ON REALIZING OUR ONENESS

I recently recalled an experience I had some 45 years ago, back when I was listening to a speaker with a hairy story...with which I did not relate at all. As my brain scrambled for ways to quietly leave, he commenced describing his feelings during his hairy time...I felt as if I had touched a live wire. 

He was describing precisely how my walking around, not good, feelings were at that time, every day. As I listened, a feeling not unlike electricity shot through me...it was the realization that we are one...all of us, all the time, whether we know it or not...we are one, one with each other, one with God. 

I promise that all of that came as a single thought-realization. 

That realization has been the base of my spiritual growth since...I wish I could say 100 percent of the time and not be lying, but my posts prove the truth. That I continue to come back to that realization is my joy. 

Now...this morning...I have been given to see why I had that recent recollection for I experienced a new level of oneness regarding a friend, to wit: I need to call Gertrude, I need to give over. With that thought, I felt me all over softened. 

For a while now, my friend and I have been knowing each other as wrong...and I have felt hardened (which, by the way, explains to me the origin of "rigid, righteous and right"). 

Comes now proof on the hoof, meaning that which we all must experience not just know from our eyebrows up: The gift in giving over is not ours until we actually are using it by doing it. Quit talking, start doing...then keep it up. 

My today's To-Do List: Call Gertrude. Then listen to what God has to offer to and from Gertrude. 

Interestingly, Fr Richard's meditation today is about oneness: Julian of Norwich used the Old English term 'oneing' to describe what happens between God and the soul. . . . for it is in this oneing that the life of all people consists. She also wrote, 'In the sight of God, all humans are oned, and one person is all people.'

Thank you.