Well, I have just spent the last two hours changing passwords and sending chat notes and so forth in order to get to this site and write a few thoughts. First, I'm getting a cup of coffee and blowing off a bit of steam. How I HATE having to communicate with the unknown actors who never say anything but simply send cryptic notes! How I wish I had one of my granddaughters living with me. But, they don't so I suffer.
At any rate, what I intended doing this morning was sharing a quote from my favorite "read" right now, and for the past several months. So here it is: (my underlines)
Like all the great spiritual Masters, Jesus taught one thing only: presence. Ultimate reality, the luminous, compassionate intelligence of the universe, is not somewhere else, in some heaven light-years away. It didn't manifest itself any more fully to Abraham or Moses than to us, nor will it be any more present to some Messiah at the far end of time. It is always right here, right now. That is what the Bible means when it says that God's true name is I am. Source: Stephen Mitchell, The Gospel According to Jesus, p. 10.
Somehow all of this relates to our concentration on mindfulness and "the power of now", listening, paying attention, etc. Becoming awake and aware. But, in addition, I FINALLY understand the words "I AM." Thank you, Stephen Mitchell.
Tomorrow I'll go back to more photos and chatting. I promise!
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