My Voice

I am not religious; however, I also do not hate God nor do I deny the existence of God. I am a Spiritualist (the belief system most people forget about because everyone thinks that the battle is religious vs Atheist - which I am clearly neither.) I believe we are all God - everything is God - and, therefore, to hate or deny God would mean that I hated my deepest and truest state of self or that I denied my own existence (and, therefore, the existence of anything).
This may make me a bit of a white elephant here but I feel all sides in this argument need to remember that everyone has their own beliefs - some that many even forget about - and that this separation and arguing is doing no good for anyone. A Christian can tell an Atheist why they should be Christian but the Atheist won't listen and an Atheist could tell a Christian why they should be Atheist but the Christian won't listen. These arguments do nothing but divide humanity more and more and create more and more anger and hate. It comes to a point in time - and I believe, after many centuries of war that now IS that time - that you realize no one is winning the battle, set down your arms and cease your words, and agree to disagree. We will all believe what we choose to believe. I am not saying that you can not teach others about your beliefs and why you believe what you do - but stop trying to force it on others and judge others because they think differently of you. That gets humanity nowhere other than into yet another war.

I feel it.
Do you?
Something is coming.
I can feel it all around me - like static in the air.
It reminds me of watching our horses begin galloping across the pasture as a storm moves in before the first wave of thunder even rolls.
Something is happening.
But what?
I think this moment - this time here right now - is when we get to decide.
Anything can happen - the possibilities are endless.
We will decide our own fate - be it good or bad, beautiful or terrifying.
We all hold the power but, I think, it is only a power that can be activated in unity.
We must come together.
We are powerful, limitless beings with the energy of existence itself burning inside us but we are too separated from ourselves and each other to feel it.
The closer I become with myself and the rest of humanity, the deeper I feel the burning energy inside me - inside all of us.
I don't need a Bible to tell me it's there - I feel it!
I want to share it with you but I simply can not.
This is something you must find for yourselves.
But I can help you, if only you will listen to me.
I think this is why some people stop believing in angels.
We expect things to be handed to us and throw temper-tantrums when we get our own way.
We ask "If angels are so good and great and powerful, why do they not come to our rescue?"
I think, in many ways, they do.
But they, too, are limited.
This power is not something even they can hand to us - it is something we must unlock for ourselves.
We are both the lock and the key - we have been all along.
We just need to open our eyes and free ourselves from the lies we've been surrounded by all along - step outside of society and back into humanity - to see it.
I'm doing it right now.
I'm taking baby steps - but I'm getting there.
Are you?
Will you?
Awaken, my friends, and find the truth that you have hidden within your hearts!
Silence your mind, close your eyes, and focus on the energy within.
Place your hand over your heart.
Do you feel that beating?
That is the pulse of energy.
Reach across to a friend and place your hand over their heart.
Do you feel that beating?
That is the pulse of energy.
Walk down to a stream and place your hand into the water.
Do you feel that motion?
That is the pulse of energy.
Look up to the sky and gaze at the stars.
Do you see them twinkling?
That is the pulse of energy.
That, my friends, is but a grain of salt compared to energy flowing through our universe and we are all a part of it.
With this energy, my friends, we will decide what will happen.

(The following is a spiritual poem, not written by myself. The author is unknown to me at this time.)
O Great Beloveds of the starry night
You who reign in all your seen and unseen glory
Come forth and share yourselves with me and to All That Is
Let it be known everywhere who you really are
For you are more ready then you believe yourselves to be
The closet is not as safe a place as the Grand Illusion has led you all to believe
Wake up!
Beloved sleepy ones
Wipe the dust from your eyes
And shake the cobwebs from your limbs
Believe me when I say that it's far wiser to correct a dissonant harmonic
Then to allow a symphony to play disunited
Therein lies your power
A secret revealed
The Heart
The greatest instrument that you can Feel
Is also the greatest instrument to Be
Hmmmmm...
Yes, indeed!
Feeling is being
And being is knowing
And knowing is connecting
Merging in with Truth
I wonder to All
Can you value your uniqueness as part of the Whole?
Can you see your beauty in all your glory?
All of that which is in the likeness of the Unnameable One
Is reflected upon us with divine grace
Cloudy eyes shift to clear and all truth is thus revealed
Now try and go back into the self-enclosed proverbial closet
How do you feel?
Not so easy is it?
Or is it?