Blog 581 – 03.24.2017

We Really Don’t Know Any Better, But It’s All Good

One of the most outlandish and remarkable things that parents say to children is, “You know better than that.” It is quite obvious from the behavior or choice that sparked such a remark that they do not and neither do we. I believe I have hit upon the secret to making this world heaven or paradise again. According to “The Story” mankind was ejected from the garden of Eden, paradise, for eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil. It seems according to the story that God never intended for his creation to have or to exercise this knowledge of good and of evil. Man lost his knowledge and experience of paradise because he thought he/she “knew better.” What is this knowledge of good and of evil but judgement, a business that Papa never intended us to go into. Like most good and loving papas he wants his children to continue the family business. And our family’s business is and has always been, Loving, Inc., or Love and Sons (That includes all you daughters too.)

When John Lennon’s said, “Imagine there’s no heaven. It’s easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky.” What he was really saying is, Imagine this is heaven. It is easy if you try, all you have to do is quit judging, quit calling this thing bad and the other thing good. The reason we always disagree on what is bad and what is good is that it is all good. Woa, Crazy Dave, you lost me. Hear me out. Let’s take water for example. Water is good right? Well how about when you use it for water torture, Chinese or water boarding. Breathing it can indeed be hazardous to your heath. Water is always good but can be misused. People are always good but can behave badly, wrongly, or be misjudged to have. Ole judgement again.

In the wonderful movie and book, The Shack, Papa God says to Mac, “Your biggest problem is that you don’t believe that I am good.” Mac as a boy had committed a terrible act that he could not forgive himself for, could not forgive God for allowing to happen. Like most of us Mac had gotten into the wrong business, the judging business, early in life and had judged himself, God, and most everyone with the possible exceptions of his mother, wife and children as being unworthy of love, of not being “good.” I say again, “It is all good.” And until we quit judging and just see it so we will miss the wonderful fact that heaven is not some far off dreamland, over the rainbow, but it is in our hearts and all around us if we but open our hearts and eyes to see it.

Maybe we really do know better in our heart of hearts. The secret again, just in case you missed it, to making heaven on earth is to just quit thinking we know right and wrong, good and bad, to quit judging and just love everyone and everything. Wow, that sounds so simple and it is really. As simple as saying, “I forgive myself for thinking that I myself or my brother am unworthy of love.” Hell in its most terrible terms is a place beyond the reach of love. That place exists only in the minds of those who judge and not even there really for it is an illusion. There is only Love and He/She/We are all in all, everyone, everything, and every where. And at the risk of repeating myself, it is all good.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White