My True Realities

People have been hurting me all my life in ways I could not acknowledge until now. I always judged people based on their motivations, their hearts, their reasons. I could see it. Often, they thought they were helping. Probably more often, they had their own traumas and past abuses that they never dealt with, and so they passed that on to me. The saying goes that hurt people hurt people, and that’s true. I am sure that I hurt others in these times of grief, although that is not my intention and I carefully examine my actions to determine if they are over reactions to avoid hurting others as much as possible. I also have certain safe people to whom I vent my frustrations while avoiding loosing them on others who couldn’t handle the force of my pain and anger. I know I’m not perfect at choosing the healthiest of coping mechanisms, but I try. Today I had a thought, though, about the intentions of the people who hurt me the most. Sometimes people hurt others unintentionally. But w...

One of the hardest things to do is to go from being a secondary character in someone else's story to being the main character of your own. Most people start out learning about life from their parents. As trusting children, we believe everything our parents say until maturity shows us that even they do not know everything. By the time that happens, we have entered social situations in which we yearn to be liked, accepted, and validated by our peers. If we grow up in religion, we are told from the start that we are not to trust ourselves, but need to rely on others who have more wisdom than us to tell us about life, the universe, and everything. The entire church hierarchical structure is predicated on this idea that someone with a divinity degree or who happens to stand behind a pulpit knows more about Yahweh than the person in the pews. Both religious and secular society teach us to value productivity in some form, and we all begin to strive toward some goal that we think will ...

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds . ~William Shakespeare At some point in your life, you will cease to meet someone else’s conditions and expectations. It is then that you will discover if they loved you unconditionally or if you were only ever loved because you met certain standards. And vice versa. Yahweh loves you, and you need to change. Almost every religion starts with this concept. “Yahweh is a God of order, standards, and laws. You need to follow them to live your best life. Yahweh wants what’s best for you, and so He has laid out these rules like a parent loving a child.” The Jews have 613 laws. I’d say Christianity has more, not because they are written down in canon, but because of the pervasive culture I grew up in which allows us to say “If you see someone about to walk over a cliff and they don’t see it, what’s the loving thing to do?” and then impose our view of the world and who Yahweh is upon other people. Ask a homosexual, a drug add...

Luke 6:37-38 says:  “Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned.   Forgive, and you will be forgiven.   Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your   bosom. For   with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” We've been taught in religion that this means that we must do good for others, give them generously all that we have, and after we do that, we shall reap the same rewards that we have measured out to others. We have been taught that the first thing we do is toward others, and that then because of that, whatever happens to us will likewise be good (or bad, depending).  Ironically, the Christians look down upon the Buddhists while preaching the same thing: karma. I would like to look at this a different way.  "Instead of judging others, write your own Covenant with Me. Together We shall determine what is ...

3  Now  the serpent was  more cunning than any beast of the field which the  Lord  God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” 2  And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the  fruit of the trees of the garden;  3  but of the fruit of the tree which  is  in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you  touch it, lest you die.’ ” 4  Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.  5  For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” In separation, we know in part, but in Echad We know fully, even as We are fully known. Thus the partnership between Echad and Elohim is eternal and essential. As We each partner with Echad, We do not ask other beings who know in part what can only be answered by Him who knows in full. EDITED MAY...

2  Thus the heavens and the earth, and  all the host of them, were finished.  2  And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.  3  Then God  blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. And so We remembered that We were One, even as We were many.  4  This  is  the  [ a ] history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the  Lord  God made the earth and the heavens,  5  before any  plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the  Lord  God had not  caused it to rain on the earth, and  there was  no man  to till the ground;  6  but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. 7  And the  Lord  Go...