What strikes me about that is the word "begin." Begin this minute, and the next minute, begin again. I'm convinced being really secure is of the moment...and looking back over the day, feeling at peace within, but realizing that is not permanent. It's like all else: This, too, shall pass. For, as it says somewhere in the Bible, it rains on the just and the unjust alike. Meaning, of course, that if we're doing life right, we'll get good and we'll get not good. Many of us live in the belief that if we're doing life right, we'll never have ugly visit us again...that we'll feel "really secure" permanently.
I suspect we confuse the happenings in our life with the evidence of our security or lack thereof. It is our search to avoid the not good that magnetizes it, and sends us down that wrong road again...searching for permanent security, i.e., the not good to not happen.
It's like praying to get in touch with our feelings, then feeling really crappy. Instead of realizing we just got in touch with our feelings, we blame God because we feel crappy, not happy...and take that as still not being in touch with our feelings.
It's in giving up the search for permanent security that allows peace to be with us, within us...passing through.
"It's not what we're called, it's what we answer to," said the black man about being called "nigger." And there it is. Nothing stops the not good from coming to us, it is our nonresistance to it that deprives it of a home.
Thank You.
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