Jesus - a way to know thyself

So many things to share! Returned yesterday from a five day road trip to Chicago and back to take Connor to Northwestern for her sophomore year. Lots of food for thought. Here’s one.

On my solo 17 hour drive home, I saw a billboard that read “Jesus - the ONLY way to know God.” My impulse response, yelling out loud I should add, was “You’re f---ing crazy!” Really?!

I absolutely love Jesus. He has shown up in my life in direct, powerful, and dramatic ways. I have experienced his love, his presence, his energy, his beauty many times over. I also have vivid memories of life with him when he incarnated on Earth.  I have experienced his essence as truth and as pure love manifested on Earth. 

I have never experienced or felt him teaching, professing, or even suggesting that the ONLY way to know God is through him. Jesus was, he is, pure love consciousness. He is an ultimate example of what and who we have the potential and power and destiny to be. 

God is present in our lives each and every moment because the presence of God is within. We are foolish to believe that we need to look externally to find God, whether it be through a person, a holy text, an artifact or a religion. External manifestations are present simply to assist us on our journey of embracing the divine within, but they are not the destination. Through Jesus and the other many sages, prophets, enlightened masters, seers, gurus, saints, beings of light, we can follow their examples of self-realization and tap into the infinite reservoir of our own authentic power, love essence, and divinity!

Jesus did not come to Earth to limit our experience of God through him. Jesus came here to shine his light so that we may grasp that we have the innate capacity to shine our own. His capacity to love overwhelms me, accessing my love in return.