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:
Religion
Who or What is God?
What Would God Want for Christmas?
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
I like what you share Elizabeth, ‘It feels to me like we have allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked by a force whose sole aim is to keep us subservient to its own perceived might.’
What would life be like if we took away all our images so we lived from what our body is feeling? Now that would be different!
There is also the image of God we hold that ‘He delivers’… or not … the things that we pray for and ask to receive, material things, health, support when needed, and the way we bargain when things get tough “God if you do this for me right now I promise I will…’. We may see God as making all the decisions and then mark God as good or bad based on what we have or have not received – a bit like Santa. We can add here the belief that God also “moves in mysterious ways”! Returning to a true relationship with God via our innermost heart can mean decluttering out all the beliefs and images we hold that prevent us living the truth, stillness and love God truly is.
Then we feel the magic of God, in the moments, in-between, the stillness or repose-full-ness.
Haha, that makes sense, decluttering all the expectations we have on God.
So we can return to surrendering to the Love, Truth, and stillness that God is.
I love the humour in your words, Coleen. As silly as it may seem, it is very, very true that this is how we have painted God – the accountant, the judge, the hoo-haa eternal love which does not hold the integrity of those words. So much we can learn from the simple moments of our lives.
I used to find it difficult to talk about religion, people always seem to want to force their opinion on you and show you that they’re right, that their belief is the true belief. In recent days I have started asking people about their beliefs, how they go about their day and am learning a lot – some people really are stuck and not really bothered about any other explanation that may be possible, others are willing to tell you what they think but be open to hear your experience too. The difference between the two is that the first kind of people are really stuck in their beliefs, their beliefs are mentalised, idealised and ingrained – whereas the second kind of people speak from experience, from what has occured in their lives and with that comes a natural curiosity to see what has occured in other’s lives. When we make religion intellectualised, it almost becomes a competition on who knows more about God, about the bible, quran or the bhagavad gita. When religion is a lived experience it’s about a connection to God and to all around us – that is the kind of religion I want to know & hear about, it doesn’t matter how much you know about jesus if your heart is covered in stone, neither does it matter how many times you have read the bible if only your brain gets it.
Some people can be convinced that their view on religion is right, and so try to impose that belief on you…no wonder many other people have turned away from religion as it currently stands.
I wonder if the statement “we are born in his image” has meant that we approach who God is from what we see we are?
There is magic in letting go of the mental picture of God and reconnecting through the inner-heart to stillness, love, joy, harmony and truth to feel God’s presence all around and within.
Thank you Coleen. After reading the different interpretations about God from different religions something was brought to my attention. It’s the fact that all comes from outside us, never was it considered as a quality of stillness from within that can be lived on a daily basis. What Serge Benhayon is presenting makes the Livingness accessible for all, which is living from our inner-most, the space where our divinity lies. Love how simple, practical and close he is presenting it, because it is a tangible experience that feels familiar, it feels the Truth within me.
Beautiful to read this again Coleen. It is through our connection to our Soul that we know our innate and inescapable relationship with God, as we are His sons, and when it is this connection that we live impulsed by we then are the face of God through the lives we live.
Living with pictures of who or who God is on serves to distract us or delay our natural re-connection. It is only really delaying the inevitable though because we are made from a source that is constantly calling us back, or we would not have the illogical ‘pull’ that is so evident throughout our lives.
`God is in all things, just waiting for us to remember that he is here in us too. We are all made of His particles, and like you Coleen, when I go very still there is a very strong sense of Him, that then becomes more everyday if I choose to keep that sensitivity.
There are many purported ‘faces of God’ that are very off-putting indeed but to me they aren’t a reflection of God in truth but just a corrupted image being circulated…
Yes very true and this disturbing feeling is a sure sign that these are corrupted images of God, for as we are all Sons of God, the truth is known to us. We only choose to ignore and resist it and instead allow the lies to circulate.
Those faces of God we get presented with, they all sound superior and separate from us, and it feels like there is no way we would actually get to know Him. God I am getting to reacquaint with through presentations by Universal Medicine just makes sense of everything, including how we ended up with those faces of God that are far from truth. It just is all encompassing and I just cannot argue.
Yes and in the teachings of God, we are instantly part of it, not without it or only capable when following certain rules. When we connect to the science of the teachings we will find out that this “God” is inside us.
‘Here, I am reconnecting within myself to some qualities that I had always felt was “God”.’ Yes the Kingdom of God is within and we will find it in the essence in every human being…no a divine being playing human.
It was not until I met Serge Benhayon that I felt I had truly met someone who know innately who God is. Not in fancy words or theories but in an actual Livingness of love that is very very palpable and very beholding.
This is very needed for our humankind to realise: “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 up to us how far we take it, no one can do it for us.
SO true, and making space to feel the truth of that is a richness we are not taught to treasure and yet it is the gold we all search for.
We have been sold so many lies about God, these many faces of God have entrapped so many people and keep them away from knowing divinity and a true connection with God.
Exactly, we are sold so many lies about God, and many other things in life; it is imperative that we are able to read and know what is true, and what is not true.
According to the different religions God is many different things, yet what I have learned through Universal Medicine presentations and Serge Benhayon is that God is love, and lives within us all.
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.
True Jennifer; ‘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.’
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.
Connecting to our innermost, to our essence allows us to feel the love, truth, joy, harmony and stillness that is always there.
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.
I can relate with being in and connecting to nature as being with the divine too, ‘Until recently, my sole sense of Divinity was Nature.’
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?
The many faces come from a reinterpretation of that single Truth…. yes they are all talking about the same thing, but of course if we let our little selves get in the way, then we end up arguing about whose definition of the same thing is correct. That argument has stunted the human race for lifetimes, and been responsible for misery and many millions of people’s lives.
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.
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.
All the ‘faces’ of God don’t match up to the quality of God that can be felt as you mention Coleen, is in fact everywhere and within us. All these faces and images, regardless of what the image is, keep us from accessing God in a truer way – through feeling.
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.
Love your words Eduardo – “My relationship with Him is not one of faith. It is one of deeper knowing. That is all I need.” – Beautiful.
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.
There is a sincere longing to know divinity, because we are that divinity and our body and being knows that. When we open up ourselves to that truth, we see God all around us, we know God, because we are made up of Him. We can embark upon our path of return.
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.
Its pretty awesome that we can connect to the power of God just by connecting to ourselves and I like you Coleen am also gratefull to Universal Medicine for the guidence
I can relate to what you share here as it was my experience growing up of feeling God very clearly and directly within myself and all around me in nature, and yet there was not that same feeling in any church or religion that I was exposed to – there were people who wanted to ‘do good’ and wanted to feel the love of god, but the feeling of God – the fullness, the absolute holding, the every-present warmth and love was no where to be found. As you say Coleen, this quality can be felt within if we choose to connect to it and not give our power away to beliefs, ideals and false traditions that place God outside of ourselves…
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.
