I went on a walk with my friend early this morning, in an area unknown to me. She led the way to a lake and surrounding fenced park and walked towards a padlocked, rather narrow and very ordinary tall gate, which looked more like a rusty old doorway into someone’s backyard than the entry to a public park.
I had spotted the padlock straight away, looked at it and thought, “How are we going to get in?” My friend gently pushed the gate open and I realised that the padlock had only been attached to the gate and nothing else and said, “That’s a mock lock.” We laughed and continued on our walk.
But what has that got to do with God?
Well, other than being a funny rhyme – mock lock – it reminded me of the obstacles we humans put in the way between us and the innate knowing of the magnificence of God. We pretend we don’t know and can’t feel it; we deny God’s Beingness, His all-encompassing presence; we believe that we need an intermediary in the form of a member of the clergy, of whatever ilk – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.
We imbue God with our human spirit’s traits. We depict Him as vengeful, demanding of sacrifices, insisting on obedience; as angry, as meting out forgiveness; as supporting this as opposed to that, as taking sides – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.
We theorise that God takes sides and pays allegiance to some over others. We claim Him for the Catholic church, for the Islamic faith, for the Protestants, Anglicans and whatever divisions we can come up with – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.
We call on God in many ways, whether we say we believe in Him or not. We utter things like, “Oh God” or “Oh my God”; we kneel on hard floors or benches that hurt our knees; we prostrate ourselves on cold stone floors; we stretch out our arms in supplication across the distance towards heaven – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.
We have many images of God. We depict Him as a type of wizard with a long beard, grey hair and sitting on a throne; we paint his outstretched hand coming through the clouds and creating man; we think He lives behind the gates of heaven, guarded by saints and angels; we think He is a man and some think He must be a woman because that is only fair and bugger the patriarchy – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.
We try to capture God and put words in His mouth. We craft scriptures hundreds of years after true messengers and masters have walked the earth and turn them into institutionalised religions. We wield dogma and come up with tenets and rules that throw the cloak of secrecy over paedophilia and condone and justify holding sway over a flock of followers – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.
We exert force in the name of God. We go to war and kill fellow human beings because their version of God differs from ours and must therefore be eradicated. We torture and seek revenge because our interpretation and image of God must be defended and strengthened but is in truth so shaky that we succumb to the vilest behaviour imaginable – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.
We make sure God is kept busy as we think befits human life. We pray for personal favours and try to haggle and bargain with Him. We swear off a behaviour if only God came to the table and delivered. We pray for others because we think we know what is right for them – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.
We make God responsible for the wrongs of this world. We think He should have put an end to war, cruelty, torture, domestic violence, rape and everything else that is wrong in this world whilst we shirk responsibility and keep frantically busy creating more of the mess that we demand or implore Him to fix up on our behalf – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.
And while all this is going on, God is there in His magnificence and we, merrily or not, live in His atmic body and with the free will to deny, lie, demean, wilfully create, beseech, ignore and pretend whatever takes our fancy next until – we understand free will, get honest, drop the pride, stop pretending and take responsibility.
And then?
We realise there is no gate, that there has never been a gate and thus, it and the padlock have been imaginary and our own creation all along.
And then?
We get to know and reacquaint ourselves with the reality of our grandness and that we have always been part of the magnificence that is God.
By Gabriele Conrad, Goonellabah, NSW
Further Reading:
God’s Waiting Room
God doesn’t take sides
Life is religion. What does that mean?
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
I recently experienced a group of women drop into one of the qualities that shows the magnificence of God – stillness. Moments before, it had appeared that God was not in the building, yet after closing our eyes gently and becoming aware of our breath and body, ‘bingo’! – the quality was there. This showed me once again that the God denying/ignoring existence we see as normal is a super fine veil over the magnificence that is always waiting there for us.
Divinity is forever available, on tap so to speak. It is up to us whether we make the choice to connect to it or not.
“We realise there is no gate, that there has never been a gate and thus, it and the padlock have been imaginary and our own creation all along” – fantastic expose on entire life and its creation that we fall for from our imagined state of inebriated unawareness…. thank you for this sobering awareness Gabriele; for the awareness of God’s loving magnificence that is surrounding and enveloping us all, no matter what.
There is so much we miss out when we deny the magic of God and what he is constantly offering us.
In our resistance to walking, living and breathing in connection to God and our divine Godliness, we instead allow ourselves and each other to exist in the harmful descent of all that is not of love, where abuse, disregard and lies are the standards we then accept as normal. Yet far from normal these are, as our relationship with God can never be truly severed as we are of His light and each of our Souls here on earth are inescapably part of His beholding love, here to shine the light of who we are, and all that we are divinely and magnificently representing.
I just love your comments; I can feel you take your time, allow space for things to unfold and the words to come to you. Your voice counts, in more ways than one.
This is penned with such authority Carola that the reader can’t turn away. What you share here, therefore, has to be considered deeply whether we agree with it or not, allowing for an opportunity to absorb the pertinence you share if we are open to it. Thank you.
We don’t just have images of God, but images of everything… and this gets in the way of us seeing the truth in every aspect of life. It’s like we live life through our pre-conceived filters and can only see what we want to see and not what might actually be there.
We prefer the familiar and comfortable and forfeit evolution, or try to as best as we can. It doesn’t work but that doesn’t deter us, until it does and we change our way.
Creating whatever works to keep a boundary between God and us to avoid realizing our own godliness in order to hold on the the little kingdom we call our own: individuality.
Little kingdom indeed, little fiefdom more likely. A fiefdom of its own making, like the Vatican maybe? All smoke and mirrors and only propped up by the thinnest of illusionary veils.
I love how from such a practical everyday scenario your Mock Lock has brought so much understanding and exposed how we are choosing to deny all that we are.
We will never come to know the magic of God until “we understand free will, get honest, drop the pride, stop pretending and take responsibility.” This is so well said Gabriele. I am struck today by the need to drop the pride part. It is very humbling to admit that we have gotten it all wrong here on earth, that we are out of control and that the only way forward is to drop our pride and arrogance and admit that there is another way to live that is about love and not separation.
And what is pride really when we can have love, truth and multidimensionality.
It is nothing, means nothing and is in fact powerless in contrast to the everything that love is, and the studendousness of the magnificence of multi-dimensionality that is known and felt through our connection to God – words really cannot describe.
How much do we miss out when we deny the truth about God, who He is, what He does and how much love He showers over us? And it is always our choice to reconnect to truth.
The sad thing is this mock lock truly imprisons us, despite the fact it does not exist. It’s a willful trick of our spirit to make what’s universally available seem scarce. Returning to the true understanding of God is the only way this lock can be undone. Thank you Gabriele.
So many ways we make God out to be to fit in with what suits us, yet God remains all loving and non judgemental of the creations we make, holding us in the magnificence that we are.
Isn’t it funny how so many world religions try to fit God into a human like character. Now this makes sense to me why so many people then have an issue with the word God.
Yes, the bastardisation of the word and understanding of God is a tragedy which plays out at our expense and we have a wholes bolus chaos and array of devastation to show for it.
Dropping the facade, and all the accompaniments that seemly enthrall us becomes simple when we understand that we are all connected to a divine essence that will give us the key to undo all ill energy.
The illusion we have chosen is a bit nuts when it keeps us small, contracted, in rejection and reaction in comparison to what the alternative is!
Then is it possible when divinely connected that letting go of lies is a learning curve, that we are all going to go through one day. As we start to understand from our divinity the illusion and all its illusionary ways, which are ill-energy that is driven by the lies, then that energy wants to keep us in the illusion and playing small, to keep us from our divine connection.
Yes – it really helps to see it in the context of the bigger picture and the fact that we are returning not going anywhere new and to be able to read the forces at play that we have aligned to.
So true Michelle, forces that hide in the shadows to keep us from seeing “the bigger picture” and when this is seen for the lies, we can start to unlock what has been our illusionary ways.
Gods Love is always shining within and without. The gentle opening of the unlocked gate is the surrender to the Love that we truly are.
We hold on to many reasons and excuses as to why we can take move forward and embrace life, often subconsciously, choosing not to see and be aware of these things on some level. When we start to build a relationship with our body and feel the pace that it is naturally designed to live at, we start to feel more space in our lives, and the pattern and things we’re holding on to become much more obvious. Perhaps that’s why we keep ourselves busy – to avoid stopping and feeling how we are living, and what we are holding onto, and taking responsibility for that and all of our choices.
Brilliant – how much in life do we keep ourselves from embracing in full because of false ideas about why we can’t
Coming back to simplicity and knowing all our complications are self-created, supports re-connection and developing awareness to live life with greater clarity.
Interesting how God is seen as many things, but we rarely see God as playful and every moment gives us the opportunity to see how we can take ourselves lightly in any moment and how playful this can be.
Whatever our choices are God never judges us. And that is how I am inspired to hold myself.
Open the floodgate and let go of all that has been perceived as a way to be that we thought was serving us. When the truth is that things that we have viewed as being good need to be flushed away by the true Love, that is our essence, which resides within us all.
The magnificence of God is all around and with us in every moment,. It is in every breath we take and every move we make. I absolutely love reading this blog Gabriele.
So true Kathleen, we just need to remember it! There is no where we need to go for we are held within Gods womb.
So true Kathleen – we have become so good at creating obstacles from the ease of accessing god in every movement.
This is a magnificent blog that clearly puts into perspective the folly of the wayward, out of control human being in the face of a truly magnificent God.
Knowing and accepting that we are “part of the magnificence that is God” and always have been brings a completely different focus and purpose to life. No longer is it a struggle, striving to achieve security. Instead it is to connect with our inner essence, our Soul, which is already complete and full requiring nothing for itself, and to express that in all its beauty and magnificence.
No barriers to God. I feel like I have had some selfmade ones, so I have committed to living religiously, meanjng returning to connection with God in how I live, truth, honesty, love and how I treat my body. This is my path of return and knocks out the self made pictures of God as I go…
It is crazy when you put it like this, that keep ourselves away from God in such a way that seems really feasable and convincing ! It is incredible how we are so willing to see things as we want them to be.
We see what we want to see and only what we want to see; and we don’t see what doesn’t fit the picture we have cobbled together and doesn’t suit our ideals and beliefs of how things should be.
And the bizarre irony is that we choose to see that which is far less than what is really there and thereby diminish the magnificence of ourselves and everything else.
It is always well worth remembering that it is we who start war and hence it is never God’s responsibility to end it. And what good would that do? For how are we going to learn to not start war in the first place, if the fallout and karma of it is not experienced and felt.
Everything is there on offer, all we need to do is say ‘Yes’ – so simple.
A beautiful way to describe how we make life super complicated while all along it is very simple and has always been simple.
The spirit loves complication because of the recognition it garners.
“We realise there is no gate, that there has never been a gate and thus, it and the padlock have been imaginary and our own creation all along.” An amazing place to come to for ourselves that changes life forever allowing us to be the magnificance of God we all are.
Gosh we put so many obstacles in the way of our connection with God. And then we yearn for it and fill the space with other things that then make us ill! If we drop the ill behaviour, we can drop the seeking as our connection is there within all along. We just have to allow it.
We know God’s magnificence so it makes no sense to lock ourselves away from it, no sense at all.
We have a relationship with God even if we are a believer or non believer. We always have the choice and the free will.
Great reminder and metaphor – we can unpick the lock any time we so choose.
When we lock ourselves away from knowing God we lock ourselves away from knowing our True selves.
What if every gate, doorway is a threshold to a new paradigm, which is known to us, and all we have to do is align to God to unlock the deeper wisdom that is available every-time we step through that opening?
God is as near to us as our breath.
Beautiful Gabriele – in a world of total possibility the only ‘downside’ is we are free to choose to create impossibles at whatever rate we like. The fact is though they simply are not true, no matter how serious or substantial they might seem.
The reality that there is no gate and that there is no lock either to God and that he lives inside us all is deeply beautiful to know and live again and offers humanity a chance to truly live who we are as sons of God in our grandness and magnificence
Sometimes it feels like what we see around us or feel around us is so far away from what we know to be the truth, that it makes you doubt that there is any true good in the world. But when we allow ourselves to see the full picture, we get to realise that God’s presence is in fact in everything, and so to see those things we do not really want to see, also ironically delivers the love that is around it all too. And thankfully this is the case, so that it helps us deal with the not to lovely things that happen around us.
We are masters of re-interpretation, but in the end when we let everything fall away, what is left is the stark naked truth – and it is here that we are ‘confronted’ with the love that surrounds us and always has.
Yes, we blame God for so many things. Fortunately his love for us is such that he is quietly waiting for our return.
‘We theorise that God takes sides and pays allegiance to some over others.’ – How can it be that we claim to have some ownership in God when he is equally in us all?
Just as unlikely as God having one son only when we are all His sons.
Great question Eva, I feel this is also the reason why we have experienced so much war and conflict in human history.
‘We imbue God with our human spirit’s traits.’ Yes we do Gabriele , and yet all along we have the truth of God within our being, we just choose not to live it.
