The Perpetual Generosity of Feelings


When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Spiritual leaders and physicists agree that everything that has ever existed has always been and always will be. We can call this God or Singularity or any name we choose, but that infinite Is-ness is what absolutely everything is made of, including you. If you are a religious person, this should plug very nicely into your faith: God is everywhere; since you are somewhere, then God is in you—every single particle of you. And if you are a scientific person, then this should plug very nicely into your paradigm: every single particle of you was there at the conception of the universe; you are made of the very same energy that absolutely everything else is; you are worth nothing more, nor nothing less, than any thing or anybody in the universe.

It might surprise many people to know that your suffering is also a part of the God-Universe. Why would God want suffering? Because God needs a language to speak to you with, and suffering is one of the voices in the Word of God. Since you are made of the God-Universe you can never be separate from it. You can use some of God's power (i.e. the power of thought), to choose to believe that you are separate, but both that feeling and the conjuring of it via belief are made out of the Energy of the God-Universe. You are absolutely never separate from God.

When we feel alone or depressed or otherwise bad, we are mistaking these feelings as belonging to us. In reality, those feelings are God's voice. While the voice has a varying intensity that we perceive as a range of emotions (from irritation to depression or contentment to joy), really, God only has two statements to make: come over here, or go over there. The former we call good feelings and the latter we call bad feelings. But one is not superior to the other. (This is why the idea of Yin and Yang are better suited.) They are simply two versions of one thing, much like a crest and a trough are two separate things even though they can only exist together in the form of a wave.

When you feel good you are embracing God. You are feeling your connection. As I've noted here before, a linguist once explained to me that the word "enthusiasm" originally meant to "be with God." Fear, anger, resentment or any other unpleasant feeling is the sense we get when we turn away from our connection to God.

But we can't ever, in any way, sever the connection. We can only ignore it; and we can only do that for a time.

As you move toward things that you are enthusiastic about—things you feel good about—then are you are walking toward where God wants you to Be. If you feel unpleasant feelings, then you are moving away from where God wants you to Be. God is with you in both cases, speaking to you in its only voice; feelings.

If you feel good, you aren't questioning your connection to God or the rest of the universe. You are enacting that connection. If you feel badly, God is telling you that you are finished with where you are and it is time to move on. God will first speak softly, with the gentle voice of irritation or melancholy. If you choose not to listen to God and instead listen to the ego-voice in your head that uses words instead of feelings, then you will soon feel worse. That sadness, worry or frustration is God speaking a little louder. If you again choose to stay where you are, God will speak increasingly louder, through anger, and resentment and if you still don't choose to move, God will eventually shout to you with a voice of depression. God is saying, "You do not belong here now. It is time to move on. I will make it feel terrible here so that you know this is not where you should be or what you should be doing."

But which way do you go? That's simple.

Go towards what feels good. God either says, "come here" with good feelings, or "go there" with bad ones. Either way, you are never alone and your communication channel is wide open and working. God is always talking. If things are feeling increasingly worse, then you simply aren't listening.

The God-Universe is an infinitely generous place. It is always delivering to you precisely what you need. To embrace God, you need only shift your awareness to your feelings and then move toward the invitation represented by happiness, love and joy. Accepting that invitation is to accept God into your life. And if you feel badly, you aren't failing. You are merely learning how important it is to listen to God's voice carefully.


Happy listening.


Enjoy your day.


peace. s
Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008 by Scott McPherson

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