Religion in our world today presents us with a plethora of definitions, identities and faces of “God”, with many of these definitions on the surface at least, bearing little or no resemblance to each other.
For many years I have found this both puzzling and disturbing as I am a person who holds an unequivocal inner knowing that there is such a Being, yet what I feel within me is completely different to these descriptions of “God”.
Contemplating this apparent paradox, I began to consider some of the faces of “God” to which I had been exposed in my life.
I found “God, the accountant or book keeper” – that is he who keeps a tally of deeds and calls in the debt or rewards the credit at the end of a human life.
“God the exclusive” I found singularly strange: to live for all of eternity and have only one Son or one race of people be his people. What did the others do, I used to wonder?
Then there was “God the Vengeful” who apparently was capable of bringing down the favoured one’s enemies, their cities and by inference, their wives and children. Not much fun at parties . . .
“God who can’t make his mind up” was interesting – he might be, but then again, he might not; or “God who is all mind” so that he actually isn’t anymore – he’s just a mind. I have a sense that this notion may well have given birth to the new age version of “God as the creator of your materialistic desires.”
The “God of Love” sounded promising… but the acoustic guitars and strains of ‘Kumbaya’ were not for me.
The God of my childhood was the incredibly old man with the long white beard whose portrait I used to observe and think, “Really?” However, he certainly did not look like the kind of man who would have stood by and let his only son be crucified… which brought me to “God who throws Lightning Bolts.” No comment.
And yet I observe within myself and within so very many of my fellow human beings, sincere longing for a sense of a Divinity to which we can connect, feel whole and derive a meaning or purpose for our lives… and not have to wait until we die to do so.
Until recently, my sole sense of Divinity was Nature. I found in the vast expanses of the Australian bush and desert a sense of space that felt to me like “God.”
Observing the natural unfolding of the patterning of leaves on a tree and its intrinsic geometry, as well as each leaf’s innate and absolute knowing of how to grow in cooperation with the rest of the tree felt to me like “God”. Being held and embraced by the absolute silence and stillness of a midnight sky, I felt was “God”.
Night-time solitude laying on a beach or in the desert with my arms open to the stars and the Universe, breathing so gently and still, could only be “God”.
After observing nature for several decades, I began to feel some of nature’s qualities within me: the open hearted feeling, the silence and, at times, the stillness.
However, it was not until I began to attend Universal Medicine presentations offered by Serge Benhayon that my feelings about “God” started to confirm, and very much extend themselves. Here, I am reconnecting within myself to some qualities that I had always felt were “God”.
The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.
What I have found particularly engaging in this understanding of Divinity is that it is based on neither the faith nor the fear associated with the experiences of my youth, but on a precise science which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of the Nature, Time and Space.
And all of this can be done in a human body because my body is also all of those qualities I have felt were God. This face of God I know.
And the best part is I don’t have to wait until I die to develop this relationship with God. And there is not a thunderbolt in sight… I am home.
With a thousand thanks, and then some, to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
by Coleen
Further Reading:
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Humanized images of God abound. Yet, none of them is able to match the feeling of Him.
Here is the direct link: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-god.html to Unimedpedia God which provides the most wonderful collection of quotes and free audio about God – so worth a visit.
…and one more super special link that I can’t hold back from sharing is this one: http://www.unimedliving.com/voice/audio-of-the-month/the-five-principles-of-god.html – it takes you to an absolutely gorgeous free audio of the month that presents on the five principles of God and the key to being part of the flow of life.
We must know God, because we know precisely what God is not. So if we know what God is not, we must know God.
Bastardising the true meaning of God and our connection to our inner selves and thereby God is what the true meaning of evil is. Both the words God and Evil are well covered in Unimedpedia – http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index and bring a lot of light and understanding to this disgrace.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self,” to know that these qualities are who I truly am is amazing, and to live in a way connected to my innermost is The Way of the Livingness, allowing these qualities to become part of our everyday living.
Yes we have many weird and novel ideas of God and you describe them very well here, what I feel in all those versions of wrath, special ones etc. is a holding away from God, as we push God away from us and refuse to acknowledge we are of God – by putting God on a pedestal or as someone for a special group or someone to be feared, we don’t engage with him and we don’t engage with us either. For the truth is our relationship with God is also about our relationship with ourselves.
“And the best part is I don’t have to wait until I die to develop this relationship with God. And there is not a thunderbolt in sight… I am home’ – I could not agree any more than this, it is like a lightening strike.
When I no longer held onto an identity or image of God I was able to feel within me and all around me the Love that is God.
God can never be found in ideals, beliefs or pictures, but rather in our inner-heart, in our connection with our soul.
I too used to connect with nature as my way of being with the divine. Since attending Universal Medicine presentations I know the divine is within me – and within everyone, should we choose to accept this.
Just imagine what would happen if the world, everyone, realised that that extraordinary connection that everyone hungers for is actually built in to everyone of us… What a revelation this would be for the whole of humanity
I used to blame God for my life and my father passing over when I was young. I felt this way because I was not feeling the love I honestly knew inside. Everything was fake around me and I was not cherished. It was not until I attended a Universal Medicine workshop that it hit home – I was home instantaneously – I found the truth. There was no looking back or thinking about life EVER again … it is felt.
From experiences God has many ‘faces’ or outer appearances but they are all recognisable not by sight but by our ability to feel.
When I walked in nature I would feel the harmony and stillness that felt to me like God, but once I left nature those feelings would go, I have since come to know what I felt in nature was also in me, in my connection to God within I am so much more.
Surely there is only one face of God, which is Love?
Being bought up as a Catholic I was presented with an image of God that never made sense to me, I knew God was all knowing and deeply loving so to hear God spoken about in any other way I could feel every cell in my body reject this as false.
Whilst there are many faces of God in the world, there is only one body of God that we are all held in and are all a divine representation of. When we surrender to the Fire of our inner-heart, we once again will know that we can never be apart from God and the universe, as we are His children, as such divine in essence.
There are images of God. And there is the inner feeling of God. Thank God, they do not match!
That God is within and reflected to us by the cycles and rhythms of nature, time and space to reminds us of this makes absolute sense to me for I can feel it with all of me. My whole body says yes.
I would feel God within me when I looked up at the stars or the moon or walked and felt God in nature, I understood God was a heart experience not head knowledge, all this i knew sometime ago, but what undermined feeling more of God within were the lies that we were sinners, the body was evil and had to be subjugated brought under control so that then brought us to looking outside of ourselves for God. A whole set up to keep us separated from our soul.
Thank you for not only exposing how silly some of these “faces” are but also how God is everywhere if we are willing to connect to ourselves then he will be revealed.
I grew up in a religious family and was sold an idea of God as being something that was inaccessible to the every day citizen. That there was a rank and order in which to get ‘closer’ to God and that came from the position you held in the church. I can remember as a child questioning this but everyone else went with it so eventually I did too. To me now, this is totally false and is just a manipulation for the church to have control. I now have a sense that God is within everyone and can be accessed by anyone at any time.
They say there are many paths to God. In truth, there can only be one path. However, there can be many diversions that in time lead back to the one path.
Thank you Coleen, it its through our bodies that we get to feel God all around us, and nature is the perfect example as it reflects the divinity that we all from in so many different ways.
Exactly Coleen… “a thousand thanks, and then some, to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.” To find God has been a profound and at the same time completely normal unfolding experience over the past 16 years, which began when I met Serge Benhayon and was exposed to the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom.
Today I consider myself well acquainted with a connection that rarely wavers and in that, I and my life feel rich, full and very complete.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.” Beautifully expressed Coleen. We only need to reconnect deeply with one of these qualities and the others can follow. . For me Esoteric Yoga enables me to reconnect with my stillness, and thus with God. Walking in nature also has this effect.
It’s true Coleen, natures qualities are completely reflective of the nature of God and support us to understand and accept the rhythms and cycles of birth, growth and death of the plant and animal kingdom. From this understanding we can appreciate how the beauty of these cycles also grace and harmonize our own lives as human beings.
The Ageless Wisdom cuts right through all the invented definitions and explanations of who God is and what His qualities are; that makes it clear that these are no more than convenient misrepresentations, serving mainly a grab for power (force, really) by those in authority and the subservience of their flock.
I love how you said that you reconnected within yourself to some qualities that you had always felt were “God”. There’s a beautiful simplicity in that connection – how it is something we always have access to, innately and naturally so, and so can always bring ourselves back to when/ if we feel ‘off’, if we so choose to.
Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are opening the door yet again to humanity to connect with who we truly are, and to feel this to our core.
For so long, I shied away from using the word God as I often felt uncertain of what that word meant and I didn’t feel like agreeing with those who would openly use that word and what they represented. How empowering that is to restore the true meaning of a word for it to be appreciated and embraced for what it truly is.
Nature reflects Divinity and when we truly observe and feel all of nature’s magic we see God and we see us.
In childhood, I remember hearing from adults about the many faces of God that you speak of Coleen. Although never having been brought up in any organised religion, there was always a sense of fear lurking around in the background of having done something wrong. A perfect way to keep any personal relationship with God at a distance and not feel the truth constantly reflected in nature. Thank God that Universal Medicine presentations have supported me to let go of this prison of anxiousness and fear.
We are presented with so many pictures of God that do not feel true and it is beautiful to recognise our connection to Divinity and the all encompassing nature of the universe and God – no pictures needed just a deep inner knowing.
There are so many contradictory views of what God is that makes for so much confusion ! I feel very fortunate that I have connected with Universal Medicine and the Presentations of the Ageless Wisdom by Serge Benhayon, and this has clarified that God is Love, as we are also!
It could have only been us human beings who live with many pictures and faces ourselves that we put pictures and many faces onto who or what God is. As there is in truth only one God.
God is our equal part, our connection to the Divine, that which is all love, true love.
Growing up in the Catholic religion I was often confused by their image of God because it didn’t fit with what I felt deep within me to be true of God. Thankfully I walked away from this religion as I could now longer stand the lie we were being sold, like you Coleen it wasn’t until I meet Serge Benhayon many years later that inspired me to re-connect back to my innermost where I could truly connect to God and felt like I had finally returned home.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.” And thus the saying ““the Kingdom of God is within you.” I love Esoteric Yoga in particular because this enables me to feel the stillness within and is something I can easily reconnect to on my own.
I love that phrase “the Kingdom of God is within you” – for me that means in connection with our innermost is where we find true connection with God and all the wonders of the universe. And that connection is made for living in every aspect of our lives and in all our relationships, bringing true religion to life.
Thank you Coleen for a beautiful sharing, I too felt God mostly through nature, but when I would leave nature I would feel a sense of loss, not now though, now I know and experience God within as I maintain my connection to my inner essence, the amazing thing is that God is always there whether I am connected or not.
Connecting to my inner essence, connects me with God, and what God actually looks like is immaterial because I feel God as being part of me.
The relationship with God is a whole being experience. It is accepting that the body (actually, the particles that make it up) knows so too well to recognise when it hits home.
The word God, so emotive for many including myself. Not so now. The reconnection to myself takes God firmly away from some nebulous and often scary ‘thing’ out there and places him equally within and around me. The universe, experienced from the stillness within, feels like the very fabric of Gods being, holding us and everything together, always offering us the opportunity to notice this and remember that, of course, we are all inextricably linked, we are all of and from God. Once we know we are all connected how then can we pretend we are separate?
We are all deeply religious and in connection with God when we connect with our bodies. It is through the quality of our movements that we get to appreciate and accept that which is reflected back to us from the universe.
What a beautifully divine blessing to deeply know and to feel God within, in Nature and in the infinite Universe. A gorgeous blog to ponder on and truely appreciate Coleen, thank you.
Awareness of the truth of the Ageless Wisdom presented by Universal Medicine that we are all Sons of God and share our Divinity with God and everyone else made all the beliefs that entangle institutional religion disappear.
That our bodies are also part of God is now a natural feeling for me. When we are open-hearted, connected to ourselves and the rhythms of our body there is a beautiful flow to life beyond what the mind can know or create.
As you have said Coleen, the qualities of God we embody are Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy which we are All equally this in essence. When we connect to our inner knowing , our inner heart we live and move reflecting these qualities.
Serge Benhayon has opened the doorway so that I could walk on the bridge back to my deep and true connection with God, for which I am eternally grateful.
God knows we create a million distractions in our life, from being ill and angry to being wealthy and super successful. Even in our sleep we can be running at the speed of light. But when we eventually let those things drop, when we decide finally to stop, there is a presence that is there that is so natural, still and fresh like the air. As if we just stepped out of a dream, we get to see the picture we were running with was not so real. For even in the heaviest moment or darkest day, God is there holding you just waiting for you to come and play. Thank God Coleen that this world is not as serious as we sometimes think.
Our relationship with God is not one that is found in measuring up to an image of sorts, but rather a one that is always available to explore and develop through our surrender to being who we are in essence. As in truth we are all the living Sons of God and when we live in connection to this ever-present quality of God, our Soul we too are the real faces of God.
Connecting to the stillness within our bodies is like coming home, a place of communion with God.
Beautifully written Coleen! There are many faces that I too recognise from my youth, but I kept searching until I was fortunate enough to connect with Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness.
