It's AllGood!
“Mature and disciplined feelings have as much right to evaluate the worth of a religion as the intellect, since they reflect upon an aspect of reality which is hidden from pure thought–a fact almost incomprehensible to the overdeveloped intellectualism of Western philosophy.”
Alan Watts
God is the most obvious thing in the world. He is absolutely self-evident–the simplest, clearest, and closest reality of life and consciousness. We are only unaware of him because we are too complicated, for our vision is darkened by the complexity of pride. We seek him beyond the horizon with our noses lifted high in the air, and fail to see that he lies at our very feet. We flatter ourselves in premeditating the long, long journey we are going to take in order to find him, the giddy heights of spiritual progress we are going to scale, and all the time are unaware of the truth that “God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves.” We are like birds flying in quest of the air, or men with lighted candles searching through the darkness for fire.
Alan Watts- Behold the Spirit
Forgiveness friends, is the miracle worker, it is the mountain mover, setting in motion all that is true for you to see clearly. Jesus didn’t speak very much, or not at all, about many of the issues we battle for today. He did speak of forgiveness…in his final hour what did he say? “Forgive them father”…and of course our creator did. I don’t believe Jesus spoke those words so God would forgive those who brought him to the point of the cross, that was already done and Jesus knew that. He made that statement so that we could see more clearly the true face (nature) of God.
Brad Elliott