My high school science teacher taught me that water has a few distinct properties that make it unique. I don’t remember all of them, but one that I do says that water ionizes in water. All this means is that the atoms in molecules of water share electrons. Electrons orbit the nucleus of an atom much like planets orbit our sun. Without getting into too much techno-babble about ionization, just imagine an electron orbiting two nuclei or imagine two nuclei sharing an electron and its orbit. This bonding is what makes two separate drops of water form into one single drop when combined. If you were to add a single drop to a glass of water, you could never retrieve that same drop because it has now bonded (ionized) with all the water in the glass.

In this same manner, you can view the ocean not as a collection of billions of drops of water, but as a single huge drop, until or unless you separate one part of it from the rest. Imagine floating in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Because you are in the middle of a single drop of water, you are simultaneously connected to both the American and European continents.

On a smaller scale, anyone will drink a glass of pure water. But, let’s say there is one drop added to it that contains poison. The entire glass of water then becomes undrinkable. No one can drink around that single drop because it has bonded with all the water in the glass.

Spirituality can be viewed the same way. The energies of spirit continuously flow all around us and through us with no separation of energies between the currents, just as there is no separation of water between currents in the ocean. In any body of water, regardless of its size, there is no place where water doesn’t exist. In our universe, there’s no place where spirit doesn’t exist.

There is no part of our body where the spirit of God doesn’t reside. There is just as much spirit of God in the right foot as there is in the left earlobe (and in every place in between). There is as much spirit of God in individual strands of hair as there is in the taste buds on the tongue. The spirit of God doesn’t fill only certain separate parts or areas of our bodies. Each of us as a human being is full of God, just as each of us is entirely surrounded by God. Yet how many people roll their eyes upward or point heavenward when they speak of God? Isn’t this an indication that they still view themselves as separate from Him? How many people hold the subtle belief that God is in everyone except himself? I like to say that some people are as aware of God as a fish is aware of the ocean.

Is God “for” some people or things but “against” others? If God were “against” anything at all, wouldn’t that mean that God was against Himself? If God hates the sinners, doesn’t that mean that God hates Himself for sinning? If God is all things, then God knows only the condition of I AM. God does not think of Himself as “pleased.” Pleasure is a condition of being as it relates to displeasure. God does not think of Himself as powerful. The condition of power exists only in relationship to the condition of non-power. Any condition of being that exists, does so in relationship to other conditions of being. I only know what happiness is because I have experienced sorrow. I only know what up is, because I have fallen down. If a person didn't know what peace felt like, how would they know they were at war? If God is all things, there is no condition of being that He isn’t already being. If nothing exists other than God, there is no other condition of being to compare Himself to; there is nothing else in relationship to God. There is only I AM.

The spirit of I AM fills us and surrounds us just as it fills and surrounds all things. The spirit of I AM is what makes existence exist. The source of my spirit as well as yours is God. We are not of God or from God. We are God’s spirit. Spirit is not confined to the size or shape of a human body. Spirit fills and flows through and around every cell, molecule, atom, and sub-atomic particle in all things; and on a sub-atomic scale, there is no separation of one thing from another. My spirit isn’t connected with yours – it IS yours. Our spirits are the same – they are God’s spirit.

As in the case of water, whether it’s a thimble full or an ocean full, it’s still only one drop. Picture yourself jumping into the ocean with an empty glass in your hand. The glass represents you and the ocean represents the spirit of God. As you submerge in water, the glass fills. God is now in you as well as all around you. Now, while still submerged in water, turn the glass upside down and try to empty it. We cannot be “empty” of God or separate from God or in any way have any more or less of God in us or around us. When we speak of our “journeys to God,” I have to ask, how can we go to something that we’re already in? How can we acquire something that we already have in greater abundance than we can ever imagine?

As I contemplate these things, I also think about what happens when you add a single drop of impurity to a glass of water or to spirit and I ask myself, how many of us justify or excuse our perceived imperfections or "spiritual flaws?" How many of us are willing to settle for even one drop of impurity? How many of us do? It’s quite easy to see and excuse imperfection when you see God as separate from yourself. Most important, it's when you see yourself as separate from God that you see yourself as imperfect. And if you condemn yourself in any manner because of your perceived imperfection, aren't you also condemning God?

On the other hand, you and I as lightworkers, making an effort to better ourselves and share or shed some light upon the world, must also realize that one drop of enlightenment within ourselves sheds light on everything. There is no separation of spirit.

For my final question – one that I love to ask on occasion just for fun: If Jesus (or any spiritual/ascended master that you relate to) were to suddenly show up at your home for an evening, what would you serve him/her for dinner? I have given this a great amount of thought over the years and my answer has always been the same.

I would choose to dine on a drop of water.

With Light & Love,
Ronnie