Blog 413 – 09.23.2016

For quite a number of years I have not considered myself a Christian even so one of the most beautiful songs to me is still, He Was There All the Time. The song goes on to say, “Waiting patiently in line. He was there all the time.”  I do not reject God nor Jesus just the very narrow and in many cases, in my opinion, erroneous teachings that have come to be known as  Christianity. God, Jesus, Love, Truth are way bigger than the tiny boxes people try to put them in. And those tiny boxes people meet in to worship their very small and slightly different take on God seem to me a shame, a really big waste of time, and more of hindrance to peace, love, and understanding than a help. What most of us are seeking is not to be found there.

What are you seeking – love and acceptance? Well, I have good news for you. Those two things are and have always been yours and He/She, God, the Universe has been standing in line till you exhausted all other options to tell you so. That, my friends, is the good news not another program to clean you up or make you play by the rules. You are loved. You are lovable. You are  altogether lovely just as you are. And nothing you have ever done or could ever do can change who you are. The ony real change that ever needs to take place is in our thinking. Some of that incorrect thinking has to do with our true identity. We are not fallen creatures, shapened in iniquity and born in sin. We are not wicked sinners deserving the fires of hell for all eternity. We are not now nor have we ever been lost without hope or so wicked that a blood sacrifice had to be made for us. Our real identity is that of a child of the Universe. Our physical body, which is a house that our spiritual being lives in is made of star dust, earth, but our spirit is light and is an extension of the Father of Lights. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of Lights.

We are as Jesus was in the story, a marriage of heaven and earth. And every child is a love child and is given the world. The most often quoted verse by Christians, John 3:16
says “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.” What do those words really mean? First of all God gave the world to his Son (Child) not the other way around. Secondly we are all as He was so that only begotten son thing is misunderstood. Lastly we were all individually and collectively created eternal whether we believe it or not. This silly litmus test or as one very funny Jewish lady put it “just apologizing” is completely unnecessary. We set up a very false argument when we making thinking alike, believing, or saying “sorry” the proof of any argument or the key to our salvation. Saved from what exactly – a misunderstanding of Who we really are?

When one truly sees something they can never un-see it like seeing through the misdirection of a magic trick. Trust your own eyes, your own heart, mind, and spirit within you. And know beyond a shadow of a doubt that all you seek has been seeking you. All the mis-creating and misunderstanding in the world cannot change the sure and certain knowledge of Who and Whose you are. Once you see behind the curtain you will never be afraid of the Great and Powerful Oz again but will know as the Scarecrow that you always had a brain, and as the Tin man learned you always had a heart, and as the Lion that you were always brave. What you seek is already yours and has always been. Or at least I think so and just maybe that is what the line means, “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” Another line just came to me out of the blue some years back that I adopted as my personal mantra and repeat to myself when I am tempted to doubt my identity and birth right. It goes, “I am so grateful that anything I could ever want or need is already mine and coming to me at just the right time and in just the right way from my loving and infinite Source.” Being loved and provided for so perfectly takes the worry out of being close. “Oh, Love, that will not let me go. I rest my soul in Thee.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White