Comments on: Your Spiritual Garden http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/ Consciousness Expansion and Heart-Centered Living Sun, 20 May 2012 22:19:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: JJ Loch http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-188 JJ Loch Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:29:50 +0000 http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/#comment-188 And that new life needs nourishment to happen. Excuse me for not explaining that clearly. Hugs, JJ And that new life needs nourishment to happen. Excuse me for not explaining that clearly.

Hugs, JJ

]]> By: JJ Loch http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-187 JJ Loch Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:28:45 +0000 http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/#comment-187 How beautiful!!! I love the imagery that it is never too late to improve oneself and that it needs nourishment from God. Hugs, JJ How beautiful!!! I love the imagery that it is never too late to improve oneself and that it needs nourishment from God.

Hugs, JJ

]]> By: Evita http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Evita Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:28:42 +0000 http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/#comment-184 Well said Liara - because without accountability we all just roam around looking for others to satisfy our needs and blaming others when things do not go how we wanted. Well said Liara – because without accountability we all just roam around looking for others to satisfy our needs and blaming others when things do not go how we wanted.

]]> By: Liara Covert http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Liara Covert Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:32:01 +0000 http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/#comment-183 This insightful post reminds human beings they are are each the gardener of their own lives. They need to learn to nuture the soul, the visible and invisible, in order to grow and flourish. This insightful post reminds human beings they are are each the gardener of their own lives. They need to learn to nuture the soul, the visible and invisible, in order to grow and flourish.

]]> By: Evita http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Evita Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:27:57 +0000 http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/#comment-181 Hi Steve - ah yes you got it...God as a Gardener is still a story. That is why I was a little hesitant posting this piece, but I really like the idea of "a spiritual garden" and hence wanted to focus on that more and that fact that if one sees themselves created in the image and likeness of God then they too are a gardener and hence must be accountable for their own "spiritual garden". In the past I did used to view God as many of these metaphors today I simply know that God is "I am" and no words or metaphors can explain that as words are limited and God is limitless. That is why perhaps just like I said what I like about the poem I should have also added what I disliked about it and that is the line " Gracious gardener, I trust that You will continually water my soul and drench my life with Your abiding love." That line of course releases us of our accountability and responsibility to ourselves. Many people put their trust in God and sit by helplessly instead of doing something about a situation themselves. God did not make useless beings who are helpless without him. Indeed he did make us in his own image because we are just that a part of God and hence God - creators in our own essnece. It is a tough idea for some to swallow - but if one can imagine that God is a mountain made of rock and we are the rocks that make it up, then when put back together are we not the mountain too? Hi Steve – ah yes you got it…God as a Gardener is still a story. That is why I was a little hesitant posting this piece, but I really like the idea of “a spiritual garden” and hence wanted to focus on that more and that fact that if one sees themselves created in the image and likeness of God then they too are a gardener and hence must be accountable for their own “spiritual garden”.

In the past I did used to view God as many of these metaphors today I simply know that God is “I am” and no words or metaphors can explain that as words are limited and God is limitless.

That is why perhaps just like I said what I like about the poem I should have also added what I disliked about it and that is the line ” Gracious gardener, I trust that You will continually water my soul and drench my life with Your abiding love.”

That line of course releases us of our accountability and responsibility to ourselves. Many people put their trust in God and sit by helplessly instead of doing something about a situation themselves. God did not make useless beings who are helpless without him. Indeed he did make us in his own image because we are just that a part of God and hence God – creators in our own essnece.

It is a tough idea for some to swallow – but if one can imagine that God is a mountain made of rock and we are the rocks that make it up, then when put back together are we not the mountain too?

]]> By: Steve http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Steve Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:05:41 +0000 http://evolvingbeings.com/posts/61/your-spiritual-garden/#comment-179 God as Gardener is a nice metaphor and on a certain level it works. It's comforting, okay. But really, it's just another version of the "Big Guy in the Sky". And no offence to the writer. We all seacrh for meaning. But God as Gardener is just a belief and it doesn't really do more than make you believe in another story. The Mystery we have called God is not that. If you drop all your beliefs, and just feel the Mystery; Real God appears without explanation or verification or any way to know It/Him/Her within the field or dimension of Qualities. The Ego can not know God. But God Is. Feel that...... For feeling is the most subtle dimension and it can, if you persist, lead you to what is Prior to all any any ideas or thoughts. Love Steve God as Gardener is a nice metaphor and on a certain level it works.

It’s comforting, okay. But really, it’s just another version of the “Big Guy in the Sky”. And no offence to the writer. We all seacrh for meaning.

But God as Gardener is just a belief and it doesn’t really do more than make you believe in another story. The Mystery we have called God is not that.

If you drop all your beliefs, and just feel the Mystery; Real God appears without explanation or verification or any way to know It/Him/Her within the field or dimension of Qualities.

The Ego can not know God. But God Is.

Feel that…… For feeling is the most subtle dimension and it can, if you persist, lead you to what is Prior to all any any ideas or thoughts.

Love
Steve

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