Saturday, May 13, 2017
WE'RE ALL DIVINE BEINGS
5/13/2017
Hello, Everyone!
I would like to dedicate this one to my oldest daughter, Anita - who will be turning 47 this month - and to the sister of my companion, Nancy Shaw. That sister, Dottie, will be turning 80 this month. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANITA & DOTTIE!
Whenever I find myself getting low - or feeling low - I try to turn my mind to one idea - and once I do that - like one of the songs our seniors Melodees group here in Laramie sings from time to time - "I'm back in the saddle again!"
What is that idea that inspires me so much? I offer it below in a religious column I recently wrote for the local Laramie Boomerang. See that below; but that most inspiring idea is really, really simple - WE ARE ALL DIVINE!
I realize that is perhaps a minority idea in terms of few of us believe it, but it is what I believe; and when I ponder the idea, I feel like I am "one of the angels." Angels are often depicted as being happy and their happiness is due to their sense that they are one with God - or in the presence of God. Am I not right? Have you ever thought of an angel outside of envisioning that angel "in the presence of God"? I know I haven't.
Well, anyone who might be going through some difficult times, may I recommend my own way of dealing with difficult times. Just be aware that you are like that happy angel of which I just spoke. Forget the sadness you may be experiencing - and rise up and envision a halo of holiness around you. You are an angel too because like the angel of which I just spoke - you are in the "presence of God." That's something, you know! At least, I think it is.
With that, let me leave you with the article of mention - which also features a song I wrote for the essay. I think this article and song will be featured in this Sunday's Living Section of our Laramie Boomerang.
Be in touch as you like!
Thanks!
Gently,
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
www.una-bella-vita.com
WE'RE
ALL DIVINE BEINGS!
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
4/9/2017
Do you believe it? Do you believe that we are all Divine Beings? I do; but let me start with the refrain of a song I am writing about that:
We're all Divine Beings - you and I.
We're all Divine Beings - and that's no lie.
We're all Divine Beings -
and that should be our pride
because within Divinity, we all reside.
I will try to compose all of that song by the time I finish with this article - and maybe feature a finished composition at the end; but for a start, I believe we are all Divine Beings because, as I say in that last line of my new song, "within Divinity, we all reside." It is as simple as that - that is, for me.
So, let us analyze it. Are we all Divine? What is "Divine"? What is "Divinity"? As I see it - and imagine it, perhaps - Divinity is really only another word for "Infinity." Why do I say that? Because it seems to me reasonable that whatever is "Infinity," the same must be true for "Divinity." To realize the definition of "Divinity," then, all we have to do is analyze "Infinity." The reason for Divinity and Infinity being equal is that where one is, the other must be. If something - either virtually or actually - essentially co-exists with another and occupies the same space, so to speak, then they must be equal. Accordingly, to define one is to also define the other. Right?
What is "Infinity," then? Let us put on our "thinking caps," as my Dad used to say when he wanted his kids to think about some issue. With my "thinking cap" on, then, how should I think of "Infinity"? For a beginning, the term suggests "without end" or "without limits." If something is infinite, there can be no beginning, nor an end to it. Can you imagine different? Can you imagine that an Infinity can have an end? If so, you have a very different "thinking cap" on than I do.
For what it's worth, it is because of having analyzed the essential definition of "Infinity" that I have long realized that God cannot possibly be a person. Realistically, a "person," must be "limited" - at least as outside of a stated confines. By definition, Infinity cannot be limited. Accordingly, Infinity - or God - cannot be a person since by definition, a person is limited to some given confines.
So what? Well, I can be sure that any entity or "person" outside of our humanity that supposedly has spoken to one of us cannot be "God." An entity claiming to be God can well have spoken to one of us - like to a Moses or a Mohammed - but whatever that entity was or is, it could not have been God - at least not that Infinity that many of us think of as "God."
But that is another matter. I have written a lot about that in my life. If interested, you can check out past writings via my website - referenced at the end; but this is not about that. This is about all of us and all of everything being Divine. The reason I like to pursue this issue is that it simplifies reality for me; and the simpler reality is for me, the better I like it. Why complicate life - if such complication can be avoided?
To continue, am I a being within that which I am calling "Infinity"? Of course! How could I not be? Accordingly, if I am within that which we call "Infinity" - and since we have determined that "Infinity" is also "Divinity" - and Infinity and/or Divinity must be Everywhere, including in each of us - then presto, I am Divine. That means that I do not have to "reach toward" something else that I consider Divine. I am already Divine. How simple can it be? Now, doesn't that take all of the "complication" out of life? No one can argue that I have to do this or that to please some Divine One outside of me because being Divine, I know that I have already reached my goal in life to become one with a Divine Reality. How about that? Like I say, I like "simple," and that really makes life "simple" for me.
Now, let me get on with completing the little "ditty" with which I began.
We're All Divine Beings!
Refrain:
We're all Divine Beings - you and I.
We're all Divine Beings - and that's no lie.
We're all Divine Beings -
and that should be our pride
because within Divinity, we all reside.
Life is a mystery - there is no doubt of that;
but everything's Divine; and that's a simple fact.
There is no place where God can't be;
and that makes us all members of a Divine Family.
Refrain.
There can be no sin - anywhere in life -
unless we create it by living in strife.
Sin is that which we create when we fail to know
that each of us is Divine from head to toe.
Refrain.
Heaven is only living - like everything's Divine,
regardless of temperament, regardless of mind.
Hold your head up high - and with life, have fun.
You're a daughter - or a son - of the Living One.
Refrain.
Look out at life and know it's all the same.
If God's in all, all should be acclaimed.
To treat anything like it's less than you
is to live in arrogance and outside the truth.
Refrain.
The truth is God's Kingdom is Everywhere
and that should make us all want to care
about each other as we pass through life,
knowing that we're all children of the Light.
Refrain (several times).