Recently I have noticed that, while I have been taking steps to stay connected to my body and be present with my movements throughout the day, I get to a certain point where I feel I have ‘got it’ and then I let go. It’s like there is nothing more at this point for me to participate in, so off I go and play around in my thoughts. But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?
It’s like I have completely given up on ‘me’ and gone onto auto-pilot, thinking it is all going to be sorted out for me now ‘I’ve got it’ and there is nothing more for me to do.
In the past I have heard many people say they are “Leaving it up to God” to sort out their troubles and make decisions about their fate, as well as the fate of their families and communities. I feel when I go onto ‘auto-pilot’ I am doing the exact same thing.
I have often found the simplicity of a connection to me and my body is all too hard … and BOR-ING!!!
I know from my history I can get bored very easily. Restlessness seeps into my body, and I start indulging more in my thoughts. I find that although these thoughts are entertaining for a while, there is an emptiness contained within them. I am alone, distracted with no connection to anyone, or anything. I have ‘left the building’ and no one can reach me!
Fortunately, with the support of the Gentle Breath Meditation, I can make a choice to feel my breath, the coolness of the in-breath at the tip of my nose, the warmth of the out-breath. Feeling the warmth and connection to my breath brings me back into my body again. I feel each movement; the movement of my fingertips, the delicacy of my touch, my feet connected to the earth. This is when I feel I am with ME.
It has never made sense to leave things “up to God” to sort my life out for me. This always felt like a blind faith where I wasn’t taking responsibility for being a part of life, a part of humanity and how we live and participate on this earth. It’s like saying, “It’s all too much – you sort it out.” But how often in my life have I done this? I couldn’t even count the number of times!
These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.
It is here that the words I have heard in the past make sense: The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.
It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.
With deepest appreciation for the Ancient Wisdom Teachings as presented by Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and The Way of the Livingness.
by Suzanne Cox, Service Officer, Ocean Shores
Further Reading:
What is the Gentle Breath Meditation?
Control or Connection: It’s a Choice
Returning To Our Essence
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
When we are in true connection with God and our divinity we are more aligned to our purpose and the greater plan.
Being part of the ‘leaving it to God’ or ‘leaving it to the universe’ brigade just means that there is a lack of commitment to everyday life and all it brings.
‘Leaving it up to God’ seems such a given up state waiting for God or someone else to fix or sort something out, when we take responsibility for our choices we soon work out what supports us and what doesn’t, and therefore we can change the choices we make.
Life on Earth is pretty intense. Yet, it is not God the reason why we are here. We are here on our own accord defying the divine plan. Why on Earth should God rescue us from ourselves?
“Leaving it up to God” or in fact to anyone except us, is a sure recipe for disappointment. It simply feels like in that moment we don’t want to take the responsibility that is ours to take, for whatever reason. But in this life, it is all about choices and whatever choice we make we are totally responsible for the consequences. Maybe that’s why we prefer to leave it to others.
“… I feel I have ‘got it’ and then I let go.” If you did this when you are driving you would not be alive for very long – fortunately life is more forgiving and gives us many repeated opportunities to learn responsibility.
We have to become our true divine selves again and as our time here on earth has shown, no one can do that for us – not even God, because we have free will.
The truth of this requires a responsibility that so many people do not want or choose to accept.
I feel we apply this ‘leaving it up to God’ too loosely, and not take responsiblity for everything we do or create.
Autopilot is what many of us are doing more and more and then we wonder where life has gone, days, weeks, months and years have gone past and everything is just a blur.
Without perfection when I connect to myself something miraculous occurs, I’m not working with time I’m working with something grander – space and in this space we are more and then we are with everyone and nothing perturbs us. I certainly would love more of this.
There is a hopelessness that characterises the notion of ‘leaving it up to God’ – leaving it up to a greater power to relieve the suffering of the lesser being we make ourselves to be… whereas ironically, when we come to know ourselves as equal to God, we then can leave it to Him – with our willingness absolutely aligned, our body in the service it needs to be, and our whole being surrendered to what is needed for God to do His work.
Knowing it is our own responsibility to be all that we are reconnects us to love and to God.
God waits patiently for all his children to return home, and each one of us decide how long that will take by the choice to love or not.
I can relate to wandering off in my thoughts or getting over-emotional or binging on food or soical media when this get too intense. But all these tactics simply delay the moment of me feeling my responsibility in and to my life and dealing with the situation.
Thank you Suzanne, I have also heard the “I’ll leave everything up to God” mentality and it’s kind of like surveying your home and it’s lack of cleanliness and expecting God to clean the house. We know that’s silly because it’s our life and our responsibility, and I feel that it’s the same for life in general. We would never teach a child to not take care of their responsibilities, like cleaning their room, because “God will do it”, and it’s the same for us as adults across every part of life. It’s not that God wouldn’t help but it’s up to us to be in union with God and take responsibility to bring that to life in an active way.
Once we know who we truly are, and have experienced that deep connection, and the interconnectedness of all things, the idea of leaving something up to something else, is unfathomable… We have a choice with everything.
So many live by the adage that our lives are not ours to live, that it is “up to God” how they will be. The reality is far from this. Every thing we do, every way we live provides the foundation of our next moment, so God is there, yes, but does he rule our life? No, we do, by how we choose to be in each moment, this creates the life we will have.
God can’t change us because we have free will, we can make the choices that lead to our life being a certain way. We are God inside ourselves and can choose to create what ever we like, or co-create in line with God. It is our choice.
There is great wisdom in this piece of writing, a wisdom that knows that each person has the light of the soul within them and, that each person therefore a divine being, a Son of God in fact. Which places in to question many of the behaviours we see happening today, with so much violence and corruption, how are we living that is not embracing in full the truth of who we are. And, what are we collectively as an entire humanity accepting as normal if we are at the very least unable to sustain global respect and decency across all points of contact with eachother? Where is the Son of God aspect of ourselves during war, conflict and acts of greed or manipulation?
We are never at the mercy of anything and our commitment to our will, to be in full acceptance and appreciation of being a Son of God, definitely comes from within every single one of us – it is without this godliness that life is misery, for with it, all is absolutely Godly perfect, with all life’s imperfections.
When we create problems in our life it’s up to us to sort it out, it’s part of being a responsible and committed human being. But I’d also add there is an element of surrender in life, where we say YES to God and be open to wherever that takes our life.
This element of surrender allows grace to flow and in this space we are held and supported to take those next steps into our future.
Beautifully shared Suzanne, thank you, the words “The Kingdom of God is within You ” I have known for many years and believed that God lived in our hearts, but my whole way of relating to God was from my head, there never was a role model that had lived this truth, so I would go outside of my self and ask God to guide me and basically tell me what to do, until The Way of the Livingness came into my life and I began to understand that I have choices and responsibility in my loving and very personal relationship with God, hence no leaving it up to God anymore.
Beautifully said and very true Suzanne, I also didn’t have a clue what ‘The Kingdom of God is within you’ meant for all the years I was a Catholic. I feel it is because there was no one reflecting the truth of this in the Catholic Religion, a very different story now to The Way of The Livingness where I have come to know and feel what this truly means and to begin to live this glory more each day.
Anna that is a great observation. I had heard the words “the kingdom of God is within you” many years ago and I felt that I understood them but I wasn’t sure how that would feel or what it meant as a true experience. It wasn’t until I too came to Universal Medicine and met Serge Benhayon that I saw someone living those words. This was an enormous support to have a true living example of that in my life through Serge, as were his Sacred Esoteric Healing modalities and Gentle Breath Meditation which have assisted me to reconnect to my innermost heart and feel the kingdom of God in me also. Now I know through the work of Serge the truth of these words as they are living in me, and from my experience I know they are there to be lived equally in every single person on earth. To put that into context, the words “the kingdom of God is within you” as said by Jesus can be lived by anyone on earth, simply and easily, and if support is needed to do this then the work of Serge Benhayon is there to help make it a living reality. Amazing.
Gorgeously said Suzanne. There is no greater sense of knowing the extent of our magnificence than when we are connected to our body, our being, our Soul through which we are innately in union with God, as we then can feel our interconnectedness with every element of the universe.
When we try to navigate in the awareness waters, auto-pilot does not work.
A brilliant observation that ‘leaving it up to God’ is said from a place of disconnection – so it probably won’t be God that picks up whatever we are leaving for Him, and will do whatever pleases them.
Thank you Suzanne for sharing, the words that pop up for me today were the words of scripture I had not remembered, I feel so moved when I say these words ” Glory be the Son of God” these words were always applied to Jesus but now I know it is us who are the sons of God and the glory is the glory of our soul which we each one carry within our inner heart.
I was laughing out loud in parts of this blog as I related so much to getting caught in the idea that connecting to our bodies all the time is somehow boring. I haven’t done the gentle breath mediation in ages but what I am getting after reading this blog is that if that “boring” idea pops into my mind than the gentle breath could be a good antidote for it. Thanks for the support, when we are honest, it allows all of us to relate and support each other on a even deeper level.
I needed to read this today as I had felt a few steps away from myself and been moving in functioning but not feeling a vibrancy or igniting within. This reminds me of my way back.
Exactly Suzanne. In fact we must completely expose the phrase ‘leaving it up to God’ in the terms to which you have referred to it, for in such abandonment of self, one can be in no union with Him whatsoever.
“It has never made sense to leave things “up to God” to sort my life out for me. This always felt like a blind faith where I wasn’t taking responsibility for being a part of life, ” I agree Suzanne, if I am not playing my part – taking responsibility for my part in life – how I can expect another – even God – to do so for me?!
I know that feeling you are speaking of Suzanne when you say you have ‘got it and then let it go’ – for I too feel like I often take a step up and when I get there instead of appreciating the new view I step back down again to where I am comfortable.
True religion is so powerfully communicated here Suzanne. Thank you.
It is a familiar experience to feel like something is understood on a deeper level and then cruising in a way that switches off my connection to this awareness. What I’m discovering is this new awareness requires a little incubation and nurturing because adjustments need to be made to honour its conception. It’s up to me to supply the body – the kingly body, to house the greater appreciation and understanding. If an activity worked previously it’s great to check in to whether it is the same quality of vibration as the new awareness requires, so it can be fully grounded and part of my foundation going forward. If not little or big things will occur to ask for an adjustment.
The beauty of true religion is revealed when we are willing to be responsible for the energy we align to.
Religion, in its truest sense being a re-binding, a bringing together of what should have never been torn apart, is everything and in everything.
When we go into our heads we lose our connection not only to ourselves but also God and everyone else. A lonely place to be but one which I still escape to more often than I care to acknowledge because it is such a well-worn path. Building commitment to staying consistently present is a work in progress but as you point out this is lovingly supported by God ‘These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.’
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.” Yes, God is patiently and lovingly waiting for us to return from whence we came.
There is a prevailing image of getting to the peak of something and then ‘naturally’ starting the descent while congratulating us “we did it”. This image is pretty much true in the physical world. Yet, our world is not the physical one. The truth is that for us there are no limits to how high we can go.
True religion is the movement of the divine within us and that is a gift we can take into each step, word and breath we make everyday.
I am feeling how deceitful that statement ‘leaving it up to God’ truly is. It sounds like we have absolute faith in God, but really, it means we are abandoning our responsibility/power to choose.
Funny how we always look for an out moment. Our bodies are always expressing so if we are not being responsible for them then we allow other energies to enter and express. Hence sayings like what has got in to you and you are not yourself today. We are responsible for every moment and every expression.
Unimedpedia God: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-god.html is a wonderful resource full of the most fantastic audio and quote about God.
It is interesting to see that we leave our movements to something else when we choose to not connect to our bodies, and let it all go. It always feels like I am moved by something else when really disconnected, like I have no other choice. And that is the interesting part, as we do have a choice and start connecting to our body in any moment.
“It has never made sense to leave things “up to God” to sort my life out for me” Same for me Suzanne – I always felt that was a bit of a cop-out. Live however you want and then expect God to pick up the pieces – where is the responsibility in that?! I love how you write that you feel God is leaving it up to you. It would seem that most of the world avoids taking responsibility for their actions and then expresses surprise at the way things turn out. How big a wake-up call do we need?
Beautiful to read this again Suzanne. In every moment we are choosing what is our next move is. We are either choosing to move with God or we are not. For whenever we are in connection to who we are in essence, we are in connection to God and with this we move in a way magnifies this light that we are through our movements and all that we do.
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life..” I love this Suzanne. Rather than giving our power away – even to God – it is up to us to make different choices – to stay present – and reclaim our lives for ourselves.
I have found the Esoteric Yoga a powerful modality that supports me to deeply connect and be more present in all my movements and then it is easier to clock when I drift off and go into my head – a work in progress that is a game changer in so many ways.
‘But who or what is operating my movements’ this is a question we all need to ask ourselves when we are not present in our bodies. When I am fully present life gets simple, for others maybe boring. So why do I need moments of leaving myself behind and walk around in thoughts? Why not surrender to the Kingdom of God inside me and choose to be responsible. I know I don’t need to be perfect but with loving discipline I enjoy the simplicity that is on offer and come back to me, the love that I am.
I love the words- ‘the kingdom of God is inside you’ and I am learning about not needing to control life and have it be a certain way but learning to let go of this and allow more of what’s inside to be connected to, lived and expressed.
When we drop into autopilot and are no longer aware of our movements, are we not being irresponsible, because when we are with ourselves connected to our body we are aware of every move we make and at the same time we are being responsible for ourselves and those around us too.
Perfect parenting; God allows his children to take responsibility for themselves and all their siblings in humanity as one family.
Beautiful Suzanne, yes leaving it up to God might not be the one God that we would like it to be but someone else running the show. Someone once said to me something like “if you do not feel like a son of God then you know something is wrong.” I carry that with me.
Yes Suzanne, there is a very big difference between ‘giving ourselves over to God’ in a ‘hands off the steering wheel’ sort of way, and taking responsibility for the energy we choose to be doing the ‘steering’. God cannot work through us if we don’t first choose His energy as the propelling energy for our impulses, thoughts and feelings. The moment we are ‘hands off’, we have checked out and we are no longer providing a vehicle that is capable of carrying out our part in God’s plan.
Thank you Suzanne for sharing your experience, I was one who in the past left it all up to God, wanting none of me but all of Him, I have since come to know and experience the responsibility of a co-relationship with God, one that allows me the choice to live with love or not, with no judgment for my choices.
God is always there, patiently waiting for us to say ‘yes’. He never judges, simply offers us space and holds us in love until the time comes in which we let him in.
Our inner fire is always there with its embers still burning ever so gently waiting for us to fan the flames and ignite from within. Let the light of God burn bright and cast a light for all to see.
Our inner spark in always shining, forever waiting for us to return and embrace who we are.
How lovely… And how revealing…that God is leaving it up to us … enter Self-responsibility and a whole different path for humanity
Thank you Suzanne for shedding a light on the world from your experience and understanding. Super important to stand behind your choice of being who you are and let yourself free!
What a gorgeous realisation – “these days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.”
All my life, I thought I was in charge of my life, making all the decisions – but understanding myself as a vehicle of energy has completely changed my perspective. While I thought I was making many choices, I had not made one single very important choice to say yes to myself – so in a way, I had left my entire life, my entire being up for grab to be used by whatever the energy at play. Not choosing is already a choice otherwise.
Once we take responsibility and appreciate our potential and the opportunity that life presents there is no such thing as ‘boring’.
There is a world of difference between connecting to my soul, choosing to commit to life, taking responsibility for my place in it and living from there in love and with love for all, rather than being swept around by life, living in overwhelm and deciding that it is God’s will and so leaving things up to God. I can allow the flow of God in my life by making choices so that I am clearer and more aware of all that I am. God loves us and supports us always and equally, all the time, it is up to me to live this love in the world.
The world is asking for our reflection every single moment of every day, there is no slacking off when we are shining, no turning off to anything even when we have to deal with a lot of things at the same time. There is no busyness either, because that is just a term we use when we are rushing away from our presence. Life then shows us that when we step away from our presence at any given moment, we are giving our power away. But the truth to living is to be committed in this level of awareness and responsibility, and the way to commiting I have discovered is not by enforcement but through deeply caring for the body, loving it like a baby and dropping the picture of what being committed looks like.
Before the gentle breath meditation I would not have even known what being in my body felt like having lived constantly in my mind and being guided through life by it or things outside of myself. It is truly gorgeous to now know and feel the difference and be able to choose to take responsibility for what I choose from there.
what a lovely idea… That God is actually leaving it up to us… And you know in a way, this is simply how it is… One of the immovable universal laws is that we have free will… So really God is actually waiting for us to make the choice to return to who we truly are
Funny right, we look for God and do all these things to be connected to God when God is just right there waiting for us to get to work and be who we are, then we will be with him, co-creating like two very close work colleagues with no one any greater that the other.
Suzanne, the title got me ‘leaving it up to God’ and reading it I understood the irresponsibility of what I do when I do this, I opt out, and I avoid bringing the Divinity I am into life, I wait for others and for God to ‘show’ me. As I write this I can feel how conditional this is and how unlike who I truly am this is, and it’s great to feel this, to understand this is not me but a habit or attitude I’ve taken on and I can drop it.
Not choosing is already a choice. A choice is being made every moment, and every movement is made because of that – whether I am conscious of it or not.
Thank you Suzanne for sharing so honestly, I have in my past life ” left it up to God” thinking my life was safe in his hands, when really it has been irresponsible of me. I now know I have a part to play in my daily living in my connection with my body and being present with my movements, this had been a slow process staying with me, when I feel myself wander in my mind i can say delete that thought and come back to the task at hand.
There are some things that God has to take care. There are other that are up to us working with the Divine that we are.
When we give up on ourselves we are also giving up on everyone. It is not worth it, it feels awful and there is no love in it. It’s like a child cleaning their room and they only do half of it and leave it assuming someone is going to just waltz in and finish the rest. Such a great reminder of what we leave behind for others.
It is a revelatory fact that our own naturally tender breath as re-connected to in the Gentle Breath Meditation is in fact the body of God in expression.
Suzanne, great questions. It feels like we’re prepared to go a certain bit and then stop and take a rest and expect it to be picked up by others, God or the Universe from there. Reading this today I can feel the irresponsibility in it, and how we are actively running away from knowing what we do know, that we have an active part to play, that we are to walk and be the body of God here on this planet as the Son’s of God we are and that requires our presence, our consistent presence, to live the fullness of who we truly are.
That not going all the way, we do so well – when and where to put a stop to guarantee the perpetuation of having a fall and picking ourselves up again, and again, and again.
‘But who or what is operating my movements’ – great question, to be asked in every moment. The answer is an energy, which then begs the question what is the quality I am calling in to my everyday?
It’s very interesting how I can think I’ve reached a point where I can reward myself by taking a break from being present. So what is it about being present that leads me to choose to disappear into thoughts and let other energies roam around my body? Like I’d never leave my house door open and let anyone in without discerning whether they’ll be respectful of the property or not – so why do I let this happen in my actual body and many times through out the day? Being honest about this allows me to choose between being trashed every day by energies that aren’t who I am and choosing to stay present and be the gate keeper to the quality of energy I allow in. This is nolonger a question of self-worth it is a question of me choosing to be responsible.
I’ve been a master in the past of finding something (anything!) to keep me busy and distracted instead of being present with my body and with whatever might really be going on (i.e. wanting to avoid an issue or hurt or feeling tired etc.). In this I’ve spent a lot of time in my head instead of my body! I am often still challenged with staying with my body, but the Gentle Breath Meditation is definitely a simple tool that I can use to bring me back!
When I give up on me, I forget God and end up somewhere else all together. When I come back, I realise that God has been waiting patiently the whole time!
It’s definitely irresponsible to not take the hand in our own life, and come to live in a way that is in harmony with God, and that which is within us.
Reading this, I notice how often I say ‘Oh well, it wasn’t meant to be’ and this feels very irresponsible to me now. There is a divine order that governs us all, but as you say, we are not here just as empty vessels that are up for grab by anything and anyone that wants to dominate or control us. We are in charge of this body to be in the readiness to be facilitated by the energy we belong to to express itself through.
What a great blog Suzanne. It just shows how we have strayed far away from the truth when we can say or repeat these words that completely make us give up and take no responsibility.
“I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” I too have found the same religion, one which in fact had never left me and one which can never be found outside…
Thank you Suzanne for a great blog I can relate to leaving it up to God , I would always be asking God what do I do now, wanting to know so that I could get it right and be good. I look back now on my former life, and see how very irresponsible that way of living was and so disempowering. Thanks to the truth as presented by Serge and the Ageless Wisdom I have come to know that God lives within, not outside of me, and every moment I have a choice to live life from this space of divine love that dwells within me.
It is so true that when we choose to let go of the commitment to our connection and get into the thoughts we are actually controlled by an energy that doesn’t want to feel the gloriousness and simplicity of the soul, of God. That is great to realise and see that it takes a commitment to this connection, and God does leave it up to us to choose love and responsibility over the ‘comfort’ that this other energy provides.
‘It has never made sense to leave things “up to God” to sort my life out for me’ – God is in the livingness and whilst God is always a part of us God does not dictate the life we are to live. The responsibility is mine to be active in the living in my life, to be open and allowing for the love within me to connect to others
It’s true – we play an active part in our lives and whether that life follows a path of divinity or a path ignoring that divinity. And how often do we consider that grandness of love on a daily basis?
‘The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.’ – it is up to us to claim what this is truly saying and to live it in the world – we are already all we need to be.
When we feel this connection with God and know we can connect deeply with ourselves and God through our movements, this gives us a new purpose to being present and being aware. We can deepen our awareness and deepen our quality with movement. So beautifully simple.
This morning I could feel how abusive it is to live without the natural connection we have with the divine. How I have chosen frustration and manipulation to not feel the true me. And this blog brings me back to the responsibility I/we have to live which we know to be true, our sacred connection with God within our own body.
The quality of our movements govern our connection to and with God or not. When we connect to our light, to our being, our body and move in a way where we deeply honour the light we are, we are aligning to Heaven.
Such a gorgeous reminder Donna ‘ move in a way where we deeply honour the light we are, we are aligning to Heaven.’
Once we reconnect to the knowing that true guidance is within us, we can begin to become free from the false allures of the world and its distractions and temptations and learn to live instead connected to that inner knowing and understanding of what our next steps are to be, guided by true purpose rather than whim or desire.
True Linda, giving up on ourselves then blaming God and the world for our woes just entrenches the disempowerment and disallows the steps we can only take for ourselves back towards true freedom once more.
It is all inevitably about choice, which raises questions about what it means to be a Son of God, and who is God anyway? And why would I, or we, be his Sons? The answers of course are all alive and there for everyone with actually no need for any outer institution to tell us anything. Because as Rik states, the way you are with your body, affects the thoughts you have in your mind.
Through being connected and actively living in our bodies we are held accountable for our actions – we feel the consequences for our choices and expanse of the Love that lives within. It seems crazy to choose irresponsibility over this connection by ‘checking out’ of the body and leaving it open for WHATEVER wants to play the part – we can call it God, but like you said Suzanne, God is leaving it up to us 🙂
An ‘absent landlord’ is such a great way to describe us when we are not putting in the effort to be consciously present from moment to moment. Of course – if you leave the building empty it’s cold and empty – and you have no say over what happens in there!
We’re saying ‘no’ to life if we leave everything up to God. Committing to me, God, life, is all the same choice. I loved re-reading your blog Suzanne and the simplicity of the Gentle Breath Meditation as a tool of re-connection to the Kingdom of God within.
I have in the past been one of those people who has lived in the ‘leave it up to God’ syndrome. I know now that this has been a way of avoiding responsibility. There is a fine balance of living in a way where we surrender to the plan and what is next but to also take the appropriate steps forward through choosing the quality in which we live knowing that when that quality is about true connection, that all is taken care of. That way, we play our part and God plays his.
I love what you share here Donna, thank you for this beautiful reminder.
We treat God like the parent who will reward or deny us if we are good or bad, and follow the rules. Then we treat God like Santa presenting a long wish list and the message “please deliver”. We call that prayer! It all seems like a projection of child/parent relationships. Understanding that there is a science to life, and taking responsibility is a much better way for me, as is trusting what I know God to be from within.
Yes, and who is occupying the space when we are absent?
Beautifully said Richard, and it may be as simple as simply surrendering to it.
Beautiful said Fumiyo, it is a choice that we make with every breath and I find that it is the consistency of that which allows me to know God within me.
Re reading your sharing Suzanne I see that leaving it up to God, actually gives control to our spirit, who must be gleefully thinking I have her just where I want her! As you mentioned we have ” left the building” vacating our bodies for who ever to inhabit. Not an ideal situation. God trust and loves us ( his Sons) enough to allow us to learn from our mistakes.
“The absent landlord”, how apt! How easily everything falls into disrepair when this happens.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a simple and effective way to connect and as you have stated Suzanne what we are looking for is within, not in some building
Agreed Joe, it is the simplest and most effective way of getting in touch with our own divinity.
That’s a great way to put it Debra and check the windows too. When we choose to come back, we have to clean up the mess and fill our home with the amazingness of ourselves.
‘God has actually been leaving it up to ME’ it is incredible to feel this enormous love God is, never impatient, always understanding and never a judgement. I know I am a part of God and he sure is leaving it up to me to become me, God gives me the space to experiment and learn from every moment and to let go of what is in the way to be what I already am.
Beautiful Annelies, this is love and free will, holding the space for us to come to our own choice to return to the truth of who we are.
And this is how it never gets boring, so assumed. The more we feel the more we feel and the more we connect the deeper we can go.
This really demonstrates that it is a moment by moment choice and never a situation where we can just leave it up to God or the universe; if we do we have lost it and slipped back. In a German idiom they say you have to help yourself for God to help you (Hilf dir selbst, so hilft dir Gott) and that feels true.
I like the description ‘graininess’ that you apply to this sense of something, anything really lest I’d have to feel the fact that it is all self created and very addictive. We seem to be willing to do just about anything to not feel the emptiness first and then connect to our stillness.
I agree Gabriele – it’s amazing the lengths we will go to to avoid or ignore truly feeling our bodies. In my experience, sometimes this has come because I don’t want to feel the fact that my body often ‘doesn’t’ feel still, and yet ironically I know deep down that the only way to feel true stillness, is to be able to feel my body in full.
Yes Annelies, it’s that simple, to stop the momentum and to simply come back to me.
