Feel God

Can you Feel GOD?

Connor, a man in his late 40s, has accomplished every thing he ever believed he wanted in order to feel happy and safe. He is the owner of a successful company, has an amazing wife and 2 kids, and a stunning house. However whenever you look at him, he doesn't look happy. He looks empty, with no sense of vibrancy about him.

His wife, Brianna. also has every thing she actually desired . a husband, kids, financial security, prosperous work along with a beautiful home. Whenever you take a look at her, you see a person filled with aliveness and vitality, friendliness and joy.

What is the difference? Why are these two people, each who have similar external things, so very different in their energy? The answer is that Brianna has a strong connection with God while Connor has no spiritual connection at all.

The longer we worked as a counselor, the easier it has become for me to tell the difference between individuals who realize and encounter God and the ones who don't. It's the difference between Connor and Brianna. It's the distinction between being complete from the inside or inwardly empty.

Its not that Connor doesn't want to experience God. He says he really wants to. He sees the difference between him and Brianna and he says he wants what she has. He sees his parents as empty and he says he doesn't want to end up like them, with no sense of passion or purpose in their lives.

However, Connor doesn't experience God, and the reason is simple: he places a greater priority on possessing control over money, employees, what people think about him, his wife, and his kids than on being a loving human being. He says he wants to be loving, and the times he is loving he feels great, but it never lasts because his desire to control is greater than his desire to be loving. He is afraid if he is loving to himself and others his business will suffer, he will have less money, he will lose friends. His ego wounded self tells him that if he is open and loving, he will be taken advantage of, and that is the last thing he wants. So his primary intention is to protect against what he fears rather than to be loving.

God is love, the spirit of love, the energy of love. That love is always here for us when we open our heart. Our heart opens automatically when our intent is to learn what is loving to ourselves and others rather than protect against what we fear with our controlling behavior. To know The almighty would be to know Love. To understand Love is to understand God.

When Brianna looks at Connor with love, Connor feels afraid and turns away. If he opens to her love, he fears he'll end up being vulnerable to getting hurt. Perhaps she won't like what she sees if he is open and will reject him. Perhaps she’d like more than he wants to give. Maybe she just wants to suck the life out of him like his mom did. Protecting against his concerns is more important to him than becoming loving and sharing love with Brianna. Brianna loves Connor but is often lonely with him because he is afraid to share love with her. Connor complains that he doesn't feel good a lot of the time he feels empty. He avoids his emptiness with food and TV, which doesn't bring him joy.

Connor complains that he dosen't understand how to feel God. I tell him its not really about how exactly, it's about intention. Whenever his deepest wish is to be loving instead of managing, he'll without too much hassle encounter The almighty. It is all about intention. Our intent is what we have choice over. Our intent governs how we live, who we choose to be, how we behave. Our intent to love and learn about love opens our heart to the experience of God.

If you feel empty, consider that it could become more vital that you you to control than to love. If you understand others who seem to be empty, think about that it could become more important to them to control rather than love.

Opening to love does not mean that we will be vulnerable to being hurt, manipulated, taken advantage of. In fact, the opposite can happen: in experiencing God, we receive the wisdom and strength to know what is good or bad for us, what's wrong or right for all of us. In opening to God, we find out what is within our highest good. It's much safer compared to relying on our wounded ego self. Opening to the Love that is God through your own intention to learn may bring you the deep feeling of fullness and safety which is why your heart and soul have always yearned.

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