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Christ is Born in You

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The celebration of the birth of the Christ child is also the celebration of the Christ child being born within all humanity. Each person who walks this earth has a little Christ who has been born or is waiting to be born. You may disagree, but I take Jesus’ words to heart when he said, “whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me” (Matt. 25:40) —speaking of the Christ within him. And “unless a seed falls into the ground, and dies it remains a single seed, but if it dies it produces many seeds.” (John 12:24) Christ came in the form of an enlightened human babe named Jesus, he grew up, and then he died. The seed of the Word in His heart was planted in the hearts of all mankind on the day of his death (see the parable of the sower-Matt. 13:1-23). The resurrection of Christ happens in us, as well, whether it happened historically or not does not matter. What matters is what happens in us! 

Some have never known his Name, but they recognize the Light. Some have never seen his Light, but have heard his Word in the depths of their being. (John 1) Each in their own way responds to and awakens to the Christ within them and many have done glorious and wonderful things to bring the light of the Divine to humanity.

That’s my story, and I am sticking with it! A very Merry Christmas to you all.

You are so very loved.

Unique

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Everyone has something that is important to them. I have things that are important to me. You have things that are important to you. Sometimes those things don’t overlap. Sometimes people can understand where you are coming from to the degree that they have personal experience, and sometimes it’s just not going to register at all.

I’m learning that it is okay that not everyone understands what it is like to be a woman in 21st-century America, or a mom, a drafter, a wife, a poet, a musician, etc. My experience is mine. What is important is that I am being authentic and reaching my potential in spite of that.

Not everyone is going to understand or care. As long as I care, that is all that really matters. Because as soon as I need outside validation, I will take a step off my singular path in order to fit someone else’s paradigm.

You were given a unique perspective. Embrace it. Love it. It will get you where you are supposed to go.

Let the Little Children Come to Me…

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Today during a guided meditation, my higher self showed up as a little child of about 4 years old. This sweet, joy filled child looked at me and smiled. I felt total love and total acceptance from my higher self. It was quite a beautiful, meaningful experience.

What is so special about a child? It is not just that they are innocent, but that they are curious. They are playful and want to have fun. Even the mundane has the potential to become a game. They don’t worry about the future, because they are too busy living in the present moment. They trust implicitly that their needs will be met, and that people will do the most loving thing toward them and for them.

They are who we are meant to be—even after the knowledge of good and evil. We are meant to get to a second naïveté.

Instead of being ignorant and naïve, we move into a space where we have knowledge of the world, yet choose to live in the wonder—a place where we are open to life and all its curiosities and mysteries, a place where we can flow, and a place that we embrace love in all its forms and can be love for others.

Judge Not the Tree

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“You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.” John 8:15

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Release yourself from the bondage of judgement–judgement of yourself and of others. The Father judges no one; the Son judges no one; the Spirit judges no one. Since we have been made in His likeness and image, we are also not meant to judge.

Judgement is fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.

“A bad tree cannot bear good fruit, nor can a good tree bear bad fruit.”

You are a Tree of Life, so there is nothing left to do but Live.

Prodigal, Come Home

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You are a new creation, He has made you brand new. You are who He says you are. And to Him you are beloved, you are precious, you are holy, you are righteous, you are blameless, you are enough. You don’t need to do anything to gain approval from Abba. He approved of you from the foundation of the world. You are the apple of His eye. You are the child He always wanted. You are beautiful, compassionate, tender-hearted, faithful, and kind. You are all these things because He made you so. He made you to be like Him, in His image and likeness. He declared that you are very good from the beginning. He is well pleased with you.

The Father is well pleased with you, and requires nothing of you but to rest in His love. You could never write another word, you could not give another penny, you could never keep another feast day, and He would love you just the same. He loves you, not because of the things you do or don’t do, but because He loves. Love does not live at the expense of others. Love is not self-serving. This is the premise from which we must read everything from Scripture, especially the words of Jesus. Jesus came to show us the Father’s love.

The Father much like the father in the prodigal son parable has been misunderstood. The Father of fathers, the best one of all, has been rejected by His sons. They have not seen His goodness, His unconditional love, His mercy, His generosity. Humanity has either gone away from Him and lived a hedonistic lifestyle or we’ve placed burdens on ourselves that He never required of us–seeing ourselves as no better than servants, when He has always loved us and seen us as sons. “My son you have always been with me and all I have is yours.”

