Part One
As a child, I was confused by many Sunday school lessons. One such lesson taught us that God (the Source) made us in His image.
I looked around the room and concluded, “No way!” Everyone looked, acted, and felt different; everyone’s thoughts and energies were different; it made absolutely no sense whatsoever!
It didn’t fit me or what I observed at all; it didn’t fit my reality.
As I grew, and my instructions and lessons from my guides continued, as did my physical instructions and experiences (aka, living life).
Using an earthly-type analogy: children are made from their parents; they may have some physical attributes from one or both of the parents – but they become individualized. Their thinking, energy, looks and mannerisms start developing; they are not carbon copies of their parents.
Some of their life experiences are unique to them, as is each interpretation or perception of each experience is unique to them.
If you have two or more children, you will see two or more distinct, unique to them, individuals, even though they came from the same physical source.
One day I had an epiphany! What I was learning from my guides and learning from life were slowly beginning to coalesce! I understood what Genesis 1:27 was talking about, and our physical bodies had nothing to do with it!
As I learned to ‘see’ people, I realized I ‘saw’ their core – their soul; it was the soul that was made in His image! (Okay, so you probably figured that one out already – but it was a big step for me as a child! *grin*)
The Divine Spark
My thoughts/beliefs are that we, our souls, are divine sparks from the Source (“made in His image”) – our life experiences, our perceptions and our interpretations of our life experiences helps us to grow; we gather, from lifetime to lifetime, more experience and learn more life lessons.
Our ultimate goal, as each soul decides themselves, is to rejoin the Source, bringing back the experiences, interpretations and perceptions, and we will re-incorporate again with the Source.
Some people find this an un-nerving, or even scary, thought.
- “Won’t we lose our individuality?”
- “Won’t we cease to exist?”
- “Won’t ‘I’ be gone?”
If we all came from the Source, then we are all connected – it’s just harder in a physical body to remember this.
“I” is a physical, earthly attribute; it includes ‘ego’, which is again, an earthly attribute.
When we depart our physical body (our physical body dies), and we cross over, “I” (ego-based) is no longer; it is not needed on the other side.
The real us is energy; energy does not cease to exist.
When we (individually) have decided to re-join the Source, we once again become part of the whole. Nothing is lost; it is just shared, and enhanced, with the Source and the other experiences/perceptions/interpretations that had also re-joined the Source.
It is the ultimate ‘going home’, and it doesn’t happen until you decide you are done experiencing.
Next week, Part Two (and the conclusion), containing “What is the Source?”; “Visiting the Source”; and “My Relationship with the Source”.
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