God Is?

I'm just finally getting to read 'The Shack' by Wm Paul Young. In it God is presented as a middle age black woman and it got me thinking about how I see God and what I would say to an alien with no concept of gods in the way the various tribes of humans view their respective God or Creator.

Right now I am sharing a sofa with a beautiful dachshund called Sally, and as I look in her eyes I can see God in there. When I connect to the divine essence I usually perceive it as a number of different entities that have been great masters who walked this earth in a different time.

I believe that God is in everything and everyone, but that as I express God I am not the whole of God, like a wave on the ocean, I have all of the God stuff in me, but I am only one part of the all that is God.

I was raised by a Christian mother who was notionally Church of England (C of E) Protestant and a father who rebelled from the Dutch Reformed Church of his South African childhood and always described himself as a student of Zen Buddhism. I went to a C of E primary school, was christened, attended Sunday school but was never confirmed in the Christian tradition. I was a seeker from an early age, I tried out many different faiths and experienced a range of cultures in my early years. I always had an inner knowing that I was much more that the physical self, I had a sense that I was God, it was many years later that my study of a variety of religious and philosophical teachings led me to discover that many traditions teach the inner divinity of all.

A friend of mine has the license plate "I C GOD N U." What would our world look like if we each accepted that what ever path to God a person chose, they were still an expression of the divine creative source of the universe? What if every conversation we had, we started by knowing that we were talking to a face of God, and that face was simply a reflection of our own? I invite you to practice this. Become the observer of yourself and notice when, and with whom, you find it easy to do and when you find it more difficult. You are an expression of source energy, you are loved regardless of anything you ever did, said, thought or failed to do.  In each and every moment you are expressing the divine. Know it, own it and live it.

Today I live the life I am here to live, I release doubt and fear and I embrace my divine essence fully. There is nothing I can not be, do or have.