Free Will…
As a child, I often shared a bedroom with my younger sister, Kris, who is the lower middle child of the family. I remember having talks as we laid in our twin beds at night before falling asleep. Being born into a Roman Catholic family, going to a Parochial grade school, there were many topics that I found confusing. The biggest one for me was the subject of Free Will. I could not seem to wrap my brain around the concept of God knowing everything we would do, yet, still having this thing called Free Will. If He knew everything, then ultimately, would He not know that we could make a decision, and then still be able to change our mind? Where did Free Will come in to play? Could we trick God? I remained confused about the topic for many years.
Fast forward to adulthood, I found myself in a study group for The Course In Miracles. In that class, our facilitator, Olivia, would tell us that we chose the family we were born in to, so that we might learn the lessons we needed to learn in this lifetime. I chose Catholicism because I needed to be presented with the guilt and shame that permeated that faith, so that I could reject it and find my own interpretation of God. And that I did.
I explored the concept of no one getting to heaven until we all got there. We were encouraged to celebrate and honor everyone’s belief as right for them. After all, isn’t it more important that we have a belief in a God of our understanding rather than insist that we all have the same belief? I hold that concept today. If I am to believe that God is All Knowing, All Loving, a forgiving & compassionate God; then it best that I try to follow the Ten Commandments and let go of the man made rules. If and when we can get those Ten right, we will have no need to walk this physical plane, and if we are still here, we may have found Heaven on Earth.
There has been more killing “in the name of God” than for any other reason. If “thou shall not kill” is one of the Ten, how can we possibly justify all the murder committed on this Earth? I have read the Ten Commandments many times. Never have I seen a ‘parenthesis’ after any of them. There are NO exceptions. No justifications.
Judgement was another issue for me. I believe that learning to not pass judgement is one of the biggest lessons we learn here on Earth. The Catholic church tells us that we will come before God when we pass on and He will judge our life., and then we will either go to Heaven or go to Hell. But, what happened to a God that is All Forgiving? I now recognize that we are our own judge and jury, so to speak! I know that I am my own worst critic, no one else needs to put in their two cents! If in this physical world, we would all raise our vibration to that of Love instead of Ego, if we would be more supportive, kind and loving towards our fellowman rather than pass judgement, we all might Wake Up quicker & find the true Peace that we all say we want!
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