Sunday, February 3, 2013

LET IT BE

[The following is a reprint of my blog of February 24, 2009.]

Is my spiritual growth any of my business? I’m guessing it is, but maybe the depth and the breadth are entirely up to the Father within/without. It may be that my job is to simply make myself available to the Father, My Spirit, and keep on trucking.

I’m wondering this right now because my quiet time this morning has been all over the place…anywhere but here and now and anything but quiet. As in, in my mind, I lectured a group on the spiritual nature of anonymity, got an ex-boss told off (an ex-boss from 23 years ago!), and felt another sermon arising when the words to Let It Be came to me: “When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me…speaking words of wisdom, ‘Let it be, oh, let it be.’” That’s when I realized I was waaay off track…that song has been my bellwether for a long time…it tells me when I’m totally into self, in deep and sinking fast in other words.  

So, I say my “Thank You” and believe that my job is to make myself available to God and trust that life by grace is already mine, not to hold onto (i.e., for my protection), but for me to show forth. 

Grace does not stick to us, it passes through us for another’s benefit…and thus for ours. 

Sometimes I’ll feel it and sometimes I won’t. A good reminder that feelings are not facts…also that just because I don’t feel it, doesn’t mean it is not so.

Thank You.

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