Who Are You?

Many years ago I was attending a workshop up in New York and I was given a piece of paper and asked to write ten things describing who I was.

Wow. Well I was a Real Estate agent at the time so I wrote, Realtor.
Then I wrote mother.
Then I put down Wife.

I stared at the paper mortified, I couldn't come up with another thing, and I wanted to look at other peoples papers. My God, some people were still writing!

I was actually in a panic.
Who am I?
I had never really thought about it before and suddenly I was faced with what I felt at the time was a very profound question.

My job, being a mother, a wife, these are just labels, this is not who you are.

I realized I was none of these things. All of those labels are fleeting and inconstant.

The only constant, the only truth is that I am an amazing child of the universe. I am spirit. I was loved into existence.

I am a beloved child of God! WOW!

Society puts titles on us. I know I am guilty of being caught up in this crazy illusion.

The president, the policeman, the doctor. All of these titles have made me feel less than. These people must matter more than me, they have such great titles.

Oh, but they all cry, they all hurt they all want the same things I want, Love, joy, peace and security.

How grateful am I that I do not have to live up to some Title!

But it was never the president, or Bill Gates, who showed up in my life as an angle. Many ordinary people have played that role in my life, for brief moment, many times.

Why, because we are all divine spirit.
We are all made from the same creative energy.

At some time or another, we have all played the role of angle to our sister or brother in spirit, we didn’t realize it at the time, because our ego was not present for the event, we gave purely from the divine spirit within that is always connected to source. We gave without thought of receiving anything in return; we loved, because that is our true nature.

We were given the right words at the right time, from spirit.

We knew to give a hug, bless them, and allow them to be.

Of course I don’t play the role of angle that often.

Just a few days ago a young women ran the intersection and came within inches of ramming my car. In less than a second I was filled with adrenaline and fear. So naturally I yelled a little prayer out the window at her, JESUS CHRIST. And went on my way.

Immediately I started thinking, shouldn’t I be better than that?
Shouldn’t I be better than that?

The VOICES were holding court. The last two Sundays our center the talks concerned the voices, and now I was Busy with them.

I pulled into a gas station parking lot to better observe the conversation.
Shouldn’t I know enough to not react like that?

Well, I don’t know, probably, but none the less that reaction occurred.
Then I found myself smiling at my misconduct.
I was utterly amused at my humanness.

I t bought to mind a Louise Hayes movie I viewed a year ago at What You Love To Do.
I remember the general content of it but one thing in it always resonated with me “ I forgive and I am free”. I really loved that.

So I shut up the judging panel in my head and forgave myself. It was never the other driver that needed my forgiveness, only I needed my forgiveness. So I cheerfully granted it.

I am here to remember Who I Am, and to Forgive Who I am not.
Forgiveness is my greatest power.

No one ever takes anything from me unless I give it to them.

Who am I? I am God expressing itself as Debbie, and that’s pretty cool.

Then I thought how damn lucky I am to be a child of the Great Spirit, expressing and experiencing on this amazing planet.

I am experiencing the incredible gift of emotion.
Love, hate, fear, resentment, joy….

Connecting and inner acting with the spirit in others, and the ego in both.

Everyday a new connection, a variety of emotions, a different experience.

Who am I?

I am an ever evolving, ever changing, expression of the great creator, God.

You are all blessed
Amen


Rev. Deb

Busting the Illusion

There is a lot of talk being thrown around about how everything is just an illusion we create. Certainly i agree with this on one level, however; I feel the the subject needs some clarification.

If you create your own reality, and everything is illusion, then WHO are "WE"?
Is everyone in your life a figment of your imagination?
Do you, in your illusion, have no responsibility toward those you encounter?

This concept that nothing is real, that everything is perception, is, in itself a deception.

It is my belief that in the beginning there was a creative energy which, from itself, all things were created. Everything is of "God" or The Great Creator of the Universe.
We are here to experience the illusion of form. Yet we are all part of this same energy.

Why are we attracted to some people and repulsed by others? The frequency we are vibrating at naturally resonates with like frequencies. Higher frequencies will find Harmony with similar vibrations, while they will be incompatible with a lower frequency.

Although we are ultimately creating our own reality, many of us are experiencing the same hologram. Some entire countries are experiencing the same hologram.
Why? Because of our connection to the collective consciousness.

If, say, the ocean is the creative energy, and the waves are energy frequencies, you can begin to see how we are not all illusions, but part of the whole.
Waves travel to separate shores, in differing intensities throughout the world.
Yet, each wave carries with it billions of droplets of water. Many of these droplets are caught up in the overpowering momentum, essentially going along for the ride with billions of other droplets. Thus, the "collective consciousness".

This may seem as though we are completely at the whim of the ocean, with little control over our destiny. To this point I would ask, how does one drop of water fare upon the shore?

We are all connected.
We are of God.
Yet we choose, and this is the important point, we choose which wave to ride!

You do have a responsibility to those within "YOUR ILLUSION". Together you voyage to distant shores, alone you evaporate and parish.

God Bless
Amen
Rev. Deb