It sometime amazes me how we tend to self describe ourselves as religious, as if that automatically makes all that we do, say and think acceptable. Somewhere in the midst of our spiritual journey we forget that we are still on the journey and we begin to think that we have secured some special quality that allows us to rest just where we are.

So often the place that we choose to rest, happens to be so close to where we began, and the limited progress that we’ve made tend to reflect in the continual things that we do, say and think. We see ourselves looking outward, as opposed to inward. We find ourselves expressing judgment and critiquing others as if we have somehow become a spiritual authority on all that there is and all that there will be to come.

I personally found myself to be in this exact place of rest so many years ago, and rested there for many years until by the grace of GOD I was able to see my reflection in my experiences. One day, I visited a Christian website and wanted to become affiliated with the website. As I began to peruse the site I noticed that they sold something called Dhikr beads, which are a string of 99 to 100 beads used by Muslims to keep track of recitations.

I became alarmed that this supposedly Christian site would be carrying such a thing.
I was offended and felt that it was my duty as a Christian resting on my path to confront the owner of this site. I sent them a message stating that after careful consideration and finding that they sold other religious products, that I did not want to have anything to do with them. I was exceedingly confident that my letter would make them remove such products from there site.

A few days later I received a short and very pleasant letter expressing that once I take leave from my rest and begin to move further into my journey I will begin to understand that there are greater things to learn about GOD whom is love. As I begin to learn and move closer to GOD, I will ultimately move though biases, prejudices, superiority, arrogances and ultimately Islam phobia. Who would have guessed that I would learn so much as I moved out of my place of rest.

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