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.
God the accountant, the exclusive…such great images Colleen. What about God the simple, the accessible, the divine spark we all are?
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 have also felt God in nature but never imagined that little old me was part of the all. The feeling that we are all one and all held in Gods Atma is such a wonderful thing to know. I mean a certain person or race of people being the only ones or chosen race and God having only one son, really?
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.
When we begin to live in the knowing of our divinity, imagine the change that is possible?
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.
An important blog Colleen, to expose the illusion we have fallen for that has kept us in separation from knowing God. Your description of discovery that we can know God and our divinity through our own body is so clear and accessible, it just makes sense.
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.
Yes Matthew, divinity is in us and can be felt if we can let go of all the images that have been fed to us about ‘the faces of God” that Coleen has described in her blog. Those given pictures we have allowed to tell us how things should be do withhold us from looking for the true answers in life, and as you say Matthew, they can be simply found in ourselves, our body, as our body has a direct connection with all of the universe.
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.
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.
Beautiful, Carolien. It does seem very ironic, the fact that God’s communication with us is constant and never ceases, and yet so many of us seem to be on a constant search for God, as was I for many years. The belief that God is “up there” or “out there somewhere” is a rather insidious one that has turning our attention away from our inner connection and the ability to ‘hear’ these communications from that position. It does seem as though the belief is intentionally constructed to distract us in this way so who came up with it and why?
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.
When I drive out just around dawn and see the layers of mist that float in the valleys, and the delicate orange and pink that lights up the sky as the sun rises, I cannot help but feel a sense of awe and wonder at the beauty of nature and the earth we live upon. It always touches something deep within.
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.
Yes Kevin, this is a game that mankind has chosen to play, when indeed we are all from and one with God – all the time.
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?
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.
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.
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’.
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.
“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.
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….
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.
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?
Yes there is a reason for “the many faces God” isn’t there Gyl? Rather than taking the common victim approach of many who ask why does this confusion and distortion happen to us in our world? You correctly announce that it is we who have all have accepted less and theses many faces of God. Why? because it actually suits our comforts and our reluctance to be self-responsible and selfless human beings.
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.
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.
Yes I too struggled with using the word God. I now feel the absolute divinity that encompasses the word through all that we are. For me that is huge to even express and that would not have been possible without Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
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.
It’s crazy how something as deeply natural and innate as God has become a subject so clouded and contested by the many man-made interpretations around the subject… crazy to the point that many of us even feel uncomfortable mentioning his name! What a ridiculous situation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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
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.
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!
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.
Great blog Colleen, the many faces of god and none of them real. We have turned him inside out and back to front, so that when his beauty, magic and love is standing in front of us we don’t see it as God. In fact, we complain, avoid or seek to distract ourselves from the majesty we might otherwise feel.
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.
All the various interpretations of God is a very clever way of maintaining a separation between people. It’s not for us to say if somebody’s version on God is wrong or our is right, because in that argument we are already lost. Imagine if the world does come to a truth that there is in fact only one God and that we are all his sons. How would we come to this consensus?
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.
I love this blog Colleen, it is fantastic to hear a different side of ‘God’, as like you, the others never really made sense to me.
I love it Coleen. Your blog brought a smile to my face. I also remember looking at that old man with the beard thinking ‘Is that really him?’. I always knew there was some kind of God because life made too much sense for it to be for nothing or by random chance. But I was reluctant to call it God because the word meant so little to me with all the different contrasting representations I saw out there. I too can now embrace the word God from what I’ve learnt from, or had confirmed by, Serge Benhayon, and know that it is in and around us at all times.
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 always found it very bemusing how one of the man-made versions of God fervently believes that he takes sides and favours some over others. And then there is this expression “God’s own country” which makes even less sense, if that is possible. How come we got so used to bestowing all these very ordinary, not to say parochial human traits on God rather than connecting to the divinity each one of us carries within?
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.
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?
Yes Ariana, it is, captured in 3 words. I can feel the spaciousness as I hear it.
Woo hoo – yes it is: love your expression, Ariana.
Coleen I love your description of all the different perceptions of God, I grew up with a picture from church that God was a bit judgemental and you were never allowed to make a mistake, which never felt true for me. It confused me as most of what I heard was in tension with what I felt to be true. It wasn’t until I heard Serge Benhayon present on religion as a way of life, a livingness, a relationship with ourselves and all of life that religion finally started to match up with what I had always felt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
I too discovered God through meeting Serge Benhayon. First I experienced and recognised the Divinity that is Serge – how he lives, moves and expresses has a quality that deeply resonated to the core of my being. Through recognising that in Serge, I reconnected to and recognised the same within myself and everyone else. The more I am open to this energy the more I experience and see reflections of God everywhere.
When one reads the world’s interpretations of God as presented here in this article, we can see how clearly off they really are. All in contradiction of themselves and each other. Organised religion is not needed to access God; connection to one’s self and a willingness to see the Magic of God all around us is all that is required.
Beautiful Coleen, you have brought light to the many faces of God that we are presented with in the world throughout our lives that simply don’t make sense but we are asked to believe in. The truth and love I was presented with by Serge Benhayon and the ancient wisdom was the moment in my life when I was first presented with truth. I knew I knew this, that God is inside us, forever with me.
“God as the creator of your materialistic desires.” Yup, fell for that one hook, line and sinker.
However, now, thanks to Universal Medicine, I too am reclaiming my natural connection with God and it is soo much simpler.
Wow, thank you Coleen. At school I chose to take Religion and Philosophy as a main subject, and it is fascinating how many different ‘faces’ God seems to have and change between. There are hundreds of religions all over the world who believe God has certain qualities and characteristics, that he looks down upon certain things and praises others, but what strikes me about all the different beliefs is that there is little or no appreciation for the connection between us and God, i.e. we all have equal love within us, and we are all connected to his divinity.
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.
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.
Coleen, this is a beautiful blog. All those faces of God you mention I was confronted with as a child and I knew they were not a true portrayal of him. I got frustrated and unsettled and knew the truth had to be there somewhere. I too have so much appreciation for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and the sharing that the truth is within and it is here that we are truly connected to God and ourselves. The space and stillness inside is everything to me.
Thank you Coleen for exposing how confusing the many faces of God are which have been used to control people down the ages. I can relate to always having had a ‘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 how this only started to unfold for me when I attended Universal Medicine presentations and accepted that I was a Son of God and it was my choice to connect to these qualities within myself that was the answer to finding a purpose in life and the joy and harmony that flows from that.
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.
I love how nature is there, constantly and ceaselessly, to remind us of the divinity we cannot find in the images of God we are being fed.
