When it comes to God, and Religion, and Spirituality, it seems that everyone has an opinion, one way or the other.

And each person will tell you…. their beliefs, or religion, or lack there of… is right.  And. In some cases, if you don’t follow that particular path… THEIR particular path… you are damned to hell.

They may be right.

I’m here to tell you tonight, I don’t know.  About any of it.

All I know, is that it seems funny to me, that so many people, with so many differing opinions… can all be right.

Maybe funny isn’t the right word.  I mean… there have been, and still are… wars about this.  There has been mass human destruction as a result.  It all seems a little sideways to me, at times.  Most times.

I’ve been reading a lot on the subject lately.  From a lot of different sources.   From the Bible to translations of the Quran to books on various Spiritual Paths.

And I will add.  The more I read… I feel like the less I know.  If I read much more, I will be totally discombobulated and flummoxed.

I guess at this point, I feel like there are no hard, fast answers to any of it.

I think it is good that people have beliefs and follow those beliefs.  Where I smell trouble, is when people try to tell others how they should believe.

Who can say really?  There have been hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of years, debating this topic. It goes like this:  My God is THE God.  No…. my God is THE God.   And no…. there is NO God at all.   This debate will continue for eons to come.

For me, I think that there is a life-force within our souls…. or whatever you want to call that energy space within us.  Where we start, is in our hearts, in our own selves.  Seeking life, and love.  Maybe if we start listening more, and talking less.  Prayers…. filled with endless chatter and requests.  We sure can “yak” it up when we pray to our Gods.

Maybe if there truly IS a greater being….  a great life force….  we will have better luck in really finding that loving energy… if we listen.  Just be still… and listen.

Maybe.

“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.” ~ Hermann Hesse

“There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O’ traveller of you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.” ~ Rumi

“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon