THE FROG AND I, WE ARE THE EXCEPTIONAL ONE

In the silence, I hear...Lord, hear my prayer...thank you. Lord, hear my prayer...thank you. I pray the prayer...it is I praying...I cannot not hear my prayer for it is I praying my prayer...thank you.

On this date in 2013 I wrote in my God Calling: '13 - we seek still more spiritual growth not for the knowledge but for the experience...to experience the Father within/without...thank you. .

Today's Eknath Easwaran's daily, Words to Live By: The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if He stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. -- Meister Eckhart

Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation today: God is not added to you, but you are added to God. God is the foundation onto which your soul is built.

All those words have but a singular meaning...we are one. One, not only with God but one with each other. With our dear friends. With our perceived enemies. With the animals in the field and the birds on the wing. 

Interestingly, the words that right this very minute speak loudest to me are in Eckhart's God and I, we are one in knowledge...specifically, in knowledge. 

Is that, then, the key? I know as the turtle knows. I know as the robin, the eagle, knows. I know as you know...as Gertrude knows...as the Father knows. For I and the Father are one. 

I cannot deny...resist...the knowledge of the camel, nor can I interpret it. It is the knowledge of the camel. I can be grateful the camel knows what it knows, as do i. Same goes with Gertrude who is so often wrong to my mind...only, of course, because i am right...to my mind. 

There is no wrong or right, no black or white, in God's world. There is just the exceptional One.

Isn't that freeing? Why not live there? Or maybe practice living there to start.

Can't you sense God grinning? And doesn't that feel exceptional?

God loves us so much. But then he can't not. God is love.

Thank you.