Coleen, I too was confused by these many faces, as I child I spent many hours on the beach collecting shells and fossils – walking alone on this wide expanse, I felt a deep appreciation and awe for nature, but in this i also felt very alone. With the support of Universal Medicine I have reconnected to the spark of God within through the power of my breath, I see God in details like the way my daughter ties her shoe laces, holding the gaze of another, the supreme colours of a fresh avocado. Relationships that feel truer, more open and blessed than ever before. As you say none of the thunderbolt drama – simply a divine home within.
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?
Thank you Coleen this is very beautiful and light to read as the many faces of God are exposed. Through my life I have felt and known God but couldn’t make sense of how there could be all these different Gods with each group claiming theirs to be the ‘real’ one so never fully embraced my own relationship and understanding of God. Thus when meeting Universal all has made sense and I agree and absolutely can feel “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.”
Hi Coleen, I too found it much easier to feel God in the natural areas, especially rainforest, which I have always been so drawn to. I spent years regrowing rainforest on our property, and as it grew, I connected more and more to all the life that was then expanding within it. I feel I always sensed that God was a being of Love, unconditional love, not a vengeful being. I could never understand why people used to feel that God was judging them and repaying them for doing wrongs when things went wrong in their lives. It did not make sense to me. I thank God that I was not brought up in the Catholic Church, but I attended a pretty open-minded protestant church when I was young. I lost touch with the church and its teachings for many years in the busyness, never really being drawn to the dogmas etc. that were present in most of them. So it was not until I met Serge Benhayon and heard his presentations at Universal Medicine workshops etc., that I came to fully realise that God is actually within me, and by connecting to my own innermost, I can access that amazing Being. And I thank God again, for bringing Serge Benhayon into my so my much more joy-full life that I now live, thanks to Serge and what he shares with whoever is open to listen and see how he lives his life.
We as humanity put so many things onto God, blaming him for natural disasters, living in fear of his judgement and a thunderbolt, ‘ knowing that my way is the right way and killing others because they don’t ‘believe’ etc. Since learning about the part I play in all that occurs in my life I now know that God is on all our sides. Accepting self-responsibility made sense to me of so much that happens in my world. God is unconditional love and the divine is all around us and within each one of us too.
It’s actually quite comical that we have given God all these faces and all these roles. It is the ultimate projection! If we stop ‘thinking’ we know who God is and actually stop and feel we can feel the simplicity of the wonder of God right there inside us.
I have also felt a divine expansive stillness in moments gazing at the stars at night or in the wonders of the natural world, but also in moments of joy or love between myself and another person or gazing into the depths of another human being’s eyes. These are the things I live for, that we all live for and are far more accessible and real than most of the versions of so called religion that are peddled by religious institutions in my view.
I remember an image in my childhood of an old Irish Catholic priest who was visiting our parish give a sermon, that gave me nightmares. He delivered it with an angry passion that may have even scared God himself. It was all about God being an angry jealous God and was old school in that it was supposed to put the fear of God in you and make you believe we are all sinners with no hope but the fires of hell if you didn’t repent these evil sins and found salvation whatever that was. Quite a lot for a 4 or 5 year old to take in.
I can very deeply relate what you have shared here Coleen. I had several images of God and was confused about him, but like you had a strong connection to nature, where I felt God on a consistent basis, not changing himself. Universal Medicine brings a deep confirmation of the qualities God holds in himself.
Knowing, experiencing and expressing God within the body as One with us is an irrefutable Truth that no one can take away, no doubt can diminish and deny.
Beautiful expressed, Adele.
Divinity is a science based on universal cycles that govern our bodies and its communication with what is beyond the physical. This I know to be true and it can be felt when we surrender our bodies to these natural cycles. When we delay or resist these cycles in our bodily movements, it shows up as tension in our bodies, if ignored, they exhibit as illness and disease in the temporal meaning of this word. This I also know to be true and feel when I do not numb myself from truly feeling. Although the truth is, a choice to delay is already an energetic sickness, which is a choice to be energetic irresponsible.
So many of us can relate to feeling God in nature and for a long time I would love retreating to nature, getting away from it all to connect with what I called at the time “the universe”. Now I can openly express that it was God all along that I was wanting a relationship with. As I’ve connected deeper to myself and to my own essence and live from this place, my need for spending time in nature isn’t nearly as grand, although I still do love and enjoy it. I now know that I can access God from inside of me and being in nature often amplifies this connection, although it is no longer a necessity.
It is amazing how one word, ‘God’, conjures up so many different images for everyone. I used to be terrified to use the word God in fear of what might come at me and since I came to Universal Medicine I have developed my own beautiful connection with God and have no fear of mentioning God anymore. Thank you for a beautiful blog Coleen.
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?
How many have been put off by the angry God that did all of that, smoted by the wrath of God stuff to the non-believers. There are as you have described many other faces of God to confuse us. Once we rediscover that God is not something that is external of us that we are trying to fill ourselves with and find that what we are looking for has always been within us all the time we become who we truly are…sons and daughters of God.
An aha moment…there is a thunderbolt…but not one of wrath borne down on us from a god that judges from on high, but one of realisation as we accept that we are all sons of God, that we all share the innate rhythms and cycles of nature and that there is nothing outside of us to seek for deliverance. How cool.
The many beliefs and thus faces of God religions propose has created much confusion between those who have chosen to believe one interpretation over another as to what is true and not. I too looked to nature for connection for it showed me God free from emotion or interpretation…where the awe and beauty could not be denied. Before Universal Medicine, I had never thought to look inside myself for the exquisite qualities that nature reflected to me of who God was, ones that I have since found I can connect to easily as they lie within.
Thank you for sharing this Coleen. I have struggled to make sense of the many different faces of God as portrayed by the various religions and spiritual movements. I know God and divinity exists as I have felt this to be true from a very young age, just misrepresented. I can connect to the feeling of God within and all around with the qualities of stillness and love.
I love the Divinity in this blog Coleen, the Divinity that exposes what God is not and the absolute Divinity that is all that God truly is… The Divine qualities of God, including joy, rhythm, harmony, love, stillness, truth and beauty that are naturally within us all.. Thank you for the opportunity to confirm and appreciate this connection and relationship to God and the Divine. 🙂
Thank you for writing about your experience with God Coleen. I loved your humorous presentation of the different faces of God that have been manufactured, you have shown how ridiculous they are. Sharing your deeper knowingness of God has enabled me to feel these qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy that we all hold within. “No faith nor fear” exists in this way of being with God.
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.
Wow Coleen, some beautiful descriptions of the true quality of God in nature in your blog. Great how you then relate those qualities, such as stillness to also be within us. Sometimes, even in the middle of the day, I can close my eyes, become still, and feel that wide expanse of space and stars there within me and around me, as you have described lying on a beach. Yes we have the divine within us.
This is absolutely awesome Coleen…you have completely de-mystified the dilemma of what is presented to us as children, what we feel and know innately as children, and then go about seeking, and endlessly searching for an answer, as adults!
