{"id":415,"date":"2012-03-26T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mothermaryswords.wordpress.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2012-03-26T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:26:07","slug":"you-dont-own-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2012\/03\/you-dont-own-god\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don’t Own God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I had the chance to listen to three people debate on God. \u00a0One believed strongly that his God was this way, and the other believed his God saw things another way, and then another gentlemen threw in the mix, \u201cI don\u2019t believe in God,\u201d \u00a0that is when I laughed. \u00a0It came like a flash, \u201cyou don\u2019t own God\u201d.\u201d \u00a0God isn\u2019t a belief, as you can see belief is separation and it doesn\u2019t feel like it is about belief. It feels like most debates with people on God are based on ownership. With ownership comes rules. That is probably why most people are turned off by organized religion because it takes ownership on the omnipresence and declares their side is right. \u00a0That doesn\u2019t feel like a loving presence. If there is one thing most mystic\u2019s have uncovered is that God is love. \u00a0That feels like God loves everyone, which it feels like that was the point of Jesus and Buddha\u2019s teachings. Love no matter what. If someone isn\u2019t loving, then forgive and move on. \u00a0But you know God, this presence which is everywhere is right where you are and the person is as well. \u00a0Discovering this presence is a personal journey. The OUR FATHER is amazing when you can remove the religion from it. \u00a0Just meditate on the words OUR FATHER. It doesn\u2019t suggest your father and not mine, it doesn\u2019t say believe in me or else, it asks you to remember that we are one, to understand, bring wisdom to this OUR FATHER. If the word father rubs you wrong then put in LOVE.<\/p>\n

TODAY MEDITATE ON: OUR FATHER, just allow the words to be and contemplate them in your heart.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the chance to listen to three people debate on God. \u00a0One believed strongly that his God was this way, and the other believed his God saw things another way, and then another gentlemen threw in the mix, \u201cI don\u2019t believe in God,\u201d \u00a0that is when I laughed. \u00a0It came like a flash, \u201cyou […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[77,96,101,119,163,167,359,387,415,435,468,542,727],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual","category-uncategorized","tag-belief","tag-buddha","tag-catholic","tag-christian","tag-david-matthew-brown","tag-debate","tag-laugh","tag-love","tag-meditate","tag-muslim","tag-our-father","tag-right","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}