Category: Oneness
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Lasting Happiness – The Greatest Lie Ever Sold
If you are waiting for the day when you will be “happy” all of the time, I have some news for you. It is never going to happen. I know that many people don’t like to hear this. They want to believe that if they could just get in the right situation they can “get…
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What Is God Doing?
My kid and I were in the car one day just chatting about one thing or the other when all of a sudden and totally out of context she asked, “What is God doing?” My response was immediate and to the point. It came from an unlearned knowing that was as natural to my mind…
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God–The Fulfillment of All Relationships
Humans are notorious for trying to seek fulfillment in their interpersonal relationships. However, in my experience with people, no relationship matches exactly what we expect from it and even if they did get close, the hard reality is that every relationship on earth is temporary. And yet, there is something within us that has a…
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The Dots Are Not Connected
What if there are no dots? What if there are no connections? What if All really is One and One really is All? What if there is only eternal being in Oneness and Jesus to the Chrizzity Chrizist knows what’s up and is calling us into that reality. John 17:20-23 (New King James Version) Jesus…
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We Are Worthy! A Theology of Liberation
This post is a little more personal than my other posts, but I thought it was worth sharing because for the past several weeks I have been having a difficult time reconciling my past with my present. It started when my Systematic Theology professor gave us an assignment to name our biggest influence on our…
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You Can Only Go One Way At A Time
I would have to say that in my experience, the hardest vocation one can take upon himself or herself in this world is that of loving God completely. Of course, I tell myself that I love God and God’s ways. Daily, I crucify (figuratively) myself in my mind in an effort to see just where…
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S.A.D. – Sadness, Anger, and Desire
I spent the whole week of January 9, 2011 in Glastonbury Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Hingham, MA. It was part of a class I was taking for my Masters of Divinity program at Andover Newton Theological School. Before entering, I had to do my best to empty myself of all expectations and desires for my time…
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The Foolishness and Weakness of God
On my knees in the prayer room at Andover Newton Theological School where I am attending seminary, I admitted to God how weak and poor in spirit I was. I am praying for the strength of mind, body, and soul so that I will be able to complete the six papers I have due in the…