When I ask for your help in finding God, I am not asking you to convert me to your religion or your way of thinking. I'm asking you to share with me 'your truth' about God as you understand him, her or it, as the case may be.
I am interested in finding a real God, a God as real as you are. I am not interested in hearing about some phantom God that a bunch of people made up for their own selfish, self-serving, interests.
I am also not interested in anyone telling me I am going to hell because I have not accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. The last thing I need, right now is some righteous, holier than thou, person trying to dazzle me with all that they think they know.
I am looking for the God within you to speak to me about whatever you feel inspired to share with me right now. I know that what I am asking, for some of you, will take courage.
I am asking this of you because I have lost my connection to God, the source of my life. Without that connection, my life is not worth living and NO, that does not mean I am suicidal.
My connection to God, when I had it, gave my life meaning and purpose. My connection to God made life and everything in it richer for me. My 'God connection' was the sugar and spice, salt and pepper of my life and I want it back.
Will you help me reconnect to God, in your own words , without quoting scripture or biblical verse?
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P.S. I don't know about you but when God speaks directly to me through the heart and mind of another person, it rings true for me so deep within my soul that the hair on the back of my neck stands up. Shortly after that I begin to cry tears of happiness, joy and relief.
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Your thoughts and comments about this article will be most welcomed by me. You can leave them anonymously if you wish - Frederick Zappone
Dear Frederick, this is your friend Anthony C, the movie script co-owner that you have helped. You cannot see yourself as I see you, however, you are a godly person to me. Science has proven that there is a god or gods, however, the definition of any such god cannot EVER be made by human thought. So it seems to be a permanent mystery to humans, how to define a god or gods. To me, you are the best candidate for god that has ever come into my life, your trust in me without ever seeing me with your own eyes, that is a faith and belief that speaks to me of a godly person. The faith required to live as a temporal, mortal human, without knowing how to define god, is a most amazing trait. So while I appreciate being human, and try to care for my human self by any means, such as the Center for Disease Control, my true perspective is not human at all. Seeing one's human experience as ONE point of view among an infinite set of points of view, is my way of coping, or maybe defending, my refusal to be ONLY a human, I am much more than human, and I believe every sentient being is more than their self-perception. We observe our human self from the metaperception of an intangible, infinite mind, which, as Alan Watts said, is everything which can exist, and everything which cannot exist, because we are able to imagine such an idea, that fantasy can create a non-existent person or event. ANd humans love nothing more than our fantasizing about the only true god, or the only true religion, or whatever will stop our brain from agonizing about uncertainty. A wonderful lady once said, 'What if the enemy of faith is certainty?' Then to believe in anything needs to share a space with uncertainty, and the idea that our belief might be incomplete, while our faith is always holistic, we are every aspect of awareness thate is possible or impossible. Our awareness of our existence cannot be seen nor proven, nor disproven, it can only be aware of anything and everything. Our awareness had no beginning, no ending, and no one gave it, or can ever take it away. Our awareness is eternal.
ReplyDeleteto me god is the universe or at least the energy behind the universe. i can feel god in everything.
ReplyDeleteDjh, that's the connection I am looking to regain, feeling God in everything. When I feel God in everything I feel whole and complete and at peace with myself and when I don't feel that connection, I feel separated from God and in pain.
ReplyDeleteAnthony, thank you for your kind and elegant words about me. I work daily trying to think and act the way God would think and act. Some days I hit the target, other days I miss the mark. I guess that what it means to experience oneself as being fully human/funny divine..
ReplyDeletego outside and look at the trees and the sky. also i find it helpful to think and be grateful for what i have. i feel that when you appreciate things that you get more of them and when you do not that you are rewarded with less.
ReplyDeletedjh, this connection issue has primarily to do with my writings. When I write, I feel connected but often time while I am writing this pain of separation or disconnection shows up, like right now, that makes me wants me to stop writing and stop sharing what I intuitively/spiritual know with others.