I enjoy and very much appreciate the simplicity and common sense-ness of life that is presented by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine … and what you have expressed in regards to all of this below is gold:
“What I have found particularly engaging in this understanding of Divinity is that it is based on … a precise science which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of 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.”
It is absurd to think and recognise that we as a separated humanity have each put a face on God. It is absurd that as a world we have not truly and deeply connected to the fact that if there is one God, how come it has been thought of in many different ways? There have been war, murder, and argument over who has the correct correlation with God – like we as his children have to somehow fight over him.
Universal Medicine is the one religion that I feel represents the truth on God. It is simple, it is beautiful, it is universally unifying and speaks out about the separation humanity is living in. When in actual fact God is within, not ever to be sought outwardly.
I love the way you write Coleen. Super gorgeous. This was a great part: “on a precise science which connects me with the rhythms and cycles of the Nature, Time and Space.” the science of God is spectacular. I feel too that people always have a true sense of God, and so this is why religions are so appealing to most. If it wasn’t, I think most things wouldn’t make sense and would sound pretty weird.
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….?
These images of ‘God’ blind us to the reflection of our own Godliness… what a clever trick indeed.
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.
When I was little I felt cocooned in God. God was always present and I was always talking to him. I lost that connection along the way by giving my power away to other views. Since having healings and coming to talks by Serge Benhayon I am coming back to that inner knowing of my relationship with my father, God.
For this gift, for the inspiration to let go of the many hurts holding me away from the connection to myself, I am very blessed and grateful to know Serge Benhayon.
Coleen, your great words here: “I began to feel some of nature’s qualities within me: the open hearted feeling, the silence and, at times, the stillness” – agree, and when we are in stillness, the silence of the Soul is God’s Communication.
Yes the beauty and stillness found in nature encapsulates our own divinity. God resides in nature and us equally so as we are equally divine. Thank you Coleen.
At last, someone writes about this topic of the confusing and very varied supposed faces of God! I have seen these beliefs too and they create a lot of fear and confusion for people, however they certainly are at odds with nature and its reflection of divinity. Looking outwards to theories about God never measured up to what I knew innately within, yet it was not uncommon for me to give my power away to an outside authority, questioning or doubting the simple and innocent connection and knowing within. Over time I learned to cast out these false perceptions of God and simply continue to trust in what I felt within. When I met Serge Benhayon it was like the tiny little spark of knowing I had expanded to an absoluteness, which also included me as part of that divinity.
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.
So many concepts of god that do not hold the essence of God. When we are open to it, as you were Colleen, we can feel God is actually everywhere and is ceaseless in his presence.
And not just ceaseless in His presence, but God is also ceaseless in His communication – if we care to listen that is. And if we don’t, the presence and the communication are still always there, regardless.
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.
Gorgeous Gabriele – thank you. A reminder to keep for us all.
I would regularly seek out respite in nature which was often a solitary experience until I remembered the truth by listening to Serge Benhayon present. This confirmed for me what I knew to be true all along, that God is ever present and accessible always through my connection with my inner heart. And should I ever forget, I am ever so patiently reminded by his gracious reflection in all that I come in to contact with, whether that be in nature or in another human being, should I choose to connect. I’ve discovered that God loves connection and communicates constantly with us through connection. This is far from a solitary experience, as through this connection we are one with everyone and the all. This last part for me is forever humbling and forever unfolding as I surrender the layers upon layers of protection that no longer serve.
Totally brilliant blog Coleen. Your expression is from such a deep sense of truth and knowing and living of everything you have felt over the years. I can so relate to all you have said; I too grew up knowing God was in nature – it was my rock – my childhood was spent playing in the woods, marvelling at the wonder of nature. It kept me connected to deep sense of knowing we are part of something grand. Now I know this to be absolutely true and I am relishing rebuilding my understandings of being in and one with God, nature, time, space, rhythm, joy and love. The most incredible journey which I embrace and develop with joy each and every day to build eventually into each and every moment.
What a glorious blog Coleen. 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, that for me, there is no way I could possibly deny Gods existence or his love, for I know and feel it deep within me to be the very essence of my being.
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.
I love this blog because this is how I have always felt too – I had no doubt that God existed, but what I was told by organised religion just didn’t make sense. Once I understood that I could reconnect to my stillness and love, that of God, inside me, I felt confirmed in that all I had previously felt was true.
This is so beautifully expressed Coleen, I love all that you have shared. It is so true that there are many faces of God that have been put forward. But the truth for me is that love of God is only felt in the heart and throughout the body, as a reflection of what innately already is within us all. A divine knowing of oneness, that can never be diminished by the false faces of God that insinuate otherwise, that can always be connected to when we choose to be open to the oneness of God. For me I have found that the true faces of God are reflected through nature, through people through loving heart-felt exchanges and expressions (such as your blog), and when I choose to surrender to the knowing within that I am an equal Son of God as are we all.
Coleen – your blog gave me much to appreciate in my own relationship with God. Until my 20’s and until I started attending Universal Medicine events I was too afraid to even call God God because of all the connotations and conflict associated with Him. Over recent years I have let God into my heart and my life and feel His presence daily. Thank you for your reflections – they are very very beautiful.
Coleen this is so beautifully expressed and capturing all the many facets we can be with God. I often hear Serge speak about us developing a stronger relationship with God – truly heavenly!
Beautiful words Coleen, I so relate to your blog and feel moved by it.
I too found God in nature. But I thought it was the setting that was magical and didn’t realised nature was reflecting my divinity back to me – I’d let all my hurts I was carrying get in the way of feeling who I am and who we all are. I’d given up on God and myself and it wasn’t until Universal Medicine that I began to make the journey home and connect back to the truth I’d known all along.
I can so relate to this Karin…I was angry and blamed God and even used to cringe just hearing the word God, however I would escape to nature, and often felt what I called the ‘sound of silence’. It wasn’t until attending Universal Medicine presentations that I came to understand what that ‘sound of silence’ was…it was stillness and presence, and it wasnt just something outside of me: that stillness and presence had to be within me for me to be able to recognise it and feel it around me – that was such a revelation and confirmed that we do already have that Divinity within all of us!
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.
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.
This is beautiful Coleen, and it something that I feel to be true also. To be in full connection with nature, time, space and all of us together is being truly connected to divinity.
The way you describe looking at the stars Coleen it’s so easy to feel the power of us appreciating nature. Its something that is not written a lot about as if its almost too obvious to mention, but wow, how beautiful to read. In this process its like we get an open door to see we too are are one of the wonders of the world.
It seems the more I connect to myself the more I love and appreciate nature, I never really did, didn’t value it for a large part of my life I was oblivious to nature and what it offers us. Today, just this week I became a star gazer fascinated by the moon and venus and their dance around the sky, the moons been missing for the last few days – I don’t know why more aren’t concerned but I figure I just can’t see it! But more seriously the more I am connected the more I see how we are interconnected and how truly beautiful that is.
