GOD Is Everything

July 27, 2011

God Is Everything

When man has done all they can imagine or try,  he comes back to God is everything.  I continue to ask people * what they see when they see God and * what they see of themselves.  The questions have been passed around.  Many demographics are represented, and more responses are still being emailed to me.

Reading these heartfelt answers of each person’s individual experience and belief with God, I became sensitized to all surrounding me.  I already have a firm foundational belief system in place.  But letting the views of my friends, their friends and families  stir me, I have become more aware of God in daily living. Inspired and humbled, I turn as I always have to almighty God and give HIM praise and my expressions of gratitude.

My own letter, began in the early stages of these conversations.  I have added to it as days go on, but the initial belief is the main thread.  Lately though, as my senses and curiosities became heightened,   I ask myself “Is THIS God?  What about THIS?”

Is GOD in the ocean, when I stand flatfooted on the sea floor, water above my head, eyes open to the life teeming around me?  That was both grounding and liberating.

Is God in the helpless newborn, who instinctively turns towards body warmth, nuzzling, seeking sustenance and reassurance?

Is GOD in the winds, storms, and their aftermath?

Is GOD the plane itself? Or the clouds?  Or the tarmac?

He is all of that and more. 

He is everything.

Here are several responses included to the questions “When you see God, what do you see?  How do you see yourself?”

Everything,

Jan M. Olsen

~J~

Mark writes:

Simple:

God is everything! Everything! All that we want and all that we do not.
Our challenge is to see everything as God and be grateful for it no matter
what it looks like, to love it no matter how it shows up, and to forgive
ourselves for every judging any part of God, including ourselves, as less
than Godly.

Mostly, easier said than done, but my view of God nonetheless.

God is all things --- Unity! Separation is an illusion of the human
condition.


:)

Marilyn writes:

Well...now there's a question you don't get asked everyday...let's see....today at this time I believe that God is Reality...what appears good and what appears bad. But that most of what does appear for us is just an illusion....I believe we are very slowly as a species in the still beginning stages of waking up from the illusions of good and bad. I believe that trying to put a definition of God into words is probably impossible but think that when we can get ourselves out of the way we can experience Reality as Bliss.

"Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field...I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass;

The world is too full to talk about,

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other,

doesn't make any sense."

Rumi

in answer to "when you see God how do you see yourself?" innocent....safe....at peace.

Yes you may share my answers with others.

I would love for you to share some of the other answers with me!

love ya!

Marilyn

My view- Jan writes:

I see God as being everything.  He is in all, is all, everything that was and is to come. Eternal, with no beginning or end.  Everywhere at once, all knowing, all powerful.  When God spoke, form separated from the deep.  The void became alive, and in distinct properties that still retain all the qualities of its Creator.

In my limited view, I feel God in my very marrow.  I know scientists break us down to cells, molecules, DNA.  In my simple embracing of God as being my everything, I honor him as being the fire that’s shut up in my bones.  The center of my growth, life, death,  He is the regeneration of new when the old expires and is no more.  He created me and he will finish what he has begun.

When God created man, He formed him out of the dust into his own image. Then He personally breathed the life sustenance in him, and man became a soul, spirit, body.  With my every longing, I strain to be that united with God again. That pure. That much as he desires me to be.

I see me as a flawed cup or vessel.  I am incomplete, until I am in the Master’s hands. Then all my cracks and mars are filled with Him anew, and He floods me to overflowing.  Only in redemption and resurrection do I have hope of being whole in Him.  He however, sees me pure, redeemed, clean and whole. He sees what is Possible.

He is my peace, my hope, my reason, my rhyme and all the direction I ever need to know.  With God as my beginning and as my end, my living tries to reflect that with every breath or heartbeat. When I rest and recharge? I rest in an eternal, safe hand of God. He provides, He nurtures, He grows, He loves, He holds me when no one else will.  Fearfully and wonderfully made, He heals my fissures and tired cells, transforming me into His likeness again, when I stumble in a dark world and soil this temple in selfish human err.

He is everything, therefore He is both Lion of Judah, majestic  king, and sacrificial Lamb of God. He doesn’t change, not his mind, his attributes, or his person. Immutable and constant.  He is the great I AM.

God is the warmth and aroma I sense when His light fills my truck, and upon His word, my crushing mountains are cast into the sea.

For me He is my reason, my calling, my breath, my source, my one true love. He is my all in all. My muse, my one true north. All I ever dream of being or hope to attain.