God

Love is everywhere. It is in everything. I think finding and returning the love for God comes after having a truthful appreciation for all things. Understanding what it is or what one must do to 'find' God is a particularly difficult and ambiguous path. There is no point in demanding love from another or from God. Love is always there. Love is at the soul of every human being. That answers the question as to why we were made in God's image and why God was made in ours.

I believe that at the soul of every human being is love. Pure, untainted love. When we are born and our senses open up, that love gets covered. As you age that love gets buried. When we hit a certain age, sit and contemplate what life is, we seem to try and dig our way back to that love. How people do it is usually different. Some people use the bible, some people use drugs, some people meditate, some people kill themselves, which is sad because there is always an uncertainty in death.

Now spirituality is an interesting word. From what I have learnt, spirituality is a particular word which seems to mean 'a dealing with intuition'. Intuition came from a Latin word 'intueri' which is often roughly translated as meaning 'to look inside' or 'to contemplate'. When you deal with your intuition you are dealing with your spirit. Spiritual practice comes in many forms. Praying, meditating, Kiai and such are a few methods of training or dealing with your spirit. It is the place where your mind goes or empties to a point where the two worlds you exist come closer together and in rare cases 'connect'. God lives in the spirit world. I believe this. This comes from my intuition or instinct. This is knowledge gained from intangible experience or feeling. My feelings are true and real just as yours are. My world and your world is different but we must accept that we have love. God is that love. Nothing more, nothing less. Almighty and powerful, compassionate, forgiving, all seeing, true and everying we can possibly conceive. Something to be feared, but something to embrace. Something to tremble and cry for but something warm and pure. This is the God I know. Fear God and God will fear you. Have love for God and God will have love for you. Open yourself. Listen, observe, taste, smell, touch and feel. It is there, it is real.

The path to God is up to the individual. If you want to find God or love then you must allow yourself to. The only thing that stops you from doing anything in this life is you. All the teachings from biblical and philisophical books seem to be good, correct, powerful and mostly misunderstood. There is too much meaning taken from such old words. Love is here and love is now. It is in all things including you. Accepting this love and to let it into and out from your heart and soul - is to accept God.

Amen.