God and Me, a Guest Post by CSR
May 30th, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
Here comes our second installment in this continuing series. Just because you read people deeper doesn’t mean that you have an particular stereotypical view of God. Reading faces, using skills as an empath, or doing aura readings — these are skills that help you to know more. How you use your perception is YOUR business. This contribution isn’t about how “Donna” has changed in her relationship to spiritual Source, but what she experiences now. Feel free to comment here, but also remember that you are invited to GUEST POST as well. Email any contribution to RoseRosetree[at]Verizon.net
A recent letter to the editor commenting on a Cox News religion writer’s idea that some people refuse to believe in god pretty well sums up my position:
Some of us don’t “refuse to believe in god,” as Cox News religion writer Lorraine V. Murray puts it.
We just don’t understand what god she’s talking about, because we hold to a faith based on experience, the faith that people (and the world) are, by and large, inherently good. Some of these people are atheists and agnostics, while some belong to “organized” religions – Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. Others simply trust themselves.
(In her column) George expresses himself honorably; he doesn’t indicate that he is right and others wrong, and certainly his feelings are echoed by many. For him, love, birth and children are signs of God. That’s his privilege. But Ms. Murray appears to believe everyone needs to think that way.
Heart counts; so do brains; listening to the world’s people instead of rejecting them takes it farther. Surely she doesn’t believe that non-believers miss the sunsets, the flowers, the sweetness of family and friends. Surely she doesn’t believe that non-believers are so profoundly different from believers.
Her outlook seems stifling, but in this country it is hers to choose.
And ours.