I am coming to see that it is a very personal relationship to divinity. It is us who know the love of God, that is inside, best. We are innately connected, but are sent astray by all the images created in the human mind.
Thanks Coleen, great to read the many faces of God…I can relate to all of them. When you see it all written down, it confirms why I have always been so confused on the topic and why none of it has ever made any sense to me. When we talk about God in nature, then it makes sense, when we talk about God not being a person, a man with a beard a thrown and power over others, then it starts to feel like there is some truth coming through.
There cannot be many faces of God as He is Universal. However, if what is being presented is from an Individuality (ie someone’s own agenda) then that makes sense as to why there would be so many different strands, and hence the confusion.
‘The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them’ – I really get what you share here Coleen – I too put down God to just nature, but that was because the way religion has been used by humans is so foreign to me. But as I bring back the understanding that under the label of someones religion is their essence, and we are all equal in that sense, I can see how their quality is what I have the opportunity to connect with.
Although mankind has created many images of God, God can only truly be met through our bodies, as our bodies are part of nature, the universe that all is a reflection of God.
It’s funny we look outside ourselves so regularly and often to find God, and yet this blog has me smile as I realised that I’d held many of those images of God, but ignored for a long time that actually the face of God in me, and reading your words today ‘And all of this can be done in a human body because my body is also all of those qualities I have felt were God. This face of God I know.’ brought me a level of understanding that I’d not really allowed before, that we all are faces of God, each and every one of us, and the next question is do we live in a way that absolutely honours and shows that face of God in all we do and everything we are? Not always but each moment there’s another opportunity to share and be.
Thank you for highlighting that line Monica and expanding on it. I had felt God within but hadn’t ever considered that we are all faces of God in and with our bodies. Very beautiful.
As deepen my relationship with God and the stillness within what I am finding interesting is that those who belong to an ‘institutionalised’ religion that in the past have made little of it are suddenly becoming more outspoken about their beliefs. The increased awareness is something I am observing and accepting.
The most profound blessing is finding God within ourselves
It is actually so simple if we allow ourselves to follow that inner light that is in our inner heart, the inner light that connects us all to the one and with that to one another, the inner light that makes us equal and the same.
I love how you describe your sense of God, it shows that God ‘resides’ in us, that we are from God, part of this magnificent might, otherwise how could we possibly feel this stillness and love in certain moments that you describe.
I love that we do know and recognise what God feels like, even though we may have struggled to settle on a face that would fit the picture.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them”.
What a blessing that we have a choice to reconnect with the qualities you have named Coleen, to reconnect to God who is within nature and every one of us.
That it is possible to have our own , personal , knowing of God, redefines, for the world, what religion actually is…. The returning home.
Beautifully put Chris
I have always struggled with physically feeling that God is within… however after reading what you shared about feeling the qualities of nature, my understanding has shifted to recognizing and being able to feel the truth of having experienced and embodied those qualities at times within myself but just never having made the correlation before now. A much needed and timely read, thank you.
Thank you Coleen, this is a beautiful blog to read and feel, I was, as a child presented with all these ideas of God, but where I felt God the most was when I was in Nature. I could feel that what was in nature was also in me. But that feeling left once I left nature, I now know that the God I felt in nature is also in me and has been within me all the days of my lives.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.” Coleen I re-found this qualities inside of me too with a little help of a friend. It is a bit strange for me now that I was not aware of this innate qualities from day one as they feel so natural laying inside of me patiently waiting for me to re-connect.
I think it’s important to be objective and truly observe the many ways in which “God” is presented – many of them to me also feel man made and not at all representative of divinity, in fact the very opposite! I love your description of your sense or knowing of God Colleen and the divinity that is inside all of us.
Coleen for me this sentences is gold: “The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.” It is like the nature is a mirror for us to remind us that we are more than we think we are.
When I think of the many faces of God, I think of the seven billion people out there and that each and every one of us has the capacity to be a representation of divinity.
My favourite was God with the big long white beard, and if I’m really honest there is still some residue in the darkest recesses of my consciousness that relate to this. However these are all distractions from the essence of God feels to each and everyone of us, and finding that same essence in ourselves, and all around us.
And who would have thought, based on everything that we had been taught since childhood, that our relationship with God simply started with our relationship with ourselves.
We are all of and from divine. Our body our temple. Live in respect of this. How true and simple. Sermon over.
It has not been talked on in history much before in this way, but religion has definitely been the key element of separation amongst man. At no time on Earth has religion in the way we currently know it to be ever has united humanity. It has been the justification of war, human torture, death and even child abuse. In my books none of these are EVER part of God
This blog confirms what we all know – that there is the God that we innately know and the man-made version foisted upon us through organised religion doing it’s very best to keep us disconnected from our divinity.
A great sharing Coleen, I recall being fed all these false images of God growing up in the Catholic Religion, but none of them matching what I felt to be true about God. The greatest gift I have experienced in my life is building a true connection with God and feeling the joy with this, and I agree ‘I am home’.
It has been astounding to witness how having a relationship with God has actually brought so much purpose to my life, not in a driven way where there is a need to convert anyone, but actually in a very private, simple and sweet way, where each day feels like another opportunity to learn more about love, my body, and who I am.
I know this Coleen – when I grew up I was puzzled with everyone’s using of the word God, it didn’t resonate with what I felt inside. If their version WAS God then what I felt within me was far superior and God for me was not interesting, and perhaps this is the clever set up for us to abandon what God truly means. What I’ve come to know is that just because you can use the word God and even go to university supposedly learning about God doesn’t actually mean that you know anything about what God is, we do innately but not by just reading about it, it has to be lived, cherished, and honoured.
It is the simplest and loveliest of feelings, that of being immersed in, surrounded by, connected with, within and without , God
Tonight before bedtime my daughter proudly told me that she had put her big sister to bed and turned the light of in her room. As I was putting her to bed she asked me, but who is going to switch your light of? I told her I had to do it myself. And then she said; or God can do it. I said; well I do not think so, it is not like God is a man on a cloud who comes down and turns of people light. And she laughed by the idea. Then I asked her, what is God actually to you? She answered; When all the people in the world come together as one, that is God.
“When all the people in the world come together as one, that is God.” What an exquisite and truthful reply from your daughter Diana.
Yes deborahmckay, I agree and for me this is a living example that wisdom has nothing to do with age, it is the connection to the one source we are all from.
Pure wisdom truly felt. Thank you for sharing this diana1975.
God’s divine reflection is held in nature and within us equally so. That is the beauty of our connection to self, because we can feel the rhythms of nature within us too. Living spherically, in harmony with everything.
Reading the comments here I get to feel how so much religion has become ‘about God’ but not about having a true connection with God. There are words spoken and songs sung about the glory of God but it is something outside of us rather than a living essence we can all connect to. The glory of God has become something to marvel at, to worship and praise, to speak of, to write about, to study, to defend, to mediate on – to do anything but connect to and be a part of. There is a separation in making religion ‘about God’ rather than being in connection with God that leaves us forever seeking rather than finding. We are told that ‘the Kingdom of God is within’ us. Shall we discuss the fact for another few millennia – or connect to it and live it?
Shall we discuss the fact for another few millennia – or connect to it and live it? Great question richardmills363, do we continue to go around in the same circle?
This is great, thanks Coleen. Another face of God I grew up with was God the contradiction – an omnipotent father who gave his beloved Sons free-will only to punish them for using it. Maybe God the sadist is more accurate. It is a joy to come home to the innateness and equalness I now know God to be – where my whole being opens up like a flower – with a great sigh that says ‘Ahhhhhh, yes, now this is truly Divine’.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.” Thank you Coleen for this very lovely wise sharing, we are all these qualities and it is simply our choice to re-connect to what is already there within. Not the ideal of what we think it should be like – in other words without the need for perfection. All that is required is appreciation for exactly where we are at at the moment, and feel, accept and appreciate that quality.
Likewise Sarah – God was known to me in nature and in what co-existed with the world, not what was created by man (religions and rules) To re-confirm this in myself has allowed me to stop blocking out what I feel and the connection I have always had and known to be true.
It is great to know that what are our core qualities are those that connect us with God. God is all that we are in essence, that is how the relationship with God can be built, in equalness.
A lovely article Coleen, being in nature was where I could always connect to the feeling of God being there, now I know and experience God not just in nature but within my own self in the love I feel with each gentle breath, and know this is within all of humanity.
Till a few years ago I only knew the bastardized version of religion that man has created and we were expected to except. I turned my back on all things relating to God when spoken about in their flavor that was being offered. I did not shun the amazingness of the world, beyond and that there is the original spark out there. Nature not nurture was my church. God is the spark that is out there but that word seems to limit to magnitude of what is out there… I like divinity.
I never had a ‘job description’ of God. Never bought one either. I still do not have an image of Him. My relationship with Him is not one of faith. It is one of deeper knowing. That is all I need.
Imagine emmadanchin how quickly this change will come when more and more people reconnect to their knowing of divinity. We will change at lightening speed.
What a great summation of who we are Donna. The more we open up, the more love we express and the more we can see God. He is in the trees, with the little bird on the window sill and he is with all of us.
God with thunderbolts and kumbaya, Coleen you have a great sense of humour. Unfortunately some people take on these beliefs and one of the many faces of God then becomes real to them. I was not brought up in a religious home, we were not aligned to any faith, but as an adult I have attended the Catholic Church for christenings and I always felt like God was going to strike me down. The power and the force I could feel inside this church was very disturbing. Now I have 2 religions. One with myself and the other with Universal Medicine and with each relationship I can feel God. He is with me 24/7 and like you Coleen I don’t have to wait until I die to meet God, for we are old friends.
‘…we are old friends’ – this is beautifully so lindellparlour, well said.
When we choose to reconnect to our divine essence, we reconnect to the beautiful qualities we see reflected in nature.
This blog I love Coleen, beautifully written and shared. God to me was always a Loving God , nothing like the being I often heard mentioned in Church who was judgemental and that we needed to be humble and bow our heads in shame for all our wrongdoings or asking forgiveness of. My search was long but finally I found Universal Medicine and came home to the Loving God I knew inside of me.
With so many variations of God told to us in all manner of ways, I can see how there can be so much personal confusion in the world. To me, God is our greatest most precious relationship and with Him, I know who I am, and who we all are.
I love this Coleen ‘And the best part is I don’t have to wait until I die to develop this relationship with God. And there is not a thunderbolt in sight… I am home.’
Dear Coleen love what you share about god because I have to admit that I too knew that there is a god. When I was a child he was for me the old man with a grey beard and I could sit on his laps if I was lonely or sad. As I grow older god was only energy for me. Since I met Serge Benhayon I too got a deeper understanding of god – you describe it so beautiful: “. . . this understanding of Divinity is that it is based on neither the faith nor the fear associated with the experiences of my youth, but on a precise science which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of the Nature, Time and Space.”
Awesomely delivered truth Coleen. “This face of God I know.”
Your descriptions of other ‘faces’ of God that simply don’t make sense are at once humorous and deeply exposing – for what have we fallen for? What have we, as humanity, allowed to be seen as representative of God, let alone be done in His name?
I have always known God within me – this knowing was so innate, I didn’t even give it (Him) a name when I was young, it – He – was just there… Then what happened that I found myself as an adult struggling to use the name ‘God’ for many a year (until I was 28 when I decisively chose to reclaim His name back from the distortions as aforementioned)… Clearly the distortions and arrogance of what was being delivered in ‘His name’ had got to me. I saw no true representation of God in those who purported to live His name and His way, not anywhere around me.
Today, and yes also with the deepest appreciation for all that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have brought in reawakening even further the true knowing of God that I always held within, the truth of God IS once again accessible for all. No longer buried and hidden, His Love is being lived and has its true representation in and through many – for there is no ‘one’. We are all His Sons and anything that seeks to suppress this fact most surely is a grand bastardisation of the greatness of love and truth from which we all come.
As an adult I have struggled with the words God and religion, more so since I started attending Universal Medicine. I knew instantly on my first attendance to UniMed that this religion and God felt exactly what I knew to be true as a child. It was a feeling I was familiar with. Today I still hold myself back expressing that I am apart of a religious group. It is a fear I hold of people knowing I have a connection with God. It’s kind of like becoming really good friends with the unpopular kid at school, outside of school and ignoring him and pretending I don’t know him at school so I don’t stand out or get picked on. I’ve just become super aware of my relationship with God and how I have been treating him.
A great awareness to have lindellparlour. It is just in this way that we’ve allowed the truth of God to be marginalised, misrepresented and bastardised to the point that many would doubt our intelligence if we say we live our every day with a strong knowing of God.
The thing is, if we continue to bury the truth and hide it for fear of judgement, who are we serving? Not to say that one must shout ‘I am religious and I know God’ from the mountain top so to speak (though it may be called for from time to time!), but there is most definitely a point where – from the awareness that we have of holding back the greatness of His Love that we know – we can no longer hide.
For in the hiding, we hold His Love back from us, and deeply so.
I agree Victoria, when you hold yourself back you can feel the emptiness and the disappointment that you are missing out on something amazing.
