BEING IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF IT

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Attributed to Edmund Burke

Every time I read that, I immediately think that that justifies war.

Then I remember the anonymous quote, We have ceased fighting anything and anybody.

And I realize again the difference between living in a reasoning mind world and living in a spiritually based world.

I am a believer that we get to choose which mindset we will live in. And neither is the right way or the wrong way...if our mind is set in the reasoning mind world and we're happy there, why change?

However, for some of us, life makes our decision. By our choices, our very life itself hands us an unfixable-to-our-reasoning-mind problem, and it is horrendous, and we are hurting beyond our capacity to accept it. There. That's when our minds are changed for us.

In a heartbeat, we bump into the fourth dimension, and, knowingly or unknowingly, we have made a U-turn...somehow a higher power we may never have considered necessary or even "real" is in our lives.

We begin to realize the necessity for daily contact with that higher power, which we find by getting quiet and seeking a new way to live our lives. Acceptance sneaks into our consciousness...as a good thing.

All our efforts now are not in "getting" but in detaching from...from our old ideas, our reasoning mind solutions. There's very little, if any, physically running around activity required. It's much harder than that...our answer is in getting quiet and waiting. We get to sit and wait on the Lord...all the while carrying out our daily life. We're learning to be in the world but not of it.

The process of detaching daily from self, listening for the still, small voice, brings a peace beyond reason. We can now aim, like Chief Joseph, to "fight no more forever."

Thank you.