{"id":1704,"date":"2017-04-23T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesonline.org\/triciablog\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2019-08-06T00:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T00:21:13","slug":"apr-9-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciabatessmith.com:443\/index.php\/2017\/04\/23\/apr-9-17-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 4-9-17 Who is God?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday!
\nWell I am grateful for my last posting as just rambling some new ideas about the vastness of the impersonal God allowed me to release it and get comfortable again my personal God.
\nWho is it these days?
\nIt could be Gaia, our mother Earth. I could be father Sun (due to his awesomeness at this time). Sometimes it might be angel Michael or just the connection to my Source through my heart. But, mostly it is Jesus especially when I am sending prayers to someone because, I know that connection works!
\nAs the method of just journaling on the Sunday a few weeks back worked to help me spiritually as well as made me feel better to be writing and posting I am going to try it again.
\nPersonal God. Beloved.
\nI just read my blog post from my last birthday weekend (link<\/a>), it was so full of gratitude. A reminder making now my heart feels quite large with the gratitude I feel for coming through another intense journey along my spiritual path. It is wonderful to lump this on top of the great gratitude I was feeling last autumn for the things I had experienced then.
\nI was up late last night and put on a couple of Kryon channels to listen to just to feel uplifted before going to bed. One was titled \u2018who is God\u2019. Kyron pointed out that he asked \u2018who\u2019 and not \u2018what\u2019. That was my takeaway from this lesson \u2013 even Kyron is bringing attention to our personal God.
\nKyron went on to ask what our relationship is?\u00a0 He referred to all the difficulties we create due to our perception of God as having human qualities \u2013 things like having to prove ourselves worthy or having to suffer in this life. He asked us to think of what our answer would be to our six year old child if they asked \u201cDo you really love me?\u201d
\nWould we send them away to struggle to gain our love?
\nNo, we would use all of our being to show how much we love them: hugs, words of endearment, kisses, and heart-light. Kyron says God loves us 1000 times that.
\nSo when I am stumbling over the idea of a personal God it is just my own beliefs that are the obstacles.
\nGod Loves ME!
\nGod is in me and in all of us! The personal us is a piece, an aspect, of the All that is God.
\nPersonal and impersonal.
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\nIs it just me that puts the limits on and keeps the parts of the ALL impersonal to me?
\nAs my awareness expands in the physical, going from seeing the sacred in local nature, to Earth, to Sun, to central Sun of the Galaxy, I am making what was impersonal into a part of me by expanding my Love and devotion.
\nI am also looking at this another way. I have this small book called \u201cthe Impersonal Life\u201d by my bedside. It was endearing to me for many months so I kept re-reading it but lately I have not wanted to touch it. It speaks about our letting go of our personal life to embrace the impersonal of God.
\n\u201cBe still and know I am, God\u201d.
\nIs it a balancing act?
\n\u2026 taking more of what is part of All That Is into myself and making it intimate and personal while also releasing the small personal things we hold as important to allow room for the ALL to influence and guide the direction of this blessed life.
\nWow! I think I need to sit with that for a while.
\nNamaste\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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