21. Let’s Talk About Oneness

‘Christians’ tend to get squirmy when you

approach the topic of Oneness.

Like it somehow detracts from God

when we transcend the false bravado of otherness.

What’s a higher honor than to follow

into God eternally as Spirit leads?

The inevitable singularity of Love

is our destiny!

Whisper the mystics and the trees.

Let’s talk this through a little.

None of your beliefs have to change.

Let the grip on ideologies just wiggle.

Let Spirit tell of a faith with some range.

It’s hard to argue that ‘in Heaven’

we won’t be closer.

We will see God… without the veil!

But where does the Almighty’s increased proximity falter

where does God’s eternal magnetism fail?

They say we will live in His city.

And I can’t imagine, just what that means?

What is described by “many mansions”*?

Will it be all gold?

Or will it be more green?

But what I really want to know is where I will live?

How close will be my view?

How close will my street be to God’s street?

Will we be neighbors?

Or will I have to look for God

over eons of pews?

Will it be just rejoicing souls

lined up the length of galaxies?

Seas of separate Beings all made new?

I believe God’s pull is too mighty

and Christ’s outpouring love will one day undo

all the separateness life builds up.

In ‘Heaven’ there is no view.

Emersed in a “Christ-soaked existence”**,

without all this illusory game.

No more mobile phones

serving as our prison guards.

Or competitions, over preferences

that’ve become our chains.

What if we pushed back

from the concept of ‘otherness’?

Killed off the ego’s pride and joy, the separate-self.

Just allow for the potential of Oneness.

Leave the bailout of individual ‘rapture’…

leave it up on the shelf.

And instead receive the call to-together

find solutions

to these problems we collectively caused.

But it becomes increasingly

less likely we’ll do it

as long as an eternally

separate self remains involved.

If instead we again see each tree and person

as an extension of a unified-true-self.

Suffering and bitterness will wither

as Christ’s-Consciousness grows bigger.

Oh wait, wait… I better slow down.

Tamp down my hope, it’s easy to trigger.

That I’ve wasted too much time

without even a point, I’m starting to fear.

And about these disjointed rambles

people will start to talk.

So, I’ll conclude by saying;

We need new eyes to see, new ears to hear

that in Oneness…

God and man do share life’s walk.

*Jesus of Nazareth, John 14:2

**Richard Rohr OFM, “The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe.” 2019.

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