I am
When Moses encountered the “burning bush” in the wilderness,
he asked it who it was. He asked the question after the speaking burning bush
told him to go free the slaves in Egypt. First of all you or I would have high
tailed it away from the fire, or at least when from words started coming from
the fire. We would have known better than to stay and have a conversation. But let
us say that Moses was brave and he held a conversation with something not have
human form. Okay!
I am granting that he spoke to something. I am also granting
that that something told who it was. What I am not granting is the reporting as
told in the Bible. The exact quote from the bush in that book is “I am That I
am. Here is the exact quote from the King James Version, “And God said
unto Moses, I
Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say
unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent
me unto you.” Even my online grammar
checker does not agree with that. But I have more qualms than that.
The quote makes that a single statement of
being. I say it is two very distinct statements. First “I am” that is to say I
exist. The second “That I am.” That is to say everything that you can think of,
or imagine, or wonder about, that
I am. So you see there should have been a period following the first two
words. The second part of the statement speaks of inclusivity. Nothing is
exempt from being included within the Great I Am. We cannot refer to the Great
Creator as being All That Is and leave anything out. All That Is means
everything is included within It.
But how could a benevolent being include
all the ugliness we observe in our world, and read about in history. It said “I
Am That.” This being which I call Love includes everything. What it did was
give us the ability to change what was not working for us. Alas, we have
abdicated that awesome responsibility; preferring instead to give it to someone
else. You can find an appropriate name for that someone. But know this, you and
I and everyone on the planet are responsible for all of what we experience. It
is time we grow up and accept our responsibility and change what is not working
for the whole of humanity. We can do this!
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