God is in me. . .I am not crazy
The claim of the mystic is, at last, that you don’t need anything to bring you to God. You don’t need a mediator. You don’t need an institution. You don’t need a ceremony or a ritual. God is in me, and the ladder from the earth to sky is available. So, I can ascend my own altar stairs wherever I am, under any circumstances, and the key to the understanding of the experience, and to the experience itself, is never in the hands of any other human being. Howard Thurman
OMG. . .Sometimes, sometimes, a confirmation comes my way.
I watch the wind blowing through the trees. Birds fluttering at the empty bird bath. “More water please”. Bud’s popping on my beloved Aspens
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OMG. . .In So Many Ways. . .Indeed.
The ladder from the earth to sky. God in me. God in you.
And most profound – for me – I don’t need a mediator or institution for that to happen. Nor a ceremony or ritual.
But that’s what many of us Baby Boomers were taught.
Until . . . we questioned.
Until. . . we felt the Presence more in our experiences.
Until. . . the ladder from earth to sky happened less in the institution and more in God’s creation.
And then. . .and then. . .a confirmation is read. No, you are not crazy. What you have felt for so long is real. God is in me. In you. The ladder to heaven. . . each individual ladder to heaven. . .can be ascended wherever we are.
God placed that ladder inside us. And we don’t need anyone else to give permission.
It is OUR experience. OUR connection. OUR stairway.
OMG. . .In So Many Ways. . .Step on the Ladder.