What I Believe Today (subject to change)

What I Believe Today (Subject to Change)

As I consider describing my theology to date I find words inadequate.  It’s like trying to describe color to someone who is blind or music to someone who can’t hear.  God is the indescribable essence of the Universe which we as humans can only intellectually comprehend by examining the parts, yet intellectual comprehension does not mean we know God.

Helen Keller’s story comes to mind.  Helen became deaf and blind at the age of 19 months, an age at which the use of words is only beginning to develop.  Her teacher, Annie Sullivan, incessantly tried to get Helen to understand sign language, the key to opening up the world for Helen.  She ceaselessly spelled words into Helen’s hand, resolutely working toward her goal.  Helen just didn’t get it. 

We are similar to Helen Keller in that there is this ineffable essence is within us (actually, as us but we don’t have room to discuss that), there for our use, just like sign language was there for Helen, but we just don’t get it.  God doesn’t seem to speak our language so we continue to blindly bump up against things in the world that appear to us as obstacles because we don’t understand.  Helen finally had her breakthrough after a particularly difficult temper tantrum.  Suddenly, she understood that there were words that correlated with everything she came into contact with, she finally got it and the world opened up.

Often, we too, must experience a deep upheaval before we arrive at our experience of God, the “AHA” moment that suddenly shifts God from an abstract idea to something much deeper and richer.  Not that God changed, no, we changed. 

This is how I understand God now.  God is Principle, THE law.  Like any principle there are certain immutable ways to use THE Principle that when followed allow us to function fully and effectively in the world.  Some of these are: practicing the feeling of Gratitude, the laws of circulation, the practices of prayer and meditation, being in service, what we focus on becomes our reality, consciously utilizing the 12 powers, seeing God in everyone.  

God is not an entity that judges how well we follow Principle; we can see how well we follow God (Principle) by the results we get in our life.  If we don’t flip the light switch we will never get the light bulb to turn on.  It’s not that electricity doesn’t like us or is judging us; the power of electricity just doesn’t work if we don’t understand and follow the rules. God as Principle works this same way.

Far from being just a cold hard principle, God is also Love, supportive, nurturing, you can’t make me not love you, Love.  We are never unloved by God.  All the shame and blame, condemnation and damnation I absorbed as a child just isn’t any part of this God I know now.

God is Good and anything to the contrary simply isn’t.  That doesn’t mean that “bad” as we interpret it doesn’t exist in our world.  It means that as we grow in Christ consciousness we truly understand that if God is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence and it is only Good then evil can’t be real (I feel some serious discussion coming on).

I believe that every human being has a spark of this essence within them just seeking to connect with every other spark.  It is by fully expressing ourselves as our unique divine idea (with love always the essence of the idea whatever it is) that we fully connect with each other in community as God.  Most of us become deaf and blind at an early age to the beauty of what we truly are.  I believe we are here to empower each other, to keep signing into each other’s hands until we get it.  Only until we are united in Oneness will we truly see the colors and hear the music that is God.