“It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.”. And choosing to connect to this precious and sacred place is never boring on the contrary it is awesome to live with.
but just come back Caroline, that is the most important part, we always can come back and feel the love that supports us when we choose to connect.
Within all of us lives the living temple of God just waiting for us to be with our selves, to walk over the bridge within and to connect to that most beautiful and divine places , our inner hearts.
Bringing energy into life makes life make more sense. Re-Learning to bring Fire back into life is something I will not stop learning and when I do catch the obvious moments that are not me, I will ask ‘what is the energy at play/in this situation/what am I feeling?’ There is much more clarity if not immediately, then eventually and the understanding comes rather than living in a lack of understanding and/or reaction.
Yes Leigh, stopping and asking myself ‘how I am feeling/what is the energy at play/what have I allowed in?’and then nominating how I am feeling and learning to read the situation changes every thing. I am beginning to recognise the power in this.
Yes Suzanne, it is interesting how we take little “breaks” from our responsibility and think it is okay as we have done an awesome job to this point and are intending to coming back to it again later. However that one little break can throw us back quite a bit and leads to us loosing the beautiful momentum that has been carrying us and so we have to start all over again.
It is a conscious choice to stay with ourself, or to just let anything go and not take responsibility for our own life. Seeking it outside of ourself will never complete, while when we choose to come back and feel our body, we know we already are complete.
This is one of my favorite blogs, not because it is entertaining, but because it has a certain depth of truth. It connects me to my responsibility to know this truth and to actually know again that is much more then ‘leaving it up to God’. When I read this article again I actually could feel how God feels open and limitless.. When I realized this I actually felt that God would never want us to be leaving it all to him.. This might come more closer to what our responsibility is.. I guess he would prefer us to know our own power then to give it away, to him or anyone..
What a cop out to leave it all up to God! It leaves out and ignores any responsibility that we have in our own lives. Why should God be there for us if we are not?! If we are there for ourselves then God is with us naturally, in every breath.
Yes I agree Suzanne there is a moment I say ‘yes I’ve got it” – it feels like the most important revelation in my life to date. I even feel I’ll never forget it! Then there is a point I realized I’m not holding that awareness any more. Like you say off playing in random thoughts. But I’ve realized these are not harmless, innocent games being played in my thoughts. Rather the opposite. But the best part is all I have to do is choose to stay connected to me again and the ‘mind games’ cease. It’s a bit of game of two steps up one back at times, however very worth the commitment to myself.
‘I have often found the simplicity of a connection to me and my body is all too hard … and BOR-ING!!!’ It’s funny how so many people can relate to this, the truth is we are so hyped up on constant stimulation that stopping and connecting is the last thing we want to do… BUT it is the key to everything.
Sadly, that is very true, Meg. So many people simply are too over stimulated to be able to be with themselves. But as you have said, it is the key to everything. So it makes me wonder, why have we done this to ourselves? What is it that we are avoiding?
I feel our reluctance to be grand is also a reluctance to stand out from the crowd and be noticed, mainly because of the consequences of what this means. Perhaps we just need an unwavering commitment to be true no matter what comes our way.
I totally agree, Meg. Such a commitment would be grandness in itself! To choose to consistently stand up for truth is something that is sorely needed, and would change the landscape of what it means to be a human being.
Naren I absolutely love what you’ve said, this is definitely the way forward for all of us.
I love this blog Suzanne. It is an excellent reminder that we are continually being presented with opportunity but we are the ones who actually have to say yes. No one is going to do it for us, but the amazing thing is that the more we say yes to, the more that is offered to us.
“But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?” I like this line as if really makes you consider what is going on. It is like taking your hands off the steering wheel and letting someone you don’t know drive your car while you sit there blindfolded. There is so much in this one line and it gives the reader the opportunity to consider the multidimensional possibilities of life.
How true – I dislike the abdication of responsibility in thinking someone else had control over my life but I loved the fact that I was reminded the Kingdom of God is inside me, it gave me the confidence to know, as you say, God has left space for me to take full responsibility for myself and simply walks beside me as support.
This reminds me of a great joke!
A man is shipwrecked and left floating at sea on a piece of driftwood.
After 3 days a ship comes past and offer to save him – but he tells them he is ok became God will save him!
Another 3 days and he prays hard all the time – dear god – please save me..
Another ship comes past and he says “No I am ok – God will save me”
3 more days and he prays harder and harder – Dear God – I have always done your will – please save me .
Another ship comes past and he says….. “No – I believe in God and I have always done the right thing – he will save me!”
Finally after another 3 days of praying harder and harder and the time comes – and the man passes his last breath.
He is standing at the gates of heaven and he is SO ANGRY at God.
“Why didn’t you save me – I have always believed in you and prayed everyday…I have done what I was right in your name all my life and you let me die? Why didn’t you save me?”
God looks at him with eternal Love and says…
I sent you 3 ships?
What if God is actually within you and all we need to do is take responsibility and save ourselves?
ha ha I love that Simon – it is SO true – how often do we have ships come by and yet we are blind to the healing they offer. I think I would have just a smidgen of frustration that they weren’t getting on the ship, but what I am learning more and more, is that that is the gift synonymous with true love – letting someone make their own choices, ensuring the offer comes round again but having no attachment to anyone taking it or not. Responsibility for choices and consequences comes to mind. Although we can only make the choices that feel right to us at the time, it is worth paying attention if a choice keeps coming round, that we are not missing the opportunity to evolve and make a different choice.
Love it, simplesimon888. It always amazes me how we can decide that salvation, or reward, or anything else along those same lines must come in a specific package tied with a red bow. just so, otherwise it is not “It”. It is a way to set ourselves up for not accepting the responsibility we have to get ourselves out of the messes we put ourselves into, and continue on the hamster wheel.
I enjoyed re-reading this blog Suzanne. I love what you share about indulging in thoughts. “.. I find that although these thoughts are entertaining for a while, there is an emptiness contained within them. I am alone, distracted with no connection to anyone, or anything. I have ‘left the building’ and no one can reach me!” This feels so true. When I go off into my head I am disconnected to everything and everyone, its cold and empty and I loose out of the beauty and magic every moment has to offer.
So Beautifully presented Suzanne. One of the greatest tricks we have been sold is that religion is outside ourselves and we are forever searching if we got it right or not. Your line, “It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.”, says it all and reminds us all that we are one and not separated by any religion, culture, race or skin colour.
I always find it amazing how you can read something again and see completely different things in it. In my re-reading of this blog, I got the responsibility that we are given by God to be ourselves. It is something that we so often rely on others to define for us, but being ourselves, finding out what that means, allowing for that to unfold and committing to what is revealed is down to us, not anyone or anything else.
It is ultimately loving, the pinnacle of love, to completely allow another to do whatever they want and to love them just the same. It is from there that our love for ourselves must start.
I have really struggled through my life to not react to loveless choices of others. It is through the enormous depth and breadth of support I have received from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I have been able to turn this around, and although I am not perfectly accepting of and non-reactive to everyone and all they do I am light years away from taking drugs so as not to feel the pain and suffering of other people. That is due to learning to appreciate, accept and love myself and to take responsibility back from ‘the Universe’ and place it where it rightfully belongs and is best wielded for the benefit of all – myself. Thank God for free will and for Universal Medicine!
Not reacting to other people’s reactions is one of the more difficult parts of life to let go of, jenettegold. When someone gets mad we are often encouraged to get mad back at them, when someone gets sad we are supposed to sit with them and be sad too, etc. etc. etc. But the question is whether enjoining them in whatever they are going through is actually helping, or is it just reinforcing their state?
It is so awesome that you have been able to turn around being ruled by your reactions.
Beautiful Naren and thank you for pointing this out and sharing it. It is completely our responsibility to not rely on anything outside of who we are to define us. The fact that it is the ‘norm’ to do so is responsible in part for the unexplainable rise in mental health issues.
Absolutely, Lucy. Relying on the outside world so much to define who we are creates such a conflict in us that from an objective point of view it is not surprising that so many experience a mental break.
Someone recently pointed out to me that these things are ‘common’, but no where near ‘normal’.
I feel we are all part of the universe, in our particles and energetically, we are all part of God. We resist that or we align with it. And so when I choose to be all the love I am, I align with the natural plan, with God, when I have an issue or react or resist that, then I will feel it. I feel we are held in a glorious warm arms but the key here is our will, what do we choose…God can not be left with all the responsibility, all the blame, all the power. We are part of God and so we have the will and power to choose honour all that we naturally are. We can return with our own will, we have a choice.
Leaving it up to God is an interesting scenario when he is always there inside us waiting for us to appreciate and feel this. Before then we are the ones rejecting him our very essence and our responsibility in life and what we are really here for.Life as is played in the world is one of self, separation and games until we start to allow ourselves to truly connect to our purpose, our knowing and our divinity and comes from appreciation.
If God is inside us then it is totally logical that it is all up to us to let our divinity out.
There is a depth of understanding and wisdom that comes through your writing Suzanne, and every time I read this blog it brings me to a place of grace, stillness and joy 🙂 thank you.
Personal responsibility, words that I now see more and more go hand in hand with a fulfilling and enjoyable life. I have stepped into and out of personal responsibility my whole life and I am at last seeing that the step away is the destructive part that never allows me to fully embrace and enjoy the amazing way of living that we are all capable of. A way of living that requires less food, less sleep, more work, more service to others and a lot more joyful fun times in every moment of our day. Literally no part of our lives has to be a chore and personal responsibility is the foundation for living with this absolute grandness.
Leaving it up to God simply feels like a total abdication of our personal responsibility. The alternative: that God is patiently waiting, always available, ever present… and that it is up to us to make the connection, to live the love makes so much more sense.
I have also pondered on what is happening when we go into auto pilot. It’s amazing that we just blindly trust that everything is ok, without being connected with our body to feel what is really going on. This means we can’t feel any harm that happens and have to go into repair mode when we finally check in with our body again.
Pure irresponsibility displayed in theses actions. And yet this would be accepted by so many – confirming this irresponsibility.
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME.” I love this line, it is the ultimate call for responsibility and is a big wake up call for me to feel when at times I hand over my power thinking it will all be sorted, rather than taking the appropriate steps and actions with consicous presence to allow for something to take place. It is a fine balance of choosing to live in a way in every moment that offers the opportunity for life to come towards me along with a true surrender which is not “a giving up in disguise”.
Universal Medicine has been a core support with my relationship with God. The Gentle Breath Meditation is gold and helped enormously for me to drop back into my body and feel my soul. Having lived a life of complete motion and to actually feel a deep stillness within me this is where it is known God is always there.
Well said Natalie. It is almost impossible to feel and and know God is there within us with all the background noise and distractions of life. It is in the stillness that it can be felt and known without question.
Very true Fiona, the noise and distractions of life are immense and if we choose to let them be louder than the stillness then I think it is really hard to know the stillness of the Kingdom of God within. I had to work very hard to settle my mind and be willing to choose to pay close attention to the distractions and background noise – for it to be a relationship I knew intimately well, in order to choose otherwise and develop the connection with stillness that led me back to the very beginning – the relationship with God.
For me this is the truth of the words ‘Be still and know I am God’.
A deeply confirming blog, thankyou Suzanne. This last sentence is also my realisation too; ‘ I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all’.
We all knew true religion as kids, that our relationship with God was not found in any object or church. We knew religion was none of the reinterpretations and ‘bad wraps’ that God gets, by the actions of those who claim to know or speak for God. We knew that religion is both simple and grand and a normal way of life. This is a blessing to return to this as an adult.
Yes, well said jacqmcfadden04, this is true for me too – a real ‘aha’ moment where my body and my whole being come alive with the joy of realisation.
I love how you’ve turned your thoughts around that God is leaving everything up to you to decide. We do have choices to make and it feels to me that we are lovingly supported and not judged by God . It’s my responsibility and I choose to live my life returning to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.
“I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body”… this is key Suzanne, as once it is realised that the body is the source of love, stillness it truly is the marker for the ‘what is’ and the ‘what is not’ .
For me, leaving it up to God is all about timing and I feel that this is where the confusion lies. Leaving it up to God can be a way of just giving up or not being responsible, almost a “what will be will be situation”. Sometimes the decisions that need to be made are being forced or decided upon when all that is required is an awareness of what is actually happening and holding the integrity of a decision or just being aware of what is happening beneath the surface. Staying connected rather than letting go is the key and allowing the plan to unravel.
Thank you Suzanne, I really enjoyed reading your blog, many times I have heard those words “the Kingdom of God is within you” throughout my life, but it was only since coming to know the teaching by Serge Benhayon that I now understand what they really mean, we are indeed, divine sons of God.
It’s amazing how we can hear such a confirming, empowering truth as ‘The kingdom of God is within You”, but not be able to understand it, due to the thick mental fog created by thinking God is out there somewhere and so much greater than us mere mortals. It is only through knowing the simplicity of connecting with God through my body and feeling the oneness and equality that we naturally are, that I have been able to see through this.
The single most important thing we have is free will.
Not the free will I once believed – I can do whatever I want; writer, producer and star of my show style free will that lived in my mind.
Actual free will. A movement.
The only choice I make – the alignment of my body and thus being to a source of energy from which everything that I am, think, say and do stems.
I have developed awareness of the truth about choices, energy and free will from Serge Benhayon and through The Way of The Livingness, which has given me freedom from the prison of perpetually creating something I think is individual.
In understanding this I know that whether I like to think it’s either me or God running the show I am merely part of a greater whole, and the illusion of individuality is exposed as the avoidance of responsibility for playing my part that it is.
‘Leaving it to God’ thinking he will take care of me, is the other side of the coin of being angry at God because there are atrocities in the world. But this is like eating too much, hoping God will ensure I don’t get a stomach ache and then when I do get a stomach ache being angry at God. A simplistic example, but more and more I am understanding that even the most complex issues unfold to that same simplicity – I am the one responsible for every experience in my life.
“I have ‘left the building’ and no one can reach me!”
That is truly what happens when I go into my head and get lost in my thoughts. When this is happening I am so far away from myself and God and it is my responsibility to bring me back. When I am present I can truly feel that God is with me there and it feels amazing.
Agreed Anne it literally is a checking out of the ‘hotel’ and not seeing anyone or anything else. Completely lost in space. The flipped is being supported everywhere with God as your right hand man. Different space altogether.
The only thing I would note, is that from experience when I do ‘leave the building’ in this way, and get distracted with thoughts, that there is always an abundance of the rather silly and pointless thoughts to get lost in. That by going there, I tap into an alternative to God that has endless threads of distraction that will keep me occupied (albeit not feeling myself), but never fulfilled.
Yes, a ‘get out jail free card’. It’s akin to attributing something to luck or chance when in truth there are no accidents in life… even our ‘accidents’ are anything but. Everything constellates for a reason. An accident is life telling us we need to slow down.
We as a society look for everything and anything to blame for our woes, our job, life, workload, food, money, other people, relationships, God – anything to avoid admitting the truth, that deep down we all know our biggest woe is the fact that we chose to walk away from God.
And therefore from our true selves.
“But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?” This is a great question to ask, and one I would not and did not ever want to consider (a game of irresponsibility) having never before being given or in truth choosing to be given the freedom to do so. This is where Serge Benhayon stepped in and reflected the truth, that there are two very different energies from which we choose, Spirit or Soul. Deep down we have known this all along.
Suzanne, thank you for your blog, I found it refreshingly religious. With little fanfare you blow away ‘leaving it up to God’ in place for claiming divinity by being a responsible participant in your own life.
Oh wow – what a wonderful sharing. I can relate to your experiences very well. Sometimes I’m very well connected to myself and other times, I’m just in the auto-pilot mode and as you say – who or what is doing then my movements ? Somehow it is about consistency – how can I be consistently stay connected to myself ? This reminds me – every moment we make a choice – it is always up to us, what we choose in every single moment.
An absolute choice in every moment.
‘Recently I have noticed that, while I have been taking steps to stay connected to my body and be present with my movements throughout the day, I get to a certain point where I feel I have ‘got it’ and then I let go.’ Great observation, thanks Suzanne, and one I can own to myself. We all too often perceive the body as the poor cousin of the far more exciting and ever-tantalising mind… and often end up dragging our poor, beleaguered bodies around behind us, a ‘head on legs’.
When I first read this blog an old saying came to me it was “Trust in Allah but remember to tie your camel” I first heard this in the height of my New age journey which was very focussed on putting things out to the universe – there was not a lot of tieing my camels going on and it didn’t work or what came couldn’t stay because my foundations were not solid and it simply wasn’t true. It is through the stepping up and taking responsibility that we have opportunities to learn and grow.
I am sure ‘Leaving it up to God’ can be referred to from a irresponsible way of being in life ‘like he will take care of it (while I do not)’, or it can be in truth referred to God as such that he is the great creator (or co-creator) and actually if we allow to feel that we are not ‘it’ we actually can feel that we can surrender to being part of something Grand (God). So in that way there can be referred to ‘Leaving it up to God’ in a responsible way, as it is naturally for us to surrender to God and trust all of his support. I have learned from that that going into ‘controlling modus’ does not truly serve me or my environment, but surrendering does. So if I take my responsibility for my life (choices) I can also share that I trust God all of the time.
A beautiful balancing comment Danna and the other side of the same coin – when there is no trust in God and control is pursued. Perhaps most of us flip between these two sides of the same coin like a dance depending on whichever best serves our irresponsible intentions.
You are right, there are definitely two sides to this coin, sure there is the irresponsibility of leaving it all up to God to take responsibility for everything that happens to us, but also there is a surrender in knowing God that does not equate to me relinquishing the responsibility of my choices, but a knowing I am cared for and supported.
I’m more and more becoming aware – also through reading this blog – that life is constantly teaching me if a choice is true or not. I can see (now) that there’s many times that the individual ‘me’ wants to do something. In complete disregard of what my body might tell. For example, the moment that I wanted to get my daughter today, I chose to do other things first and so I was ending up being (too) late with her mum being frustrated. In the past I would only have looked at her frustration and yelling, but now I see that the source of the separation lies within me. Within the fact that I chose to override what my body was telling. To not tell myself off for this is something I’m learning. Everything counts, everything.
Really beautiful to read Suzanne.. this part was great ” But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?” something to be deeply pondered on. Means there is no switching off from feeling your body and the connection with you. Otherwise, who’s driving this thing? Thank you for sharing this one.
Yes, good call Emily. We might say the ‘who or what’ is simply us on autopilot… our subconscious mind. But if we’re not present and with ourselves when we’re doing something, where are we? It opens up the possibility that something other than us is in the driving seat: if we’re not really there, can we really say with 100% certainty that something else isn’t? For me it opens up the possibility that something other than us, an external influence or energy, might be guiding our choices.
Playfully put Emily – who does drive, and does it explain the exhaustion so many feel – for when we are off in our head thinking about past, future or something else, we are also living in reality, so we are technically living two lives in one, doubly exhausting.
Great point Emily, generally we would never let another drive our cars without knowing. Yet we happily allow an energy to run our own bodies, ignorant to the fact that everything is energy and therefore everything is because of energy. It is not like we don’t know we have all the sayings to confirm we do. “What got into you”, “That wasn’t me”, “Watch out he is beside himself”, “He/she is not quite themselves”. The proof has always been there yet we just haven’t wanted to see. Thank you Serge Benhayon for continuing to have the love and courage to expose what we have not wanted to see.
Yes Emily, who is driving this thing if it isn’t us? Being consciously aware of our body is so supportive in ensuring that it is us who is doing the driving and no auto pilot.
I am all too familiar with the line “it’s all too much, you sort it out”, but not just with leaving it up to God – but other people as well. Not only does this disempower me, but it places undue pressure on another. By not taking responsibility for myself, I am not claiming all that I know. By simply choosing to take responsibility and listen to my inner heart – the place of all knowingness – and live from here, I am actually meeting another as equal and trusting in God, but not “leaving it to him”
Beautiful Simone. I love how you take ultimate responsibility, not only admitting that your actions impact on you but how they impact on another and that we are all responsible for how the world is. We have such a strong belief system that the world/God etc. owes us, when in truth it is us that owes everyone, we owe it to the world and beyond that we take responsibility for our thoughts and actions as they do impact on another, and like Serge Benhayon has been saying, we live in an energetic ocean and all our actions impact on another.
This is lovely Simone. There are many people that we can leave it up to but this avoids taking personal responsibility. It doesn’t mean we have to do everything ourselves but means that we take responsibility rather than feel overwhelmed and dump our stuff on another. I love the line about trusting God but not leaving it to him.
We know what is true and what choices and decisions will allow us to grow and expand. Why would we give away our power of this innate knowing? Why would we leave it in the hands of another to decide? Avoiding our responsibility, our power and ultimately, being seen for the great light that we each are.
In fact we can’t leave it up to anybody outside of ourselves, so also not God. Some woman on the street asked me if I think that God should solve the problems we are in now with all the attacks going on. No, I said, we have to solve this as we have created this, it is our responsibility. Thinking that we can leave it up to somebody else is not taking responsibility.
I agree Mariette, it is our responsibility to fix it. God is like the ultimate parent, constantly and forever reminding us of who we are. And like any great parent he can not fix our problems for us, how would we ever learn. He just reminds us that we created it, so it is for us to heal it and return home to where he has always been waiting. Ultimate con to make us believe God would ever do anything to harm us.
Well said Marietta, we have to take responsibility for where we are in the world. We got ourselves here and we need to get ourselves out of here. Supporting our politicians to represent us fairly and then holding them accountable.
Well said Mariette, the state the world is in today is the responsibility of everyone living in it.
It really is that simple, we are responsible and until we accept this fact it will just grow unabated.
We think we can have an easy way out but instead we create a mess that it is even bigger than we are already in, like you say Mariette it is our creation and we are fully responsible and it is up to us to accept this fact and get on with it.
Suzanne understanding and feeling what true religion is has been a deep revelation for me and the effects are profound on each aspect of life, no longer running from misinterpretation but allowing the depth of connection with me than deepens each day.
Yes David, redefining and re-imprinting what religion truly is has a huge impact on all aspects of life. The lies that many of us have been fed are so misleading that a whole consciousness around religion needs to be changed.
The whole idea of leaving it up to God is so that we have someone/something to blame when things go wrong. It is very interesting how much we run away from responsibility.
Exactly Elizabeth ! Its a get out of jail free card…. that comes with a price.
And why do we do that? What is it that we don’t want to be responsible for? Loving ourselves? Making life about love? Not feeling our unloving choices or how much we have abused others or ourselves? Or is it to avoid feeling the truth, a truth we all know deep down, that we are all Sons of God, and with that we know life is not about self, but about people, brotherhood and the fact we are all one.
That’s a very nice way to put it Elizabeth! Interesting! It’s crazy! And it leaves so lost and misguided. We have the responsibility to claim we are the ones who create everything about our own lives and the world we live in. And yet we hide our heads in the sand!
Insane!
Wow Elizabeth. I had never looked at it this way. We have someone else to blame and we don’t have to take responsibility for our choices.
I feel that I am getting a better sense of “The Kingdom of God is within you” as I connect more and more deeply within myself rather than seeing evolution as getting somewhere in a linear sense.
The lie of evolution as linear process has been sold to us throughout time, as it’s the exact opposite to the truth of God, and the responsibility that comes with that – that life and evolution is about cycles, a forever deepening and ongoing journey returning to our truth and glory, rather than process of moving forward to a static end point.
So true gyllianrae. We get trapped into thinking in a linear fashion when everything around us points to cycles and the rhythmic nature of life.
So true janetwilliams06. I agree. The more we focus on connecting to what lies within us, a rich warm stillness and open heartedness, the more we come to realise that evolution is about deepening our connection to these qualities and expressing it in all we do. True evolution has little to do with our physical realm and everything to do with building relationships, with self, with others and with community.
I agree Rowena, it is our deepening relationships with self, with others and with our community that deeply nurtures our true essence – our Soul essence and something that the body easily and lovingly responds too as our life begins to flow with grace.
Spot on janetwilliams06 – developing this known is the key to evolving.
For me, the Kingdom of God is within you” is a reminder that there is no point looking up to the heavens or to anything outside myself for the answers. It says that everything is within me already, waiting for me to return to. Over and over I find this to be true. There is no place I feel more complete, contented, steady and glorious as when I return to the kingdom of God that is within me.
I agree Fiona – to quote an amazing song “…stop looking outside for the love within”. It is all within us we do not need to seek outside of ourselves or beseech some higher being.
Beautiful comment Fiona Lotherington. The kingdom of God within us holds everything we need. To cry for help from God ignores the fact that the help is already there, and always has been, it is up to us to take responsibility to use it.
Yes, I agree janetwilliams06. I too am finding that the more I focus on the small day to day things in my life, the more I am growing a deeper sense of who I am and that connection to my inner heart where I can communicate with God. Our evolution is simply that, that we connect more and more deeply with what is already there within us and has been since the day we were born.
Very true janetwilliams06 – we have been educated to believe that we need to strive to achieve to reach an end point that never seems reachable. As you and Suzanne so beautifully explain here, there is nowhere to go but within. Have to admit the major religions got it right, convincing us that we had to find God outside ourselves, no better way to guarantee a following than to make you believe you need them to find God outside yourself when it was inside all along.
Striving for that end point is of course unreachable because it is just a figment of our imaginations. We don’t need to reach God, we simply need to accept that He is and has always been innate in us.
Hi janetwilliams06. – yeah me too.
‘Blessed are the children – for theres is the kingdom of heaven’ for me now reads as exactly that – the Kingdom of God is within you. Connect to it as a natural part of you as all we need to do.
Such a wonderful thing to explore.
So true, I hadn’t thought about it but you are right, the more I realise I am not going anywhere the better sense I have of the kingdom of God being inside me.
So true janetwilliams06, realizing that life is about cycles makes so much sense and has opened me up to a whole different relationship I have with life here on earth and my connection to everything around it.
“I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.”- Suzanne I too have returned to God, deep within my inner heart, and I am choosing to be impulsed from here and not my mind.
Suzanne this was so very beautiful to read – really touched me to feel how relatably you were able to share this. I love you description of your presense with you and your body: “Feeling the warmth and connection to my breath brings me back into my body again. I feel each movement; the movement of my fingertips, the delicacy of my touch, my feet connected to the earth. This is when I feel I am with ME.”
And I so love where you hold our hand and take us: “It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.”
Very beautiful.