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.
Beautiful blog Coleen, I can feel your sensitivity to all the faces of God and I found it wonderfull how you express about your feeling what and who God is, as you feel by your inner-most. Incredible to read and feel God while I am reading so, instant connection.
Yes Danna Elmalah, to read, feel and know God is to read, feel and know the truth we live in complete 360 connection.
It is clearly a brave factor to express about God in this way and more important to be building such a strong relationship with him, it would seem that we are not given the truth about God and our natural connection to him which is a crime in itself and so with articles such as these we get to feel the absolute truth of how simple this connection can be, we should just surrender to it.
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.
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.
You have so aptly described the many faces of god, and the very reason why I’m still struggling with accepting the concept of god. It does make sense when I read about a truer version of god, but I still can’t shake the notion that he is a ‘he’ and someone to look up to who is better than / different to us.
How far the images and ‘faces of God’ have steered us away from the true God we have always known… Right in front of our face and all around us, we have dismissed God because we look elsewhere for the image we have been sold (that does not include our own reflection and that of others). Each one of us is the face of God – what evil to conjure images that tell us otherwise.
Beautifully said Kylie, and so true.
Spot on Ariana, all and any arguments about God are just a delay.
God in nature is undeniable and in truth God inside us is equally undeniable when we connect to the stillness and love of this within.
I feel this way too Danielle – beautifully encapsulated.
Beautifully said Danielle, the qualities of stillness, harmony, joy, love and truth are the one the one unifying nature of God and our own inner essence.
I can relate to what you’ve said here entirely Coleen. You convey the many faces of “God” so well! And the connection you describe experiencing in nature is palpable. Serge Benhayon’s presentations have deeply supported me to develop this connection in my daily life too, so that it is not dependent on where I am or what’s going on around me, whilst also being fully engaged with people and life.
I remember the white bearded interpretation of God from my childhood. I’m not sure why or where from because we never went to church although I did go to the church Sunday school once. I remember feeling totally confused about how a man with a beard could be floating around above us, it just seemed a little obscure. Although I have always known God it was not until the teachings of Universal Medicine that I started to appreciate God, this did not happen straight away, it took me time to build up trust in what was being presented. As I did I learnt to appreciate my connection and the little messages that are not by chance at all but my communication with God.
This is a very beautiful to read Coleen and such a lovely confirmation expressed so clearly. I had an experience of sharing my similar discovery with someone yesterday and it opened a door to this beautiful understanding that we are not alone in this religious activity despite us both knowing how deeply personal our relationship with God is. There was such a tender moment that we surrendered to together that we wept … Not a sad moment but an opening to let more love in.
Fabulous article Coleen thank you. I too have puzzled over these many and varied versions of God and came to the conclusion that none were correct. The old man with the white beard seemed the most lovable, but did not fit with the ‘only Son’ theory, how can any man who looks that adorable only love one person. However I connected with nature at a young age, I knew God was present in every living thing including us even though I never met a religion that supported this knowing, until now. The teachings and wisdom of Universal Medicine has deepened my knowing, supported my ability to ponder and feel the divinity in all, in myself, in other people, in nature and animals. To me there are no longer many faces of God, instead it is the light of love that shines from our eyes and the deep warmth we feel in our hearts.
“To me there are no longer many faces of God, instead it is the light of love that shines from our eyes and the deep warmth we feel in our hearts.” Beautifully expressed Rowena – this is the quality of our connection to ourselves being shown to the world and felt by everyone.
I could never handle a god who wanted me to sing hymns such as ‘I am Not Worthy’ when I was growing up, so the christian religion never took hold for me. And yet like you, I quietly knew somehow that while the christian god wasn’t it, this didn’t mean there wasn’t any other such god. I did end up finding god in nature too, the vast open oceans and the immense power of storms. It wasn’t until I met Serge Benhayon that I learned that I am indeed religious, in that I feel truly connected to the magnificence in nature and the exact same magnificence in myself, nature being much more consistent than me though, but the same equal feeling nonetheless. It is very very lovely now living life having the words that accompany what I have felt when it comes to understanding who God is.
I can relate to this so much, the nations fed that God is a big bad man with a thunderbolt thing that will come crashing down on you when you have sinned. And the end of our lives being the huge reckoning. But the truth is so far away from this scare-mongering that deliberately tries to hide the truth of a God that is within and without, all-knowing, all-loving and who holds us all — not for going to any place of worship to seek him outside of us, but for connecting to the godliness within. As you say Colleen, connecting to the divinity that can be accessed through our bodies is a face of God we can all recognise.
To know from within even before we have the words to articulate it, for me, is our connection with Divinity. Yes we can turn away from it or attempt to cover it over, yet magnificently it remains ever present for us to again connect to. Thank you Coleen for bringing through your relationship with God for me to feel.
‘God the Vengeful, not fun at parties’… this made me laugh! It’s crazy all the different faces and characteristics we have given God, essentially we have humanised Divinity, and not even with our best human traits!
I had a chuckle at the one too Meg. The world has made so many faces for God. The one that makes sense to me though is the one I get to feel on a day to day basis.
That’s beautiful 🙂 I agree the way God is portrayed in so many religions simply doesn’t make sense.
Very well said, Meg. We have humanised Divinity and therefore capped ourselves as only human, when there is so much more. When we suspend disbelief and just consider the possibility of a grandness and plan beyond our human understanding the ceiling lifts and our view widens. Living from this place, even it is just something we consider as a possibility, expands life so hugely.
Exactly! We are so, so, SO much more than what we have accepted ourselves to be.
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.
I can only echo what has been said here, Coleen. Thank you for this. It is beautiful to read.
Simply exposing the absurdity of what ‘religion’ has been allowed to become – instead of the natural, inherent simplicity that belongs to all of us that it truly is.
‘Absurdity’ and complication that make it hard to navigate the alleged path(s) to God. Maybe it is the simplicity (and responsibility) that keeps us from accepting the truth?
After reading your most wonderful blog Coleen, and several others about God recently, I am feeling that I need to go back to my arrival in this life and begin my relationship with God all over again. I grew up in such confusion about God, knowing him inside as a young child and feeling him in nature that I was introduced to at a very early age, but all the while being told there was no God. So until a few years ago I struggled to say the word God, let alone even consider his presence in my life. From the inspiring presentations of Serge Benhayon and others involved in Universal Medicine, as well as from amazing blogs like yours, I have finally begun to reconnect to the knowing of God I had as child and day by day my relationship with him is growing, but I also know that there is so much more to come, and that I welcome with an open heart.
The many faces of God feels like the searching that we do for what suits us even though we may flit from one to the other and still we are none the wiser. I love your relationship with God Coleen, it’s the one that I know to be true.
