Mother's
Day is one of the special days of the year that is inclusive to every
mother no matter what religion, race, creed, nationality, color,
sexual orientation or legal or marital status she may be. It is
a day that we pay respect and celebrate the woman who made the choice
to carry us into physical life. And this celebration takes many
forms some of which include cultural and traditional and others which
seek to be unique and creative. It is a day that we each
remember our mothers, those who are still with us and those who have
returned to the God that gave them life. All in all it can be a
beautiful and lovingly wonderful day for mothers and those who love
them.
Religion has created
a "mother" that is mankind's concept of the ideal mother ...
the mother of Jesus. Religion's mother is pure, sinless and a
virgin. Those of the Catholic faith pray to Mary, the mother of
Jesus. If this is someone's faith then in consciousness they do
this based on what they have been taught by their religion. The
prayer goes like this;
"Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed
art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb
Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at
the hour of our death. Amen."
There are important mental elements to this prayer that affects the
consciousness of the one who prays believing. In this prayer
Mary is held up as superior to all other women, in fact, all others
are sinners and her child is God. So not only are all women
inferior to Mary but their children are inferior to her child
Jesus. The other common Catholic prayer goes something like;
"Lamb of God you take away the sin of the world. Have mercy
on us." Now, this creates a contradiction in the mind of
the one praying both prayers; is Jesus God or the lamb of
God?
Protestants by and large
(Lutherans use the latter) don't use these prayers nor do they pray to
Mary, but they do believe she was a virgin and Jesus was either God or
the "only son of God" both of which is accepted only with
blind faith. Like much of religion's articles of faith these
prayers contradict the teachings of the Master Mind Jesus who
adamantly taught that we are all of One Father (Spirit) and that we
all have the "kingdom of G-d" within us. And in the
Book of Genesis it was revealed to the mind of mankind that we are all
created in the "image and likeness of G-d" ... this image
being spirit (mind) and this likeness being intelligence and
power. The Master Mind Jesus reminded his audience of this when
he asked, "don't you know that you are gods?" and "you
are the light of the world." I believe he was definite in
his teaching that we are all equal expressions of the One Life and
Spirit that is G-d. When he said "Our Father" it is
pretty clear that he did not see himself as the "only son of
God" or that his mother gave birth to God.
If we look at these
primitive prayers in the light of spiritual truth then we realize that
those who created these prayers were themselves attempting to explain
something that in consciousness they had no understanding to
explain. Why these prayers have persisted throughout the ages
give rise to the natural conclusion that mankind's evolution and
spiritual understanding has not been universally realized.
Personally I am
grateful that my mother was not pure and sinless in the eyes and mind
of mankind. If she had been then she probably would have been
very dull and difficult to live with. My mother, like most
mothers, caused us to love them because of their very human
personalities. We learned that we could make mistakes but our
mother would still love us and so we learned to love others who make
mistakes. We learned from our mothers that emotions can defy
reason but there is good reason to be emotional at times. We
learned from our mothers that being human meant changing our mind and
sometimes saying and doing things that we were sorry for gave us an
opportunity to ask for forgiveness and in doing so we learned to
forgive. Would I have ever thought my mother was a better mother
if she were a "virgin"? That would defy intelligence.
I do believe that all
mothers give birth to the Christ for I believe that the Christ is
within each and every one of us. It is that part of G-d within
our consciousness that realizes intelligence and power are within our
mind and are ours to use to the highest and best we can imagine for
ourselves. This highest and best is realized when we connect
with that Something within us that most of us call the Christ.
The apostle stated, "I can do all things through Christ which
strengthens me" and we can easily and correctly replace the word
"Christ" with "faith" or "self realization" in this statement and in reality we shall be
strengthened in our resolve to do, to be or to have that which we
desire. The energy that strengthens us is an automatic response from within our soul
for this is the truth.
Our mothers gave birth to the Christ ... but it is up to us to unlearn
all the things we have learned from the world that has hidden this
Christ from us.
AND
SO IT IS!
Keep
the
faith!
Rev.
Henry Bates
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