{"id":17,"date":"2007-07-21T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/07\/why-we-came.html"},"modified":"2007-07-21T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T12:01:00","slug":"why-we-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/07\/why-we-came.html","title":{"rendered":"Why we came"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This weblog creates, for us all, a chance to meet at the interaction of Life and the New Spirituality. It is written by the author of <\/em>Conversations with God, the worldwide best-selling series of books. The \u201cNew Spirituality\u201d is defined by the author as \u201ca new way to experience our natural impulse toward the Divine, which does not make others wrong for the way in which they are doing it.\u201d)<\/em>
\nSaturday is Prose & Poetry Day<\/strong> 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, Come As You Are.<\/em>
\nThis week’s prose…an excerpt from Communion with God<\/em>…<\/p>\n

You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.
\nDream of a world in which the God and Goddess in you is never denied, and in which you never again deny the God and the Goddess in another. Let your greeting, both now and forevermore, be Namast\u00e9.
\nDream of a world in which love is the answer to every question, the solution to every problem, the response to every situation, the experience in every moment.<\/p>\n


\nDream of a world in which Life, and that which supports Life, is the highest value, receives the highest honor, and has its highest expression.
\nDream of a world in which freedom becomes the highest expression of life, in which no one who claims to love another seeks to restrict another, and in which all are allowed to express the glory of their being in measure full and true.
\nDream of a world in which equal opportunity is granted to all, and equal resources are available to all, and equal dignity is accorded to all, so that all may experience equally the unequalled wonder of Life.
\nDream of a world in which judgment is never again visited by one upon another, in which conditions are never again laid down before love is offered, and in which fear is never again seen as a means of respect.
\nDream of a world in which differences do not produce divisions, individual expression does not produce separation, and the greatness of The Whole is reflected in the greatness of Its parts.
\nDream of a world in which there is always enough, in which the simple gift of sharing leads to that awareness\u2014and creates it, and in which every action supports it.
\nDream of a world in which suffering is never again ignored, in which intolerance is never again expressed, and in which hatred is never again experienced by anyone.
\nDream of a world in which ego is relinquished, in which superiority is abolished, and in which ignorance is eliminated from everyone\u2019s reality, reduced to the Illusion that it is.
\nDream of a world in which mistakes lead not to shame, regrets lead not to guilt, and judgment leads not to condemnation.
\nDream of these things, and more.
\nDo you choose them?
\nThen dream them into being.
\nWith the might of your dreams end the nightmare of your imagined reality.
\n= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
\nThis week’s gift of poetry<\/em>
\n= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
\nLast night was full, my love.
\nSo full of hearts and souls that a poet
\n— tired, love filled, lazy in joy —
\nhas almost nothing to say.
\nNothing, but for what is the most challenging
\nto describe:
\nan Angel
\ndressed in so many costumes at once
\nthat everyone lost track,
\nof whose wings were whose
\nand which one of us
\ngod might love best.
\nI guess
\nthis is just what happens
\nwhen one of us remembers
\nWhy
\nWe
\nCame.
\n(Why We Came – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more of the work of this new American poet, go to www.mclairepoet.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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