Post by Jehra - Pagan Heart
...I don't ask the question lightly and I am not asking if you believe what 'mankind' has written about God. I have come to accept that many people will question a holy book, a series of commandments and their meanings...but that is not my question. Simply do YOU believe in God.
When you see someone triumph against all the known odds, when you look at the world for a moment of time and sense its splendour, its beauty. When you lay in bed looking out of a window at a starlit sky. Do you sense the divine?
Do you feel a special connection with a strength of purpose other than your own?
Can you truly look around you and feel this is all the work of man and not believe in the divine?
Have you held a hope so dear in your heart, so special and had it answered against all expectation?
Have you experienced a miracle of your very own?
Have you ever watched a child overcome great odds? Watched in awe a human being with disabilities triumph over them to achieve their own goals and cried for joy for them, with them. Recognising the strength of the human spirit and wondering on what energy it has been drawn from?
Sharing the joys of life, mourning the hurts and the travesties of justice. Singing out loud because your self is filled with happiness. Expressing your gratitude to an unseen being you can feel is around you even though you have never touched it?
In your own world, has there been a single moment when you felt Divine strength, inspiration, love?
Just one fleeting second is all it takes to prove to you...you are not alone? Not constant, not eternal, just a single second that simply cannot be explained by normal means?
Any of the above, and no doubt other aspects, will spring to mind for many of us; but if only one single part of the above is true for you, then you have believed in the divine.
Being true to your faith, true to your self is a matter of the self and not the jurisdiction of books and words, myths and legends. Your connection with the divine is your own personal link, your hot-line to God by whatever name, by whatever aspect it is your own special link.
No one else will have that connection in exactly the same way, it is your unique 'fingerprint' by which the divine may recognise you. All the hurts and hopes, the fears and failures that caused you to falter, and all the challenges and fights, the reassessments and thoughts that stabilised you and all the moments you had a moment of 'Wow!' and realised that for you...the purpose and will, the design and the signature were created by a something so powerful, so spiritual, so strong as to be recognised as God, in all names and in all glories; God as YOU know God.
Let no words, let no actions and let no other stand between YOU and YOUR God because that is the single most precious gift you have to offer the Divine and in return the Divine offers you...
...recognition
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