It’s just a simple choice then, isn’t it? I remember not wanting to use the word ‘God’ for many of my younger years… caught in reaction to how His name had been bastardised, so much done ‘in the name of God’ (as continues to this day). And then at one point in my later 20’s I just decided that that wouldn’t help matters at all, it was time to truly claim the word ‘God’ back and refer to Him and my innate knowing of Him as such.
Never walked away from it again…
‘Never walked away from it again’ this is beautiful Victoria. By claiming and accepting me, I will be claiming and accepting God, as we are one and the same. It’s time to walk along side God instead of hiding in the shadows.
I feel there is much in what you say here Victoria Carter – in what has been done ‘in his name’. It seems that men have long since realised the force available in labelling something ‘God’s will’ to garner support for their actions and possibly to justify it for themselves. We have indeed bastardised ‘the greatness of love and truth from which we all come’.
So true Richard. How often do we justify our actions, saying that someone else ‘ok’d’ them or even ‘instructed’ them, denying our own responsibility in the process?
Yet to use God’s name as a justification and guiding light for actions of atrocious harm, genocide, sexual and child abuse rings and cover-up, and the rest… is surely as low in the pit of irresponsibility that one can go.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them”.
How very beautiful Coleen and how divine when we choose to connect to our inner wisdom.
I love your comment that we do not have to die to develop a relationship with God ! I found myself having a little chuckle. Thank you for sharing Coleen.
It is pretty amazing knowing that we all share the essence of God within us all and thus are connected by this. The choice is ours to make, and although there are moments when we feel we have lost connection to this truth – it is still always there. We are all Son’s of God and never are we forgotten by our father but always held in the love, stillness, harmony and joy that is God.
Reading this today I could feel so clearly that many times throughout my life I have felt God around and within – always times when I was still – even if situations around me were at times quite a strain/difficult; in those precious moments of stillness a connection so deep was acknowledged with appreciation to my very essence. Nature provides such moments to take in the grandness of the bigger picture if we choose to be open to this gift. Before meeting Serge Benhayon I was so lost in the minute details of life that I’d lost that preciousness and knowing – but now can feel and honour that connection within. A beautiful sharing with us Coleen.
I can feel your lovely connection to the God that you know is Coleen. Inspiring.
Feeling the divinity within us, allows for an appreciation of our connection to “…the rhythms and cycles of Nature, Time and Space.
I always had a connection to God and knew him by a feeling in my heart, but only when I met Serge Benhayon did I allow myself to live according to that knowing, fully honouring what I feel is true and who I feel I am.
That is truly beautiful Hannah,
‘Just as the night sky is there for all to behold, so is the divine equally there for each of us – for we each hold it’s spark within.’
I know its simple but the concept of the sky and the moon and the sun being there for every single person on this planet equally is an amazing refection.
Your comment and this blog makes me want to drive to the desert and watch the stars, smell the night air whilst laying on the bonnet of my vintage car and soaking up the wonders of this life.
Haha sarahraynebaldwin, I want in on that road trip! Seriously though I love the simplicity and immediacy of our connection with God, no massive journeys required for we only have to step out our back door and look up to see the wonder of the night sky, and all we need do is choose to stop and feel for a moment and the divine is with us.
The stillness we can feel in nature is amazing
What nature can reflect to us is just as amazing.
It is beautiful to feel and know divinity as not being associated with anything else except it is within me. It is not from a book, a church, or association with anyone or a group but simply it is within me.
That is the truth Matthew, divinity is within everyone all of the time and all along – not from any church or association and so on. We have had it all inside of us the whole journey.
As it has been said, the kingdom of god is within us.
This is a superb blog and I love the way the various faces of God are described and presented. Yet I have always known that these versions and what they say are not the real thing. I so know God shines out to all via Nature and that it is our choice whether we are willing to receive these ‘love letters’ or not.
Nowadays, thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I have a fuller understanding of myself and my connection with Divinity which I now know is a precise science connecting me with the rhythms and cycles of Nature, Time and Space and an ever-expanding joy to experience.
Oh Liane, what a joy to read! I would love to see this comment as a children’s book as it says it all in one neat tidy package. A package of love that can deliver the joy in full. I love, love it. Did I mention that I love this comment?
Exactly Liane, so all that was needed was to cloud our understanding of what love is by promoting love as emotional, hurtful ‘imposing, vengeful, calculating, exclusive or even blissful’ and hey presto you have successfully reduced the masses. Little wonder ‘God’ then becomes a notion.
Beautiful comment deidremedbury.’There is so many ways that nature, the “stillness of the midnight sky” and the still and steady light shining through some peoples eyes reflect the true reality of God’. I love the way you have expressed this and I agree any one who is with themselves can reflect the light of God through their eyes.
It is so evil how we are sold all these different notions of God. So much so that now many are fearful of Him and sometimes given up on even thinking He exists at all! This to me is pure evil as it is justifying to us in everyday why we should not embrace in full a connection which eternally remains within us.
Thank you Coleen for this beautiful and inspirational blog.
It is such an amazing moment when we do realise that when seeing God in nature or anything outside we simply had been looking in a mirror and saw a reflection of ourselves. Divine beauty.
Beautiful Coleen, it is amazing to observe what we have done with the notion of God and made it something outside of ourselves when it is about connecting deep within. Your experience of God in nature is very similar to mine and it shows that God is communicating his ever presence in every moment, if we are open to feeling and recognising it.
It is a brilliant set up is it not, and one that is needed as the voice of God is so loud within that if we were not to look outside and drown it out it would be simple and obvious.
It is an utter disservice and misleading to paint any face for God at all. We each have a profound and intimate relationship with him. If we forget this fact, it is immensely supportive to be reminded of our unquestionable relationship, that as the famous quote says “the kingdom of God is within us” and that we are all Sons of God. I am forever grateful to Universal Medicine for being such a clear and loud reminder for me and everyone, and for the support in healing the separation and doubt that these many faces of God have created within us all.
My experience also Golnaz. Though I always knew God without question, the healing that has occurred through my involvement with Universal Medicine and its teachings has been tremendous. So very much has been done ‘in God’s name’ that is in no way godly in any way, shape or form, that the scars of this had still rested on my heart. There may yet be more to remove, but most surely today, the truth of God is confirmed within like it has not been for many a year, and in this, I know the greatest Joy – consistently so – in my every day… How could one not be Joyful when one celebrates and knows Him so?
I was just pondering reading this on the images I used to have of what God must look like. For most of my childhood it was my local priest. Now rediscovering what God looks and feels like is a bit of an adventure ~ as I am constantly discarding old pictures and ideals of what I thought this was, and allowing myself to feel more what God truly means for me. The warmth and glow of the Sun, to me is the epitome of God. Each ray is like a joyful arm coming out to embrace us, and remind us we are never alone. Even as the sun shines through the Moon, we are reminded that the sun is always there, as is God, whether we can see or not.
I used to call what I felt in nature ‘the sound of silence’ – what I now know through Universal Medicine to be a deep presence and stillness. This, and what you share here Coleen, confirms what we all know and feel – that we all have a connection to God, the Divine, our Soul – naturally so, it just isn’t talked about – until Universal Medicine came along.
It is so lovely to accept God and Science as being one
I have also felt expansiveness, spaciousness, absolute beauty and stillness in nature and for many years I would have said that gazing at the stars in the sky or watching the ocean, was the closest I could get to God. I have always recognised divinity in nature, but it has only been in the last 5 years really that I have started to understand and feel that the divinity, harmony and balance that I have observed, and been inspired by, in nature is also within me, thanks to the inspiration of Serge Benhayon.
When I came to your blog Coleen, just reading the headline, “the many faces of God”, became the access to what you have written before reading it, through the inspiration that I understood the headline like everyone’s face, is a face of God. Very beautiful. Thank you.
Coleen your sense of god being in everything and being everywhere is simply Divine in its expression. How can we not know god in everything we do as god is so innately around and within us. It is amazing to be open to feeling and seeing and experiencing the absolute beauty in this world and how remarkable to know the deeper teachings at play with Universal Medicine to truly learn how to appreciate its beauty in full 🙂
‘The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.’ This is absolutely beautiful Coleen.
I agree Diana1975, those qualities are not just around us in nature but inside us too. They are always there it just comes down to whether we choose to live in line with them or not..
True Fiona, it always comes down to the choices we make…
We all know God within and somewhere inside is a little bell ringing that says religions and ideals that state anything less then all of us being equally the Son of God no matter our pathways and choices is simply not right.
There are so many interpretation or re-interpretations of God and the different faces. But if we where to just become still connect to our inner self through our stillness, we would all feel the connection to God that lies within us. God is everything, everywhere and within us.
The different faces of God you expose here Coleen are very contrasting, no wonder I was confused earlier in my life when I see them all listed here. Now, knowing the divinity of God is felt within me makes such sense and is a development in progress. This teaching from the wisdom of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine can be felt to be Truth.
Sometimes I feel it would be great if God,from to time would throw the odd lightning bolt or two and cut down people who cause so much misery for others, but in truth God is pure love and does not judge and it’s only man that would make up such a thing or do it themselves if they were able to wield such power.
A very beautiful blog thank you Colleen.
What you have expressed really resonates with me, developing an ongoing relationship with ourselves, with God, here and now is divine indeed.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them”.
I love this Coleen. God is most definitely Love and is within us all. And not a kumbaya in sight!
Feeling God in nature is something I love to see and feel when I go walking, but also in the cycles of time and space as you call out. “The divinity of God is within”, yes it sure is.
Such a great blog Colleen, thank you. It’s so true the ’many faces of god’ I hadn’t thought about it like this. I can feel how I became wishy washy about my connection with god when I listened to what I was being told. Very similar to you I found a connection with god in nature, but still had a little way to go to connect this back to my everyday living. I love what you share “Understanding Divinity based… on a precise science which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of the Nature, Time and Space.”
With eternal appreciation for the wisdom and clarity offered by Serge Benhayon, that I now know god to be in my every breath and continually have the choice to deepen this.
Colleen, I have found that your expression about God has so beautifully resonated with me and so many as I read it again. The comments too have built on the expansion and release that occurs when a truth has been named. It is a homecoming like no other. Thank you for the opportunity to appreciate that we carry our true home within and it is also reflected all around us. Absolutely Divine!
Coleen, this statement is stunning – ‘And yet I observe within myself and within so very many of my fellow human beings, sincere longing for a sense of a Divinity to which we can connect, feel whole and derive a meaning or purpose for our lives… and not have to wait until we die to do so.’ – and one that I can very much relate to. I have no idea how many times during my life I felt there’s got to be more to it than the life I was living, and yes, felt a deep and sincere longing.
I wholeheartedly agree Eva – a beautiful statement that is my experience also.
‘And the best part is I don’t have to wait until I die to develop this relationship with God’, thank you Coleen for this reminder and for this great blog.
The truth about God is down here in plain English, It’s utterly ridiculous how the one God that can truly unite all of mankind with love is so misunderstood and bastardised that it has the total opposite effect.
Well said Kevin.
Coleen, it is so gorgeous to read your connection with the God you knew to be true in nature’s wonder. HE has always been here, ready and willing to connect and show us the way – the question is, how open are we to receiving the innate love and wisdom that we too share with Him?
That’s beautiful 🙂 I agree the way God is portrayed in so many religions simply doesn’t make sense.
Exactly! We are so, so, SO much more than what we have accepted ourselves to be.
Colleen, thank you for the reminder that “Divinity . . is based . . on a precise science, which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of Nature, Time and Space”. This captures the essence of Divinity and of God as being within us but also within the Universe – As Above So Below.
Thank you for the confirmation, Anne. I have to say I often wonder how we ended up with the current science we have, which has nothing to do with these glorious natural rhythms and cycles of which are a part. That science has more of a ‘nose to the grindstone’ feel to it. Will we be writing about this science incredulously in the near future in the same way that we now share so incredulously about false concepts of God? I have a sense that we well may as we connect more and more with our true Science of relationship with each other, with God and with all that is.
Coleen I share this appreciation with you: “With a thousand thanks, and then some, to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine” for clearing up the mixed-up mess that the world and religions have made of God!
I couldn’t agree more Dianne T – ‘thousand thanks’ is a very typical Norwegian way to express deep appreciation, and I couldn’t find anyone more worthy of these words than Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Beautifully expressed Dianne – truth is simple as Colleen has described in the sentence you highlighted. There are so many simple phrases in this blog that is refreshing and restorative.
We could be given no greater gift, than the living, breathing example of true religion – living in communion and union with God in one’s every way – that Serge Benhayon is. Hear, hear Dianne.
Coleen that was so lovely to read and the knowing that our relationship with God is also a Science and a great wonder when we choose to connect to ourselves and God. Say yes to God again because it’s time to be home again.
Thank you Coleen this is a blog full of beauty and wonder. I especially love this line, “After observing nature for several decades, I began to feel some of nature’s qualities within me: the open hearted feeling, the silence and, at times, the stillness.” Gorgeous to feel how after searching everywhere and questioning every meaning of God you came to realise God is inside of you, everyone and everything. Interesting how we are educated to look for all the answers outside ourselves, yet when we stop, connect to our inner stillness and joy we discover the answers are all within.