The creations of human beings around God and religion seem to bring in so much complication compared to the simplicity of being connected to God and living the love we are all from everyday.
Just as there are times when we will wear the brakes of our cars more quickly due to the way we drive, so to are there times that our choices and way of living equates to us putting on the brakes. This I experienced recently to my cost.
When we don’t say yes to what is next, it doesn’t just affect us, it has an impact on everything and everyone around, near and far.
Absolutely Stunning Gabriele. It seems so simple from reading this how we place so many false and made up barriers between us and God, when it is an illusion to do so in the first place, because his grandness is always there and never behind a gate and padlock.
The illusion is all made by man and there is no need for that, as the grandness between God is always there.
May I ask what you mean by the “grandness between God?”
We do so many things with the word God that it must be a very important key to our rising above our created issues and woes. Because often the thing we truly want most and know when truly applied and understood in our lives will bring us all we need to know, we make the most complicated.
This is such a great article Gabriele, showing all the ways we are denying God while thinking we are serving him. What a grand illusion we have created that we have been locked into, all the while we live in His body of love giving us complete freedom to choose.
‘all the ways we are denying God while thinking we are serving him.’ – How crazy is it that we think we are serving God while we do our best to deny that that each and every one of us are equally part of him.
It is crazy how we are living, when all that is taking place is within his body. We constantly have free will but choose to live in an illusion.
Connecting to the quality of stillness within the inner heart is to know that in essence we are always connected to the grandness of the all and God.
People tend to get upset, despondent, hurt and angry when they are slighted, blocked out, lied about and defamed. Relationships fall apart, animosity, atrocity and often wars result. Yet throughout the years God has continued to hold us in absolute love, care, honouring and supporting us more than we will ever know.
To know God in truth, we have to know that which is not from God… a forever learning and commitment to love in every moment.
Beautiful Caroline, that is so true. When we connect to the truth of God we know that which is not from him. It becomes very clear and simple.
Knowing that God would never and has never put up a gate, with or without a lock, is an amazing, humbling, inspiring and calling forward realisation to accept. The barriers are of our own making and therefore in our hands as to whether we want to let them go or not.
God is within us. Reconnect with the divinity within us and feel the steadiness again and from there face and live life.
So true just by connecting to the divinity within us, we can feel the steadiness and that is the confirmation that God is within us. “God is stillness before motion”, words of wisdom shared by Serge Benyahon.
I love the analogy of the seemingly locked gate and asking ‘how do I get in?”, as this is a question we may all ask ourselves… How do I get access to my Soul?, to Love? to God? What may seem or appear inaccessible, is actually a very simple step of being connected with our body.
The reality of the magnificence of God and that which is within us all, makes all the difference to life and living the glory we are. When we do this, we also realise the responsibility we have to live this, as the reflection we offer others to be all they are also, directly with no locks and barriers in the way.
No gate, but a breath away…in fact always with us, even when we choose to breathe in denial, deal or blame….God is within us.
I agree, god is never far from us, it is us who puts distances and barriers between God. Gods arms are always open and we are within his atmic body.
Yes, we think it can not be that simple, within us and of us at all times and yet we search outside.
Why do we put God’s magnificence on hold? We have changed our ideas of God so much over centuries from the truth we know inside, he was never a vengeful God or took sides in wars. We have a spark of Him in us, so we can throw away any mock locks, gates or walls because we don’t need any barriers between Him and us, we are one and the same.
‘We go to war and kill fellow human beings because their version of God differs from ours and must therefore be eradicated.’ I read this sentence and you know this has to be the ultimate bastardisation of what God is…Love…..How therefore can we have ever fought in his name?
Not only have we fought ‘in God’s name’ (an utter impossibility in anybody’s book), we are still doing it and continue to do it as though we didn’t know any better. But old and evil patterns die hard, especially when we are so very attached to what we think is right and right only, everyone and everything else being wrong of course.
In the same way that we keep God out, so do we keep our selves separate from our own innermost essence and that of our fellow human beings, who are in essence equal to us.
When we deny God we are denying ourselves too. Our inner most essence is the spark of God.
I love the little things we clock that give us great insight through symbolism – the mock lock on the gate offering us awareness on the human condition and the “obstacles we humans put in the way between us and the innate knowing of the magnificence of God.”
And out of the complication are born recognition, a pat on the back, high fives, thumbs up and most importantly, the confirmation of individuation, the lone warrior, the special one.
We place ‘mock locks’ between us and God and therefore between us and many other aspects of life being lived in our fullness.
When we realise the mock locks we have been living by, it is like moving to another dimension.
We move into a dimension, the 5th dimension and multidimensionality, that is ours rather than the one we have descended into and made our comfort, solace and prison.
We live life in a prison of our own making by virtue of accepting a vastly reduced form of intelligence that will not let us see that the key lays in our own hand and our hand only.
‘We make sure God is kept busy as we think befits human life. We pray for personal favours and try to haggle and bargain with Him.’ – The arrogance in human behaviour is appalling and yet most of us are part of it and don’t even give it a thought.
I love the example of the Mock Lock and the self-created illusion that we can so easily weave ourself into. I am so very grateful for the immense support we are constantly receiving from God, our Soul and the Universe to wake up from such a stupor. The responses of my body, reflections in life, the magic in nature, Universal Medicine, Soul-led beings such as Serge Benhayon, this website and this article are a few of such examples.
We make life about being human but we know there is a bigger picture of God’s presence and we simply cannot fit it into the human level, it is far too grand.
“We realise there is no gate, that there has never been a gate and thus, it and the padlock have been imaginary and our own creation all along…” We place so many conditions on God and yet it is us who have placed the lock on the gate of Love.
I noticed one of my mock locks the other day. I have always kept it to myself that I am a complementary health practitioner. I see people who are osteos, acupuncturists etc happily promote their work to others. Yet I had an idea I didn’t want to impose. This mock lock that lets me keep these divine modalities and all the body wisdom I have reclaimed to myself was exposed recently, as the knowing I could support a colleague was too strong. I am glad this lock is off now!
I love the song written by Michael Benhayon which says ‘I see God with no surprise, cause heavens in you eyes’ and I love this line, because we have the ability to live in life so connected to who we are that others get a sense of God through knowing us and are brought closer to their own connection. We can help break down peoples self-constructed walls between them and God just by being ourselves.
Gosh we make our relationships with God very complicated, when as you say it can be so simple.
In the seeming complication of life we get identified because we sense our hand in the making of the situation eg. creating complexity when there is only ever the simple truth of the way things are.
Very good post.
On reading this sentence re-iterated throughout this inspiring blog, it is clear that there is a consciousness that drives us to remain unaware of the Magnificence that is ours to re-claim. A consciousness is no longer be able to sustain the mocking of the truth as it has done for aeons. We are awakening and the mock locks are opening, however slowly.
“we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence”.
When we strip away the obstacles we put in our way to stop oursevles from feeling the maginificence that we really are, it becomes very clear to see how simple life can be.
God works in miraculous ways yet I simply love the simplicity in which he communicates. Love this blog and what you have shared.
We could replace God with a parent or a teacher or a friend that we like to blame whenever we create issues and problems for ourselves. Taking responsibility allows us to feel the equality in being a son of God with one another.
We have PhD’s from the school of hard knocks in creating illusions. All to keep us from the something we all have equal amounts of and something we can never lose, love!
By letting myself drop my old ideals and beliefs, getting to know and reacquaint myself with God has been the most beautiful and exquisite of experiences.
By ignoring the magnificence around us, by ignoring our own magnificence and our own divine connection to God, we limit our life to being a linear existence instead of opening up to the multidimensionality that a life truly lived can be.
‘We theorise that God takes sides and pays allegiance to some over others.’ – This is one of the common things that the traditional religions are teaching us. So we play the game and ignore/deny the fact that we are all equal.
I’ve just spent a weekend with Chris James doing his ‘power of the true voice’ workshop. If we are connected to our bodies when we make a sound we can feel the vibration all the way through the body. It is a way to ‘tune up the body’ and unite all of our cells. We become alive and vibrant and sensitive to what is going on around us. Our voice is a way of connecting to the divine, and the divine can be felt and heard when we speak. How amazing.
What you are describing is sound that involves the whole body, a movement that comes from whole-body-mindedness and everything that this unity delivers by way of quality and healing.
I think we can get very lost in beliefs and ideals about what God is and isn’t but if we come back to our body and what we sense from inside of us – a sense of what God or true love feels like, we have a compass to help us discern what really is true.
The padlocked door, which is in fact a mock lock is a powerful symbol of how we relate to God. we are actively padlocking our way through a relationship with God. There is a pointlessness to this because we are part of the magnificence, so can never padlock it away.
What you’ve shared about our relationship to God as a whole and how we have fought each other for thousands years as a result of contrasting ideas about who or what God is, is pretty absurd. What do we think God represents when we fight – hate and violence? Or are we abusing what he is there to truly represent.
Such an important question to ask ourselves – ‘What do we think God represents when we fight?’ – In fact, does God even come into the equation?
Even though we have the key, we lock ourselves away from the greatest treasure we have, the one that shows us our true origin, because we don’t like seeing how far we have strayed from the Love of God..
I agree – we work hard at ignoring or denying the consequence of the choices we have made or are still making.
I love this blog, it is so true. We are masters at keeping ourselves away from the love that is naturally there for us in every moment.
Gabriele, this blog is a beautiful reminder to be more aware when the mind is in full flow with mock-locks purporting to be true. I am really enjoying being play-full with these thoughts and singing a little ditty about ‘another mock is exposed’. It immediately cuts the energy and has me chuckling about the absurdity of these unnecessary and diminishing thoughts.
Humour helps and a laugh about the absurdity of our reactions, self-created and self-imposed as they are. The more we are able to look through the limitations, the more space and life in general open up and the mechanistics behind the scenes become obvious and transparent. Who profits from purporting that we are separate to God? What force gets cemented and confirmed by such lies?
Oh I am hilarious at times and crack myself up when I see the choices I’ve made that just make no sense.
I know God is with All of us, one with the universe. We can call him different names, but the being that is God can only be there for all. We can live religiously and be with God in life and it can be real, simple and evolving.
” We theorise that God takes sides and pays allegiance to some over others. ”
This is said with such eloquence that anyone reading will know, that this cannot be God.
Agreed, as far removed from and alien to God as is H U M A N L Y but never divinely possible.
The thing about God is that we have placed a lot of rules around how are able to connect with him. Even in the community of people who follow the Way of the Livingness we create rules and ideals which then only serve to keep us away from God. As humans in creation this is what we seem to do very well. Surrendering to living with God full time means giving up creation, and often we find this very hard. Our human will is very strong, and our job is to pick this apart so we are open to co-creation.
True, our human will strives for and revels in creation and what the spirit can do, imitate and duplicate ad infinitum. And we get thoroughly addicted to creation; so addicted that we don’t even know that we are addicted and that creation is foreign to us and where we come from.
This doesn’t just relate to God but to so many things – we lock ourselves out of the potential of love, the potential to be all of who we are, the potential to have an amazing life with issues and excuses and the feeling we don’t deserve those things.
We get lost in making life about right and wrong and not about truth.
And right and wrong are traps of the most sinister ilk, they pit one human being against another and don’t ever lead to an answer, only short-term compromises and solutions.
What I have come to realise is that you can only ignore God’s magnificence for so long, as it is so gigantic and powerful that eventually we stop ignoring what we are seeing and feeling and open up to what is on offer.
We are in fact the mock lock for once we do away with over falsity and our protection all we would see is the Magnificence of God.
If we were to glimpse the magnificence of God, even for the briefest of moments we would quite simply combust!
I can imagine Alexis, and His love is so grand we seem to try everything we can to avoid it.
Although it could be said that we have access to live this every day. That magnificence is not far away at all.
God’s magnificence is within our bodies, that’s how close He is.
This denying of God’s Being and presence all around us is something I’ve done for years whenever it’s suites me. What’s lovely is choosing to feel His presence and how possible it is at any time.
So true we do know God but we allow all sorts of ideals and beliefs to get in the way of our connection to God.
You would think that by now, looking back at how badly we have got it wrong throughout all of history, that we would tear down all the structures, gates,locks, ideals and beliefs we have surrounding God, and start to feel the truth, stop blaming God for everything and get on with it.
‘We go to war and kill fellow human beings because their version of God differs from ours and must therefore be eradicated.’ – A sad reality, we write 2018 and yet seem to not have learnt anything from our history.
Ha! I have been more aware of all sorts of ‘mock locks’ that my mind holds, since reading your blog Gabriele. Appreciating the exposure of these, that this blog has supported.
Oh how we have twisted, manipulated and reduced the meanings of words – God , religion …. taking the most magnificent gifts we have and reducing them to something to fear and obey. And all because we cannot bear the fact that we have turned away from the magnificence of our Soul.
‘There is no gate’ between us and God… this is one of the most awesome bits of myth busting ever… thank you Gabriele.
