TRUTH

I am getting a very late start today. We had a schedule change that threw us off a bit. We went to town this Morning. We have been back for over an hour. Instead of blogging I have been excitedly watching, if our new gray water system, for our wash machine was working. When we put on the addition we lost our gray water system. Part of the addition was a new laundry room and the washer has been discharging into the septic tank. That is not the best idea if an alternative is available. Jamie has been the chief installer. She thinks I would not be able to navigate the crawl space under the new addition; she is probably correct. It works perfectly!

In Wednesday's blog, I said that we should not judge other people's paths nor should we preach what we think is the truth. I made the observation that we are all going to get to our destination in any case. Our life lessons will bring us to the conclusion that love is the only answer. Anything else causes pain of one sort or another. Any direction we go that is not loving will cause us enough discomfort that we will alter our course. As I mentioned in an earlier blog we can take the easier path or go through the brambles. We, all, will eventually get where we are going.

There are a few reasons why we don't want to preach our truth. Even if it is the Truth [with a capitol T], if folks aren't ready to hear it they will be turned away, rather than turned on. The last thing we want to do is alienate folks from a truth that may be helpful.

But the biggest reason is {and some of us have a hard time accepting this}; we don't know the Truth. We have discovered some things that work for us and we may have learned to 'feel' the truth. The more we are convinced, love is the only answer, the more intuitive we seem to be.

What can I say about Truth at this point in my evolution? I can say that love brings me better life experiences than fear. I can say that if I am going to pursue a life course, I want it to be imbued with love and free of fear. I prefer the concept of oneness over that of separation. I prefer cooperation over competition.

Wouldn't we better off if we thought of ourselves, as seekers of the truth, rather than holders of the truth? I think we are here to seek truth and we were shunted off that path by religion and the idea of authority. No being, in a human body, can know Source [God] any better than any body else. Our Great Spiritual teachers never claimed that they new God better than anybody else. Yes, they could see clearer because they could see through the illusion. They were not closer to God. They had a less dense cloud between them and God. If Source [God] is Unconditional Love, and we are surrounded by that Love, nobody can be closer to God than anybody else.

Many of us have given away the responsibility to know truth, to the authority of religion or some teacher or individual. To be truly free, we must take it back. We must find the truth in our own heart. The proof of Truth is that is true. You cannot know this, unless you live it.

We have been terribly misled by our religious and other institutions. They seduced us because they do contain truth but there is much error interwoven among their teachings. Any group that truly wants to benefit us and give us value, would not want to control us and certainly would not judge us.

 What seems to me, as a fundamental false teaching, was that Nature was dangerous and not to be trusted. We have been split from Nature for a very long time. I think we need to find ways to correct the split. Whether we like it or not we are one with Nature. How would life be if we quit trying to separate ourselves from Mother Earth?

I will have more to say about this on Monday. It is getting late and I have some afternoon chores to do.

Love and Peace,  Gregg