Beautifully said and a powerful point made Caroline regarding how we are ‘educated’.
The level to which we have distorted and seek to remove ourselves from all that is so naturally inside of us is gobsmackingly enormous. How is it that the innate sense of connection and wonder most of us hold as young children becomes so lost?
Why are we not offered a true education that supports us to remain in touch with all that we innately know and feel, as we grow and become adults in our societies?
There is much work to be done, by us all, in restoring what we know is true and living it by example, that our children need not be so forcefully told to shut down all that they know and effectively ‘give up’ on God…
Now this is quite a question…what is God? Many have spent hours debating, discussing, arguing and chatting about this very question over the ages. Serge Benhayon was the first person who presented this in a way that I could actually understand. I knew it was true not because I knew it in my mind, but because I could feel it within my heart.
Ain’t that the truth Vicky. Our knowing of God IS simple, it’s there in our hearts… I’ve felt this my whole life.
The merest touch of complexity removes us from this simplicity and the ease with which we can all know God – thereby exposing many, many falsities we’ve bought and permitted as humanity in regards to God. Our hearts are the litmus test for what is true and what is not, simple.
Coleen your exploring of the many faces of god leaves me to come to the same conclusion as you, that god is within each of us, in the rhythm of nature, time, and space. But your blog also bears the question of why god is so mis-represented in this world? Could it be that we are challenged to know god from feeling deep within us rather than what we see and hear.
Yes Vanessa, the more I am present with myself and in my body, the more I am aware and open to nature. Most of my life I ignored nature, thinking that keeping myself busy was more important. I made the excuse that I never had time to not even go for a walk. Thank goodness I have woken up again to our beautiful surroundings in nature and all that it offers.
I love this Coleen. I too loved to be out in nature as a child. I was fortunate to live on a farm and simply being outdoors I was connected to God. I didn’t understand at the time that it was God that I was feeling and connecting to; I have only come to realise this since attending Universal Medicine. I also went to Sunday school and no matter how many times I attended, I never felt the same quality that I felt while I was outdoors on the farm.
A line of yours that caught my eye Coleen was…..”The “God of Love” sounded promising… but the acoustic guitars and strains of ‘Kumbaya’ were not for me…..”
This reminds me of the almost desperate lengths that the church went to in the 1960s to try to prop up the dwindling numbers of churchgoers and reverse the retreat from religion after the war. Trendy vicars strumming acoustic guitars tried to capitalise upon the then popular folk music movement, but despite their best efforts, they were unable to shake off the rather musty smell of institutionalised religion. Even the word “God” became so tainted that people seemed almost too embarrassed to use it.
How totally refreshing then, that thanks to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon, we can now talk about God again in a completely relaxed way, without a hint of ‘churchy mustiness’ or any of that baggage that used to be attached to so-called religion.
It’s true, Jonathan, that people became embarrassed using the word “God”. I felt that too, as if to say it was to bring down people’s judgement upon ourselves as being flaky, blind followers who can’t think for themselves, aren’t ‘scientific’, etc etc. Thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for restoring the place of God in normal proper conversation about us and our purpose, and everything really….
Absolutely. We all deserve to know God as he is an essential part of who we are.
Jonathan, I know the picture you speak of here, and you describe it so aptly ‘the musty smell of institutionalised religions and the truth many knew then and now is that much of what was and is represented by those institutionalised religions is not true, and all the corruption of those institutions further tainted religion and God for many, so they just gave up. I know I was one of those, and it’s only been since finding Universal Medicine that I’ve come to understand that religion actually means to reconnect, so effectively it’s about returning / reconnecting to who we truly are, and a long way from how I and most of us have known it, and that God is someone I can connect to without it being a big deal or needing an intermediary – it’s such a relief to let go those old ideas and great to be able to say yes I feel God and that I am religious. This is a huge turnaround for me.
Love it Jonathan! I can recall the caftan clad clergy strumming guitars and hyping up the youth groups. It was all so emotional and the lows descended soon after the hype had faded. Innately I knew there was more, much more than was presented in the musty surrounds of institutional church where everyday the contradictions grew. Serge Benhayon has simply and profoundly presented the nature of God which of course resonates because the strumming is occurring inside us not on acoustic guitars!
Ah, but when we know God within, we can play ANY musical instrument and there is no schmaltz or sick-bag inducement in sight 😉 Quite a different experience, in my experience!
Bring on more truly sacred music, that can encompass any genre when truly connected with the light of the Soul. Great fun.. (and no ‘kumbaya’s’ in sight)
Yes Jonathan, I love that too, how with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I have now a completely different relationship with God. I used to cringe at those words (religion and God) and I too went through some of those ‘kumbaya’ moments too, which if anything made it worse – it just shows that if the underlying feeling and energy always comes through no matter how it’s dressed up. Now I have reclaimed my own personal relationship with God and it’s one that I feel and as part of my everyday life. I feel God when I look at the sky and marvel at the clouds or when I hear birds sing, it’s such a change from how I used to feel, that cloying, overbearingness of religion and God is now gone, and that’s something to hugely celebrate. So coming across your comment today has been a great confirmation thank you.
Woo hoo – yes it is: love your expression, Ariana.
Coleen, beautiful blog. And the best bit we get to feel God in us, and we can do it now, and not wait to die – I love that you’ve highlighted that.
I often feel that God, if He had preferences, would surely prefer to have us connect all of the time…….not just when we pass on. I feel sure he loves it when we connect with Him….just as we love it when we connect with Him and also, when we connect with Nature and with other people, too. If we have that quality of being more alive and more in Love in connection, would not God experience something similar, also? I feel sure He would note our connection and our disconnection – after all, His acknowledged Son, Jesus, expressed that God was aware of even the fall of a sparrow….how cool is that? To be that aware…..wow!
Yes coleen24, to connect anytime and always to God, if we ever wanted to give a gift to God (and ourselves) that would be it, as in that connection we are connected to us and expressing from the divinity we are.
I too monicag2 love that Coleen has highlighted here in this blog that we don’t have to wait until we die to know God. This is so not true and nothing but a belief we have taken on from outside of us. There is always an opportunity to connect to God in every moment; I have to keep reminding myself that in the beautiful moments of connection especially when with another, I am also feeling God too.
Awesome addition Monica! I can feel the immense space inside me when connecting to the truth that we have God inside us now! I’m speechless!
Great to expose this monicag2. Yes, no more ‘waiting for God’.
Yes Ariana, it is, captured in 3 words. I can feel the spaciousness as I hear it.
The body is key for connecting to our divinity you are so right Coleen.
“Being held and embraced by the absolute silence and stillness of a midnight sky, I felt was “God”, this is beautiful a true connection to nature and God, it as simple as this to feel the connection of God.
Gorgeous Gabriele – thank you. A reminder to keep for us all.
“And all of this can be done in a human body because my body is also all of those qualities I have felt were God. This face of God I know”…Brilliant Coleen. The mystery of God has been cleared for me since Universal Medicine, I know now that God is not a vengeful character with a long white beard sitting on a throne waiting to cast punishment on me when I stand at the gates of heaven. God is Love and I not only reside in the body of God, I am a spark of God too which makes me divine, and although I am not yet living as a fully claimed Son of God, I know who I am, and that for me is glorious confirmation and something that I can work on daily as God is no longer a mystery.
I love your playful way of describing who and what God is. All these descriptions of what he is are so ridiculous to me and you’ve presented exactly why. God is in everything and like you, the only thing that can really surprise and astonish me is nature- to really connect to that we as human beings are carrying the same amazingness is grand and super important to reconnect to who we really are.
I was brought up with a God that I had to confess my sins to every week and then have to kneel down in church and pray for ages to repent the sins. I would say the same sins, which I did not even do, week in week out. When I think back on it it was a comedy, no wonder it made no sense to me at the time and I had no trust in the Catholic Church. I left the church as soon as I could and after this experience I did not really think much about God again untilI I came to Universal Medicine and heard Serge Benhayon present on God and religion and it made sense. Since then I have become deeply religious and am developing a true relationship with God
Hi marylouisemyers, I was brought up on the idea of sins also. Recently when researching the origins of the word ‘sin’ I found that it can be traced back to mean ‘separation’ I found this very interesting so to sin is to separate from self. The church had a whole other slant on the word as they are so caught up in right and wrong.
Throughout history there has definitely been many bastardised faces of God as well as representations / interpretations that really are pure evil as they harm and separate. When it can be so simple to live connected as a true son of God in harmony with the all.
Of most of the 7 billion people on this planet, I would say most believe that there is a higher being or God. I wonder how it became to be so accepted that there are different Gods. Why have we never endorsed a one God as a collective race?
Great question Jinya, what purpose does it serve to believe in many Gods? There is no greater separation than to believe in a different God and nothing can start a war faster than differing religious beliefs. For those that feed off the separation of the masses they do not want us to know we are all the same and regardless of the many categories we like to label ourselves as we are the one human race.
Perhaps we have never endorsed / accepted the reality of a one God, in part, because we have not had 7 billion people accessing the truth of the Ageless Wisdom, and the Science of Divinity that is a significant part of those teachings, Jinya? And there is always the fact of vested interests and political motivations in institutionalised religions….
Isn’ t it interesting how the idea of possession, is connected to God, who certainly never claims any possession at all, because in love there is no possession?
Accepting that Nature reflects back to us all that we are in its “qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy” is such a different way of perceiving it from being “red in tooth and claw”” that is a more conventional view and encourages us to separate ourselves from it. What you have expressed Coleen, brings a wider, deeper more all encompassing understanding of ourselves and our purpose in being an integral part of the whole universe.
Yes – that Nature “red in tooth and claw” is a belief I always found quite extraordinary, too, Joan. It seems to restrict itself to the apparently ruthless behaviours of certain predatory, carnivorous animals and does not take account of the multiple, multiple factors, 3 dimensional and beyond, that are working together in the situation where one animal needs the meat ( never the life ) of another animal.
Its been my experience that when I really look after the body I live in, I can connect to those feelings of stillness, harmony and space which to me are my connection to God.
Such a great reminder of how precious our bodies are thank you Debra. The preciousness of God.
Coleen I love how you connect science to god. There are approximately 100 known elements, which make up everything in our world. Our bodies are mainly carbon, hydrogen and oxygen; the same for plants and air is carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. It makes absolute sense that we feel connected to nature, because by our very atoms, we are.
True this, so it makes sense that we’re able to feel much more than we can think we can.
Love your explanation Debra Douglas, this makes a lot of sense.
Awesome blog Coleen. I remember when I was little people trying to put the ‘fear of God’ into me so that I would be ‘good’ and God would be happy with me when I died – how great that I always had this feeling that really he was quite wonderful and wouldn’t want to ever hurt me – and how great that I can get to know God before I die because we are all connected by his Love not by fear.
Connected by love not fear, gorgeous and profound Shelley. How many of us stay together out of fear; fear of being lonely, fear of picking the wrong God, fear of dying alone and so on and so on. It is possible to be connected by love, even with those you have never met, simply by being in connection with self first you are connected with all others, innately knowing we are all the same and hence there can be no separation, no fear, no hate and no war.
Powerful Caroline to feel that we can never really be separate and yet so much imposition occurs in relationships because we are not connected to this truth. Imagine what would happen to domestic violence stats of all descriptions for example, if it was understood that we are all expressions of God choosing to allow that expression or not. On our off moments/days we could honestly say – ‘I’m not expressing from my connection with God, I need support’. Imagine that!
I completely agree, Caroline: fear is no foundation for a life and, in awareness, I feel none of us would consciously choose this. It is absolutely and divinely amazing how that connection with self brings love to everyone and everything we do; Divinity in motion- glorious.
So true Caroline, I went to a family members funeral many years ago, and above the coffin was a banner that said “Fear God”. I did not think this was appropriate or true. It must be their way to keep people going to their church just in case whatever they feared could be true. With a true connection with God you know whats true and don’t need anyone or anything, as its all within us.
Colleen – “The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.” says it all – and yes – thankyou Serge Benhayon for the beautiful confirmation that finally made sense and was not asking me to partake in a random belief.
So beautifully expressed Stephen – self interest has led us all astray for so long and hence we find ourselves in the 21st Century to be living a way of life that does not honour either the body or our innate inner wisdom. I am sure many have been puzzled throughout the ages as to how God can belong to one religion for their own preserve when we know deep within that God is available to us all at any time and the only limiting factor is our willingness to allow God into our lives.
When that moment eventually arrives Jinya, and I say when and not if, It will surely put an end to all the suffering, strife and waste of life that is currently daily life on the planet as we know it.
Why have we accepted “the many faces of God” when we know there is only one? Could it be as it allows a lack of self responsibility, a great escape, excuse and an allowing to not be accountable for living our truth, a truth we all know and we can all live?
Well called gylrae. We have allowed these distortions that are so off the scale… all purporting to represent Him. To truly take responsibility for the state of things is a step we need to take, and yet it does not ‘stop’ there… for the true responsibility rests in our living in communion with Him, in our lived way in every aspect of our lives. The ‘true face of God’ will only be known via each and every one of us, once again aligning to His great love and saying ‘yes’ to it being the fuel that fires our way.