If God lays the table, does all the shopping, preparation and cooking how mad is it that we do not simple come to the table and eat? It is all laid before us (innately within us) and yet we hold off, ‘dancing’ around the peripheries. Surrendering and taking responsibility are the ticket.
Having read this blog several times over the past week I am starting to see how there are certain areas of my life where I still have the attitude of “I’ll leave it up to God and hope for the best”. Pondering on this blog has led me to put into action some of those things that I have been “leaving”.
“Recently I have noticed that, while I have been taking steps to stay connected to my body and be present with my movements throughout the day, I get to a certain point where I feel I have ‘got it’ and then I let go. It’s like there is nothing more at this point for me to participate in, so off I go and play around in my thoughts. But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?” This is familiar for me as well. If I’m not feeling quite myself I do all I can to make the connection back and as you experience Suzanne I can goof off thinking I’m there. We can never assume our connection is there – it’s something to be aware of in every moment throughout the day otherwise, as you say – who is running the show?
When I fall and feel hurt, I am missing my innermost connection, and I realise that I have not be true to myself, or humanity, and not taking responsibility for who I truly am. The longer I entertain that hurt the longer I keep myself separated from God.
Beautiful Carmel, it is a revelation to understand that the thoughts that come through us are not ours, they are simply the product of the energy that we have allowed to run our bodies. The responsibility then is the choice of energy that we align to, and let run us… and from there comes the quality of our thoughts.
What Suzanne shares here seems eminently logical to me – Sons of God would necessarily be left to address this world as they, in connection, have access to ‘all that the Father is,’ as it was once expressed many years ago.
“….actively living within the scheme of life,” as a Glorious Son of God – these words convey so much, Suzanne, and feel exquisitely beautiful and true! Like an invitation to return to the the Truth of who we are in full – thank you.
Being in the head, thinking thoughts you have encapsulated so well in these words, Suzanne:”I am alone, distracted with no connection to anyone, or anything.” Isn’t that the function of thinking in this way? – to separate ourselves from ourselves and from all others? And if thinking does this, then what is our natural way of being – is it then confirmed as the way of absolute connection with self and all?
Dear Suzanne, I’ve found too that there’s no place in the world other then in my own heart that I feel and have found myself. The preciousness, the joy, the wholeness, the sacredness, it’s all there – all to be felt. I can relate to the fact how often I am (still) not with me. But for a long time in my life I didn’t even know what it really meant to be with me. Thank you for your beautiful blog. I am working now on choosing to feel it every moment, or at least moments during the day, in order to built consistency. I’ve only recently realised how crucial important it is to be connected to my body. And to really feel what’s going on in there.
I totally relate to what you have shared here Suzanne. Staying present and in connection with my body has been a challenge for me. I love how you have exposed how we think everything will be taken care of, but by who or what! Our first and foremost responsibility is to stay with ourselves and therefore be able to consistently choose the correct energy with which we live.
This smacks of total irresponsibility, not only of the people driving in this way, but of the religions that teach this type of blind faith. Teachings such as these are what turn people away from religion because we all know deep down that we are responsible for our actions (and more so), and that driving in this way is disregard for ourselves and others, and any consequence from it, is not God’s will but our own.
Any belief system that shifts responsibility for our lives away from ourselves cannot be healthy. As human beings, responsibility is not always something that rests easy with us, and as a society we have a tendency to want to shift responsibility always in the direction of others. One of the things I have very much always appreciated about Universal Medicine is the fact that it very much asks us to consider the responsibility we have, not only for our health, but for the way we are in the world.
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.” Actively living within the scheme of life – this made made me stop and realise that if we avoid being with ourselves, our Divine essence, then we are also unable to be actively engaged with life. How can we truly engage in life if we don’t want to feel or be with ourselves? There is a marriage or bridge here between life and the divine, and that, is the body.
I’m really struck by the reality of being in auto pilot and how much of life is not lived as a result. It seems to me that I’ve been given the responsibility of a body and rather than stay present with such a gift I go off to make a cup of tea.
It is such a crucial question you have asked – who indeed is manning the ship when I am out? How do I find myself when I return to my body? Usually full of aches and pains because I let it out to energies that basically take my body for a joy ride though there’s no joy involved. So rather than take a break and have to pick up the pieces, what’s loving is to stay and be responsible so I get to enjoy a body that is loved and looked after.
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body..” How gorgeous is the Grace of God!
This is a great blog to remind us how important it is to stay present with ourselves. I just realized that everything we do, every movement and everything is important; there is nothing more or less important. And to stay present really with everything I do this is what I am learning and focusing on more.
‘ Leaving it up to God ‘ remembered me of my ‘ old days’ when I was having prayers to God in order that he should fix my life. I truly was convinced that this is God’s job. Now I know it is all my responsibility and in truth I am not able to fix my life, I just have to deal with what is coming towards me and a huge support with this is being in conscious presence. I have to admit this is not always nice or easy, because the body can feel unease in certain moments, but it is worth to always come back to being consciously present in the body and build a steadiness with it.
Great story rebecca, and so very true, there is that belief that somehow we can pass our responsibility for our lives and others lives onto another – god, our parents, the government.
This is true if we don’t connect to our responsibility, there is no need to make changes in our lives.
There is a difference when I am self-focused or walking with a purpose that includes the All and is bigger than me. When I hold a bigger responsibility in my heart I am appreciative of every bit of support and guidance, and that includes the reflection of mistakes I make along the way. As soon as I become anxious about making mistakes, or judgmental of myself, or want to leave it someone else, even if it is God, this for me a is tell-tale sign that my attention has narrowed down to just taking care of ‘me’.
Feeling the enormity of Love of God that leaves it all up to us, keeps holding us no matter how many mistakes we have repeatedly made and are still making, leaves me speechless.
This ‘Leaving it up to God” business is such a cop out if you ask me. I know as I was one of them as that is how I was raised in the indian culture. You blame God because he has a plan and you just have to accept it and understand its karma. Really?
Well what a bummer and what a passport to give up on life which is what I had done.
Enter Universal Medicine in 2005 and the word RESPONSIBILITY comes in and then bingo I got it. I can take full Responsibility for my choices and not Accept that “leaving it up to God” is the answer. This fate thing is nonsense and ensures we continue living irresponsibly and this is a great problem we have on earth today.
Yes, there is an imaginary line where responsibility ends. I agree Ariana, true responsibility is for all.
The more I come back to me with the gentle breath and being more aware of how I move my body, I have noticed just how much I have lived on ‘auto-pilot’ and left things to fate. I’ve been realising more and more recently that there has been an incredible irresponsibility within me to live like this and that it’s been a total cop-out! Building a greater connection and relationship with my body has opened up much more awareness to how I’ve lived and the choices I’ve made – or the lack of them. If I’m not choosing, then who or what is choosing for me!
God is not there to fix the life of anyone. That was not and is not part of his job description.
We have to learn to take responsibility for the fact that living is making choices all the time this includes choosing to give up and leave it to God thinking that he will pick up the phone call from the other side. We fool ourselves big time.
To true Suzanne I often thought why would you leave it up to god if there are so many people that what to blame god for the lives they live, I was super super reckless younger and blaming someone that I didn’t even want to think was true or existed could have been the perfect scape goat…
Hi Suzanne
When I read your blog I feel the responsibility that I become aware of when I am present in my body. When I then leave it up to god, as I often do, this is me not wanting to clearly look at the mess around me and be responsible for my part in creating it.
Through accepting my responsibility as fully as I am able, I then become more deeply committed to connecting with my body and taking responsibility. Through the simple methods you have shared and a deepening of my commitment I can then bring to what the world around me what it needs rather than in enjoining in what they think they want.
Suzanne when I re read your blog today it reminded me how I used to live totally in my head. I constantly played films in my head of how I thought life was going to be for me. Whether I was walking. sitting or lying down I would have pictures playing out in my head. I was the cameraman, the script writer, the lead actress, the editor, the creative director and the projectionist. I had my ‘favourite films’ that I replayed to death and I had short features that showed for brief periods of time. Creating pictures of what I wanted life to be was fueled by the spiritual new age books that I read that said that we are the creators of our own lives and that we can manifest things into being by imagining them. As with most spiritual new age teachings there is an element of truth that runs through them and it is this that hooks us in. However it needs to be said that the energy that the spiritual new age runs on is not truth and therefore nothing of value can be salvaged from it.
Yes – it does seem as though we have seriously over estimated he power, relevance and significance of the imagination, Alexis: there is way more to us than the ability to create ‘head movies,’ entertaining and distracting though these may be at times – they are not our absolute, nor any where close to that.
I relate completely to this Alexis, and love how you’ve shared that you were the script writer through to the actress and producer. I was the Queen of manifesting things in my life through techniques gained from self-help and spiritual books. But these things I manifested in my life, came from pictures and ideals that I held about what I thought I wanted in my life and how it ought to be, and came from a need to fill an empty void. And so, the picture or movie would run idealistically for a while but unlike actual movies, there wasn’t always a ‘happy ever after’ ending, or it just didn’t turn out as I had expected. It is such a trap. None of this comes close to how I live now, as inspired by Serge Benhayon…life is simple and I find when I just allow space for what I feel is my next step, it is usually clear as to what I need to do next.
Yes, Suzanne, the words ‘The kingdom of God is within you’ are beautiful words to live by and acknowledging this really helps us stay connected to our bodies.
I have just watched a lot of video clips and read comments regarding recent terrorist attacks, not just in one country but everywhere. This is a good question to ask are we ‘leaving it up do God’ or ‘going off and playing around in our thoughts.’ Not really worried or concerned about all of what is going on in the world because it doesn’t directly affect us, it is not on our doorstep. Another great question is ‘who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?’ It is not about getting angry, reacting or fighting back but willing to see how we live affects others and if we are not truly operating our own movements everyday who is? The Gentle Breath Meditation given to us by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is a great introduction and way to start to claim responsibility for our movements and to respond instead of react.
I agree, Vicky – that is a great question: ‘Who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?’ We make myriads of movements each and every day – how many of them are in awareness and how many honour who we are? It seems to the that very few movements are made in awareness and honour of oneself on a global scale – hence, what happens in the lack of presence? Precisely what we are witnessing globally….and, then, who / what is behind that violence in movement and thought??
Very true Vicky – we can’t behave in a way, that we pretend the crime in the world doesn’t affect us. It does affect us and it is the responsibility of all of us, to express what we want – love and what we don’t want – everything what is not love.
Never has anything felt grander and precious than the self-responsibility for everything that is to be done, ever was made, and always will be there. Right at the moment when I drop my responsibility at the cloakroom I might feel at ease, but whatever happens will come back to me like a boomerang. And I rather care for a positive boomerang myself than getting hit by what ever wants to come my way, because I didn’t care for what will be.
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me”- Yes, I feel this with every choice I make. Is the choice, a loving choice, connecting me deeper to my true essence, or is my choice delaying my connection to God and from feeling the glorious, beauty-full, precious and sacred woman that I am, we all are.
“It has never made sense to leave things “up to God” to sort my life out for me. This always felt like a blind faith where I wasn’t taking responsibility for being a part of life, a part of humanity and how we live and participate on this earth. It’s like saying, “It’s all too much – you sort it out.” But how often in my life have I done this? I couldn’t even count the number of times!”
Thank you Suzanne for your very honest blog, I have felt this many times in my life that it’s all too hard, and check out, give up, stop committing to life, feeling overwhelmed. It also feels that by giving one’s power away by saying it’s up to God or God’s Will, there is no self-responsibility, no appreciation of ourselves and the supportive loving choices we are making. So in affect we don’t get to appreciate ourselves and the loving choices we have made.
“It has never made sense to leave things “up to God” to sort my life out for me.” This is such a true statement Suzanne, it’s the same as when people in the spiritual scene say, ‘I will leave it up to existence”, or ‘if it’s meant to be, it will be’. When I have said this or heard others say it, it feels like such a cop out, not taking responsibility for one’s actions and choices in life. As in the first place I hadn’t committed, as it had been God’s will not mine, so if what I had chosen didn’t work out I wasn’t responsible – right? No wrong, I had given my responsibility to a fictitious notion that it is God’s will, not mine.
I often feel God and or the hierarchy, patiently waiting for me, to come back to myself, my divinity and the love that I know myself to be; they often appear amused and smiling with such a warmth and holding love. When I have gone astray into some self created drama or problem, I feel no judgment simply a holding love.
I agree Thomas, I know that feeling too, and it is the same I feel from Serge Benhayon. No judgment, just love. This is so much more supportive than being ‘told off’ for doing something that is wrong, when there really isn’t anything wrong anyway.
Beautiful to read Thomas.
This is a brilliant example of blind faith Rebecca, the bus drivers in India were not only blindly handing over the responsibility they held for themselves, but also for the many peoples lives on the bus. I imagine this would have a compounding affect for their Karma next life if they were to crash and die, killing many others in the process?
Our evolution is to return to our Divine origins ie to return to God. There is a great truth in “leaving it to God”. To leave it to God is about absolute responsibility, very practical, fully committed and does not have one ounce of checking out in it.
I love your comment, Nicola, because there is another truth in leaving it up to God. The truth you are delivering is a total surrender into Gods love and Atma without doubt and allowing God’s energy acting in stillness. To align to God’s breath and movements is our responsibility so that God’s plan can happen on earth.
I was driving the other day and realised that for as long as I have been driving I have expected my car seat to ‘do’ my posture for me and if it didn’t do a good job it was the fault of the car. I also realised how completely ridiculous and irresponsible this was and that if it came down to this kind of detail it was a sure thing that there were many other areas of my life in which I have expected someone else to sort, rescue and deliver me from my own choices. In that moment I felt and straightened my back and felt the power of taking responsibility: it was beautiful, humbling and very inspiring.
I love how you have described “the power of responsibility” here Matilda. Supporting our bodies is a great place to start. Whenever I take another level of true responsibility I can feel it in my body. My heart opens and I feel the expansiveness – like I am everywhere and not separate to anyone or anything.
Beautifully expressed Matilda Bathurst – these reflections are constant and so supportive when we allow ourselves to see and feel them.
What a beautiful expression and so simple and clear, thank you Susanne Cox. I can so relate to that, getting caught up in my thoughts, but it really doesn’t lead anywhere; it’s pure ‘entertainment’ value. And that time and space is then lost, which could have been used more productively, being with me, in my body.
I really love this article Suzanne Cox.
We seem as a race at large to be able to use God as something to “hope for”, to make change, or to blame when something goes wrong, or as an excuse to be mystified when things seem unreasonable or out of control. All ways of avoiding the truth and simplicity of our RESPONSIBILITY to be with God (which is to simply be all that we truly are) and that the world is a result of our actions, and the lack of choosing that.
Yes we have the tendency to blame others for what is happening to us, be it God or other People, situations, circumstances – what or whoever, to not take our own responsibility. Thereby our responsibility is ‘just’ to express the love we are in every moment. Not such a bad job you could say, or?!
And I would add to this simplesimon888, for those who find God to hard to grasp we could say that our purpose is to live within Universal order, making choices that are in harmony with the Universe, and that can be as simple as the way we express to another, to the way we move, and all the daily choices we make.
I am increasingly surrendering to God “Thy Will be done” and reaping the benefits of living this Way. It includes the joyful responsibility and dedication of being fully committed to myself, others and whatever needs to be done in a life of service. Being committed to life includes all the day to day form filling and practicalities and is the opposite of checking out!
Well said Nicola – when we start to trust life, we can let go of all investments, beliefs, ideas – that is just wonderful. There is no reason to create anything, life is giving everything to us, once we allow it to unfold.
What you say is true Alexander and my experience too. Whilst I wrote I am increasingly surrendering to God, it is still very much an ever letting go and work in progress meaning I still have my moments of anxiety and so forth. To live in unison with God and our Soul is such a simple and literally Divine way to live – I wonder why we find it so hard and like to make things so complicated. I know there are many reasons such as our insatiable need for recognition and identification and yet clearly our separated way of life simply does not work and still we carry on!
There are so many of us who have spent a long time looking for God within the walls of a Church only to be disappointed at what we find. I always knew God but didn’t trust that I didn’t need to go anywhere to find him, that he was with me and the access is through my body. The religion that I grew up with kept guiding me to look outside of myself which never really made sense. It wasn’t until Universal Medicine and through learning to connect back to my body and living in a way which is deeply honouring, have I been able to discover that “The Kingdom of God is Within You”.
Trust is such a key. We are taught not to trust our own knowing and listen instead to what we are told and in what we think we know. Thank God for Universal Medicine for making sense of “The Kingdom of God is Within You” – I now know this is something we feel, not ever something we can be told or taught.
I loved what Serge Benhayon presented in last weekend workshop: everything is waiting there to drop in. It is us who are creating things,patterns, beliefs etc to avoid this fact, instead of going for the higher vibration/ going forward to the amazingness of us in our life and letting things fall into place and be provided with everything needed all of the time. Carried by heaven *
So simple steffihenn – keep getting ourselves and our “stuff” (the baggage of ideals and beliefs) out of the way and there it is – clear access to what is inside – The Kingdom of God.
God definitely leaves everything up to me. Every choice has to be mine. At times I’ve wished for it to be done for me, but it never fulfilled like a choice or decision from within; there is magic in those choices.
There is so much magic in our own choices I agree Matthew. There is also so much strength and foundation building when I make my own choices from my own connection to my own divinity. Whenever I have left it up to another I find I get to repeat situations until I’m prepared to take my place responsibly as the initiator and deliverer of my own true wisdom and livingness, and with this comes the magic of god,
I have definitely spent a lot of time holding my steering wheel out for someone else to take; all in a false sense of needing to be rescued, when actually it was simply my unwillingness to take full responsibility for driving my own car. It is when I am driving my own car that I feel God in the car with me. My choices are mine but he is always there.
I like your analogy here Matilda, it feels very true.
I love that Matilda; ‘Driving with God’
The great thing is that when we listen, God knows the way and this is communicated quite simply by how we feel, in our bodies, if we but listen and don’t blot out the feelings.
Actually, I feel incredibly supported by everything around me and that includes the ‘bad’ experiences. If there is a God, he/she makes it much easier for me to live in a harmonious and beautiful way by everything around me pointing it out when I don’t live that way.
Agreed Matthew. There is magic in those choices that come from within. It feels just right. Like your filling yourself up with your own love and trust of what you decide.
Agreed Doug choose to be with God or not – the ultimate choice.
Yes, God does leave it to me. Because of love, because it is my responsibility to live the love that we all are.
Beautifully put Sandra, God leaves it up to us and gives us choices, how huge and awesome is God’s love, and it’s what makes our lives so incredible and rich, that we can choose for example, separation, and misery or connection and joy, but God is always there holding us in the same love with no judgment.
And so we can come back to express the love we always are…
‘Leaving it up to God’ what a great topic to consider. Most of my life I have wanted to leave things to one person or another who I had decided ‘knew better’ so that I could conveniently not have to take responsibility for the situation. As I have been embracing a greater commitment and responsibility in life I have been noticing these, and breaking old patterns as I go. Reading this blog I realise this pattern has been far bigger than I realised! Thank you for the reflection.
Yes Golnaz, same here, there was always somebody more ‘experienced’, wiser, who I would choose to leave the decision making to. I now realise, there is no better ‘expert’ on my life than me, and it’s my responsibility. And when I make the ‘wrong’ choice, at least it was my own choice, and I learn from it.
The Gentle Breath Meditation is a very powerful modality. I noticed today that I was out and I instantly knew how to reconnect to myself through a Gentle Breath Meditation. The connection lasts beyond the meditation and your day just opens up to all the glorious opportunities.
I can’t say I can relate to a connection to myself ever seeming boring – for me it was always more like getting totally caught up in my own world and forgetting to relate to others that had a similarly empty feeling to it.
I agree Helen, when I read the blog I realised I hadn’t been bored for years and years and years. I used to be bored when I was checked out, but never at all in connection. At essence we are all one and that includes God. Therefore when I am connected to my true self I am equally connected to others and God, and that is magnificent and fun and never ever boring. The boredom I had in my earlier years was sometimes due to missing my connection, feeling the emptiness and looking for things to distract me from that.
Certainly Nicola, boredom happens in the absence of connection…and is why I used to eat (rubbish) when not hungry to stave off such feelings of ‘boredom’ …to fill an empty stomach that was only really empty of a connected-body. Connection has given me a fullness, and it is our ‘food’.
You raise an interesting point Helen. For me I relate the boredom to being like a child who could not sit still and had to be doing something to avoid feeling the stillness that was there when I stopped and connected to my body .
I know that feeling – looking for distraction, avoiding the moment that will give us more than we could ever dream up in our minds. And how the moment I actually do really connect and drop into my body’s natural rhythm (every time) – all of that just disappears. The power in our stillness is so enormous it can seem too much. I know that for me I need to increase appreciation for myself in order to surrender to what is actually within me.
Yes hunting for distraction to avoid the fact that there is something missing.
It is only from the appreciation of who we really are that we can truly heal and bring an understanding to what is really going on. Getting to know our divine essence inside us all, and the living of this, brings the awareness, knowing and light to all we are and do, and it is the walking of this through our lives and our choices and movements that is our true Religion inside us all, and our responsibility.
Beautiful said tricianicholson, it is our responsibility to make choices to live and move in a way that expresses that essence of who we are.
Leaving it up to God! Would that be the same as I don’t want to take any responsibility and someone else can do it because I don’t care? God left us in charge and gave us the keys to his car.
And it’s your own insurance policy !!
This made me laugh but you are right we are held accountable for all of our actions whether we like it or not.
Not only that, he gave us each our own car to drive. Why would we give the keys from God to another, when they already have their own car to drive?
How about – God is sitting in the passenger seat, allowing us at all times to go where we want, to treat the car how we want, but always offering direction and reminding us of our true potential… we just have to remember to turn the radio down!
Suzanne, thank you for your honest sharing. I also find the breath
a great tool to come back to me. What I discover with my checking out that I loose my purpose, because sometimes it seems to be too much challenge. Focussing on my purpose and doing this in being tender and breathing tender support me to stay connected.
That is true Kerstin. When our breath is in the wrong rhythm we are not truly with ourselves.
Who would have thought Kerstin and Christoph that something as simple as our breath could be so powerful, after all no once else can control our breath can they? We take our breath for granted yet it happens all of the time. I know when I am ‘out’ because my breath becomes heavy and racy, and how many of us hold our breath when something shocking happens and we are feeling anxious or afraid, so bringing my breath back to gentleness is a very soothing way to bring me back to me.
So true, just bringing focus on our breath everyday, already changes it if we are out of rhythm. And by continuing this observing, we deepen the knowing of it. A healthy breath is gentle and harmonious.
And you are an inspiration kerstinsalzer15, it is a joy to experience this reflection from you.
Oh yes, I can relate to that feeling as a teen. I knew I liked my own company and didn’t need the company of others to feel fulfilled but there was no appreciation for how amazing it felt to be with me, glorious me, never alone and forever where the sun always shines.
So true Elizabeth, leaving it up to God and let life decide how you life will look like is so disempowering and in great contrast to having your connection with God and live your life from that connection as a conscious choice for the quality of presence you want to live.
I really related to what you wrote Suzanne & can admit to how quickly I find myself in my thoughts too. Focussing then on my breath and giving my mind the tip of my nose to concentrate on really takes me off the high speed train and back into the beautiful, calm place I’m meant to be…my body
Wow, I love this… there is so much power and grace in God leaving it up to us to connect. Thank you for bringing this view point Susanne, amazing.
‘leaving it up to God’. Boy have I heard this all my life, and I’ve never understood it. From a very young age, sayings like this always erked me. I used to think about how non-sensical it was that you would just hand over responsibility to someone/something that didn’t exist in the ‘hope’ that everything would simply sort itself out. There is a lot to be said about trusting yourself and allowing the plan to unfold as and when it needs to, but I feel that in saying ‘leave it up to God’, there is a lot of ‘giving up’ that comes with that that suggests one doesn’t have to be responsible for the choices they make as their fate lies in God’s hands regardless. If that were the case, then what would the point be for our existance as we would simply be puppets.
What an exceptionally relatable post Suzanne! I have felt exactly the same way about everything you mention here, and my first thought was that I need to give myself more space to feel my body and it’s movement in every moment. Like you, when I’ve done this, it doesn’t take long before I simply give up and seek comfort in the busyness of my mind, but I’ve also noticed that being locked in my mind is a real downer and not something I benefit from in any way.
Hear hear deep and huge appreciation indeed for Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom that he presents. To be able to understand the truth of where we come from and feel the ginormousness of this is an absolute blessing. Then to be able to have this to realise it is a possible to be this only gives us more possibilities of being ALL of who we are. The possibilities are endless.
Suzanne I can relate to when you say the word boring . As I started to make a commitment to be more present in my life and what ever it was I found myself doing at the time I found life had far less drama and emotion which I had used for years to keep myself entertained. Life felt life it became less full, mundane and boring. As I have gone deeper with this connection with myself I now feel the disconnection, drama and emotions as boring, although I still find myself continuously disconnecting and indulging in the drama and emotional stimulation. The fullness and beauty I feel when in connection with myself is more fulfilling than any drama or emotion, to the point drama and emotion are boring and mundane.
Elizabeth, what you have written is crucial. To understand that we can only support our bodies in being present in them and thus feel vital and joyful is of utter importance.
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me.”- Yes, and it’s awesome to know the God doesn’t judge me, condone me for my past ill choices, or threatens to send me to hell. Instead, when I feel God’s loving presence within I feel held in his love. My choice to reconnect is only a breath away.
I can totally relate to what you have shared here, it has been a source of bewilderment and confusion why I would not chose to stay connected to me, and therefore God. Why I would leave that feeling shows that there is a conscious choice required to be connected, that it doesn’t just happen or is guaranteed. The only guarantee is that there is a choice of which energy you align to at any given moment.
But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them? – Such a powerful question to ask ourselves! I know that I can very easily go into the auto-pilot of movements our of habit and not connection. In doing this, I don’t get to bring a quality to my movements that will then influence all other movements thereafter. It is only when I stop and connect back to me that I can change the state of ignoring what is there to be felt.
Being aware of my movements is to me a connection with everyone. If I am connected, I am connected to the universe. If I am not, then I am moving just for myself.