This also reminds me of the conditions that we set for God before we allow in all that he is, and is of, and live this as we are of this also.
Which brings me to the conditions we put onto others. Be the love / God that I want before I show you my love/ that I am a God too. We set ourselves on a constant stand by, waiting getting the proof of being loved. Although we are it already, we just have to acknowledge and accept it for ourselves first, than no one has to live it first or prove it to us.
“And while all this is going on, God is there in His magnificence and we, merrily or not, live in His atmic body” What I love about this sentence is the merrily or not, as it is showing us that the choice of what we do with what is on offer, is completely and utterly up to us and us alone.
I wasn’t aware of how much, if not all, we actually blame God for. And I love how you unravel this prison we feel to be in, the very creation we have created ourselves.
Accepting my actual intimate relationship with God ( which everyone can have) comes hand in hand with letting go of any control in life. I am here to express all that I am to everybody, which only comes from and is God. The moment I try to come up with anything and want to own it, get rewarded for it, want to be seen or recognised, I put a big lock to the energy that unites and truly evolves us all. Making it about me is not heavenly and wide, but feels very tight and lonely.
Who needs control when the vastness of Space and the magnificence of God are on offer and immediately available?
You are so right Gabriele, we have certainly got things very mixed up about our interpretations of God. Your writing exposes it all, and returns us to the knowing of His magnificence that is waiting for us all to claim it.
‘We get to know and reacquaint ourselves with the reality of our grandness and that we have always been part of the magnificence that is God.’ This is the beauty that Universal Medicine offers… a great support to reconnect to the truth, the magnificence of who we are are, and getting rid of that mock lock.
I’ve just spent a weekend with Chris James in his ‘the power of the true voice’ workshop. I spent the weekend dropping a great deal of tension that I had built up in my body, and as a result I began to feel the flow through my body again and re-connect with the divine quality. I had been using all the tension to hold me away from God. Surrendering to the body rather than staying in our heads is where it’s at. We cannot feel God in our heads, but the body can resonate deeply with and express the divine.
Incredible blog, while I tried to read it the first time, all sorts of distractions came up – from crazy music, to phone calls, to time constraints. At a glance I could look and say “all of these things are happening to me, please God make them stop” or I could hold steady and understand that whatever is happening on the outside, my relationship with God is on the inside and as long as I remain steady nothing can knock that down, and then I will see the true works of God.
I love your writing Gabriele… the directness, light-heartedness and simplicity with which you deliver, really profound revelations and opportunities to sit up, review and learn. The madness of all the mock locks we pretend keep us separate from God, whilst all along he is endlessly, patiently, lovingly with us, ready whenever we are to respond and surrender to his embrace.
“And while all this is going on, God is there in His magnificence and we, merrily or not, live in His atmic body”. As I read these words today I could feel the tears begin to rise with the beautiful realisation that I am being held, and always have been, held in God’s loving embrace; an embrace that is so pure and so exquisite that even the thought of locking the gate to his magnificence is now, for me, no longer an option.
Oh my, how busy we have been erecting gates and padlocking them. It is a striking reflection to keep reading it again and again through the blog. The fact is that the magnificence of God and our deep down awareness of it is so strong that we have to really make an effort to ignore it.
I love the geometry and purposefulness of the snow flake; it makes so much sense that we are that, symbolically. No individuation as such but part of a greater whole, the All that surrounds, holds and beholds us.
“We pretend we don’t know and can’t feel it; we deny God’s Beingness, His all-encompassing presence.” I have done this for most of my life, up until coming to Universal Medicine. Being open to God as a buddy or mate is a wonderful way to begin to let God back into my life. Life is so much fuller in every sense of that word.
One of the things I really appreciate about this blog is the consistency of the message in the sentence ‘we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.’ Whilst reading this blog for the first time I was aware of an old propensity in myself to deny God – to shut down when I hear the word – so preached at have I felt in the past – but this consistency in structure supported the message to sink in without protection!
… which goes to show how protected and defensive we walk around and move, battered by what has been hurled in the many lies, bastardisations and outright crimes committed in the name of God and religion, institutionalised religion that is. And it proves how love and truth and truth in word go right through, past the fortress and touch us deeply.
Beautifully expressed Gabriele. I am always awe-inspired by how quickly the truth can cut through lies and deceit, how quickly it can heal hurts and how it can leave a fresh wake behind it; ours to connect with, if we so choose.
The game is over because living, expressing to the minutest detail and moving in a way that denotes we are part of the All means that individuation has run its course and raises the white flag of surrender, then merges with the yet greater All that is beholding the All and then … and so on and so on … and literally, ad infinitum.
beautifully expressed Gabriele, and the illusion is thinking we are still in the game when the end result is already a given…and known and so all we are doing now is refusing to come of the field to drag the end of the game for as long as possible.
God is in our lives all of the time, but how much of this time do we acknowledge his presence and support?
This is what is so amazing… God is absolutely always there beholding us endlessly, all we have to do is bring our awareness to this fact and allow the magic of it to ripple through our lives.
Such a great question Henrietta. One that needs to be there in our thoughts daily to remind us of the beauty and grace of our essence and the absolute reality that we are always held in Gods love.
Imagine if we were taught that our grace is far more significant than what we can do, we would never have need for any mock lock.
So true Leigh. I have been finding over the years while I have been supported by Universal Medicine to deepen my awareness and connection to my true essence, many mock locks, which I have held as irrefutable ideals and beliefs, have been simply slowly melting away.
Awesome work Golnaz. Awareness and connection and appreciation are key.
I find it one of my life’s greatest gifts, that once a way of being is shown to be less than that which we know ourselves to be, how the perceived lock turns immediately into a mock lock and is then so easily completely erased, if the willingness is there to live in full with our grace.
An awesome Blog. We, each of us have created our own mock lock, holding God out. What we have neglected to own though, that in holding God out we are not able to be in the magnificence of our essence, for it is of and from God. Though this has never meant that we don’t have this essence, for we always do. We simply have the responsibility to remove any and all created illusions that keep us from living with the grace and dignity that is our birth right.
The madness, delay and futility of bringing things into our lives that hold us at arm’s length from God, which is impossible by the way and hence the beauty of what Gabriele has introduced with the ‘mock locks’.
I love re-reading this blog Gabriele. A powerful exposure of the rules, conditions and expectations we put onto God, rather than live from the truth of God’s Magnificence, that we cannot be anything other than part of this, however hard we try to ignore this truth.
It is no coincidence that there are so many gates and ‘mock locks’ with regard to our perception and knowing of God. Yes, we have created them, but as a result of not aligning to what is true, what is not true has created a subterfuge of situations in order to make it harder for the truth to be known and is hidden among lies and reinterpretations. However, it has always been there living inside us and reflected back to us in this world, in nature and symbolism and there have always been those who have aligned to it if we choose to be open and see.
We love God, but we hate him and blame him for our ways. We need God, but turn away at the same time. We are hot and cold. But God is forever constant and present and ready for our return to his side. He is always sending reminders of who we are, but we are the ones who are not listening.
If we blame God or men we are giving our responsibility and power away and say “fix me” and yet if we are not prepared to give ourselves the love that we deserve, no God or man can give that to us.
Brilliant, just the words ‘mock lock’ did it for me. Just as your eyes deceived you with the lock so do we allow ourselves to be deceived when it comes to God. All these imagined obstacles are simply not there, a self created mirage or ‘tromp de l’oeil ‘ at best.
Putting it all together in this very clear and frontal way Gabrielle is exposing our abuse and misuse of God and the conception we have fabricated of Him. We have a long list of conditions towards him and use him for every excuse to not be truly loving and in brotherhood. And all the while He still holds us in magnificent love.
I agree Carolien. We do have a long list of conditions, just as we have the same for ourselves on all aspects of life. In letting go of our own conditioning and expectations we do start to feel what has always been there in ever presence.
It is brilliant to be honest and talk about all the conditions we place on God… at least then we are de-constructing the lie that he is ever any distance from us.
It is truly astonishing how we can go through life pretending we don’t know and can’t feel Truth when we all know it and feel it, as how else could we feel hurt if we didn’t feel Truth and how on earth can we deny the magnificence of God when we are surrounded by unexplainable miracles and unaccountable wonders. Light is all around and through us and yet, we more than often choose to see the dark, the misery, the struggle.
We can find a million excuses not to connect to God and our divinity. But this is waiting for us for the moment we choose to surrender to the fact that this is our natural way.
The awareness of this has brought so much surrender in my body, so intimate so close, so deeply beautiful and true.
‘We call on God in many ways, whether we say we believe in Him or not. We utter things like, “Oh God” or “Oh my God”; we kneel on hard floors or benches that hurt our knees; we prostrate ourselves on cold stone floors; we stretch out our arms in supplication across the distance towards heaven – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.’ – How shockingly and shakingly true, the things we do all the while we ignore His magificence are uncountable.
It is the locks I put on my heart that keeps me living ‘mocked’ in a world that is loveless, difficult or hopeless. Unlocking one´s heart is the key to set oneself free from the illusion (mocking) that there is nothing more to life than the 5 senses allow us to perceive.
Very true Alexander – as long as we choose to keep our hearts imprisoned we are unable to see the grandness and beauty we are all part of.
Very true Alex. I see that in myself and others as well. We go about with mock locks on our hearts, so we can fit into this reality called life that we have created. Yet the reality doesn’t fit with our divine nature and so we always feel like square pegs trying to fit into round holes.
Yes, so true – we put enormous effort into trying to push square pegs to fit into round holes, rather than step back and feel the all-encompassing circle of energy that we are forever held in,without doing anything.
I like this idea of the mock lock and how it exposes how silly we have been in terms of allowing ourselves to be fooled in thinking that accessing God is difficult or challenging. The most confronting thing with this though, is that even knowing that this lock is just a mock lock, so to speak, I still find myself struggling to fully embrace what is available for me to embrace when it comes to my relationship with God, and so I realise that this is simply something I need to give myself the space to get used to and observe as I allow each step closer. No judgement, just observation and allowing.
We are our own worst enemy when it comes to our relationship with God…God simply is, whilst we get busy and distracted instead of just simply embracing him and the relationship that is there for us right in front of us at all times.
Not only is this relationship with God right in front of us, it is all around us as we live, breathe and are held in His Atma.
Yes, mankind has complicated the relationship with God no end.
When in a moment I let myself surrender into God’s arms all complication disappears in this instant, my purpose in life is clear and I know I am never ever alone.
The gates you describe Gabriele are typical of the many ways mankind avoids taking responsibility for living in a manner that is not only honouring of who / what we truly are, but “…part of the magnificence that is God.”
What this metaphor invites is the awareness that there are such things as Mock Locks in our lives, to stop once in a while and have a go at gently pushing the gate that has a lock – we may be well surprised with the expanded world that is waiting for us.
A beautiful and timely reminder that God never goes anywhere. We all have access to him within us all of the time, so denying access to such divinity only wastes our own time and energy.
The magnifience of God how beautiful Gabrielle such a profound sharing in the lightness of all we are and how when ‘ we understand free will, get honest, drop the pride, stop pretending and take responsibility’
‘We get to know and reacquaint ourselves with the reality of our grandness and that we have always been part of the magnificence that is God.’ amazing to share Thank you .
The ‘mock lock’ recognised as a symbol by which God reveals himself to not be locked, hidden or distant but omnipresent and available.
God is everywhere. It is up to us to feel his presence all the time, or deny its access to us, putting obstacles to the never possible interrupting connection.
What our eyes see is often not the whole picture, or at times even part of the picture. There is much more on offer in our path of living and evolving than meets the eyes.
We live in God’s atmic body and so it is futile to shut these gates and endeavour to lock them, try as we might and reminded as we are, here to not fight our own grandness.
Well said Rosanna, though I must admit that I am and have been a Master of fighting and denying my own grandness! Time to let go of this Mastery now as it gets me nowhere…for it is time to embrace a different mastery of accepting and living the grandness that is innate and our birth ‘right’ – for all of us.
I LOVE this blog – it should be on every school syllabus. Imagine if all children got to read and understand something of this calibre what a different world we could have. What you write makes so very much sense one it leaves a sense of jaw dropping incredulity about the world we have created!
I love it as well and am in awe of the clarity and inspiration it offered me and the continuing enrichment via people’s comments, a never-ending continuum which confirms that we all know that and who GOD IS.
A brilliant combo of ‘jaw dropping incredulity about the world we have created’ and the magnificence of God and his endless patience, love and beholding… an awesome article indeed.
I’m recognising more how unnecessarily complicated we can make life when we live from ideals and beliefs, rather than from how we feel from our whole body and deeper knowing of what is true and what is not.
With sincerity, and openness to learn and find a way, the mock lock is exposed and we are supported to simply walk through the gate.
There are no obstacles holding us back from being divine and being and knowing Gods love, only the mock ones we create ourselves.
There is no padlock, there is no gate; when we move towards God we realise He is and always has been present and a magnificent part of who we are.
