May 25, 2010
We are just as God created us. Created in the image of God we are pure, innocent, perfect, and unchangeable. And so none of us is better or worse than, more or less than, or more or less special than anyone else in the eyes of God. We are created equal. This doesn’t say we all have the same talents or are carbon copies of each other. It means we each have maximum value in the eyes of God and therefore in reality.
Last Sunday Rev Freda Smith talked about the shepherd that went looking for the 100th sheep that had gone missing. The shepherd would not rest until all 100 sheep were safely in the fold. Not one was of sufficiently less value than any of the others to leave alone out in the cold. We are each of maximum value to God. But we are the ones who thought differently about our own worth and projected those ideas on God, making one of more or less value than another. What were we thinking? Simply this, we forgot who we are. We lost the awareness of who we really are, the One Child of God.
Pursuing or continuing in the thought pattern of specialness is done so at the cost of peace. Specialness is an idea that sets one or another apart from each other. It supports the idea that one is better or worse, more or less than another. It sets up the idea that one is more valuable than another, whether in the sight of others or in the perceived sight of God. In setting up these ideas of an order of specialness, we limit ourselves whether we see ourselves as more or less special than each other. In limiting each other in our thoughts, we deny ourselves the awareness of all God created us to be.
All we really are is right there within us and we share it in its entirety equally with each other. All is shared in its entirety and nothing is withheld. The minute we try to withhold any value from another we lose sight and awareness of God’s creation. Limitation is not a part of creation. It is merely a mistaken idea. All we have that is real is shared with all of creation. All that is real is indivisible. It cannot be cut up and doled out according to our “specialness.” Specialness is an illusion. It is a mistaken thought that we can just let go of and see the Oneness of us all. Free yourself and each other from the limited idea of specialness and thus release all of creation from its treachery. God’s abundance will spring up within you and you will know the freedom of the awareness of who we really are. The peace we seek will already be there within us and we will see it there.
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