Comments on: Peel Away Your Layers http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/ It's more wonderful than you can imagine! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:24:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Mindy http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2925 Mindy Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:07:54 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2925 PJ, Thank you:) You are soo right about an awakening. I wouldn't trade it for anything in this world. I guess I feel fortunate to have finally acknowledged what had always been there and this feels really good. My relationships with people that are close to me are more real if that makes any sense and life just seems a bit more easier. I have been able to give more of me to others and I get soo much in return. I see the beauty in people that I don't think I had seen before. It was as if I had resentment for something and I didn't know what it was, but once I found my true self I found it in others as well. What a gift to receive. You are right when you say that this is a game of earthly form and PJ I am just relieved to have better skills now. I do feel like I am growing. The colors are brighter now ;) I have not read that book, but I will....try :) PJ,
Thank you:) You are soo right about an awakening. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in this world. I guess I feel fortunate to have finally acknowledged what had always been there and this feels really good. My relationships with people that are close to me are more real if that makes any sense and life just seems a bit more easier. I have been able to give more of me to others and I get soo much in return. I see the beauty in people that I don’t think I had seen before. It was as if I had resentment for something and I didn’t know what it was, but once I found my true self I found it in others as well. What a gift to receive.
You are right when you say that this is a game of earthly form and PJ I am just relieved to have better skills now. I do feel like I am growing. The colors are brighter now ;)
I have not read that book, but I will….try :)

]]> By: PJ Hankins http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2883 PJ Hankins Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:47:48 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2883 Geo...I have the MP3s of the book on CD, what's your address? You can email me privately...I could also upload the mp3 some way if you have that possibility. This book has really changed the way I look at God. This an other things :) Geo…I have the MP3s of the book on CD, what’s your address? You can email me privately…I could also upload the mp3 some way if you have that possibility. This book has really changed the way I look at God. This an other things :)

]]> By: Bruce http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2880 Bruce Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:24:57 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2880 Geez, PJ. I was wondering what you've been up to. Thanks for the update. I don't think you can ruffle any feathers around here (unless you intend to heap guilt, fear, doubt, and shame on someone!) ;-) I haven't read Tolle, but I'd like to. I keep hoping I'll see it on CD somewhere cheap! Hey, my birthday is in August... any takers? I hear he puts some good ideas forward... well worth considering. Geez, PJ. I was wondering what you’ve been up to. Thanks for the update. I don’t think you can ruffle any feathers around here (unless you intend to heap guilt, fear, doubt, and shame on someone!) ;-)

I haven’t read Tolle, but I’d like to. I keep hoping I’ll see it on CD somewhere cheap! Hey, my birthday is in August… any takers? I hear he puts some good ideas forward… well worth considering.

]]> By: PJ http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2877 PJ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:41:04 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2877 Mindy, It has been a while since I posted anything anywere. I haven't written on my blog since last November. I have undergone a radical sift in my views so I have been very quiet as I feel like I have so much to learn. This was an awesome post. You seem to be awakening to a truth that that is very hard for many to see. It is awesome to see someone coming awake, coming to life. There IS more to living than just being alive. The freedom that you are awakening to was there all along. "Judgment", "grace" and "forgivenss" are only concepts that religion has created. Even seeing Jesus as a forgiver and a grace enabler for ALL, are at best religous concepts that are earthly, and in relation, they are only concepts that come out of the separation that our egos have created between who we really are and this game of earthly form. A separation that came when humanity came to the belif that the "knowledge" of good and evil was the truth rather than Life itself. You are right, if you know what to look for, God is in EVRYTHING and EVERYONE, all has its source of being from the same place and all will return to that source as it fades away. I was wondering if you have read the book "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle? PJ Hopfully my "comming out of silence" hasn't ruffled too many feathers :) Mindy,
It has been a while since I posted anything anywere. I haven’t written on my blog since last November. I have undergone a radical sift in my views so I have been very quiet as I feel like I have so much to learn.

This was an awesome post. You seem to be awakening to a truth that that is very hard for many to see. It is awesome to see someone coming awake, coming to life. There IS more to living than just being alive.

The freedom that you are awakening to was there all along. “Judgment”, “grace” and “forgivenss” are only concepts that religion has created. Even seeing Jesus as a forgiver and a grace enabler for ALL, are at best religous concepts that are earthly, and in relation, they are only concepts that come out of the separation that our egos have created between who we really are and this game of earthly form. A separation that came when humanity came to the belif that the “knowledge” of good and evil was the truth rather than Life itself.

You are right, if you know what to look for, God is in EVRYTHING and EVERYONE, all has its source of being from the same place and all will return to that source as it fades away.

I was wondering if you have read the book “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle?

PJ

Hopfully my “comming out of silence” hasn’t ruffled too many feathers :)

]]> By: Michelle http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2783 Michelle Sat, 31 May 2008 06:01:06 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2783 Mindy- Isn't it great to just be free? I feel free in a spiritual way. But physically and emotionally I get trapped at times. I think I might be going through some postpartum issues still, but when I stop and smell the roses it brings me closer to God and I feel his comfort. Mindy-
Isn’t it great to just be free? I feel free in a spiritual way. But physically and emotionally I get trapped at times. I think I might be going through some postpartum issues still, but when I stop and smell the roses it brings me closer to God and I feel his comfort.

