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How many opposing opinions are there going on at any one time, in your mind? Did you ever get bowled over by that idea?

As I am sitting at my computer, and waiting for the water to boil for my morning one-cup-of-coffee, I realized some of the division within myself. First of all, I quit drinking coffee several times a year. Why, because, when I form the habit of one-cup-per-day (and only one cup because everyone knows caffeine is bad for you, AND because with more than one cup, I get all jittery and hyper), and then should I miss consuming the one-cup-per-day, I get THE HEADACHE. And that is a form of addictive control, (in a perfect world I should have the choice to drink a cup or to leave it) which just curdles my milk...Not that I drink milk (well, not much and then only 1% organic, and hormone free) for we know that we are the only country, whose citizens still drink milk passed the age of 7 or 8.

Probably what is worse, is that it is not really the coffee I am craving, but it is that hazelnut imitation cream to which I have become addicted. And don’t even get me started there, with all the hydrogenated oils and imitations of life with which that is filled. So, it is a challenge just to sit down and enjoy a simple morning cup of coffee, with all this opposing programming going on in my head.

Then one of my kids will stop by and remind me that it is all “God”...and all “good,” and there is nothing but Spirit...so, bless it and enjoy. These are children I have actually raised and taught all that I know...they must be doing supplemental reading.

And all this over a cup of coffee...No wonder we have thousands of religions in the world. I just received a joke from my Sedona friend, Light, on how different religions would handle changing a light bulb. Someone had really captured the absurdities of the mind...especially where it refers to one's belief system. There are as many religions as there are minds...for each of us, no matter which belief system we righteously claim as our own, adds and rejects from the "dogma" of their group to quietly form what is their own personal “Religion”––that with which they can live.
Sometimes it is interesting to look up a word’s definition in the dictionary...a word we feel we know...rather than accept the definition which has been sullied by years and layers of in-fighting. “Religion” comes from the latin religare: re is back and ligare is to bind––to bind back or together. So, religion is a tool to bring people together around a similar set of ideas or beliefs. How incredible that this very tool for “bringing together” has the effect of dividing the “together” group, from all other people who are of a slightly different opinion. Especially, when no two people within the “together group” can even agree on all of the ideas held by their own religion!!
How can we hope for unity and togetherness and the feeling of ONENESS...when those very beliefs which tie us to our vision of God, are the same beliefs which separate us from our fellow human beings? What is wrong with this picture?

It would be an extreme effort to shift our thinking to that which we share in common with others, as opposed to the old thinking of how “they” are different from “us.”

But, come on now...it’s all God...and it’s all good...and there just ain’t nothin’ but Spirit. So, enjoy your coffee or your beliefs and allow your neighbor the same right. We don’t have to preach about the darkness of hydrogenated beliefs––but show, by our example, that our veins and beliefs are clear and free flowing with love. And those who are interested in such matters will ask how we have attained this purity of mind, body and spirit...or not. And that’s O.K., too.

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