May 18, 2014

And therefore so am I .

“God is but Love, and therefore so am I” have been the focus of my meditation time over the past 10 days. They are part of the series of meditations from the Course in Miracles that I have been working with for the fourth or fifth time. (The Course in Miracles is a series of 365 meditations designed, if followed carefully, to bring the user in closer contact with God.)

 

God is but Love. What a beautiful expression. This of course echoes the letter from John, where the writer expresses: “God Is Love, and they who abide in Live, abide on God, and God in them.” This expression puts the whole of the experience of God in close, when God asks each of us what our intentions are, not some time in the future, but right now.

Then what I have been using for meditation puts an addendum: “and therefore so am I”. That expresses what God has revealed to me from many sources. I am the branch of God, from the vine of God. Not adopted, but natively. That is, God spun me, Dave Peters, from the God-self and said to me “Go, find your true self, your God-self, and have it Sing.” That has been my task for each time I have spun through this life, separated by my ego from my source. Certainly this time I have been more successful; at least I now recognize my source. I still have much growth to gain before I would consider my self complete, but it is progress. This is the path each of us have been given as we venture forth on this adventure we call “Life”.

How has God revealed this to me? Certainly when I had my original vision 46 years ago, it was only hinted at. God laid it firmly on me that God would guide me for the rest of my life. Well, I am still here, and God has guided me throughout my years, and still has more to share with me. My path led through the delightful 54 years with my beloved wife, many talks, conferences, discussions, and especially books. My path led me threw a combinations of spiritual and science books, items that granted me knowledge and insights into the unknown fact that Life is everything there is. This path of knowledge has converged to a single realization that the world we think we see and live in is but a portion of the true universe wherein we exist.

The path I have been led has shown me clearly that God is Love, only Love, pure and simple and sustaining in the highest level of Love, beyond what can be seen or understood in this world. I have learned that I too am Love, that my essence, at the center, is Love. I have only one true emotion: Love. How I live that emotion, tells how I have lived this “sojourn in the wilderness”. Have I loved? Well, to tell the truth, not sufficiently during my 80 years of being in this time and place. I have wondered in and out of this affair with God, spending too much of my precious time not showing Love to the best advantage, and too often to a non-advantage.

How can I, we, say “therefore so am I (made of Love)”. What right do we have to say we are made of Love? How can that be? We know ourselves, oh do we know ourselves! We know we do many “unloving” things, and we see the terrible things that one human commits on another every day in our news.

But above all we know ourself. We know that we hurt others, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. How can that be love? Let us look at other negative emotions and see what they truly are.

Fear: Fear is the negative of love. Fear is what is left when love is removed. But at the same time, what causes fear? Is it not because we may lose something? Our life, our health, our children, our friends, our way of life — someone we treasure is in danger, ourself or someone we hold dear, and we fear for them. Thus fear “is” because we are afraid someone we love may be injured in some way, even if that someone is oneself. So fear is, in essence, a form of Love.

Anger: Anger is very much like fear. We become angry when we or a loved one is in danger or has been insulted in some fashion. It may be some 'thing' as well, such as our nationality, church, or country. Where fear tends to be more personal, that is, about oneself or a loved one, anger can rise from many sources, most often because of some real or imagined insult, not necessarily something personal but always something we hold close to our heart. So in essence, anger is love in danger, like fear.

Greed: Greed is misplaced Love of something, usually money but not always, that flows because we become convinced that we could not be happy without more of ——. It too stems from love, not love as God would call, but love twisted and misplaced, but still love, our one true emotion.

And so it goes with all our emotions. Shame because our self-love has been injured. Pride because our placement of love in another person or thing seems to reflect good on us. All of our emotions stem from love, our greatest gift from God, and therefore the one gift that we have a hard time controlling and keeping simple.

Our greatest gift to give away is our love, for that is what God gives to us on a constant stream. Only by giving Love away do we receive Love in return, and our hearts rebound in Joy and Happiness like nothing else.

Meditation

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My Eternal Wisdom, you have led us to look at your active presence, Love, in our life. We are asking for our hearts and minds to be connected with that third part of our being, the soul, which always sees Love as it is, to see what the possibilities are as we explore your (and our) Nature, the wholeness of God, that we have named Love. For it is in Love that we exist, it is in Love that we are. We can never reach the bottom of Your Love, or the top or the depth of Your Love, for that is one thing that is truly infinite, beyond space and time, and You beckon us to everlasting Joy and Happiness. It is this essence, O God, that we yearn, reaching out through the taste of joy and happiness in this life to touch our essence in the vine of eternal nourishment. We open our hearts and our being in the expectation that we will be more aware of the Kingdom of Heaven that lies within each of us and surrounds us, enabling to live being conscious of that Kingdom that is here in our midst.