Haha, yes we can be so busy with the gate or padlock that we are completely forgetting that there is not even a fence to begin with.
…. there is no need to theorise, but it allows us to ‘play games’, to resist, ignore, dismiss the truth, so we can avoid taking responsibility, which we ‘think’ is a good thing, but it’s actually the complete opposite.
‘it reminded me of the obstacles we humans put in the way between us and the innate knowing of the magnificence of God. We pretend we don’t know and can’t feel it;’ …… but we can – you can’t ‘un-feel’ what you feel, but we can numb ourselves and ignore, dismiss, resist the truth of what we know to be true. This causes a lot of tension in our body as we are trying to swim upstream against the divine universal flow. Our bodies are continuously trying to bring us back to a state of harmony and truth, so, it really is unsurprising that we have such dramatic rises in illness and disease. The choice is there for us all, to let go of everything we ‘thought’ we knew and to re-connect with the wisdom our bodies are offering us and to start honouring the truth of who we are and appreciating the magnificence of all that we are a part of.
An amazing blog Gabriele, thank you for telling it like it is, in all the ways we as human created our own doors and locks that keep us separate from the God we are wanting to know, all an illusion when we are all held in the magnificence of God’s love.
And the magnificence of God is that no matter how many mock locks we create, and how many lifetimes we choose to keep those locks in place, God is consistently and lovingly beholding until we make the choice to re-connect to the magnificence of God innately within us.
We place a lot of responsibility on God to fix things on this planet. We blame and curse him, wondering if he is so powerful why doesn’t do something. We wonder how he can allow the atrocities and injustices to occur? What we conveniently forget is that this is our creation and we are responsible for the mess we have created. Most of all what we have forgotten is that we are just as powerful as God as we are his sons, and having created the mess it is ours to clean up.
There are so many pictures and stories around God… all to distract us from connecting to the truth of God within us all – equally so.
That lock can be so darn annoying – and the most annoying part is that we know that it’s a mock lock but choose to treat it like a lock for which there is no possible key.
This blog reminds me of how easily we interpret and re-interpret the truth and change it into a false reality that we all subscribe to and entrench so deeply; missing the fundamental true under layer that is ours to know and treasure.
By shutting God’s magnificence out, we shut ourselves off from the magic of life and from connecting to God’s love.
There is an arrogance in the fact that we can deny the innermost truth of the beholding love of God and so easily be led astray with ideals and beliefs held about the mock lock and the constant searching for its non existent key outside of ourselves.
Your list of the things we make God responsible for, is everything we don’t accept our part in them. They are all the choices we made and refuse to claim ownership of, only to hide behind our walls for fear of disclosure. It is ironic that what we have locked up behind our wall, dissolves all fears and accepts full responsibility for every action we make.
The whole thing is a setup, a mockery of what human intelligence is supposed to be and deliver and a sinister deviation and busy-body distraction from the simplicity of God, the truth and the All.
God is simply magnificent simplicity, a way of being we do our utmost to sabotage. Accepting this flow of love requires a commitment, willingness and maturity to resume complete responsibility for our selves and our wayward ways, so we too can return to this simple magnificence, our inherent way and innate knowing.
We can lock ourselves up for lifetimes with locks that are not even real! The more we unlock ourselves the more we see how open the gate really is.
And that there isn’t even really a gate, that is also something we create. Everything is open and spherical, we choose to make borders, lines, gates and locks.
I love how this blog asks me to observe all the ways in my day I lock Him out. What if it’s every and any way I make life about what little me wants? I wanted to get that last parking space, I wanted to get off work early, I wanted to be the one who someone noticed did a good job. Each time I go into seeing life from little me I lose the grand picture. When I was job hunting and met the candidates who were offered the job it always made total sense for everyone involved. That last parking space – perhaps that was a lesson I needed to leave earlier or the person who got it, it was perfect for them. And not getting recognition – isn’t that a lesson for me to start valuing what I do through feeling the quality of energy in it, or noticing when it is not of quality.
Very inspired to notice all the times I lock God out with my little me demands of how I think life should be like and not accepting the magnificence of what it is already if I just got all my little conditions out of the way.
Interesting to read this Karin, as I am encouraged to think about the ways I do this too. However, even in referring to the bit of ourselves that is ‘the little me’ in such a way, is a way of keeping Him out because there can be a dismissal or a frustration in the fact that ‘little me’ exists, rather than an acceptance of it and an observation of it from the place that is connected and does know that it is about the all. In the judgment of the ‘little me’ we are not offering ourselves that space to feel the grandness of what we are all a part of.
“We make God responsible for the wrongs of this world.” The way we live in this world is not God’s way therefore the problems we face are not of God’s making but our own. We are the ones who have to take responsibility for them and sort them out. No amount of praying, preaching or propaganda can change this immutable fact.
Our resistance to our own magnificence and, therefore, our willingness to take full responsibility for all that we are starts very young. Our current education system conditions us to believe that school is there to teach us what we need to know to continue on and be ‘successful’ in life. When in truth, we are born with access to infinite wisdom, the support we all need is in how to be our true, glorious, magnificent selves in this life where for so long we have been indoctrinated with false ideals and beliefs, leading us away from the truth of who we are.
All these obstacles we create in front of ourselves to deny the presence of something other than ourselves, is often a reaction to man’s reinterpretations and imposition of what God is. It makes more sense that we each have our own relationship with the divine of which imposed ways of being or rules have no place.
Even reading these words “mock lock” you can feel the ridiculousness and set up of the whole situation.
Our thoughts are a great mock lock, it’s like heaven is above us but we create a cloud of negative, self critical and generally distracting thoughts so we can’t see the splendour above and around us. The stars are always there, we’re just often under a cloud self created of thoughts.
The stars surround us day and night, rain and shine. Under our own self-created cloud, it’s easy to loose sight of all that surrounds us.
How easy is it to hide behind God being responsible for all the atrocities and pain in the world? It abdicates all responsibility we may have for what is happening around the world. It is only when we step back and look at how irresponsible that way of thinking is that we embrace the love we are from, that we are made of and that we are here to reflect in our thoughts, words and actions – in our being.
It is the images of God which I have always found to be so very powerful, above and beyond words, the image of God’s outstretched hand through the clouds has been imbedded in my mind. And this is how I was able to keep him out, to deny his love, because I believed that the image – made by man – was a real and true depiction of him, and therefore of my place in this world.
We can’t use phrases such as “Thank God” all of the time, and then go blaming God for all of the world’s woes, illness, disease and disasters. It’s evident that humanity is confused as to what this relationship to God or the fact that there might be more to life than meets the eye should look like, and actually we do need to open the conversation up as to what religion is all about because there’s no doubt that as a whole we have been led astray by our hurts, expectations and ideals.
I agree with you that humanity is confused as to what this relationship to God is. I was having a conversation with a young man of 23 recently and underneath his indecision about God I could feel his deep seated hurt at the way religion and its abuse of power had got in the way of the simplicity of God. It was not God that he was denying, but the religions that warped the understanding and connection, and in this, had denied the existence of God also.
As far back as I can remember, I knew ‘God’ existed, yet as I grew up, God and religion always seemed inextricably bonded together. I can totally understand how so many of us may put our relationship with God on hold in our inability to accept religion – which would be ironic if it weren’t so very tragic.
“Well, other than being a funny rhyme – mock lock – it reminded me of the obstacles we humans put in the way between us and the innate knowing of the magnificence of God.” true Gabriele, that one major obstacle is ‘ourselves’ and all the forms of identification we seek to not be aware of that deeply missed magnificence.
We are the ones who have created everything to deny the inevitable connection we have with God. In fact, every lock is a mock lock and the way is always open to come back to Him within us.
‘We exert force in the name of God … We theorise that God takes sides and pays allegiance to some over others …. We imbue God with our human spirit’s traits … We make God responsible for the wrongs of this world ….’ – this will-full mis-representation of the magnificence of God enables us to resist feeling, accepting and taking responsibility for our own magnificence and the fact that we are all a part of the magnificence of God and always will be.
Beautifully written Gabriele, how incredibly crazy it is for us to think we can keep God out when he is all around us showering us with love, and yet we pretend not to notice.
A beautiful and eye opening sharing Gabriel. I can see how we (I) all seem to do the same in our everyday life, where we fail to see that God is in everything and holds no judgement but loves all equally.
The magnificence of God is utterly unimaginable. If we even so much as glimpsed his magnificence we would probably spontaneously combust.
True, God’s magnificence is beyond beyond and in truth, impossible to describe. So better not even try.
Yes we are the ones that put on the mock lock and then forget it is mock and run around looking for a key that does not exist in the first place because there never was a lock. Thank God for Serge Benhayon who came along and stepped through the door and greeted me so I met myself and could see the door was never locked.
Just to add to this saga not only is there no lock there isn’t really a door either!!!
The door, the gate and the lock between us and God is of our own making and does not in reality exist, we are one with Him.
When we stop mocking ourselves we start removing the locks.
Beautifully and simply expressed Alexander – there is no self love or appreciation possible whilst we are mocking and locking ourselves deeper into self abuse, rather than opening and returning to the joy of re-connection to our soul and the multi-dimensional beings that we are.
Brilliant, Alexander, when we drop the mocking, we start the un-locking ….
We mock ourselves (and others) with the false locks we put on doors of all kind. Whom are we fooling here? And what for? We lock ourselves in individuality while everything around us (God) constantly shows us that we are part of a greater whole and thus at one with the whole.
‘we deny God’s Beingness, His all-encompassing presence;’ And how many ways do we do this? Every conceivable way .. .until we realise that nothing works, and in the end we cannot deny where we come from and who we truly are – glorious sparks of God.
A stunning blog, most beautiful, unraveling with ease the complication we have made life to be. We are standing in our own way. It is as simple as this.
‘We imbue God with our human spirit’s traits.’ We can really go to town on this! especially the judgement aspect and even it’s understanding counter part- forgiveness. When I heard Serge Benhayon present that God doesn’t forgive because He hasn’t judged in the first place, I realised how small we made God. And now I see how convenient this is, because then we can play even smaller and continue being irresponsible and deny our access to the wisdom of God.
A magnificent blog on something that we all have done and that is to put up obstacles where there are no obstacles, especially with regard to God.
This picture of a Mock Lock and the wonder of witnessing a gentle push open up a whole world we thought we were blocked from, this is such a great cartoon example of all of the many ideals and beliefs we run with.
How often do we give up before even trying the gate, how often do we rally against being barred from entering, have wars, create strategies and pile further ideals and beliefs in our reaction? Whilst if we just stopped and connected to our true essence once again and started from that, we might see the gate is easily wide open.
Golnaz, your comment is sharing exactly what I was feeling as I re-read this blog this morning …. we are very good at creating obstacles, reasons why we can’t do something or why someone may not like something …. we worry too much about what other people may think, rather than trusting in our own magnificence and the absolute wisdom we hold inside and feel throughout our whole body when we choose to connect and listen.
The cartoon could start many frames back. Feeling the glory of your breath, oneness with the universe, the glory of nature, love of people, the brightness and warmth of the Sun.
And then an issue or a belief is pulled over and voila we have a gate and a lock. We are left with the illusion that we are on the outside in the cold and with the desolation of being barred.
Wow seems quite a severe contrast!
The moment we complicate things, all doors shut and we can’t see the forest for the trees.
And it beautifully follows that when we drop the complication, we see the Mock Lock for what it is and the whole Universe opens to us once more.
Game is up when we realise it’s a mock lock.
Imagination and our own creation are strong counters until we, as you lovingly and truthfully say Gabriele ‘get honest, drop the pride, stop pretending and take responsibility.’ – the antithesis of the spirit’s ways and the way back to living by the magnificence of God.
There has been so much infighting about God, who’s side is he on in a war, or which religion is the best religion to follow. This is how man has bastardised the truth we have been given by world teachers and we have lost knowing God’s Love and magnificence in our live, is for us all equally.
We do this in so many ways – blocking off our potential with lack of self worth, lacking confidence, all the excuses under the sun so that we do not have to step forward and claim the magnificence of who we are.
Love it Martin – God provides the broom and we have to clear up our mess with it!
Yes indeed, “our own creation” all of what we live is our creation, as are the stories and ideas we have of God. I am working through expressing the depth I feel God in all and everything. It is like God is so simple and we continually look to complicate the fact that we are all part of the whole, and so responsible for the all and everything.
Feeling God is so inextricably related with how we relate to ourselves and live those everyday moments.
Why do we build structures to worship God and images to hang the walls and objects? Do we not erect our own little walls around ourselves in an attempt to hide from something that is and has always resided within all of us?
Erecting structures and creating edifices as well as adorning walls for God cements the distance we believe there is between us and God.
“We theorise that God takes sides and pays allegiance to some over others.” How can such a Being who is wise, wondrous, magnificent and extraordinarily loving not love all his sons, the whole of Humanity, equally? It is just not possible. All our theorising does, is expose how we much we have wandered away from our All Loving Father, because He loves and cherishes us ALL.
