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Old 06-26-2005, 05:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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He is near me

God is near me (or rather in me), and yet I may be far from God because I may be far from my own true self.
--C. E. Roll


Our relationship with God and our relationship with ourselves are always interwoven. Sometimes we feel disconnected from ourselves or emotionally flat. We may block the flow of communication with our deeper selves by trying to evade a difficult or painful truth. At those times we grope for some kind of contact and may even ask, "Where is God?"

God is always with us, but sometimes we are the missing party. In the past, most of us were deeply alienated from ourselves and from our Higher Power. Our first moments of spiritual awakening may have been when we saw how far we were from our true selves. This honest message from ourselves to ourselves was painful but was also a re-contact with the truth that made it possible to find God.

I need not ask where God is because God is loving and always near. I only need to ask, "Where am I?"
 
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Old 06-26-2005, 06:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I need not ask where God is because God is loving and always near. I only need to ask, "Where am I?"
This is so true Doug, I'm the one who gets lost sometimes. When I find myself, I usually find God right where He always was.

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Old 06-26-2005, 06:08 PM   #3 (permalink)
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G*D is always right where G*D belongs...
in each of us......a painful self truth...where we can relocate G*D...
Beautiful thoughts here...
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Thanks for this Doug, I really liked it when I read it in my meditatiosn this AM, and it was nice to see it again.
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