In my job almost every other person says to me ‘sorry, I was in another world’ or words to that effect, basically talking about these very common moments people have in everyday life – waiting for the bus, standing in a queue, at work etc, where they check out, go on auto pilot and they are no longer there – by where have they gone, and what is it that replaces them to continue to function? And what is the long term consequences of living a life half out of your body, not experiencing and participating in full? When these people stand in line for their coffee, and I call to them to be next at the till, or I ask them what they would like, they can’t hear me, they are so far gone it can take me a while to call them back to themselves to be able to answer the question. It’s kinda scary when you put it like that – almost movie like in the sense that we have people walking round who really aren’t there and we think it is normal. Why are people feeling the need to check out more and more – what is it about life and society that people don’t want to engage with?
Great observations and questions Rebecca. It’s considered so normal to ‘be in another world’ for a moment and to daydream about something yet we are not aware of the effect it has on how we are feeling. I am noticing when I am in a checked out state it impacts greatly on how I am feeling in my body, as well as when I am present I feel the solidness of my choices too. I think many people feel to check out because of the intensity of the world, I find it very intense, there are lots of pressures to perform, to be perfect, to do this and that, and there is not so much true love and connection.
I agree, as a society we need to look at why more and more people are retreating from life into their own minds
To ‘leave it to God’ is to give my power away – just that God does not take it. Others do.
Great point Sandra Schneider, that is exactly what happens. It is as if we offer ourselves up for anyone to use when we give our power away. It takes a steady aware person to see and feel this in any relationship and to not take advantage of the situation.
Oh so true Sandra and so very beautifully succinct, thank you!
Our invitation is to walk with God and work with him, not leave it all to him. There is a big difference.
I agree Ariana, if we are not considering everyone then we are considering no-one. We cannot be content to have our own lives sorted and then think that this is enough and that we do not need to care about what is occurring for others. We are all in this together, all one humanity.
This ‘giving up’ that you talk about Suzanne is where I was in life BSB – Before Serge Benhayon. I had given up on Life and that meant exhausted and depressed and a “can’t be bothered and why bother attitude”.
What was missing was my Commitment to Life and this is what I have developed and today I support others to not give up on life by presenting Simple Living which brings everything Back to Basics and then you just Get on with It. This commitment to taking care of you basic needs becomes a foundation for your life. It works and is needed if we are to evolve.
Well said Bina. The commitment to the basics is an important foundation. Life is great like that – we have to eat, wash, clean, keep a house, go to work, look after our finances etc. Developing a relationship based on quality with all of these practicalities can create a solid foundation.
I love how there is absolutely no sympathy in your words Bina. Let’s get on with it! There is so much joy and love in taking responsibility and committing to life!
I agree Bina, we have to get the basics right first so we have a true foundation in our life. Universal Medicine gives us the building blocks needed to create a true foundation in life and this is why the teachings of Universal Medicine work so well and when applied are totally transformational.
‘Giving up’ feels like it has the same foundation as ‘leaving it up to God’ to me. Like we are all at the mercy of God. I feel sure that ‘giving up’ is an old religious expression saying as much. Yet as you say Bina, ASB – after Serge Benhayon, life is all about responsibility and commitment – and joyfully so.
‘God has been leaving it up to me’ this is very big Suzanne as this is exactly how it is. We have been given free will and are very happy to express it but only so long as we do not have to take responsibility for the consequences of our choices. As soon as we are met with the mess we have created we turn to God to blame or fix. This is the deepest of irresponsibility in which we are willing to give our power away to religions that are far from presenting the truth of what and who God is.
I can relate to having asked for help from God many times in the past and had an expectation that the answer or result would be delivered in a certain way, only to be disappointed when it didn’t happen. Having been brought up from in the Spiritualist Church I was told that you had to be special to receive messages from those who had passed over (to me this meant God also), and then I spent my life wanting to be special, and each time I asked God for something and it didn’t happen it just confirmed that I wasn’t special enough. Now I have come to realise that it isn’t God who picks out those who are to be the special ones, this is purely a man made belief of setting us apart from each other, and that we all have access to the Divine equally as it is within us and never was it something we had to seek. So the up shot of this tale is that God was always supporting me, but I was too blind to see it.
Having grown up being told that everything was “out of my control” and that whatever happened “Good or Bad” was in someone God’s doings I know see the absolute falsity in that. The fact is through our choices we allow, accept and embrace our connection with God and all that follows. God is always there, it is us that has the choice to be with God or deny we are innately from and with God. The resulting corrections are but the choices we’ve made.
Awesome David. Such a great way to put it!
So much is done these days on auto-pilot…peoples lives are so ‘crazily busy’ that we go onto automatic ‘just to get the job done’ – but what is the quality we do the job in, and where are we, where have we gone, if we have become automatic?
It is certainly a way to cruise through life but not really be involved and or not be fully responsible for ourselves and our lives. Our connection to who we innately and naturally are is lost, and there is little connection to one another…what you share here Suzanne is the gorgeousness of honouring that connection within ourselves, the Godliness we all have within, which naturally connects us with everyone else equally so.
So much so Paula that if we try to observe life and people, we can see that for the most part we are totally unaware of what we are doing and how we are living on a grand scale. The world is spiraling out of control – and we seem to be completely unable to make a change.
The only man I have ever seen make a true change is Serge Benhayon.
“It is here that the words I have heard in the past make sense: The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God”. It does indeed make sense and your blog is a wonderful reminder to appreciate and rejoice in our inner wisdom and divinity.
Being a student of the Way of The Livingness has re-connected me to true religion and the fact that the Kingdom of God is within me. All along when I was small it never made sense that we needed to go to a church to pray to a God and now I know why, because God is with in us all and prayer can be anywhere when you deeply connect with self and God.
Same for me marylouisemeyers. Even the concept that religion was anything but insitutionalised dogma had been drummed out of me before re-developing an understanding of the Livingness with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Thank God for that – religion is such a deeply personal and yet encompassing thing, and makes life totally make sense.
“Each choice provides me with an opportunity for learning and developing” is key to us continually deepening our awareness and growing in our evolution.
I love that you highlighted that MaryLouisemyers – I agree wholeheartedly it is key to be open, to keep learning and developing in every part of our life.
I love this marylouisemyers. That means that really all I need to do is keep observing myself, my choices and with out ever being critical or judgmental of myself – see which choices really serve me and which don’t.
Awesome!
I love your honesty here Suzanne. “It’s like there is nothing more at this point for me to participate in, so off I go and play around in my thoughts. But who or what is operating
my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?” It is very sobering to think that we are not in control of our movements or thoughts when we think we are. But also to know that it is simply a choice to take control of what we are letting into our bodies. To be vigilant in all that we do, say and think is key.
I also used to find that connecting to me and my body was hard work, now I know it as a responsible choice I am joyfully willingly making every single moment because I know how great it feels to be with me.
Yes marylouisemyers, and I found that I did make it hard work to connect to my body by so many actions and decisions I made, which brought the barriers into the relationship with my body.
‘But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?’
A very exposing question to say the least Suzanne and I can deeply relate to being amused by and engaging in my thoughts rather than practicing presence in my body. So who am I really leaving it up to? If we feel God and the glory of our being through our body then vacating it leaves the body open to be drained and played by other energies. Perhaps that’s where the saying ‘used and abused’ comes from.
Rachael thank you for stating the fact that there are other energies at play. I think it is crucial that we say it how it is. There is an energetic source that delights in keeping us from remembering the truth of who we are. That energetic source is the fuel behind everything that promotes the illusion of separatism. It is the origin of all suffering bar none. It is what rushes into the gap that is left when we leave ourselves. It is the Great Pretender and it’s time that the world knew of it’s existence.
I love reading how once you found it boring to be with yourself and how now you feel how amazing it is to be in your body once you accepted the gloriousness of you and being in your body. Thank you for bringing such clarity to how you stay consisent with your connection to the glory of God within.
“But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?” How often have I left myself and gone “somewhere else”, only to come back to myself and say “Where have I been?” This shows I always knew, but had never acknowledged, or paid any attention to it in the past, thinking it was normal and not important. Now, since meeting Universal Medicine and the teachings of the Ancient Wisdom,and knowing what is happening, I have gradually been catching myself earlier when I do it, sometimes in an instant. This is our responsibility, to stay with ourselves and aware of all that is happening inside us and around us. I love this blog, Suzanne, so honest and true. Through connecting to ourselves in the deep inner sacred place the Gentle Breath Meditation brings us to, we find the God that works from inside out, instead of seeking the God “out there” to rely on.
I love this question too joanchristinecalder, “But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?”. At least I know now that when I do not make the conscious choice to live from my inner heart, I choose to live a human life restricted to the three dimensional world we live here on earth, heavily invested in the creation of life. When I choose my inner connection with God to guide me, then my movements expand and correspond to the bigger whole, the universe I am part of, not restricted by any means of this three dimensions world, but forever expanding and evolving, in co-creation with the all.
And I love what you have expressed Nico, expanding and deepening what it means to choose the inner connection with God. To me it feels like the universe opens up inside me in ever expanding circles with a deep centre towards which we are evolving. This deep centre inside myself here on earth, where we make the connection in human form, is a reflection of Heaven above and the spherical nature of the universe, and so — as above so below — and there is no separation.
So true Joan, by choosing to live from our hearts we bring heaven to earth and live our lives accordingly.
We give up when we ‘leave it up to God’. Give up on the fact that we have choices to make and even ‘leaving it up to God’ is a choice to abstain from taking full responsibility for one’s life. We are much more powerful and have much more influence in our lives than we are lead to think.
It is beautiful that there is a sacred place that resides within us all. We don’t need to go anywhere to find it. It has been with us all along.
When you mention…”I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all” there is such a strong feeling of grace, expansiveness, unity, and equalness with everyone, which feels the exact opposite of the confines of a church! And there is no more seeking outside of us – it is all within each and every one of us, equally so.
I love the line stating ‘These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME’…this was a wake-up call for me.
I can relate so well to getting to a point where I can decide ‘this feels good, I have made it, I have done my bit’ and then letting go. The fact is that we are taken care of so well by God again and again and at some level we know that. But God never interferes with free will, so being taken care of does not mean I am not responsible for my choices and their impact on myself and on others.
So true Golnaz, it will always and continuously will be my own choice to be taken care of by by God and God will never impose on me. It is all about the quality of presence I choose for.
“True religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” Suzanne I totally agree with what you have so beautifully expressed here as true religion.
“The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.” I have always known this and I am embracing this in full now, choosing to express this and walk this, making every movement divine and worth appreciating and celebrating.
Katinka I really love your comment as I am coming to appreciate how expression of the glory within is such a beautiful confirmation of what I do feel and know. For a long time I’ve kept my knowing there is a divine order to myself (and for a long time I even denied myself this). Now I really feel to have fun with expressing this in everything I do, how I walk, what I say etc.
“The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.” Like yourself Katinka I have always known this deep within myself, but until meeting Serge Benhayon did not know how to access or live this. Through his living reflection I am now choosing to express the divine truth that resides within.
It is everything to step with this true awareness and not hold it back wherever we are. Making the choice to claim this in full and then make it your every expression is a movement that makes enormous shifts in this otherwise dense world.
I too have known this and love now that I can feel it as a tangible felt physical feeling in my body, the warmth at the balls of my feet, the expansion in my chest, all there waiting for me to reconnect to. Magic.
‘I have always known this’ is so true. This is a timeless truth that we all know in our hearts just waiting with eternal patience for us to reconnect with and to cease the search for something that was in fact never lost.
One of the issues we have we deciding to connect with our body is that when we do so, what we feel is not always pleasant, for our body is reflecting to us the many choices we have made. And so conscious presence on its own is not enough for us to know God. For to know God, it is the quality of presence we choose that is the key.
Great point Adam, it is the quality of movement I choose in every moment that allows me to know God, beautifully said.
Yes, Adam and Francisco, through the quality of my movements Iove can flow in and through me, and there is nothing quite like this feeling. This is our power and responsibility on earth, as our movements have a ripple effect on everything.
So really what you are saying Francisco and Adam is that knowing God is just a simple choice of a quality to be in.
‘For to know God, it is the quality of presence we choose that is the key.’
Thank you Adam, a gorgeous expansion on presence and understanding it’s depth.
I have felt this when I am frustrated with myself or let stress affect me that I can still be present when I am moving in an unloving and dishonouring way. Yes, I get to feel the ramifications of moving that way but I am not in unity with divinity or love in these moments for if I knew God and felt Him within then there is no way I would be moving like that in the first place. Choose the quality first.
“if I knew God and felt Him within then there is no way I would be moving like that in the first place.” So true Rachael and what is so beautiful is in that moment of realisation if we choose to reconnect and feel the love of God with in us he is back with us in an instant, for he never left the building, only we did!
Agree Adam – Responsibility is not always comfortable for all our aspects but it is connecting us to our true being and so, connecting us to the Universe. So what is comfort against the amazing space that is waiting for us?!
I don’t know where I got the ludicrous idea that to know God required some kind of exalted state of being (that one as lowly as I could never be worthy of) – oh wait a minute yes I do, via the major religions of our time. This is so very far from the truth that I now know. God and the Hierarchy are altogether practical, have a wonderful irreverent sense of humour and need no bells and whistles, gilded lilies or pious servants to work with. Quite the opposite. Anything initiated with the quality of love, truth, harmony, stillness or joy and they are right there with you. Our veneration comes truly with the knowing that we ourselves are made of this stuff and that life as we know it today a mere glimmer of what we are and will return to.
This a deeply beautiful quote that is within your article “It is here that the words I have heard in the past make sense: The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.” We all have the potential to live the glory that is innately within us. We may say ‘God has forgotten about us’, ‘doesn’t exist’ etc but are we willing to feel our own amazingness and so reconnect with that which waits patiently, there is true glory and divinity in every step we take if we are willing to feel it within ourselves.
Lovely article, thank you. I can feel this in my life, my experience of life has been impacted deeply by how much I choose to be open to the divine that is all around me and within me. “These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.” In the past I have been waiting for signs to act but now I do not seek signs or experiences. Learning to accept how amazing we truly are enables us to begin to feel the divinity of all that is around us.
I have at times in the past where I have driven to work and not remembered the journey… at all. I left the house and next thing I remember is getting out of the car at work. I had always felt the car was on autopilot and someone should have been driving because I was miles away in my head. How much of life do we loose when we take these short breaks? God has given free will for us to do as we wish. When we waste our time and then say ‘God, where has the time gone’ we both know the answer.
The words “The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God” have been associated with Christianity for thousands of years. When Jesus spoke them, he wasn’t trying to establish a religion of followers who pray and confess so God will sort it out for them; who try to be good so God will reward them etc. Telling us that the Kingdom of God is inside us was perhaps more about telling us we have the responsibility to live in a way to know this Kingdom, which I have come to understand is through the body. I have found it difficult to let go of my head activity. There is such a lot of pride in having thoughts which is basically having a world of creation inside my head.
I agree, Jinya Mizuno, I feel Jesus was inspiring us to live from the fullness of our selves …. to be the glory that we naturally are as sons of God. To know that the Kingdom of God is within each and every one of us and to live our lives from claiming this truth, allows us to be the glory that we are.
Has this been bastardised over time because 1. We do not want to, or like, taking FULL responsibility for ourselves so it gives us a ‘get out clause’ (which in the end is not a get out clause but hurts us even more because we are walking away from who we truly are) or 2. We either don’t want to shine or want others to shine? The teachings were simple, everything is within, the ‘Kingdom of God’ is within all, equally so.
To have the kingdom of God inside me is a huge responsibility. To reject my responsibility does not mean that I loose the kingdom. It means that I am abusing it.
That is a very hard hitting and beautiful sentence Sandra Schneider.
That’s it in a nutshell Sandra .. So simple and a fact!
Yes, ‘The Kingdom of God is Within You’ is a reminder of who we are and how we can live. The life of Jesus was a reflection to us all to claim our innermost Glory and be One with God and not to beg for his mercy. Gods mercy is a given – absolute, unconditional Love.
Auto-pilot, that is a switch many of us seem to use particularly when we are busy. Through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine what I am feeling and understanding more is the R word .. Responsibility and how important it is for all of us to be responsible for our thoughts and actions and being present (body and mind together in what we do) consistently. What I have found is the more I intend to work with this the more I am shown how important it is to be and do. However, I feel I have a very long way to go with this especially in taking and being responsible for everything in my life. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a beautiful tool that helps to supports this and build our connection back to who we truly are.
I agree absolutely Vicky. And how many of us truly take responsibility for our every thought, word and deed, ensuring we are fully present with ourselves and others to the very best of our ability? It’s not a popular question because it exposes us in our irresponsibility. If you’d asked me a couple of years ago what I felt responsibility to be, I would have said it was self-sacrificing, a burden, something onerous and heavy. What I am really starting to feel, again with the support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, is that responsibility is an absolute joy – it gives me permission – no, more than that, it asks me to be all of me and not hold back one iota. It’s incredibly freeing and there’s is a lightness to it I would never have believed possible from the scriptures and teachings on responsibility I grew up with. The meaning of responsibility has become so bastardised, that it is all too easy to shirk it.
Well said Vicky, our responsibility is much much greater than we would really like to admit, because if we do, it demands a consistent focus and awareness to hold it. The Gentle Breath meditation is so simple and easy to do throughout our day, a fantastic way to stay focussed and with our bodies while we do all those things we need to do in order to live life. It brings a grace and beauty to life that we abandoned many eons ago and is so amazing to feel once more. I know this meditation has enabled me to alter many of my habitual choices because I could feel how they were disrupting these qualities and consequently have supported me to resume more and more responsibility for myself, my actions, thoughts and behaviours with amazing results. Responsibility is huge, but it is also extremely rewarding.
” I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” Thank you Suzanne for beautifully descriping what true religion really is.
It’s a beautiful and simple understanding isn’t it diana1975. Imagine all that would change in the world if we understood religion to be what it really is like this instead of what it has been made out to be.
I can so relate to what you have said about connecting to yourself, getting bored and yet also the emptiness in the fantasies or thoughts. I am still working on the part that feels it is easier to just wonder off that keep focused, but that kind of discipline takes time and commitment to myself and the knowing that life is so much better lived in the body than in the mind
I am really still working on this too Rebecca Briant. It’s so easy to end up off in fairy tale land wondering and fantasising about another reality instead of taking responsibility for the one I have created.
“Taking responsibility for the one [reality] I have created.” Ouch! To have gone out and done that without consideration for the all that is really hurts for I know this is not the way to truly live and love.
This blog is always a joy to re-visit Suzanne. From very young I always knew there was something far greater than my physical body that was a constant in my life. The ‘God’ word felt uncomfortable to use only because the interpretations of religion by various churches just did not equate with the inner knowing of something divine and sacred that was unwavering within me.
Attending the inspiring and very real presentations by Serge Benhayon has made complete sense on that which is True Religion to be found deep within my own body and thus forever confirming we are always surrounded by and living within the body of God.
“It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all”.
Suzanne what you share I feel could be relevant to many people, certainly I can and it feels incredible when you choose this responsibility of connecting to God. Working on being consistent with this is forever a deepening. Accepting the fact that we are one and the same is the other part to this relationship.
I love your point Natalie about choosing the responsibility of connecting to God. We can’t just sit back, wait and hope it happens, it is for us in each moment to make the choice to connect.
Dwelling in our thoughts is escapism from things we feel painful to face and we need to take responsibility for. As you so rightly say Suzanne although they “are entertaining for a while, there is an emptiness contained within them” and what requires addressing does not go away. The Gentle Breath Meditation is a powerful tool to re-establish a connection and foundation with oneself and address what one has been denying.
Suzanne I love what you’ve shared… ‘These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me.’ I marvel at this too and have the same confirmed to me when I let go that connection for some reason. No matter what l’ve done, how unloving anything l’ve done or said might be, the instant I choose love again, it’s back. No waiting-period, no penance, no 60-lashes… just the purity of love back, as if it never left.
“No matter what l’ve done, how unloving anything l’ve done or said might be, the instant I choose love again, it’s back.” So true Jenny – this confirms there is no judgment from God, never was, never has been.
Absolutely Suzanne… such a simple example but exposes pretty much every organised religion. All we have to do is come back to the body and we can know the truth of what a truly loving God actually means. This is ‘The Way of the Livingness’… captured!
Thinking is something we do without thinking, if that makes sense? If we are thinking about anything other than what we are doing then we are not paying attention to what is going on in our body, except when it shouts at us with a pain. It is my responsibility in every moment of the day to stay consciously present instead of constantly drifting off into daydreams. Feeling my feet as I walk, feeling the tenderness in my finger tips as I touch something, observing my breath, feeling my voice, these are all little techniques that help.
“Thinking is something we do without thinking.” This is so true Carmel and I love the simplicity of this. Could it be that thinking is therefore something that we are not actually doing, but allow to happen when we are not being present? It’s like being zoned out in front of a TV set that is constantly streaming various channels. So who’s holding the remote control?
Yes, Jinya, we make the choice to allow it to happen and it is up to us to take responsibility for making different choices. Like turning the TV off! (I love your analogy)
I really like that Carmel Reid.
Thinking is something we do without thinking. So essentially, we don’t pay attention, we don’t actually know what we are thinking and how we are getting the thoughts we are getting. Taking responsibility to what is going on in my head is something we all need to look at.
Well said simplesimon888. Our thoughts can be very powerful in their ability to take us away from life if we let them. Being with every moment of life and feeling whatever is there in that moment to be felt is truly being in life and being responsible within that.
Yes simplesimon888, as we are feed thoughts knowing what energy is feeding those thoughts is fundamental when it comes to really knowing what is actually taking place at any one time.
Great comment Carmel and I love your tips.
Beautiful to read Carmel. The “Thinking is something we do without thinking” does make sense. I know there are many times where I’ll be thinking and ill be like, “wait what?” really shows how when you are not connected to your body and focussed on what you are doing, anything can run rampant in our thoughts.
“Indulging more in my thoughts’”, this one was big one for me, for so long I use too indulge in my thoughts, my brain would be stimulate with thoughts, while my body would go into auto pilot. It was like both doing their own thing. I remember this starting very young in my life, when I use to get bored and continued into my adult hood. It is only know that I am making connection with my body, and as I work on that the thoughts have started to fade. The more I am connected to my body the more clarity I have.
Inspiring Amita. I know what it is like to indulge in my thoughts.
Suzanne as you said we have to make the decisions in our life and take responsibility for those. Pretending that we have no part in these and that we are leaving it up to someone else demonstrates the lack of responsibility that we have chosen to live.
Reflecting more deeply I get the fact that I have myself wanted someone else to pick me up and carry me through life problems and challenges – it is only Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that have shown me a true way. To take responsibility for every choice I have made and will make.
Completely get this Suzanne – the power we have in constantly choosing and building our own body of Love so that God can be with us in every moment is the responsibility that we know why we are here yet have for ages not truly fulfilled our job. Simply being all of us no matter what.
It feels like God lives in me when I connect to my body and the whole world around me. So if I do activities in life without being present, with out me, what am I truly leaving life ‘up to?’. It’s like there’s a void where normally the quality of God would be, and what follows is definitely less than the loving quality I know is me. Could this lack of presence you describe Suzanne, explain the mess we see in the world today? What if God is in fact with us everywhere, just waiting for us to reconnect to our natural way?
‘What are we leaving life up to?’ indeed. Great question Joseph. It feels much more true and wiser too, to say we choose to connect to the way, our natural way.
Suzanne what a great blog. I can really relate to that downward spiral, when I indulge in the negativity. Serge Benhayon presented on Responsibility, the power of Choice, Past Lives and with this understanding my whole world has changed, not by excluding God, but encompassing all things including God, people, nature and our universe. I grew up believing that God was separate to these things, but now know that is not the case. It’s not about leaving it all up to God, but connecting to our inner wisdom and love so then we are the same energy that God is made up of.
I feel people give their power away to a ‘higher being’ aka God, as you describe in your title, Leaving it Up to God’. There feels to be a sort of givenupness in this concept, waiting for someone to make our life better, or has less suffering, somehow. There are many many atrocities committed under the guise of religion and ‘God’, it is still happening today, and to put one’s faith in God to fix things clearly hasn’t ever, nor ever will work.
I like the notion God is waiting for Me to get my act together to realise he is in me as I am in him, we’re in it together 🙂
Good question, “…But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?” Autopilot is what opens the door for absolutely anything to take hold.
Wow what a VERY good question Suzanne: “… who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?” We all have those moments, for example when we are driving and suddenly realise we weren’t with ourselves for a section of road. These are really scary moments which deserve deeper exploration and when thought about inspire seeking to know how to stay present more steadily with tools such at Serge Benhayon’s Gentle Breath Meditation.
Thank you Suzanne for such a great blog. Many times in the past I too have heard the words spoken “Leave it up to God, he will take care of it “, and that person then returns to their old habits or way of being without taking any responsibility for their actions or outcomes. Like you I couldn’t quite understand why we would do this, what a huge responsibility to land on Gods doorstep, especially if everyone else did the same! Chaos would surely reign and it does in some parts of life on Earth now, wars etc. Maybe it comes back to us all being consciously present and responsible for our thoughts and actions! Joy, Love and Harmony would not seem so far away.
It ‘s all about responsibility being lovingly responsible for our choices and the caring of ourselves, this helps support developing an inner and outer quality of confidence and a deeper knowing of who we truly are. This is beautiful Suzanne “I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living in the scheme of life”.
‘while I have been taking steps to stay connected to my body and be present with my movements throughout the day, I get to a certain point where I feel I have ‘got it’ and then I let go.’ I find that I can get very engrossed in the ‘doing’ of things that I can loose myself, particularly at work. Love your blog Suzanne and the loving reminder to stay present with me, and to God.
‘These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.’ …. this is beautiful, Suzanne.
I had a session yesterday where I asked God to help me deeply connect to my tenderness and when I started to feel the magic of what lies within I also felt very strongly the responsibility I have to live this in full. It’s truly exquisite to feel the divine love, that resides within us all, but it’s there to share with all of humanity, there is a responsibility with this.
‘It has never made sense to leave things “up to God” to sort my life out for me.’ ….. I totally agree Suzanne. I too often hear the expression, God Willing, or ‘if it’s Gods Will’ and it always feels to me that the person is choosing to stay static in their life, that nothing is actually their choice at all, which in turn means that they are not actually taking responsibility for anything either …. so who’s life are they actually living?
So true Suzanne. For me, I feel as though everything is provided for us, that is, available for us, but it is not given to us. We still have to choose it. While we are provided with loving choices there are also unloving choices available in every moment, it is up to us to choose love or not.
