| BkI:17.V.4 | Everything is easy in the way of God. Everything is fluent, free, malleable. It's all joy. Everything is included in love. Sisters and brothers in love, you have a perfect example of how to live on Earth as God. Jesus has given it. His teachings and exemplary life are more than enough to know how to be here as the living Christ. But what is often forgotten is that Jesus of Nazareth, the historical Jesus in whom the consciousness of Christ manifested itself in fullness—as it did also in his mother Mary did not come to advocate the creation of an ideal self, a mental idol, that you must follow as if you were so unworthy that you must abhor yourself and imitate that ideal. Christ cannot be cloned. Love cannot be duplicated. The unique expression of the one and only love that each of you are cannot be copied. You are not called to imitate. You are called to be what you truly are, just as God created you to be. There will never be two identical souls. There are not and never will be two identical beings. There are not and never will be two identical ways of expressing love. Even in your own life you don't express love in the same way as when you loved as a child, or when you love as an adult. Love makes all things new, always. |