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| A NEW YEAR - A NEW LIFE, by Gail Gupton |
| As the calendar year turns, so,
too, may your understanding. It was in 1983 that my life started changing with a new realization. I had picked up a book entitled "The Bridge", written by a metaphysical practitioner who was married to a medical practitioner, in hopes of learning how to live in "two different worlds". I foolishly thought there was some magic psychological formula in life to let me be who I thought I was and still be who others thought me to be. My thinking at that time was that there are two different "schools of thought" about life, and that I could bring God into mine! The Bridge led me to a statement in a second book that stood out then, and of which I am reminded now - "God is not in the wind, God IS the wind". Gradually, I discovered God is EVERYTHING and that the nature of God is PERFECT, therefore there was nothing about myself to change or to be changed. Even what one supposes to be destructive, like the wind, is only a concept of one's learning. In observing the wind, one finds calm and one finds fiercefulness - but they are one and the same. How can one say on a beautiful day, "This is the day the Lord hath made" and not say the same thing on a stormy day? Does not the storm cleanse the air? Does not the storm blow the seeds? Does not the storm refresh the ground? In furthering my understanding about the wind, I came to realize God appears AS ALL. One is NOT separate and apart from God. One cannot bring God into his or her life, God IS LIFE! Just a few years ago, while walking along a sidewalk, I found myself observing the actions of a small ant among the cracks of concrete. In ecstasy, I immediately saw that ant AS God - full of LIFE and activity and purpose. Then, BOOM, I saw the blades of grass as God appearing as grass. They became very real, not just something to step on. The grass was full of life, color and form that is not manufactured by mankind. Furthermore, I became aware of God as the very concrete sidewalk itself - in the substance of it, in the formation of it, in the idea of making it into a useful form. I continued my walk floating on air, welling up inside with a new understanding of God being ALL. There is no mystery and nothing to seek after. There is nothing to bring into ourselves as God has never been absent. Unlike some religions who teach God finds us when we're in trouble, God is not somewhere else to find us - God IS us. One's realization of this Truth will cause one to "walk on air". Many people in the world are concerned about human relationships - getting along with their spouse, pleasing their child, working with their employer or employee, agreeing with their neighbor. With spiritual enlightenment, it is revealed that God is appearing AS every form - and this refreshment can bring such spiritual love for individuals that simply the recognition alone wipes away all human concerns. There is nothing one needs to DO, neither does God DO - God IS and God appears AS - ALL. This realization of God AS ALL brought the oneness of Life into perspective for me. One is not living a life of his own, God is living His life AS me and nothing I do or say or believe will change this Truth. The only thing this new understanding brings is release from obligation, release from attachments, release from desires, worries, and fears. In new understanding I can say with Christ, "The Father within me, He doeth the works". This is the I AM I really am. This is the I AM you are, too. This is the I AM of the wind, the ant, the grass, the concrete sidewalk. It is all ONE. In the Biblical statement, ". . . for the former things are passed away, . . . Behold, I make all things new", religious people usually equate it to death. The statement is very much alive - this year and always. The calendar year has changed. Life has not. In new understanding, LIFE becomes new. All is well. Post Script by Robert Gupton 2002 was recently in the future and now it is in the present. This entire "new" year will be the same in the now as it was in the future. Will this be the year that you understand that ALL that happens, already has and stop trying to "change" everything and struggle to make that which already is....PERFECT? Is this the year in which the activity of this realization in you already occurred in the future from whence it came? If you understand this, then it already occurred and you are experiencing it in the NOW. |
