Penny for your thoughts?

[kaminomusume]

I was thinking about this as I drove home from work tonight, and wanted to see how others reacted. I presume that not everyone here is from the same denominational background, and not everyone grew up studying Scripture (Perhaps there is someone reading this who isn't Christian at all). With that in mind, I'm not looking for "The Answer", I simply

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[susannah]

We may not become *all* of who God is but we may still become part of the One as God shares even God's own awareness with us.

This astonishing sharing is part of the nature of the three-personed God.

It is givenness, sealed in covenant and devotion.

The sea of consciousness is like a vast plain, and union experiences this awareness but it is God's own awareness and in union the beloved is aware with this awareness that is being shared.

But beyond the vast plain, and the surface of consciousness, God is the huge ocean and undiscovered continent reaching beyond our knowing.

I don't think it necessarily follows that if we are One in God, we are all of God. Though what God *does* choose to share, may be wholly given.

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words trail off of course, and that is part of the unknowing and trust and surrender of our independence and control, part of the devoted offering and potential reception, and beyond that there is God's sovereign will, God's sovereign love, and this is a God who has already been sharing consciousness - person between person - through all eternity in the felicity of the Trinity... but our own understanding comes to the end of a dirt track... trails off... we gaze, and God is somewhere there, but there is no knowing until God comes...

[napoleonofnerds]

Participating in the divine life is not the same as being what God is.

[susannah]

Agreed.

[kaminomusume]

You have a beautiful way with words! Thank you.