A Walk in the Neighborhood

I was taking a much needed break from my schooling where I was studying to become a Client Server Applications Programmer at the time. It was a sunny late Spring day and I was looking forward to taking my daily walk after my class for the day was over. It is typical for me that when I walk by myself that I lapse into a sort of 'conversation with God' mode. As I walk along the sidewalk, I imagine that I'm having a conversation with God or my Higher Self.

I was intensely interested on this particular day to question God about this idea of: "Who am I?" I mean, really. Just who am I? And I let the question hang in mid air within my mind and continued to breathe the air and look at the trees and the gardens that I passed along the way. All of a sudden, it occurred to me that each and every one of us say to ourselves: "I am Sue." "I am John." "I am Sheryl." So then I received an impression that said to me in words that weren't words by a thought impression, "What would happen if you took away the Sue, the John and the Sheryl?" Oh my goodness. And it hit me like a two by four. If I take away the names, what is left is: "I am." Each soul....each person is "I am." Oh....now the wheels were really spinning now. Then, I "got" that there is no "me" and there is no "you." There is only God living Its life expressing, creating and experiencing Himself through each and every one of us and through all of this thing we call life. So....I realized God is living and being in this squirrel. God is expressing Itself as this tree. God is expressing Itself as Sheryl taking this walk.

I tell you this was an experience that caused me to see everything and everyone in an entirely different light. I realized that everyone was an extension of my Self. Whoa. Incredible.