ReplyDeleteI feel like some force that lives outside of me that I have no control over wants me to stop writing spiritual things. I don't believe in the Devil but if I did, I would believe it is the devil trying to get me to stop writing my inspirational thoughts.
Sounds like ego.........
ReplyDeleteGod is within you and works his
powers through you. Keep doing his
work, you are a precious child of god.
Mickey, I have heard so many different definitions regarding ego that when people say its ego, I haven't a clue what they are talking about unless they give me an example.
ReplyDeleteI can deal with things when I understand them but when I can't understand them, it is almost impossible for me to deal with things.
When you say it is ego, what do you mean by ego? Your understanding of ego will help me see if it is ego or not. I wish ego was something solid and tangible, it would be easier for me to understand.
Frederick
Hi Fredrick, I've been enjoying your writings for a few months now and I want to take this opportunity to thank you. Although I have a different perspective on a couple of topics (which isn't abnormal for us humans to have!}, I know that the Majority of you views and understanding are so like what I've studied and believe. I also want to thank and commend you for the courage and authenticity needed to pose this controversial, sensitive and personal subject. I would like to share some of my conclusions based on my life's experiences and studies. First, as for God's existence, observation of the entire physical universe makes it obvious that there is a loving intelligent creator responsible for our existing and having the attributes and capabilities as we do. As intelligent as man is he has yet to create anything that produces a seed of its kind. I believe that we were created in Gods' image, furthermore as co-creators and representatives of him in this physical realm, primarily to enable the Divine Purpose for the universe to unfold (Ekhard Tolle-"The Power of Now") Can you imagine even a start of what man's place in this universe will be, along with its implications? The question for me is not "Is there a Real God?" But is "Can we be as real as Him?"
ReplyDeleteI definitely do not call God an "IT" He has more Personality, Feelings (Emotions, incl. all that we have}, Intelligence and every other Attribute we have and I believe More. I like the statement "We cannot give anything that we do not have!"
As for a conscious contact with Him and all of the benefits that it brings, here are just a couple of points that I try to keep in mind and heart. Most of us are aware to some extent of the power of "Belief" I believe that he is always in contact with all of his creation, it's us that are not always aware of it. I recently heard an interesting definition of "Faith", The Lack Of Doubt. If we want a conscious contact with Him. He is readily available. I think he helps ones that want a relationship with him to be aware/conscious of his presence and intere...
Bern, thank you for your kind words, experiences and insights on this subject..
ReplyDeleteBern, for myself, I want a connection with God were faith is not required. Faith is a dangerous thing as we have witnessed by the actions of people of religious beliefs, different than our own, who use their faith to justify killing people who think and act differently than they do..
I want to have a connection with God like I have with you. I don't need faith to believe in you because you communicate with me in a language I understand and trust. While you are as mysterious and complex in your own way as God is, as you reveal yourself to me through your written words, the realness of you does not require faith on my part because I experience you directly. That which I experience directly, I do not need faith for.
Maybe my real issue is hearing easily and clearly God speaking to me? I have no doubt that the organizing intelligence of the universe, that I call God, is real. What I have doubts about is hearing clearly the words of wisdom, guidance and advice that God
is sending my way.
I believe my connection with God issue primarily has to do with my writings. When I write, I feel connected to God, even inspired by God. Often times, if not most times, the words that ring true for people who read my writings are not my words at all but rather the word of a higher intelligence that speaks through me. However lately after writing an article, I go through bouts of feeling extreme physical pain and separation from people. This I do not fully understand. If I do not write at all, I experience no pain at all and my life is free of pain but when I begin to write and open myself up to receiving wisdom and insights from the universe, along with the insights I receive, I also receive indescribable pain. I feel like some force that lives outside of me that I have no control over wants me to stop writing about spiritual things. I don't believe in the Devil but if I did, I would believe it is the devil trying to get me to stop writing my inspirational thoughts.
