| Good neighbor? Bad neighbor? Our neighbor
on the other side of the fence or down the street? Our neighbor in the next continent?
What constitutes a neighbor? And what do we feed him?
We can do more for others by simply recognizing their true identity as spiritual than to
give them physical items that deplete. We can recognize that God meets ALL needs, not only
ours because we happen to be a good human or that we go to church on Sunday. God is
"of purer eyes than to behold iniquity" so why do we think God favors us?
There is no good neighbor nor bad neighbor, near nor far. There is only a neighbor. He is
right here in our consciousness - constantly.
Our neighbor is our self. What we do for others we do for our self. The "bread we cast
upon the waters" comes back to US. And the food is spiritual nourishment. Not in
words. Not in good deeds. Not even in charity. Feed others with the same truth we impart
to ourselves. Feed others with the spiritual consciousness of oneness. Feed others with
the truth of being. Do it in the silence of prayer.
The world will never be free from hunger until the world comes to the awareness of God's
eternal grace. The world will never be free of lack and limitation until the world
realizes the infinity of God. Generations upon generations have tried to end world hunger
and world lack and all have failed. It is not done with tangible items or negotiable
trade.
Never should we think our good neighbor deserves our prayer but another neighbor does not.
If anything, it is the one we think does not that needs it most.
Our prayer is their bread. Our prayer is their water. Our prayer is their wine. It is the
nourishment of spiritual truth that brings fulfillment and satisfaction, that quenches
one's thirst and gives him inspiration.
We are all one in Spirit. "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men
unto me." Lift ourselves up into a higher consciousness to include all forms of life.
When our "neighbor", in a neighboring country or right next door, reaches into
his consciousness for the presence of God, he will meet "I" and be fed.
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