Yes Lee Poole, important point – it is still our choice and will ever be so. Well said.
By leaving it up to God hands over the responsibility to God and not to ourselves. It is passing the buck so to speak. It is a real cope out and a great way to check out of life. And knowing God he will not take this on but deliver you messages so then you start to realise you and only you has to take the responsibility for what happens in your life and make changes to a way of living that is supportive.
I have fallen into the lack of responsibility trap when things got hard and wanted someone else to sort it out for me. Not that long ago something finally clicked when I heard Serge Benhayon say for the umpteenth time that we are all capable to reading energy, including our own, if we stay connected to ourselves. Sure, sometimes we need some help to understand what is before us, but this is after we have taken a few steps to help ourselves. I realised that too often in the past I had wanted to stay in the chaos of the emotions attached to issues and leave it up to someone else to provide me with the answers. This was much easier than getting myself to shift out of my head and down into my body to search for understanding, especially when I have lived all my life in massive disconnection with my body but with a firm reliance on mental energy. It’s definitely a work in progress so thank you Suzanne for reminding me that leaving things up to others to sort out on my behalf is not true health nor healing.
Yes Helen I can relate to that responsibility trap. I now have come to the understanding when ‘things happen’ it is an opportunity for me to take a look at what is being reflected to me and take the responsibility to deal with the issues. So much more empowering and life changing.
I can totally relate to what you are sharing here Helen. We do know the answers, we know that we know and yet we convince ourselves that we don’t and have lived this way for such a long time, it’s become a lived pattern, for us to use as a distraction, to keep us from feeling the truth. Our bodies never lie, but our minds take us on a wild goose chase, tying us up in locks then throwing away the key.
“Leaving it up to God” is another way that we choose to give our power away. Thanks for the timely reminder Suzanne.
Spot on Tamara, it’s a cop out… that is unless we really do have a connection to God and are turning over the reigns, as in ‘Thy Will be Done’. When it is done from disempowerment, so giving our power away, it is in the same ballpark as ‘handing it over to the Universe’.
I have come to the conclusion from pondering on this blog that ‘handing it over to God’ can be many, many things depending on how, when and why it is done. If my life is in disarray and I am not able to see that it is that way because of the choices that I have made and I say to a God that I believe to be outside of me ‘sort it out’, then this request may lack responsibility. However if I have been living in a way where I have been extremely accountable for all that I am doing, thinking and saying but recognise that there is still a Mini Me who is getting caught up in the smallness of life then I feel it is a truly valuable thing to then recognize that by ‘handing it over to God’ I am taking the small Rumple Stiltskin me out of the equation and allowing the Grand Master to bring in the simplicity of the bigger picture.
Suzanne, you make a valid point about ‘leaving it up to God’ – which is like absolving ourselves of responsibility and a grand disempowerment on one level, a convenient excuse to not get our act together. This of course if very different to surrendering to the Godliness within us all, and the knowing that we have that when listening to the body and aligned to the soul, we actually know exactly what is needed.Leaving it up to God should never be done as a disempowerment, but always as surrender whilst aways being ready for what is needed to be done.
Suzanne I started to read your blog again, this line is so powerful in it’s simplicity and I really appreciate what you share: “These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.” I just love how the truth of this feels in my body and what a blessing it is to feel and know that this is true.
Agreed Sandra, how simple and true-ly loving it feels that ‘God has actually been leaving it up to ME…’ . We all like it when we are given choices in life, isn’t this the biggest choice of all?
There are many New Age practices that go with ‘the universe will provide’ as their mantra, much like leaving it up to God. But I have seen and felt the flaws in this approach because when things go in the person’s favour, all is good, but when something seemingly goes wrong, what then? Was that the universe providing the wrong outcome, or just simply the result of the choices and lived way of the person?
I can relate to buying into this one Sandra. I realise now that it is a complete giving away of my power and is the ultimate cop out for taking responsiblity to say “that the universe will provide”. Yes it will provide, but that provisition is based on the quality we have been living in. When things kept seemingly going wrong in my life with illness, accidents, bad relationships, yes the universe was providing me with wake up calls to live a different way. It wasn’t until Universal Medicine that I truly understood my part in this and this is to be responsible as to how I walk on this earth.
“It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” – beautifully said Suzanne.
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Very beautiful Suzanne -‘ I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.’
There’s nowhere else I would rather be than in this Sacred place. Heaven is available on Earth, through the Connection with our own bodies.
“Heaven is available on Earth”. Very true Kylie. It is us who can make it so.
That is what religion truly is to me too – a sacred connection deep within, not bound by any landmark, building or dogma.
As soon as I find connection to my body boring, then I know I am not really connected but have gone into disconnection. Another trick of our spirit to want to make things more complex than they actually are. Connection is simple, it is lovely, it is our pathway to God.
Beautifully said Donna ‘ Connection is simple, it is lovely, it is our pathway to God.’
The Gentle Breath Meditation has allowed me to let go of the false pictures I used to hold about myself and re-connect to my tenderness within me which has created such a loving flow and simplicity in everything that I do.
Love your words Francisco. To have something as the Gentle Breath Meditation at our finger tips now which is simple but powerful is a blessing for all who chose to reconnect back with the beautiful essence that is within us all.
It is such a beautiful and very simple tool Francisco, I too have found it to be an extremely supportive way of bringing me home to my true qualities and streamlining my life to support this real expression of myself. Out of the many ‘self help’ techniques I have attempted, the Gentle Breath Meditation has and continues to be the most effective tool I have ever been given. It brings me back to my connection with God every time, perpetually enabling me to take responsibility for my choices and not leave it up to a random hope that God can step in and rescue me from the places where I am living in neglect.
Awesome blog Suzanne, I find it interesting how different religions have the same blind faith of leaving it up to God, ” God will take care of it” or ” whatever God’s will is” this is such a cop out for not wanting to take responsibility of life and indulge in the pure comfort of religion. True religion lives within ourselves with everything around us so the more responsibility we take for our bodies the more we get to feel being the sons of God.
An absolute joy to come and read this again Suzanne. It is lovely to feel the confirmation in your words of the actual truth the God is inside us all of the time. He is not outside of us and thus the very fact that He is inside us is something I am feeling insights us with everything we need in any given situation in life, all we need to do is activate it through responsibility and dedication to everything life presents our way
Beautiful blog Suzanne. I love how you have exposed somethiing we are all guilty of – checking out and leaving it up to God, but you have also demonstrated Gods enormous love for us all as he is “…patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.”
There are so many religions that ask us to wait, be good and then God will sort it all out. What you present Suzanne is the fact that we are our own saviour, our own messiah as you will, but it does take a choice and the gentle breath is a great way to start that process.
So true Joel. We don’t need to sit around waiting to be saved, we just need to start making simple loving choices everyday and taking responsibility.
Fully agree Joel – it is our responsibility to save ourselves. Those who have led by example are showing us the way, not doing it for us.
“led by example” — this is great richardmills363, it makes so much more sense — we love it when people lead by example and NOT do it for us, yet this is something we expect from religion – it makes no sense.
To say that we would Leave it up to God is not taking self responsibility. God is patiently allowing us to choose that self responsibility when we are ready.
Yes Heidi, the ‘leave it up to God’ feels like a cop out and it also feeds the ‘why me’ when people get an illness and feel like they are being punished by God – again, no self responsibility.
Suzanne this blog really speaks to me. I totally agree with your words ‘These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.’ Thank you for clearly articulating what I know, and thus making it even clearer to me.
It is fascinating how by saying we are leaving things up to God we can then lay blame towards God when things do not work out or go the way we pictured then to. It fed timely allows us to live an irresponsible and wayward life and then at the end of the day take no responsibility for the way we are.
Well said James. This applies to many things, you could even say that a lot of people rely on food to get them through life; indulging in sugary foods and overeating, and then if and when they get an illness the first thing to blame is the thing they relied upon for so many years to take the edge off life!
It is crazy our warped sense of responsibility, we somehow allow ourselves to believe that we have no say on what happens to us and that our choices and actions do not have consequences. We all know what is loving and what is harmful for the body and eventually it catches up with us whether we want to take responsibility or not. It is one of the beautiful things about life on Earth, we are constantly being shown ways to be more loving.
Wow Suzanne I love this blog, especially the part about God leaving it up to me to sort things out ! When people say “leave it up to God” it’s then about not taking responsibility. But the thing is by taking responsibility it’s much more empowering. Thank you for sharing.
Interesting that the mind is identified as ‘head office’ for managing our lives and our bodies and yet you describe getting lost in your mind as having ‘left the building’. I know exactly what you mean …
Haha True Helen. We forget that our Central and Godly ‘office’ lay within our hearts… The best place to live life from without ever leaving the building.
Helen, yes it’s odd that the so-called central control room is the place we wander into to loose ourselves – it is ironic.
“….true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” Powerful words Suzanne, and ones I wholeheartedly agree with.
I use to believe in fate and things would happen because of it, as a result I didn’t take full responsibility with my choices. I know now that everything is a constellation BECAUSE of my choices, so my fate is in my hands!
Absolutely Rachelmurtagh1, I can relate to this. I used to fall for the ideal that if I was ‘good’ God would take favour towards me, and if fate wasn’t in my favour that I had done something wrong. I was forever trying to ‘please’ but never in my power or truth. I now see that I constantly have the choice to BE with God and the Divine Plan in every moment and am fully aware that I am responsible for each and every choice that I make, and the energetic accountability I continually hold.
I can relate to that rachelmurtagh1 everything comes to choices and taking responsibility.
Leaving it up to God in the true sense means to allow myself to feel the bigger picture, God’s Plan, and work actively towards it.
I love how you bring in the possibility of what “Leaving it up to God” really means Felix. For me, I realise it is a lot about letting go in controlling life and the people in it.
That’s such a beautiful distinction, when we leave it to God in the way you describe, we walk alongside God, we’re the physical body through which God’s love can be expressed and we have work to do to ensure that we care for us, our bodies and how we live in a way that supports this. There is nothing passive or less about this, it’s fully stepping up and being responsible and playing our part – we are indeed a part of the bigger picture.
Well said Felix
Yes this is very true felixschumacher8. I love your sharing on what the true meaning of leaving it up to God is. The other is a bastardised form which enables us to check out and not take responsibility. In the true sense of leaving it up to God, there is surrender but still we actively play our part, because to know the bigger picture, to feel God’s Plan, we need to be in connection with ourselves first of all and we can only do that through our body.
Suzanne before i came across Universal Medicine i was not aware how much my life was dominated by my mind, I had no idea that I was constantly overriding the intelligence that was on offer from my body. Yet when i sat with my gentle breath and let go of everything that was not me, i found a being far grander than the body i had left up to God and called life.
Serge Benhayon has brought amazing blessings for everyone through what he presents and showing how to do the Gentle Breath Meditation. It gives people the stop to feel for themselves that there is something more than this life we see, and the more accepting we are of ourselves, the easier it is to feel God as a part of me.
What a gorgeous blog Suzanne. It really highlights our responsibility. No one is handing anything to us on a silver platter. It is our own choices and commitments that make up our lives.
Absolutely Nikkimckee, ‘No one is handing anything to us on a silver platter. It is our own choices and commitments that make up our lives.’ After spending years believing that if things were meant to be they would just happen and feeling disappointed when they did not, i have now instead chosen to take responsibility for my life and my choices and now love my life having turned it round.
‘Indulging more in my thoughts’ Yes know this one well. Auto pilot takes over and those destructive patterns/habits just take a stronger hold. Life becomes about doing and never about feeling. The Gentle Breath Meditation has really put a stop to that racy momentum and when ‘feeling’ and ‘connecting’ to the body returns, it opens up so many more doors of life and appreciation is quick to follow. Thank you Suzanne a joy to read this blog this morning.
Yes Marion, my thoughts can also take on a life of their own. My awareness when this happens is growing and just by feeling the gentle breath at the tip of my nose, I am brought back instantly. So amazing to now know the difference in being in connection and being taken out. The choice and responsibility is mine and not ‘leaving it to God’. Thanks Suzanne for the great blog.
Suzanne I love how you describe being locked away in your thoughts, I can so relate to this un-reachable place. The Gentle Breath Meditation provides a simple re-connection away from the emptiness of our heads and re-binds us with our bodies, to the very details within our movements that acknowledges our ever present divinity.
it’s interesting that we retreat into the mind for stimulation, entertainment etc. However, how can we ever feel fully satisfied if our entire body becomes vacant at this point?
My experience is that when I distract myself I seek to escape from feeling in my body what is actually going on at that moment. I do it at times when numbness is my priority as my body feels too uncomfortable.
Now that reconnection with our bodies to rediscover our divinity feels like the true meaning and purpose of religion lucindag. Beautiful.
So true luncindag, the mind is a self created prison that we lock ourselves up in, where we then feel very lonely and our life seems empty. Only when we re-connect to the body do we find the richness of life and a spaciousness to express and connect with something that is so much greater than our little human existence.
Suzanne what a great loving confirming to feel as you’ve shared “These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.” it shows such an unwavering depth of love and support allowing us to be all that we are when we take responsibility for every part of our life.
Beautiful blog Suzanne thank you. Its so true, we abandon our responsibility to ourselves in the vain hope that somehow or other, God is going to pick up the pieces, a bit like a child leaving it up to the parent to clear up their mess. I too am expert at day dreaming my way out of my body. As a child I did it to escape the family and school environment, as an adult a way to avoid the choices I had made. With deep thanks to Universal Medicine for introducing me to the Gentle Breath, the one tool that has enabled me to stay with me and make new choices that I don’t have to run away from any more. What a joy to know that now God can leave my life up to me, because I have come home to God within me and am at last, taking care to clean up my own mess.
Someone wise recently said to me – “God can only confirm what you already are”. Our part is to bring out the divinity from within us so that God can then reflect it back in so many exquisite ways.
Thank you for sharing this janetwilliams06, this really turns around our relationship with God. To know God in the ordinariness that we are, brings no doubt that we are all equally the love that he is.
Love this janetwilliams06, I can feel the truth in this.
I just need to play my part and be honest on what keeps blurring my awareness to live the divine being that I am.
Lovely point Francisco – being honest with what it is that blurs the awareness of living the divinity that we are.
“God can only confirm what you already are” – thank you for sharing this, Janetwilliams06. It’s so simple and yet so profound. The greater my connection to me, the greater my connection to God.
Thank you Janet and Alison. It is so simple and yet so profound – through bringing awareness and presence to the body we begin to re-build a true foundation within and thus know the connection to God. My particles feel all expanded as writing this!
“The greater my connection to me, the greater my connection to God”.
Beautifully said Janet. We are all divine and it is a great reminder that there are reflections of the magic of God all around us, all day everyday. It is simply up to us whether we choose to be aware of them or not, and in that to accept our own divinity.
This is so beautiful – thank you janetwilliams06. You can feel the love from God in allowing us free will to choose.
Beautiful Janet. And how then could we possibly have an issue with God, when he is simply constantly providing the mirror for us to see our own Willingness to be all that we are or not.
Yes, we can blame God and hold him to ransom, but eventually we must be willing to accept our own divinity and see that God has been there all the time waiting for us to be open to the love that we are and are held within at all times.
Great point Janet and Kylie, we want to keep living in irresponsibility and then when we are faced with the consequences of our choices, we want God to step in and rescue us… but God is love, he cannot side with our unloving creations.
I love this quote janetwilliams06, so true. We have to make the choice and then this will be confirmed or not, but we still need to take responsibility and make the choice.
Beautifully put Janet I feel this really clarifies the parts God and I play in my unfolding.
So very lovely what you have written here Janetwillams06.
This is the magic of embodying the Christ. Not in the sense of the current religious doctrines, but in its true meanings as presented by The Way of the Livingness. Living our souls in our bodies. Living the love we are in our bodies. And with that living with God and in our bodies.
There is another saying Janet, “God helps those who help themselves”… meaning that once we take a step towards God then God will take a step towards us, until we are back in Union with God, which is a union with ourselves. Like you say, exquisite.
So beautifully said janetwilliams06 and absolutely true, once we bring out the divinity within us God reflects this back to us in the most amazing, incredible and magical ways.
Beautiful Suzanne what a great sharing leaving life up to God instead of taking full responsibility ourselves , what a great reflection .”It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” this says everything and is true religion and union with God and our oneness.
I agree tricianicholson. A sacred relationship with ourselves and connection to divinity from this is true religion.
Beautifully said tricianicholson, that true religion is inside of us and it is our union with God and our oneness, lovely. No more going to church, but just connecting to what is inside of us already.
“It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” I agree and as child I knew God was not somewhere or something to go to and was anywhere we are. It has been since meeting Universal Medicine and reading blogs like this that this is confirmed. The learning now is to allow myself to be stay present and and to reflect God in every moment which is a responsibility and choice. Thank you Suzanne.
I love this line: ‘It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.’ I too have come to know that God resides in each one of us and that we are all sparks of the one God with our own unique expression. Makes sense why when I was little girl going to a church to pray to God felt very wrong and I was always naughty and when I got home I would be belted by my father who only half hour ago was being all holy at church.
Suzanne this is beautiful, I love especially this: “It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” I made very similar experiences and found this true and lovely connection with myself within me. And I´m about to accept my responsibility in ALL the things that I do, say, think and what I experience as a consequence. It is this responsibility that many people are afraid of and try to avoid so they prefer to pretend that it is possible “to leave it up to God”.
Suzanne what you are sharing here is most special and a very beautiful description of what religion is.
‘These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.’ Beautiful words, thank you, Suzanne
Living on auto-pilot is something we all can do very easily – I can walk from one room to another so focused on what I will do when I get there that I lose the steps in between. Thinking has become background noise to my life, so much so that I don’t realise I am doing it until I stub my toe. Walking feeling my whole body is a new way of being for me, but it feels amazing. Doing anything with conscious presence feels amazing because we are feeling our true, natural selves.
Carmel you are so onto something there, that we don’t even realise we are complete engrossed in our thoughts to realise that you can’t remember the journey in-between A to B. Conscious presences is exactly the remedy for this so to speak and learning how to be with yourself when you are going about life is actually super enjoyable.
‘Leaving it up to God’ is such a cop out and totally relieves you of your responsibility in a given situation. And then you can blame God when things do not work out. Or I often used to hear ‘Why is God punishing me?’ if a person became ill then he/she does not have to take responsibility for the choices they made that led to them being ill instead it is easier see it as a punishment from God.
When we live in that way it is as though we are skimming along the surface of our lives with very little substance instead of really living.
Agreed Nikkimckee and it is in this state that we seek more and more distraction in its many and varied forms so as not to feel the emptiness of the way we are choosing to live.
You’ve summed it up perfectly marylouisemyers. We take no responsibility for our daily living as we are wanting someone else (God) to do all the hard work, like deal with our issues, and then when things don’t go our way, we still lack responsibility by blaming God. Oh dear, we really are an interesting bunch aren’t we.
Thanks Suzanne. Our light and who we are is always there awaiting our return in every moment to breathe and be the walking, living light that we are.
Leaving things up to God ignores the fact that he needs us to work with Him and play our part in the plan. As you say Suzanne, our part is to accept and live the Glory of who we truly are, his Sons on Earth.
When I sit back and consider what leaving it up to God means, it’s like when someone asks us what we want, and we respond with ‘I don’t mind, you choose’. And so they do. And let’s say they choose it from a truly loving place, but when they deliver it, it isn’t what we want because it doesn’t meet our needs or desires, we are disappointed. Something delivered with love isn’t always in the shape and form we had expected it to be.
“It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all” Pure Gold Suzanne a testament to all those who choose truth, thank you for reminding me to connect to the grandness, that love, that magic that is alway there.
How terrible that we have created this ‘stand off’ with God, in the belief that he has somehow ‘left us’, when in truth we have left him. I feel we are like fish in the sea looking for the ocean – absolutely surrounded by its abundance – but because we have our picture of how it should be, we do not ‘see it’ nor appreciate it.
This is a very powerful blog Suzanne, to remind us of the responsibility we have to ourselves to not sit back and expect God to sort out everything for us. I love the expression of true religion as the sacred place within our inner hearts,
When I get bored as you describe Suzanne I know that I have given up on staying connected and have been making poor choices. When I choose to stay connected and appreciative there is no boredom, only wonder at the simplicity and joy that life can be.
Only yesterday I had a strong feeling that I have been waiting for God when in truth, He is ‘waiting’ for me. We have created the illusion of a distant and aloof God when in fact His Presence is everywhere and it is my own beliefs and ideals that in truth keep me separate from Him. Yes, the Kingdom of God is within us all – of this I have no doubt. It is up to us to accept this, to reconnect to our inner hearts and therefore to Him.
This is awesome to read Richardmills363 and it highlights the arrogance of the ‘intelligence’ that says that this is it and what goes on down here is ultimately ‘something’ else’s fault.
By leaving it up to God, we miss out on all the beautiful messages that God gives us though the day as a affirmation of our choices.
I love this nataliemzztal, so much magic is missed when we “leave it to God” as when we do we leave true communication with the Devine also.
Leaving it up to God smacks of irresponsibility like a wayward child expecting to be bailed out when it finds itself in trouble and also opens up the pathway of wanting someone else to blame when we fail to commit to life and make choices for ourselves.
In my experience I have an experience of boredom when something is coming up that I don’t w.ant to deal with, when I am looking for a distraction
This is a definition of boredom that should be in a dictionary Christoph! Makes total sense that we get fidgety and discontent when there is something we do not want to feel or see.
Exactly so for me too, Christoph. In the avoidance of not wanting to deal with what I feel I should be dealing with, by putting the brakes on, I’m creating inertia.
Returning to my true religion has also been a profound experience for me Suzanne. It is truly gorgeous first of all to be able to claim once again what I have always known and that is that I am deeply religious. It is also gorgeous to know what been truly religious is without feeling that I have to disempower myself to make such a claim.
When thoughts wander off I lose connection to me and when I lose connection to me I lose connection to God. The Gentle Breath brings me back to me, to love and to God. The Ageless Wisdom never wanders off, it is forever present waiting for us to choose to be open to the wisdom and the magic of God
Who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them? This is such a great question! The amount of times a day I still go into auto-pilot is still pretty frightening, although I don’t spend as much time off in dream world or La La land these days as I used to, by a long way. When the choice is to either be with your soul or having someone or something else steering the ship, we’ll it should be a no-brainer. But thats the thing, it’s the mind that’s the one that will so easily wander away while the body remains patiently waiting for it to come back.
Very true kevmchardy it is us checking out and not being there, our body is there but nobody at home. So learning to be at home aka in our bodies is something we all can practice and not letting any form of distraction take us out.
This is truly beautiful, leaving it up to someone else to sort it all out for us is clearly showing we don’t want to take responsibility. While I indeed can feel how much God is just waiting for me to be my glorious self, I often choose the first, just leaving it all, and not truly choosing to take responsibility. It is time to change the way I am with myself, I shouldn’t doubt that what I feel inside.
So beautiful Suzanne… and your final words capturing what is true religion… ‘a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.’
If we aren’t connected to the divinity within, we are subjected to only know life by the reactions to the activity that is outside of us, but never know how we would express if we were connected to what is inside.
The Beauty is, when we are fully committed and present with ourselves, and our bodies we are fully connected to God.
I love the simplicity of your statement and absolutely agree with you. It is that simple.
Your blog Suzanne reflects another example of the body being the vehicle through which we come to know God.
Yes Donna, so simple isn’t it, no grand buildings, no pomp and ceremony, no reverence, no special dress… just a deeply personal relationship with one’s innermost being.
Donna and Jenny it’s pretty mind blowing isn’t it that our body’s are the portal to God. Everyone has a body and therefore we all have equal access.
Truly very beautiful Suzanne. I love your wisdom shared here from your lived experience of true religion – ‘a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.’ And this ‘place’ is accessible to us all as we are already are the Sons of God and our Glory always awaits to be lived and celebrated with every breath we take. This is the blessing we are all graced with, that at every moment we have a choice to be in union with our Soul, with God. A powerful reminder Suzanne – thank you.
Thankyou Suzanne, I could also feel as I read your blog this false consciousness in my body of leaving it to God, to the hands of fate, destiny, and “whatever will be will be” – it is definitely a checking out and giving up energy. Responsibility starts with connecting to our body and learning to trust our own awareness. The beauty is that even though every choice is up to us, we are continually held by God. God is definitely leaving it up to us, because love will not impose, and God knows who we truly are, even though we ourselves have walked away from the truth of who we are.
I feel really sad when I hear people blaming God for their misfortunes or wondering why He does not fix this or that evil in the world. It is great to be sure of the truth that Serge Benhayon has presented to us that we live in the atma of God and that as long as we stay connected to Him we always have His loving guidance, while maintaining our free will.
So true, making those self initiating steps, and then God constellates things for you to be everything you can be.
Suzanne
It’s so true that leaving things up to God feels like we are handing over the responsibility for ourselves and our choices. It feels like God actually is there to support us once we make the choice to truly support ourselves.
I agree Sharon, once we make the choice to take responsibility for the love we are – the support is there.
“The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.” It is only since I have met the Ageless Wisdom and the Way of the Livingness have I come to understand and appreciate what these statements mean. And Suzanne you have encapsulated them very beautifully here.
I put my hand up for that too Jonathan, it is only until I found Universal Medicine that I have been able to reconnect to the Ageless Wisdom and feel in my bones what this quote means and to know that it is my responsibility to live in a way that allows me consistency in holding this.
Agreed Johnathan – Suzanne encapsulates the meaning of these statements in daily life so beautifully.
Thanks Suzanne, I totally relate. I think ah yeah, I am connected and feeling great and then I get slack and go off into mental thoughts and distractions only to find myself later and wonder how long I have been away. I have been trying to bring more awareness to this lately, with more stop moments, feel my body, move a little and ask myself where am I? Yes, I am sitting at my desk in front of the computer, that part is obvious, but what am I feeling, where are my thoughts. Can be quite interesting at times to see how often our thoughts take us miles away and we find ourselves sitting in an uncomfortable position without even realising.
“What am I feeling?” Such a great question to ask when I realise I have “left the building” Rosie, I do forget that bit sometimes!
Don’t we all… I am not perfect at all…but am slowly learning and finding ways how I trick myself ….
It is lovely when we all share openly and honestly becasue in this way we can all learn from and with each other.
