This little light of mine!

Good day folks!

The quote below was sent to me via email by One Spirit Interfaith Ministries where I will be attending seminary classes in the fall.

However many holy words you read,

However many you speak,

What good will they do you

If you do not act upon them?

-The Budha

 

 

(The following should be interpreted as if I am speaking in a monotone, meditative holier-than-thou voice)

My intention is to absorb the teachings, the "holy words", the "holy attitude" and the "holy behaviors" of GOD. My mission is to demonstrate my holiness at all times.

By holy I mean Spiritually Enlightened. Ohmmmm!

By holy I mean beyond the human inconveniences of anger, jealousy, spite and other emotions that I have judged and deem to be negative. Ohmmmm! (up an octave)

By holy I mean it is my intention to create the best possible highest vibration of love, light, and peace, in every moment. Ohmmmm! (super high octave)

Ohm.

Ohm.

Ohm.

(End holier-than-thou enlightened voice and become regular human again)

Um....Holy, holy, holy...Shit!

I'm not having the greatest success at becoming the Budha, Jesus, or even Ghandi.

And here's the news flash...

I ain't 'spose ta!

I'm clearly a spiritual being having a human experience and part of the human experience my soul has chosen to have is an EMO one. That's right, Emo, short for emotional. My soul's agenda is to feel some good, to feel some bad, to feel some deep shit during this incarnation in human form as Erica Bradshaw. And no matter how long I ohm, chant, breathe and meditate I ain't neva eva gon' be no Budha, and I ain't 'spose to be neetha!

This has got to be one of the most profound learnings of my young ass life!

That's right, I said, 'my 39 year old young ass life!' 39 is very young when I'm gon' be here till I'm 96!

Anyway, you know I get easily sidetracked, so let me get back to the point.

The point is that I am here on this planet to be all the way Erica. That means expressing, acting, being, loving, laughing, crying, and all that other stuff the way only I can do it. That is why I'm here. Not to re-enact the life of Jesus, the Budha, or Mother Theresa.

Each of us is here to allow love, light, and peace to be funneled through our human being selves thus creating an experience equal to but different than anyone else's human being selfs experience.

Why then are we all so fucking hard on one another? Why are we so judgmental of one another? Why don't we all just love each other better?

Wait. Let's make this shit real, let me be accountable, for me.

Why am I so hard on others? Why am I so judgmental of others? Why don't I love better?

Damn.

I'll tell you why, because I'm hard on myself, because I'm judgmental and cruel to myself, because I've been lacking self-love and therefore have experienced almost no choice but to be that lack to other people.

Wow!

I didn't mean to say that out loud.

Now that it's said, I will be in integrity and stand by the fact that it's truth whether I front or not.

I definitely have to treat me better because all of the holy words, and all of the holy talk, will not put Erica back together again. Why? Because just like you I was never broken.

That bears repeating.

Just like you I was never broken.

We were never broken.

Hear this loudly and clearly.

No matter what you may have done you have never ever been broken. Even when if felt like you were. That was your mind playing tricks on you cause if you here now reading this you couldn't have possibly ever been broken cause broken don't read, broken don't breathe, broken don't exist.

You and I, we, were never ever broken. That idea is an illusion.

You and I, we are whole, healthy, complete. That is the truth. That is what Jesus, Budha, Ghandi, Mother T, and all the other glorious examples of spiritual humanists knew.

You and I, we ain't broke!

So, therefore I am not gon' deal with me or you like we belong to the world of misfit, unwanted toys. I am gon' shine my light.

That was the first song I ever sang in church. I sang solo. I know...I know...I'm going back to the topic.

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.

This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.

Let it shine

Let it shine

Let it shine

(Now go back and sing it! You know you want to)

I hope you decide to let your little light shine too.

We all see so much more vividly when everyone's light is on full blast.

That's how we begin to truly be holy.

 

 

 

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