Through the Wilderness

Sunday, August 13, 2006

We do not own God.

"All human beings powerfully sustain one another. The lovers of God in this contingent world becomes the mercies and the blessings sent out by that gentle King of the seen and unseen realms. Let them purify their sight and behold all humankind as leaves and blossoms and fruits of the Tree of Being."
Baha"Ullah (1817-1892) Persia

If only we can see ourselves as 'leaves and blossoms, and fruits of the Tree of Being'. Unfortunately, many of us are parasites and predators. Instead of 'powerfully sustaining one another', we are destroying and killing one another. Sad, isn't it?

In the name of religion, we maim and we kill. We claim to be 'holy people' and we behave as if we have a monopoly on God. Yet, the truth is we do not own God. He created us and we are but His people; He owns us. Would that we, the peoples of the earth, all be humbled by this realisation and not let our egos deceive us into thinking that we own Him or even worse, that we can take HIS place and thus play God.

(art: Picasso's 'Guernica')
http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/guernica_nav/main_guerfrm.html


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