“We live and breathe and have our being within the mind of God” acts 17:28

We live and breathe and have our being within the mind of God!  The words are not cloaked in mystery.  The message is straightforward, enlightening, and comforting.  As Spiritualists we call upon this reminder of our well-being many times in lectures, in prayers, and in class.  Like so many truths we often repeat this information mindlessly; without thinking.  And yet this verse tells us that what we experience as “physical” is within the mind of God; including ourselves and all that is.  There is no place outside of God, there is no being outside of God.   If this was not a true statement, then God would not be all there is! All that we see; all that we experience; all that we do is taking place within the mind of God.  You can see the example of this awareness echoed in our dreams.   Dreams appear real, feel real.  Dreams take place in our mind.   In the book Johnathan Living Seagull......Jonathan flies to an amazing height and is in awe of the beauty and atmosphere.  He turns to his teacher Chiang and says, “this must be heaven”!  And Chiang tells Jonathan; ‘there is no place called heaven.”  Our second principle states God is all there is.  If God is all there is, then it is impossible for other than God to be.   We would bless these words; take these words and cherish them.  We relax in the arms of these words until we are able to expand our minds to live in the full beauty of God’s creation.  Let us meditate upon the verse and know that within the mind of God we are one, manifesting as the many.  Einstein says that our belief in separation is a delusion of consciousness and is a prison for us.  Einstein goes on to say we must free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature.    Sri Aurobindo says that as we are allowing the expansion of our awareness as we come to our human realization of the divine.  And our human realization of the divine is the self in us becoming all existences! We are indeed one manifesting as the many.  In grade school a beautiful nun told us that if God stopped thinking of us, we would not be.  I was only a small child and her words alarmed me.  I may not have understood her words, but I never forgot them.  The memory of that nun comes forward to remind me of that long ago day.  We are all safe within the mind of God!  There is no other place!  God is all there is!
Namaste! emmy chetkin
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