Thursday, September 3, 2020
AS HOLY NOW AS I WILL EVER BE!
9/3/2020
Hello, Everyone!
Hope you are well and dealing with the pandemic well too.
I sure hope we can get through it by learning some lessons;
but time will tell if that is so. I do believe we disregarded its potential impact and then treated it accordingly - allowing it to become far more devastating than it would have been if we had taken it seriously from the beginning; but that is an opinion.
On another front, I just wrote another article that I do believe is as
important as any I have written. I will copy it below and let you
decide its importance. OK? Of course, that which is important for one
may be pure trivia for another. I plan to add it as a "last item" to my
writings website - www.una-bella-vita.com - if I can.
I suppose each of has done some things because of COVID-19
that we would not have done otherwise - simply for having more time
to work on a given project. I suppose that is true for me.
I have worked to add 10 DVDs to my offering to humanity that
I may not have done if I had been busy with other stuff, if you know what I mean. Just go to my website and you will see what I mean.
Thanks to my website handlers, Crile & Laora, for helping me out.
I sure appreciate it.
I will leave you to my next article - and planned last article for my website. Of course, I may change my mind on that and add another article or item in time, but for now, consider it my plan. OK? I will be adding blogs from time to time, but hopefully HOLY AT ANY AGE will be my final item you can tap into if you choose.
Be in touch!
Thanks!
Gently,
Francis William Bessler &
supportive wife, Nancy Shaw
HOLY AT ANY AGE
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
September 3rd, 2020
Question: Do you feel yourself worthy as a soul? Do you think you need to do something to acquire more worth? Is your worth due to what you do – or what you are?
To be Honest, having considered the matter very carefully in life, I have long been under the impression that “I am as holy now as I will ever be.” That is really to say that I have always been as holy as I will ever be. The reason for that is “holiness” is only “being in the Presence of God.” That is all it is – as far as I am concerned. Thus, if God is really present everywhere, God must be present in everything. If that is the case, then no one needs to do anything to become closer to God.
I realize that is a difficult item for most of us to swallow; but I think that is because we have had a very mistaken notion of God down through the years. We have not seen God as a “presence,” but rather as a “person.” Most still see God as a “person” – and that is why most think they can become holier than they are now. It stands to reason for sure. If God is a person, then God can reside in one place and not another. If that is so, then holiness can only amount to being closer to God than otherwise possible; and Heaven must be defined as being “closer to God” than before. People must then “strive to find holiness.” It just makes sense. Doesn’t it?
It sure did make sense to me when I was a kid. At six, I was sure that I could “reach out” to God – mostly because that is what I was taught. Talk to God, I was told. “He” will listen if you do – and be assured that God wants you to be where “He” is. Wow, did that make sense when I was young; but that was before I “grew up” and realized than it cannot be so that God can be absent from anything if God is truly Infinite. Tell me! How is it possible that an “Infinite Presence God” can be more one place than another? However, if God is not merely a “presence God” and is really a “person God,” then it is possible that God can be more one place than another because it is possible that any person can be in one place and not another.
But therein is the tragedy of the ages, I think. We have believed that God can be more one place than another and that has caused nothing but “division.” If we have to “attain God” rather just be satisfied with “having God,” then all sort of ministers can argue that if we follow them, they can lead us to Heaven – where God is. That has led us to live our lives like we can do something to please God – and so it has been from the very beginning. We have been living our lives like we must “do something” to “please God” when all the time, we have not had to do anything to please God simply because God must be IN us all. Thus, “I am as holy now as I will ever be” – and “I was as holy before as I can be.”
If you disagree, then that leads to our treating each other as un-equals. One of us is always better than another of us. One of us can be “closer” to God than another of us. One of us can “rule” and another must “obey.” One of us must “win” while another of us “must lose.” And that leads to tragedy, tragedy, tragedy! If one of us “must win” and another of us “must lose” because that is what winning is all about, presto – lives lived without compassion all for the sake of a status quo.
Well, there it is! Do we want to continue the Nonsense of treating life like one part of it can have more of God than another? We have done so down through the ages – and we can continue to do so, but should we? I have long believed we should not live life like it can be holier than it is simply because my brain tells me it cannot be so – or at least “probably cannot be so.”
We are living in a pandemic now. Maybe now is the time to start a new life, so to speak. Let us get through this pandemic by treating each other like each of us belongs and that each of us has equal worth simply because an Infinite God must be equally present in all – and then maybe when the pandemic is over, we can continue the progress. I sincerely Hope so.
When you pray, do you say – have mercy on me, God, for I am unworthy? Or do you pray like you should – Thank you, God, for the Blessing of Life and my worth simply because You must be IN me?
Let me finish this with a song I wrote a few years ago about being as holy at one age as another. It tells it like it is for me; and maybe, just maybe, it will say something to you too.
Thanks so much for listening!
Gently,
Francis William Bessler
www.una-bella-vita.com
SEVEN, SEVENTEEN, & SEVENTY
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
December 25th, 2011
Note:
Now that I have reached 70 - on December 3rd, 2011 -
I can write the following song, though, in truth,
perhaps I have always been "qualified"
by believing one age to be the same as another.
It has been said that what goes around comes around.
I agree. I think that says it all.
Life is very simple, even if we perceive it as otherwise.
A next step is only a repetition of a previous step -
unless one chooses to step in a different direction.
At any time, we can change; but as importantly,
if something is working,
it makes no sense to change it -
regardless of how many
so called "wise men" suggest otherwise.
REFRAIN:
(Repeat refrain as often as you choose)
Seven, seventeen, and seventy,
they are ages I have known;
and I am so very grateful
for all that they have shown.
No matter how old I become
or how young again I may be,
I do believe I will always be
seven, seventeen, & seventy
for all eternity.
When I was only seven,
I loved to take off my clothes
and body paint with mud
from my head to my toes.
I guess I knew as a little child
that I am part of everything.
Body painting with mud
was only showing that I believed.
When I was seventeen,
not much had changed.
Though my body had matured,
I still retained my childish ways.
I still loved to cast man's clothes aside
and into the hills I would run,
knowing it's only right to be proud
of being God & Nature's son.
When I was seventy,
with spouse and children in arrears,
I was still consumed in the joy
that I'd known through all the years.
I was still that little kid,
within Nature, yearning to be free
to show my soul that I know
all are equal in Divinity.
I'll always be seven,
no matter how old I grow to be.
It makes no sense to me
that seven is less worthy than seventy.
Life should always be a miracle,
no matter what the age.
To treat it the same is the way
I believe of being a sage.
Some think that a child
should be inferior to an adult;
but I think those who think that way
live life like it's at fault.
To separate lives because of age
is to split what's good in two;
but I've found that splitting good
can never lead to the truth.
I've tried to live as an adult
as if I am still a child,
loving the sensual in me
and insisting on no guile.
Sex has been a part of my life
but mostly only to conceive;
and I do believe that is why
my senses have liberated me.
Let others do as they will,
but as for me, it's clear.
I will continue being a little child
for the rest of my wondrous years.
And when I die, I will become
one to start all over again
and body paint with mud
to make of my new life a friend.