The great I AM.

I read a book once that took a new look at the phrase "the Narrow Path." You might be familiar with the narrow path being the way Jesus believed we should walk. The path is narrow and few find it. Christianity likes to believe this is a general statement about finding Jesus and his way which is similar in shape and design for all people. This book imagined a narrow path that was more specifically designed to match your own personal destiny. Which makes more sense in the light of just how many people are Christians and just how few people discover what it means to be true to the inner calling of their own way. In a sense these ideas were heretical relative to what I was always told. Jesus is the way, not some inner wooty wooty path. But when I learned the new thoughts, when I was able to meditate on them, boy did they open me up and cause a deep resonance.

I had the same thing happen to me today. I was discussing with a client the importance of the phrases in our life that start with "I am." How we choose to complete that sentence can be the source of life or of pain and difficulty. We can manifest or create shame or self empowerment. We must choose. "I am" is the supreme power in us.

I heard the words coming out of me in a magical swirl. All at once I was relating the power of our personal "I am" with the references to God in the old testament. God named himself "I Am." Why in heaven would God name himself such a bizarre phrase? I have always wondered. Theologians have always said that this was a time reference. God exists, they say, outside of the influence of time and space. He doesn't exist, he is. He wasn't in the past, he isn't in the future, He is in a higher and more divine Now. He Is.

Today it is bigger than that for me.

Now the phrase "I am" as I was using it and the phrase "I am" as He was using it are dancing around together. When I use "I am," I am creating identity, manifesting self awareness. "I am" is my greatest source of personal power, the power to define me and my existence and my personal meaning. I am beautiful. I am powerful. I am strong. I am lovely. I am sacred. I am worthless. I am helpless. I am foolish. Each three word phrase steers the ship. It creates the path in front of me. God knows this.  This is not just about a divine Now, (though it is). This is also about a divine creative image. That image of God in us, the power of I am. The power to be both absolved from the temporal and engaged in creation from nothing. I speak therefore I create. I think therefore... I am.

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