Heading into the New Year...

Upon reflection of my father's recent passing, I have seen many new things. Among them, the renewed value of interpersonal relationships.

To encapsulate my personal relationship with my love, Erika, is to summarize a relationship with God.

A relationship that ultimately comports with the Higher Order of value in a spiritual authority, not so much out of supplication, but in cooperation.

In each other, and between every single human being, we see Godliness and the potentiality of achieving a state of grace. We see Divinity, as expressed in the Holy Trinity. We cooperate in graceful actions to work towards becoming our truest, most honorable, Divine selves.

And of course, we stumble, rather magnificently, along the way.

It is often difficult to describe both one’s connection to the Divine, and what symbolizes a relationship with “God”.

The word is quoted out of respect. When words are relegated to too many meanings, or none at all, we cheapen their existence.

“God” is not a cheap experience, on any level.

Whether you believe in the experience or not has little to do with your choice, but rather your acknowledgment that your choices are co-created with a force that is Universal.

And therein lies the “price” that is associated with being a part of the Divine in the material world: There are unavoidable consequences to your actions, because your actions are not separate from your choices.

This ties into the notion of personal responsibility. No action is created, nor decision made, without your will and your consent. That ability to will may be given to you prior to birth, and it is yours to do what you will as you enter the world and become consciously aware of the world around you.

Willing responsibly, that is, as a service to others beyond yourself, is the prescription, or more pedantically, the prescriptive action. When morals or morality enter the picture, then we know we have already veered off course.

Of course, you can do nothing, you can simply be and become something or nothing in particular, and that would perhaps solve all of life’s major problems. Temporarily, at least.

But that’s boring and cowardly in the face of, well, evil. One would think you’d want to be motivated by what evil is not. Not as a moral act, but an act of existing beyond our comforts, conveniences and often expensive lies.

This is the appeal of Christ’s true teachings (those that sprang from "Before Abraham Was"), and what is considered the actual Christ Consciousness (not the New Age term as such).

Archetypally, this configures well with Buddhist or Taoist or Hindu or Islamic teachings, because all told, their messages complement and reinforce one another, even if their Divine sources are distinctly differentiated per a Higher Order of authority.

This is not meant in a religious sense per se, but more so by the spoken and written word as a form of conscious activation in the physical world.

When we can see what is unseen through actions that actualize the true spiritual essence of every living being and every living thing, then we have “arrived” at a place in which the mind does not control our actions, but rather our beingness works in concert with the laws of nature.

In other words, God is not a concept. Faith is not a concept. Life is not a concept. It IS the essence of everything. We either flow with it, it’s pure energies, or we don’t. Keeping in mind the Higher Order value of a spiritual authority - God, The Universe, The Multiverse, and Everything That Is - we can work with nature or we can simply subvert it at our own peril.

This is the dualistic world we find ourselves living in at present.

This is also where we return to the essence of who we truly are, without moral prescriptions, without external identities, whereby we are the pure, individuated expressions of Divinity. As well, those expressions become the expressions of a Universal consciousness - the “sum total” of expressions as fully expressed in evolution.

And this is where my journey with Erika begins anew, each and every day.

Happy Holidays to you and yours. May your daily lives be full of hope, meaning and grace.