treat that person with Hate? Then you must hate yourself on some level. Did you treat that person who was so mean to you with love, patience and compassion? Then you have learned to have those with yourself. Here we also find, "You reap what you sow," to be a great example of how this works. If you hate yourself you will only find people who hate you. If you love yourself you will find your tribe...what ever inner state you carry will be reflected by those people you meet. What about when you're having a blissful day and you find someone who is just striking out in anger because they've had a terrible day? Learn how to listen to them. By listening you will diffuse the time bomb that they are carrying on the inside. Sometimes they won't open up. Sometimes they will explode even startling themselves. At the very least, you held out a hand to let them know you cared...and that moment of compassion can completely change them. You never know if they were suicidal and you just saved their life. That was an opportunity and a test where the universe questions, "Do you really understand? Do you really see this as a part of you...the part that once had a bad day like this...to redeem it by acting as you wished someone had acted towards you? Don't Carry Other Peoples Burdens If you are like me and really love people you might feel tempted to carry other persons burdens. You hear where they are in life and you try to 'fix' the situation. This is a huge disservice to others. After all Jesus said, "Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light." He never said he's taking your burden from you. He never said he'd take the yoke you created from your shoulders. (You can see my previous blog regarding the yoke/burden/work here: http://bridgetkorns.weebly.com/blog/april-03rd-2017). NO, he says to take his yoke..his paradigm (perspective) upon yourself...and set aside that which you have created throughout this life and perhaps prior lives. We do not take the burdens from or take the yoke from others...because then they will never learn their lessons. This is why it is such an unnatural idea that the State should provide everything for it's citizens. This is why God doesn't provide all of the answers to us if we do not seek them through our own persnoal inner work...because we never learn through application if someone does the work for us. This is why taking on another's burdens is the greatest travesty...it is a disservice to you and a disservice to them. When you do your child's homework for them do they learn? No. So stop misusing your willpower and trying to change everyone else in your life...stop trying to make the mirror smile. Take their unique individual expression at this moment into consideration. Thank the universe you got to see the way God/Source is expressed through them...and move on if it carries no discernible message for you in your life. Care A long time ago, as I have explained before, I decided the buck stops here. So often, we isolate ourselves from others and say their troubles are not ours. We don't stop to help someone up from the ground if they fall...because they might sue us. Such is the convoluted paradoxical world of projection we live in... Yet, so many people are craving someone to care. The other day there was a woman in the store where I was working coughing. I heard her cough. I knew that cough from my own experience. She needed water. She was on the phone and going around in confused circles. She wasn't going anywhere, unable to meet her own needs because she needed water but she didn't know what to do about it. I filled up a glass of water and took it to her. "I see that you need this," I told her in a whisper because I knew she was on the phone. She drank the water and stopped walking in circles. Later she stood by the door of my department with tears in her eyes, "I wanted to give you this," she said offering me a dollar bill. I put the dollar bill in my communal tip box after saying thank you. Then I gave her a big hug and said I was happy I could help her. That little bit of compassion had impacted her day tremendously. I didn't expect anything in exchange. The truth is when people encounter true compassion they naturally want to offer something in return. The difference I have made that have created an abundance is my life...is the choice to take that responsibility. The choice I have made that when I see another human suffering- another spark of the divine- I respond to that suffering. I say, "I see you, I am here to be of service if I may. You are not alone." Sometimes, the simple words, "I understand," to validate another persons feelings or emotions can also shift their entire perspective of the universe. Conclusion We have the opportunity to interact with God/Source every day. That's one of the reasons the song song, "What if God was one of us?" became so popular. On a deep subconscious level we know that he is and that we are all God. How we treat even the most nominal person in our society is how we treat ourselves and, in essence, God. Yet, we have to practice discernment because there are people who will give off the image of falsely being poor or destitute in the desire to benefit themselves. That's where knowing not to carry another's burden comes into play. You are not obligated to give the person who looks like a poor pan handler money out of your pocket...and it doesn't make you a good person to give to those who appear obviously destitute. Jesus rebuked those who made a big deal about giving to charity in his time...because if you do it just to earn praise it is not genuine compassion. Further, many people manipulate people to give them money. The real test is all of the subtle social interactions. Every morning we interact with our spouse or children. We interact with the Mother Earth even if we don't go out and interact with other human beings. Do you sing to your plants? Do you love them as you water them? These too are emanations of the Source/God...he took time to create them too. Either way, you have a choice in every interaction. Even when they don't come to you and you see them suffering you have a choice. Most people in our society do not know how to ask for help. Do you choose to be the one that makes that difference? Sometimes it can be an ungrateful position. People will take your kindness for granted. Yet, every attempt is worth it because on rare occasions you might save or alter someones life. I have given advice that led to someone getting into a college they never considered. I responded to a man who had a seizure and his life was saved. I can go to sleep assured I have done the work to make this world a better place for all of us to the best of my ability at the moment given the resources I have. Choose to be the difference. Choose compassion. Choose love. Choose paitience...practice it with every single person you meet. That way next time you hear, "Hello welcome to Latte Heaven, my name is Lilith, what can I get started for you today?" You realize God just offered to make you the best drink you've had in your life. Think of every person you meet as a flower...you can choose to water that flower. The flower might be parched near death and not give a sign of appreciation...if it is healthier it will respond by blooming with a beautiful smile. You might be surprised how often that person returns to you simply to experience what they do not have. The choice is yours in every interaction. May you see and Honor God/Source in each person you meet.
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