One with the Father

Jesus said, "I and the Father are one." He also said, "that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me." Now then, what does it mean to be one with the Father? Well, for Jesus it meant that he had prefect communion with the Father. Jesus meant for us to be one with the Father just as he was. Yes, that means being one with God; one with the source. That is what we were meant to be. We were meant to have total communion with the Father and to be one with the source. Not disconnected but one with him.

It also means being one with the Father now. Not in the sweet bye and bye; Not someday but right now and always in every now. When we commune with the source we are timeless. In the now with the Father there is only timeless eternity. There is a lot to be gained by reading Eckhart Tolle's *The Power of Now.* The book is devoted to explaining why and how one should be connected to the source in the now. Paul wrote now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. Unfortunately, all to often, we allow our minds to keep us in the past or day dreaming of the future.

We tell ourselves that tomorrow we will be successful; we will be happy if only we have this or do that. Friend, the time to be successful and happy is now. In the presence of the Lord there is complete peace and it is something that you experience now. You may remember that you experienced it yesterday but to have peace one has to have it now, in the present moment. Being one with the Father is acknowledging the presence of God; feeling that presence now. Not tomorrow or when you get your life straignt but you must feel the presence of Him now. I encourage you to take time for meditative prayer. Not a prayer where you are asking for something but, a prayer of silence where you are acknowledging the presence of God in the now, in the present. That is what presence means it means that you experience God in the present because he is present.