Because we are in a religion thread I will post this...
What does this have to do with the topic of this thread? Some...
the nature of us silly shape shifting evolving beings... hehe
I just wrote this:
The wind blew over the dusty parched desert as there was no other perceptible sound other than the buzzards flying overhead. To this place I was translated in a conscious dream. I was not intoxicated by anything other than the holy spirit. Yet the spirit was strong and overpowered my reality for a look into a world within.
I looked out on the horizon and it blurred with the heat and I could barely make out the line because the distant haze had obscured it so. The sky and earth became one I climbed successive dunes until I reached a summit high in what seemed like the air. I hollered at the top of my voice and said, "Appear to me!" The haze was orange like fire to my right and green to my left.
Then I noticed a face in the clouds had formed... it was a face I felt familiar with possibly someone from my past, someone who had died and been long gone. The cloud spoke and said, "Have you forgotten me?" I answered, "Who are you? They sadly said, "You do not remember?" I looked at the face and as I was speaking the face kept changing before my eyes! It bore the resemblance of many faces. Out of frustration I asked, "Are you God?" The face spoke and said, "No, I am not God..."
I was then struck coldly and I asked, "Then who are you"? The voice said, "I am Jesus whom you seek". But I said lord you change so, you are many faces that you morph at will... The voice spoke and said, "Yes, I change but it is the same nature and spirit God that energizes me that is always constant. I then asked how shall the people know you if you do not have the same face? The lord replied and said, "People see what they want to see. If it is their desire to see me for who I am, they will. Yet, they look to the earth and to the face and images that they want to desire. They surround themselves with many faces yet never forget their own image. They are so consumed with faces that they do not venture out into the desert of the soul and search for the true face of God."
I was now perplexed... I said, "You have many faces lord yet you are the image of God so does that mean that God has many faces? The lord said God has only one face that sees all... yet, God is diverse and infinite. It is this diversity that is within us all. We are some, vessels that are made to hold a part of creation. Suddenly the face began to change before my eyes. I saw all of the great people that had gone before me, my parents, some family, friends and I suddenly was so overwhelmed because I saw that it was the holy spirit in them that I had admired. This was the face of God...
The voice then spoke in a tone of authority and said, I am what you are and we are part of God.
I knew the lord was right and I did not have to speak that. We are all one with many faces...
Peace with God...