AGAIN, WE IS THE WINNER

Mercy. I do get righteously indignant at those who change the word "bread" in the Lord's Prayer to "strength." Not to mention their trying to update literature so there is no masculine...it's all neutral.

My head lectures, "'We have ceased fighting anything or anyone.' How hard is that to remember?" All the while forgetting it as I ignore the fact that I am fighting them!

Which leads me to my new puzzler: Reconcile "Resist not evil" with "All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."

I'm taken back to Lennon's "Imagine." What if each of the peoples of the world  imagined peace? Just imagine peace. Then imagine doing it. Then each of us actually do it...initiate and respond in peace. All the world could only be at peace...safe.

If all the world caught (and bought) the golden gift in resist not evil, then there would be no evil for good men to do anything about.

That can only start with ego deflation at depth. Richard Rohr maintains that ego leads with “no” whereas soul leads with “yes,” that "the putting together of the human and the divine is clearly our task and our supreme vocation."

So it begins with each individual realizing the Father within...each one's only goal being the realization of God within each of us, individually and as the whole universe.

For that I am responsible (...as are you). We know God's hand is in it because, again, we is the winner.

Thank you.