Through a Single Lens

It is time to start blogging again. Today I walked into church and, after exchanging “Good morning” with the greeter, I was asked if I would be willing to read aloud one of the community prayers from the bulletin during the service. “Sure,” I said. I know this drill. In preparation for the service, the church staff highlight each of the 10 or so community prayers in each of 10 bulletins and give them out, one each to 10 arriving congregants, so at the time of the community prayers, each prayer is uttered by a different person. The prayers are therefore passed through the congregation and, over time, week after week, everyone takes part. I love it.

There was a particular way the greeter looked me in the eye, which told me God was at work. It’s that feeling of “velcro” that, decades ago, my first spiritual teachers taught me about – that sticky hit of direct knowing that tells you: this is not just a passing moment; there is something here for you. Something to guide you, to comfort you, to instruct you. Pay attention.

I sat down and looked at the bulletin. I opened up to the highlighted prayer that I was assigned to read. The prayer said: “You…” (meaning God) “…who framed the first light in creation, dispel the arrogance, animosity, and anger that shatter the unity of your holy Church. Fill your faithful people of all nations with the radiant light of truth.”

I read this knowing that, at home, with the settings purposefully set to hide it from world, lay this website which articulates how all the world religions, each on their own terms, collectively make up a single, unified path of evolving, developing consciousness. It is a Bigger, Unified Picture We All Share, clear as day if we just know how to see it. It was revealed to me in the years 1998-2003 after literally decades of spiritual seeking. And I’ve just been sitting with it, letting it percolate. It hasn’t been time to bring this forward. Often I doubted if I even would bring it forward. “You picked the wrong messenger, God,” I would mumble to myself, either confused or frustrated or dismayed, at various different points. After years of doubt and struggle, I finally just let it all go, where I found a certain kind of awkward peace, followed many years later by a deep, resolved peace. Looking back, it has been a period of deep surrender and non-action. I have been settling into Being. So it has been a bit surprising, after all this time, to feel God not only without and within (as usual), but curiously tapping me on the shoulder again.

I read the prayer phrase in the program book this morning knowing that when there is action to be taken, God always speaks to me in threes. Always I have gotten three signs, all confirming the same message. This is how God started guiding me in my 20s when I was just embarking on a spiritual path. And it’s how God still guides me today–in threes. Just to make sure there is no mistake. In the past several months, since the shoulder tapping recommenced, already I had received two messages to start blogging again. This was the third.

God is very, very clear when God wants you to listen. When it’s time, there is no mistaking. So EVERYTHING in this morning’s service pointed to action, underscoring emphatically, yes, this third prod. The same message was in the first reading (“For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest”), the sermon, the prayers. Even my husband looked over at me and raised his eyebrows.

So here I am. After a 5+ year hiatus, blogging again.

This blog will articulate a view of the world from the perspective of oneness, beyond duality. Where you, God, and everything that happens, are a perfect expression of love. Where everything that transpires–no matter how horrible or magnificent it may appear through the lens of duality–is fully an expression of love, and exactly what we need to grow and further our collective spiritual evolution here on earth. Nothing, ever, is beyond the embrace and expression of God’s love.

This blog is not exclusively Christian. It honors and upholds all the world religions and all the ways of loving God. You will find core teachings of all the major world religions integrated into the website, as I have been a reverent student of the world religions all my life.

You won’t find “rights” and “wrongs” here. You won’t find me trying to convince you of how to live your life. I will show you how you are part of a bigger, more perfect, more amazing and miraculous, unified picture. Because that is what I see, going through my day, through a single lens.