Toinyette's Journey

Sometimes I wonder why Christ did not leave us a clear set of step-by-step instructions for returning to God. Humanity loves systems. We like formulas, methods, and techniques. A checklist would seem easier. Yet the more I study and reflect, the more I sense that Christ did something much deeper.

He pointed us back to remembering.

In the beginning story of the garden, humanity lived in unity with the Most High. Life flowed naturally from that union. The Tree of Life stood in the garden, available. But attention shifted toward another path, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Awareness turned toward judgment, separation, and self-determination. From that moment, the human experience became fragmented. Fear appeared. Shame appeared. Humanity hid from the very Presence that had always sustained it.

And yet the longing for union never disappeared.

This longing is the quiet ache in the heart that no achievement, possession, or intellectual knowledge can satisfy. It is the deep desire to return, to live again from the source of life itself.

Christ did not give a mechanical formula because union with God cannot be manufactured through technique. It must be remembered and received through the heart. The Kingdom of God, as Christ taught, is not something we construct through perfect behavior or flawless understanding. It is something we awaken to within.

Remembering requires sincerity. It requires humility. It requires a genuine longing to be one with the Most High again. That longing begins to dissolve fragmentation. Slowly, the heart returns to trust, love, and awareness of the divine presence that has never truly left us.

Perhaps the Tree of Life was never only a tree in a distant garden. Perhaps it represents the life that flows when our awareness returns to unity with God.

And perhaps the journey of faith is simply this:

Remembering who we truly are,
remembering where life comes from,
and remembering that the Most High has been present with us (within us) all along.

-Toinyette