You and the Father ARE One

Erik Bork, RScP

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a Heavenly Father to appeal to and trust in?

It’s one concept I had to give up, coming into New Thought – that anthropomorphized “dad” figure from the Bible.

And good riddance, because he could be tough, even vengeful at times, demanding loyalty...

Who needs that?

But at the same time, He would do awesome things for you if you just asked and believed!

I know we believe in that latter part, in our own way – that we “ask” by “setting an intention and believing.” And thus we access all the good God stuff – the eternal givingness.

And what a bonus that we don’t have to deal with any of the harsh requirements and punishments of the traditional God/Dad!

But still... wouldn’t it be nice sometimes to be able to appeal to a loving all-powerful being who is greater than us and is on our side?

To communicate with Him, to trust in Him, to bring Him all our problems?

And all we have to do is make Him our priority and believe?

In my view, we can do that and it doesn’t really cause any harm to appeal to Spirit in this way – while also understanding that it’s not a separate human-like being but is the energy within us.

Because the thing is, sometimes we don’t feel that it is, deep down inside. We can’t always access conviction about that.

What we might instead feel is a smallness and separateness. And we might experience suffering, lack and fear.

At those times, we just want to appeal to “Daddy.” Not to mention “Mommy!”

(Maybe that’s why some in New Thought use the term “Father/Mother God.”)

My point is that what we’re appealing to, if we really “get down on our knees” (in our minds at least), is to something greater than we feel that we are in the present moment.

It’s not just about thinking, after all. Feeling is what really matters.

So can we seek the Divine “Father” or “Mother,” from a feeling place, in order to cultivate a greater knowing?

Certainly people from other religious paths can have a deep spiritual experience despite looking “at” God as something separate from (but caring for) them. Many people feel they derive great meaning, purpose, peace and power from this.

Just because I view God a bit differently from them doesn’t mean they’re “wrong.” I’m even open to the possibility that the Truth somehow encompasses a variety of different ways of understanding God that can all be “right” on some level – and all lead to the same place.

Which is that sense of oneness and absolute well-being we all seek. That sense of being guarded and girded by something than our human mind can’t always easily grasp.

So I say go ahead and cultivate a “relationship” with Spirit if that’s helpful to you. While knowing it’s not outside you, but is the fundamental reality of who and what you are.

Bring it in, welcome it, trust in it, confide in it, go to it, and give it your “issues.”

Even see it as a “Him,” or a “Her,” or a “Both Him and Her” when you do it, if that helps you cultivate the feeling of it, so you can unify with it, and accept its truth and power as yours.

Ernest Holmes, after all, talked about love and law. Yes the law is impersonal. But that doesn’t mean the creative energy within us – the God, the Father/Mother – is.

Much the opposite. It is absolute Love. And so are we.

“I love you Dad! I love you Mom! I accept your Love!” 

And I know that Love and its Source is really all that I am.