Jesus Christ -My Spiritual Master And Guiding Light
Jesus Christ, my first spiritual master. I was approximately four or five years old when I began to have full awareness of Jesus Christ. My mother, who was a faithful devotee of Jesus, taught my brother and I to respect and love Him. As far back as I can remember, she always kept a medium size picture of Jesus, a gift from her mother, hanging on the wall in her bedroom. On many occasions, I would watch her sit in front of the picture as though mesmerized. When I would ask her if she was all right, she would smile and say, "I am fine...I was just praying." At an early age, I was taught about the significance of prayer. It is a valuable communicative tool that I utilize often to connect with Jesus- my spiritual master, and other spiritual beings. I recall, as a young child, looking at my mother's picture of Jesus and speaking to Him as if He was a member of the family. He was and always will be my special spiritual master. Although I was raised a Catholic, at home, I was exposed to all spiritual matters- spirit world, life after death, and so on. As I grew older, I became more spiritual than religious. My experience with organized religion was not very meaningful. The nuns and priests, at that time, were very unforgiving. If they found you to be misbehaving, according to their strict guidelines, you automatically got a one way ticket to hell. They were great manipulators and tormentors. The God that they presented was very vengeful and mean-spirited. The worst thing for a young child is to be told by a religious representative (priest or nun) that he/she will burn in hell for eternity. Their God was neither loving nor compassionate.
"Love one another as I have loved you"...........Jesus As I got older, I began to move away from the church, and gravitate toward a spiritual path that was more conducive to my way of thinking. I am not saying that Catholicism or any organized religion is ungodly. I believe that the foundation of all religions is good. It is the religious fanatics who destroy the true meaning and beauty of religion. They obliterate the true essence of God. They preach about God, but their hearts are empty, or full of hate. Having established a strong spiritual foundation, at a young age, I was not affected by the nuns' and priests' ways of thinking. It did not shatter my faith and/or connection to God. In fact, I became a more steadfast believer. I did not need someone to help me find God. He was already inside my heart. Throughout the years, I have traveled around the world and have been exposed to different beliefs and divine figures. Even thought I am a faithful believer of many of them, I find myself reaching out to Jesus first whenever I am in need. He was the first great spiritual master who I was introduced to, and will always be the first in my heart. This page is dedicated to my mother. Thank you for introducing me to Jesus-my spiritual master, and putting me in the path to spiritual enlightenment. COMMENTS This is a comment from a woman named Judy. It is about one of many experiences she has had with Jesus, her spiritual master and teacher. This is a spiritual encounter I had with my spiritual teacher, Jesus. I've had several over the years, all beautiful... but this one had a surprising element in it that is very relevant to my spirituality... I started out walking in a beautiful pine forest, soaring pines overhead, the smell of pine very heavy in the warm air. Sunlight slanted down from the pine boughs overhead, and the ground was soft and spongy with pine needles, as I looked down at my feet. It was beautiful. I was aware of myself sitting in my chair, but also of being completely in this wooded environment. Eventually I came out into a field of very green grass, blue sky overhead and sunshine. A good ways away in the field I saw Jesus and he was working with something with his hands. I knew he was known as a "carpenter", but as I got nearer, I was surprised to see that he was carving wood. It was a full sized deer. He was carving the antlers, for it was a buck. I approached him and he stopped and looked at me. Think of all the things I could ask him! Yet, what came out of my mouth even I don't really understand. I asked him "don't you want people to know the truth about you?" and he said "They already do. Everyone has the truth inside of them, it is the Eternal Truth." That satisfied me as an answer, even though now I puzzle over what that means. I then looked at his face, and his hands and I said "I've always wanted to be with you." and he looked at me with such love and put his hand on the side of my face and said "You have, my child. You have always been with me." and then, even though I wanted to ask more, to be with him, the vision started to fade, and I found myself moving "backwards" until I was back in my own consciousness in my chair. It is because of visions like this that I KNOW I am on the right path. That knowing the Divine as both feminine and masculine, that revering and knowing the Christ as my spiritual teacher, is right for me.
Spiritual Master- Go to Jesus Christ -My Guiding Light
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