The Language of God

My husband and I were having a conversation. I had asked him to please share with me the perspective of a group of people he had grown up around. Him not agreeing with the perspective was already known. If he had, we wouldn’t have been sitting there as husband and wife having this conversation in the first place.

I asked because I sought to understand. “What is going on with all the running laps around the church? What is the purpose? What is the meaning?”

I admit, the thoughts running through my head weren’t very complimentary but I recognized them as judgments of my own ignorance. There was no way I was relating such undisciplined behavior as worshipful. I had been raised Catholic, after all. Popping up out of my seat at an inappropriate moment and running laps around the church during services would have definitely been frowned upon at the very least. With excommunication and exorcism as definite possibilities.

Yet, in the church my husband grew up around, running laps during service was actually one of the goals of the service. “Why?”

He went on to explain.

“The belief is that running laps around the church is a sign that God has entered you. It’s God that takes you over, thus you run around the church.”

I bit my tongue. ‘God likes running in circles?’ I thought to myself. There has to be more to it than that. At least there’s the idea that God can be within, even it if does express itself more like a kind of possession than communion.

“There’s more to it than just running laps, isn’t there?” I asked.

“Yes. You can run in circles, you can jump up and down, or you can start talking in tongues. If you ever want to get to Heaven, you have to have talked in tongues.”

Work myself into a state of mental and emotional imbalance, into an irrational frenzy, and call it ‘communing with God’? Definitely not something for me. Now growing up as I did, I was familiar with conditions for entering ‘Heaven’. Catholic dogma is full of them. I had just never heard of this one.

“I don’t understand. Would you please help me? What is ‘talking in tongues’?” I was familiar with the phrase and had my own understanding of its meaning. I was seeking to understand what meaning others had given it.

“Talking in tongues is speaking some sort of language….’God’s Language’, the ‘Language of Spirit’. It sounds like babbling.

“How do you know it isn’t?”

“Because there has to be a witness: someone who will testify that they understood what was said.”

“How do you know it’s not a set up? A con game? With both the witness and the one talking in tongues playing a con game on themselves and the rest of the congregation witness to that?”

“You don’t. It’s the belief to accept it on blind faith. Like I’ve said, I never did it. It never happened to me. I never experienced God entering me and causing me to jump up and start running laps. Much less talk in tongues.

The belief is that you have to be truly repentant and you can’t lie. Your Heart knows when you’re lying. So if you’re not truly repentant, God won’t enter you, causing you to run laps and talk in tongues. I wasn’t properly ‘repentant’ when it came to wearing short sleeves and other ‘flashy’ clothes.”

“This, I was familiar with, at least a little. There’s “repentance” in the form of “Confession” and “Penance” in Catholicism. Thinking of going to Confession on Saturday, receiving Communion on Sunday, then back to business as usual Monday through Friday, I asked, “How many times can you do it?”

Now it was his turn to look puzzled. “How many times!?”

“Yes. Like how many times can you repent your ways? You know how we are. We can really, truly want to repent, want to change our ways. But old habits are hard to break. We can stumble even with the best of intentions. We can truly feel sorry. Desperately sorry. And genuinely want change.”

“Ahhhh…but are we sorry we did it or sorry we got caught?”

“I see. We’re sorry for the consequences. We’re sorry we’ve got a Guilty conscience. Sorry we’re Guilty. Not necessarily sorry we did it.”

“Like I said, we can’t lie to our Hearts. True Repentance is genuinely feeling regret and desire to change. Once, is generally all it takes.”

I sat and pondered it a moment. I started repeating back what I had understood, checking to see if I had comprehended. This parroting exercise is something I learned long ago. It helps avoid misunderstandings. Sometimes I only think I understand, when really, I don’t or haven’t. I had been taking notes whenever I heard a buzz word or phrase. I can literally feel significance and importance. It’s a sense.

“True Repentance”, as in genuinely desiring change?”

“Yes.”

