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A
Complete Confession and Transformation
By Leslie Reynolds-Benns,
www.lesliereynoldsbenns.com
As we go about our day, most of us are not aware of
an ultimate unity, a connectedness with God and
other human beings. Instead, we're preoccupied
with our own plans and designs, our own hopes and
fears. But if we are free of psychic clutter
as a result of a deep confession, the ferreting out
and release of unexamined or unconscious material in
our psyche, and take a moment to get still, with
nothing going on, we come to realize our connection
with all humanity. We can see that there is no
essential difference between us and our fellow human
beings. We are all irrefutably a part of God,
and love flows between us and other human beings as
freely as blood flows in our veins. We then
discover our "true" selves, the selves
with neither body nor consciousness, the selves that
exist as beginners, the selves we seldom stop to
notice. Missing that experience in our
daily lives is, however, merely a consequence of
being human.
Not only does becoming clutter-free through
confession lead to personal transformation, it can
also lead to transformation on a global level.
We have all seen or know about major shifts in
public awareness, such as the Civil Rights Movement
in the United States or the formation of the United
Nations, both with enormous ramifications. If
you are familiar with the controversial principle of
social change known as the Hundredth Monkey, in
which it is purported that when one person knows
something, that something is the property of that
one individual, but when that something is passed
forward to a critical mass of other individuals,
then it becomes the property of the larger society.
In his book, The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
documents how a seemingly innocuous and often
counterintuitive action can cause a social behavior,
trend or idea to tip and "spread like
wildfire." Nevertheless, new concepts do
enter the common language in only a decade or two,
and wholesale changes to society do take place, such
as the lowering of the crime rate in New York by
cleaning up graffiti in the suburbs and stopping
fare-beaters in the subways.
As each one of us confesses, we make way for the
next person, until we reach that point of critical
mass. For Christians, that point might even
bring about the Second Coming. God Calling,
(Russell, Jove Books) the writings of two
anonymous women who in 1932 came together looking
for a closer connection to God, speaks to that
possibility. Reportedly, one woman heard the
voice of Jesus Christ, and the other recorded what
the first one communicated hearing. She
reported Jesus as saying
I do not delay my second coming. My followers
delay it.
If each lived for Me, by Me, in Me, allowing Me to
live in him, to use him to express the Divine
through him, as I expressed it when on earth, then
long ago the world would have been drawn to Me, and
I should have come to claim them as My own (November
5).
Those of us who are Christians may be moved by the
above to confess the error of leaning on our own
understanding[s], [Pr. 3] followed by a
re-commitment of ourselves to Christ, trusting what
is widely called a "vertical relationship"
that is, a "one on one relationship with
him," living in him and allowing the divine
energy to flow through us to the outside world -
just allowing his energy to flow, without having to
force anything, or to compel anyone to receive it.
For in the Gospel of John, we find: "Then
true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the
Father seeks. God is spirit and his worshipers
must worship in spirit and in truth." [John 4]
Today, we might interpret "in spirit and in
truth" as "in oneness with a confessing
heart."
Excerpted from Confession is Good for More
than the soul http://www.confessionisgood.com
www.confessionisgood.com
Dr Leslie Reynolds-Benns, PhD, author,
most recently of Confession is Good for More
than the Soul. Speaker, trainer, workshop leader,
community activist and wedding officiator.
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