The path before me...

Everyone has their own beliefs and views on life and religion and how this world, and the world beyond works. My views throughout my life have gone through many changes, a continual evolution if you will. My mother was raised Baptist. She took us to church when we were young, but she never pushed religion on us. She felt that religion was something that each individual must ultimately find on his or her own. She is a very smart woman, my mother. She believes in a Higher Power and Unconditional Love, and she believes that the Spirit lives on. These are the three greatest beliefs that she passed on to her children.
I tried in my early years to grasp organized religion, but it never quite answered the questions my heart and soul would ask. Most religions say that it is a sin to question. That if you question, you truly don't believe...I truly do not believe that.The Good Lord gave us a brain. He intended for us to use it. Questioning things help us to learn. Learning keeps us from making the same mistakes. Learning from mistakes helps us to grow and evolve in our own right.
I believe in balance. I believe in Harmony with myself and all that is around me...Nature, People, the Earth itself and the Spirit. I believe in being true to my heart and my Spirit and doing the best I can do each day. I am not perfect, I fall on my face often...But I feel that the only thing that counts is what I choose to do after I pick myself back up...Do I repeat the same mistake? Do I lay down and wallow in self-pity? Or do I choose a different path? One that leads me toward a better sense of self and the world around me? It is not a Sin to fall on your face....It is a Sin to choose not to learn from it. But even then, the Spirit forgives...for the Spirit loves Unconditionally....Unconditionally....that is a very big word. It means without condition...It means that no matter what you do, you are loved....
I do not believe in Hell. I believe that we create our own Hell here on earth. When we choose to go against what our own conscious tells us, we step away from our true self. Humankind falls easily into greed, and to envy, and to lies and to selfishness and to cruelty...when we visit these things upon one another we create Hell. God does not condemn us to this...we choose it ourselves. He does not test us with this...He simply gave us the free will to decide, and to learn, and to grow. He gave us the free will to do as we see fit, knowing with perfect love and perfect trust that eventually we will see the light and choose a different path.
We may have to do it over several times to get it....How many of your parents have made you do something over, or try something again until you got it?? Any good parent will...Any loving parent will...They do not condemn or judge...they encourage us to try again. To think that God would do less is to judge Him and limit His Power....To think that God would do less is to make Him less...
Each and every soul, everything that walks and breaths, whether it be on two legs or on four, even the fishes of the sea and the plants and waters of the earth are a part of the Lord...All must be cherished for it is special. All must be treated with love...For to love all, is to love the self and to love God, for we are one...As we come from Him, so shall we go back to Him...without judgement, without prejudice, without fear.
We are love. We are unity. We are balance. We are the Yin and the Yang. We are the God and the Goddess. We are the Is and the All. We are eternal....