“Here I am,” I said. “Who are you? Who am I?”
“I am that I am,” said
the Lord.
I am the Emptiness in which all things appear.
I am the Silence in which all sounds arise.
I am the Eternity from which time is born.
I am the Infinity in which all space resides.
I am the Awareness within which all consciousness occurs.
I am the Being that holds all creation.
I am the Love that connects all creatures.
I am the Compassion that ends all suffering.
I am the Truth to which all religions point.
I am the Life that conquers death.
I am the Way which is the beginning and the end.
I AM.
Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThis afternoon I looked up the word "vision" in a Hebrew dictionary (online) but while there, I hit an incorrect key and got the pronunciation of the Hebrew word for "people" which is pronounced "am" and that, I think, is a good definition of God-- the I AM is the People all over the earth--each made in his image, each, as you say, a version of the whole. Of course, as beautifully alluded to in your poem above, I am aware the I Am encompasses all creatures, not just people...but just sharing something that caught my attention today.
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just had another thought--can't spell "AMEN" without AM ...I wanted to type AMEN as a comment to your poem and realized that, too!
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