Relationship with God
I re-read Lola' book and read slowly the section about "relationship with the Divine". She says "God has no self-nature, it is what you believe Him to be" and wow, that's not easy to really understand that!
At that point when I feel the Divine inside, it's a body sensation and a feeling, it's like I focus on what's at the very core of my torso, it feels like it's connected to something bigger, and it brings good feelings... strength, pleasure...
I cannot really get that fit to "designing a relationship", because it's not separate from me, how can I have a relationship with that core feeling?
Also, it seems to me that if I design an image, or imaginative friend, to relate with, I will superimpose my beliefs and concepts over the pure experience of the Divine, and make it "smaller"...
At the same time, I really get it now that I need a strong and personal connection with the Divine inside, a connection that I can have in everyday life. At the moment that connection is not very strong, I can have it when I lay still but in daily life it's more difficult.
I asked the Divine to connect with me and show me the way :-)
I'm clear that I want to turn inward to get my answers. Yet I'ld like to share with you on that subject and maybe get new insight...
Love, love and love,
Hélène





Good friend or parent to warm fuzzies and traffic jams
Marnyka
That's curious to live with so many isn't it? I am in a similar situation and find it hard to surface from the basement! LOL But I did feel comforted that when you're at the bottom of the instrument panel you find yourself going outside yourself! I found myself doing that today and it was about things that I had tried to keep internally but also wasn't feeling through. Its funny too because I was "flying" in some areas and feeling stuff out but then not in other areas. It makes me think of those old fashioned cartoons I've seen where there is a marching band of animated characters marching down the street and the character in the front comes to a screeching halt and the others aren't paying attention so they all pile up together! That's how me myself and I and all my internal relationships feel sometimes, like a fractal blob of arms, legs and instruments! LOL. Its kind of funny.
Hi Marnyka, Wow, it's a lot
Wow, it's a lot of people you live with! I can imagine it's very lively!!
I wonder, when you feel the Divine as someone outside yourself, does it feel like a person you relate to? Sometimes I get this core feeling inside me but when I don't feel it, I find it difficult to relate to something more personal than "the whole universe"...
To me it's everchanging
Just ask...
It is not still completely clear to me, because what I feel when I feel the Presence is not like a person. Not yet. but now I know what I'm aiming at! I just need to let it sink and keep that relationship on my priority list. And there's even an audio on the subject!
Loving life
Hélène