Who is the judge?
The judge is God.
Why is he God?
Because he decides whether I win or lose, not my opponent.
Who is your opponent?
He doesn't exist.
Why does he not exist?
Because he is just a mere dissenting voice to the truth I speak.
- The Great Debaters
I am a co-creator with the divine.
There is a divine order of things.
Everything that shows up for me is between me and God
and doesn’t have anything to do with anybody else.
Everybody else is just playing their part.
Nothing can show up in my presence that is not in service to me.
Who is God?
God is love.
Who is the judge
The judge does not exist
Why does he not exist?
Because God is love.
And love does not judge
Love is in service
Love is exact
Quanita
Oh, Quanita. I joke when I laughingly, joyfully ask if you can be my "home," my "mama." Then I read this. And sigh deeply. I've had to be my own mama, out of necessity, out of a protective love for self that has persisted from my earliest days on this planet. And that's okay. It's how I've come to be so fierce in the pursuit of my own path to freedom. And now, I hear you say, "My freedom requires forgiveness." And I wouldn't have guessed that it would feel quite so complicated and quite so intimate.
And this, now: "Nothing can show up in my presence that is not in service to me."
And:
Because God is love.
And…