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My friend and I have been
carrying on a lively
correspondence for several years
after quite a period of time when
outwardly we were not
communicating. This reunion makes
the excitement of our mutuality
of spiritual attitudes even more
intense and satisfying. Has
something like this happened in
your life?
After reading my website
pieces and also one or two
letters, in which I was writing
of my experience in having
greater success in my little
par-3 golf game - since I had
gotten away from trying so hard -
and now trust God (the Principle
of the game) to take care of the
results: he wrote this unusual
sentence in his last letter: "we
cannot express God, but God CAN
express through us."
Most of the time people in our
line of thought speak of
expressing God (and I'm sure my
friend agrees, as I do, that this
is perfectly OK to say) but what
he means, and what I mean, is
that we have to know that God is
doing the expressing. God is
doing the loving. God is writing
the songs - through us, it's true
- as Jesus made perfectly clear
when He said that:
"the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the
works."--John 14:10.
Then my friend wrote another
unusual thing, "God is God, and I
am I, a soul created by God, not
(in) His image, but with the
capability of channeling His
image in a unique way..." Again I
admit that this is a strange way
for people trained in Unity to
say it, but my friend was dealing
with a problem that has befuddled
many persons: how come, if we are
created in the very image of God
that we sure don't seem to be
very godly? So my collaboration
with this last statement was to
say that here we are getting at
image standing for our God-given
capacity of imagination. Our
image (imagination) of God, of
any Truth or quality, is our own,
is our unique way of letting God
express through us. We are indeed
created in the image of God, that
is, with the capacity to imagine,
to let Him bring forth something
so wonderful that lots of people
like to say we are co-creators
with God!
Since I seem to write all the
time about my battle with
perfectionism, my friend wrote
"...and what so many think of as
perfection is simply keeping as
reasonably yielded as we can to
God and as accepting and
inclusive as we can toward all
creation..." This fits in so well
with my present thinking about
accepting where each of us is at
the present moment. And when we
are not trying to be perfect,
this naturally helps to free us
from competing and comparing with
others.
How wonderful, as we begin
2003, to be free to be, each of
us, our own unique, God-created
Self! So, let's relax and BE!
Don
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