A Note on Your Divinity

2 March 2009 by blog.

Following a recent discussion on Facebook with some friends, regards, as we were calling her, the Octo-Mom, I would like to share a thought about your divinity with the rest of the world. The thought is: You, gentle reader, are a Divine individual.

We use a capital ‘D’ to emphasize a nearly universal human belief, namely that all people are Divine. This is expressed in many cultures around the globe, particularly in the major religious doctrines and traditions. Most people have some local translation for the statement, “God is in us.” Let us, therefore, abstract up a level, ever seeking to relate an understanding that the greater commonality is what binds us, even as we get caught up in the indoctrination of division that permeates a world operating over an Architecture of Fear.

No matter where you are, what your circumstances, plight, outlook, or station in the face of what we have created in the world so far, I hope you do not mind if I take this time to pause and share with you how wondrous I find that just like me, you, gentle reader, are Divine!

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The Octo-Mom is Nadya Suleman, a woman who gave birth to octuplets in 2009. The circumstances of the conception, the situation of Ms. Suleman, and the current state of the world, created a sensation. Many people took time for a pause. My two cents, in considering many issues and often opposing, critical viewpoints, follows below.

It is hard to judge God. On the one hand, if God put all creatures on the Earth and if God does not make mistakes, then who are we to judge God’s creations? On the other hand, as God is in us, blessing us with an innate sense of the Divine, it feels, and sometimes we know, that all is not perfect in us nor in the world.

The mother should know that no matter her inner urges or feelings of deflated self that leave her painfully reaching out in a manner, which by our norms and after 10,000 years of recent evolution, strikes many of us as sad, [the mother should know] that she is a Divine being. She is beautiful and beyond adequate, but her choices do speak of an inner pain that runs deep.

If we were doing right by and for the children already in the world today, surely adding 8 more would increase the universal joy. But we are not there and we have a monumental task with the children already here - 35 million children who live in poverty in the United States; an education crisis, particularly with boys; childhood obesity epidemic; and other things happening with kids that reflect how poorly, really, as a society we are with raising our children. Eight beautiful sparks of life have arrived in this world, it seems, where the deck is stacked against them.

We have our human tragedies but we keep evolving and the program seems to be moving towards perfection. Bless everyone, and thank you all for your time, consideration, and reflection.

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