It’s hugely reassuring Coleen, to know that God isn’t that old curmudgeon who scared the living daylights out of generations of children, with his short fuse and thunderbolt-hurling habits. I’m sure that it’s this image that drove so many people away from institutionalised ‘religion’. Your description…..”Night-time solitude laying on a beach or in the desert with my arms open to the stars and the Universe, breathing so gently and still, could only be “God”.”…………resonates with me, as I remember as a youth, gazing with absolute awe, at the night sky and pondering, (while shivering), what might lay ‘out there’ and what it all meant, and how nobody seemed to be able to explain that feeling, until the ‘weakness of the flesh’ drove me back indoors and straight into the warm embrace of a steaming beverage. Growing up in a seaside town, I have this image of hundreds of people in deck- chairs, all staring intently out to sea towards the horizon, hour upon hour, and it seems to me to represent our searching for something which is always outside ourselves. When you say……”The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.”……this seems to make so much sense now, and quite simply, I, and many others have just been looking in the wrong direction.
I agree, Jonathan: the looking outward, and only looking outward, without engaging any other sense, like our feeling sense, is a significant step away from ourselves: and yet our eyes are designed to look out outwards…..or, at least, to receive the imagery that is coming towards us. Evidently, we need more than the eyes can see to connect with our natural selves. I had a wry smile at the possibility of putting a one way sign pointing TOWARDS the people sitting on the beach, rather than have them all looking towards the horizon.
I like how you used quotation marks for institutionalised ‘religion’ – religion is a word that has been used to describe many things which from the way I see it have nothing to do with God or Divinity at all! And through it’s mis-use many now baulk at that word (as I did too for some time) when truly religion can be a very natural and beautiful part of our life.
I was also confused growing up with the conflicting things being presented as truth, which did not feel right. In the end I had turned my back on religion and enjoined the godless world with open arms. Then I met Serge Benhayon and found my religion… that was always within me.
I agree Gabriele, it has always seemed strange to me how some of our fellow brothers on this earth can openly declare all sorts of horrible things about other people. These declarations that I have heard over many years are said with a straight face – how can this possibly even be seen as a right or a possibility when I know from the depth of my being that God is Love and never vengeful.
Growing up, all the different interpretations of God never made sense…there was always something that just didn’t feel true about each one and so I rebelled against the many faces of God that were presented to me. However what I did not walk away from was a deep knowing that there was something more, something bigger at play that could be felt and that was known. I couldn’t describe it in words, but I just knew that there was something more than my eyes could see. I now know that what I was feeling was God in the all…in you, me, the animals, nature…everything. God is in everything and everywhere.
Hi Marika, I feel that I too had a knowing deep down within me of God being in everything, everywhere. I never had an actual fear of God, was not brought up in the catholic church thank goodness, but God was somewhere, up there, keeping a loving eye on all of us. I don’t remember a sense of judgment. I definitely could feel God in all the beautiful natural places, was upset by the things that people do that desecrate and despoil those natural places. For me the rainforest was paramount in where I really could feel what I would now say was God. It was a stillness, holding sort of feeling, a holiness. But it took until I met Serge Benhayon that I came to really know that God actually was inside me too, and that I am a Son of God.
That ‘G’ word…don’t say that ‘G’ word…so wayward have we strayed from the true meaning of God to the many different interpretations that we find it hard to even express the word with others for fear of what they may think we are aligning to. Any yet God and godliness is what connects us all.
It’s only recently that I have been able to comfortably use the word God. I would avoid saying it and even typing it. I agree Marika that it has been aligned with fanatics and people who seem detached from the reality of life. One thing I can’t deny though it that I have always felt the truth of God but was not able to express it in the way felt right to me. I was taught what you describe as the many faces of God, and none of them felt right.
It’s no wonder we struggle at times with the use of the word God, because it’s often been so bastardised and / or misinterpreted or simply does not match up to what we know deeply to be truth. I say thank God for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon for reflecting the true qualities and the true nature of God and the natural connection we all have to God within.
Marika, this is so true – mankind has lost the true meaning of God to the extent that they are unable to trust that God is what connects us all. Until I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine’s teachings I was just as lost myself.
So true Marika and Debra. I had found it so difficult to say the word ‘God’ until recently. I too was so afraid of what others would think of me in case they would put me in the same box as institutionalised religion. The more I say the the word ‘God’ the easier it is getting. I am no longer holding back this truth that God is within me, every one and in every thing.
Although this is funny, it shows the extent of how hurt we have been by the false ways that God has been presented by religion. This has lead us to react and doubt our natural knowing of God. The G word has been associated with so many things that we naturally know to be the opposite of what we know to be true – vengeance, judgment! We have the choice to see that as re-interpretaion by mankind and stay steady with what we know in our hearts.
Colleen, I loved reading about all the different experiences and interpretations of God which just confirms how many different interpretations and re-interpretations there are about this topic. None of them ever resonates with me. However the God that is within me and all equally, including nature resonates deeply within…God is everywhere.
I agree Kristy, I feel the same thing, and the presentations of Serge Benhayon on religion as a way of living – developing a relationship between yourself and God made so much more sense.
Kristy this was my experience also. It was very confusing growing up knowing God to be one thing but being sold as another. The seed that was sown was one of fear, because what if what they were telling me might turn out to be true? So this was something that I took on as a child. As I grew what was being said simply didn’t make sense and I walked away from it but it wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon that I was able to finally, and with an absoluteness, put it all back into perspective trusting my inner wisdom and knowing.
Hello Coleen and I love this, thank you. I had divided ‘God’ up similarly, the ‘bookkeeper, vengeful etc’. I love how you linked in nature because it always made sense to me, more so when I was young. I always wanted to be outside playing and I always felt free outside. This takes it all in, “The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.” I always saw nature just as nature but never truly appreciated those feeling within me, thank you again Coleen.
Yes, I always loved being outside in nature, feeling free there, now I understand and appreciate this, ‘The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.’
I love your beautiful and humorous take on all the Faces of God, that are banded around, by all different Religions and movements. It has been exactly the same for me too; like you, only when hearing Serge Benhayon speak or reading his books, I could totally connect to the way he has and is describing God. It feel like having come home to the truth, finally.
Here here Esther – a huge thanks to Serge Benhayon for presenting the truth of God and the immense Love that we are from and very much equal to. There is no punishment or persecution, just accountability in the cycles and rhythms of the Universe, to which God is under this order too! Universal Medicine is the first religion that presents the Fact that we are totally equal to God.
Same here Kristy, I was always sure of God being there, but could not connect to him being as he was portrayed by the Catholic Church. Especially when it was presented that he would let babies who die go straight to hell. Everything inside of me clearly knew that “My God is not like that.” But the way Serge Benhayon talks about God is just so beautiful to listen to, makes complete sense to me and I can totally connect to that.
A great sharing Coleen, thank you. I grew up in a home that was not religious and we never ever talked about God, but I still always had an understanding that God either agrees with us (rewards us) or he disagrees (some sort of punishment to be expected) – I ask myself where did I get that from? The collective consciousness runs very deep even when you have been nowhere near the mainstream religions. At the same time interestingly enough I knew that God just is, as if there were different Gods.
I love the simple everyday loveliness of connecting with and being aware of God, from within this simplicity, being able to share the joy and wonder of the interconnectedness of all things.
This article really does expose and ask questions in all the right places concerning the society’s perception of God. I have become intimately connected and aware of these qualities in my life “…Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.” I feel them within me every day, I feel the warmest expansive glow from right within my chest, I certainly feel as though I am home and this is a connection which I cherish and nurture. There was a time when I sat waited for the meaning of harmony and joy to come to me, but I was sat waiting for my head to give me answers; reconnecting with my body, my heart, I am developing a natural wisdom that is divine and nurtures a true relationship with God.
The God that i was introduced to in childhood was as if in a fairy tale. I wanted to believe in something but couldn’t believe in that. Then I found God in the nature around me and would name that as my religion when asked. Now I experience a connection with God that is natural, deep within, and can say that The Way of the Livingness is my religion.
From growing up with fear and confusion around God to your understanding of Divinity through rhythms and cycles, is such a change. I also can say that my relationship with God has completely blossomed since I met Serge Benhayon and heard him present the Ageless Wisdom – it encompasses every aspect of life, love, science, religion and philosophy, and life can never be as it was before, once these start to be explored.
I can relate to what you say here rosannabianchini. My relationship with God is also blossoming and changing from the fear based one I had as a child, to one where I feel a loving connection to myself and so therefore to God. And I am discovering it does encompass every aspect of life.
I laughed when I started reading your blog Coleen as I was a bit confused. The other day I did find “God the accountant”. I found an accountant who truly is divine and working with her was such pleasure. I then stopped reading your blog to ponder on the many faces of God in my life. God is everywhere and has so many faces – the accountant, my housemate, my child, the cleaner, my colleagues, the web developer….
God’s true face is everywhere. It is in a smile, a breeze in a tree, a flock of geese flying in formation. It is in kindness and a warm hug. It is in a delicious meal cooked and shared in loving company. It is everywhere and yet as humans we create wars to defend our versions of it, we call our innocent children sinners and our brothers and sisters heathens. The greatest relationship we could have in life is with God, but it has been turned upside down.
I love your writing, Coleen!
It seems that the human race likes complications. Creating so many Gods and faces just to cover what is there plain and simple – Love and equality.
I agree with your “With a thousand thanks, and then some, to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.” for uncovering those lies, removing the masks and bringing truth about God, religion and all of us.
It would be probably be too amazing to just keep it simple 😉
This morning I was listening to an episode of the ABC radio program the Religion and Ethics Report, in which the proposal to have the option ‘No religion’ moved to the top of the answers to the question regarding religion on the 2016 Australian Census form was discussed. I was particularly interested to hear the views of the president of a group promoting atheism, who felt it was very important this option be given top bill as it would more accurately capture the degree to which Australians don’t believe in a “supernatural being”. It felt odd to hear the richness of what I experience to be religion and God to be so categorised; it felt too as if there was a writing off of anyone who did perhaps give credence to anything beyond the immediately tangible and to ultimately prove religion is a wash-up. How interesting to be so opposed to something so divine, yet I guess for many this is not their experience of life. The devastation wreaked by institutionalised religion doesn’t help.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.” Yes Coleen this is so true and something I must admit I forget, yet if I choose to reconnect there it is, everything I need, already inside.
What a real sharing of your journey with God and the many portrayed pictures until finding Universal Medicine reflecting to us who we really are, all sons of God equally, our oneness and our essence of pure love and all we know and are inside. The reality of God is so simple and beautiful and all knowing and part of us all, and this is an amazing realisation and so confirming and supportive and the only way to truly live from.
That’s a wonderful realisation, that nature is simply holding a mirror to our own grandness. Claiming that we can appreciate nature, God and ourselves equally.
It is a crime, perpetrated by institutionalised religions with a vested interest in maintaining a certain status quo and centralising power into the hands of a carefully chosen few. God is for everyone, in everyone and is everyone.
Spot on Ariana, all and any arguments about God are just a delay.
Love how you express this Liane, in our separation we lose sight of how integral we are to the bigger picture and by choosing to walk away we lose our connection to not just ourselves but God. We search in vain until we choose to reconnect and recognise our divinity.
Yes God is ceaseless in his presence and communication, lovingly waiting for us to reconnect and live from our essence. It is so beautiful to expand my awareness of this and let go of the old ideals and beliefs that kept me separate.
I can totally relate to what you have expressed here, rules and control was one part of what I was reflected God to be. However the truth is very far from what some present it to be, and it has been a learning for me to see everything with fresh eyes and not ones that carry any hurts or past judgement of others but instead just focus on what is actually felt in my body.
This is a great blog Coleen, because I remember the same thoughts in my head… especially God the bookkeeper who would judge my actions and either admit me to heaven, or send me to hell. Ouch!
It reminds me of the ancient way of understanding the world – the pantheon of Gods worshipped by the Greeks, the Romans or the Hindus, each one representing a different aspect of divinity.
But I feel the unity in me, the simplicity, and most of all the lack of judgement – just a simple understanding of I am that I am, evolving back to where I came from like we all are, at the speed that I choose (be that good or bad).
If God was not the pure love that he is, imagine the frustration he would face at the absurdity of all the wrong perceptions we have of him and all the atrocities carried out in his name. I certainly would not blame him if he let loose with the odd lightning bolt or fire ball.
We can develop our relationship with God any time we choose, we just have to reconnect to our bodies, and to the love we were all born with…and yes we do not have to wait until we die to discover God.
This blog has touched me deeply Coleen. As a child I was confused, unaided by atheist parents who walked away from God disgusted by the many faces of him they had been presented with. I recalled the vengeful Old Testament dude, wondering who would want to be religious with a guy who would turn on “his own” with such vindictive glee.
The New Age dude didn’t make sense either… all of the niceness laced with patchouli…no thank you.
You descriptions of nature and rhythm, space and time, I can feel so strongly within, and your appreciation of Serge Benhayon, the restorer of truth I can echo. This man has allowed the reclamation of the truth we all know when liberated from the lies.
