Giving up belief isn’t such a bad thing.

Makes room for what is real to have a chance to break in.

If you’d been born around the block, your beliefs would be totally different. Beliefs are in the mind, such as the belief that god is in the sky or heaven or whatever. The truth is far more incredible and shockingly close than that.

Your struggle with what you thought or believed was god, (and it is extremely common, this struggle – do not feel guilt or shame while in the midst of it) is a necessary step. Someday you might even realize that the god you thought you were fighting and struggling with on the outside wasn’t really God after all. Believe it or not, your coming to the end of the rope, going to the opposite corner, pouting and saying no more to this ‘god’ in times of frustration, was actually opening yourself up to a far more mature, realistic, and truthful interaction with what God really is, (though God can never be figured out or even known – only lived, only become.)

Before opening can happen more deeply to what always was and IS, the older notions and beliefs have to be left behind. Everyone reaches a wall they think they can’t get around. They curse ‘God’ or blame life. They want to give up the idea once and for all that they are being looked over by some benevolent being in the sky, because it sure doesn’t feel like that’s the case while cornered by suffering. In that rallying, unbenounced to you, ‘you’ came a step closer to allowing that leaving behind of past ideals and no longer sufficient models to happen. Direct “experience” of the truth – through conscious living, through death of the identity with ego and self, through opening up to Just Perception – is all that matters. Not just new wine, but new wine skins as well, as someone who Knew once put it.

Life will bring you to the point, if it hasn’t already, where you let go of the old beliefs that god is in the sky doling out prizes and putting you in situations – be they fruitful or dubious – based strictly upon ‘merit’. When that day arrives, you’re on your way – and you start to see that you always have been.

When it’s time for belief to naturally fall away, don’t cling.

It’s alright to cease believing, and the universe will eventually lead you to the place of revelation where, once ‘experienced’, beliefs are no longer needed.

And once you let go of beliefs, just continue to keep on letting go. Until there’s nothing left at all to cling to. Only when that attitude of surrender is squarely in place will the Vessel then be prepared for the universe to fill the cup – even to overflowing.