God is all. Too see the world around us fully we are called by God to see God in all things. Sometimes it is harder to find God in something and so instead of making the default we assume it is separate from us. We make this decision quicker than we like to think we do but our brain has this automatic categorization that occurs. It is a survival method. Looking past what we perceive is what it means to live spiritually. To seek the world as a place where God exists in all things is to embrace the worldliness of our existence. The beauty in the practice of reevaluation of our original perception is the heart satisfaction of connection with something we first deemed separate from ourselves. The whole world begins to open up when we are able to identify the similar part of ourselves with others. We no longer have to spend our energy defending ourselves against something foreign to us. We get to embrace the godliness of the world.
My prayer for us is the courage to pause and reevaluate our perception of others as simply our lack of identification of God’s presence in that part of our world.
If God created all and is in all, where in your world can you be open to seeing again the godliness in the world around you? Share in the comments.
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