Good Morning friends!
Thinking about who we are – how do we identify and understand ourselves? Surely, we are more than sin encapsulated egos. I like what Meister Echkart wrote: “Though we are God’s sons and daughters, we do not realize it yet.” Hildegard of Bingen makes the same point: “O, humans, you do not even know who you are!” Finally, Julian of Norwich says: “Between God and the soul there is not between.” Also, St. Paul wrote: “We live and move and have our being in God.”
And it seems God lives and moves and has being in us.
A new friend of mine puts it this way: All 1 R We
Jesus has a prayer: “Father, May they all be one as we are one.”
What we are coming to know in our own experience is that divinity is not outside of us. We are in God and God is in us. This sense of oneness is liberating, life giving. “Taste and see the Lord is good.” When this awareness dawns on us, we are filled with awe, wonder, and unspeakable gratitude. This at-one-meant with the mystery of God is inspiring, empowering, and transforming.
The Quakers have a saying: “Walk the earth in gladness answering to that of God in everyone and everything.”
And that of course, includes yourself! Of course!
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of God and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”
-1 Cor 3:16
Awed by the mystery of God’s Presence in our midst, gratefully we celebrate life, and work for peace and justice.
With you in awakening to God’s PRESENCE all around, about and within us, here, now, always and forever.
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