One

If you're Jewish, you probably know the words of the "Shma."  The central tenet of faith in Judaism says, "Hear (or Listen up!), Israel - Adonai is our God; Adonai is one."  I always understood this to be a statement of monotheism: We People of Israel have only one God, and that God - which is our God - is one God or Concept or Force or Direction, not many.

This past Shabbat I got something different: Adonai is our God.  First we commit to that; that's the easy part.  Now the harder part: Our God is One. As in, the Oneness of everything.  No exceptions. The Force, the Being, the Evolving of everything must include everything.  So the God that is Healing is also the God that is Illness. I can't say, for example, my brilliant doctors are a part of the divine Oneness of the Universe, but my cancer is a mistake that shouldn't be in this Oneness and that somehow slipped in nevertheless.

God is cells doing what we want them to do, and what we don't want them to do.