GOD WHISPERING IN MY EAR

Per Fr Richard Rohr, how we do anything is how we do everything. I've read that in several different books of his and have heard him say it in lectures. I accept it as true, but I had to really work to wrap my brain around it.

Then I recalled some 40 years ago, a friend and I were talking, realizing how opposite we were in dealing with life. She was extremely intelligent, strong-willed and very accomplished...she got things done. I knew mine was an intuitive nature and that I relied...a lot...on inner direction (which I did not yet recognize as God). 

She saw a problem? She righted it...or gave it her best shot. She dug in at any rate. I saw a problem? I felt overwhelmed, figured I could do nothing about it and learned to either live with it or avoid it. And bitched a lot.

All these years later as I look back, I see how her way has worked extremely well for her. And my way has worked equally well for me. 

I have no way of knowing how she mellowed with her way (in general we all do mellow, with age), but I look at my way, and I am filled with gratitude...with awe and gratitude. For what I see is that which I thought of way back then as my gutless wonder approach to life was actually me learning early the road to acceptance. It's what Rohr calls "a daily merging with the problem and finding its full resolution." 

I know the one constant that has helped me immeasurably over the years in merging with my problem(s). I just mentally repeat, “When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, 'Let it be, oh, let it be.'" There. The Beatles to my rescue with their song, Let It Be.

For all I know, my friend may use Einstein's Theory of Relativity, but "Let it be" is God whispering in my ear.

Thank you.