It is quite funny Rowena, I was just about to write something pretty much along the same lines as you have written here and I stopped to read yours and thought oh no she’s pinched my line of thought. But anyway I’m not sure I’d like to associate myself with a God who picks and choses his favourite people or has an only son.
As a child this made no sense. It simply makes no sense – unless there is a force that is there wanting it to make sense and selling some kind of skewed reasoning for it’s own means, whereby fighting one another fuels it’s existence in some way.
“We erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.” This line describes perfectly what we have been doing for ages, ignoring God’s magnificence and with that closing and padlocking the gate to him, and with that, choosing a self imprisonment in this self created world that is void of God’s love, which therefore allows all the abuse we are experiencing in our societies, for as long as we can remember and as history is showing us.
Do we ever truly allow ourselves to feel the magnificence of God, let alone deeply appreciate and value it? Because if we did feel the magnificence, we would have to acknowledge that magnificence is within us too… and that anything less than that, is not true.
The claiming of God as belonging to one religion over another suggests a need for power and control, to be right and everyone else wrong. When there are so many religions each feeling so strongly that theirs is the true faith, it poses the question that, they are all missing the point that God is there for each and everyone one of us, equally so and it’s for each and every one of us to develop our own relationship with God.
‘We depict Him as vengeful, demanding of sacrifices, insisting on obedience; as angry, as meting out forgiveness; as supporting this as opposed to that, as taking sides’ – it feels like this is all in reaction to feeling our own hurt, from avoiding and resisting our own magnificence. Rather than connecting with our body to understand the truth of what is going on, we instead lash out, casting blame and misrepresenting the divinity of God, which only serves to deepen our hurt and disconnection from our selves even further.
We do all these weird things like praying in cold Churches, going on long and often painful pilgrimages to name but a few of our odd pursuits, in order to beg God to wipe out the pain and misery that we have caused our selves. Seems to me to be a bit back to front. Surely we need to be building the quality of our love, for ourselves and one another so that we can meet God in his essence within us all. Then there is no need to cry for mercy, there is just a life of inner growth and evolution to be getting on with.
And thus we get misinformation and half-truths that parade as truths and tenets when the messengers of God lived first and foremost and with immediacy what they would then share and present rather than the other way around – read something, deem it good or useful, adopt it and make it fit into an existing paradigm and ruling by authority if not force structure.
We don’t ask questions about what is not working and why it is not working and thus, we don’t ever get any answers but instead come up with evermore solutions and short-term fixes that create more problems and issues down the track.
I am increasingly finding that the phrase: “We pretend we don’t know and can’t feel it” can be applied to pretty much every aspect of life. We are so much more sensitive, aware and wise and have so much greater connection with one another, God and the Universe than the reduced existence we have been settling for.
This blog is great to bring pause to our daily life and question is this it? or is it what we have chosen to settle with, our own creations, rather than a life that truly could be different and is there waiting for us to connect to?
I found studying God in philosophy fascinating, the number of exercitations and beliefs and the complicated tangle of emotions that coil and snarl around this centre point – a centre point unchanged and untainted, no matter how much we try and drown it out. It reminds me of how sometimes when someone is speaking the truth we don’t want to hear, we will shut out eyes and ears and try and block out their voice – we are doing the same with God, throwing everything in the way of the truth offered us.
A brilliant treatise on the craziness of our relationship with God and how in ignoring the magnificence of God we ignore our own; living that magnificence asks that we be the fully responsible beings we are designed to be.
And a great summary, thank you Monica.
In truth we are designed to be way more than responsible, being responsible is simply a movement to get us out of being irresponsible, but our natural way of being is to be obedient to God.
God and love, both are forever elusive in our quest for them until we stop and realise both have always been inside of us.
When we let ourselves see that the magnificence of God is omniscient, and that it is only us that endeavour to control it, suppress it, bludgeon it and deny, we then start to get a sense of how much force and will we exert to not surrender to the magnificence that is before us and within us.
How much we resist what we also yearn for the most.
The whole of humanity is crammed together in appalling conditions in a manmade prison that has no lock, we can step out at any time if we so choose.
Exactly – do we accept that we have a choice or does it suit us better to stay a victim of the circumstances?
Eva if in asking your question the word ‘stay’ is changed to ‘play’ then I feel it’s more accurate in describing what it is that we are all up to! “Exactly – do we accept that we have a choice or does it suit us better to stay a victim of the circumstances?
So true Alexis. It ultimatley comes down to a personal choice.
Not only are we like the cooks cooped up in a small pen, we are like laboratory rats in a science lab – and who are the yet unseen ‘scientists’, the puppeteers?
Most of us live life believing we are wrong, bad, awful and beat ourselves up…. and with that perception we are convinced God must be the same towards us. We hear we are made in God’s image, do we feel from within that we are equal sons of God, or do we interpret it as we are a step down from the magnificence of God so we need to live, work and act in that reduced way?
We just worship reductionism, in all areas from science to life to religion. Which are all one anyway, whether we like it or not – elements of the All we cannot but be a part of.
Great point, Aimee, life is definitely set up not only for us to live in a reduced way, but we are actively discouraged from knowing and embracing how amazing we truly are.
I remember thinking that Aimee as I grew up, that God was something apart from me, more magnificent, and by way of that, that I was less. That lie has been outed thanks to Universal Medicine and the recognition in my own body that what I had believed, is not in fact true.
Now that is something worth celebrating Rosanna…living the magnificent reflection of God on earth.
When we open the door to God and leave it open all our pictures of what we think he is dissolves and we get to feel all of what God is and has to offer. Surrendering to such magnificence is accepting that we too are of the equal magnificence.
There will come a time when we will no longer be able to resist the magnificance of God and so all the gates, walls and other barricades will come tumbling down. In the process humanity will have no option but to deal with all those traits we have so happily heaped onto God that are entirely of our making.
Well said, Richard, we are immensely powerful, we try to pretend that we don’t know things, play the ignorant fool, yet, there is no denying we are so much more than we let on to ourselves and to each other. So, the question is, how is our power playing out? ….. what imprints are we leaving behind us? ….. they are there and it’s up to us to take responsibility for the quality of these imprints, to be very aware of the contribution we are constantly making, that affects us all.
‘We pretend we don’t know and can’t feel it; we deny God’s Beingness, His all-encompassing presence;’ – we construct these obstacles and blocks with ourselves, each other and with God, making life so much more complicated, difficult and hurtful than it needs to be. We have incredible awareness and insight and know exactly what is going on around us when we choose to be aware. We absolutely know the magnificence of God’s love, when we allow ourselves to feel it. It always comes back to ‘what we choose to allow our selves to feel’.
This blog reminds me of the word ‘Retard’… There are those in our current society that are deemed as ‘retards’ meaning they have some sort of mental or physical incapacity compared to our standard ‘norm’ in other words some form of developmental issue. The word retard is often not used in a a very pretty way and is used often in a derogatory way. However, what if these so called retards in society are not really retards? Let me explain – the word ‘retard’ in French simply means ‘running behind schedule’ or being ‘in delay’ – and I have come to realise that most of us who deny the magnificence of God are simply in delay, that we are the real retards – in other words, we are delaying our own awareness and relationship with God, and in that we are retarding our own growth, delaying the inevitable. Now this gives a different take on things!
Love this, Henrietta ….. we are all going to get to where we are going on our journey in life, some will get there a little faster and some of us are in delay, but it’s not a competition on who gets there first. Rather, it’s about the quality of our journey, the support and friendship we can offer each other and the learning that takes place along the way.
It does indeed – it signifies that we cannot avoid what we are already a part of and have always been; all we can do is to delay the inevitable, our knowing and living of how it all is.
Gabriele, what a grogeous sharing, and one that exposes the very game we play that we are masters of – one game where we deny ourselves the magnificence of God and all he has delivered, and instead choose to play it small by distracting ourselves with countless other things…how foolish, but how good to be aware of this so that we can make the choice to stop playing this ridonculous game!
A great reminder of God’s magnificence that I am opening my eyes more to see!
Getting out of the way what we have put in the way is the way back to God, ourselves held in his magnificence.
This can be applied to every aspect of life. How much of what we think is real is simply held together by the force of our ideals and beliefs and nothing more?
We relish complexity, it makes us feel important and in the know somehow, that we count; we prefer complications and make a wide berth around simplicity lest we’d be judged as incompetent, not up with it and somehow lacking.
A beautiful sharing of how we put blocks in the way of our relationship to God when in fact it is right at our fingertips – within us. All around us. God is always there but it is or choice to allow this without all the pictures and ideals.
Could we make knowing God any more complicated? All of these different versions of who and what God is makes it easy for us to reject God completely, which retards us even further and gives us the excuse to be irresponsible.
If we make God so complicated, he remains separate to us and not only do we not realise we are sons of God, neither do we realise we are equal to God.
As you say we have always been a part of God, hence we can never know him in the belief that he is ‘out there’ or separate to us in any way shape or form.
A standing ovation to a brilliantly expressed blog!!! Thank you Gabriele for blessing us with you words and reminding us of our folly and our fortune.
My view of God has changed in recent years, thanks to Universal Medicine. I was brought up as a Catholic with a judgemental God who would send me to Hell if I didn’t atone for my sins. Serge Benhayon on the other hand has presented God as the loving being who created us all as sparks of light with the potential to be Gods ourselves and expand the Universe.
So what would we rather have, what is it that we choose? The punitive and vengeful version of God and the arduous if not impossible way back to Him or the freedom of responsibility and godly obedience?
“we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.” What lengths we go to to avoid ourselves. This long held illusion is something that is being openly and honestly challenged in order that the grace and grandness that we’ve always been, is revealed.
It’s a fantastic moment when one reads some symbology in life. The depth of communication on offer is mind blowing.
It sure is Michael. I have also found the more I am open to the communication of symbology, the more I see and appreciate. We are supported more than we could ever imagine, all we have to do is keep saying yes to what ever is before us.
Reading our blog it really brings home how much effort we put into creating those gates, to push oursleves further and further away from God and all he is. What if we focussed on aligning with God instead, dealt with the push, hurt, blame and took responsibility for oursleves and let those gates of our creation disappear to the gloriousness that is always there? How would our world be?
Yes, we will do anything to shirk responsibility for the fact that we chose to separate ourselves from the boundless love we reside within.
… anything and everything in a desperate attempt to avoid or at least delay what we most crave – love and the awareness of God’s beholding.
It is so utterly absurd that we exert such an enormous force to avoid the love and glory of reconnecting to who we truly are – the one thing we all crave!!! and not only that, we do all we can to stop others reconnecting too because we don’t want to see that true reflection.
As a child and adult I used to be so perplexed as to why God didn’t fix everything, why he didn’t end war, rape, murder and all the atrocities of the world. Then I began to understand that we are given the space and free will to choose and in that is our ultimate responsibility, but as you say we ‘shirk’ this responsibility with everything we have got and demand that God fix what we have ill created.
I suppose there is no greater way to learn being responsible than being irresponsible… and then feeling the damage and carnage caused!
Beautifully written Gabrielle. No matter what we have put in the way in the past, the turn to God is always possible and immediate, like simply turning to face the sun and immediately feeling the warmth on our face he is always there, shining his light.
A magnificent blog that invites us to re-visit and push open the door to any area in which we’ve installed a mock lock.
I can’t help think of a world where actual locks are not necessary because we are all connected to God and each other making locks an unnecessary obsolete object confined to the history books.
The gates that segregates people are of our own making and in truth do not exist. This segregation between people will not disappear by any law or rule but only when each and everyone of us will let down the gates he or she has built for themselves.
The whole of life is one ginormous mock lock, the whole thing is a massive charade that will one day be pulled down as easily as a dust sheet.
Love this Alexis – one day simplicity will be the living way rather than the complications of the massive charade of life.
Yes, it will, as we embrace the opportunity to be part and parcel of our present and future we will see all there is to see, all there ever was to see and throw off dust sheet after dust sheet!
Thank you Gabriele, there are so many versions of God we have created to suit our belief systems and personal hurts and irresponsibility. Yet God is always completely available anytime we truly want to surrender to who we are, and actually live God’s love and truth.
So beautifully expressed Gabriele. We can never not be a part of this magnificence as hard as we may try.
“We imbue God with our human spirit’s traits.” What a massive diservice we do to a Being who is nothing but Love. The silly thing is that we don’t realise what we are missing out on when we smother up our relationship with our internal father with our insecurities, judgments and arrogance. The grace and power of God can literally sweep us off our feet if only we would allow it.
The arrogance of the human being!
We are masters at keeping God out. Pure illusion, as we cannot keep out that which flows through us.
So true, Vanessa, we can pretend and deny, but we cannot change the truth of who we are – that we are, always have been and always will be a part of the magnificence of God. The question is, how long will it take for us to accept and live this truth?