“Fortunately, with the support of the Gentle Breath Meditation, I can make a choice to feel my breath, the coolness of the in-breath at the tip of my nose, the warmth of the out-breath. Feeling the warmth and connection to my breath brings me back into my body again. I feel each movement; the movement of my fingertips, the delicacy of my touch, my feet connected to the earth. This is when I feel I am with ME.” The power of this can’t be underestimated!
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME”. God does leave it up to us, by offering us the free will in each moment a choice to connect and align to the whole or to go about our merry way in our individualism. The choice is always ours.
You describe the absence of consciously being present with our body as “I have ‘left the building’ and no one can reach me!” Just the other day I had come to the same conclusion, describing the exact same state as that of a dwelling with no landlady in sight – a vacant vessel, leaving things up to whatever.
Yes Gabriele. Connection breathes life and warmth into something, be that a dwelling, home, office, family, friendship, life as well as ourselves. When that connection is missing it’s very evident very quickly, its coolness so empty and uninviting.
I’ve found the Gentle Breath Meditation really helpful too, I love how simple and practical it is and how is brings me back in touch with my body and feelings.
Religion is so often placed outside of us, separate from us, which has been the cause of such inner and outer devastation. How can this be religious?
Is not religion or a religious way that which reconnects us, reunites us with all that we are in our natural divine essence ? This is a religion that makes sense and is equally within all.
What a beautiful reunion Suzanne “It is here that the words I have heard in the past make sense: The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.” Hear hear to the absolute truth of those words. I had heard these words in the past and they fell on deaf ears. It was not until I reconnected to the Godliness with myself that life was breathed into these words again.
Beautifully expressed Victoria. I too in the past have heard these words as ‘mere’ words. But through being a student of Way of the Livingness I have realised that these words are so much more and are in fact alive with the wisdom of the Love of God that is within us all.
Me too Victoria, now when I hear those words they are like music to my ears (Glorious Music!!) and they resound deep in my body. I feel so much joy when I read “The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.” as I now know this to be the absolute truth thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine
yes thanks to Serge Benhayon who has lived and reflected the truth of these words.
It is in fact a gift that I did gave away, deny and avoid. By being lived from another, it got reflected that it is possible to claim it back, who we are, and to live our truth again: the kingdom of God is inside me. Thank you Serge Benhayon for reflecting us our truth.
Yes, I found this most beautiful too, when we connect to where we truly come from these words make absolute sense.
At work I find I can lose my connection with myself especially when we are busy and I have a lot of customers waiting. But one thing that always helps me return to my own connection is gift wrapping with presence and also when I give money or a receipt back to a customer I choose to make sure I place it in their hands with care and I feel every movement. It works a treat.
Love this Kelly. I find this too – things like paying attention to the way that I write, type or walk tends to bring me back to myself, and stop the checking out.
It is really the ultimate cop out ‘Leaving it up to God’, we then negate our responsibility to ourselves and to life..and we get to blame God if it all doesn’t go to our plan. Thank you for sharing your insights Suzanne.
It’s a total cop out. Putting our hands in the air and pretending we have nothing to do with it. I used to avoid responsibility to a certain level (and the deeper I go into responsibility I realise I still do) but once we take responsibility for our own lives, it is remarkable what can happen. I used to feel adrift. When I started taking responsibility I no longer felt that way and there was a steady committed feeling to life and in my being.
Yes Nikki, and what is so important about that is that if we truly want to change the world (as it is globally not going so well), it starts with every single member of this world, and if we all one by one become more truthful to ourselves in life, we automatically become more truthful in our relationship with others. I have no doubt that we are then not needing to doubt, compete, fight, or ignore one another any longer, and we can become one unifying living member of truth all together.
and the whole time not accepting the fact that we are all connected all of the time, living within Gods love.
Absolutely Abby, and when you feel the truth of the fact that we are held in the body of Gods Love and are all connected to each other what an arrogance it is for us not to accept this, and then live and act as though we are separate beings.
And so it is, the shoe is on the other foot. God does not take responsibility for our life we do. Who would have thought that God is waiting patiently for us to claim our responsibility so he can shine all his glory through our incredible bodies. A simple choice to take responsibility is like plugging an electrical cord in and switching it on. The pulse of Gods starts to flow through us and our light starts to shine. Thanks Suzanne.
Beautifully said Kim. It’s our choice if we plug in and turn on the switch. When we see that as our own responsibility, it changes everything in life.
We could actually say that our body is our holiness and actually the centre of our religion, so no church is needed. It is actually very empowering too as this means we do not need anything extra then ourselves to have and fully live in religion.
Beautiful Danna, and absolutely. Having this natural religion is a normal practice in my world and something that I continue to deepen, my relationship with my body is everything and this simply allows me to deepen my relationship with God.
Very true Danna, love what you say about our body being our holiness, and if only we regarded our body as this as a child growing up into adulthood, the levels of abuse we currently see and experience in our society and communities just would not be. And where there is no abuse, there can be love to equate unity. Unity in love is our religion.
Very true Zofia, if we learn this from our childhood on, we would stay so much more with ourselves and in connection to eachother as we are learn to be with ourselves and others equally so – that is true religion.
Beautifully said Danna, “our body is our holiness and actually the centre of our religion”. When we regard this and treat our body as this holy place that it is, the vehicle through which God can express, there is nothing else that we need.
And we than can make our temple of holiness (inside us, inside our body) express all of the time its divinity (nature) and expand it whatever way it needs. So our bodies are no longer a dumping place for disregard and abuse, but actually a temple of light and love where our holiness resides.
Beautifully said Danna, I agree our body truly is holy, as it is the vehicle through which God expresses, and so we require nothing more than ourselves to live true religion.
Yes rosemarydunstan, and it teaches us that religion is inside of us. Having deeply felt my holiness in my body, I know I am actually very religious.
So Danna, ‘leaving it up to God’ would mean: leaving it up to me, take my body, my power and joy and bring love alive, bring heaven on earth. Love it!
I agree Suzanne it just doesn’t ring true to ‘leave it up to God’ – it’s most definitely a relationship, where our own input is needed to keep it alive.
Yes – leaving things to God without realising that we must play our part is very disempowering and feels incredibly irresponsible. In co-creation there is a partnership at play where we appreciate and recognise that we are equal to God and within that comes much responsibility to self and others.
Very true michelle819, in the past I hadn’t wanted to even consider the fact that there was a responsibility I had, in fact I had denied that there was anything remotely Divine within me. I can feel this was a way to not remember or live that responsibility.
I love this reversal – ‘These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.’ So empowering to feel that we are able to connect to Gods’s purpose from within us rather than living in blind faith that God is going to sort it all out for us.
Leaving it all to God does not make sense in the first place, because when it was really up to God to sort it all out how come that we have been living life after life here on earth dealing with the same issues and problems over and over again. No God in the universe would waste time like this. We are the key factor in our own self-created dilemma and it is our responsibility to live our lives in alignment to God’s plan.
So true Esther, if we would truly leave it up to God, meaning surrender to his divine WILL we would not be in the mess we are in. It is exactly the fact that we do not want to leave it up to God but think we need to follow our own creation that causes our dilemma.
I love what you say Esther Andras; it’s amazing how we can say something different with the same or similar words. Yes, God has never made a choice for us to be where we have gone to as a humanity. It was us all along. He loves us and we have free will, so it’s up to us to stop our waywardness and return to the truth of who we are, and to claim that Divinity we really belong to. As we are a part of God, when we choose to stay connected to our inner heart, and our bodies, we have the true guidance of God, as all is within.
True Esther – to see or say it as ‘I leave it up to God’ is in fact a lie.
How true Esther – yes, leaving it up to God simply isn’t working is it! No, we all have to do our bit.
Yes there is a deeply embedded belief that God will watch over us and guide us and ultimately save us – but in all these teachers are we not giving our power away to the outside with the hope that life will take care of itself? There is a huge consciousness around this, and Suzanne you beautifully share how perhaps we have a responsibility within us, for God is within us. I never considered this before Universal Medicine and that is perhaps why I had resistance to what religion was – but to now know that it truly is – that religion is all about relationship and connection within ourselves first.
I loved that part too. God is there to support us but we have to take the first steps, and the second and the third….God is always within us but we are the ones that need to connect to the divine and let it flow through us. It is a choice and God can’t do anything about our choices.
Absolutely nikkimckee – the beauty of free will.
So beautifully expressed nikkimckee, we do have free will, so it’s our choice and our consequences. If we make choices aligned to God and Truth and Love, and the inter-connectedness of all of humanity, we do feel amazing, and it’s well worth it; no individual trip can match up to this grandness we come from.
I agree Michael, it is empowering to know that we have a say and a part to play in our own destiny and it starts with a choice of being responsible of the way we live.
I love what you have exposed here about when not being connected or consciously present with a part of our life it is like we are having faith that everything is going to be taken care of for us so we don’t have to take the responsibility of that part. This is the illusion that most live in however no one can live our lives but ourselves…. We are uniquely capable as we are exclusively responsible.
I have noticed in London with the heavy traffic and the small roads and there are a large proportion of very large vehicles. I would have expected small cars would have been the preferred choice. Driving a large vehicle here makes you at all times consciously present. Not to drive this way is normally instantly rewarded, with horns from others or battle scars. You are right Samantha, we are the ones in the drivers seat.
Right Samantha and sjmatsonuk – and we have to be aware to not let the ‘autopilot’ drive our vehicle – it maybe comfortable for a while to let something else drive me – but in truth it is giving my power away to something that will lead me in a cycle of function and arrangements. There is no true liveliness, no joy and so no true way.
The truth is God leaves it up to us…it is our choice when we choose to connect to God and our responsibility to develop and deepen that connection at any time. How gorgeous to be given the freedom to choose love, truth, harmony, joy and stillness in every moment…
Yes Paula, and for us to realise that we have the freedom to choose gives us empowerment and we can then claim back the fact that we are all Sons of God in our own right. Once this is realised it is ridiculous that we make ourselves less because all God is waiting for is for us to connect for ourselves and accept the love and support of God which is all around us.
So true Paula. It’s empowering to be able to choose to reconnect to a God within via the Gentle Breathe Meditation or by feeling our fingertips and body. We indeed have the freedom to choose love, truth, joy, harmony and stillness, in any given moment.
‘Leaving it up to God’ reveals a lack of responsibility, and gives many the excuse to blame God for whatever happens in their lives, and then become resentful towards God and or life and people in general…a very unpleasant way to live.
Nailed, Paula! This is how it exactly works or rather how we have set it up to work for us: no responsibility but leave it up to God. And when it fails, it is God’s fault. Come on.., when will we human beings accept again that we are the makers of our own destiny?
Yes Paula, while we are waiting for God to work it out for us, we are not “living” life, it is just happening to us and around us……and it certainly can be a very unpleasant way to live.
Totally Paula, that’s the payback for leaving it to others: I can blame them, as it wasn’t really my choice. This irresponsibility has a way of catching up, as this is not our natural way to live the grandness we are. We are never alone anyway when making choices and decisions when we choose to feel our inter connectedness with each other and the all. Taking responsibility doesn’t mean to run off into our own little direction, without consideration of the whole, but to make true choices in our day; choices which support us deeply in our evolution back to the Love we have chosen to leave behind at some point.
Totally! so exposing of our lack of responsibility when it is and has always been up to us to make our own choices and to know that everyone of these choices has a certain outcome. Simple really.
“It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” Oh, Suzanne, those words really resonate with me. I can really understand what you are feeling here. Absolutely, it is there deep within ourselves that true religion is found, our own connection with the All. It is there that I know that I am truly a Son of God. It is not within the walls of a church, which has never really done anything for me. Thank you for the big reminder.
These words are so full of truth, full of wisdom, full of experienced life. It’s an honour and joy to read. I can relate to it very much. Whenever I’m not connected, there’s like this hardness, coldness and I’m in a constant trying to get out of this. However, if I choose to connect to my body and feel indeed my fingertips, my chest, my kidneys, my face, my feet, etc – I feel all this delicacy, tenderness, love, etc.
Wow, I can connect to what you’re sharing Floris van der Schot, feeling the tenderness, delicacy and love; and it’s all at our fingertips; actually IN our fingertips. So beautiful, a loving focus to come back from whatever distraction we may have embarked on.
Our innate sensitivity is always there, which shows us all we need to know, imparting a sense of true liberation and way of being in the world. If only we chose to stay with ourselves instead of escaping into the mind then this would become clear to everyone of us.
Yes Kate, how wonderful and beautiful is it to feel liberated and full of love. As well as it is a joyful responsibility to share these experiences. Recently I heard that somebody has said that he didn’t understand a thing of what I meant with being with me. For me this indicates that what is so natural to me is for many many people far away from their daily experiences and way of thinking, vision of life. For me a check with reality! I thank this man for his honesty. Because it is showing me that there’s still a lot to do.
Powerful words…”I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all” and beautifully expressed Suzanne.
And how very enriching and empowering to know that God is within our hearts and thus we don’t need to go to any far away land, or be borne into any particular caste or class to access and feel connected to God. This is True Religion and is what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine present through – ‘The Way of the Livingness’
I agree Paula Steffensen, and I love that, as it’s true for me too: “I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” I am a living example of this.
Wow Suzanne reading you blog confirms to me again that God is forever present in and around yes we only need to choose and feel what is before us and then the wisdom is all available. This sentence is very significant to me at this moment, and has unfolded to be very profound for me this week and here I am reading the confirmation of this from your sharing: “These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.”
Thank you
I’ve heard people say,’help me God’ and then just wait for a sign that it is happening, but I feel what Suzanne says is so ture,. God has given as all the tools we need to be able to help ourselves, and then its up to us to use them. When I think of how, as a parent, I gave my children tools, and then said ‘ no not that way’ – how loving is it that God patiently supports us, and allows us to use his precious tools each in our own way.
God is all about Free will, he always leaves it up to us. So who is it we leave it up to when we give up and say we will leave it for God to sort out?
So true. We are all powerful beings in our right and have been given everything we need to return to who we are. It is a shame we give this power away through false beliefs we choose to subscribe to when all we need to do is stay with and listen intently to the body and all shall be revealed to us.
When I read that Marika, I don’t remember ever having looked for God outside of me. I have always felt Him to just be with me, with everyone, everywhere.
I can so relate Suzanne regarding the mind drifting and finding this more entertaining than staying with my body. HOWEVER, there is nothing more beautiful than connecting with your breath – breathing in and out through our nose very gently, as in the Gentle Breath Meditation. After a while we don’t even have to sit in meditation to feel the exquisite beauty of the stilling quality within, it comes alive. Going about our daily chores and breathing this way certainly brings me back to me, as long as I stay focused.
Yes Shevon in regards to staying focused and committed. As I have been playing around a bit, I came recently to the understanding, how much I have been drifting away from myself in life (withdrawal). Now that I am taking steps to be more focused and committed, because I feel this is very needed for me and my body to do, I feel that I am drifting away less with my thoughts etc. I actually make a choice to stay with me, my mind, spirit and soul on the same place, but making an effort to feel deeper and be more honest with myself of what I am feeling. Everyday I learn and fall (not actually falling, but anyway), I learn so much, because I choose to stay with myself and with this presence there is an understanding of the rest.
Beautifully shared Danna – and it is in the ‘falling’ that we learn. It is also not about perfection nor about constantly staying with the focus of the body, for this is not always possible given the world we live in – however, it is about realising each time that we ‘fall’ and then bringing ourselves back as quickly as possible. It is about mastering the art of getting up each time we fall, and not about never falling.
‘It is about mastering the art of getting up each time we fall, and not about never falling.’
You have expressed this so beautifully Henrietta and their is such care in what you say. Being hard on ourselves for not staying connected brings tension in the body, which probably makes it more difficult to be present in it since it doesn’t feel very good at all! Having that tenderness with ourselves is an art indeed and what helps me at times is speaking to myself like I would a small child. Would I be hard and rigid with them if they tripped over while learning to walk? NO, I would help them up and probably have a little giggle!
So true, if we are afraid of falling, we are afraid to learn and move forward. We learn more from falling that we do from not falling. It’s an opportunity to go deeper with our selves and feel what’s really going on underneath the fall. It’s never about perfection, just deepening our relationship with ourselves and choosing to move forward, to the next learning opportunity.
So very true Rachael, it is so about having a tenderness with ourselves, this can be hard at times, when one is used to ‘getting on with it’, or ‘bring rigid’, it is something to re-learn that’s for sure.
This is a great question, Rachael, and cuts through the self-judgement – “Would I be hard and rigid with [a small child] if they tripped over while learning to walk?” Making mistakes is an opportunity to learn and never a failure.
So true. We do more damage with the judgement than the initial fall. I’m going to have a go at treating myself as delicately as a newborn.
That sounds beautiful Jinya. Being light and playful with ourselves is an equal part of any lesson. And it certainly doesn’t mean that we aren’t willing to take responsibility for what we may have just become aware of.
Good question to ask janetwilliams06, we would never treat a child the way we treat ourselves. We are always going to make mistakes, its the willingness to have another go that matters, and to see that we are not bad or in the wrong, we just made a choice and the consequence didn’t feel great. The best mistake is the one that teaches us to make a different choice and experience a more loving outcome.
Very well expressed Rachael. From experience the worst thing to do when I make a mistake is to beat myself up or indulge in the ‘failure’. I find that then creates even more mess, because then I end up beating myself up for beating myself up! Or doing things like overeating, oversleeping and not taking care of myself. There is an art in making a mistake, accepting that, and then moving on from it, and this is something I’m definitely working with.
“There is an art in making a mistake, accepting that, and then moving on from it.” Beautifully said Susie. With this openness I learn and heal what led to the mistake, and move on, otherwise the indulgence in the failure catapults me into a cycle of all sorts of behaviours that are designed to keep me from being fully responsible in life. As janetwilliams06 said earlier “Making mistakes is an opportunity to learn.”
I like the picture you are drawing here with the little child. Why do we loose that lightness and become so rigid with ourselves. Of course any commitment that we decide to go for is pre-positioned to fail, because we are not “doing” it perfect then. Let’s be a little bit more “childish” to come back to our true nature 🙂
Very well put Rachel. The more I learn to respect, treat, and care for myself with the same tenderness, care and lack of judgment I would a child, the more I actually feel like an empowered man.
A very interesting awareness simplesimon888. It strikes me from your comment how imperative it is for us to develop a way of being and life that closes the age gap of deserving all the tenderness, care and lack of judgement between newborn and infancy, between childhood and adolescence and between adolescence and adulthood. It would be a great study to explore the stages of degeneration of love and care for our children, for each other and for ourselves.
‘The more I learn to respect, treat, and care for myself with the same tenderness, care and lack of judgment I would a child, the more I actually feel like an empowered man’ simplesimon888 that needed to be said again.
Apparently converse but it makes so much sense: for me too the more respectful, tender and responsible I am with myself the more of me as a growing, tender, nurturing and deeply loving woman I feel.
Gorgeous simplesimon888 – inspiring.
Very beautifully put and gorgeously claimed simplesimon888. Love is very empowering.
‘It is about mastering the art of getting up each time we fall, and not about never falling.’
So true, to constantly worry about ‘not falling’ create so much unnecessary tension in our bodies from the ‘holding back’, …. seeing each ‘fall’ as a learning opportunity and lovingly getting up with grace and an open-ness to bring more understanding feels so much more joyful and true.
Beautiful Rachel -lets giggle when we fall and then go on again with joy.
Danna and Henrietta this topic that you raise ‘staying with ourselves’ is a massive one in it’s own right. There are so many times that I leave my body out of well worn habit. Those habits are so familiar to me that they almost feel like a second skin, hence their ability to go undetected a lot of the time. One example is eating when I am tired. It is something that has become almost automatic and so I am eating before I am consciously feeling that I am tired. Obviously my body has registered that it is tired because it has moved itself into the kitchen! If I can slide myself into the small gap that exists between my body feeling tired and putting the food in my mouth then I can gain more awareness of the process and make a different choice.
It is amazing how unconscious our leaving ourselves becomes over time. Is there a point in our lives when we were younger where we simply find it too hard to feel what is there, or is that we are not given the support and understanding to deal with it? Whatever the reason was, as adults we can now choose to stay with ourselves and deal with life and it unfolds before us, moment by moment, this way we develop and evolve, and without it we simply do not.
This is beautiful Chang. ‘It is about mastering the art of getting up each time we fall, and not about never falling.’ part of this process for me is honouring everything I’m feeling, sometime when hurts get triggered it is challenging to let myself feel things that may not be so pleasant.
I agree Henrietta, Dana’s sharing is very powerful as is yours.
Mastering the art of getting up each time we fall and learning from the experience is the key.
I agree Susan. I caught myself the other day with wanting to make something perfect and the minute I stopped and called this out to myself, it changed everything. I saw that the situation was actually perfect with all its imperfections.
I agree Susan, seeking perfection is an ideal that sucks our energy and weights us down instead of learning from our mistakes as we go about life.
Beautifully said Danna & Henrietta. For me accepting the fall as part of the learning has been super important because I can easily go into self-critique which feels awful, and then I give up even trying, simply to avoid my own harsh inner critic. What an absurd and tricky little mind game that is!
I love the truth and simplicity of your comment Henrietta “…. it is about realising each time that we ‘fall’ and then bringing ourselves back as quickly as possible. It is about mastering the art of getting up each time we fall, and not about never falling.”
It is about the choice, isn’t it…when we fall from our own grace, we have the awareness to recognise that we have fallen, and what we have fallen from. We know what it feels like and what it means to us and All, and we are given the opportunity to make a choice, do we stay in that space, or come back to ourselves. The battle of Kurukshetra.
Thank you Danna for your sharing and thank you Henrietta for your brilliant response reminding me to not seek perfection but hold onto the awareness that when I drop, the key is to not indulge in it, but recognise it, and pull myself back up again, it’s just a simple choice!
Yes beautifully said Henrietta, it is mastering the art of getting up again, just like we did as children when learning to walk. We can hold such high expectations of ourselves as adults, we think that we are supposed to know it all and never fail. How glorious to discover that life is not about succeeding and failing, but honesty, learning and applying the learnt lessons to our lives, even when we graze ourselves (or worse) it is all there to support us to evolve.
Learning why we fell enables us to get back up. This is a very important key to life and a connection to ourselves. So many people get stuck when they land from their fall as they cannot see why or how they fell in the first place.
You are so right Lindell, how does a child learn to walk if not from trial and error. Life is a never ending classroom if we are willing to learn.
You cannot fail in this classroom sjmatsonuk, as it is all about love and this is what we are made of, so we already know the answers.
So affirming, Henrietta and totally without judgment of ourselves but just a gentle prodding to come back.
Beautiful words Henrietta Chang, it’s about mastering the art of getting up each time we fall, and not about never falling. So true, because every moment and every one of us, in those moments, do matter.
The humbleness to learn from our mistakes rather than, either indulging in self-bashing when we make them, or pretending we have not made them at all.
I don’t know what is worse Matilda, self-bashing or self-denial! Honesty is always the best policy, because without it we just keep going around and around in circles. And we all know that all we want is love and true evolution, so seeking perfection, indulging in emotions and being critical of ourselves only delays where we want to be!
This is a big one Matilda as we set these impossible expectations on ourselves and compare ourselves to others. With all of this set up to go into the self bashing of not ‘getting something right’ it leaves no room for being ourselves and giving us room to learn.
Well said Henrietta. If we are indeed open to learning and observing, each ‘fall’ is another opportunity to learn more about ourselves allowing a greater understanding of ourselves and others.
Absolutely Henrietta. This is something I have really come to know more recently, that it is not about being perfect and staying connected with my breath and body 100% of the time, but the choice I make when I realise I’ve got caught up in something at work or gone into a drive to get something done. This happened yesterday and as soon as I felt it, I just spent a few minutes connecting back with myself through being aware of my breath and body and checked in with myself more regularly throughout the day. And so, it is every loving choice that we make for ourselves when we do realise we’ve drifted off into our heads to come back to the stillness we know within our body.
That’s beautiful Henrietta. “It is about mastering the art of getting up each time we fall, and not about never falling.”. Very very wise and deeply resonating within me. I have to admit that I can definitely be less tough on myself. It’s like a beating up in the beating up. So it doesn’t make sense, but is something that I am very used too… I just love the phrase “It is about mastering the art of getting up each time we fall, and not about never falling.”.
Yes, so much learning is in the falling. Condemning myself to the finality and lie that falling equals failure only causes a delay in getting up again, but get up I do. So much easier when the weight of judgement is lifted and an appreciation for learning develops along side a deepening knowing there is never anything wrong with me so I can never actually be a failure.
Yes, well said Henrietta Chang – and it’s not about giving ourselves a hard time when we fall either which simply serves to cement the fall more deeply.
If we are lacking presence in our body it is the key to the absoluteness in us. The one thing we are struggling and avoiding the most, is the key for no thoughts, true power and just pure joy within us. So why wait and not work on it. We are both on it Danna 🙂
Thank you Danna, great sharing. I remember some years ago becoming aware of just how often I was not with myself and as I became more aware I became more and more aware of how unaware I was. At first it was quite shocking to see just how often I was doing one thing and thinking something else. Over time I have become more and more present but still it is a constant awareness and I regularly slip away as you beautifully put it. What I have discovered is it is so very gorgeous to be with myself that it makes me wonder why I would ever choose to be anywhere else! Also the more I am with myself that more I am with God and everyone else.
Yes, great question Nicola, ”why are we not with ourselves all of the time?” sounds easy right.. Well I absolutely agree and it is easy at the moment we choose to connect with ourselves. It is more all the ingrained patterns, ways of living in our life that hold no connection, so we have to stay strong and focussed to keep bringing ourselves back when we loose ourselves in old patterns again.. It is a constant ‘coming back’ effort to make, until we feel it is getting much more easy to be consistent together in connection with yourself and others.
I agree Danna, it is a constant choice to come back to ourselves, instead of wandering off on a daydream. For many years checking out was my drug of choice, and I call it a drug because it feels that way, as though being pulled into a fog and before you know it hours have passed away, and the more you indulge in that activity the more you want to escape – it’s a vicious circle.
That is beautiful said: checking out was my drug of choice. This leaves us with the actual evidence that nothing is ‘just happening’ but actually a choice and commitment to be irresponsible. I can not judge that, as I know I have lived that also, I am now learning how to decrease my level of checking out by making sure I stay checked in (present) with my mind at what I am doing (conscious presence), so that I can feel what is happening inside and around me, also if that is not so comfortable.
