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I wrote this at 12 years of age...the age at which I first realized what my life's work was to be, and I accepted the call. I ran across it the other day, and it is amazing how much it is like something that I would have written today, nearly 40 years later. It was an affirmation to me that I'm on the path that I'm meant to be on! The following is exactly as typed on my old Royal Typewriter. The pictures are electronically cut and pasted instead of taken from magazines, but the text remains exactly the same. I did not edit at all. Please read and enjoy, my thoughts on God at 12...
WHAT IS GOD?By Mary Jo Eshelman (Jody) -- 7th Grade English Class, 1969
I shall not attempt to define God, for that would be to limit Him, but I will try to express my idea of Him to you by asking you to consider several different aspects of His nature.
God is not a person, but Principle. He is the unchangeable Truth. God as principle is absolute good expressed in all creation. When men know God and worship Him in Spirit and Truth, they recognize Him as this great goodness.
God is that from which all love springs. His character is taught in the name Father, representing the love, the care, the protection, and the providing care of God for man, His offspring.
We do not see God with our physical eyes, except through His works. His attributes are brought into expression by man, who is like Him in essence. We must raise our thought and feeling to God’s level if we are to make ourselves perfect channels through which He can come forth into perfect manifestation.
God is Spirit, the principal of life and intelligence, everywhere present at all times. Spirit is that which cannot be destroyed or damaged or hurt, or degraded in any way.
God is absolute wholeness and perfection. Man’s recognition of his oneness with the perfect wholeness brings him into the consciousness of his indwelling life and health.
Mind is the connecting link between God and man. God-Mind is the source of every manifestation of true knowledge and intelligence. The mind of man is unlimited and through it he may come into touch with Divine Mind. To the extent that man practices identifying himself with the one and only source of existence, he becomes Spirit, until finally the union attains perfection.
God is the substance that lies back of all matter and all form. It is the basis of all forms, but it cannot be seen, tasted or touched. Yet it is the only enduring substance in the universe.
The belief that God wills both good and evil is false; the truth is that God is all good and only good can come to man from Him. If man experiences error and disharmony, he brings them upon himself by his failure to harmonize his thoughts and acts with Divine Law.
God’s name represents wholeness. It is holy and perfect. When we think of God as being anything less than perfect we are taking His name in vain.
God is Life. God is not just living, nor does God just give life, but God IS Life.
God is Truth. Tod is not truthful, but Truth itself, and wherever this is Truth, there is God. God is absolute Truth and does not change.
For every creature of God is good. 1 Timothy 4:4
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw it was good.
Genesis 1:25
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
Proverbs 12:10
GOD IS HOPE! Today is the first day of the rest of your life!!!
Within and without…God is everywhere!
God is the essence of all there is.
God is in all I do.
Become ye as little children.
Matthew 18:3
Cleanliness is next to Godliness?
God is within us all.
God is LIFE!
Life, death, life…
God is peace.
God is my laughter.
God is my health and energy.
God is my prosperity. The Father within knows my needs…and fulfills them!
God is my security.
God is beauty.
Let brotherly love continue.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love.
Romans 12:10
So many kinds of LOVE.
He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is love.
1 John 4:8
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out all fear. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:18
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:7
GOD IS LOVE.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath life, and fowl may fly above the earth in the open firmament in heaven.
Genesis 1:20
In His hand is the soul of every living thing.
Job 12:10
GOD IS NATURE.
Only God can make a tree.
Love and Blessings,
Jody
Mary Jo Eshelman, ND, CTN, CNHP
All Natural HealthWorks!
Updated: Wednesday, 1 November 2006 2:23 PM EST
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