Gabriele, I love your blogs and am riveted from the first words. I was just reading how we “ignore His magnificence” and immediately thought and yes in that we are also ignoring our own magnificence…. but now as I read on or rather continue on this walk with you, I see the blog goes there too
Yes, it couldn’t but go there – when we ignore God’s magnificence we also close the door on realising our own magnificence. And why? Does it suit us to be little, worthless, insignificant, helpless, powerless and meek? Yeshua is quoted as having said that the meek enter heaven; question is: is it true, is that what he said or another of the many instances when the word of the messenger have been twisted so they fit, hundreds of years later, into the prevailing and ruling paradigm? If we are helpless and hopeless we certainly can’t take responsibility for our choices and that might just suit the powers that be?
‘We imbue God with our human spirit’s traits. We depict Him as vengeful, demanding of sacrifices, insisting on obedience; as angry, as meting out forgiveness; as supporting this as opposed to that, as taking sides – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.’ – this allows us to play small, to shirk taking responsibility for all that we are here to reflect, being held in God’s beholding love. Yet, this does not change the truth, or the choice that is always there for us to re-connect and share our/God’s love with our every movement.
‘Well, other than being a funny rhyme – mock lock – it reminded me of the obstacles we humans put in the way between us and the innate knowing of the magnificence of God.’ – it feels like we also do this between ourselves. We give the appearance of being open and ‘friendly’ with each other, yet inside we can often be very ‘locked away’, weighed down with our layers of protection. Not only are we then not letting the other person in, but we are not letting the fullness of our true essence to be felt and treasured by all.
Good point – we also erect mock locks to seemingly protect ourselves from others and what we think they are and are not, just in case we might get hurt or disappointed.
When on the path of return to understand the way we have bound ourselves with “mock locks”, we have to start out with being at-least-gentle, as most of us have no idea there are any restraints in our life. So starting with the Gentle Breath Meditation has helped so many understand the process of undoing any “mock locks”.
For more on the “Gentle Breath Meditation” go to;
FREE GENTLE BREATH MEDITATION
http://www.unimedliving.com/search?keyword=Free+Gentle+Breath+Meditation
Beautiful blog Gabriele. We do ignore Gods magnificence and by so doing ignore/reduce/deny our own magnificence. Not only do we create the gate and padlock, we guard it with ferocity, lest our game of playing small and individual be revealed.
What ever we do, think, believe or say God does not change because of all the names, pictures, traits, groups etc. we give or subscribe to him. God just is.
Thank you for the reminder, Gabriele, of the magnificence of God and his eternal beholding.
“we deny God’s Beingness, His all-encompassing presence; we believe that we need an intermediary in the form of a member of the clergy, of whatever ilk – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.” How true this is in my own life. Most predominantly when I go into old patterns of self-abuse and sabbotage and then use that as an excuse to beat myself up. Ignoring my magnificence which is ultimately His.
The door to Heaven is controlled by no one but ourselves.
You’ve expressed it all so clearly Gabriele, and interesting that you have chosen to present it with the structure of a Litany, a religious device of rhythm of speech and cadence that rings in our memory long after we have read it or heard it. But this litany is inviting us to see that the key to unlocking the mock lock we have put on our consciousness is to surrender to the acceptance of being a human and the beingness of God all in one, so it reflects the illusion we live in and the reality of who we really are, rather than trapping us again and again in ingrained attitudes of mind.
I did not know that it was like a litany which I understand to be a repetition. Looking it up I found that it comes from the Greek word for prayer and it will be interesting to observe when we make the switch from religiously repeating what drives us into despair and further devastation to religiously and obediently repeating what confirms our glory and magnificence.
How much love is there . . . when we are all still held in this magnificence – especially when we consider all of the ideals, interpretations, separate ways etc that we as a society have placed in the way of feeling the simplicity and unity of God.
“We get to know and reaquaint ourselves with the reality of our grandness and that we have always been part of the magnificence that is God” – the magnificence of God reflecting the magnificence of ourselves.. and so what we do to God, or how we hold Him, we are doing to ourselves too.
When we look for God outside ourselves whom many of us do then we have fallen for the illusion that keeps us all trapped and this is what most religions teach that God is outside of us. This I have discovered is a false way of living, I have rediscovered for myself that God is all around us he is the very air we breathe. Too me he is the very embodiment of the universe and we are living on a planet that resides within him. So how very arrogant and disrespectful are we to the body of God that we fire rockets into space and treat outer space as we call it like a junk yard.
Pure power jumping out of this blog Gabriele. I love the truth that you are sharing with us, because this is simply love to me. It is an eye opener for humanity to not blame or use pictures of God, whenever suitable to escape the responsibility everyone carries here on earth!
I love the analogy of a ‘mock lock.’ in many life situations we face the same, feel conditioned to be a certain way, trapped in situations, relationships, work or way of being and yet the door is always open and we have a choice to step through or not to a new way of being.
Yes, our conditioning in life really does imprison us from seeing and feeling the truth. We get locked into a cage that isn’t there in fact, but we imagine it to be. It’s like our eyes are registering a false reality, one that we have created. Seeing through it will dissolve the illusion in an instant and we can live free of self-imposed restraints.
We’d rather erect gates, hurdles and complicate our relationship with God, than simply connect and bask in his magnificence.
If we are able to take a step back and look and feel God and forget everything that we have been taught what he/she is, well the need for locks of any kind will no longer be needed, mock or not.
When you take a step back and look at the bigger picture we sure are arrogant selfish individuals that just want things to be a certain way and have no appreciation for what is available and on offer to us. I love how this blog has exposed this in a loving and none judging way. Thank you.
Yes, if we were to allow for God’s love to unfold in our lives more fully, we no doubt would be living a more magnificent and fulfilling life.
Very true, Natalie, we like living our comfortable lives, just the way we are used to, so we are not too challenged. Yet, when we do choose to come out of our cave and become aware of the absolute divinity that we all innately are and are all a part of, we realise how ‘ignorant’ and ‘arrogant’ we have been.
Great blog, Gabriele. We think, we don’t feel, so we perceive lots of mock locks.
There’s a saying that goes something like ‘know yourself and you will know God’. And with this it strikes me the amount of energy that goes into not wanting to know who we truly are (aided by every trick in the book – distraction, illusion, creation, comfort etc.) rather than surrendering to the simple, harmonious and glorious way that could be.
For most people, realising that we carry and actually are God is too huge. It would need acceptance of the grandness that lives inside us and that we are much needed in this world. No ME time would make sense anymore. The comfort of staying “small” is still too attractive – one day we will realise that this kind of comfort is actually slowly killing us and taking us nowhere.
When you say ‘we carry God’ I take it you mean that we carry him inside of us, He Who is our beholding light and forever Atma.
With the magnificence of God all around us it seems ludicrous we cannot see through the ‘lock’.
To know God in his magnificence is to know ourselves in our magnificence .. we are no less. time for us to truly start loving and caring for ourselves and others more ✨
“…it reminded me of the obstacles we humans put in the way between us and the innate knowing of the magnificence of God” And arent we good at finding obstacles to do just that?! The crazy thing is that when we do get the obstacles out of the way, life has a flow to it that is second to none.
There are definitely two ways to view the mock lock behaviour. One view is deeply shocking given the fact that we carry out huge atrocities on one another in the name of a Being whose every particle vibrates with Love. The other is that is it extremely funny when seen through the eyes of God, that we put so much effort into creating the mock locks and false doors that do a very pathetic job of shutting out our omnipotent, all encompassing Father of the Universe.
Not sure whether ‘funny’ is quite the right word – may I suggest ‘ludicrous’, ‘absurd’, ‘time-consuming’ and ‘depleting’ and ‘ultimately futile’ to the description of our resistance to God and the all that is on offer.
Wow reading about all the various ways that we ignore God’s and our own magnificence and put up barriers in the way, it seems more like a fortress gate with heavy bolts than a garden gate with a padlock. Beautifully exposed that all of it has always been imaginary and our own creation.
So true, Marika, we scream and squirm looking for anyone to blame but ourselves while God remains steady in his beholding love for us all, reminding us of all that we truly are and all that we are a treasured part of. Yet, because of our pictures and expectations and false assumptions we are so often too blind to see all that is before and all around us.
‘And while all this is going on, God is there in His magnificence and we, merrily or not, live in His atmic body and with the free will to deny, lie, demean, wilfully create, beseech, ignore and pretend whatever takes our fancy next until – we understand free will, get honest, drop the pride, stop pretending and take responsibility.’ Gabriele, you so brilliantly summarise the struggle that so many of us find ourselves in, and how, in fact, it’s all of our own choosing and can so easily be very different.
When things are ‘unfamiliar’ it’s very easy to make assumptions based on our norm, what has been our normal experience. This blog is so refreshing and such a lovely reminder for us to let go and be totally open to what is before us, no assumptions, pre-conceptions, just an open-ness to be aware, explore, understand, learn and evolve.
When we shut the gate to God’s magnificence we are at the same time shutting our magnificence too.
This morning I realized that every time we ask for God’s help, we are not aware that he is there all the time and that literally everything in our lives is there to help and support us.
‘we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence’, yes we do and this creates the most unimaginable suffering and all because of the choices that we are continuing to make. We can choose our way out of this torturous way of life that we have created but we each have to choose differently in order to to do that. It can’t be half hearted or followed by just a few, it must be all of us, living with absolute dedication and purpose constantly. And as insurmountable as it might currently feel, we will all get there, my faith is absolute.
There are so many ideals and beliefs around God that are not true… its great to expose them for what they are – concocted stories for personal and or organisational agendas.
I know when I drop the gates and padlocks – even for a moment – that I have put up around God, I am humbled and moved to tears of the magnificence of God and his ever-holding ever-present love.
I agree Gabriele, we erect gates and indulge in many distractions on a daily basis to avoid taking responsibility and honouring and living the magnificence of God in all that we do.
It is so easy to blame God and pretty much anyone and everyone else for the ills of the world and our struggles, rather than accepting and taking responsibility for the choices we have made and continue to make. God is always there in his magnificence and we can choose to be the same at any moment or not, the choice is always ours.
And he does not judge, always asking us to come sit with him in the equalises we have, honouring our divinity and not beat ourselves up or get stuck in feeling unworthy.
So true Simon, God does not judge us rather is there with us no matter what and when we choose to make more loving choices we are embraced and supported in full. No need to look back in shame rather embrace the future in full.
‘…it reminded me of the obstacles we humans put in the way between us and the innate knowing of the magnificence of God.’ Reading this I ask myself what do I put in the way of my knowing God and all the magnificence of Him? Like the magnificence is all around me but I down play it. How and why do I do this? I can see magnificence in nature and, as I write this, feel it in every particle of my body. There’s an obedience to God, a loving order that brings tears to my eyes because I know I am loved and am love – even though today I am very much feeling how I fight this love and who I am and have a lot of physical aches to prove it.
But why fight this? Yes I can look out at the world around me and see the fight against surrendering to this beauty, there is no magnificence in the creations of man. I can see now it suits me to ignore God’s magnificence and my own godliness (I am love too) because then I can carry on being un-godly, ironically thinking I can replicate what God has created. But anything I do that isn’t obedient to God’s order is separate to it and doesn’t hold within it true love – and this is where my life goes to pot. God’s order isn’t some rigid dictatorial demand, it is the flow and harmony that we can all belong to that unites us in brotherhood. Or I can continue to go off and have a disruptive party of one somewhere and, all the time, be craving love.
The search for God creates the illusion that he is distant from us. But this is our search and therefore any distance is our creation and not of his doing.
It also creates the illusion of us not being Divine.
Very true when we are in fact equally part of the grandness.
Yes Richard, it looks we are good in creating life but something is missing in that. As what you say, we have lost that inner connection with god and instead are now searching for God outside of us. We have to become honest and admit that the world we have created for ourselves is missing an important part and therefore is not the success we try to convince ourselves of, over and over again, our created world is.
Indeed Richard, our created way to God will always be a substitute and not the true connection that is already there, available for us to rejoin from our own will.
I was certainly brought up with a God who was judgemental, and always tried to be good but was aware of constantly failing someone’s expectations, usually my own. To learn about the absolutely loving way we are held in the body of God is something I could never have imagined, such was the brainwashing effect of the Catholic religion in my childhood.
Carmel, I can so relate to what you are sharing. For me, the Catholic indoctrination seemed to have the upper hand for quite a while as I was so desperate to fit in, but underneath there was always a deeper knowing that it was quite off. Having had this inner knowing confirmed has been liberating, to say the least!
I love this analogy, and I feel it is so true because we put so much in the way of having a connection with God, and yet in truth it is the simplest thing, because it is just a part of who we are.
The connection to God is innate; we are choosing, if we are, to deny it and close our awareness and sensitivity off to it.
Yes. It’s there and equally in each and everyone of us. It’s only our choice as to how much we each let ourselves feel this truth.
Amazing Gabriele. How utterly exposing of the irresponsibility and illusion we, humanity, are chosing to live.
I know the one about blaming God for the way the world is.. if there was a God, he wouldn’t let there be so much suffering..so easy to do and not take responsibility for the way we are living that causes all our ills. And God lets us continue, until we find him and realise that no mock locks, or any kind of brick wall are really in the way blocking his Love for us to return to who we truly are.