“’Speaking in tongues’ meaning speaking the ‘Language of God’, the ‘Language of Spirit’?”

“Yes. Like fire letters or something but spoken.”

“But not necessarily understood?”

“Right.”

I spoke up.

“Let me share with you my conception.

The Language of God, the Language of Spirit, has to have an essential ingredient. The Language will have a certain tone, a certain quality of ‘Absolute Being’ about it. Equanimity. Equality. Something common to one and All. All embracing. All pervasive. All inclusive. That means capable of being experienced by every One. ALL of Us. Not just some. the chosen.

I have problems with the concept of ‘the chosen’. Because there is implied a ‘those who are Not’. That’s not equal. Can’t be ‘All That Is’ and ‘All Embracing’, so long as there is a ‘them that’s Not’.

It doesn’t make any sense…a ‘limited unlimited’. It’s silly. So I object to the idea on Principle alone. If it’s an idea of exclusion and limitation, it’s not an idea coming from any kind of ‘Absolute Being’ level of awareness. No matter how many of Us potentates and self appointed religious ‘authorities’ claim it is.

Unity has a feel to it. An Essence. It’s Whole and Sum. It’s an ALL kind of thing.

The Language of God, the Language of Spirit that we ALL know speaks in tones of Unity. Spirit Unifies. There is One Spirit, One ‘Supreme’ or ‘Absolute’ Being. This Being-ness is communicated through our Hearts. And I wrote this list:

The Essence of Unity

The Essence of Understanding

The Essence of Truth

The Essence of Faith

The Essence of Acceptance

The Essence of Tolerance

The Essence of Compassion

The Essence of Harmony

The Essence of Forgiveness

The Essence of Peace

Then said, “this is just a few. I know what kind of man you are and, according to my concepts and what I’ve witnessed, you’ve been ‘talking in tongues’ your whole life. Just didn’t know it.

There’s an old saying: the only way to overlook the obvious is if we’re not looking. I haven’t met a person yet, that didn’t express at least one of these Essences. Every single One of us can and do ‘talk in tongues’ every day.

According to my understanding, what a Truly ‘repentant’ Heart seeks to change is the feeling of rejection that comes with the judgment of ‘Guilty’. The remedy for this is the understanding of the Essence of Forgiveness. As in all other Essences of the Absolute, it’s Always ‘here’. Where ever and when ever ‘here’ Is. It’s simply a matter of knowing the choice to receive is Present.”

“Are these peptides?” he asked, a twinkle in his eye.

“I guess we could call them perspectives that create peptides. We have to be in our Ever Loving Mind to know the e-motions, the e-senses, and the feel of it. If we don’t make sense, there will be nothing to sense.

The beliefs we’ve had up to now, regardless of what belief system we embrace, haven’t had much sense of Unity in them. Inclusiveness. Equanimity. Equality. Fairness. Justice. Universal in scope. And most of all, Unconditionally Loving and Embracing.

They’ve all been conditions of exclusivity. I call it line drawing. Giving rise to all sorts of reasons for rejection. Every culture has them. We call it ‘polarity’ and ‘duality’. I call it ‘Righteousness based on Wrongness’. There has to be a ‘not chosen’ in order for there to be a ‘chosen’. Exaltation of some at the negation of others. This is not Unity; it is the basis of separation. There has to be delegated a ‘bad’, so the ‘good’ will feel superior. There has to be a ‘not special’, for some to feel ‘special’.

This gives rise to the creation of a relationship pattern within Humanity where one group, a ‘moral’ majority, literally feeds off the lives of others, giving rise to codes of behavior that propagate, support and nurture, repulsive qualities of character: supremacy, bias, prejudice and, arrogance. Once we draw lines of separation, we have parts. The moment we make parts, we create conflict.

While many of Us ‘pray’ for Divine Justice, it doesn’t ever enter our minds that reality is It. We reap as we sow. If we don’t like what we’re reaping, then MAYBE it’s time to change what we sow. Our behavior, fueled by our beliefs, is the source of all our conflicts, suffering, sorrow and, woe. Our beliefs are self-destructive. The sooner we realize it, the sooner we can change and, create different results.

