Favorite Words            Sandy Jones

I had written some stuff on a non-duality forum about God. A kindly old non-dualist replied to my writing that "there is no "god"--- that's about how he put it.

I always sort of just laugh when that happens, it happens too often on the non-dual forums, lots of sniping at me about "the God word". I always know I will get that same response or should I say snide snicker from them whenever I use the word.

Once, one lovely "non-dualist", as they call themselves, was so upset with my words he called me a New Age Christian, saying I should go somewhere else with my comments. That is funny, and very cute--really, in some ways, there is some truth to that---The God, Light, Truth, Presence that I know includes All that is, even new age Christians. I am This Life and Light of All that Is and all that God inculdes within Its Self-- and I am unafraid to Live my Heart's knowing faith in this Allness of God.

To Speak of Love and That God Is Love and That Reality is God and that there is Only One and to understand This One Presence is God and Is Life Itself---I think that is 'non-duality' but hey, perhaps not.

Well, as Love would have it, someone who reads one of those forums wrote me an email asking me why I don’t ever ‘defend’ my self when they bash me for using the God word.

As far as I know the Truth does not need my defense; It stands here unharmed and unhindered on Its Own. Truth is Here being The Living Light of All That Is no matter what I write, or what they say. The light, even this limited light right here in this room, glaring from the computer, this light is the image of the Living Image of God, which is the Unseen, Uncaused Presence being all Light.

This Light exists without my having to do anything to make it happen.

This life, awareness, light that is here right now, is here no matter what I do or say---all doing and saying is here within this One Omnipresent Isness Being All That Is, and all That I am (and all that you are)--- I happen to call this Omnipresent Self-Awareness “God”.

But, in truth this Life, Light, Awareness I am (you are) is not concerned whether someone says It exists or It does not exist or names it or not. Or lives on the edge of It or lives in the middle of It---Its all the same to This edgeless unbound Infinite Presence.

I just find that my Life has become a whole lot more full of Grace and Beauty as I began to acknowledge “In Whom I move and have my being”. And to say "Thank You God" seems the loving things to do.

Words denying God cannot stop God from being; words do not hinder awareness from being; God and God’s Mind are being this awareness, this life, this existence---there is no other one, no other one. One God, alone and All.

God is like the principle of arithmetic; a zillion numbers I can write, erase, add, subtract, and even make mistakes in my equations, but the principle goes on being perfect, the principle cannot be harmed, changed, altered, erased despite that I changed or erased the numbers I had written.

It does not matter if someone says there is no Principle because the Principle is clearly manifesting as the very awareness within which one would be shouting denials--- awareness goes right on being aware.

The ones who protest are a little like someone writing a book and using a billion words and letters filled with pages of words---The book's title "There Is No Such Thing As An Alphabet".

How the hell can you write a book about the unreality of letters, words and the Alphabet and convince me its true.

There is a Divine Principle God. It is very clear to me that there is.

I do know why some folks do not like that word "God". I do understand all the religious implications and the horrors of organized oppressive dogmatic religions and what they do in the name of God, Be they Muslims, Christians, or Buddists--I understand the insanity that insues around the mistaken precepts about what God is.

But, the simple Child's Heart is innocent and I humbled, I am brought back to the Heart, I have no intellect, I am where the innocent Child takes my hand and I can go beyond all that limited dogmatic, conceptual nonsense.

The Child Lives and moves freely. She is Ungovernable and Unbound Her Heart is filled with God's Grace and She is one with God's Love-

It is beyond all the human foolishness.

The Child found makes it easy to Love God, and God to Love His Child. And the freedom to use whatever words work best.

Knowing God for what God Is is a whole other vision, beyond the intellectual human reasoning views.

I love the word God, so I say it aloud and often.

I say "Thank You God" for this Grace you have given me.

So, do the math; the Principle is God and It manifests as the images we see; body, forms, things, time-space matter tangibles and intangibles---Just know that there would be no images, no world, no tangible existence without the functioning of This Perfect Principle, which is God (Pefect, Divine, Holy, Immutable, Omniscient, without beginning and without end).

God is All means that God is the Principle behind all that is.

The Glory I was speaking of is that God is clearly Love because nothing Real is ever lost, nothing Real is ever harmed, nothing Real ever dies---Love is Real and It is God and It never dies---The Glory is The Divne Principle is being existence ItSelf.

 

_________________ What is bound on earth is bound in heaven and what is freed on earth is freed in heaven.

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