It isn’t that God is not "out there, up there." It is that God is within and without...out there, up there, within and without.
I believe God is in our heart, our soul, our body, our brain, in the sunrise and the sunset and in every little child’s face and all the baby animals. God is everywhere, timeless, formless, Present. Our job is to let it Be.
Harder for my reasoning mind to grasp is that God is also in the heart and soul of the one I don’t like, don’t agree with, the evil one, the despicable one..."mine enemy."
And "mine enemy" is the real sticking point. My ego will fight every inch that I desire to give to God, and it lives especially in its fear of "mine enemy." It cleverly skips my real enemy, my resentment in the form of the one who awakens me at 2:00 AM with my desire to shame and blame her, and brings me, say, ISIS, which has never awakened me at anytime...and demands to know how to see God there, how do we love that? Which is unanswerable to my poor self...and ego scores again. I just know that as long as I listen to my ego and ignore the Word, ego will win again...and again and again.
I choose to follow the God guides, and the one-size-fits-all direction, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do," is the one where saying it and believing it are two different things. But we've got to say it, repeatedly, to come to believe, and that is my desire.
Maybe we could start with, "Father forgive us for we know not what we do...but we're willing to learn." Then prove it.
Thank you.
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