Divine Unity
"Being
partial to love is integral to Unity."-Douglas Holzmeier
At the time I was writing
this chapter one of my friends was experiencing the pain of feeling unwanted.
She had divorced her husband of a dozen years not long ago and with this new
found freedom came a bit of loneliness. This – as I am told – is not unusual.
Even when we leave a job – on our own or from being let go – there is
separation anxiety. We have an overwhelming desire to belong.
"You
can search for a place to belong or create a place others
long
to be."
As the above epigram
suggests – we are always the answer to our own prayer. If you can reduce your
problem to a thought – you can change your thought and change your life – as it
has been written by all the great sages – ancient and contemporary. This
subject is worth a chapter of its own. If you feel no one wants you or you
can’t find a place to be – the Truth is that you are connected to God and the
Universe – so there is no-where you don’t belong. You can create a home anyway
you want. It can consist of whoever you want – as long as you are divinely
inviting. Anyone you have ever exchanged energy with – you are connected to. I
am no longer surprised when a long-lost friend or professional acquaintance
finds me on Facebook. Just today a person connected with me who I had worked
with six years ago. The positive energy we had exchanged still resonates and
attracts. In Quantum Physics – when two particles have come in contact with
each other through an exchange of energy – they are forever connected at the
quantum level. What happens to one particle – affects the other – in some way. It
is the mystery behind most premonitions. As a scientific understanding – the spiritual
and metaphysical idea that “as I do to you – I do to myself” - is true. It
isn’t just airy-fairy new age mysticism. (Not that there is anything wrong with
that!)
When I was a DJ at 92X
radio in 1988 – I got a call on the studio line one afternoon from a woman
named Michelle. We had the usual cursory chat consisting of salutations and a
song request but right before I hung up I asked her: “Do we know each other?”
She said nope. I said – “Are you sure – I’m getting the feeling that I know
you.” Again she said no. This message that there was a connection grew with every
denial on her part. I asked her where she grew up. She answered with Norwalk,
Ohio. I countered with – “You never lived anywhere else?” She sheepishly
offered that she lived for the first five or six years of her childhood in a
town that she was sure I had never heard of – Grove City. Bingo! That’s where I
lived from 1964 to 1980. I said – “Where did you go to school?” She said – “Oh
come on – there is no way – it was a Catholic school…and before she could
finish I said – “OLPH – Our Lady of Perpetual Help – hello Michelle O’Riccio.”
You could have heard a pin
drop. Here I was speaking to a person who I had not seen or thought about since
1967 – 21 years before – and I KNEW it. This cannot be explained without the
idea of a thread of Unity that runs through all of us – and rubs off on those
who we come in close proximity of.
Here is another story that
will blow your mind. In 1985 I taught at a broadcasting school. There was a
student there named Lyndell Obregon. She
is a Filipino girl whose father was a surgeon at Ohio State University. Lyndell
was the first person of Filipino decent I had ever known. She was a talented person with a great
personality. Our time together was only a few months but she made a lasting
impression.
A year later I found myself
in Stillwater, Oklahoma working at a radio station called KVRO. One day a girl
calls and requests a song. Before the chat was over – I got one of those
premonitions. Her name was Pinky and she was a student at Oklahoma State
University. She mentioned she was Filipino – and the pleasant thought of
Lyndell crossed my mind so I ask Pinky if she wanted to have some lunch with
me. She said yes – and so we did.
Pinky was a lovely girl.
She told me about her life and her dreams and in passing – I mentioned that I
had met only one other Filipino person in my life at the broadcasting school I
taught at in Columbus, Ohio.
A few minutes later – Pinky
mentioned that her father was a dentist in Oklahoma and that his brother – her
uncle – was a doctor somewhere in the Midwest – maybe Wisconsin or Michigan. We
talked a little more and she said that her family had migrated to the United
States some years before and there had been a falling out in the family between
the brothers – one who was a doctor in Illinois or Indiana.
Every time she mentioned
another state her uncle was practicing in – it was a state closer to Ohio. The
original premonition I had went from a mild vibration to a full-fledged
throbbing! About this time Pinky says
she wishes the two-sides of the family would come back together because she
really missed her cousin – Lyndell. Bingo!
At this juncture I told
Pinky that her uncle was most probably a surgeon at Ohio State University. She
said – “that’s right!” And your last name (which she had not offered her new
found friend yet) is spelled “O-b-r-e-g-o-n - Obregon.” She dropped her French
fry and spit out her Coke.
The Universe used me to
(attempt) to put that family back together. I got Lyndell’s phone number from
the school and gave it to Pinky and conversations began. I do not know how
things ever worked out – but I do know that the energy of these cousins
recognized each other through me.