I am loving the thread here and thoroughly enjoying the flow of the conversation from each and every one of you. In our choice to come back to ourselves lies the key – but you have to have fun with this otherwise you will want to ‘give up’ – I often joke about it with myself and say ‘oops I went to Check-out-slovakia’ again!
Yes and the mental entertainment is pretty shallow and empty in comparison. And this is reflected in our breathing too. Who would have thought our breathing could tell us so much about how we live!
I agree Shevon, I am enjoying my own breath more and more and am in awe of what a beautiful fullness and expansion it brings.
Great Blog Suzanne, which highlights the choices we have. Reflecting on ‘Surrendering’ to God’s Plan and leaving it all up to God. If I just ‘leave it to God’ I am making an excuse to not be responsible for what’s happening and giving my power away to anyone or thing. When we surrender we are taking responsibility for remaining connected to ourselves and bringing presence to every moment – that presence being love, stillness and awareness whilst allowing God’s plan to flow. This is true brotherhood, lived as the Son’s of God we truly are.
“I have ‘left the building’ and no one can reach me!” So so true, Having done this much of my life, daydreaming, being lost in a book, planning, replaying scenario’s, it is huge to be letting that go, be more available and more engaged in life and with others. I give huge thanks to Serge Benhayon as well Suzanne and the Ancient Wisdom teachings which have also supported me and so many others to re-engage with life and live through such a simple yet profound technique.’The Gentle Breath’, even writing that feels like a wash of the gentlest breeze waking me up.
Thank you Suzanne for so honestly sharing, I know what you are saying in the leaving it up to God, this I did for a number of years, waiting for God to tell me what to do, it was blind faith with no responsibility. So it was amazing and confronting for me to find out, that I am responsibility for my past choices and that in every moment I have a choice, and that God is not outside of me but deep within waiting for me to connect to.
This blog reminded me of the old spiritual throw away comment ‘leave it up to the Universe’ meaning ‘I’m not taking responsibility’! Of course we are all part of a greater plan, but we need to be connected deeply within ourselves and externally with all others in order for the plan to unfold in truth. This is a beautiful reflection for us all Suzanne – do we get restless within ourselves even though our natural state is stillness? Thank you for your sharing.
Perhaps by being so disconnected to our body we came up with these saying not realising the impulses from God and the universe were actually already present within us. We are interconnected and we each have our part to play, every choice matters and our body, when treated with love, can support us to make choices in connection to the entire universe. It really is up to us.
Ha, yes Jo I have in fact used this line in the past. But I have since learnt that, as you have shared, we are all equally part of the universe and as such we are all equally responsible for the choices we make, or do not want to make. If we let go of what we know is true we allow what is not true to develop. And for us to grow and develop as a Humanity in truth, our connection to and expression of truth and love is essential. I agree Jo, what Suzanne has shared is a beautiful and powerful reflection for us all with which we can deeply consider what our true purpose is, here together.
‘It has never made sense to leave things “up to God” to sort my life out for me. This always felt like a blind faith where I wasn’t taking responsibility for being a part of life, a part of humanity and how we live and participate on this earth. It’s like saying, “It’s all too much – you sort it out.” But how often in my life have I done this? I couldn’t even count the number of times!’ Yes Suzanne, and the greater responsibility we claim and grow, the easier it gets – not at all what I thought it would be like at all! But shirking and shying away from responsibility is actually like an unresolved weight on me, and when I am taking responsibility for myself in the world everything flows and I have far greater vitality in my body.
I love your blog Suzanne, I can totally relate to everything you’ve shared. It amazes me how often I actually go into auto-pilot mode, pretty much most of the time. Pretty scary when I let my thoughts run wild so often throughout my day, this disconnects me to myself and to God. Your blog have brought more awareness and exposes to me how frequent I am actually disconnected.
Hello Suzanne Cox and I simply love this blog, from the Gentle Breath Meditation to this, “It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.” Thank you Suzanne for what is a very easy and truthful read.
This is a very interesting philosophical discussion you have started Suzanne. In the past I used to ‘leave it up to God’ as a way of avoiding responsibility and not taking my place in community. Now I feel that you are right in that “God is leaving it up to me” with timeless patience, and no imposition whatsoever God is leaving me to feel the consequences of my actions and inactions for the purpose that I may learn from them. I am learning what brings me closer to God and what takes me further away.
Thanks Suzanne, what a great blog. I find being present with my actions all the time is extremely hard, it is so hard that at times some might say it doesn’t come naturally….. but this is not true, what is unnatural is to be constantly caught in ones head. It’s just that we have been dappling in the indulgence of the mind for so long that we now struggle to simply be with the task at hand. I know I want to keep attempting to be present, as I know one day it will click into place and I won’t have to try to stay present with things, I will simply do it naturally.
Awesome Sarah, there is great joy in simplicity I have found, and I feel like I am 3 again!
Thats beautiful Harry, thanks for sharing.
I love your sharing sarahraynebaldwin. I can absolutely relate as I also find it is indeed a challenge being with my presence 100% of the time. It is so true we have existed from our minds for ages and far too long that we now ‘think’ this is natural. But what I also love is that each time we do slip, from being with our presence, we are learning that this is not the way of our heart and we are presented with an opportunity to choose to deepen our love, to re-imprint our way forth for ourselves and others. When I do remember this for myself, I end up with a massive smile as I know I am blessed with another opportunity to choose to live with more love in my life, and share this with others.
What you have shared is so true Carola Woods, thank you.
The magic of God is absolutely a co-creative process.The gentle breath you describe Suzanne illustrates perfectly how its still a choice we make to participate with the beauty the universe has waiting on tap. The thoughts you mention, would like to keep these moments with God as one-offs instead of the continuous connection we can naturally have.
Just beautiful Suzanne, I just love this paragraph of your blog: ‘It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.’ If we leave it all up to God, we forget this, God becomes something outside of us, and we disconnect from the knowing we do all have that the kingdom of God is found within.
Interesting to realize that “Leaving it up to God” is everything but leaving it up to God.
In truth it means to surrender to his will and be and live the love that he is and holds us in, i.e. taking full responsibility to express forth as the Son of God as a human being in everyday life. What is our relationship with ourselves and God when we have misinterpreted God as irresponsibility?
Well said Alex. I love how you present what in truth ‘leaving it up to God’ means – ‘In truth it means to surrender to his will and be and live the love that he is and holds us in, i.e. taking full responsibility to express forth as the Son of God as a human being in everyday life.’ – beautiful, I absolutely agree. Surrendering to the truth of Love that we all are, as equal Sons of God, and to live this with all is our choice, one that we are all equally responsible for. The illusion is that we think that we are not choosing ‘by leaving it up to God’ but in truth we are always making a choice, as it either is, or it is not truth. And in not choosing to surrender to truth we are instead choosing to surrender to all that is not of truth.
We know God as we come from him and are in him, therefore we exactly know how to separate from him. We do so by choice, nevertheless it leaves a sting of knowing that we leave everything that makes us who we are and where we belong, a pain that is excruciating, but our pride to make our own creations doesn´t want to admit to. One way to be in such utter denial is to impose truth with a re-interpreted version that is similar but entirely false. That is what makes us say ‘leaving it up to God’ – an utter lie to numb us from the pain of separation in the illusion of being somehow connected to God.
“Leave it up to God” is ‘leave it up to someone else to sort our irresponsibilities’ type of attitude. I can remember how much I have done this in my life and quite frankly aside from the fact it is very imposing on another to do this, it actually never feels very nice and is very disempowering.
I agree Joshua, it is very disempowering and this is so common in the world we live in. By bringing more awareness to this is very much needed. “Leave it up to God” is such an irresponsible belief that many people take on that is poisoning our lives. The truth is by taking responsibility for all our choices is actually very empowering and deeply healing. Complete opposite to what we’ve been exposed to.
I agree Joshua,I to can remember how awful it felt to live this way, it offers no evolution for anyone.
‘It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.’ Beautiful expressed Suzanne and like you have pointed out so clearly in your blog, it is our responsibility to be, and stay present, and live the love that we all know that we are.
I love this part you’ve highlighted Annelies, a very powerful expression.
A timely reminder , Suzanne that we “may leave the building” but God is always waiting on our return. The decision to return is our responsibility!
Yes, and our responsibility is to return is ours – the longer we vacate the building, the more cleaning there is to do when we return, turning the light back on, warming it up, sweeping out any residue that has built up through our lack of presence.
Kylie that’s my type of analogy 🙂 I shall just add lets not forget to stoke the fire that has long been burning on embers. if we don’t add the breath that the fire needs to re ignite, our home shall not warm and the fire will keep smouldering.
Beautifully said Anne
I can very much relate to the thoughts I indulge in when in auto pilot are initially entertaining – like they’ve got my attention, but once I’m paying attention to them, not me, I feel the emptiness as they bring nothing. Really great to feel this fact and come back to me sooner or not leave me at all!
There are many lessons waiting for us when we surrender to being and living as a student of our soul.
Hello nicolesjardin and there is a very key word in what you have said for me, “surrender”. As Suzanne is saying at times we ‘leave the building’ or go on “autopilot” into things. What if at that point we just surrender our body to what we are feeling? This is what the Gentle Breath Meditation has supported me with. Whenever ‘something’ comes up and I lose that still feeling I have in the meditation I don’t go into thoughts or action but dedicate to just allowing my body to deeply settle, a surrender. This has been huge for me and everything around me and just allows me to feel what is happening rather than run away from it. At times it may not even make sense but the awareness that comes has been great. Surrender is definitely something to dedicate time to, thank you Nicole.
This is true Ray. There is no trying in re-connecting, we simply can surrender to the connection that awaits us.
Hello Kylie Connors and I love this. You have summed this whole thing up in one simple and very poetic line, “There is no trying in re-connecting, we simply can surrender to the connection that awaits us.”
Thank you Raymond for your statement “Whenever ‘something’ comes up and I lose that still feeling I have in the meditation I don’t go into thoughts or action but dedicate to just allowing my body to deeply settle, a surrender.” That is so, so helpful to me, I am one who tends to go into the trying to get myself back, getting lost in the thoughts that come. I can see now, that the key word for me in so much of my life is to ‘surrender’. Such a beautiful word, and I can see from your sentence that is really all that I need do when I lose that feeling of stillness. So simple.
Hello Beverley Croft and great, I totally agree. Just in your comment I can see how you have unlocked this for yourself and it’s lovely to read the freedom you have bought from this awareness. At this point for me it is all about what you have just written, simply surrender and from there everything comes.
Wise piece of wisdom shared Ray, thank you. I could feel how a simple surrender could take away the anxiety or stress that can over take one if allowed to run. Surrendering feels as though one would leave no hard walls for these emotions to cling to but instead a gentleness that dissolves such emotions.
Hello kimweston2 thank you. If ‘feeling’ is the way to live then the allowing or surrender to anything you are feeling would be important. So at any point you feel something, surrender to it or allow yourself to feel it fully. It could be possible we choose “anxiety or stress” as a deliberate cover to not feel fully. This moment there is no need take all day either, to surrender is simple and takes all but a moment, dedicate to it and it will just be a part of your every step.
I agree Raymond, for me I have no doubt that anxiety or stress be a choice in a moment. It is a great way to avoid being all the glory we could be. Learning to cut the energy that this choice has allowed is where your wisdom comes in. Stop and surrender in that moment, feel the depth of your stillness and accept the Devine, and as you just share then, a new rhythm is created that becomes part of your every step.
Great point Raymond – surrendering our body to the divine will it inherently knows – no way we can just leave it up to God when we feel this unending deep connection with the All.
I have had the experience of feeling frightened about taking responsibility and seeing it as all a bit too much, or overwhelming. What I am realising is when I leave things up to others, I am then at the mercy of my inaction and someone elses choices. Taking the reins on my own life is actually very empowering and not as scary as I thought. Staying connected to myself enables me to feel that steady presence within which is how I feel God. He is the ever-steady presence that is forever providing me free choice.
Being at the mercy of someone else’s choices – so true when we relinquish responsibility and so handy when we want someone to blame for our predicament! That is imprisonment in a nutshell and the only way out is called responsibility.
“Leaving it up to God” is such a cop out! It requires no commitment to decisions made, no responsibility to be taken and it is passive and disempowering. It’s no wonder so many people have turned away from religion if that is what has been prosletized. I could not even say ‘God’, unless as an expletive, until relatively recently. Now, thanks to the presentations of Serge Benhayon I now say I am a religious woman who knows and feels that the kingdom of God is inside me. I do not leave it up to God but walk the Way of the Livingness alongside him.
What you express here is so true Lucy…especially the irresponsibility and disempowerment of ‘leaving it up to God’ and this being the possible reason why people turn away from religion. I too cringed whenever the word God was said and used it only as an expletive until recently. “Now, thanks to the presentations of Serge Benhayon I now say I am a religious woman who knows and feels that the kingdom of God is inside me. I do not leave it up to God but walk the Way of the Livingness alongside him.” Beautiful, profound words.
Totally relate to your comment Lucy and it confirms what has been my unfolding experience also. From not being able to say the word ‘God’ to knowing the ‘kingdom of God’ is within me…living within the body of God.
The deep connection to myself and being in my body are the things I can take responsibility for. There are many things I can leave to God- Things I have no control over anyway. It is important to understand that we are very powerful and step up to living the full life of the son of God.
I can relate to this point of resistance you reach it is where our repetitive behaviours and patterns kick in always in avoidance of feeling something..
I think 7 billion people could relate to this blog. Finding simplicity hard and going up into one’s mind for distraction is very common. There comes a point though when those moments feel empty and the connected moments within feel so amazing and so when they aren’t there they are deeply missed. At these times I make life simple and call on a rhythm that I know supports me to re connect. How true that it is not God’s responsibility to live our lives, it is up to us, we are all the one saviour of ourselves, no one can play that role for us in full. There can be inspiration but fundamentally it is our responsibility to connect to love and truth.
I can relate to what you wrote here ‘I have ‘left the building’ and no one can reach me’, and can remember that passive attitude I had too.
But no more, this is a lovely blog Suzanne for a reminder for us to stay connected and take responsibility of ourselves. It is definitely up to us to make our choices while God is always there for us, but letting us go on our own journeys.
What great words here Suzanne… “These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME..” I agree, and it all comes back to a choice, to be or not to be with. Not fate, not leaving it to something or anyone else, simply a choice to re-connect.
A choice to walk forward listening to what I feel inside and trust in me. A choice to really feel and appreciate the deep connection to God and the all that I do feel.
Beautifully expressed Suzanne and some lovely gems in the blog to reflect upon. When we leave it up to God we give our power away and can easily blame God if the desired result isn’t achieved. Since I have become more committed and responsible in my life, my connection with God has also naturally deepened and become more true.
Good point Anna, “Leaving it up to God” means we have someone to blame if it goes south and praise if it goes well. I can see why it is an appealing catch phrase in many regions – as self responsibility is commonly avoided in modern society. Giving our power away is easy, we have all done it in one way or another but taking our power back and taking full responsibility can be much more confronting for us.
“taking our power back and taking full responsibility can be much more confronting for us.” I agree, sarahraynebaldwin, yes, it can be confronting to do this, but how expanding and fulfilling it can be for us when we do so. Taking full responsibility for ourselves is so basic for our growth and evolution, how on earth can we grow without being responsible for ourselves? Institutionalised religions have been holding people back from evolution by encouraging them to ‘leave it up to God’. Thank you for making this point.
It is not just institutionalised religion that has this attitude, the same kind of line is thrown around in spiritual circles and it goes a little something like this”Trust in the Universe or Leave it to the Universe, it will give us the answers”. People in general are confronted by responsibility, as when you start to choose it, it is like a domino effect and all the times you have not chosen it you get to feel that when you start to choose it again.
True Sarah, taking full responsibility can be a more than a little confronting and uncomfortable at times, but is so very worth it. With the added bonus that when we take responsibility for ourselves, we allow the space for others to do the same – an awesome knock-on effect.
Yes Hannah, that is one of the beautiful after affects of taking responsibility “knock-on effect”. I find it quite remarkable because when you try to make another take responsibility for what they have done, it never goes down well and you are often met with defense but when you simply take responsibility for yourself then the awesome ” knock-on effect” goes into full swing with no effort required.
The key is responsibility and generally we do not like to be responsible for every choice, every living moment, knowing that it all has an affect on the ‘pool’ we live in.
Well said Lee Green, that fact can be too overwhelming for most of us.
Yes Anna, we give our power away and then complain and blame for how our lives have turned out. We are part of God and we were once very close to God but we were given the freedom to make our own choices, which have taken us so far from God that we have forgotten our divine origins. Our physical bodies can teach us the way to return to God.
Loved reading this blog Suzanne about your return to your true religion “The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.” these words expand me as I feel the truth of them in my body – there’s no room for us to leave anything to anyone!
There is no room to leave anything to anyone, so true. I love that it is designed that way also. It is very empowering to know that where you are in life is based on the choices you’ve made. If it was all down to luck I think that would scare me more than taking responsibility.
Suzanne, I was smiling to myself as I read your block because you have expressed precisely what I do. If am doing somewhat ‘better’ than I was before, being focussed and present and living from my body I go – hey presto that’s it I’ve got it sussed, I’m there and at that moment I fall back into comfort, allow a multitude of distracting thoughts to take hold, switch back into old patterns and behaviours and then get out a bat to criticise me. I say ‘you have done nothing, you haven’t sussed it’ and I swing like a pendulum the other way and indulge in negative thoughts. What a great wake up call to the importance of consistency. Inconsistency simply does not work on any level in life.
‘It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.’ This is a deeply beautiful and inspiring statement Suzanne – thank you.
Reading what you share Susanne is bringing up the believe that “things are easier when someone else can be made responsible”. I used to be trapped into that to – and it was giving up. on my responsibility, handing in comfort for a self loving responsible way of living. And what is the result? That there is so much stuff to clear in my body now. Stuff I have stored that wasn’t me. It is like the room of a child. Once they make it up to mommy to clean their room – and she doesn’t because it’s simply not her job – they find themselves in a mess of things lying around. And then it takes a long time to catch up and bring the things in order again.
Taking responsibility for our lives, yet knowing in this responsibility that there is support and love there. If we believe it is all just out of our hands then who is running our lives, it makes sense that we are the masters of our lives or under the influence of something we really don’t want controlling us.
It is amazing to feel that God does actually leave it up to us and quite funny that I have been waiting for him to sort things out for me for quite some time. Thank you for reminding me of the truth Suzanne.
Why is it that we hold God as responsible for us? It feels like the ideal that has come through institutionalised religions that he ‘will save us’… and leaves us playing games and being less.
It is only when we claim ourselves as ‘the ones’ that we live in equal responsibility as his sons.
I agree, Kylie, we so often hold God responsible for us, and yes, most likely through the idea through institutionalised religions which teach that God ‘will save us’. The various religions have done a lot of damage in encouraging people to not be responsible for themselves. We have to be responsible for our own actions and choices in our lives, and then have to deal with the consequences of those decisions. And I agree “it is only when we claim ourselves as ‘the ones’ that we live in equal responsibility as his sons” – love this statement.
Thank you so much for articulating and writing down what too has been my own experience of feeling connected, restless and letting go of myself. I loved the honesty within this blog.
Very true Michelle, we put in an effort for a while and then feel enough and yet who is then in charge? And what do we come back to? What does our body experience?
Well said Suzanne. ‘Leaving it up to God’ reminds me of how throughout life I’ve noticed both myself (although not so much anymore!) and many others like to avoid responsibility and rely on someone else or a group of people to do things for us. Great examples of this would be how a lot of young people find themselves still looking toward their parents to cook, clean and provide for them even as they enter the late teenager years, or how older siblings are often left a lot of the work even though their younger brothers and sisters may be perfectly capable.
True Suzie. And as you describe Suzanne ‘leaving it to God’ is a reckless and irresponsible way for us to live. It’s interesting at times when people then choose to blame God for a certain event or outcome in their lives – when it is the direct result of everything they have chosen.
Exactly Kylie, we can be happy to take responsibility when things are going well but very quick to look for someone else to blame when they are not looking so peachy. Having someone to blame may make us feel a bit more comfortable in the short-term but effectively leaves us dis-empowered.
Great examples Susie of when we leave ‘it up to God’, refuse to take responsibility for our lives, give up and check out, and these choices start much earlier than most realise.
Agree, Paula and Susie, “when we leave ‘it up to God’, we refuse to take responsibility for our lives, give up and check out, and these choices start much earlier than most realise.” And parents also have a responsibility in this. A lot of the time the parenting is left up to God (and others like schoolteachers), whereas we as parents can take our responsibility to raise our children with love. Taking – and reflecting responsibility is a big part of this.
Suzanne I have noticed I can do that too. I stay present with myself for a while and then feel, OK. I’ve done it for a while, that should keep me going, but the minute I take my eye off the ball, so to speak, I am off into my thoughts, and in those moments I am vulnerable because its no longer me in charge of my body. I like the analogy you make of having left the building. Who is running the show if I leave?
Brilliant comment Debra, ‘I like the analogy you make of having left the building. Who is running the show if I leave?’ exactly, great question. So, really any moment that we are disconnected, not present and have left the building (our body) something else comes in to run it. What that something else is really a harmful energy that comes in, it is no longer us in our divine light that is running the show but a lesser form of energy that we choose to allow in to take over. Every moment is a choice to choose which form of energy we allow into our divine body.
Suzanne thank you for exposing another myth that is all to easy to fall into. The fact is “leaving it up to God”is interpreted by most, including myself, as check out and what will happen will happen and I will blame another if its not what I want to happen. Yet if we are not connected to ourselves then we are not connected to God so really in that vacant state we are not leaving it up to God but instead perhaps we have chosen to leave it up to whatever energy wants to have its way with us. What I loved is when your shared “These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.”
The idea of ‘leaving it up to God’ feels like not wanting to actually take any responsibility for our life. If I ‘leave it up to God’, then if things go right or wrong it is ‘God’s will’ and I had nothing to do with it. But the truth is, our lives are all about making choices and feeling the consequences of those choices so that we can make more loving choices. If we ‘leave it to God’ to supposedly make our choices for us, does that mean if things go wrong, God doesn’t love us?
What if in fact, things going ‘wrong’ is a part of the love that we are held in by God? What if it is an opportunity for us to see the power that comes from when we are present in our bodies, making choices With God, and what happens when we walk away and give up the responsibility we have to be equal with God as his Sons.
Believing we are not responsible does not make it so. If we act irresponsibly we are still responsible for our irresponsibility. We can deny it all we like but there is no escaping it in truth.
Our responsibility is in fact one of our greatest sources of being the powerful beings we truly are.
Thank you Suzanne, I’ve never really thought about ‘leaving things up to God’ in this way before, but can relate to having prayed a lot for help with my life in the past and then feeling rejected because there was nothing forthcoming, or at least not in the way I wanted it too. Serge Benhayon has helped me to look at how I navigate my way through life and how I can take responsibility for my own actions, without waiting for something or someone to do it for me. I have come to realise that we already have everything within us to answer our own questions, and that no amount of seeking and searching will give us the answers.
We are like billionaires begging for change on the street – we already have it all within us but we continue to seek outside for ‘the answer’. Good point Julie Matson.
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.”- so true Suzanne. God is so patient and nonjudgmental and only emanates love. It is me who delays the return to all that I am- divine love
How easy would it be, if there would be someone sorting out our stuff. What would be the meaning of being on this earth then? Being at the sake of someone elses decisions? That doesn´t make sense.
Totally doesn’t make sense. A very disempowering way to live also. God and others don’t live my life for me, I do, and I’m grateful of the immutable Universal Law of this. While it can definitely be tricky to take responsibility and to hold one’s self accountable for our choices, I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Absolutely agree, steffihenn, that is being completely irresponsible. We have to take full responsibility for sorting out our own stuff. I have never liked being just told what to do. Who else but me would be able to sort out what I have done in the past? It certainly does not make sense.
Yes Steffi – a deep sense of irresponsibility is what I feel when you write this. Leaving it up to others. We are all true leaders and connecting to ourselves connects us equally to God to be truly present and offer a true sense of ourselves to humanity.
Totally agree steffihen, it may seem “easy” if we were to hand over responsibility to someone else, but then we would be at the mercy of their choices – and could whinge and complain if we didn’t like their decisions but be powerless to do anything. However when we take responsibility for ourselves, if we don’t like the outcome of our choices, we can simply make different choices.
I agree, shirking responsibility and dumping it on someone else is poor form indeed and it also leads to being imprisoned in victimhood and martyrdom. And that is not much fun at all, even if the short-term gains seem tempting.
What a great awareness you have shared Suzanne, something for us all to consider, do we leave it all up to God or do we step into the drivers seat of life and begin to live with greater responsibility for all we choose to live and be in life?
Yes, I agree Marika – I feel when I came to this realisation that God was within it made God feel more real and there was also an equality that always has alluded me in other relationships. If I choose to see God ‘up there in heaven’ I put a distance between us and a sense that I am not an equal partner. When God is within it’s as though we are partners each honouring our own particular purpose and part of life and working together in unity and love and towards greater Brotherhood.
‘God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life’ – a great reminder that we do all have a part to play in a big picture as a participant, not as a by-stander, and we cannot skive away from committing to life.
Suzanne, I can very much relate to your article, particularly “It’s all too much – you sort it out.” , i have certainly wanted to hand responsibility over to god in the past, when I was involved with a yoga school that was based on Hinduism this was definitely the case, i remember saying when i was about to teach yoga, ‘i cant do this you teach through me’ and so the teaching did not come from me, nowadays I choose to stay present in my body and to take responsibility, this feels wonderful and it is the checked out moments, where i kind of give up that feel awful and which make me feel tired.
This is a greatly exposing article Suzanne, and allows us to check-in on playfully making sure that we are taking responsibility of ourselves at all times. Keeping this connection is a choice and to begin with a choice that needs much surrendering, as I am experiencing. And as I build on this connection I find that I want to come back to it more and more when I no longer have it.
Gorgeous Suzanne, I love your clarity about the fact that when you are in your head entertaining your thoughts you are completely alone and unreachable. It is when we come back into our bodies that we can be present in the moment and truly connect with others.
