Tygarjas Twyrls Blog

That’s right, I’m talkin’ to you big boy! 😉 Or petite girl! 😉 Or medium-built hermaphrodite! 😉 Or whatever unique, manifestation of infinite diversity was blessed with a form of consciousness capable of perceiving the words hovering upon your particular apparatus of uni-directional communication intake. How you doin’?

Before I go on, for that first post, I had resigned myself to the mistaken belief, har har, that I wasn’t capable of inserting links. Or at the least I had resigned myself to my ignorance in the moment that I didn’t know how. Therefore, I didn’t search for any data to point to what my friend might have been talking about. I found THIS, and THIS, since then. Interesting stuff.

Now, back to you, God. Does that feel sacrilegous? It shouldn’t! At least, not by my definitions. If God is everything, then so are you.

Not to suggest that you are the solitary omnipotent ruler of all existence. Not exactly what I have in mind. Dr. Betty Jandl of the Idyllwild Church of Religious Science I have heard often say, “You are not all of God, but God is all of you.” And I do believe it is helpful to see oneself as integrated into the fabric of existence accordingly.

I’m not suggesting that you should run out and gather goods to start building an alter to yourself, but it is helpful to see oneself as possessing the power to change one’s own life for the better. And with great power comes great responsibility; if you’re changing your own life for the better, the law as I understand it necessitates that you are automatically going to be changing every body else’s life, without exception, for the better. What I would suggest is that by embracing one’s own divinity, one also might begin to consider the divinity of others. I mean, when we think our God is right and somebody else’s is wrong, people can start dying over the notion that a specific configuration of ink and paper might be intentionally combusted. That is, people’s lives be threated because of the threat of burning a book? And for that matter, merely believing a specific variation of God that someone else doesn’t believe in is enough to get a person stoned in some corners of this world . . . and not the fun kind. But if we can all agree that we’re all a little pinch of God stuff walking around here, trying to make sense of our own experience as we go, God becomes something we live as and respect in one another, not an excuse to kill someone you’ve never met.

And if instead of asking some old guy in the clouds for a brand new Chevy, or a job, or my friend to get healthy, we ask ourselves what we can do to make real what it is we think we want, like a brand new Chevy, or a job, or my friend to get healthy, an answer usually comes from somewhere, even if it’s from a part of the greater divinity of which we are just a piece.

As the divine, we have the power to do comparatively extraordinary things if we allow ourselves to see ourselves as a little slice formed out of, and within, the greater whole that made us. Never mind made in the image of our creator, we are made out of the very substance of our creator, and we can choose to create accordingly with that very same substance, be it fine or coarse.

Coming up next: How to grant your own prayers.

TTFN