Thank you Dr Rachel Mascord for confirming your appreciation of Serge Benhayon as the restorer of Truth. My whole life was spent searching for Truth and nothing cut it for me as everything out there always felt like something was missing. I tried as soon as it was safe to get away from my hindu religion which left me questioning everything as nothing made sense. I tried Buddhism, Jainism, Jehovahs Witness, Christianity, Catholic Church, Monastery, Sikhism and then deep deep into the spiritual new age lifestyle that guaranteed airy fairy talk that left me empty every single day for around 25 years.
In 2005 I met Serge Benhayon – a man who clearly knows what True Truth is and ten years later I claim that Truth and Live that Truth to the best of my ability. The confirmation is there in my body and this cannot be ignored or denied. I am not exhausted and I do not have the drive in me to multi task, talk incessantly or swear in every sentence. These are just a minor few things that have been life changing to say the least.
The Way of the Livingness is the religion that has allowed me to live a self connecting life and this is what true religion is in the real sense.
Universal Medicine are world leaders in what they are offering to all of us equally at a time when humanity is not getting the answers they really need. They will go down in history as will Serge Benhayon as the “restorer of Truth”. Fact.
That’s so beautiful Rachel – I love the other faces of God you so aptly describe, and I echo your appreciation of Serge Benhayon – the restorer of truth – as he is, absolutely and totally. No question about that.
Hello Dr Rachel Mascord and I can relate to being a confused child. I knew something was a miss but I could directly put my finger on it. By the time I was an adult the confusion was replaced by frustration and anger as the more I found out about life the more confused I become. Nature was a place for me to breath, a pit stop in amongst the craziness of life. Then enter Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to support the unwind of the confusion that had laid there. This blog Coleen has also supported to unwind another part, thank you.
‘The New Age dude didn’t make sense either… all of the niceness laced with patchouli…no thank you.’ Hahah this made me laugh Rachel, funny and true what you have expressed here. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has certainly cleared all my confusion and liberated me from the lies.
We are the great inventors, building edifices to a God that exists only in our imaginations. The lie exposes itself in the inconsistencies – a God for every persona in effect.
Agree Rachel – and how complicated does that make the world, full of division, interpretations and misunderstandings. The fact that God is in all of us, and can easily be felt is a unifying force showing we all come from the same source and are ultimately on the same journey home.
I agree Rachel, the inconsistencies of the many faces of God is the absolute giveaway that we have invented our own re-interpretations. A very convenient way to avoid being and living the grace and truth of our divinity.
Yes Marika and Rachel, we have reinterpreted and bastardised god to suit ourselves and to justify our way of life. This false interpretation of god has caused great misery in humanity and myself personally. The only true joy I experience is when I take the steps to move closer to god, then I feel the warmth of god within me.
I too have been discovering that the very same qualities that I associate with God like truth, love, joy, harmony and stillness are actually all within me. I am, by my very nature that, and the only difference between God and I is that God is in the full expression of those qualities and I am learning to express them in full. This has broken down a lot of the false perception about God that I have carried for a long time. It is very freeing and I have Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to thank for showing me the truth about God.
This is beautiful to read Elizabeth, ‘ I am, by my very nature that, and the only difference between God and I is that God is in the full expression of those qualities and I am learning to express them in full.’ I love the simplicity with how you write. Growing up I thought God was someone outside of me, it is lovely to read Coleen’s blog and your comment Elizabeth as it really helps me understand God and my relationship to God in a very simple way.
I agree Elizabeth, my association with God and all my knowing of his qualities has been expanded upon and deepened thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. The joy of having this knowing confirmed by the Ageless Wisdom and then brought home to me and all of humanity in equal measure is life changing. I too am beginning to feel and recognise those qualities of God within me. This is not some intellectual idea but an actual bodily experience of the immensely still, powerful, delicate, graceful beings we actually are, a discovery that can be made when we choose to live our lives with true integrity, care and tenderness.
Beautifully said Elizabeth, I can so see and feel that we all have those qualities of God, like truth, love, joy, harmony and stillness within each of us, we are all just at a different level of development of those qualities. This brings our true responsibility to the fore, to be all of who we are, discarding who we are not.
Beautiful Elizabeth. Coleen’s blog and Elizabeth’s comment has brought me a deeper understanding of God. I have felt God through stillness but I had never really associated with feeling God through expressing or hearing truth or when I have felt joy or harmony within my body. This makes so much sense as when I have expressed truth or felt joy my whole body comes alive.
‘I too have been discovering that the very same qualities that I associate with God like truth, love, joy, harmony and stillness are actually all within me. I am, by my very nature that, and the only difference between God and I is that God is in the full expression of those qualities and I am learning to express them in full.’ This is so beautifully expressed Elizabeth, and confirms where I am currently.
Hmmm…yes, Eleanor: it’s a bit rough when there are so many yeuk connotations and associations around the word and image,”God,” that when we get to the real thing – to God – we can’t bear to use the word anymore. Time to re imprint that beautiful word….God.
I agree, Lucindag: that idea that we have to be alone to communicate with God is a persistent one and a strange one. I love how you see God in the loving details of life: this way of relating to God is very real for me, too. After all, if God is all knowing and all powerful and omnipresent, why would He not be there with you, always expressing and communicating, as many have shared in these comments?
God would never show himself to us as grander or greater than who we are – for how can we claim our own equal divinity if we hold him as something untouchable? Grand and great God is, as equally are we. God confirms our Godliness and never holds us as less.
The images we are fed of an ‘almighty God’ is merely an excuse for irresponsibility – to not be all that we are.
It’s interesting the multiple imagery, isn’t it, Susan? Images backed up by the dogma of institutionalised religion and by the pictorial representations of these in religious art. Images have a powerful impact upon the psyche and on our understanding of concepts and ideas. What pictures and iconic representations of God have we been exposed to, which are still hanging inside buildings all over the world?
Our eyes and hearts are opened to the true face of God through our own love. And without our love as the foundation for knowing God, we are at the mercy of every image under the sun telling us who he is.
Thank you, Emily: I have to say, the Science of God, as presented by Universal Medicine, is the only Science I know of that is worth studying. In this study, we expand and unfold back into our own Divinity and I am experiencing this as truly beautiful and glorious …..what do we develop into with the other science….?
Coleen, I loved what you wrote about the many faces of God. For me God is everywhere, in nature and part of everything we do because he is within each and everyone of us.
When I was younger I always wondered why I would hear about different Gods and the ways they were worshipped. To me there was just one God and he was for us all – no matter what religion people held, it didn’t matter.
I also was unable to understand about the many religions there are, not only those having ‘ different Gods’ but those who claim to have the same God but different interpretations concerning the bible which they claim to be the only truth. This is ridiculous.
hi kerstinsalzer15, I found the different interpretations confusing and distracted away from who God really is because they would become an issue of contention.
I was the same growing up Coleen, looking at many faces of God and not finding the one that I was ‘searching’ for. Funny how we look for something that was never lost but was just never comfirmed.
I’m also appreciating that I never gave up the search no matter how many duds came up.
Awesome point, Kim, that it was the confirmation of the truth of God immanent that was lacking for us, never that God was absent or lost to us. How powerful is it, then, for each of us to confirm that for ourselves and for everyone else, also?
Yes we spend so much time looking for something that we think is ‘out there’, when all along its been right under our noses waiting for us to return home.
That’s a great point Kylie, we can get so lost in an image of how we think God is that we miss the Godliness within us all.
I loved your writing of God previously, it made me laugh. I am still very much healing my connection with the word God as in many so called ‘teachings’ in my life I have heard about a God that is outside of ourselves and distant (Sunday School being one of them). I can also really relate with how you feel connected to God in nature. That absoluteness and silence. What I felt, was, for me, in my life Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have brought God to body. They have helped me to reconnect (or start to reconnect) to the knowing I had growing up that God is within, everywhere and very much with us all. This deep wisdom, love and holding or beholding. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been the only true reflection of this to me in their way of both expression and living constantly and consistently .. it is very inspiring.
Vicky, I too have loved to be in nature all of my life, and now I am understanding and starting to connect to God within myself and other people, as well as God being everywhere.
What a beautiful blog to read. God was taught when I was young as someone to fear, any wrong step and you are damned. Its not the God that I know now who is an expression of a love so grand that we could not even imagine its enormity.
Natalie what I felt when I read your comment was how many parents use God as a threat as a means to control children’s behaviour. I don’t even feel that all parents necessarily believe that God does actually punish people but it is a lazy way of parenting that gets passed down from generation to generation without being questioned. A bit like smacking really.
Parents use the threat of “god” on children and many institutionalised religions use the threat of “god” to control people’s lives through beliefs in ‘hell’ and such like….each cycle sustains and perpetuates the other. Both are anti evolutionary and both are anti God.
Yes I’ve picked up on these teachings Natalie. From what we learn in Religion at school it does seem like God is sometimes someone who should be ‘feared’, after all, he gets to decide whether you spend eternity in heaven or hell – a pretty daunting thought! It’s so strange how intimidating he has been made out to be.
Yes nataliemz – the difference between the two is vast. Just like most of what is being lived in todays society, completely upside down.
Beautiful expressed, Adele.
I agree Bernadette Curtin, and it is also a reflection of where humanity is at, that these “stories” about or the different ‘faces’ created to descrinbe God are still around today. While al along the truth about God is there right in front of us.
That is right Amina, if we surrender to this connection we know instantly who God is , and the many Faces of God will actually disappear – it is one unified.
I very much relate to your amusing and accurate understanding of the many faces of God Coleen! I think many of us have looked to nature as something divine yet external to us; to discover (and accept) that we too are by nature divine can seem to be taking it a step too far. Yet absolutely we are, it is only our determined deviations from our naturally divine ways that obscure our divinity.
Our faces can be the faces of God, if we choose to live love and truth.
Ah I like your comment felixschumacher8! Our faces can be the faces of God as God is within each and every single one of us.
Love this felixschumacher8.
Yes, being the face of God on earth is a huge revelation and it is so ordinary as well. You do what you do and you do it in a different quality and people notice – they may not be able to articulate what they notice but they notice.
Yes and this does make it so simple. There is nothing to do, just living what we already are: Sons of God.
I like it,Felix, I always imagined all the humans on the planet being particles of the same Divine nature.
Beautiful elenalight. I have always felt a oneness deep within and that we are all connected to every thing.
That is a simple yet very important reminder felixschumacher8
Beautiful comment felixschumacher8, and beautiful to contemplate how its a possibility for us all.
So true, ‘Our faces can be the faces of God, if we choose to live love and truth’, and beautifully expressed Felix.
I love your comment Melinda and I too had a similar experience on meeting Serge Benhayon. The tiny spark within that I always knew was there has been re-kindled and perpetually nourished by the teachings of Universal Medicine, teachings that bring everything together, God, nature, humanity and the Universe in one majestic divine whole. The more we come to know and understand that God lies within us all and always has, the more we will begin to let go of divergent faces in the knowing of a one loving God, an omnipresent all encompassing loving being within whom we live.
This is the same for me too Helen. I have become so appreciative of every part of who I am, of nature, of people and from this I am building a deeper connection with God. It feels so incredible to allow myself to be love, to be open and to embrace God’s constant presence.
Our current understanding of God in our society is more about a ‘faith’ and a giving up of one’s power to an almighty God – but many of us now have an understanding that this limited version may well not be the full picture…and that when a child is born the connection to God is complete before the word ‘go’ – this connection is our most natural thing and does not need to come through a particular way of worshipping or by going into a particular building such as a church….for as you have said, God is in nature and is in the rhythms and pulses of nature in all ways for all of us at any time.
I too observe the many religions as I was growing up and I was not able to relate to any of them. There seemed to be so many conditions and judgmental beliefs that came with who God was perceived to be. I just couldn’t understand it, it never felt right in my body. I simply turned away from all the religions I came across because they felt heavy, condemning and judgmental. Your blog Coleen explains why I was feeling this way and now I too have a connection to God that I have lost a long time ago. I am starting to rebuild my connection with God, connection to myself, with nature and with people. The joy of my returned appreciation and connection to God is amazing. I have Serge Benhayon and everyone at Universal Medicine to deeply Thank for inspiring me to trust and allow this amazing connection to flourish and deepen.
When I did reconnect it seemed too easy – no long complicated journey or arduous study. Just right there inside all along. And yes Serge Benhayon and his teachings have played a huge part in that reconnection.
It’s interesting simonwilliams8 that you use the phrase “Too Easy”, because it reveals a culture that believes that anything really worth while has to be complicated, Arduous, and even pain inducing. That hair-shirt mentality that asks…”What is life without Pain?” which is the austere message behind so many institutionalised religions. It is surely a blessing, (and a huge relief), that God was within us all, all along, and that God’s love is there to be connected to.
