Living From Our Divine Identity

It was a warm and sunny day in the Garden of Eden. Adam and God were just hanging out, having a conversation. "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." (Genesis 2 : 16 - 17)

You know the rest of the story. The serpent talked the woman into a fruit salad, who shared it with the man. Followed almost immediately by the Bible's first lesson in taking personal responsibility (or not).

But notice the words in Genesis 2: the knowledge of good and evil. What is that? A belief in separation--that there somehow could be good vs evil.

Consider how that belief (conscious or unconscious) in separation effects our lives. That Spirit (God, the Universe, or Higher Power) has to travel from some distance to zoom in and fix the situations we have created.

Byron Katie reminds us to not believe everything we know. We know it because someone told us. But what if it is not true? How would our lives look if we really recognized our Divine Nature--that we have the hearts of Divine Love, the mind of Divine Wisdom, and the lives of Divine life?