fed by your religion and your own thoughts about life and about God.
I simply want you to follow me, as we try to answer a simple question:
"Where is God?"
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| Photo Credit: Nature's Lover |
This question is oft asked when people become bewildered by life.
They may be in a moment of crisis, where they feel all their diligent efforts
have gone for naught. They feel abandoned and alone.
"Where is God?" they wail.
Indeed, where is God when "bad things happen to good people?"
In the book, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," Harold Kushner, a rabbi, offers solace to countless numbers by explaining that evil does creep into our lives even with God's presence. But Kushner's perspectives are about God's intentions for our lives. Even though implied throughout, the book does not dwell upon the physical presence of God.
In this post, I hope to address the very question of God's physical presence, i.e. the place where God resides as we pray and wail to him.
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Where is God when I need him most? Where is God when my very being cries out in agony for his help?Where is God when I get a bad health report? Where is God when something bad happens in the world? Where is God when the homeless are out roaming the streets, un-sheltered from the cruel elements in life? Where is God when a tsunami erupts, killing thousands? Where is God when a madman goes on a rampage, killing dozens of people at one time?
Where is God...when soooo many bad things are happening in the world?
Where is God?
Where is God?
Where is God?
Why does he not hear our pleas.
Shhh...
Shhhh...
Shhhhhhh...
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| For more information on this poem check out http://www.unity.org/resources/articles/i-am-there |
Whisper.
He can see you.
Stop.
He can hear you.
Yes.
He can feel you.
He can see you.
He can hear you.
He can feel you.
"Have not I commanded thee?Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."
Joshua 1:9
King James Version (KJV)
Can fish breathe outside of water?
Can you survive without air?
From the moment we "arrived,"
have we not needed air to survive.
What is around us?
What chokes us up when it becomes polluted?
Forget all you've heard about the man in the sky
who's waiting for your day of reckoning to come...
Forget about the afterlife and hell that's awaiting you there for some imagined wrong you've done while trying...albeit diligently...to live this life.
When we're jumping around life, like a fish
out of water, (see this Fish Out of Water image), hoping that alcohol, drugs or whatever
recreation would drown out our sorrows:
We've been looking for God in all the wrong places.
Stop jumping and start living...from the inside out.
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| Quote: Luke 17:21 |
Choose heaven.
Choose to stay in bliss.
Even though it may seem that you
have not chosen wisely the steps
that led you to today...
Guess what?
God was right there as you made those wrong steps.
Yes.
God is our air. He is every where we are...
When we begin to understand this...then we see the ONENESS
with all of God's creatures, i.e. fowls
in the air, animals that creep, crawl, run..
there's a oneness with them all.
This is why we feel so much peace in nature.
This celebrates the oneness of us all living within
the sacredness of the ONE.
We cannot survive or do a wrong without
God's presence...his physical presence!
God is there as the first breath we take
to stay alive ...to the last breath we take
when it leaves our body.
Think about this.
And know.
Karma...all that reckoning and righting of
wrongs before we die...
are all our own intuition...
our own guidance...
from the God that surrounds us...
God Is within us
And IS Us.
"Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness,
which unites your body to your
thoughts. Whenever your mind
becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again."
Thich Nhat Hanh Via Gratefulness.org Word For the Day, Aug. 11, 2016
our oneness with all creatures, they
seem to recognize intuitively their
oneness, too, with other creatures around them as well.
We must then take our responsibility
to other humans much more seriously
in our daily lives. It's simply not okay
to know that "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself,"
is one of the great commandment, after "Loving Thy
God with all Thine Heart."
We must reach out in real ways to show
others that we care.
After that, then we must reach out to all of God's creatures on earth.
It seems that they...these creatures...are silently awaiting our
permission to be loving to other species and creatures,
too.
loving, and just need our example of love to give them permission
to also be loving. (See images: Animals Live By Our Example.)
He sees ...He hears ...He feels...
All that we see, hear and feel...
He's there as our Silent Witness.
Breathe.
That's where God is...
Namaste',
Che'
