GOD'S INVISIBLE WORK IS ALREADY DONE

Things are not always what they seem. Sometimes the bad is not, and the good is less than wonderful. 

I was talking with a long-time friend yesterday, and she was relating her experience with her sister who, briefly, is dumping on my friend for all her woes of yesteryear when they were growing up. My friend was a tish proud of herself because she realized that all that dumping represented how much her sister had loved her and needed her back then, and how my friend had failed her sister.

As a sidebar, here comes one of the benefits of long-time friendships: I remembered some 25 years ago when this exact same thing was happening, and how my friend had worked her way through it then, admitted her wrongs, made her amends and became a better person for it. 

On hearing this same story again, it seemed to me that Sister had apparently not become a better person for it, she'd just saved it for use another day. And Friend was seeing again "all that dumping represented how much her sister had loved her and needed her back then, and how my friend had failed her sister" and probably considering making amends.

I reminded my friend of that, and she was, "Oh yeah! That's right, and that's not all...she, etc., etc., etc." Resentment aborning. We chatted, and it occurred to us that this is my friend's golden opportunity to begin learning how to not fight...anything, anybody...but also not be a dumping ground for anything, anybody. 

Ding-dong...God calling!

This is God's proving ground...we get to prove God does have our back, not by begging her to show herself by doing for us, but by going into the silence. By turning within and letting God flow forth.  

We are told that all God's promises will come true if we work for them...our mistake is believing that our work is in doing, doing, doing to get them to come true. No. It is going into the silence and realizing God there. 

We don't take our problem into the silence, we take nothing but our belief that God is there for us and his perfection can and will flow out from within for the benefit of all...not for me, not for you, but for us, for all. Friend, known and unknown; enemy, known and unknown...all.

We finally realize our true job in life is simply coming to believe that God's invisible work is already done...in us, for us.

Thank you.