{"id":225,"date":"2008-02-23T07:14:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T07:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/02\/gods-greatest-gift.html"},"modified":"2008-02-23T07:14:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T07:14:38","slug":"gods-greatest-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/02\/gods-greatest-gift.html","title":{"rendered":"God’s greatest gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ability to create your reality is an expression of Divinity. That is why it always works. It is impossible for it not to work. It is a fundamental principle of the universe. It is the nature of things.
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\nNOTE: 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<\/em>
\nThis week’s prose…the last in a series of excerpts from Happier Than God<\/em>.
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\nI have said that \u201cattraction\u201d is a tool that works most effectively when it is used for the purpose for which it was intended. That is, it most often produces the results that are desired when it is used as it was designed to be used. But it is always producing some result because it is always being used\u2014whether those using it know that or not.
\nThis is the great gift of God: Continuous Power, Continuously On.
\n<\/em>We are talking here about a systematic process of cause-and-effect that never shuts down.
\nGod is that process. God is that system. This is what God means when God says to us, \u201cI am with you always, even unto the end of time.\u201d
\nThat is something that is not generally understood, and that is rarely explained, about God. It is almost never explained in relation to the topic of Personal Creation.
\nWe need to now contextualize this business of \u201cattraction.\u201d
\nThe Energy of Attraction is part of a larger system of cause-and-effect in the Universe.
\nTalking about \u201cattraction\u201d as if it were a law unto itself is a little like talking about the gravity without discussing the physics explaining what gravity does, and why. Okay, so a thing drops. So what\u2026?
\nLet us look, then, and look deeply, at the great principles of life.
\nLife expresses itself through:
\n1. The Energy of Attraction, which gives you power.
\n2. The Law of Opposites, which gives you opportunity.
\n3. The Gift of Wisdom, which gives you discernment.
\n4. The Joy of Wonder, which gives you imagination.
\nand,
\n5. The Presence of Cycles, which gives you eternity.
\nThis larger system regulates the Process of Personal Creation. You might even call this system, and this process, \u201cGod.\u201d
\nThis is a new thought to many people. Invite yourself to explore this idea, just for now. Could \u201cGod\u201d really be, after all is said and done, a process? And could that process by the experience called Life? Is the Process of Personal Creation simply the playing out of life as it naturally expresses?
\nLife, I have come to understand, is God. It is God being God, and becoming what God is next going to Be. This is a complex and extraordinary system that includes a Process that produces an Expression called life.
\nThis system is a circle. Imagine this circle in your mind. On this circle, life\u2019s process produces life\u2019s expression, life\u2019s expression creates life\u2019s experience, and life\u2019s experience creates life\u2019s process. One thing leads to another, which leads to another, which leads to another, in a never-ending cycle. It is all One.
\nLife as it is created is the process, life as it appears is the expression, and life as it affects us is the experience. How it affects us is determined by us\u2014and this is not something that is understood by most people.
\nThe eternal cycle of process\/expression\/experience is Divinity Itself. It is God, godding.
\nThis is the manifestation of the Presence of Cycles. All things respond to this presence. All things exist in cycles. All things have their being within the system\u2014and there is nothing outside of that system.
\nAttraction is part of this system, as are the other great Principles of Life. Conscious use of the Principles that are the foundation of the Process of Personal Creation produces an Expression of life that leads to the Experience of Divinity.
\nAre you tracking me here? Stay close to me. Keep tracking. Re-read a few words if you wish to. Keep tracking.
\nNow\u2026just as physics explains and controls the physical aspects and elements of our lives, so, too, does metaphysics explain and control the larger-than-physical aspects and elements of our lives.
\nAttraction is part of those metaphysics. It is an energy magnet. It pulls to itself everything like itself. It obeys, absolutely, the principle: Like Attracts Like.
\nThis energy magnet, this Power from God, is being used by us in the Process of Personal Creation\u2014and it is being used all the time, whether we are aware of it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
\nSo now, when discussing our own power to produce our own reality, we never again have to ask, \u201cWhere is God in all of this?\u201d
\nNow we know.
\n(This is the final installment in a series of excerpts from Happier Than God<\/em>, scheduled to be released next week. The text may be ordered on Feb. 27th from Amazon.com.)
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\nThis week’s gift of poetry<\/em>
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\nWe truly Are
\nOne Nation, Of God,
\nIndivisible,
\nbecause We Cannot Divide The One Heart
\nno matter what We may say
\nor do
\nto One another.
\nBut let Me apologize to every God
\nfor what We\u2019ve done
\nin That name.
\nLet Me apologize to every People
\nfor what We\u2019ve each Believed,
\nas We took a Life.
\nLet Me apologize for every One
\nWho has forgotten
\nOneness.
\nFor Conquests.
\nFor Slavery.
\nFor War.
\nFor Conversions,
\nand Missions.
\nFor Rape
\nof Animals, Peoples, Planets.
\nLet Me apologize
\nfor The Innocent
\nwho
\ndon\u2019t even know
\nTheir Guilt.
\n(Let Me Apologize – m. claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved)
\nFor more of the work of this new poetic voice you are invited to visit www.mclairepoet.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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