Blog 352 – 07.24.2016
(Excerpt from the book, Emily – The Little Girl Who Sang Her Song To Anyone Who Came Along)

Episode 24

Emily was not perfect. None of us is. It is, I think, a weakness of many biographies and autobiographies that in an attempt to write about the best attributes of the subject we are left with an unrealistic picture of the person. We all have feet of clay or as the Bible verse referred to in the title of this episode says:

“We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency might be of God.”

I take that to mean if you see any good in anyone it is God and if you see imperfection it is Ego, ole Slough Foot, Satan. In another place in the New Testament the questions are asked. Who shall be against us if God is for us.  What could ever come between us and God? And the the questions are both answered in the line. “I am convinced that neither height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God.” I submit to you that Ego is a creation of man early on in an attempt to replace God in our consciousness. Ego or Satan is a flawed creation and fighting him/her only gives our weaker lower self greater reign in our lives because Ego is an illusion.

A famous quote says, “Satan’s greatest achievement was convincing man that he did not exist.” I believe the opposite is true. I believe not only with John Lennon that all we need is love but further more that all there truly is is Love. God or Love is all in all. The way to get rid of an illusion is to ignore it and to focus on the light. Light dispels darkness because the light is real the darkness is not. Love dispels hate for hate is not real. Hate is ignorance. We fear, and therefore hate that which we do not understand.

Back to our shortcomings. The word for sin in the New Testament means “missing the mark.” We might call that making a mistake. How ever hard you try to avoid it, in this Time and Space adventure you are always going to make mistakes. It is the way we learn, trial and error. The only choices in this game called life are to win some or to learn some.

One of my favorite verses from the Hallelujah song featured both in the movie Shrek and the movie Watchmen ( There are about fifteen verses to the song and only a few were used in the movies and some of them different ones.) One of my favorite verses follows:

You say I took the name in vain
But I don’t even know know
And if I did well really
What’s it to you?
There’s a blazing light
In every word
It doesn’t matter
Which you heard
The whole or the broken
hallelujah.

That blazing light in every word is the spark of Divinity that resides in these temples of clay. A word is a symbol of a thought and all thoughts reside in the One Mind even the broken ones. And all the threads in the tapestry make it beautiful. At the risk of mixing metaphors, don’t be so quick to judge the color, texture, or brush stroke till the painting is complete.,The Master Artist takes the big picture into account and will not disappoint.

Most of the verses in the Hallelujah song are from the story of King David in the Old Testament as examples I site these:

They say there was a secret chord
That David played and it please
the Lord.
But you don’t really care for
music do you?

It goes like this
The fourth the fifth,
The minor fall,
The major lift,
The battle king composing
Hallelujah.

Your faith was strong
But you needed proof.
You saw her bathing
On the roof.

Her beauty and the moonlight
Over threw you.
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne
She cut your hair
And from you lips she drew the
hallelujah.

David had a weakness for women so did Samson to whom the hair cutting probably refers. These men as all men had flaws but they were God’s men as are all men and women. Of David it was said that he was a man after God’s own heart but he was a battle king with blood on his hands so much so that according to the story he was not allowed to build God’s temple only to collect the building supplies.  His son would build God’s temple, the second child he had with Bathsheba, who had been Uriah’s wife  when he saw her bathing on the roof while Uriah was away fighting the King’s battles. David got Bathsheba pregnant and had Her husband brought home on leave hoping to make everyone think the child was Uriah’s but the scheme did not work as Uriah refused to sleep with his wife while his men were fighting and could not be with their wives. So David arranged to have him killed in battle to cover up his sin and then took Bathsheba as a wife. But his secret, as all secrets will be, was  revealed. As I said, David had a weakness for women. The Bible says he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines (second class wives). Talk about you overcompensating. My gay friends say David was gay or bi-sexual referring to the verse where at his best friend Jonathan’s death David said he loved Jonathan more than he ever loved a woman. Gay, Bi, or not he was flawed as we all are but still “a man after God’s own heart.” His name David means “beloved” the same word the voice of God from the heavens used to recognize Jesus after his baptism, “This is my beloved son. Hear ye him.”

We have this treasure in earthen vessels eludes to the lamps of the day that were made of clay but carried light. I think a clay vessel containing light more like a lantern is more appropriate.  It is the holes or cracks in the clay that reveal the light. Our flaws, the cracks in our disguise reveal the shining divinity within us.

As a girl Emily loved the Cocoon movie where aliens, shining beings of light, wore people disguises to try to save some of there stranded fellow aliens. We are just like that, aliens in a strange land, light beings whose mission it is to shine our light and show our brothers and sisters the way home. And it is not by trying harder to be perfect or pretending to be perfect but by accepting and being grateful for the gift of our flaws that allows others to see the light within us shining out. It is inner light not effort that dispels the darkness. Fear of failure and denying our flaws only feed the Ego.

The nearest representations of the Divinity in each of us are the loved ones who have learned to love and accept themselves and are therefore free to love others. Emily at thirty-two had already achieve a greater degree of what the psychologists used to refer to as self actualization than many of us who have been on our adventure far longer. She taught by example and her imperfections made that example far more glowing for as much as she was divine she was one of us.

Your friend and fellow traveler, Emily’s Dad,
David White