“Practicing the Omni-Presence of God”
This is a quote by a gentlemen named Joseph R. Myers:
I was privileged to sit in a class with him this past Friday, when he said this phrase, “so often we practice the omni-presence of Evil, I try to practice the omni-presence of God.”
God is present and all people belong to God, that means I belong.
The very thing I have longed for the majority of my life was to belong.
Since God is present and I am in present, I belong. It is in this space of thinking I find security. My ego is satisfied if only for a moment and I am home. Connected to where I have come from and where I will be, I am there. Suspended beyond time and memory to the very nature of my being, my true source of self is freedom.
We create constraints on our self, what we can do and not do. There are limitations in our own mind create by our connections we have made and we live under a veil of impossibility. I know longer want to live behind such a veil.
This is where I meet God. If I where to self create an outcome for my life, it would be limited to my own desires and passion. Though I have to start somewhere, I begin with self and move from there.
There is a great parable in Luke 5, where Jesus comes upon the soon to be disciples and tells them to through their nets on the other side and this will not be the last time they are asked to do something irrational. They had been fishing all night and the boat was small. To through a net, which would not make it into a new part of the water, on the other side of the boast would prove itself foolish if it was not for the possibility of God’s interaction in the World.
It is at this moment they meet God at the intersection of faith and reason, something takes place beyond themselves opening them up to a realm of possibility.
“could this be God?” They fall to their knees in an unworthy posture to the creator and created being of God.
May this posture position our own minds into the realm of practicing the omni-presence of God.
