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posted by: linda 07/11/2001, 17:00:18 |
Stephanie, Like you, I have been searching for answers, to god, life, and uncondtitional love. This is what I have found to be true. The mental image of what the world calls god, can be many things. The church likes to sell him as vengeful, and then loving, and he can be both. I have to ask myself this question, "if god were so bent on destruction, would life be all around me?" Teaching myself to let go of the mental image of god as a form has helped me a great deal, now I focus on him as unconditional love. My eyes have a newness around them, where I once was angry at the world, I now have peace. Where there once was confusion, there now is a knowing. I used to fear everything, now I fear nothing, this is love, this is god, unconditional in every respect. My past life, those events that taught me to be what I used to be, is just that, past, over, gone. I have been taught not to dwell on it, but to enjoy the life I have with each and every new day. Learning to love myself unconditionally was the hardest of all, and now I am coming to peace from acceptance. "Help me to accept the things I cannot change, and to change the things I can", this holds more truth now that I have let go of religion. I enjoyed your letter, I have thought many of the same things. I was pricked by your line about the mental image of god, and you are so right about that. Who has ever seen god? I have not, yet the word "god" has become my reality. My eyes have been opened to the truth of the word "god". I have new eyes, and use them to see what is really in front of me. Bringing the word out of me, and into my life, has become a mantra for me. I am learning to see "god" everywhere I look. Letting go of that mental image was the breakthrough for me, in religion I was taught to see what they wanted me to see, and I feared that. My heart is becoming the shelter house of unconditional love, and like you said, there is no fear in that. thank you for sharing, I am so glad I found this sight, it has brought me pleasure, as did your words. |
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----- unconditional love of Linda Stephanie Jul 14, 23:05, 2001