A Spirit Am I

Good evening, God, and thank you for another day of being able to work with a bunch of fascinating and inspiring young people.  It was another rewarding day, one that saw nothing particularly amazing, but that was very positive nonetheless.  I really do appreciate the opportunity to work with young people, for it helps to keep my attitude positive in many ways.

I want to write this evening about my spirit.  Although referring to it that way, of course, is inaccurate, a reflection of the untrue perspective that's been taught to me my whole life long.  There's no such thing as "my" spirit, after all--as if a spirit is something that we possess, like a football or a shirt.  No, we really ARE spirit, and we really ARE unified with you.  Our unity is one of the most important elements of who and what we are, yet it's something that we tend to forget almost all the time.  But if I am spirit, then that's something that I never should forget, isn't it?  Isn't that something that should be super important to me, something that I focus on all the time, for being a spirit puts me on a different level than the level on which I see myself as a human being?

Or perhaps I don't want to remember that I'm spirit, for if I do so, then doesn't that raise the bar for me in virtually everything that I do?  The moral and ethical implications are profound, to say the least, and the physical and mental and emotional aspects of my being are also affected deeply by a perspective that acknowledges that I am not simply another body here on this planet, but a spirit who is using a body for the time being.

I'll admit, I can't even define "spirit" or "soul" for you.  I have no idea what they are in the sense that the people of our world use those words.  And I suppose that it isn't even important that I be able to do so.  I think the most important thing that I can do is simply to be a spirit, even if I don't know completely what it means to be that.  Perhaps, God, you could help to open my eyes and my heart and my mind to the awareness of what this part of me actually is.

I think that it's important for me to get somewhat of a grasp on just what I am, for in order to develop my relationship with you more clearly, I need to know clearly who I am.  And while I would like to write more right now, I'm definitely falling asleep, so I'll finish this off sometime tomorrow, and get myself to bed right now.  Thanks for listening!  I'll be back!