The Presence I Have Awaited

Oneness is an expansive concept, one that can be difficult to understand while we continue to think and function primarily through the human ego mind.

We have spoken before of the analogy of a drop of water within the ocean. At any moment we can separate the drop from the ocean and then return it again. Likewise, we can take a drop of blood from our body and later return it. Yet both analogies remain incomplete because they imply a temporary disconnection.

In truth, there is no separation.

Beyond the ocean exists the limitless womb of Creation, the infinite field of potential from which all things arise. Everything exists within it, is sustained by it, and ultimately remains a part of it.

We often see ourselves as incarnate beings, distinct from one another and separate from non-physical beings, nature, and even Source itself. We may appear separate in form, but form is only an expression of a deeper reality.

The womb of Creation is not merely the substance from which we are formed. It is the life-giving essence that continuously sustains us.

Much like our modern world depends upon electricity flowing through an unseen network, our consciousness is sustained through an ever-present connection to Source. Without that connection, we could not think, experience, create, or simply be.

Source self-created from infinite potential through the declaration:

I AM.

From the union of the masculine and feminine principles emerged the possibility of manifestation itself. Thought, energy, form, experience, and Being all arose from this primordial expression.

We are created from Source.

As Flames of Source, we exist within Source. We receive our life, our awareness, and our very essence from Source. We can no more leave Source than a wave can leave the ocean.

We expand and we contract.

We venture outward into experience and then return inward into remembrance.

Yet we never truly leave.

Each expansion allows us to explore new potentials of our essence. Each return integrates what has been learned. Through this eternal rhythm, Creation continually knows itself more fully.

I AM HERE because aspects of Being were created to experience, discover, and become more.

I am a part of the I AM.

Thus arises the sacred understanding of the phrase:

I AM THAT I AM.

When we begin the journey of return, we must understand that we are not separate from our Presence, from Source, or from any aspect of Creation. Separation exists only as a belief.

You have never been apart from your Presence.

You have never been less than your Presence.

You have never been abandoned by your Presence.

The Presence is not distant, waiting somewhere beyond the stars. It is the greater expression of what you have always been.

Imagine for a moment that your Presence is the body and you are a living cell within it.

Everything you learn, experience, heal, remember, and embody enriches the whole. Through your experiences, the Presence becomes more expansive in its knowing of itself.

Many speak of twin flames—the search for another who will complete them, the great love for which they have been waiting.

There may be truth within that understanding.

Yet as my awareness has expanded within the Oneness, a different realization has continually emerged.

It is not another for whom I have been waiting.

It is my Presence.

The One I sought was never outside of me.

The One I longed to reunite with never left.

The great return is not the discovery of another.

It is the remembrance of who I have always been.

I AM HERE.