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Today's
quotation:
All
people are special, and all moments are golden.
There is no person
and there is no time more special than another.
Many people
choose to believe that God communicates in special ways
and only with special people.
This removes the mass of the people
from responsibility for hearing God’s message, much less receiving
it
(which is another matter), and allows them to take
someone else’s word for everything.
Neale Donald Walsch
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Today's
Meditation:
God's
message. Is it possible that we're hearing that
message all day, every day, yet that we don't listen to it
because there's just no way that God is talking to us?
After all, most of us aren't even sure that there is a God
that would communicate with us, are we? Many of us
believe in a God who's way out in the universe somewhere,
in a place called heaven that really hasn't been put on a
map yet.
But no matter what we consider God to be, the moments of
our lives just keep on coming, and we very often refuse to
see the specialness of those moments, especially when they
seem on the surface to be quite mundane. But do we
accept them as mundane because we're afraid to see them as
special, because if they're truly special, we may feel a
need or a responsibility to treat them as if they were
truly special? If we can avoid hearing God's voice
in the gifts of the moments, then, as Neale says, we can
take someone else's word for whatever we want, and we tend
to search out people who will confirm the beliefs we
already have-- and we end up learning nothing.
The
presence of God doesn't need to be a point of
contention. If you believe in God differently than I
do, that's fine-- I'm truly glad that you have something to
believe in. If you don't believe in God, that's fine
with me, too; but I do hope that you're able to make the
most of the special moments that you have in your
life. If you do believe in God, though, don't sell
God short-- let him talk to you, and do some listening
while you're at it. You may be amazed at the
wonderful things you're being told, but just haven't been
hearing yet.
We
don't have to have a complete grasp on who and what God
is-- it truly doesn't matter. Our concern is with
that part of God that's in each of us, and with the
messages that we're getting all the time, often from that
part inside us. Knowledge of the presence of God--
whatever we conceive God to be-- brings peace and allows for compassion and love, and it's
just as much up to us to be as accepting of any messages
as we can be as it is up to God to communicate with us, in
the ways s/he finds to be most appropriate.
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