Thank you Coleen, my whole life I’ve been certain that ‘the way’, Life had to be the same for everyone. It can’t be different to somebody living in Holland, Australia, Africa or anywhere. I’ve always had a sense that the body was playing the key role here. But it took Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon to make it practically and understandable for me. God’s everywhere. The fact that I am His Son is still something that I haven’t accepted in full, allthough I can now feel Him. And also how his Love and Warmth are actually resonating within me. It is very humbling to fully surrender to His Love. It is asking met to let go, don’t care about what other may think, judge, etc. But how it feels within me, within my own body. As I’m writing this I can feel myself dropping into my body and also actually feel how I become (more?) One with everything. There’s a Stillness and a Knowing to it. Lovely! Yummy!
Amen Coleen! I love the humour you expose in the many faces of God especially the Kumbaya version (ha) and the ridiculousness of the many reinterpretations of what God is. You share the simple truth that God is within us – “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 the humour in which you describe the many faces of God and expose their absurdity. Nature provides us with a reflection and experience of being in union with universal order and rhythm, being part of the greater ALL from where I feel the stillness, connectedness, purpose and harmony. It is the body that is as well part of this and hence is easily in tune with God when we only allow it. We all know God as we are from him and part of him, letting go of all the ‘faces’ we have man-made due to our needs opens the doors to our inner knowing.
It is baffeling how God has been put into different categories and yet none of them are the real deal.
Indeed Ben, perhaps we have categorized and re-interpreted God so we could somehow own him for ourselves.
Agreed Ben. There are so many.. The world is full of things that are not the real deal yet as they are close we seem to fall for it easy.
This is so beautiful to read and has touched me profoundly. I have no words other than thank you Coleen.
“The qualities of Stillness, Love, Truth, Harmony, Rhythm, Beauty and Joy are not only in nature, but are also part of our innermost self”…
This has been my experience too.When I feel disconnected from me I find God in nature- the stillness of an early morning walk, the truth that birds sing the best harmonies, the rhythm of nature as I observing the buds about to burst open on the blossom trees, the beauty in the colour of the sky, and the joy of being able to appreciate and be part of God’s expression in nature.
Beautiful blog Coleen. My knowing of God throughout my life was the vastness of the sky and the stars at night. This is when I could feel him most and I could confirm to myself that he existed and could feel him everywhere. I loved nature but interestingly I didn’t connect with him there, the sky was where I felt him most. Looking at the stars was my sanctuary and where I found my stillness and my time to be with God
I love how you describe the beautiful qualities of nature which “…are also a part of our innermost self, when we choose to reconnect with them.”
If God were written about in this way there would be much less fear. Imagine if every person were liberated by fully embracing that God is within them, the world would be a VERY different place.
This is gorgeous to read Coleen. I can totally relate to what you are saying about the many faces of God. I used to be quite confused in my childhood at school to get all these images of what God was, especially the man with the white beard sounds familiar! Though these images never felt true or rang any truth with me but it never really stopped the feeling inside me that God was there. With studying Universal Medicine I also started to feel God in nature which makes so much sense to me, the beauty and precision in nature can only be divine. I love how you started to feel this in yourself to as I am starting to feel this too. As there has for sure in me been a sincere longing for a sense of divinity to connect to too.
It is almost like what every depiction of God that I have heard gives us is an impression of God being some sort of man that is outside of us and thus there is an element of disconnection between Him and us. But this is not the case as I am learning, He is definitely inside us all, all of the time and can definitely be known personally not just through what is heard outside of us.
I have always felt I had a relationship with God but it was incompatible with the images of God the church have given me and in a way I gave up, didnot know what to do with my feeling of being part of the all, but how, what and who I could not get any clarity. Meeting Serge and attending courses of Universal Medicine and reading ‘The Way it is’ gave me back my understanding about God and my relationship starts to blossom again and I will not let it go this time.
Our relationship with God is a very special one: we come from God, we are held in his energy and love. We are divine too, that is why we can recognize and can reconnect to the stillness, love, harmony, truth and joy within. So our relationship with ourselves reflects our relationship with God.
Lovely Coleen, i also have always found it strange how there are so many different versions of God, each one creating separation and conflict between differing opinions. I too have always had a connection with nature – in the same way someone might pray when faced with a problem, I go for a walk and use the space and quiet to shake of the anxiousness or worry or drama, and work my problems out. From a small child, my relationship with God was no big deal – I used to talk to him when I played, and thought nothing of it.
I vehemently rejected the ‘faces of God” you describe – lumping them under the category. God the institutionalised, choosing only to understand divinity in the order and purpose in nature. Slowly and surely through the wisdom and reflection from Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness I have opened my heart and my eyes to divinity in community & congregation, in people and in me, this ‘face of God”. Thanks Coleen, divine!
Coleen, gorgeous, I too love not having to wait to develop my alive relationship with God, it’s all around us, I am home, right here and now.
God has always been close, especially under the Divine night sky. He is even closer now , after becoming a Student of The Way of The Livingness Presented by Serge Benhayon, I now know what I felt when I was young that God is within us all. We are Love as He is LOVE. Thank you for your sharing Coleen.
As I read this I recognised so many of the versions of God that you talk about as a child I knew without doubt there was a God and I also knew what he was not.
Beautiful Coleen, the qualities that connects us to that which is God are very strong, and make no doubt possible about what God is.
I like what you are sharing here Coleen, the search in us all for God but always looking in the outside while never considering that we are playing a vital part in our relationship to God. Being a Son of God comes with responsibility and an innate sense to serve. A Son of God is equal in its nature and does not dissect the world and people into parts and regions. We have been so blinded of what our true nature is that most of us do not even know anymore that we are indeed all Sons of God and that God simply can’t have the many faces that you have so clearly described. We have been presented with an image of Our Father that is simply not true.
Coleen I too had similar experiences and understanding as you growing up, so when you wrote, “And the best part is I don’t have to wait until I die to develop this relationship with God.” The first thought that came to my mind was that I did not have to form my relationship with God through someone else who had his direct line. They had the direct line to God because they had the calling from God, which I had not received. So it was not possible for me to know him and have a relationship with him as they could.
Thank you Colleen – your article reminded me of the silence, the expansiveness and the infinite beauty that I connect to so easily in nature. This grandness and harmony is most certainly divine, and this divinity is surely and simply God. No flowing beards, no ledgers of account, no fire and brimstone and no exclusion. 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.
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.
So true Hannah, I took out the rubbish last and on my walk to the bin I looked up at the night sky and into the stars and felt the beginning of the summer air and appreciated just how amazing my surrounds were, my vintage car was in the garage and I got to look at it on my way to the bin, just as a good as the road trip I had in mind!!