I knew these many faces of God very well growing up. So many of the faces are frankly disturbing and I hated how I felt when I considered such an unkind judgmental dictatorial and vindictive being towering over us, and the other faces that were painted about him loving all his children felt hollow. So I actually chose to pretend he is not there and did not think I had any relationship with him most of my life. I feel so much of the teachings about these faces of God, as well as the atrocities committed under the guise of God’s word have done a great disservice to humanity, to an extent that I have seen friends run a mile when hearing or reading the name of God or religion mentioned. I am grateful for Universal Medicine’s presentations that made so much sense to my heart and supported me to start to opening up to consider God in my life again. And not only start to feel him in my life again, but to start feeling and appreciating the depth of my relationship with him and all other equal Sons of God – the whole of humanity – to an extent that I had not even imagined possible. This is an absolute joy and a true blessing.
I agree wholeheartedly with you Golnaz! To have the opportunity to consider God once more as an essential part of one’s life, as opposed to a concept that made you want to head off in the opposite direction, is truly a Huge Blessing!
Golnaz so much of what you share here has been my experience. I was one of those people that would run a mile on hearing the word God. I also spent many years calling myself an atheist because I was pretty much appalled by the hypocrisy and double standards of many religions. It was my protest. But niggling away underneath there was also a knowing that God was real. I have as Coleen describes ‘come back home’ to myself thanks to the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Through this return to me I have found God who has always been there. He is in a quiet moment when I feel my breath; he is in a shared smile, the laughter of my daughters. I find him everywhere.
We don’t have to wait for a special moment to connect to God. We can connect to God constantly, he is always present no matter where we are or what we are doing.
I was enthralled by your description of discovering God in Nature and can really feel how being open in this way lead to discovering the connection within you to the same qualities and to God – so very beautiful, thank you.
Colleen thank you for sharing your experiences of God that I am sure many people can relate to. I have also had a feeling there was a God and am only now appreciating the magic of God all around me in nature and in the people I meet.
Spot on Susie when you say “what strikes me about all the different beliefs is that there is little or no appreciation for the connection between us and God”. This is exactly what I had been missing all my life until I met Serge Benhayon and attended his presentations. What he said resonated deeply within me and I now know without a doubt that as far as God is concerned “we all have equal love within us, and we are all connected to his divinity” should we so chose to feel it.
“With a thousand thanks, and then some, to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.” So true Coleen, without Serge I would not have the true understanding of God that I have today. Knowing God is inside me was hard to accept at first because of all the indoctrinations and beliefs around me from the many religions, but once I was able to feel this was true and feel this in my body the joy of coming home was truly heavenly.
I totally agree Alisonmoir; ” With a thousand thanks, and then some, to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine”, for supporting me to rediscover my own divinity and that of all others and that we are all equal – all equal in love.
We have been fed the image of God being outside of us, when in fact we are all divine, and the beautiful aspects of nature are a reflection of our own natural beauty.
The longing for divinity as you stated Coleen, is obscured by the corridors of numbness that prevent or exclude any meeting with divinity. I’ve been within these corridors, engaging in sport, alcohol and many other pursuits that hold the divine as somewhere distant and not relevant to me. It’s awesome to be back, with heart felt appreciation to Serge Benhayon who reflects divinity daily.
I hadn’t thought of Divinity as a science based on the rhythms and cycles of the Nature, Time and Space, and within us but it makes perfect sense Coleen. I love your understanding on this subject. It’s great that we can drop all those old images of what God is, which were also so false to me. The fact that God is already in us in our presence and stillness makes divinity completely accessible to us in the now.
The word God does carry so many masks, it is only when we unveil these faces that we can begin to embrace the imminence of the omnipotence that holds us all.
Wonderfully summed up Abbey. Seeing clearer with every veil that is disappearing, we will realise how enormous God is and that in fact we are his equal sons.
True that, for everyone, God brings-up a million different feelings and thoughts. Let’s clear the road so that omnipotence is felt.
I agree with what you have said Paula as I too had a problem with the ‘God’ word until I started understanding that God is within us all and reflected to us in nature. Then the magic of God began to happen more often as my awareness allowed the playfulness of simple things to be in my life, such as recognising that a feather dropped in front of me had a form of communication and so much more. Connecting with stillness and presence in each moment has opened up my life, knowing that God is always there within me so I don’t have to go anywhere to find him.
Coleen, I feel you speak for so many with what you have written.You shared many crazy thoughts and concepts which is similar to what I have seen over my life about what makes up the false ‘faces of God’. I found your blog warm and funny and sweet but most all I found it true. It makes who God truly is even more special to me, thank you
Well said Meg, my thoughts exactly! I cracked up at that line too.
It’s almost too ridiculous to consider when it’s explained in that way! God being vengeful… it makes absolutely no sense.
Yeah, Who’s idea was the “vengeful God” perhaps someone or something that was trying to control us? Perhaps an organisation with a false face of “religion “
I know! It’s hard to imagine where that idea came from, but it feels to me a very deliberate decision to control people by making them afraid.
Absolutely Meg, if you are busy being in fear then you are unable to be in all your power and know that you are one of many EQUAL sons of god. This idea promotes a mighty powerful one and a lowly human. If we buy into this concept we are more easterly manipulated and controlled.
The fact that if this belief is brought into, we know longer know we are equal in every single way is huge, and shows just how insidiously evil religious fear-mongering is, as if you do not know you are an absolutely equal Son of God, then you will never feel or know you are enough just as you are.
The face of God we grow up with can significantly affect our relationship with him and distort our otherwise pure connection. I grew up with the kindly bearded old man God. This was probably one of the ‘better’ versions from those you have listed but it still left me down here alone and him up there in heaven. It is only through Serge Benhayon that I have been able to feel God is within and through me and to know myself to be the same as him – that I am his Son and there is nothing I need to do to deserve it.
Fiona what you said about, ‘it still left me down here alone and him up there in heaven,’ I’d never really acknowledged. But reading it now I can feel this is something that had a very strong hold on me – the always working to gain favour to try and be worthy of his love but I would never have his audience or be worthy of his love because I was down here. Though a ‘kindly god’ a very insidious lie and something I am going to watch out for. Thank you so much for your comment because it’s helped me expose something that I was still keeping in the way of developing my true connection with God who I feel within and through me too.
Beautifully said Kylie, and so true.
I love how you’ve brought simplicity back to God Coleen. The feeling of the night sky, or geometry in the bark of a tree are beautiful examples of the magic God is.
Yes agree Amelia Stephens, it’s almost normalising (whilst cherishing) the stupendousness of the divine and of God; that we are the same/have the same quality within us too.
So true Amelia. It is so powerful to feel God everywhere in our daily lives, supporting, affirming and loving us with lots of messages coming through. Once we are aware of this, life changes- it certainly has for me!
When I read and feel all that you have expressed Liane I can feel how crazy it is that we wander the earth searching for the missing piece not realising that it is ourselves. God gave us nature to see the reflection of ourselves – to see him in us – the reflection of a still pool of water shows us so easily to look inside. The whole does make perfect sense.
This is wonderful to read Coleen, ‘And the best part is I don’t have to wait until I die to develop this relationship with God’, my impression of God growing up was that he was unreachable and that you only met him when you died, it is a revelation to hear through the presentations of Universal Medicine that we can be with God everyday.
The absurdity of that did not strike me until I read this blog. I fell for the idea that you can only develop a relationship with God when you die…as though when we are in bodies he ignores us. It would be kind of comical if it where not so destructive.
I loved that too Rebacca, and the final words ‘I am home’. Home building a relationship with god, where God is home in me, and I in Him.
So true rebeccawingrave, we do not have to wait until we die to develop a relationship with God, we can choose to connect with God whenever we choose to, that is up to each of us. I know it is a choice to do that each and every day, through the connection with me, it can foster and grow.
Rebecca, this is such a good point and so true. How many people have been misled into believing that their life on Earth is merely a prelude to and a preparation for the ‘Hereafter’. It is surely bordering on comedy (or tragedy), that one should spend one’s life actually looking forward to death and that moment when you finally ‘meet your maker’.
This blog is gold.
I too can relate to feeling God in nature, in stillness, in harmony and in how I feel within me. This is such a contrast to what I grew up with, where God was somehow represented by dusty statues and a distant reference who we could never really know in hymns and prayers.
I always had a sense that the church people didn’t necessarily know who God was either.
There had always been a sense to me that God would only show himself to the devoted few and I would have to say that I wasn’t one of them so had no hope of catching a glimpse of the big guy. It’s set up from the beginning for us to think we have to start searching and looking high and low all the while the potential of the meeting is within.
So beautiful Jaime, and when we have this wonderful realisation we can only feel the acceptance and love which has been there all along, awaiting our return to the magnificent and profoundness of God and the many blessings that he bestows on us in each moment.
“What I have found particularly engaging in this understanding of Divinity is that it is based on neither the faith nor the fear associated with the experiences of my youth, but on a precise science which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of the Nature, Time and Space.” This feels so true to me Coleen, what has always been known within confirmed.
One of my favorite things as a child was walking in a forest, and stopping and feeling the incredible stillness and harmony within it, that hush has always felt deeply sacred.
Not having to wait to die to feel God did make me laugh. I too have had that ‘old guy with a beard’ image in my head from childhood but it makes me wonder, if we hold onto those images do we miss out on God’s true face? I see God in nature more and more these days but it also has gone hand in hand with feeling God within me more and more. Our bodies are a part of the world, we aren’t a separate from the world as much as we may believe or pretend. Which now makes me wonder – how much do we miss out of the world if we believe we are separate to it? Thank you Coleen.
My God had 5 letters: Truth.
I had no idea about God, no concept, only that there is a lot more to life than what I knew and that somebody knows. Thankfully that was enough as my commitment to truth was and is very strong.
I love this article. So brilliant. All those crazy different versions of God we are asked or tempted to believe but for the most part nonsense and man-made.
There is a real God and his love and presence is found in nature and also spoken very eloquently and accurately by Serge Benhayon as you point out Coleen. It may not be widely understood yet but Serge Benhayon is a real-life modern-day prophet.
Thanks for Sharing Coleen. God seems to communicate with me all the time. Sometimes it brightens my day and sometimes it confirms something that I am feeling. Since become open to having a relationship with God, I have experienced a lot of magic, unexpected things. I appreciate Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine so much for presenting what they do.
Coleen this is a deeply inspiring blog to read – I can certainly relate to the ‘many faces of God’ you write of. In childhood these many different beliefs and ideals from others brought much confusion, as it felt very ‘off key’ with what I knew was true somewhere deep within, but unable to express this.
Since attending presentations by Serge Benhayon, there is a deep knowing of re-connection with the truth of God, through bringing more awareness within my body, reflections from nature and the glorious feeling of being held within the vast spaciousness, ‘the body of God’, that surrounds everything at all times.
“What I have found particularly engaging in this understanding of Divinity is that it is based on neither the faith nor the fear associated with the experiences of my youth, but on a precise science which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of the Nature, Time and Space”.
Yes, Coleen – my ideals and beliefs have certainly (and thankfully) been turned inside out since attending Universal Medicine presentations and science has a completely new meaning to me and one that finally makes sense –
“our relationship with God ( religion) is understood through Divine Science. Now that’s my kind of Science – one that builds my connection with all that is…”
With the many faces of God the ones that I found so confusing as a child were, ‘Jesus was the only Son of God’, yet at the same time, ‘We are all God’s children’. And the other was that, ‘God was love and we are all God’s children’, yet ‘If you did not believe/accept that Jesus was God’s only Son, those who believed this to be true have throughout history forced others to accept this belief through war and torture, or be cast into everlasting hell’. It did not did not make sense then, and such ideas still do not. I, too Coleen, have found ‘home’ for my understandings of God in the presentations by Serge Benhayon and you express it beautifully by,
“What I have found particularly engaging in this understanding of Divinity is that it is based on neither the faith nor the fear associated with the experiences of my youth, but on a precise science which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of the Nature, Time and Space.
And all of this can be done in a human body because my body is also all of those qualities I have felt were God. This face of God I know.”
As a child I could never understand why different groups had different Gods. He was the same guy to me. I also had a fear of God, like you Coleen, the thunder bolt. But I have always had a sense that I am being watched by God and his angels. They are always with me. Universal Medicine is constantly confirming what I already know within me.
Coleen I love the gentle humour with which you present the many faces of God that have been given. As a child I struggled with the image of the white-haired bearded old man and also with heaven. Was heaven a cloud in the sky with winged angels playing lyres … what did they do all day, and where did they go to the toilet? All very important details to my young mind, details that weren’t supplied. Thus Jesus became my hero, a far more manageable concept until it all became too difficult and I gave up on the idea of God. However what has blown me away is that through the presentations by Serge Benhayon I am actually understanding that God is within me, and everyone and everything and therefore a known experience grounded here on earth, and reflected by nature, as you so beautifully describe.
Colleen, what an awesome blog -your clarity about God and his place in our life is so beautiful and affirming for me. The precise science which connects us to God through rhythms, cycles, nature and space removes the many ideals and beliefs that surround God. To be able to connect to God in our daily lives makes so much sense.
There are so many comments I would like to leave here, perhaps I will come back another day as well, but for today, the first thing that struck me was this sentence…And yet I observe within myself and within so very many of my fellow human beings, sincere longing for a sense of a Divinity to which we can connect, feel whole and derive a meaning or purpose for our lives… I see it too, we all look for meaning and purpose and, till we become aware that we can find it within, we investigate and delve into all those versions of God mentioned.
