What is Worship? Who do we Worship?

June 5, 2020

These are questions I’ve been asking of late… It is my belief that living life ‘in the question’ allows for inspiration to seep into our consciousness. ‘The Question’ allows this inspiration to go beyond the barriers that are present when we are living life ‘in the answer’… always knowing exactly how life works.

This morning, as I went through the house opening doors and windows to let in the fresh morning air, then lighting candles and incense to begin my day with sacred ritual, I asked the questions:

  • What is worship?
  • Who do we worship?
  • What is beyond God?

Almost immediately I was flooded with this wonderful, peaceful energy and words streamed through my mind in a way that I recognize is different than from my own thoughts.

 

‘Seek the Divine… that goes beyond the ‘male God’… the Divine is represented everywhere… in nature, in animals, in humans’

 

Then a huge light when through my entire being…

 

‘And that is the purpose of humanitarian service… as we serve humanity we are serving an aspect of the Divine… as we serve the planet we are serving an aspect of the Divine, as we serve the animal kingdom we serve an aspect of the Divine’.

 

This is a ‘sacred and reverent walk’ through life and our service becomes our form of worship.  ‘Sacred and reverent’ does not mean solemn, serious and heavy (although for some it may), but for me it means filled with joy, lightness, deep and profound fulfillment, laughter, sharing, introspection.

 

When we see the Divine in everything and we serve whatever comes into our orbit as though it were the Divine showing up for us personally - serving with kindness, truth, authenticity, honesty, grace, allowance, gratitude, vulnerability, stillness, action - this becomes our ‘worship’.

 

It takes ‘worship’ out of a building and away from a male entity and brings worship into the entirety of our lives – to include all living beings, including animals and the planet, and inclusive of both the male and female energies of the Divine.  This brings us to Oneness and Wholeness.  

 

Consider for a moment… what is your day consisting of today?  

 

  • Are you expecting to encounter the Divine?
  • What if that was the first encounter you had this morning when you looked in the mirror and saw into your own eyes.  Was it the Divine looking back?
  • Did you greet the Divine that showed up in you today?
  • As you go about your daily activities… work, errands, family, friends etc… are you anticipating meeting the Divine?  Did you greet the Divinity within your career?  Within your children?  Within the errands themselves as being ‘Divine work’?

 

Would seeing our lives as a ‘sacred and reverent’ walk through life change our perspective on our differences?  On race, religion, politics?  To see each race, religion, political party as an ‘aspect of the Divine'?

 

What about those aspects that are so opposite to our values, our beliefs?  To what we have declared as ‘right and good’ in our lives?  Are they too an aspect of the Divine appearing in those opposing points-of-view?

 

I don’t have the answers to that, but I am asking those questions… perhaps one day awareness will come.

 

Until then, I will attempt to see this ‘journey of life’ as a ‘sacred and reverent’ walk, through which I express my worship to the Divine… in the form of joy, light, music, dance, laughter, moments of solitude, deep inner-reflection, healing of wounds, caring conversation, profound gratitude and any other way in which I can show my deep love for the Divine through living my life fully.