“People don’t like accountability.”

“I know. It’s because issues of accountability and responsibility are tied to beliefs in fault and blame. We don’t like fault and we don’t like blame. It’s beliefs in these concepts that are one of our veils. ‘Taking the rap’, ‘fault’ and ‘blame’ are all ‘children’ of judgment and condemnation. To condemn is to draw a line and pronounce ‘Guilty.’ To reject it, whatever ‘it’ is.

My desire and goal is Understanding and there’s no way I can accomplish that if I start out with an attitude of trying to separate myself from the experience. Labeling it a ‘sin’, or ‘evil’, or ‘bad karma’ for that matter, does precisely just that.

I insist, every experience in Life and of Life is a Present. A Gift of the Moment. If I fail to embrace it, whatever it is, however unpleasant and unhappy it might very well be, then I have expressed my own limitations when it comes to my Love of Life. Wisdom always comes with Sorrow.

I don’t look at anything as being ‘wrong’. There are simply choices. With consequences and results. Psychological consequences and psychological results. These consequences and results are dictating how we relate to One Another. We haven’t had Peace, genuine Peace on Our planet because We aren’t Peaceful Beings. I’m looking at the choices we make and their consequences, as an observer, like a fan watching a game. Accepting everything. Tolerating everything. Embracing everything. I Love Life that much.

I’m targeting our beliefs and questioning our choices. Questioning if we truly desire to continue making these same choices, after we Understand what choices we’ve been making. I chose to change.

This is where ‘knowledge’ of the Essences becomes essen-tial. Most especially the Essence of Forgiveness. I treat our errors and mistakes like oppsies and uh oh’s. Entirely Understandable and Forgivable. I found this perspective makes a great deal of difference when it comes to facing our issues and those matters that weigh heavily on our Hearts. Responsibility and accountability take the place of fault and blame. It’s how we transform ourselves from a victim to empowered. Take back the Sovereignty of our own lives.

If We weren’t so afraid of being ‘damned’ or labeled ‘bad’ or ‘evil’, we could actually make some corrections. As it is, we’re too afraid to even look at the psychological skeletons in our closets, limiting both our self potential and our potential for experiencing fulfillment.

It’d sure be a lot ease-ier for All of Us if we just called the whole ‘damn’ thing off. Everybody admit to being ignorant and making a lot of mistakes. Oopsie.”

“To err is Human,” says my Husband.

“And ‘To Forgive is Divine’, I add. “That’s just it. We keep forgetting to access the Divine part. I am Human and I am God also. While many of Us gather together, giving each other encouragement and support for our facades, we really, truly, genuinely, DON’T believe in Forgiveness.

Because the perspectives the Lot of us express sure aren’t it.

It’s easy to laugh at a mistake, an oppsie and, the ability to laugh at ourselves is crucial. ‘Stupid can’t be fixed.’ Sense-less-ness can. I have a great deal of Faith in Us. I know what we are capable of and our potentials. We’ve been limiting ourselves and the intrinsic worth of our lives, by being infected with beliefs that cause self doubt and a whole pile of self worth and self esteem issues. Life would be more enjoyable for All of us, if We were fully functional instead of handicapped in our awareness.

We can play well together instead of ‘ill at ease’. In Unity.

Unity is an Absolute.

There is only One Whole.

There is only One Infinity.

There is only One Eternity.

There is only One Unified Quantum Field.

There is only One All.

All embracing means just that. Nothing is excluded or rejected.

The Essence of Unity unifies….Always embraces all ways.

That’s the Voice of Spirit; the Voice of God.

It’s a Voice that expresses Unconditional Loving.

A genuinely limitless unlimited.

And if it’s missing this tone of Unity, of All Encompassing and All inclusive, then it’s a sure sign that the belief is man made non-sense. No matter how many of Us fossilized fools choose to believe it.