At the time of this writing
– it has been 22 years since I met my two Philippine family members. I have not
met another since.
"The
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and within. You're not
a
visitor or a guest; you are indigenous, family - a child of Heaven."
We
are family! This is our home. Whether you see Earth as a vacation spot; a
boarding school – or paradise – we belong here with each other for a time and
we will remain connected throughout eternity. All the separations are man-made.
Language – borders – flags – religious denominations – political parties – all
just fences we have constructed to keep others out – while entrapping us. Most
suffering comes from what we resist. If you are isolating yourself from those
who you have eternal connections with – you may be adding to your pain
unnecessarily.
"Faith
is the gift you give yourself. It is the acceptance of your
unity
with Divinity."
The friend that I refer to in the opening paragraph
has also hopped from church to church hoping to find a spiritual home. Whenever
someone at a church insults her – for real or in her mind – she gets upset and
closes herself off from the friends that she created there. A church (and
almost all groups) is made up of people just like any family and they don’t
always do what you want them to do. And you don’t always do what they want you
to do. So what do you do? Love them anyway! You and the person that has let you
down are united with and by Divinity. Accept your unity with each other and the
Divine – and all will be fine.
"You
are an individualization of the whole. Unity requires your
participation."
Did you know that one of the main reasons people
become gang members is because they want to belong to something – a family of
some kind– where their existence matters? We belong to the Family of Divinity.
Our Father/Mother – is the Divine. The Divine masculine and the Divine feminine
exist in God as well as each other. However you define God – It is the Power
back of our Being. People will participate. The door they choose to walk
through is a matter of choice. So let’s open as many divine doors as possible -
so those who seek belonging can find it in our hearts and homes.
At the time of this writing the Holzmeier family had a
reunion for my Mother’s 80th birthday. Not only were there several
generations of blood relatives – but in addition – in attendance were the best
friends of some of my brothers and sisters as well. These middle-aged men and
women – while teenagers - considered and called my Mother – Mom – and they did
on this day as well. And so it is that we are all brothers and sisters and
there is a Universal belonging we can call upon at anytime – with anyone. Visit
a nursing home – there you will find people who will love you more than you can
imagine.
"Unity
comes through a disproportion of harmony."
Ironically – one of the reasons we stay away from
family is that they see us as we were and don’t recognize we have grown-up and
evolved. As much as that has bothered me as well – sometimes it is nice to be
remembered as you were in youth. The stories and legends live on in the people
who knew us best – our family. I had forgotten that my sister chased me and I
fell through the front door window. We can laugh about it because I didn’t get
sliced and diced by shards of glass. Old stories can be shared with love – to
take the edge off of them. New stories – in the form of advice and counsel –
can be shared in harmony with love.
"The
#5 is no better than the #2 and no less perfect than #9.
And
so it is with you in the divine family of man."
Some people don’t like and will not embrace the idea
of Oneness. They simply will not admit that they have as much in common with
troublesome folk as they do. The most important commonality is Divinity. It is
this recognition that we can use to bless the members of our family who are
misbehaving – and it is what they will use to bless us when we fall short of
our inherent glory.
"Most
great truths are inherently known. That's what makes
their
revelation so comforting; a homecoming."
The most important person you will ever welcome home
is yourself. And it likely will happen after you have let the “ME” that is your
false EGO – go. There is a child in all of us waiting to be welcomed home. Let
yourself in! THIS is who you are missing. THIS is who you want to embrace and
love and take care of. Restore your state of happiness by forgiving yourself
for making changes that rearranged your immediate family. All families change.
People come and go – are born and die – while remaining United in the One Love
we came from and return to.
When I was searching my epigrams for the word Unity –
the word Opportunity came up most. Unity is the last five letters of
Opportunity. And as usually is the case – there is a good reason why. When was
the last time you thought of Opportunity as: Opport – Unity? Probably –
never. Think of Opportune. Love is
always well-timed and in-tune. We always have the chance to Unite and Harmonize
with our Good or resist and suffer.
Sometimes it is as simple as loving the One you’re
with – who are family - and blessing all circumstances knowing that Love is in
Unity and Unity is in Love. Unifying with Divinity is your soul discretion.
"No
one who truly loves people will ever find themselves
alone."
You Are God's Best Idea!
~Douglas Holzmeier
Author of You Are God's
Best Idea! Divine Acceptations and Living the Undeniable Life! (Balboa
Press/Hay House)
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Life Coach who can give you direction – inspiration - motivation and treat you
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