Everything is One. It is the lack of love that separates. Life is a circle. When there is a lack of love, there is separation and a break in the circle. We are responsible for the love we hold within, or lack thereof. We continue the circle or we break it. It is our choice. God has given us free will. We make the choice within. The Kingdom of God is within you. It is our choice.
We all set the example for each other because we are all One. We either teach love or we don't. We can blame others for our choice, but it isn't the fault of others. Love is always our choice. God has given us free will, the free will to be responsible for the love we hold within, or the lack thereof. It doesn't matter what we are responding to. Our reaction with love (or lack thereof) is our choice.
The law of attraction is non-dualism and it is in the Bible in many forms. I'll work with the idea of sowing and reaping. Galatians 6:7-10 says, "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will
he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh [from human ego] will from the flesh
reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit [Holy Spirit] will from the Spirit
reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due
season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have
opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are
of the household of faith." 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 says, "Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows
bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has
decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves
a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so
that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound
in every good work."
Is it possible to follow the Holy Spirit in all things? Can we come from love, always? As it says above, "God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work." It sounds to me like we can, but it doesn't mean we will. God has given us free will. In this life we live as students leaning how to surrender to God in all things so to allow God's grace to abound to us. We also live as teachers by showing others God's good and perfect grace in our lives. We also have the free will choice not to surrender to God and not to allow God's grace to abound to us. It is our choice, always. We are One. If we make no choice, we still have in effect made a choice.
Non-dualism REQUIRES us to make a faith choice if we want to experience God's abundant grace. If we let the weed seeds of the world do the planting for us, we have made our free will choice. We have made the choice to do nothing and allow whatever worldly seeds are planted to take root.
Non-dualism REQUIRES us to make a faith choice to love ourselves first, to believe that we matter to God because we are in God, and of God, created in His Image and His Likeness. Each of us matter. Even with the worst of the worst criminal behavior, the person is created in God's Glorious Image and has the Spark of Divinity waiting to be recognized and free will to be exercised to make a faith choice and accept that we matter. How can we love others if we don't love ourselves first? How can we accept that others matter if we don't accept that we matter?
It was a huge revelation to me when someone said to me, "Terrie, accept that you matter!" I had never truly accepted that I actually mattered because of life experiences in my past. At that moment when I began to accept that I matter, I began to be more able to love others as I loved myself because I actually began to love myself. I became part of Everything that is One because I love myself and can now love Others as I love myself.
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