Embodying Christ Consciousness

When Jesus learned that his friend Lazarus had passed away, it saddened him. The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible, John 11:35, states: Jesus wept. Those two words are powerful, and the symbolism of words and how much weight they can carry for us is so amazing.

For example, years ago, in ministerial school, I sought and went deep into different spiritual practices. I took some time off of school to travel to India. My heart was open, and I was getting closer to the Divine. I was courting the God of my understanding and cultivating a relationship with It, really understanding what that meant to me and what my place in the world was. In doing so, a spiritual practice that came into my life was called “The Gospel on my Knees.”

The instructions for this high and holy practice are to kneel and begin with the Lord’s prayer, read through the Gospel of John each day for twenty-one days, and then say a series of forgiveness prayers seventy times for seven days, starting a new one each week. During the reading portion of the practice, the instructions are to read through the entire gospel aloud as if you are the one delivering the words rather than reading to understand it or get it.

This practice proved extraordinarily powerful for me in a most surprising, unexpected, and fulfilling way.

I knelt down and, as instructed, read the gospel aloud as if I were delivering a sermon. About midway through the gospel, I began to cry. Stopped by my tears, I wondered what I had just read. I went back to re-read the previous line: “Jesus wept.” Instantly, I felt a deep connection with the Divine.

Waves of love flowed through me as I understood and embodied what happened. I cried at that precise moment because I had connected to the Consciousness of Jesus Christ or Christ Consciousness. The same Consciousness that is within me was also in Jesus. We are one. It was like a mystical Union with the Divine—a connection between now and then, a path to unconditional love, accessible in the here and now.

After taking some time to dwell in my mystical experience, savoring the waves of unconditional love flowing through me, I continued reading and concluded my daily practice.

It was an influential moment of awareness for me: the profound realization and embodiment of oneness, that yes, there is only one thing happening, and it is Spirit and the Consciousness of Jesus within me, within all.

Christ Consciousness promotes self-love and self-acceptance, as well as loving and accepting others. This Consciousness speaks of the Truth with words of peace. As we embody this Consciousness, our minds and hearts are in harmony and alignment with the mind and heart of the Divine Universe.

Christ Consciousness is in all of us, accessible to us all the time!

You are the light. Shine, shine, shine!

And so it is.