This is a Father who loves and does not pick favorites. He has never withheld anything from the eldest son; the eldest son never considered himself worthy enough to ask. Do you see? It’s not how God perceives us, it’s how we’ve perceived ourselves–that was the dysfunction we got from Adam, a dysfunction that Jesus came to correct.

You are to die for! You are worth laying down His own life in order to show you the extent of His love. He has placed no other burden, no command but to Shema! Hear with your heart all the love He has for you; believe and be transformed in the renewing of your mind by this truth that He has said about you! Then you will be free to love as you have been loved–not the love that expects love in return, but love for its own sake.

The Kingdom Within

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“The revolution will not be televised.”

Gil Scott-Heron


The Kingdom of Heaven is within you and the energy of the new creation must be expressed through you! The Kingdom can only be seen when you come into alignment with God’s will and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit that dwells in you. Then you will do the works of Our Father as Jesus did. For He only did what He saw the Father doing.

Walk with the Lamb

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Pick the thing you would want to learn to do the most. The thing that makes your heart soar, that thing that when you do it you lose all track of time. Now imagine the person you admire the most in the world and aspire to be like offers to teach you everything they know. Would you turn them down? Would you instead buy the book he or she wrote and try to work out all the diagrams, directions, and terminology all on your own?

But so often, this is what we do to God. He came in the flesh. He died on the cross. He rose from the dead, and He sent His Spirit to come and dwell inside of us. But what do we do? Instead we read histories, anthropology, theology, and commentaries. We listen to teachers and biblical scholars to help us understand how to do everything better, to figure out the formula to be right with God. We keep diets, and feast days, and fast days. We try so hard to not get angry, to not sin, and to not hate others. And so often we fail. These are all works of the flesh.

We have direct access to the King of Kings, His Spirit is coursing through our bodies giving us Life, but we ignore Him, because we are still caught in shame and guilt; we are still believing the lie that we can do something to earn God’s love.

He’s done it all. He has gone before us. He has finished the work necessary for our salvation. He has opened the doors to Paradise. He is calling us into Freedom. All we have to do is say, “YES!”

Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.

Rev. 14:1-5

You Are Lovable

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From the fear that I am unlovable…
Deliver me, Jesus.

The idea that a person is unlovable goes back to the feeling that in order to be lovable we have to do and say the right things. Though it may be difficult sometimes for other people to love us, for God it is effortless. This is the beauty of the Gospel. God loves you; He loves me; He loves everyone. If you doubt that, you have only to look to the One who laid His life down for you on the cross–Jesus Christ, the Son of God who is fully God and fully man. He is the real, tangible proof that you are indeed lovable.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. (John 3:16)

 

God Became Man

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“Man’s maker was made man, that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that the Truth might be accused of false witness, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.”

~St. Augustine

Be Still

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“Be still and know that I am God!” (Ps. 46:10a)

People often think that “be still” in this verse means, “be quiet,” but it actually means “sink down, relax, let drop, or let go” (H7503).

On the night Christ was betrayed, He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane (Olive Pressing):

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done… He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground. ” (Luke 22:42,44)

In His humanness, Christ struggled with letting go of His own will, so much so that His sweat became as drops of blood. He humbled Himself, and acquiesced to His Father’s will even to the point of death.

La Pietà by Michelangelo is a masterpiece revealing the beauty of the human form and evoking emotion from the onlooker. For me, it embodies the idea of letting go or surrender. In dying, Christ shows His complete surrender to the will of His Father. Yes, He died, but three days later, He rose from the dead, conquering death and the grave. In letting go, in being humble, He is raised up to the highest place of honor in His Father’s Kingdom.

Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. James 4:10

Many people struggle with wanting their own way. We think that if we can control our lives, we can avoid pain, discomfort, annoyance, and other kinds of suffering. But this simply is not true. We can’t control what happens to us. We can only control how we confront what happens to us.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. (Luke 9:24)

We cannot escape suffering. What we can do is let go of our need to try to control and put our trust in a God Who is good, Who loves us, and Who desires the best for us. We can surrender to His will because He is faithful, He is trustworthy.

For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection. (Romans 6:5)

Even though we are destined to die, He has the power to raise us up again. We have hope that the death we die, whether physically or even psychologically, it is not the end; resurrection is coming.