Dear Reader,
In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus speaks a mysterious but deeply moving truth:
“When you make the two into one, and make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and so make the male and the female a single one so that the male won’t be male nor the female female… then you’ll enter the kingdom.”
At first, these words puzzled me. But as I sat with them, I began to see their wisdom not as an instruction about gender or identity, but as a call to wholeness — a healing of the divided self.
Discovering the Unity Within
When Jesus says, “make the two one,” I believe He is speaking to the human condition — how we so easily live divided between spirit and body, faith and fear, masculine and feminine, divine and human.
To “make the two one” is to let these parts of ourselves find peace together in God.
I have lived long enough to see that love and life do not fit neatly into categories.
I have been married three times — twice to women and once to a man. Each relationship taught me something essential about love, patience, forgiveness, and the need for truth. I could not easily call myself purely heterosexual or homosexual, and over time I have realized that those labels do not define who I am before God.
What matters is not how the world sees us, but whether our hearts are becoming whole.
Love, when genuine, leads us to compassion. It teaches us to see both strength and tenderness as divine qualities — what earlier centuries might have called the masculine and feminine within one soul.
The Divine Image Restored
In the book of Genesis, we read that “God created man in His own image; male and female created He them.”
I’ve come to believe that the divine image holds both — not as opposites, but as reflections of one perfect whole. To enter the kingdom, then, is to rediscover that divine completeness, to remember the harmony that existed before we learned to divide ourselves into “this” or “that.”
The Gospel of Thomas invites us to live from that unity again — to make the inner life as honest as the outer, and to allow what is often hidden in the heart to shine in the open light of love.
Recovery and Spiritual Integration
In recovery, I learned the hard truth that divided living leads to pain. Alcohol was my escape from that inner conflict — the war between who I appeared to be and who I truly was. But grace, through the Steps, through fellowship, and through faith, taught me to bring the pieces together again.
Step by step, I learned that healing isn’t about choosing one part of myself over another. It’s about surrendering the whole of who I am to God’s care. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has helped me see that this process — this making of the two into one — is what eternal progression really means. Christ stands at the center, the place where all opposites meet, where peace and truth abide together.
The Kingdom of Wholeness
The soul that has made the two one no longer lives in conflict. Whether we call it masculine or feminine, body or spirit, strength or softness — all are welcomed and sanctified in the same eternal love.
Each part of who we are can find rest and renewal in the unity of our Divine Loving Father, Mother, God — the Source of all being, the wholeness from which we came and to which we return.
Closing Thought
“There is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” — Galatians 3:28
“When you make the two one, you will enter the kingdom.” — Gospel of Thomas 22
“Wholeness is not about identity; it is about love — the love that heals and makes us one.” — A grateful soul in recovery
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