Shalom!
Open your heart… Open your mind… Look beyond your understanding… Listen to those around you… Watch in silence… Remove your ego and look upon others with an open heart… Listen to the earth… The animals… Its all the word of God. God speaks daily in our lives and not just through the written word. He speaks through everyone and everything. Everything on earth was made by him and bears his image. Every human, every animal, every plant and rock. “Even the rocks declare his glory”. I grew up in a culture that relied solely on the bible for right and wrong. Even though that is acceptable there is so much more to our relationship with him than can be found in his book. Watching a mother with her child. Watching the elderly with their memories. God can even be found in the disastrous and the corrupt. His spirit resides in all things and ties all things together. “Shalom” is a Hebrew greeting that means peace to you. Just like the wonderful phrase used by the Hindu people “namaste”. It means I honor in you the place where your soul rest. Sin is anything that disrupts shalom or namaste. In our narrow thoughts we look only to the Scripture to find sin and what we believe to be said by God. When in fact the Holy Spirit that resides in us will lead us to all understanding. We will know and feel if it interrupts our lives and our peace. Christ said “I leave with you peace and my spirit that you may learn from it”. Stop and listen!
I Love You! Perry