The story goes that the young man who had left home and wasted his inheritance returned home humbled and grateful. His father celebrated his return without a trace of punishment or rebuke.
His brother was dismayed. He had not left home, but had stayed and served his father well. Why was there no celebration for him?
The answer from his father was simple and profoundly important, “Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.” Luke 15:31
“All that I have is thine.” As I walked one morning, filled with gratitude for the beauty of the day, these words popped into my head.
We often speak of being “one with everything”, and sometimes we even experience the truth of that statement. However, that morning when I added the idea “All that I have is thine” to the concept of Oneness, or omnipresence, a new level of awareness was suddenly present.
Walk with me a moment into this idea, as we marry the statement “All that I have is thine” to the awareness that the quality of life we have is our own perception, and often misperception, of the omnipresence of God, good.
As I walked, I studied more deeply, what I was seeing, It was richly beautiful and at the same time, if I saw it as a material world, it was flawed and limited. In many ways, it was like a giant monopoly game.
In our worldview, that is exactly what we have created. Some of us have many “houses and hotels” while others are still waiting for the dice to roll in their favor. In monopoly, the rich get richer and the winner takes all.
Is this what we want, a game of monopoly to be the model for the way we live? The brother who left home and squandered his inheritance was playing a game of chance. The brother, who stayed home, was playing too. He was holding on to what he felt he owned.
The father understood the omnipresence of God. He viewed what he was seeing with a spiritual perception. Instead of playing the worldview game of lack, limitation, and ownership, he lived in the awareness that all is good, God.
We can shift our perception away from this worldview into the spiritual perception of the consistently abundant Reality of One God. We can begin to understand ourselves as the compound idea, the full representation, the action, and expression of this One God - not material, but spiritual.
When we accept the statement that “All that I have is thine”, then there is no need to hoard, or grab, or fight, or worry, or even win. There is nothing to do, but let go of the false perception of the worldview.
The sunlight melts away the fog, dissolves the mist, revealing what has always been present. With each increase of awareness of the omnipresent and omnipotent good of God, our misperceptions melt away, revealing more and more of the grandeur and beauty of the infinite.
“All that I have is thine” is yours and mine to acknowledge and live as Truth. As we pay our bills, raise our families, build our businesses, plant our gardens, or cook our dinners let’s shift our perception of it all to a spiritual awareness that it is all God in action.
Not a giant monopoly game, but an infinite expansion of Love, and all of it is ours. Take possession of this idea, and let it dissolve away ever bit of lack and limitation in every aspect of every life.
“Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine” is a true statement. Not to be lived in a future time and place, but it is here and now for each of us, because yes, we are all One in Truth.
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“Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.” Paracelsus
"What a glorious day it is, filled to overflowing with abundance directly given to you, expect it, ask for it, give thanks for it, and accept it!" Beca
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