Thank you Suzanne. This sacred relationship we can have with ourselves is so important. I can definitely relate to what you were saying about going off into thoughts and feeling the emptiness of that. There is definitely an arrogance that comes in like ‘I’ve done the whole connection thing today, now I’m going to go for a wander’. What does this wandering produce? Nothing of value as I have discovered! There is also the choice to avoid connecting to sacredness, even though it is so readily available and there always waiting. What could happen if we chose to connect to this sacredness consistently? Amazing things, no doubt.
This is so profound and beautiful Suzanne; all you have come to and share is like a deep connection and joy coming home to you I too can feel in my body as I read this. I love the end bit that: “It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.”; so true, so beautiful, such wisdom.
Isn’t it beautiful how God leaves us to make the choice to be glorious? I find that amazing when I think of all the times I have been impatient or frustrated at someone taking too long or not being true, God has no such frustrations about us he simply leaves us the choice knowing one day we’ll make it in full. That’s got to be true love!
Leaving it up to God has always felt like a cop-out to me. “These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.” Great blog Suzanne.
Are phobias, our minds way to insure we are always have the little man in the crows nest in our head that is on the look out to keep us on guard? Could there be a phobia to be full of love and joyfulness… or this just been called normal life? It is rather ironic that we wait for God to sort it out… when he is always in and part of all of us.
Ouch Suzanne I can really relate to not being able to maintain my focus and going into autopilot and gallivanting around in my thoughts. I love how you share ‘These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.’ So true and the choice is always ours to make.
Whenever I find something or life boring it is a dead giveaway for me that I am not truly connected to my divine essence. Because when I am truly connected it feels so delicious and gorgeous and expansive that whatever I am doing at that moment never feels dull.
It is very interesting how we seem to have this inbuilt idea that once we make a bit of a nod towards God we can sit back and relax and all will be taken care of. But if everything is energy then it makes sense that we have to be aware of the energy we are choosing in every moment.
Great blog Suzanne. The question you raise about who or what is controlling us when we stop being in presence with our body is one to deeply consider, it feels quite sinister to realise the depths we are actually controlled through our mind without our even being aware of it – thank goodness for Serge Benhayon who has exposed this controlling force and inspired me and many others to re-connect to the body and be aware of this truth.
“so off I go and play around in my thoughts. But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?”
What you write is what true responsibility is all about. When we leave it up to God this has nothing to do with responsibility. Every breath, every step, every action is our own responsibility.
Suzanne when I read the title ‘leaving it up to God’ I thought to myself that that is what I have been feeling recently but not in a copping out kind of a way but more in a trusting, letting go of control kind of a way. It has felt at times like I am in the front seat of the car clutching the steering wheel way too tight and over steering and, I look in the rear view mirror and God is chilling on the back seat and has it all covered.
This makes so much sense Suzanne, although we can say ‘we leave it up to God’ in truth this is not possible. We always have the choice what we align too, through our choices and movements. I feel that saying that God gives it all, but leaves it up to us to choose it or not, is very true.
So often I find my mind wanders away from what I’m actually doing and I can let all craziness come in. It’s so great to know the kingdom of God resides within and is only a breath away.
Suzanne this is great and so revealing. I used to say things like, ‘If its meant to be it will happen’, I see now how irresponsible it is leaving it up to anything outside of myself, and having naught of myself in making decisions. Like who did I think was making the decisions? Knowing my connection with God from within has completely changed how I am in life now. There are many times where I feel ‘leaving it up to someone’ else creeps in, but with the foundation I’ve been building, it’s so much more obvious.
It is so incredible how we can access the Kingdom of God through the physical presence of our bodies. How our bodies bring us back to a heavenly place, where we can be responsible and actively involved in life.
“It is in these realisations I feel I have returned to my true religion, a deeply precious and sacred place, never to be found within the walls of a church, but one which dwells within my own body and in the inner heart of us all.”
Hear, hear Suzanne, very magnificently expressed. If we are to ‘leave it up to God’, then we are to take responsibility for it ourselves, for this Divinity lies within. To externalize God is to run from who we truly are and the responsibility and great joy to be that love ourselves.
‘To externalize God is to run from who we truly are and the responsibility and great joy to be that love ourselves.’ Beautifully expressed Liane thank you.
Yes, Liane – “To externalize God is to run from who we truly are and the responsibility and great joy to be that love ourselves.” All we have to do is humbly re-connect to our inner-heart, and the Kingdom of God will be there in the depths of our being. No need to look elsewhere.
So beautiful and so simple. Why would we shirk this divine given responsibility to re-connect to the glory that lives within us.
Your comment here Liane has helped bring a deeper understanding for me to this blog. For yes, that whilst God, is God, his divinity lies within and this is how we connect to him.
Hello Liane Mandalis that paragraph caught me as well. So simply and beautifully stated and very grand. This is indeed ‘true religion’ for me, clear as day, thank you. As you say if we leave it up to ‘God’ or anyone we “run from who we truly are and the responsibility and great joy to be that love ourselves.”
Love it Liane: “To externalize God is to run from who we truly are and the responsibility and great joy to be that love ourselves.” So true, we are part of God and it is our choice to express it or not.
Great point Liane that the comment ‘leaving it up to God’ places the focus and responsibility outside of ourselves yet it’s inside of us that we have the true connection to God.
Ah yes Suzanne, completely ‘with deep appreciation to the Ageless Wisdom as taught by Serge Benhayon’. Reading your truths here I was halted with pulsing-love:
“The Kingdom of God is Within You”
“Glory Be the Son of God”.
Glory indeed.
I love this blog Suzanne and can relate to it so easily. Being someone who in the past did my fair share of calling out for God to help me, I particularly love these words; they brought a smile up from deep within: “These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me”. I can not only feel the endless patience that God has, but I can also feel the truth of this statement in every cell of me. Thank you..
Suzanne I too use to get caught up in, “leave it up to God”, because that’s what I was brought up in. But you are right to say that is us giving up our responsibility and ourselves. God lives within us and its up for us to the responsibility in our choices, by connecting to our body through or breath.
As you say Suzanne,’ it doesn’t make sense to leave things “up to God” to sort my life out for me.
This kind of blind faith is present in many religions because of our unwillingness to take full responsibility, for if God is seen as a father figure there to punish or condone, and appease by doing ‘penance’ for our sins, then we are giving our power over to something outside ourself and not fully committing to life. God is unimposing, ever patient and ever-present and he is there for us to connect to at any time – we need no priest nor prayer, just an openness of heart and when we walk with God we neither leave things up to him nor do we ‘do it my way’ we work together with all of humanity in God.
So awesome Sandra. I love how you shared that ‘we neither leave things up to him nor do we ‘do it my way’ ‘we work together with all of humanity in God’.
A true religion it is for me too Suzanne, my connection with God. I have stepped away from it for a great part of my life but I have reconnect to God with the help of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and for me too the Gentle breath meditation has helped me for a great deal in this. I have found that it is about taking the responsibility for my own choices in life and to not to let them to be made by someone else.
“The Kingdom of God is Within You and Glory Be the Son of God.”- Suzanne there words resonate so much more to me now and make sense, now that I have reconnected to my inner heart and truth.
I can very much relate to being very entertained and very distracted by the contents of my own thoughts. It’s very interesting the difference when I am connected to me, my thoughts are very much with what I am doing…no stories, no fairytales no distractions, much more solid and joyful.
This stood out for me also Jennifer, going into my head and daydreaming when I’ve felt very bored and ‘over’ having to do things in my life. How different this is now though when I see how what I do affects everyone, especially those around me. And there is so a joy in dealing with what needs to be done and making life simple.
When I am with my body, suddenly thoughts that could keep me busy for hours or days have no power over me. How often do we get caught in wanting to find solutions in the state of disconnection and keeping us busy with that all of the time. It needs a very loving discipline to identify this game as false, before getting trapped by the mind.
Yes Jennifer, I agree, the difference between staying present and connected to what you are doing and going off into your head is stark. If I go off into my head for too long, I can find myself at the end of the day saying to myself in shock, ‘what happened there?’ When I am present there is no need to ask that question because, I stayed present. A no brainer. And as you say, there is a solidness in being with yourself all day that really builds a foundation for the next day and so on.
I remember as a child knowing that God was everywhere. When you consider that we all can be and walk the love of God, it makes perfect sense.
Jennifer not only is God everywhere but there is no-thing but God.
Absolutely Jennifer, it is like being in an ocean of energy and we know and feel the deep connection to God, and the knowing that we lived as a child.
Like the returning tide, whenever we choose to reconnect, we can walk once again with God.
Yes actually I have known that as an adult too, that God is everywhere. But my awareness of that has grown and that is a great great support. When I walk, He walks with me.
A beautiful reflection and presentation thank you Suzanne. As Vicky says a great reminder not to leave it up to anyone. It actually feels freeing to know that the quality of our lives is dependant on our own choices; the choice is always ours!
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life”.
The feeling of God leaving it up to me, is for me a feeling that he is even present, waiting for me to accept and work with his loving support. Sometimes it is not the overwhelm of life that causes me to check out, but the enormity of who I am.
I so agree Simon, when I have felt what is possible of what I could potentially be and bring I sometimes find myself pull back into auto pilot and fall into making choices that do not truly support me. I find more and more these periods occur less and less and when they do I find that what brings me back to me is the amazing strong foundation I have built within. Something I previously had not felt in full until I began to connect to the way of the livingness. For that I am ever thankful for all that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine bring.
Being aware of and willing to accept what we are capable of bringing when we are with ourselves and God as one, is for sure the actual reason for us shying back from responsibility.
Thank you Suzanne for sharing this simple truth. Connection is up to us and through this we access all. The fight we put up in resistance to this is interesting as we are fighting our very own glory. It is totally crazy really but this is what we do as the comfort of indulging in the mind is forever tempting us out of our body. Once we realise this it then comes back to our choices in every moment, in every movement.
I really loved what you have said here Kathleen. The truth is the comfort of our mind will be forever tempting us. It ain’t going away, so to speak. This has inspired me to call upon my dedication to myself, humanity and a relationship with God to take the responsibility to say yes to God and no to the tempter, to live within my own and others’ glory.
Hi Michelle, yes let’s face it if we are lost in our heads we are not fully there with our self wherever we are and whatever we are doing.
What a gorgeous blog Suzanne about the simplicity, clarity and the connection to God and true religion that is possible when we connect to our bodies.
It sounds so simple when it is all expressed with truth and love, yet Religion has been so complicated and bastardised over time. The simplicity is sometimes hard to fathom because we have become so wayward over time, but it all makes sense when you can feel the truth of it in your body.
Yes, how amazing and powerful to consider the sacredness and accessibility to God that we have from our own bodies. When we cherish and nurture our bodies, this activates our connection to God, from nothing outside of us, but from within our bodies. It is the most glorious feeling, and once we connect to this, to mistreat and abuse our bodies seems utterly crazy.
A great reminder to never ‘leave it up to’ anyone 💕
A great reminder of taking responsibility of everything we do, decide, act on…knowing we are held by heaven – all the time…
Yes Vicky, when we assume someone else is going to sort things out for us, we get into all sorts of problems.
‘A great reminder to never ‘leave it up to’ anyone’. Absolutely spot on Vicky – leaving it up to others… I know how imposed upon I feel when people leave things up to me.
Well said Vicky Cooke, when we do we absolutely give our power away.
Well said Suzanne. The Gentle Breath Meditation builds a knowingness of that feeling and connection in our bodies so that we can reconnect to it any time we get pulled away.
Gentleness is a foundation we all can easily come back to when we have lost ourselves.
It is very necessary to have something we can rely on when we are out, otherwise we are exposed to being a puppet.
If we are not in the driver’s seat, someone must be driving it.
I guess we better take the wheel again. Quick! 😛
Yes!! Doesn’t feel that good to have someone else driving our car when we’re in the passenger’s seat instead.
A great visualization, Luke. There is always someone driving our vehicle of expression, our body. Let’s be at the steering wheel all the time.
That is the craziness of it all Suzanne, we think we are leaving it up to God to sort our life out when in fact he is patiently waiting for us to come to our senses and accept that he is and has always been there waiting for us and never has it been the other way around.
Leaving it up to God to sort out our troubles just feels irresponsible and disempowering. I grew up in a Christian family, and during a very uncertain time in my life I used to pray to God the same way, but it always left me feeling uncertain and anxious. Leaving something to God without taking the responsibility for it, lacked a solidity in my body and it did not convince me that this was a true choice. My relationship with God is one which he is with me, not up there or somewhere, and this relationship is always present when I choose to connect to it.
Exactly Adele, it is Giving our power away, and refusing to express it.
I agree, leaving our troubles up to anyone other than ourselves, including God, feels irresponsible. Accepting God to be with you while you face it is one thing, but asking him to do it for you is very disempowering.
Suzanne, what an amazing confirmation of God’s Love when he leaves it up to us. God cannot tell us what to do or do it for us, but we are always given the opportunity to choose in awareness. I know for a fact that no one can really tell me what to do, and even in the most difficult situtations if I could come to an answer through my body, it is an empowerment that no one can take away. And God would never leave us alone, and we are never meant to do everything on our own, we are always supported and guided by the constellations in life. This is true Religion as you have shared Suzanne.
Beautifully said Adele Leung. This is true self empowerment from a strong and solid inner foundation, rather than being at the mercy of the mind and its ‘fix it’ solutions.
“no one can really tell me what to do, and even in the most difficult situtations if I could come to an answer through my body, it is an empowerment that no one can take away”.
I agree Adele, no one and nothing outside me can really tell me what to do, although at times I have wanted this reassurance as a shirking from a commitment to life or fear of making the wrong choice. However, ultimately we all have to stand apparently alone, coming back to ourselves and backing ourselves, and magically this brings us the empowerment you speak of which nothing can take away, and that is what we stand upon. Although we are never in fact alone because we are actually part of the all-one which as you say supports and guides us. It’s a wonderful process.
“These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.”
Last week while having an Esoteric Breast Massage, http://www.esotericwomenshealth.com/esoteric-breast-massage.html an exquisitely gentle massage over the area of the breasts, upper chest, the area below the armpits, and over the inner heart centre, I had the divine experience of God being part of me. I’m familiar with the words “The Kingdom of God is Within” and felt this to be true but never have I experienced the fact that he is part of me and I am part of him. It was no rah rah moment really, just a “see, I’m with you all the time – we are one” kind of feeling. Actually I felt him to be quite humorous as if he was up close to my face saying “do you get it now?!!” God left this up to me to feel when I was ready to accept how divine I am. We hold our divinity in our body. It’s up to us to connect with it… our responsiblity… not God’s
Brilliant Elizabeth, I love what you have expressed here and the playfulness you felt in that moment of connection. Thank you for sharing.
A great question to ask Suzanne – “But who or what is operating my movements if I no longer have any awareness of them?” I know I feel a lot different if I am on auto-pilot or if I am present and in touch with my body and movements.
Suzanne, I just loved reading your blog! Leaving our life up to God sounds like a pretty lazy way to get through life, and lazy in a way that does not at all feel comfortable as it may appear we are laid back or easy going but in actual fact the lazy way feels very uncomfortable and full of tension.
I like to imagine my body walking out the front door or into a room with my chest leading the way, open to whatever is there to be learnt and with a tangible warmth that comes from knowing who I am; as opposed to the walk through with my shoulders down and inward, almost dragging my legs to catch up. This latter way shows me every time how heavy and sluggish life can be when we leave all our choices up to someone or anything else and our true potential at home in the closet!
I love your comment Cherise. I completely agree – it is a tangible feeling! You so clearly spell out that “Leaving it up to God” is actually a form of giving our power away to him. I feel we are here to be at one with God, and with ourselves.
‘Leaving our life up to God sounds like a pretty lazy way to get through life’ – I love it, you are so correct, what you are saying is that we have an equal responsibility to God, and we really really do.
I love this line–”these days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME”. This makes total sense to me because God is consistent in his love. The question is how consistent are we? So of course God leaves it up to us to build that consistency of being the love that we are all of the time.
That’s the really beautiful thing Elizabeth that it is the combination of our own choices that allows us to feel the love that we are and we are from. There is no compulsion in any way for us to know this. It’s the question that is often asked of God…”How could you allow this or that to happen if you are a loving God?” God imposes not and each choice is our own. That is love.
Absolutely Jenifer, I agree, we all have the free will to make the choice to be lovingly connected to God.
It has been my experience that God reflects to me an ultimate form of love. One that will never impose or force itself on me. One that is always ready and waiting to be connected to but requires me to make the choice to connect to it.
I agree Elizabeth, it is reassuring when we realise that we have choices and that everything comes down to a choice. We appreciate that we can make a difference in our own lives without giving up and leaving it to God.
Gosh I love your comment Elizabeth! Yes, “Consistency” in our Love….it makes sense that this is all that is missing – God never leaves, and Love only unites.
Agree Elizabeth it brings back the responsibility to us. Leaving it up to God is avoiding responsibility and reducing ourselves to something lesser and not being universal. We are part of God, so it can be only up to us and make the choice.
I found this a deeply beautiful blog Suzanne, and it blows all that ‘leaving it up to God’ thing totally out of the water. I know I have always squirmed when people use that phrase, drives me nuts, and yet though my life I have been blithely doing the same and not calling it that. I am feeling so gorgeously fired up reading your words: ‘These days I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.’ Thank you dear Suzanne!
It never ceases to amaze me how patient God is in waiting for us to reconnect to the truth of ourselves, whether it is for the first time in this life, on a daily basis or moment to moment, God leaves it up to us, no pressure, just infinite patience, love and for ever holding.
As I read your words Rosemary I realise this is what is meant by the grace of God … “There by the Grace of God go I” …. There is so much beauty and wisdom held in the body that knows and lives this truth.
Hmmm it feels to me that patience is something us humans have invented. It is something that we apply whilst waiting for something to happen but I doubt that patience exists in Gods world, all he sees is himself, he never has to wait because he is always all there ever is.
I agree, Rosemary, God’s patience, the freedom of will he offers and the lack of judgement are beyond words. Like Suzanne wrote, he never leaves us, we leave him again and again. God stays and holds us all equal in love. Now that is true love to me.
“…I feel God has actually been leaving it up to ME, patiently waiting for me to accept the glorious me and how amazing it feels to be in my body and actively living within the scheme of life.” I love this Suzanne. What a beautiful connection with yourself and God. This feels true to me, we have everything within us, we just need to accept this and live it in full.
I so agree Lee, when we come to this awareness that all we ever need lies within, accept it as you say and begin to live it in full then what is possible in life truly begins to open up and expand as we see our true potential. It all begins when we begin to see ourselves for who we truly are.
There is also saying “Everything is in God’s hands.” Could it be that “leaving it up to God” means we as human beings don’t have understanding of the bigger picture and trying to control situations according to our best “plan”? Whereas God(s) know(s) better leaving up to us only the choice which energy we align to.
That phrase is so telling “It’s all too much – you sort it out.” and we do indeed apply it to God, and it pervades a lot of our culture where we give up and go with the flow rather than standing up for the truth we know. It’s how the world is as it is, and as we stand and speak and live truth more, that will change the world.
Well Said Suzanne, I relate to every word. It is uncomfortable to feel just how well I know the feeling of given up-ness, letting things work themselves out without me – HA! Yet in choosing to feel it, what is revealed is the the absurdity of such a lie. With the All I know to be True, no amount of hiding will release me from the fact I too am equally a part of, and the joy that taking responsibility for the choices I make brings, now builds my living way.
It is amazing how something turns up at the right time. Like it had been placed there for me to read in that moment. Susanne what you have expressed gave me a much deeper awareness.
Thankyou.
Suzanne, this is great. When we ‘leave it to God’ we don’t look at whether God has left anything for us to do. The Muslim proverb of ‘trust in Allah but tether your camel’ seems to be apt here.
Well said christophschnelle. If it is God’s will that something be done, then it needs our hands to make it so.
Yes, God is a quite practical dude, we not so much when we avoid responsibility.
Classic!! This made me laugh but it is also so true Alex Braun. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face by referring to God as a dude.
Being raised in a catholic tradition never was it mentioned that God would have any humour. How can that be when wisdom naturally comes with a deeply loving sense of understanding and humour? I guess seriousness around everything God was necessary to keep people controlled by guilt and fear, to know him as our best friend with a good sense of humour makes him so much more relatable for everyone personal instead through a so-called representative only speaking latin and gibberish.
Great addition christophschnelle, it seems like a lazy approach when you put it like that, leaving it all up to God and throwing in the rag.
One of my favourite proverbs’ Christoph and totally apt!
Interesting what you write here about auto-pilot which many of us live on – but who do we think is driving us then? How do we hand ‘control’ over too? That’s a great question worth exploring….
Great question Sarahflenley, ‘who do we think is driving us’ when we go on on auto-pilot? If it’s not us then who are we handing control over to? It’s obviously not God if we feel less than divine like when we are bored, restless or are plagued by empty thoughts.
Yes I agree, a great question. Who or what is the pilot when we are on auto-pilot.
Opening Pandora’s box here – exploring that there is a lot more to life than the bits we have put into the little frame of human life – a world of energy.
I love that question – who am I being when I am not present with me, not connected to my body but instead off in autopilot, galavanting in my mind’s thoughts and images? More importantly, who or what is in charge of the autopilot? As a consideration, that’s more that enough to make me want to reconnect with myself. Any sniff of the possibility that something else is running the show is just not on.
I agree Cathy, just the awareness that if we are not running our own show then something else is is enough to choose to be connected with ourselves at all times!
I love what you share Suzanne, but I have a slightly different take on ‘leaving it up to God’.
I usually don’t leave things up to God in a ‘checking out of taking responsibility’ sort of way, but I tend to take ‘control’ and think I have to be totally responsible for how everything turns out. Just in the last few weeks I have surrendered to the fact that my plan and my way is not better than God’s. That all I have to do is commit to love and that God / the Universe actually knows what He is doing and will manage without my control – that there are many things that I can safely leave up to God.
Me, too – Carmin. When I read the title of this blog, it immediately came to me how much I have got in a way of God trying to control life. What I am learning is that there’s no way I can interfere with God’s creation, and I have a choice to be consciously in alignment with it in co-creation, or let myself be a willing prey to the opposite energy in my unconsciousness.
Carmin what you have shared is also what I have come to feel in the last 3 or 4 weeks which is such a strong confirmation of the fact that we all influence each other. It is extraordinary how through reading these blogs and commenting on them we fold one another deeper into the body of God.
I agree Carmin, there is a definite way that God works, where we don’t need to control anything. What we do need, as you say, is to make the commitment to connect to ourselves consistently, knowing that God is equally within us, so when we connect we are by virtue connecting to the all that God is. This is a constant choice, so it is not ‘leaving it to God’, in the irresponsible/’laissez faire’ attitude that Suzanne describes, but total allowing and trust of what God has in the plan. Letting go of control is a big one!!
‘I have surrendered to the fact that my plan and my way is not better than God’s.’ This is inspiring and supports me to become aware of, an let go of, of my personal plan which is actually completely at odds with who I am.
I smiled when I read the words, ‘God/the Universe…will manage without my control..’ Carmin. How intensely focused are we on outcomes? I can feel the contraction and ‘waiting’ that makes my body dense and tense! Absolutely no need for this once I choose to connect with the space within and open up to feel the truth and respond to the best of my ability and awareness at the time.
I can really relate to this Carmin and it reminds me of that frustrated ‘I’ll just do it myself!’ phrase. In that control we completely forget our role in life which has been presented numerous times through Universal Medicine which is that all we need to be is us, that is our only responsibility and the rest will be taken care of. However I do not live this and it raises the questions – what if God does have it all covered? What if I am enough and being me in the greater plan is enough without needing to try or take on more in an effort to appear enough?
This is a pertinent question, Leigh, ‘What if I am enough and being me in the greater plan is enough without needing to try or take on more in an effort to appear enough?’ Taking away the need to be more takes the effort out of doing and allows us to bring more of ourselves to what we do without constantly monitoring and measuring against what we feel is expected. That gets rid of the need for control. So long as we are committed to bringing all of us to everything we do, we need do no more than that, for if we work together, what we cannot bring someone else will provide.
The question I then felt would be: How does my body feel to move to bring out the all of me?
So true Suzanne, with most people copping out from responsibility and ‘leaving it up to God’ to correct their choices. God is actually leaving it up to us to make the choices that mold our life.
Yes, Suzanne God certainly leaves it up to us, and it is called responsibility – the ability to respond. If we do ‘leave it up to God’ we shirk our responsibility for our choices and actions and then expect God to save us or forgive us – that makes no sense to me.
I love looking at the word ‘responsibility’ in that way Susan: our ‘ability to respond’… Religion is our ability to respond to the love that we are and therefore, love is our greatest responsibility.
Yes Liane, so that means I am responsible for whatever I do think or say and if it is not loving then I am responsible for bringing disharmony to the world. And, on the other hand, if I connect to love within and my intention and the resulting actions have the quality of love by being gentle, self-caring, unimposing, inclusive etc, then I am contributing to restoring harmony on earth. This is the true religion that Jesus exemplified but which became distorted by the petty wants of ambitious people.
Hello Liane Mandalis and it’s great to look at the word ‘responsibility’ so often a word that was hung over our head when we were younger but now I have found doesn’t fit with the way it was used then. Responsibility is such a great word and something to embrace, so often I feared and avoided it, strived to be it, made it look like I had it when all along it was so much more than that but so much simpler also. Responsibility comes down to me, a simple connection, a deep connection, a religion to myself, to God. I remember this connection, the feeling of it through the Gentle Breath Meditation and anytime I feel that connection is not there or not still I dedicate to return to that connection, my responsibility is to be connected, no more, no less. Everything comes from that connection, from that love, from God, they are all the same, equal.
… and our only responsibility.
And all the while God holds us in his loving embrace with each and every breath and beyond.
Beautiful Josephine. With all our choices in life whether loving or otherwise, God holds us in his loving embrace. Love is a beholding light, so whenever we turn our faces back to the light it is shining as brightly as it ever was. It is always our choice and responsibility to live within the body of God as his Son.
I so agree Susan and Suzanne, leaving it up to God definitely feels irresponsible as it means we never have to be accountable for what happens in life, only seen as the victim of our situation or circumstance. It seems like the path we are so often taught to take. What is refreshing about The Way of the Livingness is it brings it back to self-responsibility, never about judgement but always about seeing that the choices we make in life ultimately lie with us.
Part of this irresponsibility lies in the fact we can see god separate to ourselves. For when we include ourselves in all the love we feel how can we not feel a greater sense of what needs to be done.