Goodbye Sky Daddy
Last week I was sitting in my car shell shocked after being robbed by six men in bumper to bumper traffic at a traffic light. It got me to thinking how things have changed. A few years ago I would have cried out to the Lord. It struck me that at no time during the incident did that enter my mind. Even though I got a bit rattled which is normal I had an inner strength and calm. I knew I was strong enough to handle it.
This brought me to thinking about the difference between where i am now, knowing I am one with the life source, creator of the universe and where i used to be, worshipping a man made sky God forced on me by my religion.
There were some comforts in that religion like being able to turn to a higher being for help in a crisis but that is really the only thing i can think of. I sat there pondering how things have changed.
It took me a while to get used to the fact that i no longer had a personal relationship with my "sky God". Now I know that the life source creator of the universe is one with us and every living creature and plant. It is however almost "perfectly impersonal" and "wondrously indifferent".
Even in my uncertainity in this 'organic life force" and just how it is interacting or not interacting within me or humanity it is still much better than the old bullshit I was fed by organised religion.There is so much wrong with the old time religious fundamental theology that it can make one more of an atheist than a believer in something much higher and within all of us. I am having to crawl again but this time with no expectations. I prefer to 'believe" in the life force, the source in all things than to believe in the man made god of the chosen and of the very few!
What we are interacting with is amazing. This system that I refer to is more consistent, more no-respecter-of-persons, more same-yesterday-today-and-forever than any possible "God" humankind could dream up - either in ancient or modern times.
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