We're all Just Searching for What it Means to be Alive
4. Welcome All Paths
There are an infinite number of paths to Beloved Presence. We are all seeking the same thing - the experience of being alive, being valuable and finding our place and purpose in the world and in Beloved Presence.
For thousands of years, religions across the earth have been grappling with the same questions of meaning and have developed pathways to connect to Beloved Presence. All religions have wisdom to offer. When someone says they have truth to offer about Beloved Presence, we have an obligation to listen to that truth and discern it's worth through the First Truth.
There is much beauty and wisdom about Beloved Presence to be found in the faiths of humanity. There is also much hatred and many lies and oppression.
Welcome all paths to truth, but discard anything that cannot pass the First Truth of loving and inclusive, because it's not true or real.
We are Divine Wholiness together. You are God. You are Beloved Presence. You are the World, the Universe, all of Creation.
I ask uncomfortable questions and I speak uncomfortable truths. I have always done so and lived a good portion of my life believing that I was the problem. I spent most of my childhood and adult life being told to shush, or being called inappropriate because I ask questions that make people uncomfortable. I don't ask to be malicious or to judge. I ask because I am genuinely curious about you and your world and would like to know and understand who you are and how you see yourself in the world.