The Air you breath is essential to your life yet you cannot see it. Just because you cannot see air does not mean that it does not exist, obviously it does or you would not be alive as the human body cannot exist without air as our blood depends on it to live.
God is the same way, you cannot see him but yet he's all around you and inside you.
Thats why people can feel him, some call it a concious contact with god, which is the ability to feel what is right and wrong from your gut feelings.
When you are closed off from this you have no feelings but your own, and when you use your own feelings then you are in self-will.
When i meet or talk to people who are in their own self-will, without remorse, i can sense it emediatly.
Although we have our differences, the difference between you and me is that i pray for you.
God bless, i pray that you find whatever it is your looking for.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
A little story for you:
Once a man was caught in a flood, in desperation he cried out to god, "god please help me, if there ever was a time i needed you it is now"
As the flood entered his yard a man in a canoe showed up and offered to help, no he replied god is going to save me.
Next, when the water entered his house another man showed up in a boat asking the man if he needed help, no the man replied god is going to save me.
Finally the water was so high the man was forced to get onto the roof of his house, a hellicopter flew over and asked the man if he needed any help, no the man replied god will save me.
The man drowned and when he got to heaven he asked god why did he forsake him, god replied; " What do you mean i forsaked you, i sent you a canoe, a boat, and a helicopter. If you truly new me and not just begged for help when you were in danger than you would have know that i was there with you all along."
Another little story for you:
Once there was a tree up on a hill, the tree was sad because seldomly did anyone ever visit.
One day a boy was playing on the hill and the sun was so hot that he felt as though he could not go on any further.
The tree said hey, little boy, come over and rest under my shade and get a break from that hot sun, you look as though your going to pass out.
The boy got up under the tree away from the sun and they chatted for hours the tree and the boy were happy.
Several years went by and the tree missed the little boy and the tree wondered if the boy had forgotten him.
One day the boy was hungry from doing chores at home yet his family had little to eat, he remembered the tree and went to the hill to seek advice and comfort.
Hello the tree said with great happiness so glad to see you again, the boy explained his situation.
The tree said to the boy, take my fruit and eat and take some for your family to eat as well, the tree and the boy were happy once again.
Some years later the little boy was now a teenager and it had been some time since he had seen or talked to the tree but he remembered what the tree had done for him so he went to see his friend the tree.
Once again the tree was happy to see what now was a young chippish lad.
Tree, he said, i have a delema, i have a crush on a girl but i cannot aford to take her out, the tree said, take my branches and make baseball bats out of them and use the money to take the girl out. The boy did, and the tree and the boy were happy yet again.
Years went by and the tree missed the young man and wondered if he'd ever see him again as he longed for him to come and see him.
Once again the young man returned but now he was a man.
The tree was so happy to see the man who was once the little boy again.
Tree, the man said, i married that girl who i needed money for and she ran off and left me for another man, i want to go as far away as i can, will you help me?
Yes, the tree replied, cut me down at my trunk and make a canoe out of the timber, then you can go as far as the canoe can take you.
The man did so and the tree and the man were happy once more.
Many years went by and the tree missed the man, the tree wondered if the man had forgotten him.
One day a old man struggled to get up the hill to the tree, is that you my friend the tree asked, yes it is me.
I have traveled all over the world until my body started to give on me, now i'm just an old man with raggedy bones who can hardly stand.
Tree, the man said, when i was little you shadded me from the sun, when i was hungry you fed me, when i was poor you provided me a way to make money, and when i was heart brokken you gave me a way to see the world.
Sadly now that i look at you i realize there is nothing more that you can do for me.
Not true, said the tree, you look tired from your long journey and you seem to have trouble standing, why don't you rest and sit on my stump.
Once again the tree and the man were happy, the man stayed with the tree from then on out and they spent many years talking and enjoying themselves together.
(For you see the tree was god, and the man was his child)
chris