If we can’t reach a one unified decision amongst us as to what or exactly who God is, then it is an indication of the separation we exist in and not an indication of a God with a multiple personality disorder! It is like we are all pieces of the one puzzle – together we make sense, but if each piece walks away and doesn’t look back, nor connect with each other, we lose sight of the bigger picture. God is the bigger picture, the whole that we are seeded from. When we remain part of this whole, no matter where we walk, we do not need to ask what God looks like, because we carry the truth deep within and this Divinity is reflected all around us, in each other and in Nature: ‘As above, so below’. If we don’t know who God is, it’s because we have forgotten who we are. WE are the missing piece of the puzzle that we keep searching for, and when we choose to connect once more, the whole makes perfect sense.
Beautifully expressed Liane, until reconnecting to my own inner heart I was eternally searching for the truth of who I am outside of myself. No wonder I never found God as I was looking for him outside of myself as an individual. Once reconnected I can feel how I am made of that same spark as God and in essence so is everyone else. There is only inclusion not an exclusivity which I have seen in organised religion.
Beautifully said Liane. The more we get to know ourselves, the more we get to know God. Getting to know ourselves does not require us to go anywhere special or do anything special; it just requires us to breathe gently and re-connect with our own divinity. All those years, lifetimes even of looking outside of ourselves to find God were really a complete waste of time when it is as simple as breathing our own breath.
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.
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.
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?
I too shared a love of nature for how it reminded me how to be me. Nature asked nothing of me and I felt how I could just be without distraction or need. I would escape into nature periodically to remember who I was, after struggling to be myself in the city where I lived. I have now learnt the tools to reconnect to myself and know how to be myself all of the time, no matter where I am. It is lovely to feel myself and my connection with God – independent of what is happening around me. I still love and appreciate nature, but no longer need it to bring me home.
It is amazing to review the many faces/pictures we attribute to many many things – this distortion leads us further away form the truth of who we are and where we come from. I had an image of an old man standing with a staff in a blue robe. This picture of God I found in illustrated bibles and there was a wisdom to the imagery – yet when I walked into a church I could not fathom that the image would demand all of these buildings – even the pictures did not match up.
Colleen – this is simply beautiful! Everything you express here has been my feeling also to a tee. However you paint my feelings in words full of grace and articulate them with absolute precision bringing them to tangible awareness in the knowing of our shared experience. Thank you.
Divinity without the faith nor the fear (and without the man with big beard…), but the realization that we are home already and that God is everywhere. Such beautiful blog Coleen, thank you.
I never found many relatable items in conventional ideas about ‘God’.
I agree with what you say about finding the grace of God within and having a reflection from nature. This is beautiful to feel and something I enjoy while walking daily.
I love the humour and wisdom of what you share with us Coleen. The main thing that put me off religions and the notion of a ‘God’ was that everyone was so serious about it all! Not to mention all the rules and regulations it came packaged with, none of these of true service but designed instead to reduce, restrict and control us all, the Sons of God, to be merely sons of man. What about – God is Love and if you understand love, you will know that by virtue of what love is, a being made entirely of this heavenly substance can never be imposing, vengeful, calculating, exclusive or even blissful because these are all things that run counter to the very essence of love. Thus, know love and you will know God.
‘Know love and you will know God’ I love the simplicity of this. This is why we know that something in all these versions of God, something doesn’t fit. We innately know love and it’s not in all the versions of God that Coleen describes in her blog.
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.
No religions or descriptions of God ever made sense to me until I attended Universal Medicine presentations were I began to realize that we are all sparks of God and we simply need to re-connect to our bodies and our innate divinity and reclaim our knowing of our connection to God and the ageless wisdom.
Religion made no sense to me either rather something to be feared where I needed to give my power away to something outside of myself. The Universal Medicine presentations of connecting to my body and inner-heart has lead me to really feel the true meaning of religion is in relationship to myself, others and the world of large.
I agree marylouisemyers. As a child and teenager I knew that my understanding and connection to what I knew as God was greater than that presented by the religions, even though I have difficulty in articulating it. The presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have certainly helped to deepen my understanding and connection to God.
I remember the face of God I was privy too at most funerals that were held within a religious institution. The one that said ‘God took them, it was their time’. So to me that said very simply that God killed them, he took their life, just like a murderer. Which didn’t make sense to me as one of the ten commandants was ‘thou shalt not kill’.
There is so much within the institutionalised religions that has been misinterpreted or changed, that to a child is so very confusing, especially because as children we do in fact know God intimately but unfortunately are not supported to hold onto this connection and knowing we have.
Thank goodness we have the choice to come back to this connection and knowing at any time once we realise that we have in fact disconnected.
Coleen I love how you name all the pictures of God and then clearly explain where you found God. How you felt connected to God in nature, geometry and science was beautiful to read.
Great article Coleen. I too found God in nature in my youth – the miraculous beauty of design and living pulse of a tree, a leaf, an insect , a bird, could only be divine. What was a puzzle to me at that point in time was how could God have ‘created’ man and our civilisations that were such a mess and based on such greed, corruption and misery. That didn’t make sense. But like you I gradually came to know God as my Father, and feel his pure and delicate love within me as his Son.
True science is about the rhythms and cycles of life that we are all under yet have very little awareness of.
Yes I agree Gail with your description of true science. And being more aware of these cycles allows us to connect more deeply with the divinity that we are and that is everywhere if we choose to see it, which is true religion. So true science and true religion are one in the same.
Indeed Gail the immense offerings of the cycles of the moon and stars, the significance of numerology and cleansing of the rain – the interconnectedness of all is there when we open ourselves up to it.
The God that Coleen speaks of sounds like the God that I have grown to know in my life as real……and loving and all embracing…..and just everything that God is. Thank you Coleen for exposing some of the many myths and confirming God as forever sustaining and living in all our lives as God only can.
No wonder there is so much confusion around God when there is so many ‘faces’ that have been put on God. Having been brought up as a Catholic I got very good at playing ‘the good girl’ so as not to be condemned to hell by God. That was the face of God that I was presented with that scared me. Thank goodness for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine reflecting to us the true face of God, that God is the qualities of joy, harmony, stillness, truth, love, rhythm and we can access him from connecting deeply within. When we truly know ourselves, we know God.
God is clearly there for everyone and any religion that teaches otherwise can only be false. God cannot be exclusive and set up to pander to the needs of a certain belief system, yet this is what we see in many religions, an interpretation of God to suit an ideology. How obviously false this is seems quite astounding, but less so when we consider our current measure of what being intelligent actually is and how that lack of intelligence let the disharmonious interpretation of God lead so many astray, led not by love for humanity, but instead by self interest, self preservation and ultimately corruption.
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.
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.
Yes Christoph truth has always been a big one for me, a great guide, not one I always live by I might add, but growing up under one of the images described by Coleen their was no truth not an ounce and I could not tolerate it and got out as soon as I could.
