I can’t imagine a topic to comment on that could be less rife with
controversy or strong emotion. Just looking at it I can hear the
villagers gathering, pitchforks and torches in hand. So; in the immortal words of Val Kilmer’s Doc Holiday:
“I’m your daisy.”
True path and faith came to me
beginning in my 30’s. Late perhaps, but then again who can really gauge
such things. One of the areas that my secular vision and understanding
struggled with was the Bible. In the history of the world has there ever
been a book more dissected, interpreted, channeled, revered, reviled or
explained ad nauseam? The gambit of believers ranging from those who
hold every word literal and inviolate to those who find hidden meaning
and interpretation behind everything, so who could possibly understand
it? AA’s great friend and godfather Emmet Fox opened the door to
understanding for me. It began simply with the admonition to read with
the heart and not the eyes, listening for that which resonates, teaches,
explains and instructs. To take what is needed today, leaving the rest
for another day. To not expect to have perfect understanding in a
twinkling, for this life is a journey, the horizon changing as we walk our path, our understanding and spiritual awareness altering and
expanding. What was once unclear or hidden comes into view, the key
being to keep moving, never stopping along the way, lulled into a false
since of having “arrived” at some spiritual plateau, the journey at an
end. The Bible, in my opinion, is the greatest tool we posses for our
unlimited spiritual expansion, “The purpose of the Bible is to provide a blueprint for living, the text of spiritual growth.”
So, we seek teachers who touch us, but keep our own counsel when
reading/studying the Bible, for spiritual knowledge is available to all,
no intercession or intermediaries required; the only requirement being an open mind and a
willingness to grow.
“There is a principle
which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all
argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance.
This principle is, contempt prior to (investigation) examination.” Rev. William H. Poole (Yep, Poole said it, not Spencer, inside AA baseball)
And I am your huckleberry.
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