This face of God I know.
I realize that Nature has been for lots of us the last resort to feel God and divine qualities, after having felt the not so true faces of God that were presented to us. And for me also physiology, the absolute divinity in the order and magnificence of the human body. The vastness and richness of life, the perfection it all works in, if we don´t interfere. One cannot but be in awe in the presence of this divine order. Thank you for bringing that to our attention, I am not that far from God after all. You helped me acknowledge and confirm that I do feel divinity all around me and in me.
Yes, I just realized reading your comment that actually, we are a reflection of God, our body is. Not the spirit as they told us in childhood religion, but the body has to be a reflection of God, the perfect amazing endless microcosmic order within every organ, down to every cell and the relationship between all our parts. I can now say I am a son of God. I am studying deeply now anatomy, physiology, and pathology again and cannot but be in awe, as I said, about the millions of structures that we hold within, and how they perfectly combine with each other to en-house our being and our soul. We are a reflection of nature and nature is a reflection of God.
Coleen, Coleen, Coleen!! A thousand stars winking at you and your light shining back to them!! You have nailed it with this one! Your sharing has confirmed for me that all we seek and seek we do, is there in abundance within us when we surrender, still ourselves long enough to know that our nature is that of God. Beautiful.
This is great Coleen. The sense of ‘permission giving’ or ‘ah yes that’s right’, in hearing Serge Benhayon speak of what he knows, all of which is known within ourselves, is completely and utterly profound. It’s lovely to let go of the faces each segment of society has painted god to be and simply connect to what’s within us.
The connection to God is found in everything as we are God. We live in the body of God and there is no separation between God and us humans, but only love and unity. The separation is made by us based on the age-old arrogance of the Spirit to create its own individualized expression and therefore separate from the ONE. But as we are one this separation is still happening within the body of God. This shows the absurdity of the whole spiritual adventure and the exhaustion we feel in keeping this separation alive as the constant magnetic pull is calling us back every second to be who we truly are: Sons of God serving the divine Plan!
Beautiful Coleen and what I love is your words “And the best part is I don’t have to wait until I die to develop this relationship with God. And there is not a thunderbolt in sight… I am home.” I always had God outside of myself something that could never be touched, felt, let alone expressed in such a way. But I too through Universal Medicine have felt the presence of God in my life in a way that is tangible and real. This I truly appreciate to have come to, in my life on the earth plane.
There does seem to be many faces of God, which during my life have been confusing even though deep down I have always felt the existence of God. I can remember being about 12 years old when I got into religion, but none of it made sense to me and as the years passed by I got more desperate for the Truth. There was always this sense that there was something coming around the corner and that one day it will be revealed to me, and then I found Universal Medicine, or should I say it found me and now I feel for the first time in my life that I have found the Truth and God, even though I had never truly lost them.
There are so many concepts of God as you have stated. As with everything the truth of God can be found in energy. For me God reflects the many aspects of unconditional love.
Coleen a really powerful and beautiful expose of the faces of God we are told about compared to the truth of God we know inside. We really are living very far from the truth of connection with God. It’s quite staggering to consider that throughout our life we have the opportunity to build a deep connection with God, without need for priest or church, yet before coming to Universal Medicine I was trapped in the belief that God was the white bearded man in the clouds..
Coleen – I was really fascinated by all the different versions of God you have shared. It is so true – we have really taken God away from the true meaning and made it all about what suits a certain situation. The way you see God, in nature and in the sheer magic of how nature works to grow and support the whole, is to me what I have known god to be too. God to me now is also opportunities in my life presented to me for me to evolve with. I then have a choice, to say yes and step forward, and say no and walk away. But God will continue to present little packages of magic either way. And this magic deepens the stillness, joy, love and truth I already carry within me.
It is great to expose all the different faces of God that we can fall into believing. They are all something outside of ourselves that have some kind of imposition over us. This is not God. God is already within us and is all around us in nature and in the rhythm of our lives as you have so beautifully said Colleen. To connect to this is simply divine.
I love this blog in that it is showing us how God is within us as equally as it is in nature.
There was the scary God from my youth, the picture where his eyes would follow you as you walked by. I had for years been disillusioned with the myriad flavors of God that were on offer, it was like being in an ice cream shop. My greatest connection to God was as you have stated Coleen, nature. We are all part of nature, we just need to remember that this is where we have all come from.
Like you I too always felt that God the being existed but the faces of religion in which God was presented never made sense. However, what you have said, does make sense. I particularly resonated with ‘Night-time solitude laying on a beach or in the desert with my arms open to the stars and the Universe, breathing so gently and still, could only be “God”. Yes, this too is where and how I have always felt God.
This is a very beautiful sharing about God in your life who is always there within us as in nature and all else. Divinity being a precise science connecting us with the rhythms and cycles of Nature,Time and Space makes sense and is felt this way truly. All the qualities of God are within us all and when we connect to this we connect to ourselves also and we know we are all one and part of the whole.Through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine courses and presentations I too have come to learn to connect to all of this and know God is within me, everyone and everything and no longer look outside for a mysterious mythical unattainable God somewhere up there. Thank you Coleen for sharing this so knowingly.
Your blog presents divinity in a really tangible, accessible way. That it’s ‘a precise science which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of Nature, Time and Space’ and the ‘qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy’, through and ‘in a human body because my body is also all of those qualities….part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.’ So simply put.
I found the same Coleen, growing up I knew God yet everywhere I turned people seemed to have ideals or constructs about what God is, how we are all sinners and God will punish us etc.. But none of this was true. I knew that but needed someone to confirm it to me. Serge Benhayon did this and I now know unequivocally beyond any doubt that we are all a part of God, that we are from God and the love he holds us in is beyond any human measure. The love we are held in is so encompassing that we can stray from it, do effectively whatever we want in complete disregard to it and it is still there waiting for us. It is quite incredible really and there is absolutely zero judgement.
Thank you Tamara, it sure is!
It is at odds Coleen and was confusing growing up – how can God be love yet be judgemental – surely love allows you to be just as you are without you needing to be any certain way?
And then we are sons of this forever holding love who also have absolutely zero judgement 🙂 🙂 🙂 Only when we accept less than what we are, and our true essence, we can judge. Reading your love-filled comments Coleen and James I have been reminded of my/our essence and the great learning that it is to observe that if I am in any kind of judgement I have separated from my true origin, the energy of the forever holding love that I am part of.
What a beautiful re claiming of the quality of the beholding love we are each, and all, a part of Julia. I love your insight that if we do go into judgement, not to judge the judgement, which would only perpetuate that cycle of energy, but to observe it and allow it to dissolve in the holding-ness of our Love. So beautiful- thank you 🙂
Thanks for sharing this blog Coleen – you have expressed, with great eloquence, how I myself have always thought about God and like you, I am eternally thankful to Serge Benhayon, his family and all of Universal Medicine for introducing me to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom, through which I have come to know and feel God within me and outside of me, in others and in nature.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them” Beautiful Coleen. I could never equate the vengeful God with the loving all-powerful God or the one who could save us all if he so chose – but the vital part I was leaving out was humanity’s choice to live and act as we do – our self-responsibility – and our ultimate free will to choose the energy we align to.
Thank You for sharing this post on a subject that most would still shy away from as I did most of my life. The “G” word was to blame for anything and everything and kept me grumbling, moaning and feeling a victim.
It is only after I came across Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine 10 years ago that I got a true understanding which inspired me enough to make choices and live another way which is deeply self connecting. It is this connection that leaves me with no doubt that the “Kingdom of God is inside me”. So everyday I have a responsibility to make choices that guarantees God is with me. if something happens then there is no blame – I just check if that choice was made with God or not. Simple really.
The other thing I now know is that nature has a pulse and it is the stillness of nature and its natural cycles that was what I was craving for and had big plans to live by the sea one day. Well the reality is I live literally on a high street in London and it’s mega busy and brick everywhere but I know the pulse as it lives inside me. Incredible really and I reckon this is just the start. The pulse will deepen as I continue to surrender and let go of all the things that disturb that pulse of stillness.
Finally – a million thanks and more to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for giving me a life I never even dreamed was possible.
For me when I grew up I saw God as- “God the Bookkeeper and vengeful”-keeping a tab on your ‘good deeds’ done vs wrong doings- sins. This determined whether you went to heaven or hell when you died. I didn’t want to go to hell so I learnt to be the “good catholic girl”.
Then there was “God the Creator, the Almighty and Powerful”-as he created man, the earth, animals, nature- I was fascinated at how this was indeed possible. However, amongst nature I felt his presence the most – divine beauty seen in the sun rising or sunset; stillness of the air in the mountains, the power felt from a full moon, feeling energised by the sun’s rays; the delicateness and intricate beauty of a rose opening in bloom. However, it was only until I met Serge Benhayon at Universal Medicine that I understood and felt God’s presence within me more, as being part of the ALL.
The many faces of God you have described Coleen has brought back many old ideals and beliefs from the past. For me, the moment that one tries to define God then the essence of God is lost. Sitting in stillness, choosing to be present with me and connecting to the heart is where I find God and this is available to everyone.
Nature is a great way to connect with god, and to feel the divinity that we live within.
Thank you Coleen for sharing your observations and experience of the many faces of God. I have always felt God to be so different to what I saw in the Catholic Church I grew up in. It did not trouble me much what the world around me said or thought, I knew God as a presence, always with me and I did not give it much thought until I came to Universal Medicine. Now I am allowing myself to say God is with me always, I am a part of him and I am here to serve him and my fellow brothers. This sense of purpose is beautiful and has given my life meaning, something it has missed for a long long time.
I guess our relationship with God needs what all relationships needs: good care, awareness, appreciation, honor and evolving. Then it can be vital and alive.
What you say is so true and so simple. If only we learnt this simplicity when we were young we would not have been so distracted by all the many different interpretations that we are offered by mainstream religion. We know deep down that God is available and consistent in his love for us – we just need to include him in all areas of our life. I so love the depth, beauty and grace of God once I began to allow him in.
Thats the point Susan isn’t it? To allow her/him in. God has never ever left us – we went away from God. In so many ways… To embrace Love again as something that is holding us all the time and as something that we are by nature is a challenge after all this separation – but also very simple and delightful. We just have to open up again for People. They are our Bothers and connection to what we truly are and connection to God. Allow others into your heart and you will find God everywhere.
What you say Sandra is so very beautiful and in your words ‘simple and delightful’. When I am sitting on the train or walking down the street and becoming preoccupied with the people I am meeting and seeing I have a vision of everyone being connected to their own tenderness and beauty and that is what is in the essence of us all and connects us to God. In that moment the world is unified.
Thanks Coleen for sharing your insight into the many faces of God, what if we saw God every time we looked into a mirror, that would be cool, no search, no wondering, no image just a knowing we are as much God as every thing is.
Coleen, you certainly have unmasked the many faces of God from beliefs and ideals which made no sense and to reveal the real essence of God within you, I love it. Thank you.
Totally cool Coleen, the many faces of God had me so confused at one stage I was claiming to be agnostic, even though I knew God was always there, it was just that all the man made stuff about him never added up. I still can’t say that I can get my head totally around it but my body definitely knows.
This is beautifull and so pure Coleen. Thank you.
Thank you Coleen. I also had many questions about God. If he was an old man with a white beard sitting on a cloud, where was He when He was a child? I have always felt the presence of God in nature but it was not until I attended presentations by Serge Benhayon at Universal Medicine that I felt the presence of God within me.
That is so true Coleen, that we have been given that many ‘faces of God’ of which no one actually fits the true nature of God. For me the pictures have only brought me further away from God by accepting some of these images as being true for me in this life. Thanks to the teaching and presentation of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I am now in a position in my life where I am supported in undoing this false picture I hold and allowing myself to feel what God actually is for me and to build my relation with him. Enjoying the magic of God is one of the ways for me to connect as when truly appreciated, God is there always for all of us equally so to assist us to return to where we belong, to the bosom of God. No more pictures, but felt in the body.
Coleen I love the whimsical nature of your article, it feels so light. So many of us have been presented with a picture of God made from the mechanical minds of man. There can be no true connection to God when we attempt to connect to an image or an idea. However you are so right when you say that we can truly feel God in our bodies as our body and the body of God are one and the same.
Magnificent Coleen, what a beautiful blog to read, and such a clear comparison between a man-made version of God, to the magic of god in nature that surrounds us all the time . I love… “Being held and embraced by the absolute silence and stillness of a midnight sky, I felt was “God”… Feeling this described above, no doubt indicates that there is a living stillness within the body and that it always walks with us if we choose to.
Love it, what a great blog. You write with great humour, insight and clarity. We are so seeking divinity as we know it but we choose to forget that we are it and that it can be lived quite simply and easily if we choose. No thunderbolts needed 🙂
Thank you Coleen. My relationship with God is a constant in my life. This relationship is one I have taken for granted. Your recent blogs on God and religion have been allowing me the space to ponder the relationship I have with God – he always puts in 100% and I feel I have the opportunity to so the same. Accepting that I know the true face of God feels like a great start.