]]> By: Bruce http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2782 Bruce Sat, 31 May 2008 01:54:32 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2782 I remember back to the times I was immersed in organized religion thinking that I was gaining my freedom from all the bad stuff in my life... I was shedding all the baggage that had been dragging me down, holding me back from experiencing all that God had for me... it was preached that I had to work on peeling those layers from my life so that I could be "right" with God... huh? First off, I was already right with God (all I had to do was understand the revelation of the Cross), and while I thought I was shedding unwanted baggage, I was actually picking up more (religion) than I was dropping. The burden became overwhelming. Problem is, the more questions I asked about "relationship with God" the more they pointed fingers at me and questioned my faithfulness! Religion became toxic to me, and drove me into a deep, but secret, depression. I had to get out, and I can't imagine ever going back. But, to those who read the comments here who participate in organized religion, I wish you the best. I hope it brings you to a similar point in your life. I'm glad it broke me down, because I don't think I could have ever found the freedom to experience God more fully if I wouldn't have found it necessary to flee from the institutions of religious experts (churches). Good, good luck to all. May you find it. I remember back to the times I was immersed in organized religion thinking that I was gaining my freedom from all the bad stuff in my life… I was shedding all the baggage that had been dragging me down, holding me back from experiencing all that God had for me… it was preached that I had to work on peeling those layers from my life so that I could be “right” with God… huh?

First off, I was already right with God (all I had to do was understand the revelation of the Cross), and while I thought I was shedding unwanted baggage, I was actually picking up more (religion) than I was dropping. The burden became overwhelming.

Problem is, the more questions I asked about “relationship with God” the more they pointed fingers at me and questioned my faithfulness! Religion became toxic to me, and drove me into a deep, but secret, depression. I had to get out, and I can’t imagine ever going back.

But, to those who read the comments here who participate in organized religion, I wish you the best. I hope it brings you to a similar point in your life. I’m glad it broke me down, because I don’t think I could have ever found the freedom to experience God more fully if I wouldn’t have found it necessary to flee from the institutions of religious experts (churches).

Good, good luck to all. May you find it.

]]> By: Mindy http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2781 Mindy Fri, 30 May 2008 20:57:01 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2781 Bruce, You are correct in saying that we have to feel secure enough to peel away! It has to be real :) Love ya Bruce! Bruce,
You are correct in saying that we have to feel secure enough to peel away! It has to be real :)
Love ya Bruce!

]]> By: bruce http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2780 bruce Fri, 30 May 2008 19:18:53 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2780 It's funny, the more layers I peel off, and the closer I get to my true self... the better I like myself. But, the peeling can't begin until we feel secure enough to do so. And I don't mean the flimsy, plastic smile, warm & fuzzy kind of security organized religion panders... I mean a security so real that it causes us to crumble... turned into helpless, blithering, nobodies... who have nothing left to loose, and everything to gain by giving it all up... and giving in to the spirit inside of us. He is the only thing that is real, and a piece of Him is inside us all, patiently waiting for the layers of nonsense that we've been hiding behind to fall off, revealing the Glory deep inside. The Glory is there, if we will only stop pretending it isn't, we will all know from whom we came, and to whom we are connected. It’s funny, the more layers I peel off, and the closer I get to my true self… the better I like myself.

But, the peeling can’t begin until we feel secure enough to do so. And I don’t mean the flimsy, plastic smile, warm & fuzzy kind of security organized religion panders… I mean a security so real that it causes us to crumble… turned into helpless, blithering, nobodies… who have nothing left to loose, and everything to gain by giving it all up… and giving in to the spirit inside of us. He is the only thing that is real, and a piece of Him is inside us all, patiently waiting for the layers of nonsense that we’ve been hiding behind to fall off, revealing the Glory deep inside.

The Glory is there, if we will only stop pretending it isn’t, we will all know from whom we came, and to whom we are connected.

]]> By: Kiara http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2778 Kiara Fri, 30 May 2008 18:57:48 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2778 That was beautiful Mindy. I'm still peeling away my own layers myself as well. That was beautiful Mindy. I’m still peeling away my own layers myself as well.

]]> By: Connie Lard http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2777 Connie Lard Fri, 30 May 2008 14:11:20 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/2008/05/29/peel-away-your-layers/#comment-2777 Even though I have had absolutely nothing to do with your growth and development, I want you to know that I'm proud of you, Mindy! You sound like a delight to know! I can relate to much of what you say. I am learning to suspend judgment about situations that arise in life, because I have found that some of the most traumatic events bring forth the most beautiful consequences. I am learning to trust that God will really work it all out for my good, and finding that he absolutely does! Even though I have had absolutely nothing to do with your growth and development, I want you to know that I’m proud of you, Mindy! You sound like a delight to know! I can relate to much of what you say. I am learning to suspend judgment about situations that arise in life, because I have found that some of the most traumatic events bring forth the most beautiful consequences. I am learning to trust that God will really work it all out for my good, and finding that he absolutely does!

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