Its okay to let the kids read this commentary- it’s not “R” (religious) rated, but “G” (all audiences). There will be objections of course by those who want to keep BELIEVING in what it is they BELIEVE- even when it’s not working, Working harder won’t make it so.
The BS that I’m talking about is BELIEF SYSTEMS!
There is way too much “I believe this”, and “I believe that”. Life changes when we quit FIGHTING over all of the BS (belief systems) that we’ve been trained to fight for, and we start LIVING for the One that we KNOW. Knowing is so much more real, intimate, and a living force than a mental assent could ever be.
One of my favorite places in America is Mendocino, California. And one of the attractions that has captivated me is the cemetary. I love to walk through that old, old cemetery, and read what’s on the headstones, which brings me to one such gravestone in St. Lars church, Linkoping, Sweden.
It’s a tenth century gravestone that reads-
God within me, God without
How shall I ever be in doubt?
There is no place where I may go
And not there see God’s face, not know
I am God’s vision and God’s ears
So through the harvest of my years
I am the Sower and the Sown
God’s self unfolding and God’s own.
Until we lay down our BELIEF SYSTEMS and get on the LOVE TRAIN, we’ll never see peace on earth! But that’s a very difficult thing to do because we might find out that we’re not right in all those things we have believed. As the sage once said, “people don’t CARE what you KNOW, until they KNOW that you CARE”! How many people have Christians and other religions turned off because OF our BS (literally and metaphorically) and lack of LOVE?
Answer: far too many! 
That powerful passage captures the esence of what Jesus attempted to reveal to all of us–that we are both the Knower and that which is known, the Sender and the sent, God without and God below. Am I saying that I AM God? Jesus, the representation of humanity, reminds us that when we see him (ourselves, each other), we are really seeing the One that sent him. We could not possibly behold that which does not already permeate our consciousness, because we are what we behold. Phillipians 2:6 reminds us that we only rob ourselves in our perceptions that we are less than perfect. As Meg Blackburn Losey often states, “Perfection cannot be anything less, EXCEPT by perception.”
The majesty of the sunset really occurs Within.
Although I may not be able to literally fly, in my heart I Know that I have wings. I’ve done a masterful job of hiding those wings, but the process of letting them unfold is the joy of this precious incarnation! God through me, God as me–because He is me, and I AM He. Oneness! (John 5:18; John 8:24)
Unfortunately the church has a history of “clipping the wings” of those who would fly, “defanging” any thoughts of us being the metaphorical “Lion of Judah”, and otherwise domesticating us to living in the “house of God” that MAN BUILT.
Enough already! Our diversity is our unity and our religious certitudes are our demise. We are ONE though uniquely personified in these human “egg shells”. Handle with loving care.
And the majesty of the brilliant rising full orange moon of last night lingers within me still.
Ernie thank God for love from the heart of God the opens our hearts.
Love Dan