This I Believe!
“ Someone asked a spiritual writer awhile back if religion and spirituality were the same, and his reply was: “Is rain water?” – Richard Doiron
I know that I struggled with breaking away from a degrading religion in my life. Protecting one’s soul from its authenticity is imperative. I finally got it figured out: We are born with a certain spirit about us, our spirituality. It is as much of us as our physical organs. Religions is a place some go to EXPRESS their spirituality. I have chosen not to follow man-made dictions as to how I should believe and live. It is so much more authentically me. It is this way that I accept my spiritual authority and it is free.
If we live our spiritual truths, we develop our own divinity. We become spiritual beings having an earthly experience not the other way around. Thinking and saying and acting from the idea that we are earthly beings having a spiritual experience smacks of religion to me. We all have that thin cord of connection to all, to Creator. When you add another splitter, you loose some of the direct connection on our electronics. This is the same, I believe, with our spirituality.
Earthly conflicts change our spiritual reality if we have thinned down our direct connection. With a weakened condition of spirit, we may act on things in a worldly way rather than a spiritual way. Just consider the way things are going in the world, the fear, the manipulation, the wars, the nasty neighborhood nuances, the family break-ups and break-offs. We are not acting in our authentically spiritual way. There are dark futures in this, indeed. But, there are those of us who are not willing to hold that darkness and darkening any more.
For true light, for true insight, we are asked to change as much spiritually as we have physically, intellectually and emotionally in our lives. As we move towards more spirituality, spiritually wraps us in its arms and encourages us in myriads of ways. We come to a place where we know that we deserve a reality of peace, joy, unconditional love. We deserve to live without fear, guilt, sadness and anything that attempts to inject that into our lives is not of the spirit. That is quite the statement, as I type it. I have to type it again: We deserve to live without fear, guilt, sadness and anything that attempts to inject that into our lives is not of the spirit.
When we collapse into these feelings, we are out of balance with our spiritual authenticity. We will act according to this. When we act out of these things that we have allowed to enter our physical, intellectual and emotional self, we are not acting with spiritual authenticity. It takes courage not to abandon our innate courage and truths.
The reality is that we exist in absolute perfection. We were born as pure and perfect as Creator could make each one of us. When we believe this in our very guts, we will act accordingly. Oh, yes, there will be times we sabotage and allow others to sabotage our true knowing and remembrances. There will be times we are stuck and feel powerless, or feel struck down in disbelief, or experiencing times that contradict our authentic spirit. We work on changing our physical, intellectual and emotional self and forget that all we have to do is accept our own spiritual truths…not anyone else’s. We all know we get in trouble when we do what other people expect of us and that might grate against what we really FEEL we should do. We sometimes give up our power and let other people dictate what we should do. It is never right because those other people are not us and do not have the reasons to be here down on earth that we do.
There is perfection in every moment we are here. There is! We must find it. Some days it may be difficult. Some days it is truly hard to feel blessed. But, if we are living our own truths, our own spiritual truths, our spirituality will be expressed in an authentic way. If we allow a religion to dictate to our spirit, we have moved to living someone else’s spiritual life, not our own. This I believe!
“Someone asked a spiritual writer awhile back if religion and spirituality were the same, and his reply was: “Is rain water?” – Richard Doiron We can dance and run through or away from a sprinkler…but who would not rather dance in the heavenly rain?
How beautifully and plainly expressed. I love that I can understand what you write without having to think tooooooooooo hard. You make it clear. Thanks for sharing!