{"id":59,"date":"2007-09-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/with-whom-and-through-whom-doe.html"},"modified":"2007-09-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T01:01:01","slug":"with-whom-and-through-whom-doe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/with-whom-and-through-whom-doe.html","title":{"rendered":"With whom and through whom does God communicate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…an excerpt from The New Revelations<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s call this the First New Revelation:
\nGod has never stopped communicating directly with human beings. God has been communicating with and through human beings from the beginning of time. God does so today.
\nThis is what you can tell others when they ask you, \u201cWhat are these news ideas you would like us to consider? What is it that we may not know, the knowing of which could change everything?\u201d
\nWhat I am inviting you to do is to change your belief about this. Let go of your idea that God ever stopped communicating directly with human beings. Be willing to consider a new thought about it\u2014the thought that God is talking to everyone all the time.
\nCan you do that? Can you hold the space of that possibility?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m trying.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t \u201ctry.\u201d If you wish to have the experience that you say you wish to have, if you truly wish to be one of those who assists in changing the self-destructive direction in which your world is heading, you must do more than \u201ctry.\u201d You must do it.
\nYou asked me if I would do something. You asked me if I would help you. You asked me if I could give you some tools with which you could join in changing the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes.<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m going to invite you to do something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Use the tools that I give you.
\nDo not say that you are \u201ctrying\u201d to use them. Do not do as some others have done and dismiss them as not being the \u201cright\u201d tools, or lay them aside, saying they are \u201ctoo difficult\u201d to use.
\nI would not give you these tools if I did not know you could use them. It is not my function to frustrate you or to test you. (Nor to punish you if you do not meet the test.)
\nIt is my function to glorify you, and so, to glorify Me. For only in the glory of you will the glory of Me be found. Only through the wonder of you will the wonder of Me be made known. Only through Life Itself, expressed in its next grandest way, can Life Itself be experienced in such a way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am ready! I am inspired and I am ready! I will do it. I will shed any last remaining doubt. I will move into full faith and knowing. I am willing for a new understanding of God and Life to now be brought forth, and I am completely open to the possibility that this can happen.<\/p>\n

Good. Because now I\u2019m going to ask you to open the Space of Possibility even wider. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to ask you to be open to the possibility that new understandings and new revelations can be brought forth, and are being brought forth, through you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, I understand that is what you are asking me. Yet that could feel so\u2026self-serving, so self-aggrandizing, and so\u2026heavy a burden.<\/p>\n

It will only feel that way if you think that you are the only one given such abilities.
\nSuch an idea would require you to think of yourself, and even to declare yourself, as someone special. Someone more special than anyone else.
\nYou are someone special, but you are not more special than anyone else.
\nSo know that you do not have to feel burdened, or somehow totally responsible for bringing to the world the New Message it awaits. For all people everywhere are capable of bringing forth this new message, sharing this new understanding, and revealing this new truth. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If that is true, everybody everywhere could claim to be the New Messenger of God. How do we sort it all out? To whom shall we listen?<\/p>\n

Listen to no human who declares himself or herself to be more special than anyone else.
\nIf a man or a woman seeks to set himself or herself separate and apart from the rest of
\nhumanity, or claims to be higher or better or holier than the rest of humanity, by declaring themself to be \u201cmore than\u201d or \u201cgreater than\u201d others, or to be the messiah, or the savior, or the only true parents of humanity, or the only true prophet, or any other such exalted thing, run from them as fast as you can.
\nYet if men or women declare themselves to be messengers of God even as you all are messengers of God, and saviors even as you all are saviors, and holy even as you are all holy, then listen to them carefully, for they will not tell you to follow them, but to follow the God who lives within you.
\nFor it is within your heart and within your soul and in the deepest reaches of your own mind that Divinity resides, and it is there in which it will be found, and only there in which it can be fully experienced, and only there from which it can emerge in purity and in truth, and through no other person, place or thing.
\nDivinity realized through any other person, place or thing is Divinity by Projection. You are witnessing all around you in the outer world the expression of Divinity, but that is not the same as the experience of Divinity.
\nNever confuse expression with experience.
\nA beautiful flower is an expression of Divinity, yet only when you see, feel, smell, and touch the beautiful flower that is You can you know the experience of Divinity.
\nOuter expression can lead to inner experience, but it can never substitute for it. Yet when inner experience leads to outer expression, the circle is complete\u2014and this is the purpose of Life, and the function of the World, and of the entire Universe as well. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
\nThis week’s gift of poetry<\/em>
\n= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
\nSuch a Fiction
\nthey\u2019ll say –
\nsuch a Travesty;
\na Burlesquing.
\nSo they’ll speak, of This Ancient Bond.
\n*
\nBut I\u2019ll light a Kindling, Love.
\nAnd I\u2019ll make a Fire, Love.
\nAnd with Everyone comfortably
\nseated around
\nthe Dream
\nwhen You are gone,
\nI\u2019ll help them come to know You, Love.
\nHelp them bury, all that they mistook.
\nAnd raise in their fists, every Rosary you Were.
\nOh the Masses, my Love
\nthey are always the same.
\nLifetime after Lifetime, the same.
\nBut the few, the Cursed
\nand Committed \u2013
\nThey will Answer.
\nIt\u2019s a selfish song \u2013
\nthe One We Sing.
\nIt\u2019s a slap and a kick
\nto most everyone.
\n*
\nNo one speaks of the whip;
\nof the sting
\nof a Master
\ndo they?
\nNot when a sunrise is happening.
\nNot when a gruel is being poured.
\n*
\nBut the Few who Come
\nto Bid God\u2019s Tongue
\na Voice:
\nthey need Their Other.
\nLike a looking glass
\nthat is God.
\nA looking glass,
\nThat Is God.<\/em>
\n‘A Looking Glass’ – m. Claire
\n(Copyright 2007 – All Rights Reserved)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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