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Douglas Person

The beginning of all - a perspective

  • Before all that we see and know and have learned from the thousands of years we have walked this Earth and looked into the heavens with wonder existed, there was God and God was perfect. By His choice and by his own touch, a point in the perfect space/time of his being broke open and a universe came forth.  A universe consisting of that which is God's own self, given to all that would come to exist in his creation.  In time came the Earth and all of the other near infinite things a universe contains.  And to Earth God came and gave once more of himself so that life would begin.  The tiny spark of God's pure love brought forth the first living thing from which other livings things came and in each, the tiny spark that is life grew.  And so, in each of us, a heart beats and a mind perceives a universe of existence, because of that first moment that God gave of himself that life should come to be.  And, therefore, the force of life that makes us living things is a part of God; his gift of love to his children, of whom all are equal in his eyes.  

    God's love is the spirit of life in all living things. 

    Mankind has a purpose. It is to be vessels, carriers of God's Love for all of his creation. We seek, knowingly or not, only to walk more closely to the light that is God’s essence, God's true Love.

    We are made to be conductors of his love. And to embrace our true purpose - to accept God's love and conduct it forth into the world, we become closer to God. The more we open ourselves and the more we conduct his love, the more we become part of His oneness.

    True vessels do not hate nor judge nor force beliefs. They forgive all – knowing that not everyone walks in the True Light; that false beacons persist and that all we can do is to offer guidance to the True Light where possible. The one who knells and prays, bowing his head humbly to the floor, reaches out spiritually to feel his connection to God. The one who kneels before the symbol of his belief and motions with his hands, also reaches out to God. There are so many ways humanity has devised to do the one thing each individual is so capable of: seeking the true God.

    The semantic arguments of one understanding of God versus another pale in comparison to the truth. False beacons, false prophets, deceivers, and lie sellers all seek to distract us from the true path of Light. For theirs is the promise of an easier path. One of unfulfillable promises and lies to mislead their followers away from the true God.  

    The deceiving words of the false gods attempt to light a different path to draw mankind away from the True Light and make themselves gods.  For they are filled with greed for power and hunger to own that which is only God's.  Thus, the path to God, to his limitless love, the one true path of Light, is twisted and tortured by the hands of the false gods.

    In truth there is only one path to the true Light. That of being the vessel of His love. To join the Oneness, to be selfless and generous; forgiving of all things; to express His love in kindness to others; to know the vastness of God’s gift to us – his children, and to cherish it with respect and awe at its beauty. We all, His children, have one chance to tend the garden we have been given. If we do so poorly, bickering over words rather than seeing how we are drifting towards failure, then perhaps one day we will end and God will place his finger on another point in the nothingness and new a garden will spew forth. For each of us – choice still remains. The path to the True Light remains forever open to all who will choose it.

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