Luminous Blue

Tag: God

  • The Light Within – Elizabeth Blue

    The Light Within – Elizabeth Blue

    I’ve been intending to write of my own experiences lately, but going through Elizabeth Blue’s writing this afternoon, this showed itself, and it feels important for this time.

    by Elizabeth Meagher (Blue)

    2.7.09 (age 19)

    The Kingdom of God

    In reading the chapter “The Kingdom of God is Within” I continually return to an idea that I have long pondered.  This is the idea that ‘God’ dwells inside all and everyone and that in this way we are all One.  When assuming that God is within every human being it becomes easy to understand the nature of heaven.  To me God is the innate divinity that exists in us all.  God is the light, the unconditional love, the compassion  and the innate harmony that everyone has inside of them.  Heaven is our expression and self realization of these aspects of ourselves.  When one is fully in tune with these aspects of oneself then one is in tune with ‘God.’  When one expresses these aspects then one is expressing God and creating a heaven here on Earth.  I believe that this is what Jesus meant when he said that the Kingdom of God is within.  

    The idea that heaven exists within oneself and is an expression of God is common among many cultures.  While not all cultures use the same language in naming ‘Heaven’ or ‘God’, it is very common to believe that through a connection with the light and divinity within us (God) it is possible to reach a higher state of consciousness and discover a happy and peaceful world (Heaven).  This is Jesus’ same teaching which is so blissfully compassionate.  Everyone has the ability to reach Heaven, it is always within grasp to get there, and simply requires a connection with what we already have: the light within ourselves. 

    third eye, Elizabeth Blue, cat,
    Elizabeth with a cat appearing in her third eye!

  • A Cancer Poem – by Elizabeth Blue

    A Cancer Poem

    written by Elizabeth Blue during her treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, 2012

    As I pray to the goddesses of white blood cells
    to increase my cell counts
    so I won’t get sick.
    Won’t get a fever and go to the hospital.
    It becomes more apparent
    to me
    than ever:
    that gentle hand of grace
    we call god
    is in
    my own body.

    As I pray to the goddesses of white blood cells
    to increase their numbers
    so that
    I won’t get sick.
    I won’t get a fever
    and go to the hospital.
    And I imagine my fate
    hinged on their fingernail
    I know more than ever
    that twisting fate
    we call god
    is in
    is part of
    my own self body.

    Victoria told me
    a shaman told her
    so many ask
    beg
    to meet God.
    And then they say:
    “But:
    keep my children safe.”
    “Keep me healthy.”
    “Don’t send me to war.”
    “Let me be prosperous.”
    “Let me be in love.”
    “Keep divorce away.”
    “Let me be beautiful.”

    And Victoria told me
    she thought it was interesting
    the unwillingness to surrender
    yet want to meet God.
    We were talking about cancer I think
    When she told me all this.
    “Yes it is interesting.”
    I agreed.

    Elizabeth Blue©, 2012

    I’m sharing some of Elizabeth’s poetry as I am able, selecting ones that I love, and that offer some deep wisdom, beauty and teachings for us all.