The Wolf at the Door
You are a perfect, whole, infinite spiritual being, exactly as God created you, except for your imperfect, finite, piecemeal sometimes inhuman story about it all. The story that we created in our fearfulness and short-sightedness, is such a mixture of fiction and fact that honestly we cannot tell the difference between illusion and reality. God will not be defeated. You are made in his perfect, total, beautiful image and He has guaranteed that at least 1% of that image cannot and will not be destroyed, corrupted, endarkened, lost or forgotten. It will not be forgotten because of our symptoms, even if for no other reason.
Even our most flawed creations and evil imaginations are evidence of our godhood. Even when the entire forest is burned down, there is a seed left hidden in the stump (See Isaiah 6). Our very ability to sow seeds of failure, destruction and corruption demonstrates our creative power. No other species on earth can make such a mess of life in the world as a human god. The extent of our depravity is exactly a mirror of our divinity. When our godly powers are released through our ego perceptions of the world, look what a manic-depressive mess we can create.
Hidden in this travesty of confusion, I am just as God created me, except to the extent that I live unconsciously in the story that I have created about myself and the world. The infinite God is my creator, and I am the creator of my limited and limiting ego image of myself, and my suffering is the difference between the two. Even though what I created is largely illusory, in no way can it undo who and what I truly am. The purpose of my life then is the re-discovery of my true self, beginning with the gift of my most anguishing and life-threatening symptom.
"What I feared has come upon me" is the cry of Job and everyman, and this cry is the necessary beginning of our call to rebirth. God cannot be truly met face to face until we have endured and seen through the worst fears that we have energized as ultimate. We do not know that our worst fear is unreal until that moment in time when we stare it fully in the face and see the truth dissolve it into nothing. All of the false gods in this ego world that we have created are gods of fear. We use the best energy of our days fighting off the wolf at the door, without realizing that we are creating that wolf in our imagination. There is no such wolf, and there is no reality to such fears. The Wolf at the Door is merely a nightmare, a fairy tale, a story we have told ourselves without awareness. Let us wake up to the fact that there is only God, and God is peace and love, and He exists in us as our true identity.
Even our most flawed creations and evil imaginations are evidence of our godhood. Even when the entire forest is burned down, there is a seed left hidden in the stump (See Isaiah 6). Our very ability to sow seeds of failure, destruction and corruption demonstrates our creative power. No other species on earth can make such a mess of life in the world as a human god. The extent of our depravity is exactly a mirror of our divinity. When our godly powers are released through our ego perceptions of the world, look what a manic-depressive mess we can create.
Hidden in this travesty of confusion, I am just as God created me, except to the extent that I live unconsciously in the story that I have created about myself and the world. The infinite God is my creator, and I am the creator of my limited and limiting ego image of myself, and my suffering is the difference between the two. Even though what I created is largely illusory, in no way can it undo who and what I truly am. The purpose of my life then is the re-discovery of my true self, beginning with the gift of my most anguishing and life-threatening symptom.
"What I feared has come upon me" is the cry of Job and everyman, and this cry is the necessary beginning of our call to rebirth. God cannot be truly met face to face until we have endured and seen through the worst fears that we have energized as ultimate. We do not know that our worst fear is unreal until that moment in time when we stare it fully in the face and see the truth dissolve it into nothing. All of the false gods in this ego world that we have created are gods of fear. We use the best energy of our days fighting off the wolf at the door, without realizing that we are creating that wolf in our imagination. There is no such wolf, and there is no reality to such fears. The Wolf at the Door is merely a nightmare, a fairy tale, a story we have told ourselves without awareness. Let us wake up to the fact that there is only God, and God is peace and love, and He exists in us as our true identity.
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