God is always extending outward.

“God is always extending outward. God extends beyond all limits and boundaries and time. God also extends outward in time and space. It’s the first thing we learn about God in the Book of Genesis. We first see God extending outward in and through creation. We see God extending outward through humankind, created in God’s image.

But humankind became lost in a dream of separation. We mistakenly suppose we are separated from God, and therefore we no longer move outward in, with, and as the creative energy and essence of God. God decisively extended outward in humankind as Jesus of Nazareth in order to dispel this illusion of separation. Where people doubted this for themselves, Jesus invited them to believe upon him and to share in his unity with God until they realized their own identity and connection with the divine.

God created you by extending outward as you. Like a wave is to the ocean and a ray of light is to the sun, you are a human expression of the essence of God. Take a Dixie Cup to the ocean and scoop up some water. On the one hand, the entire ocean is obviously not contained in that cup. It is far too vast to be limited to a Dixie Cup. And yet, all the properties that make it the ocean are contained in that cup.

You are here to create… to extend outward… this is the energy and essence of God that is within you. Every moment, every circumstance, every relationship, every encounter… is an opportunity to extend yourself outward… in your thoughts, in your actions, in your relationships, in your creations, in your responses, in your ideas… in everything. There’s a reason humankind is continuously extending outward into ourselves, into space, into knowledge, into possibilities, into the not yet – it’s because that’s who we are.”