The worlds we live in
I lead a sheltered life. There is no doubt about it. All you have to do is to read over your comments on this blog and the forum, and you know the kind of company I am privileged to keep. And that is to say nothing about the continued effect that God's words in Heavenletters have had on me.
Remember the beautiful email from Japan and what great inspiration it is! What response could there be to that email but a loving appreciative one?
Alas, it could hit someone's buttons to the degree that he or she would write in and call us an unkind word for thinking there is a God and then go on in detail to indict religion, and, in the same breath, dismiss the lady from Japan for probably not even being of a certain religion.
The emotions of the person who wrote in were true. The person is suffering and is absolutely sincere.
I can thank the writer for making it so clear to me that each of us lives in a world of our own individual perception. I'm not sure that this is what God means when He says we create the world. It could be. Certainly the frightened world this person lives in is of his or her own making. It isn't the world you and I live in, and yet it is the writer's reality. And, like the rest of us, the writer has a mind set that likely doesn't allow for much listening to another point of view.
You know the subject of this blog entry is not religion, and this blog entry is not meant to stir up comments regarding religion in general or specific, pro or con. Certainly, God Himself needs no defense.
I try to think of the compassion that God would express to this person. Beyond compassion. I suppose God would send love. Bless the person. And have confidence that the person will emerge from the deep dark forest into bright sunlight.
I know it is not for me to write back. I know better. Compassion, understanding, and love expressed from me wouldn't mean anything to the writer. It might even add fuel to the fire.
So silently I thank this writer too for helping me to see that I am not quite so reactive as I used to be.
I would so like to be done with ego. Ego has its way with me too often, and, yet, maybe, there is a little crumbling of it.
Or is that my ego speaking, or I wouldn't even mention it? Hmm.
Comments
Perfectly handled Senora.
Personally I see no harm in having ego, so long as it doesn't cross over to egocentrism or narcicism. One can have an ego and love God at the same time. For if we are God's creation, then God himself has created us such. Hence there is no need in denying ourselves what is so innate to us. Mankind has been punished over the centuries precisely because we've been trying too hard to supress our inclinations. It is the balance of those inclinations that God desires, not the elimination of those inclinations. For if we are indeed true to ourselves, we cannot but admit that too much of the good is the same as too much of the bad.