Day 72: Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.
During my first meditation today, while reviewing the idea that Only God’s plan for salvation will work, I had an extraordinary experience...
I began by looking within myself. I let the world around me fade into the outer orbit of my consciousness. I went past the shell of my body, past the muscle tissues, past the beating heart, into the cells, and into the atoms of those cells. I went beyond the tiniest particles known to humankind and entered the fabric of my mind. I traveled past the swirling thoughts, the long-held-onto beliefs that had become crystallized, and further still until I saw a glowing globe of light within – the glimmer of God nestled in the depths of every core of my being.
I watched as this light began to expand and extend outward, back through the swirling thoughts, shining through the shards of ingrained beliefs, out into the atoms, the molecules, the cells, the tissues, into my heart, illuminating my body, out into the world around me. I saw the light of every other person, every other living being, radiating outward with mine. Our Light blended together and continued to extend outward, into the moon, into our neighboring planets, into our sun and the solar system, moving further still filling the galaxy with our combined effervescent Light, and even further beyond until reaching the very Center of our Universe – the Dwelling Place of God, our Creator, the Origin of our Being.
All I could see was Light. Bright, white Light. I pulled myself out of the blanketing Light to see the Whole beautiful picture, so that I could look at God directly. It was Magnificent.
From the ever-expansive glowing Center of the Orb, an infinite number of rays extended outward on all sides. When the rays reached their furthest point of extension, they looped around and returned to the Central Light – like a solar flare. (The photo below does no justice to the image I saw, but it will give you a small semblance of what I am describing.)
There was a fluid motion of the rays beaming out from the Center. I could see particles within the rays moving outward and then returning inward. These rays, God told me, are the infinite pathways of Life. Each represents a journey. Each is an individuated Aspect of Divinity. They are you, and they are me.
God enlightened me on the Holy Trinity as I looked at His Magnificence, to better understand our place in it:
- God is both Masculine and Feminine, the Origin, the initial Idea, the Creator. Her Masculine energy extends outward. His Feminine energy pulls inward.
- The Son is initially Male as He moves outward, seeking to extend God in every possible facet. He then becomes Female, the Daughter, as She returns to God, traveling inward. He/She comprises the Aspects of Divinity, and we are His/Her individuations, sent by God to Experience Life and forge new paths.
- The Holy Spirit is both Masculine and Feminine, keeping God connected to the Son/Daughter, reminding the Son/Daughter Who He/She is. The Holy Spirit is a Force. He is Masculine when acting as forward motion, keeping the Son aligned as He extends outward. She is Feminine when acting like gravity, setting the Daughter on the path of Return to God.
On a tangent, it is interesting to note that we have categorized our sun, the center of our own solar system, as male, since it shines its light outward upon us. Yet it also, like God, is feminine, as its gravitational pull keeps us in orbit. We have categorized our earth as female, since she is our home. She keeps us connected to her always.
Keeping in mind the Vision I saw and the concepts of masculinity and femininity in all of us, it is easy to come to the conclusion that only God’s plan for salvation will work. How could it not, with such an intricate and glorious framework?
Moving on to the second part of today’s review, we can now come understand how holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation. It is a feeble and useless attack, because it literally halts our progress along the ray of light on which we are traveling. Our spirits are always in motion, either extending outward in navigating ever further-reaching possibilities (our masculine aspect of the Divine), or retracting inward on our return back home to God (our feminine aspect of the Divine). Holding grievances stops that motion. We become immobilized in a false dream state. The longer we remain there, the more difficult it becomes to wake up. Meanwhile, other souls continue to pass us by.
We cannot grow in this state, nor can we experience Joy. Our fear-based thoughts continue to bring us fear-based experiences – anger, hatred, guilt, shame, loneliness, hurt – over and over and over again. It is as if we have turned our backs on God. His Light shines brightly behind us, but we are looking into darkness. If we would just turn around – that is to turn our thinking by 180° – we would see the Glorious Light that shines upon us. We could leave are darkness in the dust and continue along our God-given path.
My hope today is that you recognize the Aspect of your own Divinity, that you see God within you, and that you aim to look beyond any grievances that may appear on your path. Turn your thinking around to see the Light of God in yourself and others. We are all on our own journey, but our Origin and Destination is One and the same.
Until tomorrow,
Journeyman
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