I can sing or dance any where or act like a child myself. If I did these things with out my kids someone would probably admit me to an asylum or something. Parenting gives a certain kind of freedom.

Religion, I don’t go for. I do read the Bible to my kids but I also read to them about Buddhism, Judaism, and any other thing I can find. I grew up Christian with people touting “one true religion” and I don’t believe that. What I believe is that we need to learn to accept others for their differences. I will never have my children tell someone they are wrong because their beliefs aren’t mine or theirs.

I have read all of your wonderful comments and Steven’s as well. All I can say is that there is something in EVERY comment that I relate to. As the comments kept coming in and with them your varied views of Life, God and Spirituality, a couple of things came to me.

One is, there really is something to be said for semantics and the words and expressions we each use to describe our beliefs, our feelings and experiences. I’ve notice that if we really slow down and express what we feel in more detail that we often have at our core the same or very similar beliefs.

Words are wonderful things, but in the same token they can sometimes limit our sharing experience, especially if we don’t keep an open mind and heart in terms of other people’s beliefs. But if we are patient, open and willing to listen, if we can “let in” other people’s beliefs we more often than not discover that “bottom line”, they are like us. We are often all talking about the same thing. We just have to watch that we don’t cling so tightly to our beliefs that we miss out on Love.

The second thing that struck me is that I have very few ridged beliefs. I can look at every comment here and see an aspect of myself, something I feel now or once felt or ponder, etc. I guess for me, when comments come in or I talk with someone throughout my days my focus is very little on beliefs and more on simply loving people, hearing people and experiencing who they are.

As long as I can love I am happy. And NO one can stop us from loving. Even if someone hates us, we can still choose to love, still choose to be in a place of love. So I am happy simply to love. I often don’t even care if I am seen, although I am soooo blessed to have so many people love and see me, feel me, experience me and respond with love.

I thank all of you for taking the time to share each your unique view. They are ALL precious, valid and beautiful….as are you.

From my heart.
Love,
Robin

@nothingprofound – Loved the Blake quote, thanks for sharing.

@Robb – Kia ora my friend, thanks for leaving a great comment.

@Dorothy – Thanks for your thoughts Dorothy. I hear what you are saying and respect your beliefs. I am my own master therefore I am God, so, as long as I believe in myself I believe in God (semantics) However, because I am God I would like to say:

I impose no rules, do whatever you like in this world as long as you realise there are consequences to every action.
You don’t have to believe in me to enter the world beyond.
You don’t have to pray to me because you are God also
You don’t have to assign ‘someone special’ to pass on my words because I have yet to speak
You do not have to read a book of my teachings because I have yet to teach
When you ask forgiveness for your sins; Please! ask yourself for forgiveness
When you pray that I find God, I thank you for praying to me.

Dorothy from grammology
grammology.com

Thanks Robin for bringing this great writer to your blog…hugs to you my blogging friend

Steve, I’m not religious either. I used to not be spiritual either, but I’m becoming a lot more spiritual in a non-mystical way if that makes any sense.

Great job and thanks to both of you!

@Julie, thank you for your kind words I really appreciate them. You made a great point about “offering ourselves the same loving grace we extend to others”, beautifully put and so true. Thank you.

I look forward to exploring your blog and reading more of your insights. Thank you for agreeing to be a guest in Robin’s “Eden.”