Becoming out of God (June 12, 2007)

Kapayapaan sa lahat!

Maligayang Araw ng Kasarinlan sa Kanoypihan!

Sinubukan naming magsalita sa ating pambansang wika sa simula ng aming bahaginan noong nakaraang Martes (ika-12 ng Hunyo) upang gunitain ang espesyal na araw na ito.

But when our non-Filipino speaking friends arrived we had to shift to our usual English which everybody would understand more fully.

There were 15 of us at the recent Tuesday Inner Work Circle and we were glad to see new faces as well as some familiar faces making a come back.

The suggested theme was: “What have we become out of our experience/s of God?” This was an off-shoot topic which rose up from discussions after the session last week which was about “God-concepts”.

The task of facilitating the discussion last night was delegated to one of the participants who was the one who thought of the theme. Our brother from Eckankar was the first to share--reading a chapter from a book on conversations between a master and a student talking about “grasping God”. Then he shared some instances in his life which he considers as experiences of God.

What is interesting about his sharing is that these experiences were not of the beaming-ray-of-light-and-booming-voice-from-above kind of experience of God, but a simple yet recognizably divine experience nonetheless. One of these was how he got to quit smoking after hearing the “voice of God” through the lyrics of a song overheard while eating a midnight goto snack.

Another powerful sharing was not about any one particular experience in life but about the whole series of life experiences that brought her to a journey of faith from the darkness of doubt and fear to that of the liberation of the human spirit.

Indeed, as it was pointed out before in one of the TIWC sharing: What matters is not what happened to you—it is what happens in you.

And because this topic is so interesting and participants have much to share with so little time, we are extending the discussions on this topic to give chance for others to share.

So Next Tuesday (June 19) we will be continuing with reflections and sharing on:

“What have we become out of our experience/s of the Divine”.

See you then!

Om Shanti!
O.