By contrast the moment I met Serge Benhayon and did the Gentle Breath Meditation I knew that I had come home and that this was a truth I knew deeply in my entire body, and I have never stopped listening to his wisdom and sharing since, I feel so deeply appreciative that I chose to be awoken to the truth living within.
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.
Indeed, Serge Benhayon brings to life the true meaning and living experience of divinity and a religious life far beyond any idealistic, patronising or bastardized version of God but much more a very personal and at the same time universal relationship we all can have with God.
Alex you are someone I also consider very godly. It’s always a pleasure to read what you write.
Yes he is Dean, Serge Benhayon is a ‘real-life modern-day prophet’ and his words hold the same love and presence as nature and God. No one can deny the divinity of nature’s presence.
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”.
Thank you, Stephanie. What I love about the Universal Medicine presentations is that 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….so this ‘Face of God’ also requires a huge re evaluation of our concepts of science, as well as evolutionary quantum leaps into true Science.
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.
I have to say, hartanne60, that, for a time, I too found Jesus more accessible than the false concepts of God on offer…and then there were the false concepts of Jesus with which to contend!
It feels basically as though, historically, there has been an anti God, anti Truth long term marketing campaign from somewhere. How glorious and how liberating to cast this off and claim the truth of our relationship with God and to know that we are from, and will continue into, eternity with Him, forever deepening and expanding that relationship with Him and with all of us.
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.
How perverse it is that exactly those versions of God we delve into on our search for meaning and purpose in life are the very reason for our disconnection with our inner knowing and innate connection with God in the first place.
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.
I love what you share here juliamanbos. “One cannot but be in awe in the presence of this divine order.” This is a confirmation of our grandness, our divinity and the absolute ‘awe’ that we each are.
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.
The natural order of the human body and the perfection in Life….what a gorgeous reflection of Our Father, Julia. Thank you – I find this very confirming.
Me too coleen24, Julia’s reference to the human body reminded me that my first true encounter with God. It was learning about the kidney in an anatomy lesson. I cannot express the awesomeness and confirmation, that my body was part of something so much more than me alone, however I was intricately part of it!
It was inspired by you! Thanks to you.
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.
Thank you, Bernadette. Yes – surrender and Stillness have offered me the way to build and develop my relationship with God. It even feels beautiful to say this, ” I have a relationship with God,” – no intermediary needed…. so beautifully confirming.
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!
Thanks Rachel for expanding on Colleen’s excellent blog. My understanding of the enormity of who and what God is and that I am one with God has been a bit fuzzy. I do see the beauty and wonder of God all around me but it been a work in progress to truly come to absolutely know that I am also the ONE. Yet it makes so much sense and the more I open and appreciate God’s presence in and around me the more I can feel myself expand – which is the divine magic.
Yes rachelandras . . . calling us back to return home.
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.
That there is zero judgement in God is a revolutionary concept for religions who want Him to be the ultimate Judge….yet this judgement I have found is strangely at odds with God being Love. This is not the indulgent, parental liberalism I have seen at times, but, as you describe, James, an all encompassing, holding Love: therefore, no judgement is possible because one cannot hold and judge at the same time – they are fundamentally different energetic qualities. Judgement is of the mind. I prefer the mind that knows understanding: understanding goes with Love and is part of its family.
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 🙂
Brilliant comment James – you sum it all up so beautifully. And as you rightly say, it is quite incredible!
Thank you Tamara, it sure is!
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.
I love what you say Bina. We do not have to go anywhere, God is within us. It is indeed simple once we recognize this. And a confirmation of that we find in nature, even in a little grass space in mid of a big town.
Yes Bina, a billion, trillion thanks for a lifetime of inspiration from Serge Benhayon and family – to live this life knowing what is possible from what I see every time I am in their company is worth more than anything – there are no words to accurately describe my humble appreciation for being here now. With you all my brothers.
Love that about our choices: “I just check if that choice was made with God or not. Simple really.” And there has to be no blame or error. It was a choice. If it was not done with God – Ouch & good reflection. Next one will be with.
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.
This is very beautiful to read Coleen, ‘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 how you write about us sharing these same qualities that are in nature, it makes me realise how out of balance and harmony we often choose to live and also that we can at anytime choose to reconnect to the qualities we see and feel in nature, and that nature is there as a constant reflection and reminder for us.
Thank you, Rebecca. Nature is constant, God is constant, we can be constant ….when we accept the reflection and connect within.
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.
Yes Sandra, I love your reminder to see our relationship with God as no different to our other relationships – including our relationship with ourself – all need the same quality of care, awareness, appreciation and honour to grow and be both “vital and alive”.
I very much agree Sandra, it comes back to us and what we make of it.
Yes absolutely Sandra I love that.
I love what you have written Sandra, ‘good care, awareness, appreciation, honour and evolving’ something to remind myself of in not only my relationship without God but with all my relationships. Beautiful.
Bravo Sandra – I love the way you so simply and beautifully honour equality in all relationships.
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.
That’s a brilliant suggestion Paul – thank you – I will give definitely give it a go!
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.
Yes, the pictures and images fixate and cement our focus and attention on false beliefs which steer us away from our initial feeling for Divinity, which is an inner knowing, an inner feeling in our body. Looking at most pictures of “religious art” is a complete distraction….it confirms and sustains only the false, mind generated beliefs.
Absolutely Nico God is there to be felt in the body, in our bodies as naturally and simply as breathing and feeling how we are connected to the whole universe, to actually feel that is amazing and then the more you feel that the more that becomes normal. My question to myself is why I don’t make that feeling the focus of my every moment instead of momentary check ins, how could anything be more important than this?
Nico what struck me when reading your comment was the line ‘for me the pictures have only brought me further away from God’. How truly awful that for so many people they have been turned away from God completely by the fact that they can’t relate to any of the man made versions of God that are out there. For how long do they simply not entertain the idea that there is a God because the images that exist are simply that, false representations that have been conjured up specifically to throw people off the scent?
That is beautifully said Nico and such a confirmation of God – “No more pictures, but felt in the body” captures it for me. I loved reading what everyone shares and hearing their own experiences.
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.
To me, we are the drop and God is the ocean. This leaves me with no doubt that God is part of me and I am part of God, there is no separation, it is only our dense bodies that create a ‘so called’ barrier to feeling the stillness and love of God. But if we are the drop, then we also have that stillness and love inside of US we just have to allow ourselves to connect to it.
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.
I agree, Leonne: accepting and confirming what is the true face of God for ourselves sets the cornerstone of our foundation for developing our relationship with Him. Accepting false faces gives us a false foundation and creates separation and a great deal of confusion.
Yes I remember Serge Benhayon sharing that God gives 100% all the time and we chose what we accept maybe 70% 50% and reject the other, but God just keeps giving us everything, all of him. It is our choice to dull down this relationship and reduce it to moments instead of loving and living that love in everything we do.