Connecting to God: The Healing Path A Cancer Survivor's Story

ISBN-13: 9781537630083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 46 str.

Thomas J. Mason

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My actual experiences, Connecting to God, and being aware of the life in my body, do not fit neatly into any of the religions or philosophies I have studied. As Shakespeare's Hamlet said to Horatio, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8) When I started this book, I was initially more concerned about the physical, my diet and supplements, than the spiritual. However, I have discovered that the spiritual and mental are vastly more important than the physical. Without the spiritual and mental, none of the physical solutions continued to work for me. I thought I was going to die. As I wondered what it would be like losing my body, and going home to God, I had the most incredible experience: the barrier I had placed between God and me disappeared. God was always there, but there was always a separation: God was THERE and I was HERE. For that timeless moment, I was open to God. I was not asking for anything, or trying to get God to do what I wanted, I was just curious what it would be like to be with God. The feeling that filled me was that God gave me life to have a life. God was not welcoming me back, but giving me strength to deal with the life I had and would give me strength whenever I was willing to ask for it. When I told my wife about the experience, she saw it as a mother would: God did not want her children under foot, she wanted them to get out of the house and play, to get a life. Each of us is a unique individual and will have a unique perception of God. My experience is my experience. When I told my brother-in-law about my experience, he could not accept it. He did not believe that one could communicate directly to God. He believed that one needed to go through Jesus. His experience was of calling on Jesus in his moment of need. He received the strength he needed to stop drinking and stay sober after the loss of his wife to cancer. Seeing him sober and carrying on with his life, one can see that what worked for him, definitely worked for him. His life was changed by his experience. I think each of us experiences God as we can accept God. We mentally filter our perception of God to be something we can accept. In my hour of need, I needed to be mothered, to be enveloped in motherly love, and that is what I got: God as the Mother of us all. My experience leads me to believe we are all the children of God, and that God loves all God's children. Understanding the spiritual causes of my cancer has taken me six years since my close encounter with God. It is only now, as I am writing this book, that I am understanding that the spiritual is truly the most important factor in health and sickness. Over the years, I have studied and been involved with various religions and philosophies, including Christianity, which seemed to me to treat the body as secondary to the spirit. At least that has been my interpretation, and my error. As I look at it now, the attitude I accepted, and held, was that the body was an encumbrance on the spirit being free. The truth, as God told me six years ago, is that I was given life to have a life and I took a body on this Earth to have a life. It is here, on this Earth, that the people I love the most, have also taken bodies to have a life. What was I thinking? Just because God told me, did not mean I got it. At the time, I thought I understood, and it did make a big difference in my life, but as I am confessing to you now, I continued to slip back into my old ways of thinking. These bodies we have are what we are using to play this game on this planet with the other people who also have taken bodies to play the game on this planet with us. We can play well with others, or play poorly. We are all children of God playing this game together. We can make this life and this planet a wonderful thing or a terrible thing. I think God would have us choose Life and Wonderful.