Writing is something I put my heart and soul into and get very little back in return for the time and energy expended. It sometimes take me up to 6 hours to craft one single article just right...And still it will have minor errors I did not catch. The adversity I have faced as a writer of spiritual things has been difficult but writing is something I must do because that is the talent God gave me. I just wish that my writing efforts were more appreciated financially and otherwise. Certainly other people's comments help and seeing other people happy, because of something I wrote helps but given the number of people who read my writings versus the comments received, it does leave me feeling under appreciated.
Everyone wants to feel appreciated, everyone wants to feel they are rewarded fairly for what they do and I do not. Maybe that is my ego speaking that Mickey mentioned to me in a prior comment. If it is, then so be it. If what I have just described is my ego acting up., I do not see that as a bad thing. Everyone has an ego and without one we wouldn't be motivated to be the people we are. I do think that ego's out of control that lie, cheat, steal and abuse other people are a bad thing. But I also believe people who use their ego's to work in partnership and harmony with God's good will for all is a good thing.
Bern, I want to thank you and everyone else who has commented so far. You are, individually and collectively, helping me work through my 'God connection' issues and rid myself of pain that threatens to stop from me from ever writing again.... I don't want to stop writing about spiritual things, I want to stop that pain that has accompanies my writing about spiritual things. The pain was manageable at one time but these days, it is painful beyond all words to describe and I want it to stop..
Dear Frederick,
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your writings and I take opportunity to thank you.
In reply to your question – Can You Help me find a REAL God? Will you help me reconnect to God, in your own words, without quoting scripture or biblical verse? I will make an attempt.
God is a perpetual mindboggling subject for human being. At the same time nobody has understood God precisely.
My life journey of 63 years has lead me to formulate a gauge to test anybody’s understanding of God is “how many people (and God within) a person can inspire for a cause is a measure of True God understanding.”
You do touch heart of many and hence you have some understanding about God.
Mahatma Gandhi could inspire millions to lay their lives for a cause (definitely not to harm or hurt adversary but to help adversary also) without spending a dime. Hence so-far as I am concerned I believe that he knew God much more than others. His understanding about God could be found on the link below.
http://www.mkgandhi.org/god/god.htm
As per my understanding God-connection increases day by day through earthly experience with every life cycle so there is no possibility to lose connection with God but it is an illusion that people feel about connection and disconnection. It is the other way that God is constantly in touch with each soul with compassion and soul is unable to realize it all the times.
This universe is tremendously vast which operates at smallest dimension of atomic level or even smaller to the other extreme dimension of so many light-years with certain consistent laws and we are part of it and this part constitute a very thin window through which it is impossible to understand God completely. Best way left is to explore the path treaded by seers.
Jawahar
Dear Frederick and friends, please forgive me for my certainty :) faith is ALWAYS good, but CERTAINTY is almost always FALSE, why? because everything changes with such intense and rapid movement that humans MISS every realtime event, we are simply STUCK in the past, THAT IS EGO !!
ReplyDeletebeing stuck as a SINGLE point of view, HUMAN, is the EGO TRAP, and i [small ego] believe that ALL sentient beings have a completely different POV, and this is the REASON we exist, to express our unique POV as an OBSERVER, an intangible mind, so we OBSERVE our ego as our personal human BRAIN expresses it, but if we get locked up in that SINGLE POV, we lose the ego battle, so how do we avoid the stereotypical stuff that was mentioned by Frederick ?? i believe there are FIVE MISTAKES humans have made for about as long as our DNA has existed, about 200,000 years !!
1. there is a HOLY SCRIPTURE inspired by GOD that is perfect in every way, however, this is NOT POSSIBLE because reality NEVER REPEATS ITSELF, nor does it EVER PAUSE for a nanosecond, EVERYTHING changes, and BOREDOM cannot exist.