The thing is it is us humans who have created and added to all we have here on earth and in life – not God. This also means that we have it in our hands of how to get ourselves out of the mess. With the letting go of the falsities and reconnecting within we are then with God and know it’s our choice.
The responsibility for our choices and the choice whether to continue along this line or change direction are definitely firmly in our hands and not that God has anything to do with the mess, other than holding by the law of free-will the Space in which it all can happen and play out..
I love this whole blog but what really hit home is the exposing of how we ‘imbue God with the human spirit’s traits’. I understand why we do it because this is our frame of reference and all we know until we have felt the magnificence of God for ourselves. It is then we can start to see where we have a reductionist view of God, let go of those beliefs and surrender into the all-encompassing and unconditional love which is always waiting.
And with that we then become the unconditional love with ourselves and others.
Ahhhhhh……..what a blessed moment when we realise that all is not as it seems, as we begin to step out of the falseness and illusion that this world is apparently padlocked in, binding our awareness into so much less than the multi-dimensional beings that we are.
“We realise there is no gate, that there has never been a gate and thus, it and the padlock have been imaginary and our own creation all along.”
So the whole time while we are blaming others (or God) we are the ones putting up the gates, padlocks, walls and barriers! So it is for each and everyone of us to feel, see and know this and instead take responsibility for everything we have created in our life that is not love – which is completely empowering.
Finally being open to the fact that all of my issues were created by myself was a bit of an eye opener but in being open to it I was/am ready to take responsibility for them. Whilst it may not always be smooth, in understanding that the protections are there because I chose to put them there, means that I can un-put them there just as much, if not dismantle them as easily.
Great blog that to me exposes the illusion that we feel we can somehow keep God at arms length, when in actual fact he is all around us and the very air we breathe into our lungs. So how can we not be a part of God?
We can’t but be a part of God but we can avoid fully embracing and knowing God is all around us by making up stories that suit our reality.
Love your blog Gabriele you show how much illusion we live under when it comes to God. all the self imposed complications and restrictions we put on ourselves through thousands of years of indoctrination that God can only be accessed if we are given a key, and you show how little we have chosen to question this.
The mock lock is made up of an array of patterns that we have yet to expose and nominate and let go. There are so many reasons why we hold back our divine expression, yet none of them are true. We live our lives restricted by a whole load of beliefs and believe that it can’t be any other way. What if we were to simply connect to our inner divinity and simply observe anything that is in the way of living life in full expression of that? Anything that is not true to that divinity would have to drop away.
This is so true, Gabriele – ‘We imbue God with our human spirit’s traits.’ A beautiful exposé of the madness in projecting all of our woes onto a stupendous being made only of love.
I find that when I just allow myself to truly surrender and be then feeling the magnificence is very natural.
Fabulous blog Gabrielle. No escaping from the truth that the gate and padlock is our making and our responsibility, and it is for us to remove it.. to return to the divinity we are.
We like to think we can do things alone or isolation. Life has shown me we are never alone, especially through nature’s communication with symbols.
Great blog Gabrielle and I just love the line..”understand free will, get honest, drop the pride, stop pretending”…such a great recipe for humanity to get back on track and such a great formula for me to take into my day.
It’s clear that all this imagery that we have put up to describe God only causes separation from our connection to God and to ourselves and to each other.
‘we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.’ Beautifully apt for the denial we go into around God. I was watching a video yesterday on someone trying to logically support ‘atheists’ out of their denial. Yes, it seems impossible that we can deny the order of the universe, its abundance and the beautiful detail that has been created. Far from an accident, there is clear purpose in it all, however, through our hurts and of being hurt by conventional religion, we throw the baby out with the bathwater and then get stubborn about it!
“The Mock Lock” – the lock that’s not a lock, but only to those whose perception it is. As well as with reference to God, how much of life do we live in such mockery?!
The blocks we put in place on a global scale thorough organised religion puts off the honest searcher. Growing up, I was brought up a Catholic and had to wade through the hypocrisy of the church, being a sinner, not worthy, doing penance and generally not being good enough to have a relationship with God. Yet, I felt the truth about God and had a deep yearning to want to connect. All the Roman Catholic stuff did was to put obstacles in my way so that I became frustrated… at the age of 15 I walked away from the Church confusing its reinterpretations of Jesus’ teachings to the truth about God. Thankfully I found, in the teachings of Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness, a simple way to reconnect.
A wonderful summary of all that we create in our lives to not know God. I am aware and sense an incredible amount of joy when lies are exposed and called out no matter how big or small I may think they are. To truly know God we first have to get real and honest with that which is not true.
We are set up from day one, maybe not day one but in the first few years of our life to build a padlocked gate and throughout history we have been sent great teachers to show us that there is no need of a gate but still we resort back to having a gate instead of coming back and showing the world ourselves, that no gate is required and we just need to get on with our journey back to being as God himself.
Yes, the padlock on our connection to God is purely of our own making and in reality does not exist.
Sure we have erected make believe gates and locked it tight with a mock lock and in all this experience and the time we spent in convincing ourselves what we are buying time for is to come back to knowing and living our absolute closeness with God which was there from the very beginning, but we did not want this and erected a structure to keep us away from God, so what we are buying time for is that we created all of this to come back to honesty, acceptance and we have wasted a lot of time, but also that love or God does not judge us even though we have been fools. So we learn responsibility. And a great deal of love in foolishness.
Your absolute amazing blog Gabriele made it very clear that most of our religions need a reset . . .
Hear hear Esther – Amen to that.
‘We make God responsible for the wrongs of this world.’ I used to wish a world where God had made it so that we had to choose to be loving with one another and blamed God for the world being how it is. But now I’m appreciating there is something way beyond my current understanding – aside from knowing I am missing a magnitude of wisdom and divinity – in the universal science of free will.
Another way that we ‘lock out’ God is by creating all kinds of little dramas and little issues or ‘fires’ that we then have to spend time and energy to put out, which keeps us stuck in a narrow view of human existence, instead of feeling our immense connection with God and the Universe. For example, I recently got a phone call from a computer hacker saying that he was from Microsoft security and noticed suspicious activity on my computer that would involve foreign hackers getting full access to all my online financial accounts. Instead of simply feeling in my body that he was using fear to get me to pay for a security and cleaning service and hanging up the phone, I allowed him remote access to my computer and paid a large sum of money for this ‘service’ that resulted in a giant headache, until I realized what had happened. This is a way that could then make me not trust others and give up on people being honest, and thus build a locked gate to God. But I chose to keep that door open and throw away the lock.
Amazing – such an incredible blog, cut to the point all the swirling pictures, beliefs, demands and expectations we have on God, that we pile up to barricade ourselves away from feeling any connection to him – but like you say, they are all padlocks we place on gates we create, so as to feel locked out and inaccessible to God, when in truth we can simply push the gate aside and realise you cannot cage something that is everything and everywhere and a part of all of us.
Yes, Rebecca, this blog reveals the illusion of thinking that we are ever separated from God and his beholding love.
How true Rebecca – we can deny and forever pretend and stay ignorant, but reality is that we cannot escape the fact that we are all equally part of the magificence of God.
Re-reading my blog I am stunned and confirmed by how incredibly beautiful it is – what can be delivered via our inherent godliness is stupendous and beyond the capacity of the little human mind.
Beautiful reminder that what we do when we are coming from our essence, a part of the universal magnificence, is truly stupendous. The more I allow myself to appreciate this the more the part of me that wants to dominate the world in its very little human mind version, has to admit what it does produce is actually the opposite of wonderful and, even if they look spectacular, they feel purposefulness and often ugly.
I am wondering whether you meant to write that everything we control with our human mind feels purposeless rather than purposeful?
Absolutely, a true confirmation of what can come through if we take ourselves out of the way, nothing less than divinity because it comes straight from the universe.
We have found so many blocks and barriers in the way of our connection to God, distractions from surrendering to what we all already know.
We have been well and truly exposed here Gabriele, no place to run to any more. God’s love is immense, the size of the Universe and beyond. We try to shackle his immenseness with our little minded human traits because our pride and arrogance does not want to admit that we cannot exist without him. When we truly embrace the enormity of God in all his glory, we realise that there is no need for mock locks, gates or anything else as we are made of the same material and all attempts to delineate our selves is ultimately useless.
What is completely absurd is why would we even want to run from God and our magnificence in the first place and equally absurd is that no matter how many times all this is exposed (such as in this super awesome blog) and even if there is no place to run – we invent them and continue to create little treadwheels like mice and continue to run round and round and round and round. Thank God for Serge Benhayon who stopped, left this treadwheel and showed me through his livingness and every movement that there truly is another way so that I too have stepped off this wheel.
We keep blaming others, including God, for the problems and abuses of the world yet it us who has created the mess.
Yes Jonathan, you can say that we are arrogant in our relationship to God while we are his equal and in this arrogance cannot see that all the problems and the atrocities in our societies are of our own making
So often in the day I choose to focus on the struggles and issues instead of enjoying the divine and noticing and living this in each moment. I reduce life to function and this brings in the struggles that do not need to be there.
A great analogy – we certainly do create barriers – sometimes to relieve us of the responsibility of what we are truly connected too.
That’s a lot of gates and padlocks we create heh! And the big one – the ‘pearly gates of heaven’. All these gates and padlocks make it feel so complicated when a relationship with God can actually be quite simple.
‘I had spotted the padlock straight away, looked at it and thought, “How are we going to get in?”’ – what beautiful symbolism, we ‘assume’ the padlocks are keeping us out, when in fact it’s us choosing to keep ourselves out. The loving playfulness of God.
‘She led the way to a lake and surrounding fenced park and walked towards a padlocked, rather narrow and very ordinary tall gate, which looked more like a rusty old doorway into someone’s backyard than the entry to a public park.’ – I love this reflection, Gabriele …. we have become so conditioned to things being and looking a certain way, that when they present slightly differently we don’t necessarily recognise them for what they are, showing just how much magic we may be missing in life.
Great analogy of how we try and lock God out with our protection… which is totally pointless (and exhausting) as we all have that innate spark of God within us equally – so in truth we can never avoid it… and it is something to deeply appreciate.
We blame God for so much in our lives that is all of our own creation – which exposes our total lack of responsibility.
You could say I don’t have an issue with God but I choose to not be in the power of being equal to him. I can easily write myself off here, and I’m actually finding it difficult to do this. It’s proof how much more effort is required to separate from being equal in his magnificence when the simplicity is just to be. A great stepping stone is honouring what is felt.
This part is deeply inspiring Gabriele, ‘we understand free will, get honest, drop the pride, stop pretending and take responsibility.’ This is huge, if we all embraced what you’ve shared here, our world would look and feel very different, we would be more loving and harmonious.
Gabriele we can certainly feel and read how you have reacquainted yourselves with the reality of our grandness that we are and how the magnificence is pouring through each word you have shared. Very inspiring and so deeply true.
Just pondering on the word ‘magnificence’ and considering how telling it is that we are all, in truth the ‘magnificence of God’ and yet how often do any of us actually feel the truth of that word ‘magnificent’ in our every day comings and goings? I know for many, a more fitting description of how we feel is closer to ‘ordinary’, rather than the extraordinary that we could potentially feel. And knowing that how we feel is a culmination of our moment by moment choices, gives us the power and the understanding to radically change how we feel, one loving choice at a time.
How complicated we make life when we lock ourselves away from knowing the magnificence that is God.
and equally the magnificence that is us.
We can make life very complicated Susan, and I’ve done this myself when I deny the magnificence of God. But, now I am embracing God’s magnificence more and more, and everything becomes so clear and simple.
Such a clear exposure on what and where we spend our energy instead on staying with the simplicity that God is and offers us.
It’s exhausting that mock lock ! Just reading it was enough already, got it! We keep God out. But as true as the sun rising and setting, God never keeps us out and is always pulsing through us.
Gabriele a great blog and one that is stunning to see how we blame God when things do not go the way we want things to go but don’t often look at our part in that process.
I LOVE THIS BLOG. Thank you so much Gabriele.
In every single moment the exquisiteness of the love and magnificence of God and heaven is available to us. But only if we choose to stop pretending that the mock padlock we have put in place is real.
If we blame God or attribute our ill behaviour to him then we have a convenient excuse to not take responsibility for our way of living…
It’s not easy dropping the illusion that there was never a gate or a lock, when the whole world is demanding that this lie and it’s many mental pictures must be maintained. But it is very simple to feel that magnificence when connected to the body and how it can feel God.
‘We pray for others because we think we know what is right for them’ – to me, this sums up the arrogance and pride we live with daily, championing what we think we know is true, at the expense of what is really true in all it’s utter grandness.
Beautiful Gabriele what an inspiration and clarity of the illusion we live in and choose with the reality of God so clearly shown shining brightly with simplicity and truth.
” – we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence.”
