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NOTE: Saturday is Prose & Poetry Day here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, and through the poetry of m. Claire, author of the forthcoming volume, Openings.
This week’s prose…the third is a series of excerpts from Happier Than God.

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Back in the sixties there was a bumper sticker that became very popular. It asked: IS GOD DEAD?
The idea behind the question was that humanity had evolved so far so fast that we may have rendered God irrelevant. That thought has been reinforced in recent years with the emergence of teachings on what has been called the Law of Attraction: the purported ability of individuals to create their own reality using nothing more than “positive thinking” and “focused intention.”
I know, of course, that God is not dead. And most people agree with me. Surveys have shown that the largest percentage of people in every nation and in every culture believe in a power greater than themselves.
Yet if we humans can obtain and acquire anything we want in life using our own power, of what use is a power greater? What would be its function? What would be its purpose?
The astonishing conclusion that many people are reaching, especially given how the “Fast Track to Happiness” is being taught in some circles today, is that we no longer need God.
Now I’m going to say something that, if you believe in God, is going to make you very happy. But not at first. At first, it may make many of you want to put this book down right here. Don’t do that, because you’re going to miss out on the part that you’ll love.
(If you don’t believe in God at all, you’re going to find what I’m going to say next at the very least intriguing. So hang in there!)
It’s true.
We no longer need God.
In fact, we never needed God.
We do not need God for anything.
This is the startling truth that will stun the world. It is the Unspoken Truth that no one wants to utter. Yet this is not all of the Unspoken Truth. The rest of it has to do with why we do not need God for anything.
(This series of excerpts from Happier Than God continues in this space next Saturday. The book is scheduled for release March 1 and may be pre-ordered at www.Amazon.com)
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This week’s gift of poetry
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They tug on the skirt of
a One that has her eyes so set
on looking for God this deeply, inside.
There is plenty of room for those that walk
along this path of mourners
who company themselves
in their chorus of heartcries, for
the Beloved.
Unless you are one of These,
it is difficult to understand, how many
moments bend, infinitely on, toward
oh, just
One
More
Kiss
From
God.
(Just One More – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved)
For more of the work of this new poetic voice you are invited to www.mclairepoet.com.