Dad and Mom say grace before every meal. When I was young they ingrained this consuetude by teaching me a simple rhyme:

God is good,
God is great,
Thank you for our food.
Amen

But at that age I was  very energetic and active so I wasn’t really paying attention. I didn’t connect the words and their meaning until much later in life. At age 6, I thought we were saying:

Godice good,
Godice great,
thankyouforourfoodamen.

It could easily have been…

Godiss good,
Godiss great,
thankyouforourfoodamen.

At age 6 the meaning didn’t much matter to me; I figured Mom knew; that was good enough… “Let’s eat!”

Today I search for a more meaningful grace. I believe blessing the food (and water) actually improves my health. For now it goes something like this:

Today bless the food I eat and water I drink with love, light and good health; carry these energies to every part of my body. Thank you.

What works for you?

Word o’ the Day:  Consuetude - ritual or routine

One of my weaknesses is I believe you interpret life the same way I do. I think you think like I think.

Extrapolate this concept to a much grander scale…to the scale of infinity, where we meet God. Somewhere in the grand, human process, we went there, came back and then continued with our day-to-day lives. As we went about our ordinary lives we developed religious and spiritual beliefs in a limited, human state of consciousness. One of these is our definition of God. Most western religions claim to be based on the Bible, which is a source that generates an image of a very human-like God. This result is not surprising with words like, “God created man in his own image.”

Throughout history, we have assigned a “personage” to God which has many human characteristics; we see God in human terms and give him a human likeness. We gave God ears (He listens to us); we gave Him a mouth and larynx (God talks to us); we gave Him feelings like dissatisfied, displeased, and unhappy if we do something outside His rules.

I think God is not a person…especially not in the way that’s been spawned in our minds.

In several books I’ve read recently, God lets us know that he is nothing like we think. In The Shack, he deliberately takes on the appearance of a woman, and then proceeds to call himself “Papa.” In Conversations With God, he very directly states, “I am not what you think.” And although it was not their intention, the authors of Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness gave us the preliminary framework we can use to begin to grasp a possible nature of God. All of these accounts show an image of God that is very unlike anything I have encountered.

For now, I don’t think I am capable of expanding my consciousness to the point of infinity, so I’ll take small steps. I first choose to walk away from my earlier belief that God is human-like. Next, I choose to believe that God is nothing like I imagine. Then I choose to allow God to take any shape He prefers. After all…He is God.

Then again, what do I know? I’m just an ordinary guy with a weakness, who thinks you think like I think.

Curiously,
David Wine

I started watching a 2-hour special on The History Channel recently about the multiple predictions that have been made for December 21, 2012. I was disappointed and turned off the show after twenty minutes. The sensationalism and hype were excessive. There were too many commercials (of course). The show had very little bona fide substance. (Reminds me of politics.)

But I do wonder what will happen in December 2012.

• Will it be the end of the world?
• Does California slide into the ocean?
• Will Earth be struck by a comet?
• Maybe a massive volcano will erupt, creating a massive ash cloud, blocking the sun and starting the next ice age
• Perhaps the north and south poles will literally flip causing another global deluge, like Noah’s flood.
• Or maybe the UFO’s will stop cloaking, come out of hiding and the aliens will take over.
• Could be the second coming of Jesus.
• It might be nuclear war or a continent-destroying tsunami.

I am dramatizing too much. I actually have created peace within myself about whatever happens.

Slanting more optimistically, maybe humans will develop an increased sense of intuition, allowing us to communicate without speech (The Great Shift in Human Consciousness?).

Maybe we’ll talk with angels.

Or perhaps we’ll finally be able to hear God.

That would be a noteworthy transformation.

Curiously,
David Wine

“I talk to everyone. All the time. The question is not to whom do I talk, but who listens.”
— God

In Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1) by Neale Donald Walsch.