Oh my – so much to say! Bear with me while I figure out where to begin…
OK, I may as well say it – I am God.
Before you send the men in white coats round, let me also say that so are you.
That doesn’t help does it? OK, I’ll explain…at least I’ll try.
I was thinking about Mum and the relationship I had with her. When I was born and for some time after I was unable (as we all were) to make the distinction between her and I. For those months we were one unit, and until I learned self-realisation, Mum was me and I was Mum.
Jump to the religious texts where Jesus prays that God and I will be one, and Paul writes that my life is hidden with Christ in God, and the boundaries become very blurred. Add to that the metaphor of being born again and the interwoven possibility of God and I becomes more plausible.
We live in a dualistic world where there’s night and day, right and wrong, light and dark, love and fear. We also make the distinction between others and self, breaking the self down further into body and mind, then the mind into yet smaller components that we either define or deny. And finally we arrive at our concept of me, self, I.
And it’s pretty small and limited.
Well, God invites us on a journey back to the bigger picture, back to his perspective. And as Psalm 139 says, there is no night and day – darkness is as light to God. Whether we define or deny, both are. Body or mind, both are. Self or others, both are. God and humanity, both are.
I am God, and God is me, and so much more. And so begins the dance…
(Discuss…)
