Let today birth a new spiritual awakening in our life. Awaken to a deeper realization of our wholeness and oneness. Let us go into the silence, commune with our innermost being, and build our faith in the greater possibilities for our lives. Let us become attuned to our magnificent self. This renewal truly is the profound meaning of spiritual birth. When you are spiritually reborn, you see beyond what seems to be. You are not misled by the appearance of separation. You begin to live from a higher knowing, aware that separation is an illusion and is not the truth of what is ultimately real. The universe is one. Spirit is the source and essence of all. It is the ultimate and absolute beingness from which all springs forth. We are all interconnected in this beingness, part of one another as well as one with Spirit. Chritianity, Islam and other religions taught this truth when they said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." And it was misunderstood when Jesus or Essa said"(I and my father are one)."This means to my understanding that, God is in everyone us; in other words, we are all god because He made us to His resemblance. A little child believes and does almost all what their mother or father told them even if God should come down to tell them otherwise. Therefore we are all onetime or the other godlike, if your boss said your will not pray in the office premises, you dare not to do it to avoid loosing your job. Is he/she not godlike to you? Hence God said pray everywhere the praying time meets you but you boss is God here and you must obey him/her to retain your job. We are all God’s children because He is the ONE we believed created us like to our mothers and fathers we believe brought us in to this world. The more that we engage in the spiritual practice of seeing beyond the appearance of separation, the more receptive we become to the gifts of goodness, love, and peace given to those who are reborn of the Spirit. Awakening to our oneness opens for us to gain life wherein the way before us is made straight and graceful. Reborn here mean to be more enlightening, like a newly graduate student. To be reborn means knowing or doing what you don’t know or did before. So let us rejoice in the knowledge of our true nature “oneness”. ________________________________ From: Edie Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Fri, 24 December, 2010 19:00:14 Subject: Truth WHAT IS TRUTH??? Some can say I am crazy but opinionatedly, Truth is everything yet again nothing. Truth is everything because whatever one uttered from his/her mouth had a reason for doing that even whereas, he/she might not sometimes have clue. Truth is nothing because one man’s truth is the other man’s lies. They said truth shall prevail at the end but only if people can recognize it from the lies. So how can we recognize the truth from lies if it is not whole? They told us the fact that educating in foreign language such as; English, French, Portuguese, will help us to live in so called better standard of wearing cloths and shoes like they do. They enslaved us just to benefit and satisfied their domestic needs, they told us that if we obeyed them we will go to heaven and reciprocate to that hell fire, they are using our natural resources to enrich themselves and their population yet we cannot see the whole truth because they have corrupted and controlled our entire system both mentally and spiritually. Their tricks are well rooted and well planned to an extend we are seemingly unable to free ourselves from. Now God is greater that all these plans and tricks and that greatness of the higher ONE for the truth to be whole is already available but just for people to be able to figure out for themselves by been sensitive and observant to event happening around them different not what he or she said but what they see or heard happening with verification. Who ever think Obama will became American president? Arab countries have oil from the Mother Nature but without the unified centralization of the economy by using their own languages and honesty from the beginning, it will be a waste of the nature’s resource. Africa has fertile soil to produce natural resources but unified voice is missing on how to take advantage of the education received from the colonialist to gain more from these precious gifts from the nature due to the different foreign languages used and dishonesty among the educated few entrusted, yet the nature haven’t close the door on us but opening the oil fields in various corners of our continent to benefitting the population but yet prioritized to the same selfish few. We should not be scared or feared as human have their plans but God’s plan is the best plan and will surely come someday to rescue Africa and Africans to a better ways to compete and manage our resources using the same unified languages and tools. To us human all these disasters happened since hundreds of years ago but to God it was just yesterday. Every religion hold some truth in them therefore we are all on the right path as much as been colonized by the West has some advantages in them considering how our continent will be without colonization. Colonization gives us an age to learn and able to compete using the same tactic as the whole world has at their disposal, in other words; the unification of the whole world by using one system even whereas, the system is foreign to us but that is how the Creator plans it unity brings about LOVE. He always wanted us to be ONE and that ONENESS cannot come by having completely different systems. In honor of Christmas which was said to be the birthday of the one known as Jesus, Ben Joseph, has many stories told, many add-ons that were added by, those who came after the lifetime he shared upon Planet Earth with all of the people and its Kingdoms, who did not really understand. And his words and his teachings were further corrupted by that which we call the priests of the church, even after the first accounts had been written. So it is no wonder that there is confusion. The message that he brought was very simple. It was the message of Love. It was the message of Oneness. It was the message of loving all upon the Planet, and of loving yourself too. Sometimes this has been corrupted, as you know. And sometimes extremism has been based upon someone's misinterpretation. Wars have been fought in the name of Jesus and his religion, and the other great teachers like Muhammad and his religion. Indeed there is a situation which is not peaceful going on right now, a situation which has been false and controlled behind the scenes, but nevertheless, seems to be based upon the differences in religions. Of course it is about Ascension or moving to a higher level of understanding. It is about helping people to make their choices. And it is most definitely beginning already, in the uniting of people as spiritual beings, Beings of Light, Beings of Love, rather than religious beings. It is perfectly wondrous indeed to go to a religious building, a church, or a temple or mosque. But it is to recognize that God is within each of us and every living being in the Universe. So there is no one religion which is better than another. There are no teachings which are truer than others.This is what truth is. Unity, love, respect, and acceptance of each other unconditionally. Marry Christmas to all. 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