“Thomas
said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the
way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except
through Me.” (John 14:5-7; New King James Bible Version (NKJV). “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you,
that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 5: (NKJV). Well,
the USA is now within a few months of having our new president. This election is quite chaotic, to say the
least. Each individual voter has his (and
her) own opinion, about who the new president should be; but emotions seem
higher than in most election years. That’s
because our world has become less peaceful, less safe, less harmonious on many
fronts during the last few years. Things
are not what we deem to be ‘normal’. This year’s unhappiness causes us to
turn to others and put the blame on ‘them’, whoever ‘them’ may be. But, of course, the them is all of us. We
all experience the collective dissatisfactions,
fears, and warring behavior of everyone.
And we each outwardly-express our own fears and bad behaviors,
attitudes, and unloving ways, which then go out against others. Someone once described it quite well: “We’ve
met the enemy, and it is us.” In the human experience of this world,
we’re all in the same ‘soup’, so to speak.
If a portion of the world population is under siege, sooner or later,
the rest of the world will feel its pain.
We can try to keep our own, tiny parts of the globe safe; but within a
short time, the rest of the world will spread out upon us and around us. With all the people now populating the Earth,
each day makes our planet seem smaller and smaller. (That’s why the USA space program was so
important once upon a time. It was
addressing the possible need for colonization, out there, beyond the earth, so
that humanity could spread out. People
are thinking, again, of building colonies beyond earth, so probably space
exploration will become active again, soon, if it hasn’t already begun.) In the meantime, we have to do
something to harmonize living on our shared planet. For now, this is still the home of everyone
here. So, every single person on Earth
must learn to accept the universal fact that each person, ever born, (or
meant to be born) has a right to be here. Also, we must learn that we can have
whatever rightful beliefs of harmony that we cherish, as long as they don’t
destroy anyone else’s beliefs concerning their rightful harmony. This means that everyone has a right to
believe in a church, or political party (or none of them) that seems right to them.
We are each and every one of us born
into the freedom-to-be, as long as we also respect everyone’s freedom-to-be. Now, this year’s political parties (mainly
both democrats and republicans) have behaved like sworn-enemies to whomever doesn’t accept their choice of party. Yet,
everyone in the USA has the same freedom to choose whatever party they like. Treating the other party as something evil is absolutely ludicrous. Everyone has a righteous freedom to
choose whatever party they agree with.
No one is wrong to choose the political party they favor. No political party is more good, or evil,
than the other. One of my best friends completely
disagrees with my choice. I completely
disagree with her choice. Yet, we never
argue about it. Why? Because it’s not necessary to argue and try
to make someone believe that they are wrong, for some reason. Every person who votes has the right to choose the party in whose
platform they agree. That’s it. So, if my friend and I cancel each other out
in the voting process, who cares? Our
friendship is worth much more than our various opinions of things. That’s why our friendship has lasted more
than 30 years! Now, I realize that people get caught
up in the desire to have their
candidates win. But notice how chaotic
and dysfunctional both camps came through the whole election season! The stress, bad feelings, false accusations,
hateful stories told on both sides causing lack of peace, lack of brotherly-love
and lack of harmony may destroy friendships that never come back. (And I’m not even mentioning the lack of
millions and millions of dollars spent throwing money away on false accusations
trying to ruin each other’s reputations.) Well, during these destructive political
times, I’m just grateful to know that, whatever both political parties do or think,
there’s only One, divine Authority of God,
who will clean up the human mess left behind.
And no one can predict which way a decision is finally to arrive; for the
divine Mind doesn’t judge anyone, or anything, based upon human behavior. The God that made a shepherd boy a king,
(David) also transformed a killer of Christians into a saint (Saul to Paul). Why?
Because the divine Love of God doesn’t judge the human things we do, but
sees beyond our blindness and misbehaviors, while in this temporary, material
experience. Each of us is really a spiritual
child of God, sleeping in the dream of materiality. We can be transformed,
when our own time comes to spiritually awaken.
Here is a biblical reference of Saul’s spiritual transformation into St.
Paul: “At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at
Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and
Samaria, except the apostles. And devout
men carried Stephen to his burial,
and made great lamentation over him. As for Saul,
he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and
women, committing them to
prison.” ( Acts 8:
1-3; New King James Bible Version (NKJV) and also appears in King James Bible (KJV). [The rest of St. Paul’s transformation story
appears in Acts 9: 1-31.] The point to be made is that God does
not expect sleeping humanity to really know right from wrong, until spiritual
awakening takes us over. When spiritual
transformation occurs, (as with Saul awakening into his spiritual nature) one’s
nature begins to shed all the faults of humanity, and one’s true, spiritual
name takes one over. When such a
transformation takes place, one never returns to the destructive, human nature of humanity, any more than
a grown adult can return to one’s human childhood. It’s my belief (or perception) that Christ
Jesus came into the finite, material sense of life, entering the sleeping dream
of humanity, to awaken us from within that collective dream. He then left his presence in the collective
dream as he allowed humanity to destroy his material body, in order to show us
that death is an illusion; for, no one and nothing can destroy who, or what, God
has created. In other words, it was his
mission to suffer physical death to show us that our spiritual body, soul,
and mind, never dies, for that which is spiritual can never die. Neither can it be trapped in a finite,
material form. Spiritual awakening must come to every
one, sooner or later, in this, or another human life experience. I believe that some individuals may have
several life experiences before awakening to their spiritual reality. When we fully
awaken from this material dream of life, we’ll remember who we really are: God’s
own, spiritual children, eternally alive and well, never lacking any good thing
in God’s forever, divine creation. |