Thank-you Gabriel, a game changing walk that inspired this eye opening account of the futility of man’s creation, alongside the eternal absoluteness of truth.
The many complicated ways we have created to not feel God can simply fall away once we understand the utter illusion of it all.
Everything that comes our way in our day, be it a gate with a pretend lock, a certain person walking down the street or a fabulous article such as this – everything is there to remind us of God, of our connection to God, and the magnificence we all hold within. Nothing is by chance or random in God’s atmic body.
That is so true, God is everywhere!
Beautifully expressed Gabrielle and so true, there is nothing but our man made obstacles that prevent us from knowing God. Given we reside inside God’s body how can we not know God?
So true Gabriele, it is like we are all waiting for someone to come along and unchain our heart when there is no need, for there is no chain, and even if there was, we are the only ones with the key!
You are so right Greg; we have always been the gatekeeper to our imprisoned heart!
Appreciation is the key when we are linked to the past so that we see the divinity without shackles in others and our-self, which is the way we appreciate so our deepening loving essences can expand.
So true Greg, I love the analogy as well. We are our own saviours, no one else can ever resuce or save us.
Spot on James, so many of us are looking for life-savers.
Life-savers or life-relievers?
Maybe James, and to expand this discussion, could it be that we have to allow our-selves to develop our own sacredness, so we can fully connect to our inner-most and thus express from our sensitivities, as the tender precious beings we all equally are?
It could just be Greg. I know for more there is nothing more natural for my body than being deeply sensitive, which is simply being aware of what I am sensing at all times. So often we can say I don’t know or did not feel that when it is simply just us choosing not to fully register what we are sensing as the old ‘I knew that’ comes up time and time again showing that we are not as ‘dumb’ or ‘unaware’ as we think we are!
We are superbly aware and cannot switch it off, only bludgeon it to within an inch of death – and at times literally so.
No matter how hard we try to deny we know something, even the simple fact of denying it means we must know the truth, otherwise what would there be to deny? The more I have realised this the more fruitless I have found trying to ignore what I am feeling, as ultimately nothing will ever stop us feeling what is going on around us.
You’re right; denial or any other emotion means some old hurt or memory has been triggered. If not, we could just say that we can’t relate to it or that it is not our experience.
So then the more we can let go of old past hurts the more we can observe life and what is going on around us rather than taking it on and reacting to it.
Absolutely stunning Gabriele, beautifully picking the mock lock with every word.
Stunningly beautiful Gabriele, love your expression of God, for God.. and for us all.
So true .. God has always been there in his magnificence .. it is just we have not been in ours!
So many are fooled into standing before the gates of God thinking they are padlocked just as you did Gabriele. Sometimes we need someone to walk through the doors to show us the truth of what is truly taking place.
Love the analogy of the mock lock and how we so often lock ourselves away from not just God’s love, but also that of our wider family and community by feeling we have to behave in certain ways that are not true to us – so no-one gets to see the real us and we feel isolated and unsupported.
Brilliant exposé, Gabriele, of all the shenanigans we play out in our dismissal of the grandness we are by nature and denial of the ever beholding and stupendous love of God, that we cannot separate ourselves from apart from in our minds.
I was brought up with a God to fear, “do as the bible says or else” so no wonder there were a few brick walls to knock down before I realised that God was Love.
There are hundreds of different versions of what ‘God’ is and looks like, and this in itself shuts many people down from religion and having a connection to the fact that there could be more to life than this because of all the seeming confusion, complication and unsureness which we have manufactured.
Wow. What a cracker of an article. This so beautifully demonstrates how much the name of ‘God’ has been bastardised.
We build gates, we invent obstacles, we make life so incredibly difficult – but I’m sure there is no obstacle and no gate and no difficulty big enough to shut God out.
You have exposed the huge lie that we live thinking we are shut out from God’s love, when it is impossible because we live in the universe of his body and every breath we take we are breathing in his love. It’s what we chose to do with this love that makes all the difference do we ignore it or embrace it. I would say currently the majority of us are ignoring what in truth cannot be ignored.
I love this Gabriele. We put so many obstacles in the way of simply connecting to God, but in truth there is nothing in the way, just our perceived reality of the fact that it is hard.
The symbolism of walking through the gate, doorway or threshold is very powerful and is all over stories and fables – as well as brilliant blogs like this. It requires the commitment to take those steps, to saying yes, to going for it, but more and more I am feeling that it is not a passage into unchartered territories but a return to where we came from and if we hold God in our hearts, the the pull to walk through these gates, with their mock locks, is irresistible.
An inspiring and very relatable blog with a few of the gates and padlocks being exposed here.
“we erect gates, padlock them and all the while, ignore His magnificence”.
I love your analogy of the mock lock and God. It is such a powerful one, showing all the seeming barriers and locks we put in front of our relationship with God, yet all we need to do is open the unhindered door and walk through it.
Sometimes i convince myself that the gate is padlocked and I haven’t got the key – even though it was me that put that specific flavour of padlock on the gate and even though it is me that carries the key in my pocket.
And not to forget the special and secret and hidden combination we think we can look the padlock with – nothing is unseen, nothing is nothing and when it is all done and dusted, it finally, joyfully and gloriously crumbles into dust to commence all over again as part of another cycle.
This is an important detail that you add Gabriel and a game that I have certainly played. A lie to myself is simply just that, because the Universe sees and records everything so everything, at whatever point, will eventually have to be dealt with no matter how many locks I may believe that I have put on it. The important detail to add though and an illustration of the magnificence of God is that, whilst in life, at school, at work, in families we get into trouble for lying…with God there is no judgement; just an infinite well of love welcoming us back home! This is a vital detail that disempowers the indulgent self-bashing.
Oh how very true, it is our own very making that keeps the separation we think we have with God going.
Yes, we have created in all ways possible, methods to keep us away from God and building mock locks! If we stop on our never-ending journey to distance ourselves from him, we find he is still with us! Are we not trying to run away from our feet?
Gabriele, what a beautiful observation of how we put our own obstacles in our way that create complications and hardships in our lives, and then expect God to remove them to ease our pain. A revelation that you have made crystal clear.
Unless we admit and come to terms with the gates we have created and erected in our attempt to keep God at a distance we shall continue in our ways but for how long can we keep this going? I am one of the many Universal Medicine Students who in this life has re-awakened to the truth of the games that have been and are being played to keep me in separation to God. I have exposed the false gates that I had put in place to keep God out and boy it feels good as I return and claim the fact that I and every single one of us is a son of God.
I love how you bring the padlock that was not locked into how we perceive God. That only when we unlock the padlock and pass through the gate will we find God, yet his magnificence is everywhere. It is one of the greatest illusions we live under, that the Church and the many religions that abound today have the key that will give us access to God, …the mock lock only fools those that are not willing to look beyond the bounds and constraints that have been placed before us.
All so very true. We put conditions on God and in so doing erect a fortress around our heart. In this way we become our own prisoner and lock ourselves out of the Kingdom of God that lives deep within us all.
Brilliantly insight-full blog Gabriele. You grabbed me with the heading and held me all the way through to the end. And reading over and over again that we are ignoring God’s magnificence had me realising that by ignoring his magnificence we are at the same time ignoring ours. Time to throw away all those ‘mock locks’ and begin to appreciate the magnificence that is within us and around us in every single moment of every single day.
We do not have to play small or play all the games we have created around God nor keep ourselves imprisoned by our ideals and beliefs. Great blog. Thank you Gabriele.
If we don’t fundamentally know in our bodies that our bodies are completely contained within the body of God, then we know that we have padlocks in place.
We are the magnifence of God in all his glory.
And each one of us adds the piece that makes the All that God is and breathes and holds.
Humanity is so creative. Any and each way we can find to create a barrier between our divinity, we will. But we are truly divine and in surrendering in expressing that without protection there is actually no need to create any protection to hide or separate ourselves from God.
” We imbue God with our human spirit’s traits.”
This is very true we make God in our own image , so we can ” control ” and ” Own ” him.
We already are inside the gate, just keeping our eyes shut and playing lost, going around and around ‘Where is He? Where are we?’ Maybe it was meant to be a game in the beginning, and we just wanted to see how would manage to find Him however many times we might bump into something or have a fall, but we are getting tired with this, are we not?
This is profound – offering us our next step , that is evolutionairy and truly allowing us to be truthfull. Meaning that what is shared above is to make us ponder truly on the creations we are in and that in fact it is a illusion within the atmic body of God. Until we choose to drop the pride and falsities and come to full awareness that we are from the same love and power that God is.
Absolutely Gabriele. We have access to the complete beauty of the universe in every moment, but we keep pretending we’ve been locked out. The irony is we keep getting it all anyway. It’s just the imagined lock we carry and pretending we don’t that weighs us down.
This is beautiful Gabriele, you are a true word-smith in allowing the Grace of God to be your inspiration.
Great exposure of how we lock ourselves out of God’s and our magnificence with our falsely constructed prisons that we hold the key to just as soon as we are willing to see the Truth.
And there in lies the masterful ways we refuse to see, suddenly life is only two dimensional, disease is just a medical condition to be fixed, abuse is just violence. That is the prison, seeing life as if the magnificence of the universe does not exist.
Padlocks, gates and fences…what a great description of the way we as a society, historically have compartmentalised God.
Wow the mock lock has everything to do with God and a wonderful symbol of how we create all these things that keep us from going through what’s really an unlocked gate!
This, ‘We pray for others because we think we know what is right for them’ really stood out for me and how arrogant I was thinking I know better.
God has been and is there all the time, constantly and always letting us know hs’s there. But we miss all of this because we use our rational mind or current way of thinking to ask God to prove that he is true. We meet God through Re-connecting to our inner heart, not through a belief. Then we understand that we have always known God.
Much has been done in the name of god but little has been done in the energy of God.
A call to our divinity Gabriele…we have had the key all along. A magnificent morning read.
The great thing is that no matter what barriers we put up, God is always there, in all His magnificence, waiting for us to return without all the layers we had protected ourselves with.
This is relatable on many levels. How often have we held another to ransom, whether that be another person, God, the universe, or just the world in general? When we realise that there is nothing stopping us but ourselves, no one else determining how we respond and react to life but ourselves, it’s very empowering.
Yes, Bryony. By holding God to ransom we create such complication, drama and strife, when all we need to do is simply surrender to what is already there for us.
Empowering indeed, and gives such an ease to the way we can live.
As you correctly say, Bryony, this analogy in the blog applies to so much of life in general – very empowering.
God is Love… and we can avoid, deny, run away from and reject this until there comes a time when we have to face all our loveless acts we have created to not be the love we innately are too.
Love is the expressions of God and when I look around I don’t see much love in our world currently, but we are all still held in love by God. It is just that we often don’t express it or allow ourselves to feel God’s love.
Fabulous read Gabriele… and so very true – exposing our bargaining with God, our blatant dishonesty and refusal to take responsibility! And yet through all this, God is constantly all loving.
How arrogant we are, to have created such chaos and carnage on Earth and then to stand back, arms folded and berate God for letting it happen.
Brilliant blog Gabriele. I had a padlock just like the one you described and I have now ditched it to open up the gate to God. I am taking my first few steps through the gate, sometimes I hesitate and sometimes I’ve even taken a few step back. But no matter how many steps I take the magnificence of God is always present, never wavering and always lovingly waiting for our embrace.
‘And while all this is going on, God is there in His magnificence and we, merrily or not, live in His atmic body and with the free will to deny, lie, demean, wilfully create, beseech, ignore and pretend whatever takes our fancy next …’ – I love how you so eloquently point out how will-fully irresponsible we can be, in spite of our capacity to know the truth. Feeing and seeing the glory and magnificence is as much our choice as erecting gates and padlocks is.
So true, in order to not be responsible for the fact we don’t feel that God is always there, and never not, we put up walls and gates that we cannot climb over to justify why we don’t go there and take our responsibility.
‘We think He should have put an end to war, cruelty, torture, domestic violence, rape and everything else that is wrong in this world whilst we shirk responsibility and keep frantically busy creating more of the mess that we demand or implore Him to fix up on our behalf’ – we love having free will, except when it comes to taking responsibility, then we are quick to shift the blame anywhere and everywhere else but where it truly lies, with us. Very awesome blog, Gabriele, thank you.
Great expose of the irony. It reminds me of child/parent relationships where often children can put their foot down and insist that they are adults and need to be treated as such, but when finances, responsibility and accountability raises its head the tune changes and it is the parents (or equivalent figures) that are left to deal with things. We humans seem to be playing the same game of duck the responsibility in our relationship with God.
Beautiful Gabriele, absolutely beautiful.
What a lovely reflection Gabriele – the gate that wasn’t locked but just appeared to be. How very exposing of our illusions about God. It never made sense to me that a truly loving father would be distant from his children and require them to use an intermediary to contact Him. And I am delighted to come to the awareness that it is not the case. The mock lock has been exposed.
Love the analogy of the mock lock Gabriele. We put so many obstacles in the way, yet if we only surrender we can feel his love and magnificence.