John 1:13 Meaning Who Were Born Not of Blood

The true self was never made by the body or by anything the body wants. Blood and flesh and human willing belong to the story of separation, the account of a self that begins and ends inside its fear, but the mind's reality has a different source entirely. It was not born in the dream at all. It was created by love and shares the changelessness of what created it.

So to remember what one truly is, the mind must stop looking to the flesh for its origin. Nothing that decays could be the ground of what cannot decay. The self that matters was given by God and therefore cannot be undone by anything the world does, because the world had no hand in making it.

Blood: the mind's belief that it originates in the body, the story of a self that begins and ends in fear. Flesh: the dream of bodily existence, mistaken for the source of a life it could never actually give.

To be born of God is not to trade one opinion of yourself for another. A conception is carried within and brought forth. Desire enters awareness the way seed enters a womb, and awareness is Mary. Nothing in the bloodline does this, and no straining of the will does it. The life comes from the one source that fathers all things, which is your own imagination.

God became humanity and rises from it as every man discovers he is the Father. The child conceived in feeling is felt until it grows natural, until it seems to have always been so, and then it is delivered into the world. A thing held that long stops being a wish and becomes a birth. What is born of God was never argued into being; it was conceived, carried, and brought to term inside you.