2. there is an EVIL entity whose SOLE mission is to destroy whatever we hold sacred, but this CANNOT be true either, ACTIONS that abuse or are violent simply happen because human genetics has been MUTILATED by 40,000 years of alcohol abuse, and a BILLION other mind altering toxins like cocaine and heroin. 20 MILLION humans are able to do abusive and violent acts without remorse because we have damaged our DNA.
3. there is an omnipotent creator god who made humans exactly in HIS image, but this cannot be true because THERE IS NO IMAGE, and there is NO omnipotent power in reality, if there were, then nothing would ever happen that is not controlled by this omnipotent power, and freedom COULD NOT exist.
4. there is a HEAVEN which the ELITE believers WILL go to SOMEDAY, but this cannot be true, we are COMPLETE as OBSERVERS, as INFINITE MIND we observe reality, WE ARE NOT THE OBSERVED reality such as the laws of physics would say are matter and energy, we are INTANGIBLE OBSERVERS. ALL we need to live a sacred life is AVAILABLE NOW.
5. there is a terrible HELL with eternal fire and brimstone to PUNISH these sad damaged humans whose DNA has been mutilated, because THEY are EVIL, but this cannot be true, simply because we are NOT THE only sentient beings, nor are humans the stereotypical biological beings, we are LOST IN SPACE and probably the ONLY diploid biology anywhere outside of earth. Bona fide scientific and medical research into human disease and disorders are the ONLY useful agents of change in our earthly experience, LET US WORK TOGETHER to HEAL our damaged criminally insane people, and we can possibly see how intelligent humans can be, without BLAME on some EVIL entity who cannot possibly exist.
http://www.dadamo.com/ifhi/gallery.htm
ReplyDelete"Sit down before facts like a child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
- T.H. Huxley
FINDING A REAL GOD
ReplyDeleteI have found a REAL God. I can feel this God, the presence of this God inside of me when I am consciously connected to my feelings.
The moment I am fully connected to my feelings with the intention of FEELING my connection to the Source of my Life, God, I do.
Feelings are the language to the soul. The more you understanding your feelings, the easier it is to hear, through your feelings, the messages of guidance and advice God is sending your way.
Frederick, I wrote about this to you in my email, I am not sure you got it because you usually answer me. But Frederick you have never lost God. He is always with you. Maybe you just need to believe in him. He wont fail you, all you need to do is ask for him. Tell him how you feel and ask him to help you. But you are connected to him everytime you write and help people with your writings. He speaks through you sometimes. I know because I have asked him for help and you gave me the answer. He is there, dont ever believe he is not. Have faith and believe, no..know he is with you always.
ReplyDeleteHe loves you and he loves me.
Maggie
Thanks Maggie, sent I posted this message I have been able to reconnect to a 'Real God' in very real and powerful ways...
ReplyDeletehere is a great example of why i believe that any possible god is first a scientist :) then a deity :) and there is NOT ONLY one god, a HE, there are many gods, she and he and any gender ambiguous entity, whose goal is to help others:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cityofhope.org/Pages/default.aspx a place of service to help people in need of good health...
It sounds like you know when god is speaking, and when others are just talking. Is that true? Do you hear his voice differ from theirs?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, yes it is true. When, God (a.k.a., the organizing intelligence of the universe), my 'spirit' guide or people I love, who now live over on the other side, speaks to me, their voices are static free and very distinct. When I hear their voices I am always flooded with warmth and good feelings. The messages they share with me never brings harm to myself or others, only love, compassion, understanding and healing; emotionally, mentally and physically. I feel very blessed to have my connection to God, my spirit guide and the people I love on the other side. When I lose that connection, which sometimes happens to me, I experience grief and loss which is very painful to me. That's why I posted the article, you read, about helping me find a real God when I lost my connection this time. What causes me to lose my connection, from time to time, is getting sucked in by the negativity of the world that surrounds me. I have to be vigilant about this because no amount of negativity in the world, no matter how convincing it may sound, is worth being disconnected from God, my spirit Guide and the people I love and cherish who live in a parallel universe to me.
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