Blog 795 – 10.15.2017

The Eternal Moment

I have for almost fifty years now been an avid reader and searcher. It is said of one particular group of books, “You search them thinking therein to find eternal life.” I feel that way about all books – they contain questions, yes, but also answers and like the almost proverbial box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get. Throughout most of my young adult life, I read almost exclusively the Bible and theological books of a particularly narrow view but not all. I did read biographies, novels, and some historical books. Still except for a few authors, C.S. Lewis in particular, my reading list was conservative both religiously and politically. When I divorced organized religion in the late nineteen eighties I sought wisdom and instruction elsewhere and began in earnest a deeper, wider search for the meaning of life. A friend at work said that he and his wife would be happy to recommend some books that might help guide me in my search. I noticed that one book that they had recommended kept referring to a book called A Course In Miracles, so often in fact that I concluded that I needed to quit reading that book and obtain a copy of the authority that he kept quoting. I did and it is a move I will never regret for it opened up my eyes to a whole world of information delivered in a way my narrow religious training would never have allowed me to pursue. And that is odd in itself because those very Bible teachers were fond of quoting a particular Bible verse, “All scripture is given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit and is profitable doctrine, for reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness that the man (or woman) of God might be perfect, thoroughly furnished, unto every good work.” I found it interesting that this verse was probably only referring to the Law and the Prophets, just a few books in what we called the Old Testament. The Old Testament cannon, an accepted list voted on by Jewish Rabbis, was not closed until 90 A.D. about the same time the Christian Church Clergy voted on the books that were to be called The New Testament. “Very interesting” and as the rest of that quote goes, they probably screwed it up. The criterion for picking the “holy books” was as flawed as the “holy men” who took it upon themselves to be arbiters of the truth.

I have come to believe, and it is also in that Book, the Bible, though quite hidden and garbled, that there is only One Arbiter Of Truth, One Holy Spirit, that resides in every child of the Universe, indeed permeating all that is. Quite a long intro, Crazy Dave. What is the point of this piece?

Here goes – when I stopped trying to live by men’s rules and accepting their interpretations as the only truth I found every thing that I read and saw pointed to the same conclusion that we are Gods and we are God’s. We can indeed know for sure Who and Whose we are. I saw it said in a hundred different ways the same truth, “the eternal moment”, “today is the day of salvation”, “live in the now” being but three ways of saying the same thing – God inhabits eternity, eternity is now and He/She/We, no devil, no demon, nor angel is the god of this world but you and I in concert with the One Holy Spirit that animates and fills us all. Whew that is heavy, but no burden to bear for that knowledge fully accepted makes us lighter than air.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

Just my opinion, what’s yours? And is it working for you?

David White