Are You Really There, God?

Are you really there, God? Are you deep inside of me and all around me? Have you not created everything I see and all of the unseen? Are your miracles of life everywhere present? Is your hope of eternal life possible for me? Do you love me like your child? Is it time for me to grow up? Grow into the mystery of life itself…the understanding of our oneness…the possibility of me hearing Your whispers and being the love that You are? Is it time to mature, to take my place as representative of You on this Earth…to fulfill my divine mission…to express the love I feel in my heart? Is it time to take my wings, soar like the eagle, to be fearless? Is it time to step up to the situations facing me every day with grace, acceptance, and understanding…to look at my trials as being your mighty will in action…to accept whatever comes to me in the appearance of good or evil? Your will works through every human, animal, plant, and mineral.

There is the possibility that truly, all is love. All appearances areYou in action. All is within your allegiance. All is the One Power acting for the benefit of all. Could this be the hidden truth? Even in the Bible it is stated, “God creates the good and the evil. He creates the light and the darkness.” (Ezekiel 32: 8)

Matter has become the duality, the seeming separation of all life forms. This separation is an illusion. As Yogananda said, “Maya is illusion - the measurer...the magical power in creation by which limitations and divisions are apparently present in the immeasurable and inseparable.”

Look at the innocence of a child and remember who you are. In the stillness of your room, recall the truth. “Be still and know that the I AM of me is the I AM of you.” The I AM denotes God’s life in you and me. Remember?

Passage from “Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26-January 6”
by Merry C. Battles

©2009 Merry C. Battles