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Hello Beloved!

What a beautiful morning it is when I choose to recognize it as such! :-) Did you know that EVERY day is a beautiful sunshiny day? It's true. Even when we perceive clouds and snow and rain and thunderstorms... all of which I absolutely love, by the way. What happens when you rise above all of those clouds? What happens when we look from a higher perspective? We find the sun. Every single time. Without fail. It is not denial to say that it is a sunny day, when in fact, we may perceive clouds and storms. It simply requires a higher perspective. Thank you for letting me share that analogy! I have loved it from the time it was told to me.

I wanted my "first" blog to be a bit of a foundational one. (As the technical first post was really just an introduction, I am considering this to be blog post number one. Lol.) And so I have been mulling over what I would consider the foundation to be. So, this is what I have come to.

If you were to ask me what I consider to be my foundational belief, my "doctrine" if I were to need one, it is very simply this:

We are One.

Yes, One.

At one point, I would have said Love. But if we could realize, and I mean really, truly, feel and experience that the boundaries and separations we think are between us are not real. If we could know that I am You, and You are Me, and that whatever I think, or feel, or do, or say to or about you, I am also thinking, feeling, doing, and saying to Me and any and every Other that we are perceiving. When we realize that there really is no "other", only the One, then Love must be our only true response. Because Love is what we are, of course. God IS Love. God is.... One. The All..... in All.

It would seem that every single problem of evil, and suffering, every act of hatred, bitterness, violence, and separation towards ourselves, towards each other, towards all living beings, and towards the earth herself, would be solved by the realization and experience of our Oneness. None would see themselves as higher or lower than, better or less than, or even in fact at all separate from any other. Each would give everything to everything as if it were the only thing that matters, knowing that it really is in giving that we receive. For if we are One, then what I give to "You" is never lost by "Me"... it is only given by the One to the One. We would love unconditionally knowing that each and every expression of the One is completely loved already because we ARE Love.

And there would be Peace. Ever-flowing, never-ending Peace. Because violence only occurs in our actions, words, thoughts, and hearts when we perceive that there is some difference between you and I.

As I was mulling this over, I received an email from a wonderful individual that I love dearly. And it provided a perfect example for this blog. It was a forwarded email, and this is what it said:

Apparently they think that putting hearts and butterflies on the new stamp will make most people not realize that the rest is Arabic and probably not something we want to support.

New Stamp - the second one!!!

USPS New 44-Cent Stamp Celebrates a Muslim holiday.
If there is only ONE thing you forward today... let it be this!

President Obama has directed the United States Postal Service to REMEMBER and HONOR the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a new commemorative 44-Cent First Class Holiday Postage Stamp.

REMEMBER to adamantly & vocally BOYCOTT this stamp, when you are purchasing your stamps at the post office.

All you have to say is "No thank you, I do not want that Muslim Stamp on my letters!"


Pass this along to every Patriotic American that you know and get the word out!

(First let me note, you may want to check the facts on this email. It was a specialty stamp, not one issued by the president. Lol.)

Now. What do we see here? We are seeing so very unclearly through the eyes of separation. Oneness says that you and I and every Muslim in the world are in fact One. The celebration of their holiday, is the celebration of ours. Just as the celebration of our holiday is the celebration of their. Differences in language, religion, and nation of no consequence to those who have experienced this Oneness. I can look at any "other" and see the same Beloved One as I feel within myself and I can know that whatever I think, or say, or feel, or do to one of these, I am doing to every other. I am doing to myself. I am doing to God.

"Whatsoever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me."

Lets begin this moment and every other with the desire to know and experience this Oneness that we are. Lets open our eyes to see what is real, and focus on what we know to be true. For once again, whatever we focus on expands. Whatever we focus on, we create more of. So when we read or feel something like the email sent above, lets look from a higher perspective. Lets go up a little higher and look at what things really look like above the clouds of misperception and deception. And once we see this inside of ourselves, THEN we can begin to act out of Love and Peace and Compassion and Joy. Because these are what we ARE above all of those "clouds".

Also, in regards to the email above, the following book is an incredible book (especially for Christians) on cultivating a new perspective and relationship with the Muslim world. A WONDERFUL read. :-)

Blessings to you and Thank You!

Serafina